Patents by Inventor Daisuke Asakura

Daisuke Asakura 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).

  • Patent number: 12597865
    Abstract: An inverter includes a case, and the case includes an upper case and a lower case attached to a bottom surface side of the upper case. The upper case includes a flange portion constituting an attachment portion of the lower case, and a connector connecting portion to which a connector is connected. The connector connecting portion includes an outer wall portion that forms an outer wall of the connector connecting portion. At least a part of the flange portion and at least a part of the outer wall portion are disposed so as to overlap each other in a direction in which the connector connecting portion and the structure face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwahara, Toshihiro Yamashita, Daisuke Asakura, Seiji Hoshika
  • Patent number: 12403850
    Abstract: A wire harness mounting structure is provided for a vehicle including a drive unit and a battery unit configured to supply electric power to the drive unit via a wire harness. The drive unit includes a drive motor configured to drive a drive wheel, and an inverter device configured to convert the electric power from the battery unit and supply the converted electric power to the drive motor. One end of the wire harness is coupled to the inverter device from a first direction in a vehicle width direction via an inverter-side connector at a side surface portion of the inverter device, and the other end of the wire harness is coupled to the battery unit from a second direction opposite to the first direction via a battery-side connector at a rear end portion of the battery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuyan Zhao, Yukinori Tsukamoto, Daisuke Asakura, Yasuya Hamada
  • Patent number: 12296685
    Abstract: A hybrid system for a vehicle includes a drive unit provided with a motor for driving wheels and a power generation unit provided with an engine and a generator driven by the engine. The power generation unit is provided so as to be adjacent to the drive unit in a separated state. One of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on a vehicle body via a first mount member at a lower portion of the one unit. The other one of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on the vehicle body via a second mount member at an upper portion of the other one unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kurita, Daisuke Asakura, Ryo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250108769
    Abstract: A wire harness mounting structure is provided for a vehicle including a drive unit and a battery unit configured to supply electric power to the drive unit via a wire harness. The drive unit includes a drive motor configured to drive a drive wheel, and an inverter device configured to convert the electric power from the battery unit and supply the converted electric power to the drive motor. One end of the wire harness is coupled to the inverter device from a first direction in a vehicle width direction via an inverter-side connector at a side surface portion of the inverter device, and the other end of the wire harness is coupled to the battery unit from a second direction opposite to the first direction via a battery-side connector at a rear end portion of the battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuyan ZHAO, Yukinori TSUKAMOTO, Daisuke ASAKURA, Yasuya HAMADA
  • Patent number: 12191730
    Abstract: The in-vehicle structure of an inverter includes an inverter and a side member. The inverter has a first high-voltage bus bar whose position in the front-rear direction of the vehicle does not overlap with a low rigidity portion and overlaps with a high rigidity portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Asakura, Kazuhiko Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240319049
    Abstract: An ionized material sample collection device according to the present invention includes one or a plurality of container's main bodies that each has a surrounding wall and a bottom wall and has a sample entrance in an upper portion of the surrounding wall, a sample impact target that is formed in the bottom portion of each of the container's main bodies, and one or more ionized material collection zones that are formed on at least one of the inner surfaces and the bottom surface of the surrounding wall of each of the container's main bodies. It is preferable that a plurality of the ionized material collection zones be formed on the inner surfaces of the surrounding wall and each of the plurality of ionized material collection zones be an ionized material collection zone which has an affinity for a different element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime YANO, Yoshitsugu SONE, Eiji HOSONO, Haruo KISHIMOTO, Hirokazu KITAURA, Daisuke ASAKURA, Tomohiro ISHIYAMA, Ayaka TAKAHASHI, Minoru UMEDA, Sayoko INAGAWA
  • Patent number: 12101016
    Abstract: An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., AMPERE S.A.S.
