Patents by Inventor Noritake Mitsutani

Noritake Mitsutani 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).

  • Patent number: 11001263
    Abstract: A vehicular breaking force control system includes: a plurality of actuators capable of generating a braking force for a vehicle; a coasting state detection unit configured to detect that a coasting state has been established; a target braking force calculation unit configured to calculate a target braking force on the basis of a state of the vehicle when the coasting state detection unit detects that the coasting state has been established; and a braking force distribution control unit configured to determine a distribution braking force that is a braking force to be caused to be generated by each actuator, such that the distribution braking force is equal to or less than a braking force generable by the actuator and a sum of the distribution braking forces is equal to the target braking force, and to perform control of causing each actuator to generate the distribution braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Shimizu, Shun Sato, Katsumi Kono, Atsushi Ayabe, Noritake Mitsutani, Hiroki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200353837
    Abstract: A control device that controls an in-vehicle battery and a charger in a demand and supply control system is configured to obtain total demand for electric power or the like generated in in-vehicle equipment, determine whether or not the total demand is able to be satisfied with electric power or the like suppliable from the in-vehicle battery, when the total demand is not able to be satisfied solely with the in-vehicle battery, and bring the charger into a drive state in a case where the total demand is able to be satisfied with total electric power or the like suppliable from the in-vehicle battery and the charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake MITSUTANI
  • Publication number: 20200301460
    Abstract: A supply-demand control device is configured to: set, for each priority rank defined in advance, an allowable limit within a range of a value set for a higher priority rank than the each priority rank, the allowable limit indicating an upper limit of the power or the energy allowed to be supplied in response to a demand of the each priority rank while the power or the energy supplied in response to a demand of the higher priority rank is secured; detect the demand for the power or the energy, which occurs in the industrial product; and allocate, in order of the priority rank, the power or the energy supplied from a predetermined supply source in response to the detected demand, such that the supplied power or energy is equal to or lower than the upper limit indicated by the allowable limit set for the each priority rank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake MITSUTANI
  • Publication number: 20200070830
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including a plurality of systems configured to control a plurality of different functions, respectively, of a vehicle, and the plurality of systems each include: a plurality of input sections; an input adjustment section configured to adjust one or more requests, inputted through the plurality of input sections, for controlling a predetermined vehicle function; a plurality of output sections associated with the vehicle function; and a management section configured to manage operations of the plurality of output sections, based on a request adjusted by the input adjustment section. The management sections each have a communication function that allows information that is associated with management based on at least the adjusted request to be transmitted to and received from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaiji ITABASHI, Katsumi KONO, Tetsuya TAIRA, Shunsuke FUJISHIMA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Noritake MITSUTANI, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Hiroki NAKANO, Takashi YANAI, Ryo ITO
  • Publication number: 20190359079
    Abstract: A power supply device is mountable to a vehicle and includes: a high-voltage battery; a low-voltage battery of which an output voltage is lower than that of the high-voltage battery, and which can be charged by output power from the high-voltage battery; and a control unit configured to perform charging/discharging control for the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery. The control unit performs feeding control for causing the high-voltage battery to supply power to a predetermined on-vehicle device while consumed power is higher than a predetermined value in a state in which a main switch of the vehicle is not on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritake MITSUTANI, Yasuhiro TAOKA
  • Publication number: 20190363559
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: a high voltage power system including a high-voltage battery; a low voltage power system including a low-voltage battery of which an output voltage is lower than that of the high-voltage battery; a DCDC converter configured to step down an output voltage from the high-voltage battery and supply the stepped-down voltage to the low voltage power system; and a control unit configured to control a voltage to be supplied to the low voltage power system by the DCDC converter, based on a request from the low voltage power system and information representing a charge/discharge power of the high-voltage battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake MITSUTANI
  • Publication number: 20190276026
    Abstract: A vehicular breaking force control system includes: a plurality of actuators capable of generating a braking force for a vehicle; a coasting state detection unit configured to detect that a coasting state has been established; a target braking force calculation unit configured to calculate a target braking force on the basis of a state of the vehicle when the coasting state detection unit detects that the coasting state has been established; and a braking force distribution control unit configured to determine a distribution braking force that is a braking force to be caused to be generated by each actuator, such that the distribution braking force is equal to or less than a braking force generable by the actuator and a sum of the distribution braking forces is equal to the target braking force, and to perform control of causing each actuator to generate the distribution braking force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato SHIMIZU, Shun SATO, Katsumi KONO, Atsushi AYABE, Noritake MITSUTANI, Hiroki NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10328804
    Abstract: An ECU executes a program including: a step of setting a threshold ? as a shutdown threshold when, during a power supply operation, a duration of a power supply stoppage exceeds a first time; a step of stopping an operation of an engine or prohibiting the engine from operating; and a step of executing system shutdown processing when an SOC of a storage apparatus falls to or below the shutdown threshold or the duration of the power supply stoppage exceeds a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 10189358
    Abstract: An ECU performs a controlling process including: switching a main converter to a boost converter CNV2 when a boost converter CNV1 is set as a main converter and when a first stress value Va is greater than a second stress value Vb; switching a sub converter to the boost converter CNV1; switching the main converter to the boost converter CNV1 when the boost converter CNV1 is not set as a main converter, and when the second stress value Vb is greater than the first stress value Va; and switching the sub converter to the boost converter CNV2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 10059209
    Abstract: A converter is capable of using two power sources located on a first side by switching connection of the two power sources between series connection and parallel connection. Under certain conditions, such as when a detected atmospheric pressure is lower than a predetermined value, frequency of use of the two power sources in series connection is reduced in the converter. It is thereby possible to prevent generation of excessive voltage by the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Noritake Mitsutani, Kenji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10011184
