Patents Assigned to JTEKT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230130446
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system includes a controller configured to execute a steering control process and a determining process of determining a converted operation amount by converting an actual wheel steering amount to an operation amount of an operation member based on an inverse of a steering gear ratio. In the determining process, when the steering gear ratio abruptly changes, the controller converts a gap of the converted operation amount generated at a time point of occurrence of the abrupt change to a gap of the wheel steering amount to grasp a converted steering amount offset value. While gradually decreasing the converted steering amount offset value, the controller thereafter re-converts the converted steering amount offset value to the gap of the converted operation amount based on the inverse of the steering gear ratio to determine a converted operation amount correction value and corrects the converted operation amount based on the value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki IIDA, Yuko Otsuka, Atsushi Ishihara, Junya Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230126878
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a controller configured to control driving of a motor that generates a torque. The torque is a torque applied to a steering mechanism of a vehicle using electric power from at least any one of an in-vehicle main power source and an auxiliary power source that backs up the main power source. The controller is configured to wait for the auxiliary power source to be charged to an extent that the main power source is able to be backed up and to permit the vehicle to travel when the controller is activated with an activation operation for the vehicle as a trigger and transitions to a state where control of the motor is executable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi KOUDAI, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230131995
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a controller including a drive circuit that performs action for supplying, to a motor, electric power supplied by being connected to at least one of a first and a second power supply. When a connection state of the drive circuit is a state in which electric power is supplied from the first power supply, the connection state is switched by a power supply device to transition to a second state in which electric power is supplied from the second power supply when an abnormality of the first power supply is detected. Moreover, the controller starts an output limiting process of limiting torque outputtable by the motor as compared with before the abnormality of the first power supply is detected, after the abnormality is detected and before switching of the connection state is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KOUDAI, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230125769
    Abstract: A control device includes control circuits of a plurality of systems. When a transition condition is established, the control circuits of the systems make transition of a driving mode from a first driving mode to a second driving mode, and when a return condition is established in a state in which the driving mode has transitioned to the second driving mode, the control circuits of the systems make transition of the driving mode from the second driving mode to the first driving mode while gradually changing the current command values of the control circuits’ own systems toward the current command values before the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Takashi KODERA, Isao NAMIKAWA, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Kenji SHIBATA, Yuko GOTO, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230130839
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a control circuit configured to control driving of a reaction force motor that generates steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel in which power transmission with turning wheels of a vehicle is separated. When a vehicle power source is turned on, the control circuit requests a vehicle control device to stop traveling of the vehicle when information is exchanged with the vehicle control device in a manner that does not follow a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11633318
    Abstract: An assist device includes a first body-worn unit that is worn on at least shoulders or a chest of a user; a second body-worn unit that is worn on each of right and left legs or a waist of the user; a belt body provided to extend along a back side of the user, from the first body-worn unit to the second body-worn unit; an actuator provided in the first body-worn unit or the second body-worn unit and allows a part of the belt body to be reeled and unreeled; a battery configured to supply electricity to the actuator; and a controller configured to control the actuator. When a remaining charge level of the battery has decreased to a predetermined set value, the controller executes a vibrating motion process of causing the actuator to perform a vibrating motion of intermittently repeating reeling of a minute amount of the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Kazuyoshi Ohtsubo, Yoshitaka Yoshimi, Tomoki Arai
  • Publication number: 20230119506
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object in cooperation or in combination by starting with powering-on of a vehicle as a trigger. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to perform a synchronization process and power latch control. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to maintain the operation mode immediately before the vehicle has been powered off in a period in which the power latch control is being performed. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured not to perform the synchronization process in a predetermined period when the vehicle has been powered on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230117373
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object by starting in response to powering-on of a vehicle and to perform power latch control for continuing to be supplied with electric power in a predetermined period in response to powering-off of the vehicle. Each of the control circuits is configured to perform starting after all of the control circuits have recognized the powering-on of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is powered on while the power latch control is being performed after the vehicle has been powered off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Kazuaki IIDA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11628878
    Abstract: A driving assistance control device outputs a driving assistance command value to a steering control device as information indicating a target course that is generated on the basis of the detection result of a vehicle-mounted sensor. The driving assistance command value is output as a torque component or an angle component depending on the design of the driving assistance control device. In response, processing in which a driving assistance command value input from the exterior of the steering control device is used as input for angle control processing or input for torque control processing within an assist command value calculation unit is performed by a microcomputer as assistance command value input processing by an assistance command value input processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto Matsuo, Terutaka Tamaizumi, Akihiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11632013
    Abstract: A control device includes a first substrate provided with a chip electronic component; a second substrate having a surface provided with electronic components including a tall component taller than the chip electronic component, the surface of the second substrate facing a surface of the first substrate that is provided with the chip electronic component; and a heat sink disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The heat sink includes a component receiving portion and a heat dissipation portion, the component receiving portion being configured to receive the tall component, the heat dissipation portion being configured to perform heat exchange between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the component receiving portion and the heat dissipation portion being provided so as not to overlap with each other as viewed in a facing direction in which the first substrate and the second substrate face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Hayashi, Yuto Sato
  • Patent number: 11624408
