Patents by Inventor Akio Ebashi

Akio Ebashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080051961
    Abstract: Since rotation of a rotor gear which rotates integrally with a steering shaft is made to reduce by a speed reduction system constituted by a planetary gear system, and rotation after the speed reduction is made to be transmitted to a speed reduction side detecting gear, transmission efficiency of the rotation is improved, and since shafts of respective gears constituting the speed reduction system are directed to the same direction, the rotation of the steering shaft can be transmitted to the speed reduction side detecting gear with reduced clattering. Accordingly, since the clattering at the speed reduction system is reduced, the rotational angle of the steering shaft can be detected more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: NILES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Ebashi, Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 6564133
    Abstract: An automatic transmission comprising a controlling unit 5 for driving and controlling an actuator 3 until a rotation position, which is detected by a potentiometer 13 in response to the receipt of an instruction signal from an operation switch portion 17, accords with the instructed shifting position. The transmission includes a self-diagnosis unit 9 for diagnosing a trouble after driving the actuator 3 to the position over the instructed shifting position for a predetermined amount on the basis of the first instruction signal by the operation switch portion 17 at a starting time of driving an automobile and after driving the actuator 3 in reverse to the instructed shifting position, as well as driving the actuator 3 by varying high or low the duty ratio in driving and controlling the actuator 3, in accordance with the judgment whether or not an output signal of the potentiometer 13 corresponds to such driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Ebashi
  • Patent number: 6477910
    Abstract: An automatic transmission including an electric actuator, a shift operating unit, rotation position detecting means, a locating unit for locating a manual shaft, and a controlling unit for driving and controlling the actuator is constructed of an electric current detecting unit for detecting a driving current of the actuator, a shifting position calculating unit for calculating a shifting position of the manual shaft on the basis of detection by the electric current detecting unit of a change in the driving current of the actuator at the time when a detent pin gets over a convex to be fitted in a predetermined concave in shifting, and a rotation position detection learning unit for learning a relation between the shifting position calculated by the shifting position calculating unit and an output value of the rotation position detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ebashi, Tomoyuki Ohata
  • Publication number: 20020026271
    Abstract: An automatic transmission comprising controlling unit 5 for driving and controlling an actuator 3 until a rotation position, which is detected by a potentiometer 13 in response to the receipt of an instruction signal from a operation switch portion 17, accords with the instructed shifting position, characterized by comprising self-diagnosis unit 9 for diagnosing a trouble after driving the actuator 3 to the position over the instructed shifting position for a predetermined amount on the basis of the first instruction signal by the operation switch portion 17 at a starting time of driving an automobile and after driving the actuator 3 in reverse to the instructed shifting position, as well as driving the actuator 3 by varying high or low the duty ratio in driving and controlling the actuator 3, in accordance with the judgment whether or not an output signal of the potentiometer 13 corresponds to driving mentioned above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: Niles Part Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Ebashi
  • Publication number: 20020019287
    Abstract: An automatic transmission including an electric actuator, a shift operating unit, rotation position detecting means, a locating unit for locating a manual shaft, and a controlling unit for driving and controlling the actuator is constructed of an electric current detecting unit for detecting a driving current of the actuator, a shifting position calculating unit for calculating a shifting position of the manual shaft on the basis of detection by the electric current detecting unit of a change in the driving current of the actuator at the time when a detent pin gets over a convex to be fitted in a predetermined concave in shifting, and a rotation position detection learning unit for learning a relation between the shifting position calculated by the shifting position calculating unit and an output value of the rotation position detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Niles Part Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ebashi, Tomoyuki Ohata