Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Nomura

Nobuyuki Nomura 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: 20240109303
    Abstract: In order to make it less likely for the accuracy of determination of the ejection state of a liquid ejection head to be low, a liquid ejection apparatus sets a determination threshold for determining an ejection state of the liquid ejection head using first energy, the determination threshold being set based on a first output value outputted from the output unit in an event where the heat generating resistance element is driven with the first energy in an ejection state in which the liquid is ejected from an ejection port and a second output value estimated to be outputted from the output unit assuming the heat generating resistance element is driven with the first energy in a non-ejection state in which the liquid is not ejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: TAKATSUGU MORIYA, NOBUYUKI HIRAYAMA, HIROYASU NOMURA, TAKESHI MURASE
  • Patent number: 9676376
    Abstract: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes a control unit including a memory part for storing a valve closing map which shows a relationship between a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of a pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the pressure regulator valve and a valve opening map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure and an output current value for opening the pressure regulator valve. The control unit executes a current value switching control in which the output current value of the valve closing map is changed to that of the valve opening map and thereafter, the output current of the valve opening map is changed to an output current value which lies somewhere between the output current values of the valve closing map and the valve opening map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Masuda, Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 9610925
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a behavior stabilization control module that is configured to execute a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of a vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module has a target braking force setting section that sets the target braking force. The target braking force is set so as to be smaller for a second turn than for a first turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Takahiro Nishigaki, Shinji Murashita, Natsuko Hamamoto, Kenta Wada
  • Patent number: 9566979
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a steering angle obtaining module, a steering angular velocity obtaining module, a vehicle speed obtaining module, a standard yaw rate calculation module, a limit yaw rate setting module and a behavior stabilization control module. The behavior stabilization control module executes a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of the vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module sets a control intervention threshold based on the limit yaw rate and the steering angular velocity, and determines that the behavior stabilization control is to be started in case the standard yaw rate exceeds the control intervention threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishigaki, Nobuyuki Nomura, Natsuko Hamamoto, Kenji Takayama
  • Patent number: 9221448
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes an acquiring section, first and second control quantity calculators, and a holding section. The acquiring section acquires engine restarting information. The first control quantity calculator calculates a first control quantity. The second control quantity calculator calculates a second control quantity larger than the first control quantity. The holding section holds a brake hydraulic pressure. If the brake hydraulic pressure lowers from a point in time when the vehicle is stopped to a point in time when the acquiring section acquires the engine restarting information, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the first control quantity. If the acquiring section acquires the engine restarting information, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the second control quantity. If the restarting of the engine is completed, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the first control quantity).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masanori Ito, Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Publication number: 20150217736
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a behavior stabilization control module that is configured to execute a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of a vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module has a target braking force setting section that sets the target braking force. The target braking force is set so as to be smaller for a second turn than for a first turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NOMURA, Takahiro NISHIGAKI, Shinji MURASHITA, Natsuko HAMAMOTO, Kenta WADA
  • Patent number: 9073531
    Abstract: A motor control device (a motor driver) for controlling, by a duty control, a current supplied to a motor includes a driving controller, an off controller, and a voltage acquiring section (an A/D conversion processor, a sampling section). The driving controller performs on/off control of the current supplied to the motor with a first period. The off controller performs off control for the motor with a second period separately from the on/off control performed by the driving controller. The second period is longer than the first period. The voltage acquiring section acquires a voltage between terminals of the motor during a time period in which the off control is performed by the off controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Publication number: 20150183428
