Patents by Inventor Akira TOKUMASU

Akira TOKUMASU 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: 20240120264
    Abstract: The first conductive part includes a first surface layer part and a first inner layer part constituting a layer different from the first surface layer part in the substrate. The second conductive part includes a second surface layer part facing the first surface layer part with a creeping distance therebetween, and a second inner layer part constituting a layer different from the second surface layer part in the substrate. The electronic apparatus is provided with at least one of a first protruded configuration and a second protruded configuration. The first protruded configuration is configured such that the first inner layer part includes a first conductive protrusion protruding towards the second conductive part from the first surface layer part. The second protruded configuration is configured such that the second inner layer part includes a second conductive protrusion protruding towards the first conductive part from the second surface layer part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro TAKAGI, Akira TOKUMASU
  • Publication number: 20240112967
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate and circuitry mounted thereon. In plan view in a thickness direction of the substrate, the first conductive portion includes a rounded convex corner, and the second conductive portion includes a concave corner facing the convex corner. Extensions of two straight lines contiguous to the convex corner intersect at a first apex of a convex angle. Extensions of two straight lines contiguous to the concave corner intersect at a second apex of a concave angle. A distance between a convex corner point and a concave corner point is greater than a distance between the first apex and the second apex, where the convex corner point is an intersection of a corner line passing through the first apex and the second apex, and the convex corner, and the concave corner point is an intersection of the corner line and the concave corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro TAKAGI, Akira TOKUMASU
  • Patent number: 11736036
    Abstract: An electric power converter includes a plurality of switch pairs respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases and each consisting of an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch. Each of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs has a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate. The electric power converter further includes: a voltage generation circuit having its positive electrode side connected to the second terminal of only one of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs; a negative-electrode-side electrical path connected to a negative electrode side of the voltage generation circuit; and at least one capacitor having a first end connected to the second terminal of one of the remainder of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs, which is not connected with the voltage generation circuit, and a second end connected to the negative-electrode-side electrical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tokumasu, Yousuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230052466
    Abstract: A control circuit for a power converter that configures a system that is mounted to a vehicle and includes a rotating electric machine that has multiple phases and includes a rotor that is capable of transmitting power to and from a drive wheel, and the power converter that includes upper- and lower-arm switches that are electrically connected to phase windings of the rotating electric machine. The control circuit determines whether an abnormality has occurred in the system, determines whether the system has been started based on an output voltage of the insulating power supply, and performs short-circuit control to turn on an on-side switch that is either one of the upper- and lower-arm switches and to turn off an off-side switch that is the other of the upper- and lower-arm switches, in response to the system being determined to have been started, and the abnormality being determined to have occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira TOKUMASU
  • Publication number: 20220038027
    Abstract: An electric power converter includes a plurality of switch pairs respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases and each consisting of an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch. Each of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs has a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate. The electric power converter further includes: a voltage generation circuit having its positive electrode side connected to the second terminal of only one of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs; a negative-electrode-side electrical path connected to a negative electrode side of the voltage generation circuit; and at least one capacitor having a first end connected to the second terminal of one of the remainder of the lower-arm switches of the switch pairs, which is not connected with the voltage generation circuit, and a second end connected to the negative-electrode-side electrical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TOKUMASU, Yousuke WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10998887
    Abstract: A power device driving apparatus drives a plurality of power devices including first and second power devices. In the apparatus, a plurality of drive circuits are separately provided for at least the first power device and the second power device and output drive signals to the respective power devices. The isolated power supply includes a first isolated power supply unit that supplies a first supply voltage, and a second isolated power supply unit that supplies a second supply voltage that is different from the first supply voltage. The plurality of drive circuits includes a first drive circuit that uses the first supply voltage supplied from the first isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the first power device, and a second drive circuit that uses the second supply voltage supplied from the second isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the second power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tokumasu, Tomotaka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10892741
    Abstract: A power device driving apparatus drives a plurality of power devices including first and second power devices. In the apparatus, a plurality of drive circuits are separately provided for at least the first power device and the second power device and output drive signals to the respective power devices. The isolated power supply includes a first isolated power supply unit that supplies a first supply voltage, and a second isolated power supply unit that supplies a second supply voltage that is different from the first supply voltage. The plurality of drive circuits includes a first drive circuit that uses the first supply voltage supplied from the first isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the first power device, and a second drive circuit that uses the second supply voltage supplied from the second isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the second power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tokumasu, Tomotaka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10784671
