Patents Assigned to Keihin Corporation
  • Patent number: 10054648
    Abstract: A power source voltage detection apparatus is provided, including a reference voltage generator connected to a differential amplifier via a first transmission line and decreases a power source voltage of a direct current power source to output a power source reference voltage, the first transmission line transmitting the power source reference voltage as a first power source voltage detection voltage; a standard voltage generator connected to the differential amplifier via a second transmission line and outputs a predetermined standard voltage, the second transmission line transmitting the standard voltage as a second power source voltage detection voltage; the differential amplifier differentially amplifying the first and second power source voltage detection voltages; and an abnormality detector which, based on the first and second power source voltage detection voltages, detects the power source voltage and detects an abnormality of the first transmission line and/or the second transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shugo Ueno, Kazutaka Senoo, Kouji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10012194
    Abstract: In the interior of a resin mold portion that constitutes a fuel injection valve, an amplifying member to which a power source terminal and a signal terminal are connected, is provided. A signal transmitting unit, which outputs a detection signal from a sensor, is connected electrically to a substrate of the amplifying member. Further, the amplifying member is molded integrally when the resin mold portion is formed. In addition, a pressure inside a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, which is detected by the sensor, is output through the signal transmitting unit to the amplifying member, is amplified by the amplifying member, and is output externally from the signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Sato, Keisuke Machida, Kenichi Yoshimura, Koji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10006966
    Abstract: A battery voltage detection device includes a battery; a voltage detection circuit; and a low-pass filter provided between the battery and the voltage detection circuit. The low-pass filter includes a capacitor of which one end is connected to a terminal of the battery and the other end is connected to a voltage source outputting a voltage higher than a terminal voltage of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsuchiya, Seiji Kamata
  • Patent number: 10006428
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve wherein a movable core disposed opposing an attracting face of a fixed core is slidably fitted onto a stem forming a valve body together with a valve part operating in cooperation with a valve seat, a valve-open side stopper is fixed to the stem so that, by making the movable core, that is attracted to the face when energizing a coil, abut against this stopper, the body is operated to open, and a valve-closed side stopper is fixed to the stem further on the seat side than the other stopper so as to restrict a stroke of the movable core between these stoppers. At least an end part of one of the valve-closed side stopper and the movable core, the end part being on a side of the other one thereof, is formed to gradually decreasing its cross-sectional area in going toward the other one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yasuda, Junichi Miyashita, Masateru Moriya, Yasuhiko Nabeshima, Kousaku Yotoriyama
  • Patent number: 9978550
    Abstract: A current sensor and contactor apparatus reduces the space required for arranging a current sensor and a contactor. This current sensor and contactor apparatus comprises a current sensor, a contactor and a substrate. The current sensor has a current sensor element, the current sensor detects a current value of power inputted from the outside and outputs a detection signal indicating the current value from the current sensor element. The contactor turns on and off a power line through which the power flows based on a control signal inputted from the outside. On the substrate, the current sensor element of the current sensor is installed and also a plurality of signal lines connecting the current sensor element and the contactor are formed. The current sensor, the contactor and the substrate are integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kamata, Yoichi Kawaguchi, Kenichi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 9966175
    Abstract: A voltage limiting circuit of a solenoid drive device includes a function to limit the value of a boost voltage generated by a boost voltage power source circuit. The voltage limiting circuit is equipped with a boost voltage comparing unit and a boost voltage discharge unit. The boost voltage comparing unit compares a voltage-divided value of the boost voltage with a reference voltage value, and in the case that the voltage-divided value is higher than the reference voltage value, the boost voltage discharge unit lowers the voltage-divided value to be less than or equal to the reference voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoshi Wakai, Masaya Kimura
  • Patent number: 9964174
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator for an active vibration isolation system, the electromagnetic actuator includes: a fixed core; a movable core that is opposed to the fixed core and is joined to a vibration member; and a coil unit having coils that surround part of the fixed core and the movable core. The movable core and the vibration member are vibrated in a reciprocating manner by energization to the coils, and the coils include a main coil to which an alternating current with a waveform corresponding to vibrations of a vibration generation source is input and a sub-coil that amplifies magnetic flux generated by the main coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken Motohashi