    Inventors: Daisuke Asakura, Karim Mikati
  • Patent number: 11953084
    Abstract: A drive device protection structure has a rotary electric machine, a gearbox connected the rotary electric machine, an undercover disposed underneath the drive device and a protecting plate provided to the undercover. The rotary electric machine has a rotary electric machine housing that has a rotary electric machine flange. The gearbox has a gearbox housing that has a gearbox flange. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are connected together. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are formed such that a lower surface of the gearbox flange is positioned lower than a lower surface of the rotary electric machine flange. The protecting plate is formed of a material more rigid than a material of the undercover. The protecting plate is provided beneath connecting part between the rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange so as to face the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehak Lee, Yuta Katsushima, Kenji Arai, Daisuke Asakura, Harunobu Abe, Kohei Yamada, Norihisa Tsujimura, Yasuaki Nakamura, Toshimitsu Kakizaki, Kazuhiro Maguchi, Kentarou Kurata
  • Patent number: 11945281
    Abstract: A vehicle front arrangement structure includes high-voltage equipment, air conditioning equipment that includes an air-conditioner blower, and a high-voltage connector part. The high-voltage equipment and air conditioning equipment are arranged in front of a vehicle. The high-voltage connector part is provided at a vehicle rearward end portion of the high-voltage equipment to connect a high-voltage wire harness. The high-voltage connector part is arranged so as to be displaced in at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction as viewed from the front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Asakura, Alain Fouquiau
  • Publication number: 20240063391
    Abstract: Provided are: an electrode and a method for producing the same, with which it is possible to produce a primary battery or a secondary battery having excellent characteristics such as environment resistance; and a battery provided with the electrode. This electrode is for a primary battery or a secondary battery, and comprises a current collector and an active material layer provided on the surface of the current collector. The active material layer is composed of: a plurality of active material particles; and a layered metal sulfide for filling portions between the plurality of active material particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Eiji Hosono, Daisuke Asakura, Hirokazu Kitaura, Yoshitsugu Sone, Ayaka Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230120938
    Abstract: A vehicle mounting structure for an electric unit 1 includes a side member 10, a suspension member 5 including a high rigidity portion 5a and a low rigidity portion 5b in a vehicle front-rear direction, and an electric unit 1 in which an inverter 2 and a motor 3 are integrated. The side member 10 includes a curved portion 10c having an upwardly convex curved shape. The curved portion 10c is disposed at a position overlapping with the inverter 2 in the vehicle front-rear direction. The electric unit 1 is fixed to the low rigidity portion 5b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke ASAKURA, Takashi KURITA
  • Publication number: 20230095375
    Abstract: An inverter includes a case, and the case includes an upper case and a lower case attached to a bottom surface side of the upper case. The upper case includes a flange portion constituting an attachment portion of the lower case, and a connector connecting portion to which a connector is connected. The connector connecting portion includes an outer wall portion that forms an outer wall of the connector connecting portion. At least a part of the flange portion and at least a part of the outer wall portion are disposed so as to overlap each other in a direction in which the connector connecting portion and the structure face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KUWAHARA, Toshihiro YAMASHITA, Daisuke ASAKURA, Seiji HOSHIKA
  • Publication number: 20230058881
    Abstract: An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventors: Daisuke ASAKURA, Karim MIKATI
  • Publication number: 20230049067
    Abstract: A hybrid system for a vehicle includes a drive unit provided with a motor for driving wheels and a power generation unit provided with an engine and a generator driven by the engine. The power generation unit is provided so as to be adjacent to the drive unit in a separated state. One of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on a vehicle body via a first mount member at a lower portion of the one unit. The other one of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on the vehicle body via a second mount member at an upper portion of the other one unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KURITA, Daisuke ASAKURA, Ryo WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220260149
    Abstract: A drive device protection structure has a rotary electric machine, a gearbox connected the rotary electric machine, an undercover disposed underneath the drive device and a protecting plate provided to the undercover. The rotary electric machine has a rotary electric machine housing that has a rotary electric machine flange. The gearbox has a gearbox housing that has a gearbox flange. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are connected together. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are formed such that a lower surface of the gearbox flange is positioned lower than a lower surface of the rotary electric machine flange. The protecting plate is formed of a material more rigid than a material of the undercover. The protecting plate is provided beneath connecting part between the rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange so as to face the connecting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Jaehak LEE, Yuta KATSUSHIMA, Kenji ARAI, Daisuke ASAKURA, Harunobu ABE, Kohei YAMADA, Norihisa TSUJIMURA, Yasuaki NAKAMURA, Toshimitsu KAKIZAKI, Kazuhiro MAGUCHI, Kentarou KURATA
