Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Imai
Hideyuki Imai 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).
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Publication number: 20220017231Abstract: An electric power generation controller for use in an aircraft is a controller of an electric power generating apparatus including a manual transmission configured to change speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine, transmit the rotational power to an electric power generator, and switch a gear stage by a friction clutch pressed by an actuator. The electric power generation controller includes a manual transmission control section configured to control the manual transmission. The manual transmission control section includes: a shift command section configured to output a shift signal which switches the gear stage of the manual transmission; and a clutch control section configured to, when switching the gear stage of the manual transmission, control clutch pressure of the actuator such that the friction clutch becomes a half-engaged state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: KAWASKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISAInventors: Kippei MATSUDA, Hideyuki IMAI, Kenichiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220010733Abstract: An electric power generating apparatus for use in an aircraft includes: a manual transmission configured to change speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine and including a plurality of gear stages; and an electric power generator to which the rotational power which has been changed in speed by the manual transmission is transmitted. The manual transmission includes: a planetary gear mechanism; an input shaft connected to a carrier holding a planetary gear of the planetary gear mechanism; an output shaft connected to a sun gear of the planetary gear mechanism; a one-way clutch which is sandwiched between the input shaft and the output shaft and by which the rotational power of the input shaft is transmitted to the output shaft; and a brake connected to a ring gear of the planetary gear mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei MATSUDA, Kenji USUKI, Hideyuki IMAI
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Publication number: 20220003171Abstract: An electric power generating apparatus for use in an aircraft is an electric power generating apparatus connected through an emergency cut-off device to a gear box such that the gear box can transmit power to the electric power generating apparatus, the gear box being configured to decrease speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine. The electric power generating apparatus includes: a manual transmission configured to change the speed of the rotational power transmitted from the emergency cut-off device and including a plurality of gear stages; and an electric power generator to which the rotational power which has been changed in speed by the manual transmission is transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei MATSUDA, Kenji USUKI, Tatsuhiko GOI, Kenichiro TANAKA, Hideyuki IMAI
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Publication number: 20220003170Abstract: An electric power generation controller for use in an aircraft is a controller of an electric power generating system configured such that: a manual transmission changes speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine; a continuously variable transmission changes the speed of the rotational power which has been changed in speed by the manual transmission; and the continuously variable transmission transmits the rotational power to an electric power generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei MATSUDA, Hideyuki IMAI, Kenichiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210364080Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission includes: first and second pistons attached to a shaft portion of a trunnion so as to be externally fitted to the shaft portion, the first and second pistons being arranged so as to be lined up in a direction along a tilt axis; and a cylinder forming a first pressure chamber which makes the first piston move toward a first side in the direction along the tilt axis and a second pressure chamber which makes the second piston move toward a second side in the direction along the tilt axis. The cylinder includes a first lubricating oil passage, and the shaft portion of the trunnion includes a second lubricating oil passage. A third lubricating oil passage through which the first lubricating oil passage communicates with the second lubricating oil passage is formed between the first piston and the second piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki IMAI, Keigo MAEHATA, Kenichiro TANAKA, Kenji KOMATSU
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Publication number: 20210300101Abstract: A printing paper having a base layer, an intermediate layer, and a surface layer, the intermediate layer being arranged adjacent to the base layer and on the base layer, and the surface layer being arranged adjacent to the intermediate layer and on the intermediate layer, the base layer, the intermediate layer, and the surface layer each being a thermoplastic resin film having pores, an average pore size of the surface layer being from 0.2 to 5 ?m, an average pore size of the intermediate layer being from 5 to 70 ?m and being greater than the average pore size of the surface layer, and an average pore size of the base layer being from 70 to 200 ?m and being greater than the average pore size of the intermediate layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: YUPO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiro IWATANI, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Hideyuki IMAI
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Patent number: 11131380Abstract: A position controller includes: an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of a hydraulic actuator; a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of an object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for a control valve of the hydraulic actuator by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuma Kobayashi, Kippei Matsuda, Satoshi Ootsuki, Kenichi Nakashima, Hideyuki Imai, Akihito Abe
