Patents Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 10210407Abstract: A traffic signal detection device includes a narrow-angle camera, a wide-angle camera having an angle of view wider than the narrow-angle camera, and a traffic signal detector configured to detect a traffic signal from at least any of a narrow-angle image captured by the narrow-angle camera and a wide-angle image captured by the wide-angle camera. The traffic signal detector selects, as a detection result, any of a traffic signal detected from the narrow-angle image and a traffic signal detected from the wide-angle image, on the basis of a deceleration start region in which a vehicle should start deceleration, the deceleration start region calculated from a position of a traffic signal with respect to the vehicle and a speed of the vehicle in order to stop the vehicle at a stop position with respect to the traffic signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daiki Yamanoi, Haruo Matsuo, Takahiko Oki, Akira Suzuki
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Patent number: 10208825Abstract: An anti-vibration device for a vehicle has a first torque rod assembly having a first rod with one end fixed to an engine and the other end fixed to a vehicle body, an inertial mass supported on the first rod, and an actuator that reciprocates the inertial mass in an axial direction of the first rod, and a second torque rod assembly having a second rod with one end fixed to the engine and the other end fixed to a sub-frame that is installed on the vehicle body via an elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuusuke Satou, Masahiko Kondo, Yoshinori Hirano
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Publication number: 20190052146Abstract: A cooling device for an electrical machine, which is intended to be mounted in a mobile assembly, the device including a dielectric liquid reservoir mounted to a casing in a leak-tight manner, and including a discharge conduit for dielectric liquid extending into the reservoir from a discharge hole of the casing at one end of the reservoir toward an opposite end of the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Stephane DECAUX, Guillaume TAVERNIER, Francois PARIS
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Patent number: 10202054Abstract: A seat-back tilting device including a tilt control handle that can be selected from a first control handle and a second control handle, and with a tilt control shaft on which the control handle is mounted. The control shaft includes: a zone for receiving a first return member associated with the first control handle; a zone for receiving a second return member associated with the second control handle; and a zone for transmitting forces from the first control handle and from the second control handle.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignees: RENAULT s.a.s., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: David Delecolle, Gregory Lesueur, Frederic Moulinas
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Patent number: 10205176Abstract: A cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell includes a cell substrate (1) having gas permeability, one electrode (2) among a fuel electrode and an air electrode formed on the cell substrate, a solid electrolyte (3) formed on the one electrode, and the other electrode (4) formed on the solid electrolyte, wherein in the case of counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, the gas permeability of a central portion (1b) of the cell substrate in the gas flow direction is lower than the gas permeability of an inlet portion (1a) and an outlet portion (1c) of the cell substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasunori Iwakiri
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Publication number: 20190040830Abstract: An object of a control method to control a direct injection internal combustion engine that directly injects fuel in a cylinder is to reduce an increase in PN caused by attachment of the fuel to a fuel injection valve distal end. The control method cools the fuel before a fuel temperature when the fuel passes through an injection hole on a fuel injection valve reaches a temperature at which an amount of attached fuel to the fuel injection valve distal end increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro IMAOKA, Takao INOUE, Takeshi TSUYUKI
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Publication number: 20190041232Abstract: A vehicular display device configured to display a guide route to a destination of a host vehicle includes a navigation device configured to calculate the guide route, a display controller configured to draw an arrow having a shaft with an arrowhead at one end of the shaft, as a guide figure for guidance along the guide route calculated by the navigation device, such that the arrow is shaped as a three-dimensional object in which one surface of the arrow is a continuous flat surface from the shaft to the arrowhead and the other surface of the arrow includes a first portion with a first width having a first height, and a second portion with a second width smaller than the first width and having a second height smaller than the first height, and a display configured to display an image drawn by the display controller in a display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
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Publication number: 20190044367Abstract: A power supply system that is mountable on a vehicle has a lead-acid storage battery connected to an electrical load, a lithium-ion storage battery having different charge and discharge characteristics form the lead-acid storage battery, and connected in parallel with the lead-acid storage battery with respect to the electrical load, a power generator configured to charge the lead-acid storage battery and the lithium-ion storage battery, and a controller configured to drive the power generator based on a relationship between a discharge current of the lead-acid storage battery and a discharge current of the lithium-ion storage battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki KOIKE, Akifumi KOISHI, Masahiko TAHARA, Munemitsu WATANABE, Atsushi TEZUKA, Terumasa TSUCHIYA
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Patent number: 10195951Abstract: A wireless power supply system of the present invention performs wireless power supply between a power transmission coil installed at a parking space and a power reception coil mounted on a vehicle, transmits judging power for judging a parking position from the power transmission coil to the power reception coil in an operation of parking the vehicle in the parking space, and sets an excitation frequency of the judging power to a frequency lower than an in-phase resonance point or higher than an anti-phase resonance point.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kengo Maikawa
