Patents by Inventor Yusaku KAWAGUCHI

Yusaku KAWAGUCHI 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: 11916506
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a motor, a drive circuit, a current detection unit, and a control unit. The motor has a plurality of phases of motor windings. The drive circuit is provided on a low potential side of the motor windings. The current detection unit has current detection resistors corresponding to each phase, and is provided on a low potential side of the drive circuit. The control unit includes an actuator control unit and an abnormality diagnosis unit. The abnormality diagnosis unit determines that the current detection unit is abnormal, when a difference between a maximum current, which is a maximum value of the phase current when a same duty ratio is commanded to each phase, and a minimum current, which is a minimum value of the phase current when a same duty ratio is commanded to each phase, is equal to or greater than an abnormality determination threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusaku Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11808346
    Abstract: An ECU has a temperature detection unit that detects an actual temperature of the ECU, a temperature estimation unit that calculates an estimated temperature of the ECU, an abnormality determination unit for determining a presence or absence of a sign of abnormality, and a switching prohibition unit that prohibits the shift range switching in a predetermined case. The switching prohibition unit prohibits the shift range switching when there is no sign of abnormality in the temperature detection unit and the actual temperature is equal to or higher than a switching prohibition threshold, and prohibits the shift range switching when there is a sign of abnormality in the temperature detection unit and the estimated temperature is equal to or higher than a switching prohibition threshold. The temperature estimation unit calculates the estimated temperature based on a latest actual temperature in a normal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusaku Kawaguchi, Seiji Nakayama, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230029149
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a motor, a drive circuit, a current detection unit, and a control unit. The motor has a plurality of phases of motor windings. The drive circuit is provided on a low potential side of the motor windings. The current detection unit has current detection resistors corresponding to each phase, and is provided on a low potential side of the drive circuit. The control unit includes an actuator control unit and an abnormality diagnosis unit. The abnormality diagnosis unit determines that the current detection unit is abnormal, when a difference between a maximum current, which is a maximum value of the phase current when a same duty ratio is commanded to each phase, and a minimum current, which is a minimum value of the phase current when a same duty ratio is commanded to each phase, is equal to or greater than an abnormality determination threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Yusaku KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220299108
    Abstract: An ECU has a temperature detection unit that detects an actual temperature of the ECU, a temperature estimation unit that calculates an estimated temperature of the ECU, an abnormality determination unit for determining a presence or absence of a sign of abnormality, and a switching prohibition unit that prohibits the shift range switching in a predetermined case. The switching prohibition unit prohibits the shift range switching when there is no sign of abnormality in the temperature detection unit and the actual temperature is equal to or higher than a switching prohibition threshold, and prohibits the shift range switching when there is a sign of abnormality in the temperature detection unit and the estimated temperature is equal to or higher than a switching prohibition threshold. The temperature estimation unit calculates the estimated temperature based on a latest actual temperature in a normal period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yusaku KAWAGUCHI, Seiji NAKAYAMA, Jun YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11333241
    Abstract: A shift range control device includes an encoder count unit, an energization control unit, a learning unit, an energization phase count unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The encoder count unit calculates an encoder count value based on an encoder signal. The energization control unit controls energization to the motor. The learning unit learns a wall position that is the encoder count value when an engaging member abuts on the wall portion. The energization phase count unit calculates an energization phase count value that is counted according to switching of the energization phase. The abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality of the encoder based on the energization phase count value and the encoder count value before and after learning the wall position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusaku Kawaguchi, Jun Yamada, Seiji Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210262566
    Abstract: A shift range control device includes an encoder count unit, an energization control unit, a learning unit, an energization phase count unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The encoder count unit calculates an encoder count value based on an encoder signal. The energization control unit controls energization to the motor. The learning unit learns a wall position that is the encoder count value when an engaging member abuts on the wall portion. The energization phase count unit calculates an energization phase count value that is counted according to switching of the energization phase. The abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality of the encoder based on the energization phase count value and the encoder count value before and after learning the wall position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yusaku KAWAGUCHI, Jun YAMADA, Seiji NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10309533
