Patents by Inventor Takeshi Kitayama

Takeshi Kitayama 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: 11955856
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a stator; and a rotor that face the stator and that rotates together with a rotation shaft, the rotor including: a rotor core including rotor salient poles and a slot formed between adjacent rotor salient poles, and a rotor coil wound around each of the rotor salient poles via an insulating member through the slot. Further, the rotor coil includes: a slot coil portion; and a coil end portion protruding from an end surface of the rotor core in an axial direction, the insulating member includes: a slot insulating portion; and an end insulating portion, and the slot insulating portion and the end insulating portion are integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20230094290
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a stator; and a rotor that face the stator and that rotates together with a rotation shaft, the rotor including: a rotor core including rotor salient poles and a slot formed between adjacent rotor salient poles, and a rotor coil wound around each of the rotor salient poles via an insulating member through the slot. Further, the rotor coil includes: a slot coil portion; and a coil end portion protruding from an end surface of the rotor core in an axial direction, the insulating member includes: a slot insulating portion; and an end insulating portion, and the slot insulating portion and the end insulating portion are integrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20230100109
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a shaft that rotates about an axial direction; a rotor that is disposed around the shaft and that includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnets provided in the rotor core; a stator that is disposed around the rotor and that includes a stator core and a stator coil provided in the stator core; a magnetic flux short circuit plate that is disposed so as to face the rotor core in the axial direction and that moves in the axial direction; a biasing member that biases the magnetic flux short circuit plate to a side away from the rotor core; a holding member that holds the biasing member; and a fixing member that fixes the holding member to the shaft. Further, a strength of a material of the fixing member is higher than a strength of a material of the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KITAYAMA, Hiroyuki HATTORI
  • Patent number: 11139705
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a stator; and a rotor, in which the rotor includes: a rotor core having magnet insertion holes; and magnets in the magnet insertion holes. Further, the rotor core includes: a rotor core main body; rotor core outer peripheral portions positioned outward in the rotor radial direction with respect to the magnets and forming parts of inner surfaces of the magnet insertion holes outward in the rotor radial direction; and bridges, forming the respective magnet insertion holes by connecting the rotor core main body and the rotor core outer peripheral portions, the bridges being formed to be thinner than thickest portions of the rotor core outer peripheral portions, and the magnets are shaped to be a cross-section polyhedron having oblique sides which narrow as the oblique sides go from the inward toward the outward in the rotor radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 11063483
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotary shaft member rotating about an axis; a rotor including a rotor core, which has an annular shape and is provided on the rotary shaft member, and a magnet provided on the rotor core; a stator including a stator core, which has an annular shape and is disposed at an interval from the rotor core in a radial direction that is a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rotary shaft member, and a stator coil wound around the stator core; a field yoke, which has an annular shape, includes the rotor and the staorm, and has a fixed relative positional relationship with the stator core; and a case member, which has a side wall extending in the axial direction to face an outer peripheral surface of the field yoke, the field yoke being fixed to the case member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hattori, Takeshi Kitayama
  • Publication number: 20200119605
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a stator; and a rotor, in which the rotor includes: a rotor core having magnet insertion holes; and magnets in the magnet insertion holes. Further, the rotor core includes: a rotor core main body; rotor core outer peripheral portions positioned outward in the rotor radial direction with respect to the magnets and forming parts of inner surfaces of the magnet insertion holes outward in the rotor radial direction; and bridges, forming the respective magnet insertion holes by connecting the rotor core main body and the rotor core outer peripheral portions, the bridges being formed to be thinner than thickest portions of the rotor core outer peripheral portions, and the magnets are shaped to be a cross-section polyhedron having oblique sides which narrow as the oblique sides go from the inward toward the outward in the rotor radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200044496
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotary shaft member rotating about an axis; a rotor including a rotor core, which has an annular shape and is provided on the rotary shaft member, and a magnet provided on the rotor core; a stator including a stator core, which has an annular shape and is disposed at an interval from the rotor core in a radial direction that is a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rotary shaft member, and a stator coil wound around the stator core; a field yoke, which has an annular shape, includes the rotor and the staorm, and has a fixed relative positional relationship with the stator core; and a case member, which has a side wall extending in the axial direction to face an outer peripheral surface of the field yoke, the field yoke being fixed to the case member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HATTORI, Takeshi KITAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10458310
