Patents Assigned to JATCO
  • Patent number: 12358488
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle that transmits a driving force input from an engine to a driving wheel via a continuously variable transmission mechanism, in which in a case where an accelerator is in a non-depressed state during traveling, a first traveling state is established in which fuel supply to an engine is stopped and a clutch between the engine and the driving wheel is disengaged, when the accelerator is depressed during traveling in the first traveling state, the engine is started and the clutch is engaged to increase a hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys, and a timing at which the hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys becomes higher due to the accelerator being depressed during traveling in the first traveling state is later than a timing at which the hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys becomes higher due to the accelerator being further depressed when the vehicle is not in the first traveling state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nakho Lee, Sunghoon Woo, Seunghwan Choi, Jonghwan Lee, Sunho Lee, Keisuke Iwado, Hiroyuki Tokoi
  • Publication number: 20250219496
    Abstract: A unit includes a housing having a spiral groove formed such that a coolant flows along a circumferential direction, a rotating electrical machine provided in the housing, and a fiber body, and the fiber body is disposed in the spiral groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventor: Toshikazu OSHIDARI
  • Publication number: 20250207663
    Abstract: A controller for a transmission including a continuously variable transmission mechanism including a primary pulley to which power of an engine is input, a secondary pulley that transmits the power to a drive wheel, and a belt that is wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley, increases a rotation speed of the secondary pulley as a torque transmission capacity of a lock-up clutch of a torque converter provided between the engine and the primary pulley increases, and the lock-up clutch is engaged, performs a gear shift process to change a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission mechanism to a high side or a low side so as to cancel return movement of a drive shaft which has been twisted by the engagement of the lock-up clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventor: Ken OKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20250207662
    Abstract: A space in a case in which oil is stored is partitioned by a baffle plate into a first space in which a driven sprocket provided on an input shaft of an oil pump is disposed and a second space in which an oil strainer in communication with the oil pump is disposed. At least a part of the driven sprocket is immersed in the oil in the first space. The baffle plate includes a base portion and a cover portion coupled to the base portion to cover the driven sprocket. The base portion and the cover portion are engaged with each other by an engagement piece that extends from one of the base portion and the cover portion and is engaged with an outer surface on the other of the base portion and the cover portion, and are coupled with each other by a bolt at a position different from an engagement position of the engagement piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tahei TOYOSHIMA, Hyunhwan LEE, Tomoya OTAKI, Masahiro KOUYA
  • Patent number: 12331826
    Abstract: A baffle plate including a body portion, a cover portion and a seal member, a final gear and a driven sprocket disposed in an accommodating chamber of the baffle plate, an oil pump serving as a source of oil for lubrication, and an oil pan are provided. At least one of the body portion, the cover portions and the seal members includes a material that shrinks as the temperature of the oil decreases. The baffle plate is dimensioned such that a gap is sealed by the seal member when the temperature of the oil is equal to or higher than a predetermined oil temperature and an aperture is formed when the temperature of the oil is less than the predetermined oil temperature. The gap is the gap between an inner circumference of an outer wall portion of the body portion and each of a base portion of the cover portion and a base portion of the cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itou
  • Patent number: 12331829
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a motor, a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor; and a pump that sucks oil through a pump inlet. A shortest distance between an open end of the pump inlet and a surface of a stator of the motor is shorter than a shortest distance between the open end of the pump inlet and a surface of the gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Toshikazu Oshidari
  • Publication number: 20250189034
    Abstract: A device includes: a motor; a gear device disposed on one side of the motor and including a first lubricated member; an oil accumulation portion provided on the other side of the motor; a second lubricated member provided in the oil accumulation portion; and a communication passage configured to allows gear device side to communicate with the oil accumulation portion, in which the communication passage is provided above respective lowest points on a lower side in a gravity direction of lubrication target locations of the first lubricated member and the second lubricated member, the oil accumulation portion includes an enlarged portion in which an upper side in the gravity direction is thicker than a lower side in an axial direction, and the lowest point of the second lubricated member is positioned in the enlarged portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventor: Shota OIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250189032
    Abstract: A transmission includes: a case configured to store oil; a gear power transmission mechanism supported by the case and configured to operate in a state where a part of the gear power transmission mechanism is immersed in the oil stored in the case; a chain power transmission mechanism supported by the case; and a transmission mechanism supported by the case. The case includes a rib configured to cover the chain power transmission mechanism at an upper side of the chain power transmission mechanism in a vertical direction. The rib internally includes an oil passage for supplying oil to the transmission mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tahei TOYOSHIMA, Hyunhwan LEE, Akira TSUCHIDA, Masahiro KOUYA
  • Patent number: 12326187
    Abstract: Provided is a unit including: a heat exchanger; a housing configured to accommodate a power transmission mechanism; and a covering having a portion that covers the housing, in which the heat exchanger has a portion offset from the covering when viewed in a radial direction, and the heat exchanger has a portion that overlaps the covering when viewed in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Yusuke Oota
  • Publication number: 20250145140
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle that transmits a driving force input from an engine to a driving wheel via a continuously variable transmission mechanism, in which in a case where an accelerator is in a non-depressed state during traveling, a first traveling state is established in which fuel supply to an engine is stopped and a clutch between the engine and the driving wheel is disengaged, when the accelerator is depressed during traveling in the first traveling state, the engine is started and the clutch is engaged to increase a hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys, and a timing at which the hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys becomes higher due to the accelerator being depressed during traveling in the first traveling state is later than a timing at which the hydraulic pressure supplied to the pulleys becomes higher due to the accelerator being further depressed when the vehicle is not in the first traveling state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nakho LEE, Sunghoon WOO, Seunghwan CHOI, Jonghwan LEE, Sunho LEE, Keisuke IWADO, Hiroyuki TOKOI
