Patents Assigned to Calsonic Kansei Corporation
  • Patent number: 9514906
    Abstract: A temperature switch performs switching according to temperature of a heater. The temperature switch includes a bimetal that is deformed when the temperature of the heater reaches set temperature, a switch mechanism that is opened and closed by deformation of the bimetal, and a housing member that houses the bimetal and the switch mechanism, and that is able to conduct heat to the bimetal. The heater includes a pair of heat generation units that is adjacent to each other. The housing member includes a contact portion that is formed to project and that is inserted between the pair of heat generation units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiju Suzuki, Naohisa Kamiyama, Hiroki Yoshioka, Atsushi Kawashima, Takeshi Satoh, Takeshi Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20160349833
    Abstract: A control apparatus and control method for a processor can reset the processor when the processor returns from low current consumption operation mode to regular operation mode. The control apparatus (11) for a processor (10) includes a watchdog timer (20) that resets the processor (10) when a P-RUN signal from the processor (10) cannot be acquired for a predetermined time, a current monitor (19) that suspends operation of the watchdog timer (20) when output current of a power supply (18) that supplies power to the processor (10) falls below a predetermined value and starts operation of the watchdog timer (20) when the output current becomes equal to or greater than the predetermined value, and a current amplifier (21) that increases the output current to be equal to or greater than the predetermined value upon acquiring a signal for causing the processor (10) to start operating in the regular operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youhei HARA
  • Publication number: 20160347201
    Abstract: The driving force controller for an electric vehicle that controls driving force of a motor in the drive system of an electric vehicle includes: a target driving force setting unit for setting the target driving force based on a request from a driver; a dividing unit for computing a first motor torque command value by dividing the target driving force by a reduction ratio; a target acceleration computing unit for computing target acceleration by dividing the target driving force by inertia of the drive system; an actual acceleration computing unit for computing actual acceleration by differentiating actual rotational speed of the motor; a correction amount computing unit for computing a correction amount for reducing deviation between the target acceleration and the actual acceleration; and a command value computing unit for computing a second motor torque command value by adding the correction amount to the first motor torque command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke OSAMURA, Toshiyuki IWAHANA, Mitsuo HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20160341489
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device includes: an exhaust pipe through which exhaust flows; a heat recovery material arranged in the exhaust pipe and recovering heat of the exhaust; a heat medium flow passage through which heat medium recovering the heat recovered by the heat recovery material flows; and an exhaust restriction portion arranged in the exhaust pipe and allowing the exhaust to pass through only part of the heat recovery material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei ICHIYANAGI, Kazuhiro IDEI
  • Publication number: 20160333877
    Abstract: A gas compressor includes a block part inside which a cylinder chamber is formed; a rotor rotatably housed in the cylinder chamber; and vanes provided on an outer circumferential portion of the rotor. The block part has a pressure supply part configured to supply pressure to backpressure spaces behind the vanes. This pressure supply part has an intermediate-pressure supply part which communicates with each backpressure space from an intake cycle to a compression cycle in the compression chamber, a first high-pressure supply part which communicates with the backpressure space from the compression cycle to a discharge cycle in the compression chamber, and a second high-pressure supply part which is formed between the intermediate-pressure supply part and the first high-pressure supply part independently of the first high-pressure supply part and which communicates with the backpressure space in a middle of the compression cycle in the compression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 9493050
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a vehicle includes an air conditioning unit mounted in a front side of the vehicle to condition air in a front seat area, a rear air outlet, a rear duct to connect the air conditioning unit and the rear air outlet, a rear fan provided near the rear air outlet to draw air from the air conditioning unit via the rear duct so that the air is blown from the rear air outlet, an air inlet provided in the rear duct to draw air from a cabin of the vehicle into the rear duct, and a door structure provided at the air inlet to adjust an opening level of either or both of the air inlet and the rear duct so as to adjust an air intake amount from the air conditioning unit and an air intake amount from the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Fukutomi, Ryousuke Muraki, Tsuneaki Odai
  • Publication number: 20160325332
