Patents by Inventor Yosuke Suzuki

Yosuke Suzuki 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).

  • Control system for hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9944279
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to promptly shift a drive mode. In the single-motor mode, the vehicle is powered by a second motor while bringing an engagement device into disengagement and stopping the engine. In the dual-motor mode, the vehicle is powered by both a first motor and the second motor while bringing the engagement device into engagement and stopping a rotation of the output shaft of the engine by a stopper device. When shifting the drive mode from the single-motor mode to the dual-motor mode, the control system controls the first motor in a manner such that a speed difference between an input speed and an output speed of the engagement device is reduced while increasing a torque transmitting capacity of the engagement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensei Hata, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Koichi Kato, Seitaro Nobuyasu, Taro Moteki
  • Optical semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9929530
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device has a semiconductor laser which emits front-end-surface-side emergent light on the front end surface side and emits rear-end-surface-side emergent light on the rear end surface side, and a mount substrate having the semiconductor laser provided on its front surface. The rear-end-surface-side emergent light is emitted while having an emergence optical axis that extends away from the mount substrate with increase in distance from the rear end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Suzuki, Yuichiro Okunuki, Go Sakaino, Naoki Nakamura, Ryoko Suzuki
  • Control Device of Hybrid Vehicle
    Publication number: 20180065617
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes a rotation detector and electronic control unit. The rotation detector is configured to detect a rotational state of the third rotational element of the hybrid vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to control a first motor generator of the hybrid vehicle such that output torque of the first motor generator becomes zero when the electronic control unit determines, based on the rotational state of the third rotational element, that the third rotational element has a rotational fluctuation while the hybrid vehicle is travelling in a dual drive motor travelling mode. The dual drive motor travelling mode is a mode in which the hybrid vehicle travels while both the first motor generator and a second motor generator serve as driving force sources for travelling in a state where a first rotational element is fixed by a lock mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michitaka TSUCHIDA, Michinobu SUZUKI, Yosuke SUZUKI, Shinichi BABA, Koichi KATO, Shinichiro SUENAGA
  • Control system for hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9884617
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when any one of the following conditions iii) to vi) is satisfied, activate the oil pump to start supplying oil to a power split mechanism: iii) a required driving force becomes larger than or equal to a first pump changing value when a first drive mode is selected; iv) a vehicle speed becomes higher than or equal to a second pump changing value when the first drive mode is selected; v) the required driving force becomes smaller than or equal to a third pump changing value when the third drive mode is selected; and vi) the vehicle speed becomes lower than or equal to a fourth pump changing value when the third drive mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei Murata, Akiko Nishimine, Kensei Hata, Yosuke Suzuki
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING FURAN COMPOUND AND FURFURAL COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20180009774
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide an industrially advantageous method for producing a furan compound, in which a furan compound can be efficiently obtained in a high selectivity from a furfural compound. The present invention is concerned with a method for producing a furan compound including feeding, as a raw material, a furfural composition containing a furfural compound into a reactor and subjecting to a decarbonylation reaction in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a furan compound as a product, wherein a furfural dimer concentration in the furfural composition is 1,000 ppm by weight or less, and a peroxide value in the furfural composition is 0.01 mEq/kg or more and 1.0 mEq/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke IZAWA, Hideto Tsuji, Yosuke Suzuki
  • Control system for hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9849874
    Abstract: A control system of a hybrid vehicle, in which a driving power source for travel includes an engine that is started by cranking, a motor that can control a torque, and a clutch that is coupled with the motor and in which a transmission torque capacity continuously changes depending on a change of a control amount is configured to estimate a torque of the clutch based on the torque that the motor outputs, and change rates of the rotational speed of the motor and the clutch caused by changing the control amount, when the torque that the motor outputs is transmitted by the clutch that is in a slip state by changing the control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensei Hata, Makoto Funahashi, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Hirotatsu Kitabatake, Seitaro Nobuyasu
  • Vehicle control system
    Patent number: 9834203
    Abstract: A vehicle control system for preventing malfunction of the clutch for selectively connecting the engine with the power train. The vehicle control system is applied to a vehicle having an engine, a motor disposed on a power train, and a clutch interposed therebetween. In order to prevent a malfunction of the clutch, the vehicle control system is configured to engage the clutch while causing a slip but without starting the engine if the engine has not yet been started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kensei Hata, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Koichi Kato, Seitaro Nobuyasu, Taro Moteki
