Patents by Inventor Yasunori Sakata

Yasunori Sakata 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: 20230356703
    Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a first pressurizing unit including a cylinder, a piston slidable in the cylinder, an electric motor that drives the piston, and an output chamber partitioned by the cylinder and the piston. The first pressurizing unit is configured such that a connection state between the output chamber and a reservoir is switched between communication and cut-off states according to the piston position, and the first pressurizing unit is capable of pressurizing fluid by decreasing a volume of the output chamber by movement of the piston to one axial direction side; a pressure sensor that detects a pressure of the output chamber; and an estimation unit that executes a position estimation process of moving the piston and estimating a switching position of the piston at which the connection state of the output chamber and the reservoir is switched based on a detection value of the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20230008163
    Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes: an electric cylinder in which a piston driven by an electric motor slides in a cylinder to supply fluid; a hydraulic pressure output unit connected to the electric cylinder by way of a first liquid passage, the hydraulic pressure output unit pressurizing or depressurizing a hydraulic pressure in the first liquid passage and outputting the hydraulic pressure to a supply liquid passage connected to a first wheel cylinder; and a control unit that causes at least one of the electric cylinder and the hydraulic pressure output unit to generate the hydraulic pressure in the first wheel cylinder according to a relative position between the piston and the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220324426
    Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a first supply device that supplies brake fluid to wheel cylinders, a first supply path that connects the first supply device and the wheel cylinders, and first and second electromagnetic valves provided on the first supply path. The first electromagnetic valve is disposed on the first supply path such that a seating direction of the first electromagnetic valve and a brake fluid supply direction are opposite each other, the seating direction is a direction in which a valve body is seated on a valve seat, and the brake fluid supply direction is a direction in which the brake fluid flows from the first supply device to the wheel cylinders through the first supply path. The second electromagnetic valve is disposed on the first supply path such that a seating direction of the second electromagnetic valve and the brake fluid supply direction are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori SAKATA, Akihito KUSANO
  • Patent number: 11151863
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives first alarm information indicating an alarm of a plant from a control apparatus and receives second alarm information, obtained by processing the first alarm information, from an alarm management apparatus that receives the first alarm information. The controller makes a judgment of whether the alarm management apparatus is usable, selects, in accordance with the result of the judgment, one of the first alarm information and the second alarm information received by the communication interface, and outputs third alarm information, obtained by the controller processing the selected alarm information, to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Sakata, Takashi Sato, Kulasara Mahanama Siriwardena, Motoichi Kuwatani
  • Publication number: 20200388146
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives first alarm information indicating an alarm of a plant from a control apparatus and receives second alarm information, obtained by processing the first alarm information, from an alarm management apparatus that receives the first alarm information. The controller makes a judgment of whether the alarm management apparatus is usable, selects, in accordance with the result of the judgment, one of the first alarm information and the second alarm information received by the communication interface, and outputs third alarm information, obtained by the controller processing the selected alarm information, to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori SAKATA, Takashi SATO, Kulasara MAHANAMA SIRIWARDENA, Motoichi KUWATANI
  • Patent number: 9896080
    Abstract: A brake device is characterized by being provided with an auxiliary pressure source 100 that accumulates a predetermined range of brake fluid pressure in an accumulator 102 on the basis of an operation of a fluid pressure pump 101, and that outputs the brake fluid pressure as an accumulator pressure; and an electromagnetic valve 110, 111 that controls blocking of communication between the fluid pressure pump 101 and the accumulator 102 and a main pipe line, and that transmits the accumulator pressure to a wheel cylinder when placed in communication state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Yogo, Yasunori Sakata, Shuichi Yonemura
  • Patent number: 9656644
    Abstract: The braking control device for controlling a master cylinder device includes a housing, an output piston, an input piston, a separation chamber opening and closing portion, and a driving hydraulic pressure generating portion, and is provided with an operation control for controlling the master cylinder device in an operation force operating state (regulator mode) in which the output piston is driven by operation force on a brake operation member and in a driving hydraulic pressure operating state (linear mode) in which the output piston is driven by driving hydraulic pressure from the driving hydraulic pressure generating portion; a brake operation judgment portion for judging the presence or absence of a brake operation and the probability thereof and a state transition limiter for limiting at least one of state transitions between the operating states when the presence of the brake operation and possibility thereof is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Kazutaka Noro, Tatsushi Kobayashi, Yasunori Sakata, Akitaka Nishio, Masaaki Komazawa, Yusuke Kamiya, Kiyoyuki Uchida