    Abstract: According to a method for forming an elliptical hollow cylinder, part of the elliptical hollow cylinder is formed into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by spinning. The forming method includes a first forming process for forming the part of the elliptical hollow cylinder into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by using an inside roller, and a second forming process for reducing a diameter of the part formed into the circular hollow cylindrical shape in the first forming process by using an outside roller. According to the forming method, it becomes possible to shorten time required for forming the part of the elliptical hollow cylinder into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by spinning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai KAWASHIMA, Shinji HIOKI, Shuji TOKITA
  • Publication number: 20160318375
    Abstract: In a vehicle air-conditioner safety device, in the case in which an abnormality has occurred in a heating device that heats coolant with a heater: it is determined whether or not the abnormality is a restorable abnormality or a non-restorable abnormality; when the abnormality is determined to be the restorable abnormality, it is determined whether or not the restorable abnormality has been removed; heating by the heater is prohibited when the restorable abnormality or the non-restorable abnormality has occurred; and heating by the heater is restored when the restorable abnormality has been removed after heating by the heater is prohibited due to occurrence of the restorable abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa KAMIYAMA, Takeshi SATOU, Takeshi OGASAWARA, Hiroki YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20160298521
    Abstract: A first member (1) and a second member (3) are connected to each other through a flange (2) with a central axis of a flow path of the second member (3) slanted at a first angle with respect to a central axis of a flow path of the first member (1), the flow path of the first member (1) and the flow path of the second member (3) are allowed to communicate with each other by an in-flange flow path formed in the flange (2), and a second angle constituted of an acute angle between a central axis of the in-flange flow path and the central axis of the flow path of the first member (1) is smaller than the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shouta Kogure
  • Patent number: 9460484
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to enable image synthesis without obscuring important displays and information. This vehicle display control apparatus includes a display control unit (4) that can display vehicle information obtained from a vehicle information input unit (3) on a display device (1). The display control unit (4) includes an image-processing unit (7) that can image-synthesize the vehicle information from the vehicle information input unit (3) on an external image from an external information terminal (2) and displays the image-synthesized image on the display device (1). Further, this image-processing unit (7) comprises: a displayable area-setting unit (11) that searches for a non-important section within the external image and sets the section as a displayable area (A); and an image-synthesizing unit (12) that image-synthesizes the vehicle information on the displayable area (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomomichi Nanba, Mitsuo Hagiuda
  • Patent number: 9437522
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a semiconductor module 2; a cooling unit 3, the semiconductor module 2 being joined to an upper surface of the cooling unit 3, and a pipe 14, 15 for circulating a refrigerant being fixed to a side surface 20, 22 of the cooling unit 3; and a resin mold layer 4 that covers outer peripheries of the semiconductor module 2 and the cooling unit 3. Further, a protruding portion 25, 26 that protrudes from the side surface 20, 22 of the cooling unit 3 and surrounds the pipe 14, 15 is provided on the side surface 20, 22 of the cooling unit 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yoshihara, Satoshi Tamagawa, Yasuyuki Oi, Hideki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160252585
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for battery parameter estimation estimate the parameters of a battery equivalent circuit model while reducing the computation load. The apparatus includes a charge/discharge current detector (3) that detects a charge/discharge current value of a battery (1); a terminal voltage detector (2) that detects a terminal voltage value of the battery (1); and an estimator (4) that estimates, based on the charge/discharge current value and the terminal voltage value, parameters in a battery equivalent circuit model (41) that approximates the Warburg impedance of the battery (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicants: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, KEIO UNIVERSITY, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Atsushi BABA, Shuichi ADACHI, Ichiro MARUTA
  • Publication number: 20160229365
    Abstract: A knee protector for a vehicle in which an upper bracket which generates a high reaction force to a knee input load and a lower bracket which generates a reaction force lower than the upper bracket are directly or indirectly attached, in a vertical position, to a vehicle body strength member. At least the upper bracket has a closed cross-section part on at least a part of the upper bracket. An inwardly protruding part which inwardly protrudes is formed in at least one surface of the closed cross-section part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicants: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato ABE, Shiro OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160194907