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to suppress the occurrence of pre-ignition by appropriately controlling a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber based on a target temperature region in which the frequency with which pre-ignition occurs is reflected, without causing pre-ignition to actually occur. An ECU 50 acquires a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber 14 or an engine water temperature or the like that correlates therewith as a wall temperature parameter. The ECU 50 is equipped with data for a pre-ignition suppression temperature region that is a region in which the pre-ignition occurrence frequency is smallest among temperature regions of the wall temperature parameter. In a pre-ignition susceptibility operating region A, the wall temperature parameter is controlled so as to fall within the pre-ignition suppression temperature region by operating a cooling water amount varying mechanism 38.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Motoichi Murakami, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Takeshi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 10371115
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes a knock control system, a cooling system, and an electronic control unit. The knock control system is configured to ignite a spark plug an ignition crank angle obtained by retarding the ignition crank angle in response to an occurrence of the knocking. The electronic control unit is configured to supply a command value corresponding to a target value of a cooling parameter to the cooling system such that the cooling system performs cooling of the internal combustion engine according to the command value. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the command value based on a KCS learned value such that as the KCS learned value increases, a correction amount for correcting the command value increases in correction amount in a direction in which a cooling capacity of the cooling system increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Yamashita, Yoshihiro Furuya, Hiroki Murata
  • Patent number: 9551270
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is a control device, applied to an internal combustion engine including an EGR cooler which includes a heat exchange body made of a material including SiC. The control device includes a control unit that controls a flow rate of coolant passing through an EGR cooler to be small in a case of a temperature of the coolant not less than a predetermined value in ending the coolant stop control of the coolant stop control unit, as compared with a case of a temperature of the coolant less than the predetermined value in ending the coolant stop control of the coolant stop control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Kitayama
  • Publication number: 20160363033
    Abstract: To provide a controller that can slow down progression of deterioration of an internal combustion engine caused by repeated occurrence of LSPI. An index value of the degree of deterioration of the internal combustion engine caused by LSPI is calculated. If the index value exceeds a first threshold, when the temperature of cooling water that cools a part of the peripheral wall of a cylinder that is close to a combustion chamber is lower than a threshold temperature, and the internal combustion engine is running in a determined operational region set in a low speed and high load region, the proportion of fuel injection by an in-cylinder injection valve is reduced to increase the proportion of fuel injection by a port injection valve compared with before the index value exceeds the first threshold, thereby suppressing occurrence of LSPI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KITAYAMA, Shintaro UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20160356257
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes a knock control system, a cooling system, and an electronic control unit. The knock control system is configured to ignite a spark plug an ignition crank angle obtained by retarding the ignition crank angle in response to an occurrence of the knocking. The electronic control unit is configured to supply a command value corresponding to a target value of a cooling parameter to the cooling system such that the cooling system performs cooling of the internal combustion engine according to the command value. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the command value based on a KCS learned value such that as the KCS learned value increases, a correction amount for correcting the command value increases in correction amount in a direction in which a cooling capacity of the cooling system increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KITAYAMA, Yoshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yoshihiro FURUYA, Hiroki MURATA
  • Patent number: 9448358
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-core optical fiber which is capable of achieving the same level of light receiving capacity as that of a single-core plastic optical fiber, while being reduced in bending loss. A multi-core optical fiber according to the present invention has a plurality of cores and sea portions that are formed around each core. This multi-core optical fiber satisfies at least condition (1) or condition (2) below: (Condition 1): The occupancy rate of the total cross-sectional area of cores is 80˜95% of the outer region in the cross section of a multicore optical fiber. (Condition 2): The occupancy rate of the total cross-sectional area of cores is 82˜93% of the cross section of a multicore optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Takeshi Kitayama, Hideki Kihara