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a steering angle obtaining module, a steering angular velocity obtaining module, a vehicle speed obtaining module, a standard yaw rate calculation module, a limit yaw rate setting module and a behavior stabilization control module. The behavior stabilization control module executes a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of the vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module sets a control intervention threshold based on the limit yaw rate and the steering angular velocity, and determines that the behavior stabilization control is to be started in case the standard yaw rate exceeds the control intervention threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Takahiro NISHIGAKI, Nobuyuki NOMURA, Natsuko HAMAMOTO, Kenji TAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8794716
    Abstract: Brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: fluid pressure passage from a fluid pressure source to a wheel brake; pressure regulating valve arranged on the passage; pump for feeding pressurized brake fluid to the passage between the valve and the wheel brake; motor for driving the pump; and controller which controls an electric current applied to the valve in accordance with target fluid pressure for the wheel brake to control fluid pressure supplied to the wheel brake. The controller includes: means for converting the target fluid pressure into fluid volume and calculating required flow rate from this fluid volume; means for calculating required rotation speed of the motor from the required flow rate and on the basis of efficiency of the pump; and means for increasing the electric current applied to the valve for a predetermined value when the required rotation speed exceeds actual rotation speed of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Ryoji Mori
  • Publication number: 20140100752
    Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes an acquiring section, first and second control quantity calculators, and a holding section. The acquiring section acquires engine restarting information. The first control quantity calculator calculates a first control quantity. The second control quantity calculator calculates a second control quantity larger than the first control quantity. The holding section holds a brake hydraulic pressure. If the brake hydraulic pressure lowers from a point in time when the vehicle is stopped to a point in time when the acquiring section acquires the engine restarting information, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the first control quantity. If the acquiring section acquires the engine restarting information, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the second control quantity. If the restarting of the engine is completed, the holding section holds the brake hydraulic pressure with the first control quantity).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ito, Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Publication number: 20140060038
    Abstract: A motor control device (a motor driver) for controlling, by a duty control, a current supplied to a motor includes a driving controller, an off controller, and a voltage acquiring section (an A/D conversion processor, a sampling section). The driving controller performs on/off control of the current supplied to the motor with a first period. The off controller performs off control for the motor with a second period separately from the on/off control performed by the driving controller. The second period is longer than the first period. The voltage acquiring section acquires a voltage between terminals of the motor during a time period in which the off control is performed by the off controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki NOMURA
  • Patent number: 8657390
    Abstract: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a normally open electromagnetic valve which adjusts a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side; and a control unit including a memory part which stores a valve closing map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure between the upstream side and the downstream side of the pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the pressure regulator valve and a valve opening map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure and an output current value for opening the pressure regulator valve, wherein when attempting to reduce a fluid pressures, the control unit executes a current value switching control which controls a current flowing to the pressure regulator valve by selecting alternately an output current value of the valve opening map and an output current value of the valve closing map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Masuda, Nobuyuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 8251464
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure control device for vehicles is provided capable of adjusting with a simple control a brake fluid pressure applied to a wheel brake. The control device includes for each system of an X-pipe arrangement: a cut valve as a linear solenoid valve provided to a first fluid pressure path; a pump capable of pressurizing brake fluid on a side toward the wheel brakes than the cut valve on the first fluid pressure path; and a control valve provided on the second fluid pressure path. The control device further includes: a target fluid pressure setting portion for setting a target fluid pressure for each of the wheel brake; and a valve actuating portion for drive-controlling the cut valve and the control valve, based on the target fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Takeshi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20110121641
    Abstract: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a normally open electromagnetic valve which adjusts a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side; and a control unit including a memory part which stores a valve closing map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure between the upstream side and the downstream side of the pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the pressure regulator valve and a valve opening map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure and an output current value for opening the pressure regulator valve, wherein when attempting to reduce a fluid pressures, the control unit executes a current value switching control which controls a current flowing to the pressure regulator valve by selecting alternately an output current value of the valve opening map and an output current value of the valve closing map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MASUDA, Nobuyuki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20110125379