  • Publication number: 20210107331
    Abstract: A vehicle front arrangement structure includes high-voltage equipment, air conditioning equipment that includes an air-conditioner blower, and a high-voltage connector part. The high-voltage equipment and air conditioning equipment are arranged in front of a vehicle. The high-voltage connector part is provided at a vehicle rearward end portion of the high-voltage equipment to connect a high-voltage wire harness. The high-voltage connector part is arranged so as to be displaced in at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction as viewed from the front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke ASAKURA, Alain FOUQUIAU
  • Patent number: 10809232
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a pipe inspecting apparatus includes a selection module configured to select first and second ultrasonic optical probes from a plurality of ultrasonic optical probes attached to a pipe. The apparatus further includes a power supplying module configured to supply power to an ultrasonic transducer of the first ultrasonic optical probe to input an ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic transducer to the pipe and to supply the ultrasonic wave via the pipe to an optical fiber sensor of the second ultrasonic optical probe. The apparatus further includes a light detection module configured to detect laser light transmitted through the optical fiber sensor of the second ultrasonic optical probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keiichi Sasaki, Daisuke Asakura, Hiroaki Cho, Tetsuo Endoh, Shohei Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10753543
    Abstract: A steam turbine pipe 1 of an embodiment includes: an upper half side main steam pipe 11 that leads steam to a steam turbine; an upper half side main steam control valve 30 that intervenes in the upper half side main steam pipe 11; and a post-valve drain pipe 31 that is connected to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and leads drain to an outside. The steam turbine pipe 1 further includes: a shut-off valve 32 that intervenes in the post-valve drain pipe 31; and a branching pipe 60 that makes the post-valve drain pipe 31 on the side closer to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 than is the shut-off valve 32 communicate with the upper half side main steam pipe 11 between the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and a high-pressure turbine 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, TOSHIBA PLANT SYSTEMS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakamura, Tomoo Ohfuji, Tsutomu Shioyama, Hiroki Shiraishi, Makoto Takahashi, Tsutomu Ooishi, Daisuke Asakura, Toshihiko Endo, Hiroyuki Tao, Tetsuya Yamanaka, Koji Kanbe, Hiroyuki Nishi
  • Publication number: 20190120437
    Abstract: A steam turbine pipe 1 of an embodiment includes: an upper half side main steam pipe 11 that leads steam to a steam turbine; an upper half side main steam control valve 30 that intervenes in the upper half side main steam pipe 11; and a post-valve drain pipe 31 that is connected to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and leads drain to an outside. The steam turbine pipe 1 further includes: a shut-off valve 32 that intervenes in the post-valve drain pipe 31; and a branching pipe 60 that makes the post-valve drain pipe 31 on the side closer to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 than is the shut-off valve 32 communicate with the upper half side main steam pipe 11 between the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and a high-pressure turbine 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicants: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, TOSHIBA PLANT SYSTEMS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi NAKAMURA, Tomoo Ohfuji, Tsutomu Shioyama, Hiroki Shiraishi, Makoto Takahashi, Tsutomu Ooishi, Daisuke Asakura, Toshihiko Endo, Hiroyuki Tao, Tetsuya Yamanaka, Koji Kanbe, Hiroyuki Nishi
  • Publication number: 20190120436
    Abstract: A steam turbine pipe 1 of an embodiment includes: an upper half side main steam pipe 11 that leads steam to a steam turbine; an upper half side main steam control valve 30 that intervenes in the upper half side main steam pipe 11; and a post-valve drain pipe 31 that is connected to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and leads drain to an outside. The steam turbine pipe 1 further includes: a shut-off valve 32 that intervenes in the post-valve drain pipe 31; and a branching pipe 60 that makes the post-valve drain pipe 31 on the side closer to the upper half side main steam control valve 30 than is the shut-off valve 32 communicate with the upper half side main steam pipe 11 between the upper half side main steam control valve 30 and a high-pressure turbine 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicants: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, TOSHIBA PLANT SYSTEMS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakamura, Tomoo Ohfuji, Tsutomu Shioyama, Hiroki Shiraishi, Makoto Takahashi, Tsutomu Ooishi, Daisuke Asakura, Toshihiko Endo, Hiroyuki Tao, Tetsuya Yamanaka, Koji Kanbe, Hiroyuki Nishi