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Patent number: 10198950Abstract: A parking assist method for assisting parking of a subject vehicle uses a parking assist apparatus comprising a controller that guides the subject vehicle to a parking space and a display that displays the parking space. The parking assist method comprises: specifying an available parking space into which the subject vehicle can be parked; displaying the available parking space on the display; when the available parking space is in a parking-unavailable state that represents a state in which the subject vehicle cannot be parked into the available parking space, determining whether or not the parking-unavailable state is canceled; and when the parking-unavailable state is canceled before a first time passes, maintaining a display form of the available parking space on the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhisa Hayakawa
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Patent number: 10199663Abstract: A cell structure for a fuel cell stack that is formed by stacking unit cells C each including a membrane electrode assembly 1 and a pair of separators 2 holding the membrane electrode assembly 1 therebetween. The membrane electrode assembly 1 includes a frame 3 in the periphery having such a size as to extend outward over the edges of the separators 2. Communication holes 21, 22 in communication with the front and back sides are formed in the frame 3 in an area from a sealing part 11 between frames 3 adjacent in the cell stacking direction to a sealing parts 12 between the membrane electrode assembly 1 and the separators 2. The air in a space Q formed between the inner and outer sealing parts 11, 12 is allowed to be released to the outside through the communication holes 21, 22, and a breakage of the adhesive of the sealing parts 11, 12 is thereby prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Kageyama
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Patent number: 10199163Abstract: A ground-side coil unit is provided with: a magnetic material plate disposed adjacent to a power transmission coil that transmits electric power to a power reception coil in a wireless manner; and a first filter coil disposed facing the power transmission coil with the magnetic material plate interposed therebetween. The first filter coil is disposed in a position where a magnetic flux generated by the first filter coil cancels out a magnetic flux generated by the power transmission coil in the magnetic material plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Naruse, Yuusuke Minagawa
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Patent number: 10195945Abstract: A control device is provided for an electric vehicle that generates a braking force corresponding to an opening degree of an accelerator pedal to decelerate the electric vehicle. The control device for the electric vehicle includes a motor configured to generate a driving force or a regenerative braking force of the electric vehicle, a friction braking unit configured to generate a friction braking force, and a controller configured to control at least one of the motor and the friction braking unit corresponding to the opening degree of the accelerator pedal. The controller determines whether all of regenerative electric power generated by the motor is consumed in the electric vehicle when the motor is caused to perform a regenerative braking. The controller causes the motor to perform the regenerative braking when the regenerative electric power is determined to be consumed in the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi Hirakawa, Ken Itou, Yuji Katsumata, Hiroyuki Komatsu
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Patent number: 10199980Abstract: An electric power control method includes determining whether to change an operation period within which the operating is performed so as to be longer than one cycle of the carrier wave or not; reducing the switching operation of the switching elements in a first half cycle of the carrier wave; changing a slope of the carrier wave in an intermediate period between the first half cycle of the carrier wave and a last half cycle of the carrier wave in the operation period after the change to compare the carrier wave with the duty command value in magnitude; performing the switching operation of the switching elements according to a result of the comparison; and reducing the switching operation of the switching elements in the last half cycle of the carrier wave.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiromichi Kawamura
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Patent number: 10199680Abstract: An electric device having a power generating element contains a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode, and a separator containing an electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium nickel-based composite oxide having a layered crystal structure capable of insertion and desorption of lithium ions, the composition represented by: [Li?Ni?]3a[NixMny-rMrCOz]3bO2, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb, W, P, Al, Mg, V, Ca, Sr, Cr, Fe, B, Ga, In, Si, Mo, Y, Sn, V, Cu, Ag, and Zn, and x+y+z?1, ??0.032, 0.9??+??1.2, 0<x<1, 0<y<1, 0<z<1, and 0?r?0.3, and the electrolyte has a cyclic sulfonic acid ester.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Manabu Nishijima, Yosuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190031198Abstract: A pedestrian crosswalk through which a subject vehicle is expected to pass is specified as a first pedestrian crosswalk and another pedestrian crosswalk located within a predetermined distance from the first pedestrian crosswalk is specified as a second pedestrian crosswalk. An extension process of extending an area of at least one of the first pedestrian crosswalk and the second pedestrian crosswalk is performed. When a determination is made that at least a part of the first pedestrian crosswalk and the second pedestrian crosswalk overlap each other, an area including the first pedestrian crosswalk and the second pedestrian crosswalk is set as a detection area of a detector detecting an object around the subject vehicle. A moving object is detected in the detection area using the detector. Travel of the subject vehicle is controlled on the basis of a detection result of the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motonobu Aoki, Susumu Fujita, Yohei Mishina
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Publication number: 20190036144Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell of the present invention includes: a fuel cell unit including a fuel electrode, a solid electrolyte and an air electrode layered in the written order; a current collection assisting layer that is layered on an air electrode side of the fuel cell unit; air channels disposed on the air electrode side; and fuel gas channels disposed on a fuel electrode side. The air channels and the fuel gas channels are defined and formed by a current collector on the current collection assisting layer and a current collector on the fuel electrode side of the fuel cell unit. The air channels and the fuel gas channels extend in the same direction that is perpendicular to the fuel cell unit layering direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentarou YAJIMA, Masanari YANAGISAWA
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Patent number: D840562Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youhei Shimizu
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Patent number: D840563Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Genta Oohashi
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Patent number: D840564Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hisatsugu Hirabayashi