Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Sasaki

Mitsuo Sasaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160229445
    Abstract: In a power steering device and a control device for a vehicle-mounted instrument, an abnormality detection accuracy of sensor output signals is increased. In an electric power steering device and a control device for a vehicle-mounted instrument, judgment for the abnormality of the sensor output signals is carried out by using at least four or more sensor output signals, in which when the sensor output signals satisfy both a first condition (viz., the number of the output signals showing an identical value is the largest) and a second condition (viz., the number is equal to or larger than “n+1”) (n=the largest number of the sensor output signals that have a common factor), judgement is so made that the sensor output signals that satisfy the first and second conditions are normal and the other signals are abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems Steering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo SASAKI, Takumi HISAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20160200353
    Abstract: In a power steering device and a vehicle-mounted instrument, an abnormality detection accuracy of a state quantity detection means is increased. In an electric power steering device and a vehicle-mounted instrument that are each provided with a plurality of state quantity detection means, an abnormality detection for the state quantity detection means is carried out by comparing detection signals issued from the state quantity detection means provided on a redundant system, and by comparing the detection signals issued from the state quantity detection means with signals that are issued from other state quantity detecting means and calculated to be matched with the same unit as the compared detection signals, a value or close value that is possessed by the largest number of signals is set as a normal value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS STEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuo SASAKI, Takumi HISAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20160152237
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle runs off a travel path. According to the invention, when yaw moment control is carried out to reduce a formed angle between a travel-path defining line of the travel path, which is recognized from information about an area located in a traveling direction of the ego vehicle, and a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, if it is judged that the ego vehicle has departed from the travel-path defining line, the yaw moment control is suspended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Jun KUBO, Mitsuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160152232
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if a vehicle spins slowly. The invention recognizes a travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area located in the traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and controls vehicle motion to reduce a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line at least when the formed angle increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Jun KUBO, Mitsuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160144896
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system capable of securing stability even in the event of a collision with a travel-path defining line such as a guardrail. The invention recognizes the travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area in a traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and imparts a yaw moment control amount so that a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line decreases after the ego vehicle collides with the travel-path defining line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Jun KUBO, Mitsuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160107640
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle control system capable of promptly achieving a travel motion along a travel path. A yaw moment control amount is imparted according to a traveling-direction virtual line extending from an ego vehicle in a traveling direction and a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and a travel-path defining line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Jun KUBO, Mitsuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160094180
    Abstract: An electric motor drive control device includes: an inverter circuit that converts DC power inputted via a DC bus to multiphase AC power and outputs the multiphase AC power to an electric motor; a current detector that detects a DC current flowing in the DC bus; a PWM generator that generates PWM signals and outputs the PWM signals to the inverter circuit; a current calculator that calculates a current value for each of phases to be flowed to the electric motor based upon a value of the DC current and the PWM signals; and a current controller that generates a command signal based upon the current value, and outputs the command signal to the PWM generator, wherein: if one of the phases of the AC power has become missing, the current calculator determines which phase is one that has become missing and calculates current values for other phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Toshiyuki AJIMA, Mitsuo SASAKI, Shigehisa AOYAGI, Tomonobu KOSEKI, Tomio SAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20160001815
    Abstract: A power steering apparatus includes: a steering load average value calculating circuit 39 which calculates a steering torque average value Trav which is the average value of steering torque Tr within a predetermined interval of time; and an abnormality detection circuit 40 which compares steering torque average value Trav with a specified steering torque value Trrf and detects the abnormality of the apparatus when steering torque average value Trav is larger than the specified value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS STEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150075237
    Abstract: In a cylinder lock, a half tumbler biased to engage an engagement portion with a locking recess of a cylinder body is inserted into a tumbler insertion hole of a rotor so that the engagement portion is retraced from the locking recess in response to insertion of a legitimate mechanical key into a key insertion hole. An inner side surface of the tumbler insertion hole is formed to include: a guide portion facing a half tumbler and extending in a moving direction of the half tumbler; and a passage forming portion having larger clearance with the half tumbler than that of the guide portion to form a release passage between the passage forming portion and the half tumbler such that the release passage faces the key insertion hole, extends in the moving direction of the half tumbler, and has opposite ends opened to an outer surface of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuo Sasaki, Takuya Miyagawa, Kazuki Moro
  • Publication number: 20140094079
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a display device is disclosed. The method can include forming a base substrate on a metal layer of a carrier substrate. The method can include forming a display element layer on the base substrate. In addition, the method can include peeling the base substrate from the metal layer by irradiating laser light from a side of the carrier substrate opposite to the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi ITO, Mitsuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8506097
    Abstract: A vehicular integrated mirror system is provided that is supported on a vehicle body that includes a door, and has an outside mirror disposed outside a vehicle compartment and an interior mirror disposed within the vehicle compartment at a position in the proximity of the outside mirror so that, in cooperation with the outside mirror, a vehicle rear field of vision is obtained, wherein a mirror holder retaining the outside mirror and the inside mirror is swingably supported on mirror support means mounted on the vehicle body in order to change the reflection angle of the two mirror relative to a vehicle driver, and the reflection angle of the outside mirror and the inside mirror is changed by remote drive means that makes the mirror holder swing by remote operation. This enables the reflection angle of the outside mirror and the inside mirror to be remotely controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kukita, Mitsuo Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Masaaki Abe