  • Publication number: 20170001614
    Abstract: A brake device is characterized by being provided with an auxiliary pressure source 100 that accumulates a predetermined range of brake fluid pressure in an accumulator 102 on the basis of an operation of a fluid pressure pump 101, and that outputs the brake fluid pressure as an accumulator pressure; and an electromagnetic valve 110, 111 that controls blocking of communication between the fluid pressure pump 101 and the accumulator 102 and a main pipe line, and that transmits the accumulator pressure to a wheel cylinder when placed in communication state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi YOGO, Yasunori SAKATA, Shuichi YONEMURA
  • Patent number: 9428167
    Abstract: A vehicle brake device includes a failure detection means for driving the master piston only by the operation force of the brake operation member along with the operation of the brake operation member, thereby to detect a failure of a master system, when a master cylinder pressure correlation value correlated to the master cylinder pressure is less than a predetermined value, in a case where an operation amount of the brake operation member is a predetermined amount or in a case where the operation force of the brake operation member is a predetermined force; and a driving control means for driving the master piston by force corresponding to the servo pressure in the servo chamber generated by the servo pressure generation portion, when the operation amount of the brake operation member is greater than a predetermined amount, or when the operation force of the brake operation member is greater than a predetermined force, in the operation of the brake operation member in which the failure detection means detec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Patent number: 9365198
    Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle includes an operating characteristics setting portion for setting an operating characteristic which is a relationship between the input electric power to the electro-magnetic valve and a pressure difference between a master cylinder side and a wheel cylinder side with respect to the electro-magnetic valve, based on the input electric power at the time when the accumulator pressure detected by the accumulator pressure detecting portion first falls to a value equal to or less than a threshold value accumulator pressure by changing the input electric power towards an opening side of the electro-magnetic valve in response to a time lapsed after a predetermined value of the pilot pressure has been generated by the pilot pressure generating portion by first closing the electro-magnetic valve thereby to suppress the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio Masuda, Yasunori Sakata, Kazutaka Noro, Akira Sakai, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Yasuji Mizutani, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9199621
    Abstract: A vehicle brake device is provided with a master piston which is driven to generate a master cylinder pressure. The device includes a pressure accumulation portion that accumulates the brake fluid under pressure; a servo pressure generation portion that is configured to be able to generate the servo pressure using the brake fluid in the pressure accumulation portion regardless of the operation of the brake operation member; brake fluid consumption correlative value detection means for detecting a brake fluid consumption correlative value relating to a consumption of the brake fluid in the pressure accumulation portion; and failure detection means for driving the master pistons only by the servo pressure using the servo pressure generation portion in a state where the brake operation member is not operated, and detecting a failure of a master system, based on a brake fluid consumption correlative value detected by the brake fluid consumption correlative value detection means at that time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Noro, Yasunori Sakata, Yoshinori Suzuki, Satoshi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150321652
    Abstract: The braking control device for controlling a master cylinder device includes a housing, an output piston, an input piston, a separation chamber opening and closing portion, and a driving hydraulic pressure generating portion, and is provided with an operation control for controlling the master cylinder device in an operation force operating state (regulator mode) in which the output piston is driven by operation force on a brake operation member and in a driving hydraulic pressure operating state (linear mode) in which the output piston is driven by driving hydraulic pressure from the driving hydraulic pressure generating portion; a brake operation judgment portion for judging the presence or absence of a brake operation and the probability thereof and a state transition limiter for limiting at least one of state transitions between the operating states when the presence of the brake operation and possibility thereof is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Kazutaka NORO, Tatsushi KOBAYASHI, Yasunori SAKATA, Akitaka NISHIO, Masaaki KOMAZAWA, Yusuke KAMIYA, Kiyoki UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 8955921
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The hydraulic brake apparatus includes a master cylinder, a high hydraulic pressure source, a brake assist mechanism, a liquid reservoir, an electronic control device, a hydraulic control device and is configured such that the master cylinder is actuated by a force assisted by the brake assist mechanism to generate a hydraulic pressure and a braking force according to the hydraulic pressure is applied to a wheel of the vehicle. The hydraulic brake apparatus further includes driving pressure reducing valve which is configured such that when a hydraulic pressure in a master pressure input port is higher than that in the driving pressure input port by a predetermined value, the hydraulic brake apparatus is actuated based on the pressure difference to open a hydraulic pressure discharge path extending from a driving hydraulic pressure chamber to the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Publication number: 20150015061
