Patents Assigned to Aisin AW Co.
  • Patent number: 10871200
    Abstract: A transmission device that includes a first shaft, a second shaft to which torque is transmitted from the first shaft via a torque transmitting mechanism, a tubular drive gear attached to the second shaft, and a driven gear that meshes with the drive gear, wherein the drive gear includes a plurality of outer teeth that are each meshed with a corresponding one of gear teeth of the driven gear and a fitting portion that is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the drive gear and that is fitted to the second shaft so that the drive gear rotates integrally with the second shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Nagata, Yusuke Suzuki, Keisuke Suzuki, Yuji Ueno, Takashi Ando, Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200393003
    Abstract: The tooth part includes: a tubular portion having an inner tooth portion formed on an inner peripheral surface and an outer tooth portion formed on an outer peripheral surface; a plurality of inner peripheral wall portions that each extend in an axial direction of the tubular portion and form a tooth tip portion of the inner tooth portion and a tooth bottom portion of the outer tooth portion; a plurality of outer peripheral wall portions that each extend in the axial direction and form a tooth bottom portion of the inner tooth portion and a tooth tip portion of the outer tooth portion; and an annular rib that is joined to the outer peripheral wall portions and that extends in an annular shape on an open end side with respect to the inner peripheral wall portions in the axial direction and radially outward from the inner peripheral wall portions, at an open end of the tubular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo MATSUMOTO, Takuya MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10868453
    Abstract: The rotor of the rotating electric machine includes the rotor shaft and the rotor core. The rotor shaft has the shaft refrigerant passage and the refrigerant supplying port on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft, the shaft refrigerant passage extending in an axial direction, the refrigerant supplying port communicating with the shaft refrigerant passage. The rotor core has the rotor core refrigerant passage and the refrigerant receiving port on the inner peripheral surface of the rotor core, the rotor core refrigerant passage extending in the axial direction, the refrigerant receiving port communicating with the rotor core refrigerant passage and facing the refrigerant supplying port of the rotor shaft. A clearance groove part is provided at a portion that is on the inner peripheral surface of the rotor core and that faces the refrigerant supplying port of the rotor shaft, the clearance groove part extending in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Noda, Shinya Sano, Hiroyuki Hattori, Masayuki Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 10866693
    Abstract: A display control device includes an operation information acquisition unit and a cursor coordinate controller. The cursor coordinate controller is configured to, in a state in which a cursor is set to a predetermined selection item, when operation information is acquired from the operation information acquisition unit, and when, based on a position of the cursor on a display surface of a display device, the selection item is included in a search area that is set in a direction corresponding to an operation direction included in the operation information on the display surface, select the selection item at a position closest to a reference point of the cursor in the direction corresponding to the operation direction as the selection item to be a movement destination of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION, HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shoji Kakinuma, Kensuke Hanaoka, Yusuke Takeuchi, Satoru Akashi, Yoshito Momiyama, Kazuyuki Ueda, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Hitoshi Araki, Kentaro Kakuse
  • Patent number: 10868891
    Abstract: A vehicle information transmission system that carries out communication with a management server that manages a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire vehicle information in accordance with a third sampling pattern that is a combination of a first sampling pattern and a second sampling pattern. The vehicle information is transferred within an in-vehicle network installed in the vehicle. The first sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at a change point at which a predetermined change has occurred. The second sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at intervals of a predetermined period. The electronic control unit is configured to transmit the acquired vehicle information to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashige Hori, Kuniaki Tanaka, Eiji Murata, Masatoshi Takahara, Kouji Maeno, Toshio Kato, Shoji Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20200386571
    Abstract: A vehicle control system and program obtain a planned travel route of a vehicle; obtain a recommended lane on which the vehicle is to travel, based on the planned travel route; obtain a recommended region that the vehicle is to travel in an intersection included in the planned travel route, based on the planned travel route; control the vehicle to travel along the recommended lane when a distance between the vehicle and the intersection is greater than or equal to a threshold value; and control the vehicle to travel the recommended region at the intersection when the distance between the vehicle and the intersection is less than the threshold value
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiro HIRATE, Sadahiro KOSHIBA