  • Engine air intake structure
    Patent number: 9797298
    Abstract: An engine air intake structure includes a partition plate and a valve. The plate partitions an air intake passage communicating with an intake port into first and second paths. The valve is disposed in the passage and secured to the shaft. A first path opening is changed variable by the valve. The structure also includes an opposing surface, a stepped surface, an extending surface and a measurement groove. The opposing surface is an inner wall surface of the passage and opposes an end away from the shaft when the opening becomes minimal. The stepped surface is located on the intake port side of the end of the valve at the minimal opening and stands erect from the opposing surface. The extending surface extends from the stepped surface toward the intake port. The measurement groove is formed in the extending surface and extends from the stepped surface toward the intake port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Suzuki, Hirofumi Imanishi, Masayuki Shimura
  • Control system for hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9783191
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle, the hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a first motor, a second motor, a differential mechanism, and a clutch. The control system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (a) set an EV mode in which a vehicle travels at least by drive power of the second motor among the first motor and the second motor in a state that the engine stops, (b) prohibit setting of the EV mode in a state that the clutch is fully engaged when a vehicle speed is at least equal to a predetermined first vehicle speed threshold value, and (c) prohibit setting of the EV mode in a state that the clutch is disengaged when the vehicle speed of the vehicle that travels in the EV mode is at most equal to a predetermined second vehicle speed threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensei Hata, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Koichi Kato, Seitaro Nobuyasu, Taro Moteki
  • Hybrid vehicle, and control method for hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9758161
    Abstract: At the time of changing from an EV mode, in which a hybrid vehicle travels with the use of a second motor provided on an output side of a differential mechanism while torque that acts on any one of rotating elements of the differential mechanism is interrupted by a clutch, to an HV mode, in which the hybrid vehicle travels while transmitting output torque of an engine to a drive wheel, when the engine is started in a state where the clutch is slipped and torque is transmitted from the engine so as to increase the rotation speed of the first rotating element while the clutch is slipped, torque starts being output from a first motor such that torque input from the first rotating element to the differential mechanism to increase the rotation speed of the drive wheel is output from the third rotating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kensei Hata, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Koichi Kato, Seitaro Nobuyasu, Taro Moteki
  • Drive system for vehicle
    Patent number: 9724988
    Abstract: A drive system for a vehicle includes a first motor, a second motor, and a differential mechanism that includes a first rotation element connected to the first motor, a second rotation element connected to the second motor, and a third rotation element connected to driving wheels, the first rotation element and the second rotation element are located on the opposite sides with the third rotation element interposed therebetween in a collinear diagram of the differential mechanism, and an area that is not able to be selected as a target control quantity is determined within a range of the control quantity that is able to be output by one motor of the first motor and the second motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohito Ono, Yuji Iwase, Yosuke Suzuki, Kensei Hata
  • LITHIUM-AIR BATTERY AND LITHIUM-AIR BATTERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170222287
    Abstract: A lithium-air battery includes: an anode that includes an anode material for absorbing and desorbing a lithium ion; a cathode that includes a cathode material with a catalyst for reducing the oxygen using oxygen as a cathode active material; and a solid electrolyte layer that includes a solid electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode. At least one of charge and discharge is performed in a presence of vapor-phase water. That is, the reduction of oxygen or an oxide is performed in the presence of the vapor-phase water. With this arrangement, the air battery can exhibit the effect of reducing the overvoltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yosuke SUZUKI, Kenichirou KAMI, Kazuki HIRATA
  • One-way clutch
    Patent number: 9719566
    Abstract: A one-way clutch includes a first rotational member, a second rotational member, and a first rotational body. The second rotational member has plural first through holes in which bolts are inserted. A dimension of the first through hole in a circumferential direction is larger than a dimension of the first through hole in a radial direction. A first region and a second region are obtained by dividing the first through hole into two regions in the circumferential direction. The first region is located ahead of the second region in a rotatable direction of the second rotational member. The bolts are inserted such that the each of the bolts is located in the first region of the first through hole, and the second rotational member and the first rotational body are fastened by the bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seitaro Nobuyasu, Yosuke Suzuki, Takahito Endo, Suguru Hirai, Yuji Iwase, Koichi Kato
  • OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170214215
