Patents by Inventor FUMIYUKI MORIYA

FUMIYUKI MORIYA 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: 20200313458
    Abstract: An electric power supply system includes a battery, an electric power receiving apparatus, a switching apparatus, and a control apparatus. The electric power receiving apparatus is coupled to the battery in parallel with a load, and receives and supplies external electric power to the battery. In a load driving mode, the control apparatus sets an electrical connection state of the electric power supply system to a first connection state in which connection of the electric power receiving apparatus and the load to the battery is cut off by the switching apparatus and controls a voltage of the electric power receiving apparatus depending on a voltage of the battery if output electric power of the electric power receiving apparatus is equal to or less than reference electric power, and otherwise sets the electrical connection state to a second connection state in which the connection is allowed by the switching apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Daisuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20200307412
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a relay, a pre-charge relay, a power supply unit, and a controller. The controller performs a control of electric power transmission through a power line of the vehicle. The controller executes pre-charge processing on a request for operation of the power supply unit, with the relay being in a disconnected state, and with the electric power acquirer being available for electric power acquisition. The pre-charge processing includes raising a voltage of the power line by switching the pre-charge relay. The controller causes a transition of a mode of the electric power transmission to a direct transmission mode. The direct transmission mode includes transmitting electric power acquired by the electric power acquirer to the power supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Kazuya FUKE
  • Publication number: 20200307394
    Abstract: An electric power supply system includes a battery, an electric power receiving apparatus, and a control apparatus. The electric power receiving apparatus is configured to receive external electric power transmitted from an external electric power source, and supply the external electric power to the battery. The control apparatus is configured to, in a case where the electric power receiving apparatus is able to receive the external electric power, permit a load driving mode of driving a load that is coupled to the battery in parallel with the electric power receiving apparatus. The control apparatus is configured to, in the load driving mode, execute function restriction control of restricting a function of the load to suppress input and output currents of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200307382
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a relay, a power supply unit, and a controller. The controller is able to switch a mode of electric power transmission to a direct transmission mode on the first condition that electric power is transmitted from the electric power acquirer to the battery and the power supply unit is in continuous operation or starts up. The direct transmission mode includes that the relay is in a disconnected state and electric power is transmitted from the electric power acquirer to the power supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Kazuya FUKE
  • Publication number: 20200309079
    Abstract: A control device includes an engine, a starter motor configured to perform engine start, a direct-current-to-direct-current converter, a battery coupled to the starter motor with the direct-current-to-direct-current interposed therebetween, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute control of switching between first and second traveling modes. The direct-current-to-direct-current converter is configured to supply an electric power of the battery to the starter motor, and to lower an output voltage to be supplied thereto. The controller is configured to execute output limit control of lowering the output voltage to lower the output current, in a case where an output current of the direct-current-to-direct-current converter becomes equal to or higher than a threshold. The controller is configured to initiate boost permitting control when initiating the engine start in association with switching from the second to first traveling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ken WATANABE, Fumiyuki MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20200307411
    Abstract: An electric power supply system includes a battery, an electric power receiving apparatus that is coupled to the battery in parallel with a load and receives and supplies external electric power to the battery, a switching apparatus that allows or cuts off connection of the electric power receiving apparatus and the load to the battery and is switchable between a normal state and a current suppression state when the connection is allowed, and a control apparatus that permits a load driving mode if the external electric power is receivable. In the load driving mode, the control apparatus controls an electrical connection state of the electric power supply system to a first connection state in which the electric power receiving apparatus and the load are coupled to the battery via the switching apparatus in the current suppression state, depending on output electric power of the electric power receiving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200247249