  • Publication number: 20160010597
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is a control device, applied to an internal combustion engine including an EGR cooler which includes a heat exchange body made of a material including SiC. The control device includes a control unit that controls a flow rate of coolant passing through an EGR cooler to be small in a case of a temperature of the coolant not less than a predetermined value in ending the coolant stop control of the coolant stop control unit, as compared with a case of a temperature of the coolant less than the predetermined value in ending the coolant stop control of the coolant stop control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160011366
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-core optical fiber which is capable of achieving the same level of light receiving capacity as that of a single-core plastic optical fiber, while being reduced in bending loss. A multi-core optical fiber according to the present invention has a plurality of cores and sea portions that are formed around each core. This multi-core optical fiber satisfies at least condition (1) or condition (2) below: (Condition 1): The occupancy rate of the total cross-sectional area of cores is 80˜95% of the outer region in the cross section of a multicore optical fiber. (Condition 2): The occupancy rate of the total cross-sectional area of cores is 82˜93% of the cross section of a multicore optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TSUKAMOTO, Takeshi KITAYAMA, Hideki KIHARA
  • Publication number: 20150292812
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange body through which a fluid serving as a cooled object passes; and a coolant passage which is provided in at least one of a central portion and an outer circumferential portion of the heat exchange body, and through which a coolant exchanging heat with the heat exchange body flows, wherein the heat exchange body includes: a first heat transfer means which extends from a central portion to an outer circumferential portion; and a second heat transfer means which extends in a circumferential direction, and which intersects the first heat transfer means, a heat transfer efficiency of the first heat transfer means is greater than that of the second heat transfer means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho TOMITA, Rentaro KUROKI, Takuya HIRAI, Takeshi KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150034047
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a control device for an internal combustion engine that regularly and forcefully removes deposit that is accumulated in cylinders and restrains consecutive occurrences of pre-ignition beforehand. The internal combustion engine has a low-speed pre-ignition region in which a possibility of occurrence of pre-ignition increases, in a low-rotation and high-load region. Ignition means (16) for igniting an air-fuel mixture taken into the cylinders is included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yaguchi, Masashi Shinoda, Takeshi Kitayama
  • Publication number: 20140360444
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to suppress the occurrence of pre-ignition by appropriately controlling a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber based on a target temperature region in which the frequency with which pre-ignition occurs is reflected, without causing pre-ignition to actually occur. An ECU 50 acquires a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber 14 or an engine water temperature or the like that correlates therewith as a wall temperature parameter. The ECU 50 is equipped with data for a pre-ignition suppression temperature region that is a region in which the pre-ignition occurrence frequency is smallest among temperature regions of the wall temperature parameter. In a pre-ignition susceptibility operating region A, the wall temperature parameter is controlled so as to fall within the pre-ignition suppression temperature region by operating a cooling water amount varying mechanism 38.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Motoichi Murakami, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Takeshi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 8844507
    Abstract: A PCV system for an internal combustion engine that can suppress occurrence of preignition due to oil inflow into a cylinder is provided. A path switching valve is controlled so that blowby gas flows via a bypass passage, in a preig occurrence region. Thereby, path pressure loss increases, a PCV flow rate is decreased, and blowby gas can be passed through a separator with a high collection efficiency. As a result, an oil takeaway amount can be reduced, and occurrence of preignition due to cylinder oil inflow can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Naoyuki Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20130291843
    Abstract: A PCV system for an internal combustion engine that can suppress occurrence of preignition due to oil inflow into a cylinder is provided. A path switching valve is controlled so that blowby gas flows via a bypass passage, in a preig occurrence region. Thereby, path pressure loss increases, a PCV flow rate is decreased, and blowby gas can be passed through a separator with a high collection efficiency. As a result, an oil takeaway amount can be reduced, and occurrence of preignition due to cylinder oil inflow can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Naoyuki Hayakawa