Patents Examined by Gerrard A Foster
  • Patent number: 10447181
    Abstract: Motor controller of the present invention is used in an automobile including wheel drive motor, wheel drive inverter, and cooling fan being an accessory. Wheel drive inverter drives wheel drive motor by PWM control at a primary carrier frequency. Cooling fan has fan motor being an accessory drive motor. Motor controller includes accessory drive inverter and frequency switch. Accessory drive inverter drives fan motor by PWM control at a secondary carrier frequency. Frequency switch switches a frequency of the secondary carrier frequency based on the primary carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Isoda, Masahito Hidaka, Koji Kuyama
  • Patent number: 8924107
    Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission mounted on a vehicle to establish a plurality of shift speeds by engaging engagement elements that need to be engaged for each shift speed. The control device includes a target shift speed setting device, a during-travel neutral control device and a prediction control device. The prediction control device takes action when a predicted prechange time becomes equal to or less than a predetermined time while the automatic transmission is in the neutral state, the predicted prechange time being a time predicted on the basis of variations in vehicle speed and being a time before implementation of a change of the target shift speed that involves changing the particular engagement element from a disengaged state to an engaged state in order to maintain the neutral state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatake Ichikawa, Yutaka Teraoka, Hiroyasu Amano