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a power supply unit, first and second relays, and a controller. The first relay connects and disconnects the battery to and from a power supply line. The second relay connects and disconnects the electric power acquirer to and from the power supply line. The controller executes a first switching control including switching the second relay to a connected state with the first relay kept in a connected state. In the switching of the second relay to the connected state in the first switching control, the controller reduces a difference between a potential of the second relay on the side on which the electric power acquirer is disposed and a potential of the second relay on the side on which the battery is disposed, using electric power inputted from the electric power acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuta TOTSUKA, Hidehiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20200247260
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a power supply unit, first and second relays, a charging controller, and a first notification processor. The first relay connects the battery to a power supply line or disconnects the battery from the power supply line. The charging controller switches, on a request for charging of the battery with the first relay in a connected state, the first relay to a disconnected state, brings the second relay to a connected state, and switches the first relay to a connected state to start the charging of the battery. The first notification processor gives, on the request for the charging of the battery, a user a notification of temporary shutdown of the power supply unit at a start of the charging of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuta Totsuka, Hidehiro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200247243
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a power supply unit, first and second relays, and a controller. The electric power acquirer acquires charging electric power from outside. The power supply unit is able to provide a power supply from the battery to a device other than a traveling motor. The first relay connects and disconnects the battery to and from a power supply line. The second relay connects and disconnects the electric power acquirer to and from the power supply line. The controller changes a switching procedure of the first relay and the second relay, in accordance with a state of use of the power supply unit, at an end of charging of the battery through the electric power acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuta Totsuka, Hidehiro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200247248
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a power supply unit, first and second relays, a controller, a vehicle controller, and a first determination unit. The first determination unit makes a determination, at a system start-up, as to whether or not a power receiving coil of the electric power acquirer is in position to be available for electric power reception from a power transmitting coil of ground facilities. The controller changes, at the system start-up, a switching procedure of the first relay and the second relay on the basis of a result of the determination of the first determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuta Totsuka, Hidehiro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200247266
    Abstract: An electric power supply system is to be included in a hybrid electric vehicle that is provided with a driving motor and an engine and is configured to switch between an HEV traveling mode of traveling by causing both the driving motor and the engine to operate and an EV traveling mode of stopping the engine and traveling with motive power of the driving motor. The electric power supply system includes a main battery, an electric power generator, a sub-battery, and a control apparatus. The main battery supplies electric power to the driving motor. The electric power generator generates electric power upon receiving motive power outputted from the engine. The sub-battery is charged with the electric power generated by the electric power generator. If an abnormality is diagnosed as being present in the sub-battery, the control apparatus disables the HEV traveling mode and enables the EV traveling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Shinnosuke SAKATA, Fumiyuki MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20200207229
    Abstract: A wireless power feeding control apparatus for a vehicle includes a positioning unit and an examination unit. The vehicle is provided with a power receiving coil that wirelessly receives electrical power from a power transmitting coil of a power transmission facility, a parking lock mechanism, and a parking lock sensor that outputs an electrical signal corresponding to a locked state of a wheel established by the parking lock mechanism. The positioning unit positions the power transmitting coil or assists in positioning the power transmitting coil on the basis of a quantity of electricity generated by the power receiving coil receiving a magnetic field from the power transmitting coil subjected to weak excitation weaker than excitation during electrical power transmission. The examination unit checks the locked state of the wheel after the weak excitation is stopped and before the electrical power transmission is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Daigo TATEISHI, Ryohei HOSHI, Hirofumi YABE, Fumiyuki MORIYA, Hidehiro TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 10639997
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a vehicle that is provided with a drive wheel, a drive unit configured to generate, on a basis of a torque command, power directed to running, and a power transmitter configured to transmit the power derived from the drive unit to the drive wheel. The control apparatus is mounted on the vehicle and includes a resonance controller and a resonance switcher. The resonance controller is configured to output the torque command, and control resonance of the power transmitter by utilizing the torque command. The resonance switcher is configured to switch a state of the resonance controller between a resonance-restraining state that restrains the resonance and a resonance-generating state that generates the resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Hiroshi Ienaga
  • Patent number: 10611267