    Abstract: A storage device 1 has a storage device body 2 and an opening and closing member 4, which are supported to be capable of pivoting about the center of opening and closing movement, the center being provided on one side. A lock mechanism 13 is provided on the other side of both the storage device body 2 and an opening 3. The lock mechanism 13 is provided with a lock member 16, an unlocking button 17, a cam mechanism 18, and a biasing member 19. The lock member 16 is a pivotable member 22 capable of pivoting about a lock pivot shaft 21. The opening and closing member 4 has a pressure receiving portion 52 on the inner surface side thereof, and the pressure receiving portion 52 is pushed out in an opening direction 23 by the lock member 16 which is caused to pivot in an unlocking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami KIKUCHI, Tetsuji OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160190899
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a hollow cylindrical housing, a compression unit that compresses refrigerant, a motor that functions as a drive source of the compression unit, an inverter that controls the motor, and a refrigerant liquid accumulation unit that accumulates refrigerant liquid in the housing. The refrigerant liquid accumulation unit is disposed at a lower portion in the housing when the electric compressor is installed on the vehicle. According to the electric compressor, the refrigerant liquid is accumulated in the refrigerant liquid accumulation portion at a long-time stop, so that degradation of insulation property in the electric compressor (especially, of the motor and the inverter) can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichirou TERAZAWA, Toshiharu WATANABE, Katsuyoshi KAWACHI, Mitsuji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160141735
    Abstract: A battery unit, a bottomed case, a plate-shaped cooling plate, and first heat transfer material are included. The cooling plate is fastened to a bottom part of the case from the outside of the case, and can cool the battery unit via the bottom part of the case. The first heat transfer material have a plastic property and are held between the bottom part of the case and the cooling plate. The bottom part of the case has heat transfer material housings that house excess first heat transfer material therein when the cooling plate has been fastened to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MOTOHASHI, Takashi OTSUKA, Satoshi SAKUMA, Tatsunari KAWAGUCHI, Hitoshi SHIMONOSONO, Yoshito SONOU, Tomoyuki HANADA
  • Publication number: 20160131720
    Abstract: A device for estimating state of health of battery, and a state of health estimation method with improved estimation accuracy of the state of health of the battery are provided. The device for estimating state of health includes: a charge and discharge current detection unit (1); a terminal voltage detection unit (2); a first state of charge estimation unit (4) configured to estimate a first state of charge; a second state of charge estimation unit (5) configured to estimate a second state of charge; a first state of health estimation unit (6); a second state of health estimation unit (7); and a first correction value calculation unit (9) configured to calculate a first correction value for correcting the first state of charge. The first state of charge estimation unit (4) is configured to correct the first state of charge using the first correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicants: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Atsushi BABA, Shuichi ADACHI
  • Patent number: 9329240
    Abstract: A battery SoC estimation device includes a discharge-and charge current detection means 1, a terminal-voltage detection means 2, a current-integration SoC estimation means 3, an open-circuit-voltage SoC estimation means 4, an error estimation means 6, and an SoC calculating means 7. The estimation means 3 estimates a current-integration-method SoC (SoCi), calculating variance of current-integration-method SoC based on information on detection accuracy of the detection means 1. The estimation means 4 estimates an open-circuit-voltage-method SoC (SoCv) corresponding to an open circuit voltage value estimated based on a discharge-and-charge current value and a terminal voltage value, using a battery equivalent circuit model. The estimation means 6 estimates an estimate error ni of the current-integration-method SoC based on a difference between the SoCv and the SoCi, variance of the SoCi, and variance of the SoCv. The calculating means 7 calculates SoC of a battery based on the SoCi and the ni.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Atsushi Baba, Shuichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 9327580
    Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning system includes a solar radiation amount detection element configured to detect the amount of solar radiation incident on an instrument panel, a temperature correction element configured to correct a detection signal value output from the solar radiation amount detection element according to a temperature on the instrument panel, a solar radiation sensor configured to output a detection signal in which a temperature is corrected by the temperature correction element, and an air conditioner configured to control air conditioning inside a vehicle based on the detection signal from the solar radiation sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Sunaga, Masato Nomura, Masakazu Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9328940
    Abstract: A vehicle safety device installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle is provided to be capable of interrupting a current supplied from a power supply to a load via a supply line. The vehicle safety device includes first interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in an interrupted condition when a temperature of the load reaches a first set temperature and second interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in the interrupted condition such that the supply line cannot be returned to an energized condition when the temperature of the load reaches a second set temperature that is higher than the first set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Satoh, Takeshi Ogasawara, Naohisa Kamiyama, Hiroki Yoshioka