  • Patent number: 9964063
    Abstract: Within a resin mold portion of a fuel injection valve, an amplifying member having a substrate is provided. An engagement hole that penetrates in an axial direction is formed in another end part of the amplifying member, and an engagement pin, which is formed on a bobbin of a housing, is inserted through the engagement hole. A second connector of a second signal transmitting member, which constitutes part of a signal transmitting unit, is inserted from below into a connecting hole formed in the substrate. In addition, when the resin mold portion is molded, the amplifying member is retained in a state with the engagement pin and the second connector being inserted, respectively, into the engagement hole and the connecting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Sato, Kenichi Yoshimura, Keisuke Machida, Koji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180112592
    Abstract: A valve control device controls a valve drive mechanism on the basis of a degree-of-opening signal for a valve and a startup signal for an engine, and includes: a drive signal generating unit that, when it is determined on the basis of the startup signal that the engine is stated, generates a test drive signal for test-driving the valve before the generation of a normal drive signal associated with normal driving of the valve; and an abnormality determining unit that, on the basis of the degree-of-opening signal during the test driving, determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the drive mechanism. The drive signal generating unit stops generating the test drive signal and the normal drive signal when the abnormality determining unit determines that the abnormality has occurred in the drive mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicants: KEIHIN CORPORATION, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio HOJO, Youichiro SHIKINE, Tetsuo YAMASHITA, Shigeki YOSHITAKE, Kensuke YAMAMOTO, Akihito INOUE
  • Patent number: 9921259
    Abstract: A ground fault detecting device includes a signal generating unit that generates a signal for ground fault detection, a signal supply unit that supplies the signal for ground fault detection to an object of ground fault detection a signal processing unit that executes signal processing of a detection-target signal including at least the signal for ground fault detection obtained from the object of ground fault detection a signal separating unit that extracts the signal for ground fault detection from an output signal of the signal processing unit, and a ground fault detecting unit that detects occurrence of a ground fault in the object of ground fault detection based on the signal for ground fault detection output from the signal separating unit. The signal supply unit and the signal separating unit are configured by passive elements. The signal generating unit and the signal processing unit are configured as active circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsuchiya, Seiji Kamata, Takashi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180038299
    Abstract: To provide an internal combustion engine control device (100) in which a control unit (107b) controls an operating condition of an internal combustion engine (1) based on a difference ?TCC between a first temperature TCC corresponding to the temperature of a first portion in a wall defining a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine (1), and a second temperature TE corresponding to the temperature of a second portion on an outer wall surface side than the first portion in the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Keihin Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ichihashi, Tomomi Yonemaru, Takashi Takanohashi
  • Patent number: 9874290
    Abstract: A valve device is equipped with a body, a valve element drive mechanism, and a housing. The body has a tubular insertion section, in which a movable member of the valve element drive mechanism is inserted. A first flange is formed at an end of the insertion section that faces the housing. Furthermore, a ring is fitted externally on an outer side wall of the first flange. By projections, which are provided on an inner side wall of the ring, being embedded in an outer side wall of the insertion section, the ring is made integral with the first flange. The housing is of a bottomed tubular shape that covers the valve element drive mechanism, and an edge of an open end of the housing is crimped to the first flange through the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignees: KEIHIN CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahide Kato, Koji Hakoda, Takahiro Sasaki, Tomohiko Hatakeda, Satoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9856963
    Abstract: A driving force transmission mechanism is equipped with a first gear attached to a drive source, a second gear enmeshed with the first gear, and a damper shaft enmeshed mutually with the second gear and with a rack member of an air mixing damper. A first locator part formed on the second gear is inserted in a first locator groove in the first gear, while additionally, a second locator part is inserted with respect to a second locator groove in a damper gear. Further, a first narrow tooth formed on the first gear enmeshes with a meshing groove of the first locator part, whereas a second narrow tooth formed on the damper gear enmeshes with another meshing groove of the second locator part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9829089
