Patents Assigned to JATCO Ltd
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Patent number: 11767909Abstract: A vehicle includes a motor, a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor, a box that has a motor chamber that houses the motor, a gear chamber that houses the gear mechanism and lubricating oil, and an exhaust pipe. A first cooling box, in which cooling liquid that cools the motor is introduced, is configured on an outer circumference of the motor. A second cooling box, which is connected so that cooling liquid can circulate between the second cooling box and the first cooling box, is configured on an outer circumference of the box. The motor chamber is arranged at a position spaced further apart from the exhaust pipe than the gear chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: Jatco Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenjiro Yasui, Yusuke Suzuki, Takayoshi Urushibata
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Patent number: 11761534Abstract: A power transmission device includes a gear mechanism, a wall part that overlaps with the gear mechanism in an axial direction, a plate provided between the wall part and the gear mechanism in the axial direction, and a park lock mechanism. The park lock mechanism has a parking pawl on a side of a surface of the plate facing the wall part. The park lock mechanism has a manual shaft and/or a detent mechanism on a side of a surface of the plate facing the gear mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Kenjiro Yasui, Takayoshi Urushibata, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 11754151Abstract: A continuously variable transmission for a vehicle includes: a variator including; a primary pulley, a secondary pulley, and an endless annular member wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley, the secondary pulley being provided with an urging member configured to generate an urging force in a direction in which a groove width of the secondary pulley is decreased, and a transmission gear ratio of the variator being brought to a high side of a lowest transmission gear ratio by a centrifugal hydraulic operation of an oil stored in a pulley pressure receiving chamber of the primary pulley when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined vehicle speed when the vehicle is towed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsushi Kuroki
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Patent number: 11754174Abstract: The transmission control unit includes a gear ratio abnormality determination unit and a limp home control unit. The gear ratio abnormality determination unit is configured to determine that a gear ratio is abnormal when, during travelling at a predetermined gear position, a difference between an actual gear ratio, which is calculated based on a transmission input shaft rotation speed and a transmission output shaft rotation speed, and a set gear ratio at the predetermined gear position is equal to or greater than a set value.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihira Amano, Masahiro Hamano
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Patent number: 11754175Abstract: The controller starts an output of an engagement instruction of the lockup clutch when a vehicle speed becomes a lockup start vehicle speed under a state where the lockup clutch is disengaged. When the vehicle speed, which is obtained a predetermined time after the output of the engagement instruction is started due to the vehicle speed becoming the lockup start vehicle speed, has reached a predetermined vehicle speed, the controller continues the output of the engagement instruction. When the vehicle speed has not reached the predetermined vehicle speed, the controller stops the output of the engagement instruction and restarts the output of the engagement instruction when the vehicle speed reaches a lockup restart vehicle speed which is set to a vehicle speed higher than the lockup start vehicle speed while the output is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeaki Ishibashi, Ikuhiro Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11746885Abstract: A power transmission device includes first and second drive shafts, a differential mechanism, a case, a pinion shaft, a pinion gear, and a bearing. The differential mechanism is connected to the second drive shaft. The differential mechanism includes a first side gear connected to the first drive shaft, a second side gear, first and second pinion mate gears that engage with the first and second side gears, first and second pinion mate shafts that respectively support the first and second pinion mate gears. The pinion gear includes small and large diameter gear parts. The bearing is positioned between the pinion shaft and the pinion gear, and is lubricated via an oil hole that is open facing an outside of the case at a small diameter gear part side. The small diameter gear part is positioned between the first and second pinion mate shafts in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventor: Takaya Kagami
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Patent number: 11746883Abstract: A power transmission device includes a box, a case disposed in the box, a differential mechanism housed in the case, and a planetary gear mechanism disposed in the box and supported by the case. The planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear and a pinion gear that engages with the sun gear. The box has a shelf part above a horizontal line that passes through a revolution center of the pinion gear. The shelf part is arranged at a position that does not overlap the sun gear when viewed from radially above.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Kenjiro Yasui, Takayoshi Urushibata, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 11746884Abstract: A power transmission device includes a pinion gear having a large pinion gear and a small pinion gear, a carrier that supports the pinion gear, a ring gear that engages with the small pinion gear, an oil supply unit positioned above a horizontal line that passes through a revolution center of the pinion gear, and a downstream side wall part facing a gear surface of the large pinion gear. The downstream side wall part is arranged to be adjacent to the oil supply unit further downstream in a revolution direction of the pinion gear than the oil supply unit when viewed from an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Takayoshi Urushibata, Kenjiro Yasui
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Patent number: 11738737Abstract: A control device for a vehicle having: an engine; a variator arranged downstream of the engine in a power transmission path connecting the engine and drive wheels; a mechanical oil pump that is driven by the engine and supplies hydraulic pressure to the variator; and an electric oil pump that supplies hydraulic pressure to the variator, wherein the control device for the vehicle has a controller that executes a low standby control which downshifts the variator by moving a belt of the variator in a radial direction during stopping of the vehicle. The controller limits an output of the engine and increases an amount of oil discharged by the electric oil pump when executing the low standby control.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Miyaishi
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Patent number: 11738752Abstract: A control device for a vehicle having: an engine; and a variator arranged downstream of the engine in a power transmission path connecting the engine and drive wheels, wherein the control device for the vehicle has a controller that executes a low standby control which downshifts the variator by moving a belt of the variator in a vertical direction (radial direction) during stopping of the vehicle. After starting the low standby control, the controller releases an output limit of the engine based on an actual secondary pressure of the variator.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Miyaishi