    Abstract: A temperature increasing system for vehicle batteries includes a drive motor, first and second batteries, first and second temperature increasing units, and a controller. The drive motor can output a driving force for driving a drive wheel of a vehicle. The first battery can supply electric power to the drive motor. The second battery has a capacity smaller than a capacity of the first battery. The first and second temperature increasing units can increase, respectively, the temperatures of the first and second batteries by using electric power from the second battery. While the vehicle is parked, the controller heats the first battery by using the first temperature increasing unit if the temperature of the first battery is below a first value when the vehicle starts moving, and heats the second battery by using the second temperature increasing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Wakabayashi, Fumiyuki Moriya
  • Patent number: 10611257
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an electric vehicle includes a monitor determiner. The monitor determiner monitors a state of a main battery that supplies electric power directed to running, and determines whether the electric power of the main battery is usable on the basis of first information and second information. The first information is a deciding factor directed to deciding whether the electric power of the main battery is usable. The second information is a determination factor directed to determining whether the electric power of the main battery is usable. The monitor determiner determines, upon start-up of the electric vehicle, whether the electric power of the main battery is usable on the basis of the second information before the first information is calculated, and decides whether the electric power of the main battery is usable on the basis of the first information when the first information is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Taichi Kishida
  • Publication number: 20200106113
    Abstract: The electric power supply control apparatus for a vehicle executes a driving prioritizing mode in which a supply of driving electric power is prioritized over a supply of temperature controlling electric power, and a temperature control prioritizing mode in which the supply of the temperature controlling electric power is prioritized over the supply of the driving electric power. While the modes are switched over, the apparatus controls the driving electric power or the temperature controlling electric power so that a sum of the powers stays at an upper limit value or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ken WATANABE, Ryohei Hoshi, Fumiyuki Moriya, Hirofumi Yabe
  • Publication number: 20200101973
    Abstract: An electric power supply control apparatus for a vehicle decreases a first electric power prior to switching the modes, when a sum of a request value of a second electric power and the first electric power exceeds a total electric power upper limit value in the mode before the switching, and switches the modes after the sum of the decreased first electric power and the request value of the second electric power becomes equal to or smaller than the total electric power upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ryohei HOSHI, Fumiyuki MORIYA, Hirofumi YABE, Ken WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200106114
    Abstract: There is provide an electric power supply control apparatus for a vehicle comprising a battery, an electric motor, and a temperature controller, the electric power supply control apparatus sets one of upper limit values of driving electric power and temperature controlling electric power at a predetermined value that is equal to or smaller than a total electric power upper limit value without being limited by the other one of the driving electric power and the temperature controlling electric power, and sets the upper limit value of the other one of electric power in a way such that a sum of the upper limit value of the other one of electric power and the one of electric power is equal to or smaller than the total electric power upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Ken WATANABE, Ryohei HOSHI
  • Patent number: 10562523
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a thermal load priority calculator, a stability priority calculator, and a driving force distribution controller. The thermal load priority calculator is configured to calculate a thermal load priority that prioritizes a thermal load of a motor for driving a vehicle according to an operating state of the vehicle. The stability priority calculator is configured to calculate a stability priority that prioritizes a stability of the vehicle according to an operating state of the vehicle. The driving force distribution controller is configured to control a driving force distribution in a front and a rear of the vehicle, on a basis of a result of comparing the thermal load priority and the stability priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ienaga, Kentaro Ishii, Akihito Katsume, Fumiyuki Moriya
  • Patent number: 10449873
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes a cooler, a traffic congestion determining unit, a cooling amount calculator, and a cooler controller. The cooling amount calculator calculates first and second cooling amounts respectively based on a heat-generation amount of a heat-generating device and a noise level inside a vehicle. The cooler controller controls the cooler on the basis of a set cooling amount. The cooler controller controls the cooler to cool the heat-generating device on the basis of the set cooling amount larger than the first cooling amount and equal to or smaller than the second cooling amount and limits a decrease rate of the set cooling amount to be smaller than an increase rate of the set cooling amount, on a condition that the traveling road is determined by the traffic congestion determining unit as being congested and the first cooling amount is smaller than the second cooling amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Ienaga