    Abstract: A power supply system for a vehicle, which executes the following control, is provided. When a connector coupled to an external power supply is connected to the vehicle, a CHR is set to an on state. When a voltage is lower than a threshold, B2 charging process is executed. When the voltage is higher than the threshold and an SOC1 of a first battery is lower than a threshold, a charging device is stopped and both a first SMR and a second SMR are set to an on state, and B1 charging process is executed. When the SOC1 is higher than or equal to the threshold, the charging device is stopped and both the first SMR and the second SMR are set to an off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 10003193
    Abstract: A power supply includes a load, an electric power line connected to the load, first and second DC power supplies which supply electric power to the load, an electric power converter connected between the electric power line and the first and the second DC power supplies, and a controller controlling the electric power converter. The first DC power supply serves for a voltage control, while the second DC power supply serves for an electric power control. The controller sets a difference between an electric power requested by the load and target output electric power of the first DC power supply as target output electric power of the second DC power supply, and compensates the target output electric power of the first DC power supply in accordance with a difference between the actual and the target output electric powers of the second DC power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 9906129
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a load, a power line, first and second DC power supplies, a power converter, and a controller for controlling the power converter. Upon selection of an operation mode in which the first and second DC power supplies are parallelly connected to the power line for providing the power line with an output from the first DC power supply after DC voltage conversion in the power converter and with an output from the second DC power supply without DC voltage conversion, the controller sets the maximum value of the total power output from the first and second DC power supplies to the power line at the sum of actual power of the first DC power supply and a charge limiting value for the second DC power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 9895979
    Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) including non-transitory instructions executable to set a threshold ? as a shutdown threshold when, during a power supply operation, a duration of a power supply stoppage exceeds a first time; stop an operation of an engine or prohibit the engine from operating; and executing system shutdown processing when an SOC of a storage apparatus falls to or below the shutdown threshold or the duration of the power supply stoppage exceeds a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 9878620
    Abstract: An OR circuit 61 of a relay drive unit 60 provides an ON output when at least one of a drive signal output from a battery ECU 52 and a latch signal output from an HVECU 70 is ON signal, while providing an OFF output when both the drive signal and the latch signal are OFF signals. The HVECU 70 switches off the latch signal when the engine operates, while switching on the latch signal when the engine is at stop. When no abnormality of communication with the HVECU 70 is detected and a specified time duration has not elapsed since detection of the abnormality of communication with the HVECU 70, the battery ECU 52 switches on the drive signal. When the specified time duration has elapsed since detection of the abnormality of communication with the HVECU 70, the battery ECU 52 switches off the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 9873339
    Abstract: A second power storage device is electrically connected to a positive electrode line and a negative electrode line, and electric power for generating a driving force is directly supplied to an inverter section. A converter section supplies electric power received from the inverter section to a first power storage device. Because a backflow prevention circuit is provided, the electric power is not supplied in the direction of the second power storage device at this point. A diode of the backflow prevention circuit is connected between a system main relay and the connection node of a positive electrode line on the positive electrode line branching off from the positive electrode line and connected to the second power storage device. The diode controls the flow of a current from the positive electrode line side toward the second power storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake Mitsutani
  • Publication number: 20170279288
    Abstract: A power-supply apparatus includes: a battery; a charger that charges the battery; a charging relay provided on a power line to connect/disconnect the battery and the charger to/from each other through an on-off operation; a first voltage sensor attached to a portion of the power line between the charger and the charging relay; a second voltage sensor attached to a portion of the power line between the battery and the charging relay; and an ECU that permits detection of a deviation abnormality in which a deviation between a charger-side voltage and a battery-side voltage is equal to or greater than a threshold when it is verified that the battery is being charged by the charger while the charging relay is on, and prohibits the detection when it is not verified that the battery is being charged by the charger while the charging relay is on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masaru Kimura, Noritake Mitsutani
  • Patent number: 9738274
    Abstract: An engine electronic control unit of a hybrid vehicle is configured to execute in-abnormality starting control for starting an engine when the engine is cranked in a state where abnormality occurs to communication between the engine electronic control unit and a hybrid electronic control unit. The hybrid electronic control unit is configured to execute in-abnormality cranking control for controlling the first motor such that the engine is cranked when the abnormality occurs to the communication between the engine electronic control unit and the hybrid electronic control unit. In addition, the hybrid electronic control unit is configured to execute in-abnormality electric travel control for controlling the second motor such that the hybrid vehicle travels only by power from the second motor when the in-abnormality cranking control is executed but the engine is not started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritake Mitsutani, Toshiya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170129350
    Abstract: An ECU performs a controlling process including: switching a main converter to a boost converter CNV2 when a boost converter CNV1 is set as a main converter and when a first stress value Va is greater than a second stress value Vb; switching a sub converter to the boost converter CNV1; switching the main converter to the boost converter CNV1 when the boost converter CNV1 is not set as a main converter, and when the second stress value Vb is greater than the first stress value Va; and switching the sub converter to the boost converter CNV2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritake MITSUTANI
  • Patent number: 9573581
    Abstract: A power I/F unit is for outputting at least one of electric power stored in a power storage device and electric power generated by a motor generator driven by an engine to outside of a vehicle. An ECU selectively executes a first power feeding operation in which external power feeding is performed with the engine actuated and a second power feeding operation in which external power feeding is performed with the engine stopped. The ECU executes the first power feeding operation for a predetermined period from the start of external power feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Noritake Mitsutani, Junta Izumi