    Abstract: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a control unit including a memory part for storing a valve closing map which shows a relationship between a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of a pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the pressure regulator valve and a valve opening map which shows a relationship between the differential pressure and an output current value for opening the pressure regulator valve, wherein the control unit executes a current value switching control in which the output current value of the valve closing map is changed to that of the valve opening map and thereafter, the output current of the valve opening map is changed to an output current value which lies somewhere between the output current values of the valve closing map and the valve opening map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MASUDA, Nobuyuki NOMURA
  • Patent number: 7784883
    Abstract: A vehicular brake hydraulic pressure controller has a reference hydraulic pressure acquisition section 21a for acquiring hydraulic pressure achieved on the other side of an electromagnetic valve as reference hydraulic pressure, a differential pressure calculation section 21b for calculating a differential pressure Py by subtracting previously-estimated hydraulic pressure achieved on one side of the electromagnetic valve from the reference hydraulic pressure; a pressure gradient coefficient calculation section 21c for acquiring a pressure gradient coefficient K correlating with a drive current of the electromagnetic valve and the differential pressure Py, and an estimated hydraulic pressure calculation section 21e for estimating current hydraulic pressure by adding a product, which has been produced by multiplying the differential pressure Py by the pressure gradient coefficient K, to the previously-estimated hydraulic pressure achieved on one side of the electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Megumu Uda
  • Patent number: 7568773
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure controller for a vehicle includes: wheel brakes; a master cylinder for supplying pressure to a brake fluid; at least one fluid pressure passage connecting the wheel brakes with the master cylinder; a pump provided on each fluid pressure passage for intensifying the brake fluid pressure; a revolution-controllable motor for driving the pump; a motor drive control part for controlling motor revolutions; a target fluid pressure calculation part for setting a target fluid pressure of the brake fluid; a brake fluid pressure acquisition part; and a fluid pressure deviation calculation part for calculating a difference between the target fluid pressure and the brake fluid pressure. When the difference is less than a predetermined value, the motor drive control part drives the motor at a smaller number of revolutions, as compared with a case where the difference is the predetermined value or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Tomonori Hirose, Takeshi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20090001807
    Abstract: Brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: fluid pressure passage from a fluid pressure source to a wheel brake; pressure regulating valve arranged on the passage; pump for feeding pressurized brake fluid to the passage between the valve and the wheel brake; motor for driving the pump; and controller which controls an electric current applied to the valve in accordance with target fluid pressure for the wheel brake to control fluid pressure supplied to the wheel brake. The controller includes: means for converting the target fluid pressure into fluid volume and calculating required flow rate from this fluid volume; means for calculating required rotation speed of the motor from the required flow rate and on the basis of efficiency of the pump; and means for increasing the electric current applied to the valve for a predetermined value when the required rotation speed exceeds actual rotation speed of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicants: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Ryoji Mori
  • Publication number: 20070284935
    Abstract: A vehicular brake hydraulic pressure controller has a reference hydraulic pressure acquisition section 21a for acquiring hydraulic pressure achieved on the other side of an electromagnetic valve as reference hydraulic pressure, a differential pressure calculation section 21b for calculating a differential pressure Py by subtracting previously-estimated hydraulic pressure achieved on one side of the electromagnetic valve from the reference hydraulic pressure; a pressure gradient coefficient calculation section 21c for acquiring a pressure gradient coefficient K correlating with a drive current of the electromagnetic valve and the differential pressure Py, and an estimated hydraulic pressure calculation section 21e for estimating current hydraulic pressure by adding a product, which has been produced by multiplying the differential pressure Py by the pressure gradient coefficient K, to the previously-estimated hydraulic pressure achieved on one side of the electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NOMURA, Megumu UDA
  • Publication number: 20070024115
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure control device for vehicles is provided capable of adjusting with a simple control a brake fluid pressure applied to a wheel brake. The control device includes for each system of an X-pipe arrangement: a cut valve as a linear solenoid valve provided to a first fluid pressure path; a pump capable of pressurizing brake fluid on a side toward the wheel brakes than the cut valve on the first fluid pressure path; and a control valve provided on the second fluid pressure path. The control device further includes: a target fluid pressure setting portion for setting a target fluid pressure for each of the wheel brake; and a valve actuating portion for drive-controlling the cut valve and the control valve, based on the target fluid pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicants: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Takeshi Kojima