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Patent number: 11739819Abstract: A power transmission device includes a motor including a rotor, a first planetary reduction gear connected downstream of the motor, a second planetary reduction gear connected downstream of the first planetary reduction gear, a differential gear connected downstream of the second planetary reduction gear, and a drive shaft connected downstream of the differential gear. The first planetary reduction gear includes a sun gear and a pinion gear that is a stepless pinion. The second planetary reduction gear includes a sun gear and a pinion gear that is a stepped pinion. The drive shafts is penetrating an inner circumference of the rotor of the motor, an inner circumference of the sun gear of the first planetary reduction gear, and an inner circumference of the sun gear of the second planetary reduction gear.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Hiroki Uehara, Masumi Fujikawa, Toshikazu Oshidari
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Patent number: 11739800Abstract: A first multi-plate brake device and a second multi-plate brake device are arranged side by side in a direction of a rotating axis X along an inner peripheral surface of a transmission case. In the second multi-plate brake device, the snap ring is supported by a supporting portion which is formed on the first multi-plate brake device side of the snap ring and protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the transmission case radially inward to the rotating axis X. The piston retainer of the first multi-plate brake device includes an abutting portion that protrudes to the second multi-plate brake device side and abuts the supporting portion from the opposite side of the snap ring of the second multi-plate brake device. The abutting portion includes a thick portion whose radial thickness on a lower side in a vertical direction is increased as compared to on an upper side in the vertical direction based on a state of mounting the automatic transmission on a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Toyama, Yuya Kimura
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Patent number: 11731606Abstract: The lock-up control unit is configured to: in a case where the normal mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when a vehicle speed decreases and reaches a first vehicle speed while the vehicle is traveling in a state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, in a case where the eco mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when the vehicle speed decreases and reaches a second vehicle speed in a brake operation OFF state while the vehicle is traveling in the state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, in the case where the eco mode is selected, disengage the lock-up clutch when the vehicle speed decreases and reaches a third vehicle speed in a brake operation ON state while the vehicle is traveling in the state where the lock-up clutch is engaged, and set the third vehicle speed to a vehicle speed lower than the first vehicle speed, and set the second vehicle speed to a vehicle speed higher than the first vehicle speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Hirasako
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Patent number: 11732798Abstract: A transmission case having a storage area inside for an assembling member, includes a first opening in the storage area; a seating portion provided in the storage area and on which the assembling member inserted from an opening direction of the first opening is to be seated; and a mirror-finished portion allowing an opposite portion of the assembling member facing the seating portion to be visually recognized when the assembling member is being inserted to the first opening from the opening direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Itou, Aya Nakata
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Patent number: 11725720Abstract: In a transmission case, a pattern exerting a water repellent effect is provided around a connection portion for a connection with an electrical component. A water passage is provided on an upper surface of an outer peripheral surface of the transmission case. A drain portion is provided on a downstream side of the water passage. The drain portion is a through hole provided in the transmission case, the through hole connecting with the water passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Itou, Aya Nakata
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Publication number: 20230221146Abstract: A rotation sensor includes a power supply line, a detection line, a sensor unit, and a switch, wherein a power supply voltage is applied to the sensor unit via the power supply line, and an ON voltage is applied to the switch via the power supply line, and the switch is connected to the detection line.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei IINUMA, Takeshi KATOU, Masatoshi AKANUMA, Wataru MATSUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11692621Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission in a vehicle with a constant speed travel mode includes: a determination section that determines whether the vehicle is traveling on a slope road; a slope adaptation control section that implements a first transmission shift control if not traveling on a slope road and, if traveling on a slope road, implements a second transmission shift control for selecting a transmission shift position of a lower speed than case of not traveling on a slope road; a delaying section that, upon switching from the second transmission shift control to the first transmission shift control, implements an upshift delay control for performing upshift one by one at a predetermined time interval; and a setting section that, in case of traveling at the constant speed travel mode, sets the time interval shorter in comparison with case of traveling not at the constant speed travel mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Hirasako
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Patent number: 11692625Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes a primary pulley, a secondary pulley, a metal belt and a controller. The metal ring includes a ring and a plurality of elements bundled by the ring. The elements have respective receiving portions opening in a radial direction of the metal belt and receive the ring in the receiving portions. Assuming a direction perpendicular to a circumferential direction and a radial direction of the metal belt as a lateral direction L, the controller executes a falling-off countermeasure control of the element when a relative movement of the element in the lateral direction L with respect to the ring is detected or a presence of an action of a force on the element which causes such relative movement is detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Masanori Yamazaki, Kouhei Toyohara, Yoshiteru Kanayama, Takashi Saitou, Tadaaki Hiraoka, Satoshi Ohata
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Patent number: 11686387Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes a primary pulley, a secondary pulley, a metal belt wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley, and a controller. The metal belt includes a ring and a plurality of elements. The elements have respective receiving portions opening in a radial direction of the belt and receive the ring in the receiving portions. The controller executes a preliminary determined falling-off countermeasure control of the element when the end play larger than the predetermined length is detected to be generated or the continuously variable transmission is detected to be under the operation condition in which the end plays concentrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Tadaaki Hiraoka, Kouhei Toyohara, Masanori Yamazaki, Yoshiteru Kanayama, Takashi Saitou
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Patent number: 11644096Abstract: A diagnosis device determines diagnoses one of primary and secondary board temperature sensors as abnormal, in response to a condition that a state in which a primary temperature sensor value and a secondary temperature sensor value deviate from each other by a predetermined value or more continues for a predetermined duration or more; performs torque limitation to limit a torque inputted from an engine to an automatic transmission, during driving in a predetermined travel section based on a predetermined condition, after the one of the primary and secondary board temperature sensors is diagnosed as abnormal; and performs transmission shift restriction to restrict shifting of the automatic transmission along with the torque limitation, in response to a condition that the one of the primary and secondary board temperature sensors continues to be diagnosed as still abnormal after the driving in the predetermined travel section is completed.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Hamano, Yasunori Murase