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes a first pressure regulating valve for reducing an initial oil pressure (line pressure) of a working oil, a solenoid-operated valve for converting the oil pressure, which has been reduced in pressure, into a solenoid pressure, and a second pressure regulating valve for converting the line pressure of the working oil into an actuating pressure responsive to the solenoid pressure. The three valves share a single body. Further, an outlet passageway is formed along a thicknesswise direction of the body, with a relief valve being formed upwardly of the outlet passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: KEIHIN CORPORATION, FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Yamada, Kenji Suda, Tomotaka Terajima, Susumu Ito
  • Patent number: 9822746
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus is provided with a first valve opening timing determination portion that determines a first valve opening timing on the basis of a collision signal that is included in detected signals of an in-cylinder pressure sensor and indicates a collision between a movable core and a valve element and a second valve opening timing determination portion that determines a second valve opening timing on the basis of another collision signal that is included in the detected signals and indicates a collision between the movable core and a stationary core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimatsu, Masamitsu Mori, Masateru Moriya, Gaku Sato, Ikuhiro Uemura
  • Patent number: 9790905
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device which is provided with an input terminal to which a first pulse signal for driving a liquid fuel injection valve is input and an output terminal from which the first pulse signal is output, and converts the first pulse signal which is input from the input terminal to a second pulse signal for driving a gaseous fuel injection valve, includes: a P-channel field-effect transistor interposed in a wiring which connects the input terminal and the output terminal; a switching control section which performs switching control between an ON state and an OFF state of the field-effect transistor; and a gate drive circuit which maintains the field-effect transistor in the ON state in a case where power supply to the switching control section is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Katagata, Yusuke Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9788449
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus 2 has a configuration in which a plate-like bus-bar 80, 80? is disposed vertically so that a width direction thereof is set in a vertical direction, electrically connected to positive electric potential of a battery and fixed to a resin case 50 to include a flat plate-like bus-bar body 81, 82, to which positive electric potential of the battery is applied, and a voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 branched from the bus-bar body 81, 82. The voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 includes a projecting portion 83 projecting from the bus-bar body 81, 82, an upright portion 84 extending from the projecting portion 83 upward toward a circuit board 100, and a measuring terminal portion 85 that is an upper part of the upright portion 84 and electrically connected to the circuit board 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Nagasawa, Hiroaki Iida, Morifumi Shigemasa, Yasuhiro Maeda, Masami Ogura, Hitoshi Nishio
  • Publication number: 20170274726
    Abstract: In the air conditioning system for a vehicle, when the mode is switched from a bi-level mode in which cold air is blown to a vicinity of a face of a passenger while warm air is blown to a vicinity of a foot to a vent mode in which only the cold air is blown to the vicinity of the face, the time at which the heating damper is started to be closed is delayed relative to the time at which the vent damper is started to be further opened, and the above heat damper is caused to be in a fully closed state in a state where the above vent damper is sufficiently opened. As a result, the heat damper can be operated after the pressure within the air conditioning case is reduced. Therefore, the driving torque of the actuator for driving the heat damper can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsunetoshi Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9763349
    Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a control board that is configured to control a voltage of a battery module; and a bus bar module that is configured to electrically connect the control board to the battery module, the control board and the bus bar module are arranged in a stacked manner, and the bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars that are made to be independent by cutting off junctions connecting the bus bars to each other and a resin member that supports the bas bars in a state where the junctions are exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakamura, Daiki Kudo, Masashi Ueda, Kosuke Tachikawa, Tetsuya Hasebe
  • Patent number: 9753091
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a voltage detecting device including: an analog converting circuit configured to level-convert voltages of a plurality of battery cells constituting a battery into low voltages; a digital converting circuit configured to convert the low voltages output by the analog converting circuit into digital values; and a control circuit configured to be driven by a power supply provided separately to control the digital converting circuit; the analog converting circuit being driven by a first power generated from the plurality of battery cells, and the digital converting circuit being driven by a second power generated on a basis of a pulse signal generated by the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Kamata