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device has a semiconductor laser which emits front-end-surface-side emergent light on the front end surface side and emits rear-end-surface-side emergent light on the rear end surface side, and a mount substrate having the semiconductor laser provided on its front surface. The rear-end-surface-side emergent light is emitted while having an emergence optical axis that extends away from the mount substrate with increase in distance from the rear end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke SUZUKI, Yuichiro OKUNUKI, Go SAKAINO, Naoki NAKAMURA, Ryoko SUZUKI
  • CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYBRID VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170182997
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to promptly shift a drive mode. In the single-motor mode, the vehicle is powered by a second motor while bringing an engagement device into disengagement and stopping the engine. In the dual-motor mode, the vehicle is powered by both a first motor and the second motor while bringing the engagement device into engagement and stopping a rotation of the output shaft of the engine by a stopper device. When shifting the drive mode from the single-motor mode to the dual-motor mode, the control system controls the first motor in a manner such that a speed difference between an input speed and an output speed of the engagement device is reduced while increasing a torque transmitting capacity of the engagement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensei HATA, Yuji IWASE, Yosuke SUZUKI, Koichi KATO, Seitaro NOBUYASU, Taro MOTEKI
  • Electric Device
    Publication number: 20170170513
    Abstract: An electric device having a power generating element contains a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode, and a separator containing an electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium nickel-based composite oxide having a layered crystal structure capable of insertion and desorption of lithium ions, the composition represented by: [Li?Ni?]3a[NixMny-rMrCoz]3bO2, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb, W, P, Al, Mg, V, Ca, Sr, Cr, Fe, B, Ga, In, Si, Mo, Y, Sn, V, Cu, Ag, and Zn, and x+y+z?1, ??0.032, 0.9??+??1.2, 0<x<1, 0<y<1, 0<z<1, and 0?r?0.3, and the electrolyte has a cyclic sulfonic acid ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Manabu Nishijima, Yosuke Suzuki
  • VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170151981
    Abstract: A vehicle includes steering devices configured to change a travel state of the vehicle between a normal travel mode and a special travel mode by steering right and left wheels in right and left opposite directions; a display device; and a processor configured to calculate an angle difference between the angle of each of the right and left wheels in either one of the normal travel mode and the special travel mode, and the current angle of each of the right and left wheels, which have been steered by the steering devices. The processor is further configured to display, on the display device, information necessary for a driver to steer the right and left wheels based on the angle difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Yosuke SUZUKI, Kazuyuki INOKUCHI
  • GRAFT POLYMER, RESIN COLORED MATTER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING RESIN COLORED MATTER
    Publication number: 20170137553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: (1) a graft polymer that has a polyolefin (A) as the main chain, and a polymer (B) polymerized a dye (b) having a radical reactive functional group, in a side chain; (2) the graft polymer which is characterized in that the dye (b) having the radical reactive functional group is a cationic rhodamine derivative, a cationic triarylmethane-type dye derivative or a cationic cyanine-type dye derivative, having an ethylenically unsaturated group; (3) a colored resin consisting of the graft polymer; as well as (4) a method for producing the colored resin, which is characterized by mixing the polyolefin (A), the dye (b) having the radical reactive functional group, and the radical reaction initiator (C), and subjecting a radical reaction of the mixture; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicants: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., RHOMBIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Kimura, Masayuki Tomida, Taeyeon Kim, Yosuke Suzuki, Masahiro Takano
  • Non-Aqueous Electrolyte Secondary Battery
    Publication number: 20170117583
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is capable of suppressing a local reaction of a negative electrode active material due to the electrolyte during charging and discharging and improving a capacity retention ratio of a using a carbon material such as artificial graphite particles for the negative electrode active material. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a negative electrode containing a carbon-based negative electrode active material, an electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, and having a tap density of the negative electrode active material of 0.96 g/cc or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohisa Matsuno, Hirofumi Yasuda, Naoko Nishimura, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Yosuke Suzuki, Shinnichi Tasaki
  • CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYBRID VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170113679
    Abstract: A control system for hybrid vehicle for extending a possible travelling distance of the vehicle in the event of clutch failure is provided. The control system is configured to select a first drive mode in which the vehicle is powered by an engine in case an estimated torque transmitting capacity of the clutch in trouble is larger than a first threshold value, and to select a second drive mode in which the vehicle is powered by a motor in case the estimated torque transmitting capacity of the clutch in trouble is smaller than the first threshold value. The control system is further configured to reduce an engine torque to be smaller than the estimated torque transmitting capacity of the clutch in case the first drive mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensei HATA, Yuji IWASE, Yosuke SUZUKI, Koichi KATO, Seitaro NOBUYASU, Taro MOTEKI