Patents by Inventor Harumasa Minegishi

Harumasa Minegishi 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: 4805102
    Abstract: An effective vehicle attitude control method in which the abrupt change of the vehicle attitude due to the acceleration slip control can be quickly controlled. When the slippage of a drive wheel is determined to be greater than a predetermined value, the drive force of the drive wheel is controlled and, at the same time, the suspension characteristic is altered to a harder state. For preferentially keeping maneuverability and riding comfort, the altered suspension characteristic may be restored to the original state when a preset time period has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ise, Harumasa Minegishi, Hiroshi Harada
  • Patent number: 4765691
    Abstract: A wheel slip control system for independently executing an anti-skid control and a traction control. The system includes a microcomputer, a first capacity control valve for anti-skid control, a selector valve, and a second capacity control valve for traction control. These values are connected in series between a master cylinder and a break cylinder. Such valves prevent brake fluid from over-charging a reservoir even in the course of switching from anti-skid control to traction control or vice versa, so that the brake pressure is properly reduced without consideration of capacity of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Inoue, Akira Shirai, Yoshihisa Nomura, Kazumasa Nakamura, Takafumi Inagaki, Harumasa Minegishi, Kiyotaka Ise
  • Patent number: 4471437
    Abstract: An overdrive control apparatus is provided with a gradient sensor unit for sensing a gradient of a vehicle running road. The overdrive control apparatus releases an overdrive mode of an automatic change gear device which is set up for a level drive of the vehicle in accordance with a sensing signal from the gradient sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Yoshino, Akira Kuno, Hidetoshi Shimizu, Harumasa Minegishi
  • Patent number: 4337651
    Abstract: An apparatus measures and indicates the speeds of a vehicle at the beginning and end of braking of the vehicle by counting as many vehicle speed representative pulse signals as indicative of the speed per hour of the vehicle which are gated during the time that the desired number of clock pulses are counted in response to the beginning and end of braking of the vehicle, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Yoshino, Akira Kuno, Hidetoshi Shimizu, Harumasa Minegishi