Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Ebuchi
Hiroaki Ebuchi 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: 20170008533Abstract: an electronic control unit configured to i) while the engagement mechanism is changing from the engaged state to the released state, execute shaking control, ii) execute torque oscillation control, iii) determine whether to execute any one of releasing control and the torque oscillation control while the other one of the releasing control and the torque oscillation control is being executed, and iv) stop the shaking control when the electronic control unit determines to execute the releasing control and the torque oscillation control.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki EBUCHI, Akira MURAKAMI, Yuji IWASE, Shotaro KATO, Hidekazu NAGAI, Hiroto HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 9517690Abstract: A vehicle driving control device for a vehicle includes a control unit configured to stop operation of an electric motor driving device driving an electric motor at a time a rotary element is fixed to be unable to rotate by an engagement by an engaging mechanism, and to recover the operation of the electric motor driving device at a time a predetermined condition based on a parameter relating to a driving of the vehicle is satisfied before releasing the engagement by the engaging mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto Hashimoto, Yuji Iwase, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hidekazu Nagai, Shotaro Kato
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Patent number: 9487205Abstract: In a controller of a hybrid system including an engine, a motor/generator, an automatic clutch to which engine torque is input, a gear group configured to transmit input torque to a driving wheel side, and a differential device provided with plural rotary elements to which a torque input side of the gear group, a rotating shaft of the motor/generator, and an output side of the automatic clutch are individually connected respectively, wherein at the time a vehicle is started by causing the motor/generator to be in charge of a reaction force of the engine torque and transmitting the engine torque to the driving wheels via the differential device and the gear group, the automatic clutch is slip controlled in a semi-engaged state.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Patent number: 9381906Abstract: A vehicle driving device includes: a rotating electrical machine; a first shaft and a second shaft respectively connected to a drive shaft; and a differential mechanism including a rotation component connected to the rotating electrical machine, a rotation component connected to the first shaft, and a rotation component connected to the second shaft. The vehicle driving device includes a predetermined mode in which a transmission of a power through the second shaft is disconnected, a differential operation of the differential mechanism is regulated, and the rotating electrical machine and the drive shaft are connected to each other through the first shaft. Each of the first shaft and the second shaft may include a transmission mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Publication number: 20160144846Abstract: A vehicle driving control device for a vehicle includes a control unit configured to stop operation of an electric motor driving device driving an electric motor at a time a rotary element is fixed to be unable to rotate by an engagement by an engaging mechanism, and to recover the operation of the electric motor driving device at a time a predetermined condition based on a parameter relating to a driving of the vehicle is satisfied before releasing the engagement by the engaging mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto HASHIMOTO, Yuji Iwase, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hidekazu Nagai, Shotaro Kato
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Publication number: 20160131203Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator includes an electromagnetic coil, fixed portions placed around the electromagnetic coil, and a movable portion including a magnetic circuit of the electromagnetic coil together with the fixed portions. The movable portion is configured to operate an operated member by moving in a predetermined direction due to an electromagnetic force generated in the magnetic circuit. The movable portion includes a first member and a second member. The first member and the second member are supported respectively by the fixed portions. The first member and the second member are incorporated to each other by sandwiching the operated member from both sides in the predetermined direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki EBUCHI, Yuji IWASE, Shotaro KATO, Hidekazu NAGAI, Hiroto HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160068155Abstract: A hybrid vehicle drive system includes: an engine; a rotary machine; a gear type engagement device; and a controller configured to: control a vehicle to travel in a first mode in which a reaction force of the engine is received by a torque of the rotary machine, and in a second mode in which the reaction force of the engine is received by the engagement device. The controller is configured to perform a first control of receiving the reaction force of the engine by the torque of the rotary machine, increasing a magnitude of the torque of the rotary machine to be equal to or greater than an upper limit of an estimated torque range of the engine, and then decreasing the magnitude of the torque of the rotary machine is performed at a time the engagement device is disengaged from the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto HASHIMOTO, Yuji IWASE, Hiroaki EBUCHI, Hidekazu NAGAI, Shotaro KATO