  • Publication number: 20200389115
    Abstract: Two inverters provided at both ends of each open-end winding, respectively, are appropriately controlled. A rotating electrical machine control device (1) that has at least two control schemes among pulse width modulation control, active short-circuit control, and rectangular-wave control, as control schemes for a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), and that can control the first inverter (11) and the second inverter (12) by control schemes which are independent of each other considers one of the plurality of control schemes as a first control scheme and one of the plurality of control schemes different than the first control scheme as a second control scheme, and has a control mode in which the first inverter (11) is controlled by the first control scheme and the second inverter (12) is controlled by the second control scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Subrata SAHA, Isao FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 10861332
    Abstract: A communication terminal is connected to a server device in a bidirectionally communicable manner and configured to transmit a departure point, a destination, and a route retrieval request from the departure point to the destination to the server device and to acquire a route that is retrieved and delivered by the server device in response to the route retrieval request. The communication terminal receives, from the server device, location road information for identifying a position of a moving object on a map and identifying the position of the moving object based on the received location road information. The communication terminal transmits, to the server device, the route retrieval request in which the identified position of the moving object is set as the departure point, and receives, from the server device, a route that is retrieved by the server device in response to the route retrieval request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Ogawa, Daisuke Tanizaki, Koichi Iwatsuki, Toyoji Hiyokawa, Motohiro Nakamura, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10858012
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance devices, methods and programs generate assistance information to be used in autonomous driving assistance that is executed in a vehicle. The devices, methods and programs set a target travel trajectory that is an aimed travel trajectory for a road on which the vehicle travels and set a control target point to a position that is located on the target travel trajectory and ahead of a trajectory generation start point in a direction in which the vehicle is traveling based on a type of autonomous driving assistance being executed in the vehicle. The devices, methods and programs generate a control trajectory to be followed by the vehicle by using a trajectory from the trajectory generation start point to the control target point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Maura
  • Publication number: 20200378489
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including a support member that rotates with a rotary element that receives engine torque; a restoring force generating member coupled to the support member and swingable with rotation of the support member; an inertial mass body that, with rotation of the support member, swings about the center of rotation in conjunction with the restoring force generating member; a guided portion formed in either the restoring force generating member and the inertial mass body; and a guide portion formed in the other of the restoring force generating member and the inertial mass body and configured to guide the guided portion. As the guided portion is guided by the guide portion, the restoring force generating member swings with respect to the center of rotation in the radial direction of the support member and the inertial mass body swings about the center of rotation when the support member rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi OI, Takao SAKAMOTO, Hiroki NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20200378448
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including a support member rotabable about the center of rotation of a rotary element; a restoring force generation member coupled to the support member; an inertial mass body coupled to the support member via the restoring force generation member; and a guided portion and a guide portion provided alternately on one of the restoring force generation member or the inertial mass body. The guide portion guides the guided portion so the restoring force generation member swings along the radial direction of the center of rotation and the inertial mass body swings about the center of rotation when the support member is rotated. A component of a centrifugal force acting on the restoring force generation member is transferred from the guided portion to the guide portion. The restoring force generation member includes two mass bodies facing each other and disposed on sides of the inertial mass body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi OI, Takao SAKAMOTO, Takuya FUKUOKA, Kazuhiro ITOU
  • Publication number: 20200370641
    Abstract: A control device that includes an electronic control unit that is configured to perform, when specific control that causes a change in a state of a hydraulic circuit in the hydraulic control device that involves an increase in hydraulic pressure at the discharge port is performed in a state in which a rotational speed of the electric motor is a first rotational speed, torque increase control that controls drive of the electric motor such that torque of the electric motor starts to increase before hydraulic pressure at the discharge port increases by the specific control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke NISHIMURA, Yoichi TAJIMA, Kazuomi OKASAKA