  • Patent number: 8066091
    Abstract: A steering system, comprising: an input cylinder having a first hydraulic chamber and a second hydraulic chamber; a transmission mechanism, wherein a transmission efficiency for converting and transmitting a linear motion of the input cylinder to a rotary motion of a steering wheel is less than a transmission efficiency for converting and transmitting the rotary motion of the steering wheel to the linear motion of the input cylinder; an output cylinder connected to a steerable vehicle wheel and having a third hydraulic chamber and a fourth hydraulic chamber; a first hydraulic passage for connecting the first hydraulic chamber to the third hydraulic chamber; a second hydraulic passage for connecting the second hydraulic chamber to the fourth hydraulic chamber; a flow rate control mechanism for exchanging hydraulic oil with: a first hydraulic circuit including the first and third hydraulic chambers and the first hydraulic passage; and a second hydraulic circuit including the second and fourth hydraulic chambers
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ito, Atsushi Yokoyama, Mitsuo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20110282551
    Abstract: A power steering apparatus includes a power cylinder configured to assist a steering force of a steering mechanism; a bidirectional pump; a flow speed detecting section configured to detect or estimate a flow speed of working fluid flowing in a hydraulic circuit constituted by the power cylinder, the bidirectional pump and the like; a fluid temperature detecting section configured to detect or estimate a temperature of working fluid; a torque sensor configured to detect a steering torque which is applied to the steering mechanism; an electric motor configured to drive the bidirectional pump; and a motor control circuit configured to control the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Mitsuo SASAKI, Tsukasa Miyajima, Kazuya Yamano
  • Patent number: 7959422
    Abstract: An oil pump including a first housing having a rotation shaft insertion hole, a cam ring, a pump element, a rotation shaft rotatably extending through the rotation shaft insertion hole, a second housing disposed on the cam ring, wherein the cam ring is placed in a position relative to the rotation shaft insertion hole of the first housing by using a jig, and the cam ring includes a clamped portion that is clamped by a cam ring holding device, while the first housing and the second housing are fixed to each other after placing the cam ring in the position relative to the rotation shaft insertion hole by using the jig. Alternatively, the oil pump including a fixing means for fixing the cam ring to the pump body instead of the clamped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Nakakuki, Kaname Kidokoro, Tetsuo Abe, Toshimitsu Sakaki, Mitsuo Sasaki, Masakazu Kurata
  • Publication number: 20100250067
    Abstract: In vehicular steering control apparatus and method, a carrier frequency of a PWM control signal to drive an electric motor on a basis of the manipulated variable of the electric motor is controlled and the carrier frequency is set to at least two predetermined set frequencies in accordance with at least one of a driving state of the electric motor and a traveling state of the vehicle, one of the predetermined set frequencies being set to reduce noises in the inverter and the other of the predetermined set frequencies being set to reduce a switching loss in the inverter. For example, the carrier frequency is set to be lowered to the other of the predetermined set frequencies in a case where a rotational speed of the electric motor is driven in a rotational speed region (A2) higher than that in a constant torque region (A1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Tatsuo Matsumura, Mitsuo Sasaki, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7791295
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus which controls an output voltage reference for an inverter driving a permanent magnet synchronous motor based on d-axis and q-axis current references, d-axis and q-axis current detected values, and a computed frequency value. When a torque reference specifying torque greater than maximum torque that the motor can output is input, a limit value for a phase angle that is a deviation between a rotation phase reference of control and a rotation phase value of the motor is varied depending on a quantity of the predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Oi, Kazuaki Tobari, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Mitsuo Sasaki, Tatsuo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 7735596
    Abstract: A power steering apparatus includes a hydraulic power cylinder, and a reversible pump driven by a motor and connected by left and right fluid passages with left and right pressure chambers of the power cylinder. The first and second fluid passages are so arranged that pressure losses in the first and second passages are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Sasaki, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7722342
    Abstract: In order to realize cost reduction in a gear pump apparatus by reducing form accuracy of a gear while securing pump performance, a running-in coating is provided on a tooth sliding contact portion when forming a confinement area in at least one of gears of the gear pump apparatus. By this feature, the running-in coating is gradually worn away and deformed according to rotary drive of the pump, and thus it is possible to obtain an optimal gear form in meshing combinations of the gears. Further, it is possible to reduce leakage inside the pump to secure the pump performance even if the form accuracy of the gear is reduced for the sake of the cost reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Tsubono, Mitsuo Sasaki, Toru Takahashi, Masaaki Busujima, Masakazu Kurata, Yasuhito Nakakuki
  • Patent number: 7648003
    Abstract: In a power steering system comprising a power cylinder for assisting a steering power of a steering mechanism, a hydraulic pump for supplying a hydraulic pressure to the power cylinder, a first oil passage and a second oil passage connecting the power cylinder and the hydraulic pump respectively, a motor for driving the hydraulic pump, and power steering control means for calculating a command value to the motor based on the steering torque, a flow rate of the working oil supplied from a high-pressure side oil passage to a low-pressure side oil passage is restrained at the transition from the end of the steering state (lock end) of the steering mechanism to the returning. The flow-rate restraint increasingly corrects a driving current of the motor in the steering direction or limits the flow rate of the working oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayumu Miyajima, Isamu Tsubono, Takaomi Nishigaito, Toru Takahashi, Mitsuo Sasaki, Toshimitsu Sakaki, Tatsuo Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20100007961
    Abstract: A vehicular integrated mirror system is provided that is supported on a vehicle body that includes a door, and has an outside mirror disposed outside a vehicle compartment and an interior mirror disposed within the vehicle compartment at a position in the proximity of the outside mirror so that, in cooperation with the outside mirror, a vehicle rear field of vision is obtained, wherein a mirror holder retaining the outside mirror and the inside mirror is swingably supported on mirror support means mounted on the vehicle body in order to change the reflection angle of the two mirror relative to a vehicle driver, and the reflection angle of the outside mirror and the inside mirror is changed by remote drive means that makes the mirror holder swing by remote operation. This enables the reflection angle of the outside mirror and the inside mirror to be remotely controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kukita, Mitsuo Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Masaaki Abe