    Abstract: A shift controller for a vehicle includes a shift switching unit, a rotation restricting element, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: acquire a count value corresponding to a degree of rotation of an actuator; set a rotational position of the actuator when the count value does not change by restricting rotation of the actuator using the rotation restricting element as a reference position of the actuator corresponding to the predetermined shift position; and interrupt setting the reference position of the actuator and restart setting the reference position of the actuator when the rotation of the actuator is restricted and a supply voltage to the actuator is equal to or lower than a predetermined first voltage determination value or a variation in the count value while the rotation of the actuator is restricted is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamada, Hideki Kubonoya, Koji Sakaguchi, Yusaku Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10260472
    Abstract: In a case where an operation to a non-parking operation position is performed at the time when an engine stops at a parking position, an electronic control unit executes two controls, i.e., a change to a non-parking position and starting of the engine, simultaneously. At this time, in a case where the operation to the non-parking operation position is performed at the time when the engine is stopped at the parking position by stop-start system, a deceleration start timing of an electric actuator is made earlier in comparison with a case where the operation is performed at a time different from the above. Accordingly, even in a state where a voltage of the electric actuator is decreased, a motor rotation position can be easily stopped at a non-p target rotation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamada, Yusaku Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10240673
    Abstract: A SBW-ECU includes: a P unreleasable region determination portion configured to determine whether a road surface slope Sr at a vehicle position and an output voltage Volr of an auxiliary battery fall within a predetermined parking lock unreleasable region or not; and a P release request rejection portion configured to reject a P release request in a case where P release request rejection conditions to are all satisfied, including a fact that the P unreleasable region determination portion determines that the road surface slope Sr at the vehicle position and the output voltage Volr of the auxiliary battery fall within the parking lock unreleasable region (the P release request rejection condition (c) is satisfied).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakade, Yusaku Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180149129
    Abstract: In a case where an operation to a non-parking operation position is performed at the time when an engine stops at a parking position, an electronic control unit executes two controls, i.e., a change to a non-parking position and starting of the engine, simultaneously. At this time, in a case where the operation to the non-parking operation position is performed at the time when the engine is stopped at the parking position by stop-start system, a deceleration start timing of an electric actuator is made earlier in comparison with a case where the operation is performed at a time different from the above. Accordingly, even in a state where a voltage of the electric actuator is decreased, a motor rotation position can be easily stopped at a non-p target rotation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KAMADA, Yusaku KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180149268
    Abstract: A SBW-ECU includes: a P unreleasable region determination portion configured to determine whether a road surface slope Sr at a vehicle position and an output voltage Volr of an auxiliary battery fall within a predetermined parking lock unreleasable region or not; and a P release request rejection portion configured to reject a P release request in a case where P release request rejection conditions to are all satisfied, including a fact that the P unreleasable region determination portion determines that the road surface slope Sr at the vehicle position and the output voltage Volr of the auxiliary battery fall within the parking lock unreleasable region (the P release request rejection condition (c) is satisfied).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKADE, Yusaku KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180045309
    Abstract: A shift controller for a vehicle includes a shift switching unit, a rotation restricting element, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: acquire a count value corresponding to a degree of rotation of an actuator; set a rotational position of the actuator when the count value does not change by restricting rotation of the actuator using the rotation restricting element as a reference position of the actuator corresponding to the predetermined shift position; and interrupt setting the reference position of the actuator and restart setting the reference position of the actuator when the rotation of the actuator is restricted and a supply voltage to the actuator is equal to or lower than a predetermined first voltage determination value or a variation in the count value while the rotation of the actuator is restricted is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KAMADA, Hideki KUBONOYA, Koji SAKAGUCHI, Yusaku KAWAGUCHI