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Patent number: 11132006Abstract: A position controller that performs position control by outputting a drive signal to a control valve of a hydraulic actuator that changes an operation position of an object, includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of the object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for the control valve by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei Matsuda, Shuma Kobayashi, Satoshi Ootsuki, Kenichi Nakashima, Hideyuki Imai, Akihito Abe
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Patent number: 11067154Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission includes a first disc and a second disc disposed so that the first disc and the second disc are rotatable around a common rotational axis line, the first disc and the second disc facing each other; a power roller which is tiltably disposed between the first disc and the second disc; a pressing device of a loading cam type, the pressing device including a cam plate which is rotatable around the rotational axis line, and a roller unit including at least one roller sandwiched between a cam surface of the second disc and a cam surface of the cam plate; and a cam plate support supporting a back surface of the cam plate, the back surface being opposite to the cam surface of the cam plate, at a radial position conforming to a radial position of at least a portion of the roller unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei Matsuda, Hideyuki Imai, Kenichiro Tanaka, Tetsuya Matsuoka
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Patent number: 11041550Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission including input and output discs disposed to face each other so that a rotational axis of the input disc and a rotational axis of the output disc conform, each of the discs having a concave contact surface; a power roller sandwiched between the contact surfaces of discs so that the power roller is tiltable, the power roller transmitting a rotational driving force of the input disc to the output disc with a transmission ratio corresponding to a tilt motion angle; and a pressing device which presses one of the discs toward the other. When viewed from a direction of a tilt motion axis lof the power roller, the contact surface of at least one of discs has a region with a curvature that is larger than a curvature of a tilt motion trajectory of a contact surface of the power roller.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei Matsuda, Hideyuki Imai, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10948055Abstract: Provided is a pressing device for toroidal continuously variable transmission capable of reducing hysteresis that occurs between torque and pressing force. An intermediate sliding member 27 is provided in at least one location of a portion between an end surface on the outside in the radial direction of the retainer 13 of the roller 14 arranged on the outermost side in the radial direction and an inside surface of the pocket 25 on the outside in the radial direction, and a portion between an end surface on the outside in the radial direction of the retainer 13 of one roller 14 of adjoining rollers 14 in the radial direction and an end surface on the inside in the radial direction of the retainer 13 of another roller 14. As a result, the contact area of a sliding contact portion 32 is made smaller than in a case where an intermediate sliding member 27 is not provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: NSK LTD., KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Itagaki, Masahiro Kita, Kippei Matsuda, Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Kenji Komatsu
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Patent number: 10822106Abstract: An electric power generating device for an aircraft, which is driven by an output of an aircraft engine, comprises an input shaft to which a driving force of the engine is transmitted; a transmission arranged with the input shaft; an electric power generator arranged with the input shaft and the transmission and driven by an output of the transmission; a driving force transmission mechanism disposed on a first end side of the input shaft in an axial direction thereof, the driving force transmission mechanism being configured to transmit the output from the transmission to the electric power generator; and a casing including a mounting section on the first end side of the input shaft in the axial direction, wherein the transmission includes an input section provided on a second end side of the input shaft in the axial direction, the input section being configured to receive as an input a rotational driving force from the input shaft, and an output section provided on the first end side of the input shaft in thType: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Isao Fujii, Tatsuhiko Goi, Shogo Fuchiwaki
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Publication number: 20200271200Abstract: A pressing device for a toroidal continuously variable transmission, comprises: a disk having a toroidal curved surface and a first cam surface; a cam plate having a cylindrical portion, and an outward facing flange portion having a second cam surface; and a plurality of rolling bodies. The cylindrical portion has a cylinder portion, a projection projecting inward in the radial direction in one axial end portion of the cylinder portion and having a step surface, and an oil supply passage. At least a part of a radial inside opening of the oil supply passage opens to a portion of the cylinder portion positioned further on the other side in the axial direction than the step surface. The oil supply passage has an oil-passage hole penetrating the cylinder portion and an oil-passage groove continuous with the oil-passage hole and recessed from the step surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Masahiro