    Abstract: In a braking device for a vehicle, an operating characteristics setting portion is provided for setting an operating characteristic which is a relationship between the input electric power to the electro-magnetic valve and a pressure difference between a master cylinder side and a wheel cylinder side with respect to the electro-magnetic valve, based on the input electric power at the time when the accumulator pressure detected by the accumulator pressure detecting portion first falls to a value equal to or less than a threshold value accumulator pressure by changing the input electric power towards an opening side of the electro-magnetic valve in response to a time lapsed after a predetermined value of the pilot pressure has been generated by the pilot pressure generating portion by first closing the electro-magnetic valve thereby to suppress the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Masuda, Yasunori Sakata, Kazutaka Noro, Akira Sakai, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Yasuji Mizutani, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20120074769
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The hydraulic brake apparatus includes a master cylinder, a high hydraulic pressure source, a brake assist mechanism, a liquid reservoir, an electronic control device, a hydraulic control device and is configured such that the master cylinder is actuated by a force assisted by the brake assist mechanism to generate a hydraulic pressure and a braking force according to the hydraulic pressure is applied to a wheel of the vehicle. The hydraulic brake apparatus further includes driving pressure reducing valve which is configured such that when a hydraulic pressure in a master pressure input port is higher than that in the driving pressure input port by a predetermined value, the hydraulic brake apparatus is actuated based on the pressure difference to open a hydraulic pressure discharge path extending from a driving hydraulic pressure chamber to the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Patent number: 7633384
    Abstract: There are provided an alarm information processing device and an alarm information processing method capable of handling alarm information in unification and of exhibiting flexible adaptability in response to the circumstances. A collection unit collects alarm information having a plurality of mixed formats. A normalization unit normalizes alarm information collected by the collection unit. An information processing unit executes information processing relative to the alarm information normalized by the normalization unit. A user setting unit is used for setting a logic for normalization by a user in the normalization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Kakimoto, Yasunori Sakata, Naohito Ohtani, Yasunori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7360848
    Abstract: In a parallel relay circuit, only one of a plurality of relays is turned on sequentially while turning the rest of the relays off. It is determined whether the motor is applied with voltage via a voltage detection resistor when each of the relays is turned on individually such that a disconnection abnormality in the respective relays is detected. As the disconnection abnormality in each of the relays can be detected individually, it is possible to detect a disconnection abnormality that has been occurred at least in a part of the relays, and to alert a driver for the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Publication number: 20070200520
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic controller comprises a load such as electric motor or one or more solenoids each connected in series to a power supply; a load state detection sensor for detecting the state of the load; a required minimum drive voltage calculation microprocessor for calculating a required minimum drive voltage which is a drive voltage to be supplied to the load and which is a required lowest voltage, based on the state of the load detected by the load state detection sensor; and a power supply relay circuit arranged between the power supply and the load for transforming a power voltage supplied from the power supply into the required minimum drive voltage calculated by the required minimum drive voltage calculation microprocessor to supply the transformed voltage as the drive voltage to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Publication number: 20070171041
    Abstract: There are provided an alarm information processing device and an alarm information processing method capable of handling alarm information in unification and of exhibiting flexible adaptability in response to the circumstances. A collection means collects alarm information having a plurality of mixed formats. A normalization means normalizes alarm information collected by the collection means. An information processing means executes information processing relative to the alarm information normalized by the normalization means. A user setting means is used for setting a logic for normalization by a user in the normalization means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Kakimoto, Yasunori Sakata, Naohito Ohtani, Yasunori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070174789
    Abstract: There are provided a filtering device and a filtering method capable of easily filtering information with an excellent operability. A first display means 101 displays a plurality of icons representing elements of conditions and a designation area for receiving the icons on a screen. A second display means 102 displays icons selected from the plurality of icons by a user's operation within the designation area on the screen. A filtering means 103 filters information in accordance with conditions responsive to a combination of icons displayed within the designation area. A third display means 104 displays information filtered by the filtering means on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata