Patents Assigned to Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20190154142
    Abstract: A hydraulic controller that includes a first oil passage that communicates two ports of a plurality of solenoid valves having a plurality of ports with each other; a second oil passage that communicates two ports of a plurality of valves having a plurality of ports with each other; and a third oil passage provided in a third region provided in an overlapping manner between a first region in which the first oil passage is arranged and a second region in which the second oil passage is arranged, the third oil passage being orthogonal to an overlapping direction of the first region and the second region, wherein the third oil passage communicates any one port out of the ports of the solenoid valves and any one port out of the ports of the valves with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eikichi KIDOKORO, Kaname MATSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190156672
    Abstract: Operation management systems, methods, and programs obtain a travel plan including a scheduled point and a scheduled time associated with the scheduled point, and obtain a travel track record including a travel point of a vehicle and a travel time associated with the travel point. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, when a delay has occurred in the travel plan, a cause of the delay based on the travel track record and the travel plan, and output the obtained cause of the delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka KONISHI, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Hideki KASEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190154113
    Abstract: A transfer belt wound between a primary pulley and a secondary pulley of a continuously variable transmission, the transfer belt including: a plurality of elements, each of which has a body that includes a saddle surface and a pair of pillars that extend toward a radially outer side of the transfer belt from both sides of the saddle surface in a width direction; and a bind ring that binds the plurality of elements annularly with an inner peripheral surface of the bind ring contacting the saddle surface of each of the plurality of elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Kenji KAWANO, Akira OCHI, Ryo NAKAMURA, Takayuki MIYAKE, Junichi TOKUNAGA, Masashi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20190154112
    Abstract: A power transfer belt that includes a plurality of elements; and a ring that binds the plurality of elements annularly, wherein: the power transfer belt is wound in V grooves of a pair of pulleys of a continuously variable transmission to transfer power, the elements each have a saddle surface that contacts the ring, a pair of pillars that extend from both sides of the saddle surface in a width direction in a direction from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side of the ring, and a pair of side surfaces formed so as to extend away from each other from the inner peripheral side toward the outer peripheral side of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira OCHI, Kenji KAWANO, Yuki SATO, Ryo NAKAMURA, Junichi TOKUNAGA, Masashi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20190154114
    Abstract: A power transfer belt, where a peripheral length difference between an inner peripheral length of the retainer ring and an outer peripheral length of the outermost ring material is larger than a peripheral length difference between an outer peripheral length of the ring material on an inner side, of two of the ring materials which overlap each other, and an inner peripheral length of the ring material on an outer side,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira OCHI, Yuki SATO, Ryo NAKAMURA, Kenji KAWANO, Masashi HATTORI, Junichi TOKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10295048
    Abstract: A vehicle transmission having a valve body disposed adjacently to and in parallel with a side cover covering a front or rear side or a side surface of a transmission case in a vehicle width direction in a vehicle-mounted state, the side cover connected to the transmission case, in which an electromagnetic valve is included on the side cover side of the valve body, when viewed in a direction horizontal and parallel to mating surfaces of the transmission case and the side cover, a strainer for removing a foreign material in a hydraulic oil is disposed between the side cover and the valve body to overlap with at least a portion of the electromagnetic valve, and the strainer has an inflow portion for allowing the hydraulic oil to flow in disposed vertically above an oil surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Moriyama, Takafumi Inagaki, Yoshinobu Soga, Yoshihiro Mizuno, Hiromitsu Nitani, Yuji Iwatsuru
  • Patent number: 10298220
    Abstract: A switching element drive circuit that drives a main switching element by providing a control terminal of the main switching element with a drive signal that has asymmetric positive and negative potentials with respect to a reference potential, the main switching element including a ground terminal, which is a source terminal or an emitter terminal, and to which the reference potential is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakamura, Yuji Takakura
  • Publication number: 20190147410
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a user, first action schedule information including a first target place, a first desired arrival time, and a first desired stay time, and second action schedule information including a second target place, a second desired arrival time, and a second desired stay time, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a first use condition and a second use condition, and a scheduling unit configured to decide a first scheduled time of arrival at the first target place and a second scheduled time of arrival at the second target place such that the first desired arrival time and the first desired stay time satisfy a first usable condition and such that the second desired arrival time and the second desired stay time satisfy a second usable condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKEYAMA, Xin JIN, Norihiro NAKAMURA, Hideki KASEZAWA, Kensuke TAKEUCHI, Hajime MORIKAWA, Yoko SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20190145312
    Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio IWASE, Daiki SUYAMA, Naoya JINNAI, Kensuke WADA, Yuji INOUE, Yukihiko IDESHIO
  • Publication number: 20190143926
    Abstract: Vehicle management systems, methods and programs receive contact information indicating contact between an object and a vehicle. The contact information is detected by a sensor that detects contact between the object and the vehicle. The systems, methods, and programs obtain inspection information. The inspection information is a result of inspecting the vehicle for damage by a user of the vehicle who is notified of the contact between the object and the vehicle from having received the contact information. Inspection information transmission systems, methods, and programs, and information management systems, methods, and programs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi YAMAMURA, Yuichi KURIWAKI, Hirokazu HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20190147739
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit, a first output unit, a second acquisition unit, a second output unit, and a third acquisition unit. The first acquisition unit acquires current position information indicating a current position of a vehicle. The first output unit outputs traveling guidance from a relationship between a pre-set vehicle route and the current position of the vehicle. The second acquisition unit acquires content. The second output unit outputs the content acquired by the second acquisition unit. The third acquisition unit acquires road section information specifying a road section where the traveling guidance is stopped. The first output unit stops the output of the traveling guidance based on the road section information acquired by the third acquisition unit and the current position of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKEYAMA, Xin JIN, Norihiro NAKAMURA, Hideki KASEZAWA, Kensuke TAKEUCHI, Hajime MORIKAWA, Yoko SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20190136970
    Abstract: A transmission device is provided with a hydraulic control device, which has a pump for generating hydraulic pressure using power from a motor, and an accumulator, and which controls hydraulic pressure and supplies the hydraulic pressure to a hydraulic servo of an engagement element. The transmission device executes, when the motor that automatically stopped starts up with a request for vehicle travel: a fill control in which the hydraulic control device is controlled so that the hydraulic servo is being filled with working oil; a standby control to control the hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic servo at a standby pressure; and an engagement control to increase the hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic servo is started when the rotational speed of the motor becomes reaches or exceeds a prescribed rotational speed, after hydraulic pressure accumulated in the accumulator is released into the hydraulic circuit, so that the engagement element is engaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru TAKAHASHI, Shinya TSUZUKI, Makoto IWANAKA, Yuto YUASA
  • Publication number: 20190137297
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the frequency of a user feeling annoyed. A map display system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display; an icon display control part that selects a type of icons to be displayed from among a plurality of types based on a number of the icons displayed on the map, and displays ground objects by the icons of the selected type on the map; and an icon selection control part that allows or prohibits a change in the type of icons selected by the icon display control part, and prohibits, when scrolling of the map is performed, a change in the type of icons before and after the scrolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya UEDA, Kazunori WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10284060
    Abstract: A stator assembly method and stator assembly apparatus in which coils that have slot housed portions and coil ends formed from a conductor are mounted to an annular stator core that includes slots formed between adjacent teeth that extend from a back yoke toward an inner side in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Shingo Sato, Shigeru Maeda, Masumi Tomura
  • Patent number: 10281006
    Abstract: A planetary gear mechanism is desired in which pinion gears can be inserted between support portions on both sides in the axial direction of the pinion gears after the support portions on both sides in the axial direction of the pinion gears are coupled together. In this planetary gear mechanism, a coupling inner portion of a carrier coupling portion is located between a first sun gear and a second sun gear in the axial direction, and a carrier and the carrier coupling portion are formed so that each pinion gears can be inserted between a first shaft support portion and a second shaft support portion in the axial direction from the outside in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahisa Hirano
  • Patent number: 10279795
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle drive system in which a first engagement device, a rotating electric machine, and a second engagement device are provided in a power transfer path connecting an internal combustion engine to wheels and are arranged sequentially from an internal combustion engine side, the control device including an electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Takashi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10279687
    Abstract: A control device that includes an electronic control unit that is programmed such that, when the internal combustion engine is started by the rotary electric machine while output torque from the rotary electric machine is transferred to the wheels in a state in which rotation of the internal combustion engine has been stopped, the electronic control unit: executes second slipping control in which the second engagement device is controlled into a slipping engagement state, executes first slipping control in which the first engagement device which has been in a disengaged state is controlled into a slipping engagement state during execution of the second slipping control, and controls an engagement pressure of the first engagement device so as to lower a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine in the first slipping control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Keiichirou Kusabe
  • Publication number: 20190131837
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a rotor core having a plurality of electrical steel sheets stacked in an axial direction; and a permanent magnet embedded in the rotor core and disposed so as to face a stator, wherein: the electrical steel sheet has a magnet insertion hole in which the permanent magnet is inserted and a positioning protrusion protruding along a non-pole face of the permanent magnet into the magnet insertion hole, and in at least a part of the plurality of electrical steel sheets, the positioning protrusion is harder than a general portion that is a portion other than the positioning protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MIYAJI, Naoto SAITO
  • Publication number: 20190128692
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the possibility that a user loses track of how a road, etc., grasped by him/her have been changed on a map. A navigation system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display in any of a plurality of display modes, the map including a current location; a moving image display part that displays, when the display mode changes, a moving image in which the map is rotated and the display mode before being changed gradually changes to a changed display mode, on the display; and a speed-of-change control part that increases a speed of change in the display mode after start of the change in the display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya UEDA, Kazunori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190130793
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for arranging characters along a road to improve appearance and readability. A map display system arranges a plurality of characters along a road line which is a polyline representing a road shape, and includes an arranging part that arranges, at a connecting portion where a first road line segment and a second road line segment forming the road line are connected, a third character in a third direction between a first character arranged in a first direction and a second character arranged in a second direction, the first direction being a direction for the first road line segment, the second direction being a direction for the second road line segment, and the third direction being a direction between the first direction and the second direction; and a display control part that displays the road line and the plurality of characters on a display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki HIRAMOTO, Yoshihiro ISHIHARA