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a first overvoltage detection circuit including a first determination element and a second determination element. The first overvoltage detection circuit is configured to detect an overvoltage state of an output voltage using an AND value of an output of the first determination element and an output of the second determination element. The first determination element is configured to determine that a feedback voltage detected by the first detection element is below a first reference voltage, and the second determination element is configured to determine that an overvoltage detection voltage detected by a second detection element exceeds a second reference voltage. The second detection element is connected in parallel to the first detection element and is configured to detect the output voltage as the overvoltage detection voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichirou Shigehara, Takeshi Hirano, Akira Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20200235723
    Abstract: A power device driving apparatus drives a plurality of power devices including first and second power devices. In the apparatus, a plurality of drive circuits are separately provided for at least the first power device and the second power device and output drive signals to the respective power devices. The isolated power supply includes a first isolated power supply unit that supplies a first supply voltage, and a second isolated power supply unit that supplies a second supply voltage that is different from the first supply voltage. The plurality of drive circuits includes a first drive circuit that uses the first supply voltage supplied from the first isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the first power device, and a second drive circuit that uses the second supply voltage supplied from the second isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the second power device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TOKUMASU, Tomotaka SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200028496
    Abstract: A power device driving apparatus drives a plurality of power devices including first and second power devices. In the apparatus, a plurality of drive circuits are separately provided for at least the first power device and the second power device and output drive signals to the respective power devices. The isolated power supply includes a first isolated power supply unit that supplies a first supply voltage, and a second isolated power supply unit that supplies a second supply voltage that is different from the first supply voltage. The plurality of drive circuits includes a first drive circuit that uses the first supply voltage supplied from the first isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the first power device, and a second drive circuit that uses the second supply voltage supplied from the second isolated power supply unit to output the drive signal to the second power device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TOKUMASU, Tomotaka SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10541681
    Abstract: A drive circuit drives a plurality of switches and sets a target threshold as a threshold compared to a physical quantity correlated with current flowing to a switching completion switch driven to complete switching from one of first and second states to the other. In the first state, a flow of current to at least one of the switches is allowed. In the second state, a flow of current to all of the switches is blocked. The drive circuit sets the target threshold to a first target threshold during at least a part of a first on-driving period in which only a switching completion switch is being on-driven and sets the target threshold to a second target threshold during at least a part of a second on-driving period in which all of the plurality of switches are being on-driven. The first target threshold is greater than the second target threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Asako, Akira Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20190229516
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a first overvoltage detection circuit including a first determination element and a second determination element. The first overvoltage detection circuit is configured to detect an overvoltage state of an output voltage using an AND value of an output of the first determination element and an output of the second determination element. The first determination element is configured to determine that a feedback voltage detected by the first detection element is below a first reference voltage, and the second determination element is configured to determine that an overvoltage detection voltage detected by a second detection element exceeds a second reference voltage. The second detection element is connected in parallel to the first detection element and is configured to detect the output voltage as the overvoltage detection voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichirou Shigehara, Takeshi Hirano, Akira Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20190123732
    Abstract: A drive circuit drives a plurality of switches and sets a target threshold as a threshold compared to a physical quantity correlated with current flowing to a switching completion switch driven to complete switching from one of first and second states to the other. In the first state, a flow of current to at least one of the switches is allowed. In the second state, a flow of current to all of the switches is blocked. The drive circuit sets the target threshold to a first target threshold during at least a part of a first on-driving period in which only a switching completion switch is being on-driven and sets the target threshold to a second target threshold during at least a part of a second on-driving period in which all of the plurality of switches are being on-driven. The first target threshold is greater than the second target threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke ASAKO, Akira TOKUMASU
  • Patent number: 10069429
    Abstract: In a push-pull type DC/DC converter capable of operating primary side switching elements alternately, a switching operation section turns on a primary side switching element having a high priority after a mode (d) as a normal state is transferred to a mode (d) as an inverse state during a circulation period when a load current is circulated into the secondary side rectifier elements when all of the primary side switching elements are turned off. To turn on the primary side switching element having a high priority after occurrence of the state transition to the inverse state can reduce a voltage immediately after supplying of electric power to the primary side switching elements with using exciting current and without adding any additional component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tokumasu, Hiroshi Taki, Kazuhiro Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20170155327
    Abstract: In a push-pull type DC/DC converter capable of operating primary side switching elements alternately, a switching operation section turns on a primary side switching element having a high priority after a mode (d) as a normal state is transferred to a mode (d) as an inverse state during a circulation period when a load current is circulated into the secondary side rectifier elements when all of the primary side switching elements are turned off. To turn on the primary side switching element having a high priority after occurrence of the state transition to the inverse state can reduce a voltage immediately after supplying of electric power to the primary side switching elements with using exciting current and without adding any additional component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TOKUMASU, Hiroshi TAKI, Kazuhiro SHIRAKAWA