  • Publication number: 20200370159
    Abstract: Steel materials for continuously variable transmissions sheaves, and methods for manufacturing a continuously variable transmission sheaves, are provided. In the disclosed steel materials for continuously variable transmission sheaves, the steel materials satisfy the following expressions: 13.9?Fn1?15.5, and 1.20?Fn2?4.35 (in which Fn1=7×Cr?6×Si+4×Mn; and Fn2=Al×N×104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi HATTORI, Kazumichi TSUKUDA, Hiroyuki NOZAKI, Daisuke KASAI, Takuya WATANABE, Tetsuya OHASHI, Shouji TOUDOU, Akira SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20200373798
    Abstract: The invention reduces tensile stress generated in the rotor core in a radial direction when a rotor core and a rotor support member are joined. A region in an axial direction (L) in which a melted joint portion (W2) for joining a rotor core (2) and a rotor support member (9) is formed is set as an axial joint region (JR). Among a plurality of corner portions (4c) of the permanent magnet (4), at least one corner portion (4c) that overlaps with the axial joint region (JR) when seen in a radial direction and that faces an outer peripheral surface (CP2) of the rotor core (2) is set as a specific corner portion (4s). Among facing surface portions (5p) of an inner wall portion of the magnet insertion hole (5) that face the corner portions (4c), the facing surface portion (5p) that faces the specific corner portion (4s) is set as a specific facing surface portion (5s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideharu USHIDA, Tetsuya MATSUBARA, Takeshi YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10843681
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus selects one of a power-on control and a power-off control for execution of a shift-down action in a transmission of a vehicle, and implements the selected power-on or power-off control. When a running speed of the vehicle is not lower than a predetermined value, the control apparatus selects one of the power-on control and the power-off control, based on a target input torque that is to be inputted to the transmission. When the vehicle running speed is lower than the predetermined value, the control apparatus selects one of the power-on control and the power-off control, based on an actual input torque that is actually inputted to the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Goto, Kenta Kumazaki, Kazuyuki Shiiba, Tooru Matsubara, Masato Yoshikawa, Kazuomi Okasaka, Atsushi Kayukawa, Daisuke Suyama, Mitsuru Maeda
  • Publication number: 20200363230
    Abstract: Map display systems and programs arrange each of a plurality of characters representing a route on a display so that an angle formed by a direction of a character and a direction of the route is equal to or less than a predetermined angle. The characters representing the route are arranged along a reference section that is a section of the route displayed on a map and that has a curvature radius equal to or more than a threshold radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya UEDA, Motoki TAKUNO, Taiki NAKAMURA, Xin JIN
  • Publication number: 20200366171
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an armature (1) includes: a coil disposing step involving using a thermally expandable resin (Q) that expands by application of heat, and disposing a coil (30) in a core (10) such that the thermally expandable resin (Q) before expansion is disposed between a slot-housed portion (31) and an inner surface of a slot (11); a resin disposing step involving, before or after the coil disposing step, using a thermally melting resin (P) that melts by application of heat, and disposing the thermally melting resin (P) before melting such that the thermally melting resin (P) comes into contact with coil end portions (32); and a heating step involving, after the coil disposing step and the resin disposing step, heating, expanding, and then curing the thermally expandable resin (Q), and heating, melting, and then curing the thermally melting resin (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200366146
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Tomotsugu SUGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200366172
    Abstract: The stator manufacturing method includes a step involving, simultaneously with or after a first slot-housed portion placing step, moving a second slot-housed portion of each pair of slot-housed portions radially outward while unfolding an insulating sheet in a direction intersecting a direction of extension of folded portions of the insulating sheet, thus placing each second slot-housed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., HAYASHIKOGYOSYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru KUROYANAGI, Takahiko HOBO
  • Patent number: 10840845
    Abstract: A vehicle drive control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a first engagement device, a rotating electrical machine, and a second engagement device are provided in this order from an input side in a mechanical power transmission path connecting an input to an output, the input being drive-coupled to an internal combustion engine serving as a vehicle drive power source, and the output being drive-coupled to wheels, wherein each of the first engagement device and the second engagement device can be changed between an engaged state in which drive power is transmitted and a disengaged state in which drive power is not transmitted, the vehicle control device including an electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Sato, Yomei Hakumura, Masashi Miyazaki, Masayoshi Yanagida