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Patent number: 9254837Abstract: A first shaft and a second shaft configured to connect the engine to the driving shaft and connectable/disconnectable to/from the engine, and a differential mechanism configured to connect the first shaft, the second shaft, and a rotating electrical machine to one another are provided, wherein, at the time of upshift to a gear shift stage of the second shaft from a state in which the engine is connected to the driving shaft through a gear shift stage of the first shaft, power transmission to the driving shaft through the second shaft is blocked, the second shaft is connected to the engine, power of the engine is transmitted to the second shaft by output control of the rotating electrical machine, the first shaft is disconnected from the engine, and the engine is connected to the driving shaft through the gear shift stage of the second shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Publication number: 20150362027Abstract: An engagement device includes: a first member including a plurality of engaged teeth; a second member arranged coaxially with the first member, the second member including a plurality of engaging teeth; a rotation unit configured to relatively rotate the first member and the second member about an axis; a movement unit configured to relatively move the first member and the second member in an axial direction; and a control unit configured to control operations of the rotation unit and the movement unit, and the engaged teeth are formed on the first member at a side opposing the second member along a circumferential direction around the axis, and the engaging teeth are formed on the second member at a side opposing the first member along the circumferential direction around the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki EBUCHI, Yuji IWASE, Hidekazu NAGAI, Hiroto HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20150354643Abstract: An intermesh engagement device includes an intermesh engagement mechanism, a moving member, an actuator configured to apply a thrust to a moving member in an engaging direction, a transmission spring configured to transmit the thrust of the actuator from the moving member to a sleeve, a return spring, a stopper, and an electronic control unit configured to control the actuator. The electronic control unit is configured to execute first control for setting the thrust of the actuator to a thrust in a first region, and, when a halfway stopped state has occurred through the first control, execute second control for setting a thrust larger than the thrust in the first control. The first region is a range in which the thrust is larger than an urging force of the return spring and is smaller than the sum of the urging force of the return spring and a maximum urging force of the transmission spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki EBUCHI, Makoto FUNAHASHI, Yuji Iwase, Shotaro KATO, Hidekazu NAGAI, Hiroto HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20150336559Abstract: A drive control device includes: a meshing engagement unit; an engine; a rotary machine; a detector detecting a predetermined parameter; and a controller configured to perform a release control of causing the rotary machine to output a second rotation torque in a direction opposite to a first rotation torque applied from the engine to the engagement unit at a time the engagement unit is released. The release control includes setting a magnitude of the second rotation torque to a predetermined value larger than a magnitude of the first rotation torque at a time the predetermined parameter change degree is not smaller than a threshold value and gradually decreasing the magnitude of the second rotation torque, and setting the magnitude of the second rotation torque to a magnitude smaller than the predetermined value at a time the predetermined parameter change degree is smaller than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto HASHIMOTO, Yuji IWASE, Hiroaki EBUCHI, Hidekazu NAGAI, Shotaro KATO
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Patent number: 9145930Abstract: An apparatus includes: a cam that has two cam members disposed facing each other and produces thrust in an axis direction; an attracting member that creates friction force by attracting the cam members into contact with the attracting member by magnetic attraction force; an attracted member that is attached to one cam member of the two so as to rotate integrally together with the one cam member and be relatively movable in the axis direction, and that is attracted by the attracting member into contact with the attracting member so that the friction force is produced; a first return spring that exerts elastic force on the attracted member so as to move the attracted member away from the attracting member against the magnetic attractive force; and a second return spring that exerts elastic force on the one cam member.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hideaki Komada, Hirotatsu Kitabatake, Hiroto Hashimoto, Minoru Onitake, Kenji Korenaga
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Publication number: 20150184699Abstract: An ECU of an engaging device is configured to feedback-control a current value so as to realize an engagement indicator current required for moving a sleeve in a position in an axial direction in which dog teeth may mesh with dog teeth in engaging operation. This performs releasing operation based on temporal transition of the current value during the engaging operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Shotaro Kato, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Yuji Iwase, Hidekazu Nagai, Hiroto Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20150119190Abstract: A first shaft and a second shaft configured to connect the engine to the driving shaft and connectable/disconnectable to/from the engine, and a differential mechanism configured to connect the first shaft, the second shaft, and a rotating electrical machine to one another are provided, wherein, at the time of upshift to a gear shift stage of the second shaft from a state in which the engine is connected to the driving shaft through a gear shift stage of the first shaft, power transmission to the driving shaft through the second shaft is blocked, the second shaft is connected to the engine, power of the engine is transmitted to the second shaft by output control of the rotating electrical machine, the first shaft is disconnected from the