    Abstract: A shaft coupling includes a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and a cushioning member. The first coupling member includes first protrusions. The second coupling member includes second protrusions. The cushioning member includes a plurality of radiating portions. When the first coupling member and the second coupling member are arranged coaxially and the first coupling member and the second coupling member are in an unloaded state, predetermined paired facing surfaces have a minimum clearance angle present on a radially outer side with respect to a center of the radiating portion in a radiating direction. The predetermined paired facing surfaces are at least one of first paired facing surfaces and second paired facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Kawamura, Hideyuki Honkado
  • Patent number: 11623289
    Abstract: A gear machining support device supports machining when a tooth of a gear is machined on a workpiece by relatively moving the workpiece and a machining tool while synchronizing rotations of the workpiece and the machining tool around respective center axis lines thereof. The gear machining support device includes: a target modification amount storage unit configured to store target modification amounts of at least two of modification elements of a tooth surface shape of the tooth of the gear, the modification elements including crowning, bias, a helix angle, a pressure angle, and a tooth profile roundness; and a correction amount determination unit configured to determine a correction amount of a machining control element during a machining operation such that the at least two of modification elements approximate the respective target modification amounts stored in the target modification amount storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhito Yoshinaga, Hideki Shibata
  • Patent number: 11619268
    Abstract: A manufacturing device manufactures a bearing unit including an inner ring member outwardly fitted onto an end portion of a shaft main body of an inner shaft on one side in an axial direction and fixed by a swaged portion extending from the end portion. The manufacturing device includes: a rotating mechanism including a rotor which holds the other side of the inner shaft in the axial direction from below and rotates the inner shaft about a center axis of the inner shaft while the center axis is aligned with an up-down direction, the rotor being mounted below a processing area of the bearing unit; and a swaging mechanism mounted above the processing area and including a punch which is brought into contact with the swaged portion to plastically deform the swaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Tanaka, Masato Nakagawa, Masato Fukui, Kei Sumimoto, Mitsumoto Inoguchi, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11617701
    Abstract: An assist device includes a body mounting fixture, an actuator, an operation state detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to control drive of the actuator. The controller is configured to acquire an estimated posture of the wearer, which is estimated based on operation detection information detected by the operation state detector, when the actuator generates the assist torque. The controller is configured to determine whether or not the estimated posture is an unreasonable posture in which an excessive force is applied to a lower back portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Arai, Yoshiyuki Shibata
  • Patent number: 11618495
    Abstract: A steering device includes: a rack shaft; a rack housing; a pinion shaft that meshes with the rack shaft; a speed reducer having a worm wheel that is coupled to the pinion shaft and a worm shaft that meshes with the worm wheel; a speed reducer housing; a motor that drives the worm shaft; a plate-shaped cover that seals an opening of the speed reducer housing; and a breather valve that is mounted on the cover in a state of penetrating through the cover. An inner surface of the cover that faces the worm wheel has an entry restricting part that restricts entry of a lubricant into the breather valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akifumi Amano
  • Publication number: 20230095722
    Abstract: There is provided a rearing apparatus for rearing an organism includes: a box-shaped rearing case; at least one perching member that is held in the rearing case and that is capable of perching the organism; and a separating member that is provided in the rearing case and that is movable along the perching member. The separating member is configured to separate the organism perched at the perching member from the perching member by the separating member moving along the perching member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, Gryllus Inc.
    Inventors: Shigekazu KAWAI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Takahito WATANABE, Taro MITO
  • Patent number: 11613303
    Abstract: A turning system includes a steering wheel, a turning actuator that has an electric motor incorporated thereinto and turns turning wheels, and a control device. The control device is configured to perform: a steering operation amount calculating process of calculating a steering operation amount; an angle command value calculating process of calculating an angle command value; an angle operation amount calculating process of calculating an angle operation amount; an operation process of operating a drive circuit of the electric motor; and a correction process of correcting a parameter upstream from the angle operation amount calculating process such that a drag force resisting an operation of the steering wheel for increasing magnitude of the turning angle is applied when the magnitude of the turning angle is equal to or greater than a turning angle threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Terutaka Tamaizumi
  • Patent number: 11608110
    Abstract: A steering system to steer wheels by a movement of a steering shaft, including: the steering shaft; an electric motor; a converter configured to convert a rotational motion of the motor into the movement of the steering shaft; a motor rotation angle obtainer configured to obtain a motor rotation angle from a zero point position; a movement-amount-related-amount obtainer configured to obtain a movement-amount-related amount that is a movement amount of the steering shaft from a neutral position or a physical amount in a one-to-one correspondence with the movement amount; and a controller including a malfunction detector configured to detect a presence or absence of a malfunction of the converter in a mode that differs depending on a temperature state of the steering system, based on the motor rotation angle from the zero point position obtained by the motor rotation angle obtainer and the movement-amount-related amount obtained by the movement-amount-related-amount obtainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Yoshida, Masahide Nitano, Isao Namikawa, Koji Anraku
  • Patent number: 11608106
    Abstract: A steering system includes a housing, a steering operation shaft that is housed in the housing and configured to move in an axial direction to steer right and left steered wheels, a first drive source that generates a first drive force, a second drive source that generates a second drive force, a first power transfer unit that applies an axial force to the steering operation shaft with the first drive source, a second power transfer unit that applies an axial force to the steering operation shaft with the second drive force, a position detection sensor that is provided in the housing and detects an axial position of the steering operation shaft, and a control device that controls the first drive source and the second drive source using a detection result of the position detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Nakamura, Yoshio Kondo, Toshiaki Ogata, Fumio Kishida
  • Patent number: 11604170
    Abstract: An inspection device includes a first data storage unit configured to store a first data which is time series according to a state of an inspection object, a second data generation unit configured to generate second data, which is a spectrogram including a first frequency component, a time component, and an amplitude component by performing short-time Fourier transform on the first data, a third data generation unit configured to generate third data including the first frequency component, a second frequency component, and the amplitude component by performing Fourier transform on time-amplitude data for each first frequency component in the second data, respectively, and a determination unit configured to determine the state of the inspection object based on the third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Kano