  • Patent number: 12281700
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a transmission which has a first oil pump driven by rotation of a drive source that drives a drive wheel and a second oil pump provided with a check valve on a suction side and driven by a motor. In a vehicle control device for controlling the vehicle, a minimum value of a drive current value of the motor is defined as a first current value, when the second oil pump is driven in a normal drive state, and a minimum rotation speed of the drive source is increased compared to a case in which the drive current value of the motor is equal to or larger than the first current value, when an automatic downshift control for automatically downshifting a speed ratio of the transmission is executed in a case in which the drive current value of the motor is smaller than the first current value when the second oil pump is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tarou Murazumi, Hajime Tasaka, Junki Matsui, Masakatsu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12276334
    Abstract: Provided is a unit including: a housing configured to accommodate a gear connected to a motor, and a catch tank provided in the housing, in which the gear rotates integrally with a differential case, the catch tank has a portion that overlaps the gear when viewed in an axial direction, and the catch tank has a portion that overlaps the motor when viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Masahiro Kosaka
  • Patent number: 12276330
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a case that stores oil inside, wherein the case includes a drain hole that discharges the oil to an outside, and a tubular portion that protrudes in a direction intersecting a direction of gravity, and the drain hole opens in a direction intersecting the direction of gravity on the tubular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itou
  • Patent number: 12276331
    Abstract: A device includes a case; a first rotating body that has at least a part immersed in the oil in an oil bath; a second rotating body disposed in the case at a position not immersed in the oil in the oil bath; a plate; a first wall portion provided on the plate between the first rotating body and the second rotating body; a second wall portion provided above the first wall portion in a gravity direction and extending toward a direction away from the first rotating body; and a fourth wall portion provided between the first rotating body and the second rotating body and extending in a vertical direction on the plate, wherein the first wall portion is provided on a first rotating body side of the plate, and the fourth wall portion is provided on a second rotating body side of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20250067333
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a case that accommodates a power transmission mechanism; a strainer disposed to face a bottom wall portion in the case; a suction port for oil provided in a portion of the strainer facing the bottom wall portion; and a magnet disposed between the bottom wall portion and the strainer in the case. The magnet and the suction port are provided to be displaced from each other when viewed from a facing direction in which the strainer and the bottom wall portion face each other, and the suction port is provided with an opening facing a magnet side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TSUCHIDA, Katsunori YAMASHITA, Tomoya OTAKI, Tsutomu ITOU
  • Patent number: 12222032
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle, the vehicle including a belt continuously variable transmission including a mechanical oil pump driven by an engine and an electric oil pump driven by an electric motor, the engine being configured to drive a drive wheel, in which when a rotation speed of the engine is less than or equal to a prescribed rotation speed as the vehicle decelerates, driving of the electric motor is controlled to supply a hydraulic pressure from the electric oil pump to the belt continuously variable transmission, and when the deceleration of the vehicle exceeds a prescribed deceleration, the driving of the electric motor is restricted not to supply the hydraulic pressure from the electric oil pump to the belt continuously variable transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Okuno, Keisuke Iwado, Makoto Oguri, Akira Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 12215784
    Abstract: A transmission comprising: a primary pulley; a secondary pulley; a transmission member wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; an oil pump configured to supply oil; a hydraulic control circuit configured to adjust a pressure of the oil supplied from the oil pump to a line pressure which is a source pressure of a primary pulley pressure supplied to the primary pulley and a secondary pulley pressure supplied to the secondary pulley; a line pressure detection unit configured to detect the line pressure; and a controller configured to control the hydraulic control circuit, wherein the controller is configured to select, as a target pulley pressure, a higher one of a target value of the primary pulley pressure and a target value of the secondary pulley pressure, variably set, according to an oil temperature, a target differential pressure including a detection variation of the line pressure detection unit that varies according to the oil temperature, set a target line pressure which is a target v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Oishi, Takurou Kawasumi, Yoshihisa Kodama, Seiichirou Takahashi, Hironori Miyaishi
  • Patent number: 12215776
    Abstract: A power transmission device, includes a motor; a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor; a drive shaft connected downstream of the gear mechanism and disposed passing through an inner periphery of the motor; a pump that sucks oil through a pump inlet; and a plate that includes a facing surface facing the gear mechanism in an axial direction. The pump inlet is disposed adjacent to the plate on a back surface side of the facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Masumi Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 12209654
    Abstract: A unit includes a housing configured to accommodate a planetary gear mechanism, wherein the housing includes a flow path through which a coolant flows, the planetary gear mechanism includes a stepped pinion gear, the stepped pinion gear includes a small pinion and a large pinion, and the flow path has a portion that overlaps the large pinion when viewed in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Hiroki Uehara
  • Patent number: RE50323
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricant guiding structure in an automatic transmission in which a baffle plate configured to regulate the movement of a lubricant agitated by a driven sprocket is provided at one side, where an oil pump is located, in the direction of a rotational axis of the driven sprocket. As viewed from the rotational axis direction, a division wall disposed to extend across a chain is provided closer to the chain than a base of the baffle plate. As viewed from the rotational axis direction, the baffle plate is provided with a guide wall extending along a torque transmission-side chain of the chain wound on the driven sprocket. As viewed from the rotational axis-direction, the guide wall includes an inclined portion inclined in the direction coming closer to the chain as the distance to the distal end side decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Itou, Tou Ou, Shinji Higashide, Yoshiteru Ueno