engine, and the engine is connected to the driving shaft through the gear shift stage of the second shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Publication number: 20150039170Abstract: A vehicle driving device includes: a rotating electrical machine; a first shaft and a second shaft respectively connected to a drive shaft; and a differential mechanism including a rotation component connected to the rotating electrical machine, a rotation component connected to the first shaft, and a rotation component connected to the second shaft. The vehicle driving device includes a predetermined mode in which a transmission of a power through the second shaft is disconnected, a differential operation of the differential mechanism is regulated, and the rotating electrical machine and the drive shaft are connected to each other through the first shaft. Each of the first shaft and the second shaft may include a transmission mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Publication number: 20150031503Abstract: A control device of a hybrid system includes an engine; a motor/generator; an automatic clutch to a first engaging unit side of which an engine rotary shaft is connected; a differential device provided with a plurality of rotational elements to each of which an MG rotary shaft and a second engaging unit side of the automatic clutch are separately connected; a first transmission a rotary shaft of which is connected to the rotational element to which the second engaging unit is connected; a second transmission a rotary shaft of which is connected to another rotational element; and an output shaft connected to a driving wheel side, wherein at the time of EV driving, transmission control is performed and the automatic clutch is disengaged such that the first transmission and the second transmission can perform torque transmission between the input shaft and the output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Publication number: 20140342871Abstract: In a controller of a hybrid system including an engine, a motor/generator, an automatic clutch to which engine torque is input, a gear group configured to transmit input torque to a driving wheel side, and a differential device provided with plural rotary elements to which a torque input side of the gear group, a rotating shaft of the motor/generator, and an output side of the automatic clutch are individually connected respectively, wherein at the time a vehicle is started by causing the motor/generator be in charge of a reaction force of the engine torque and transmitting the engine torque to the driving wheels via the differential device and the gear group, the automatic clutch is slip controlled in a semi-engaged state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruo Isomura, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroyuki Shibata
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Patent number: 8714329Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch includes a rotating member; an electromagnetic coil that is arranged on a rotational axis of the rotating member and generates electro-magnetic force; an output mechanism that has an armature to which return force in a direction away from the electromagnetic coil is applied by a return spring; a cam mechanism that is juxtaposed along the rotational axis to the output mechanism, and has a control cam that is unable to rotate relative to the rotating member, and a cam follower that is able to roll between the control cam and the armature; and a relative rotation restricting device that is arranged on an axis of the cam mechanism, and that is configured to restrict relative rotation between the armature and the control cam when the electromagnetic coil is in a de-energized state.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yoichi Sakamoto, Kenji Korenaga, Minoru Onitake, Hiroshi Takuno, Takashi Hosokawa, Hirotatsu Kitabatake, Hideaki Komada, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroto Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8636621Abstract: A control device of a vehicle includes: power dividing mechanism that has a plurality of rotating elements rotated by torque output and transmitted from an engine and a first motor/generator and switches a transmission mode according to the engaging states of the respective rotating elements; and a clutch that has a first engaging member and a second engaging member having a backlash between them in a rotating direction thereof, and that sets a transmission mode to a fixed transmission ratio mode by engaging the first engaging member connected to one of the rotating elements with the second engaging member, and sets the transmission mode to a continuously variable transmission ratio mode by releasing the engagement. In the control device of a vehicle, the magnitude of the reversed rotating torque is reduced when the direction of rotating torque acting between the first and seconds engaging members.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromichi Kimura, Yukihiko Ideshio, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Tomohito Ono, Hirotatsu Kitabatake, Hideki Sano
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Patent number: 8626370Abstract: A control apparatus is applied to a vehicle that has shift modes including the continuously variable shift mode, in which a ratio of the rotational speed of a power source to the rotational speed of a drive shaft is continuously adjusted, and the stepped shift mode, in which the ratio is fixed. The control apparatus includes a control unit that controls the torque that is output from the power source to make the time that is required to bring the drive torque of the drive shaft from a predetermined value to a target value in the stepped shift mode equal to the time that is required to bring the drive torque of the drive shaft from the predetermined value to the target value in the continuously variable shift mode. In this way, the difference in drivability between the continuously variable shift mode and the stepped shift mode is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ebuchi, Kouji Kawashima, Hiromichi Kimura, Tomoyuki Honda