KITA, Kippei MATSUDA, Hideyuki IMAI, Kenichiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 10746267Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission includes a preload spring disposed between a rotary assembly including a first disc and a pressing device, and a driving force transmission shaft, and a thrust bearing disposed between a first member and the preload spring, the first member being one of the rotary assembly and the driving force transmission shaft. In a direction of an axis line, a gap is formed between a second member and the thrust bearing, the second member being the other of the rotary assembly and the driving force transmission shaft. A dimension of the gap in the direction of the axis line is less than a deformation amount of the preload spring in the direction of the axis line, at an elastic limit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NSK LTD.Inventors: Kippei Matsuda, Hideyuki Imai, Kenichiro Tanaka, Kenji Komatsu, Eiji Inoue, Tomohiro Inoue, Daiki Shirota, Masahiro Kita
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Publication number: 20200248784Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission includes: input and output discs; a power roller sandwiched between the input disc and the output disc so as to be tiltable; a trunnion supporting the power roller and configured to be tiltable about a tilt axis of the power roller and reciprocatable in a direction along the tilt axis; a piston attached to a shaft portion of the trunnion so as to be externally fitted to the shaft portion; and a cylinder forming a pressure chamber which makes the piston reciprocate in the direction along the tilt axis. An inside gap is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion of the trunnion and an inner peripheral surface of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki IMAI, Keigo MAEHATA, Kenichiro TANAKA, Kenji KOMATSU
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Publication number: 20200183431Abstract: A position controller that performs position control by outputting a drive signal to a control valve of a hydraulic actuator that changes an operation position of an object, includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of the object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for the control valve by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kippei MATSUDA, Shuma KOBAYASHI, Satoshi OOTSUKI, Kenichi NAKASHIMA, Hideyuki IMAI, Akihito ABE
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Publication number: 20200182351Abstract: A position controller includes: an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of a hydraulic actuator; a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of an object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for a control valve of the hydraulic actuator by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuma KOBAYASHI, Kippei MATSUDA, Satoshi OOTSUKI, Kenichi NAKASHIMA, Hideyuki IMAI, Akihito ABE
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Patent number: 10677327Abstract: In a toroidal continuously variable transmission including at least one transmission unit including: an input disc and an output disc disposed coaxially; and a power roller tiltably interposed between the input disc and the output disc and configured to transmit a driving force from the input disc to the output disc, an integrally rotating member disposed so as to be spaced apart in an axial direction from at least one disc of the input disc and the output disc of each transmission unit and configured to rotate together with the at least one disc, and an annular interposed member provided between the at least one disc and the integrally rotating member and configured to rotate together with the at least one disc, are provided, and the interposed member is formed with a balance adjustment portion capable of adjusting weight balance in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihito Abe, Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Tatsuhiko Goi, Isao Fujii
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Publication number: 20200063837Abstract: Provided is a pressing device for a toroidal continuously variable transmission that is capable of sufficiently supplying lubrication oil to all rollers inside a pocket, and is capable of suppressing the occurrence of fretting wear on the rolling surfaces of the rollers, a first cam surface and a second cam surface. An oil passage 28 is provided for supplying lubrication oil to the inside of each pocket 25 in the inside portion in the radial direction of a retainer 14 that holds a plurality of more than one roller 13 arranged in a row in the radial direction. The center axis O29 of a discharge port 29 that is provided on an end portion on the downstream side of the oil passage 28 and that opens to the inside surface in the radial direction of the pocket 25 is inclined toward the front side in the rotational direction of the retainer 14 with respect to the center axis of the pocket 25.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Hirofumi ITAGAKI, Masahiro KITA, Kippei MATSUDA, Kenichiro TANAKA, Hideyuki IMAI, Kenji KOMATSU
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Patent number: 10570999Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission including: a first transmission unit including a first input disc and a first output disc; and a second transmission unit disposed such that a back surface of a second input disc is opposed to a back surface of the first input disc, an input gear shroud covering an input gear disposed between the back surfaces of the first and second input discs, a first input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a first input disc support supporting the first input disc on a housing of the continuously variable transmission, and a second input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a second input disc support supporting the second input disc on the housing of the continuously variable transmission, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Hidenori Arisawa, Masahide Kazari