Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kagawa
Hiroki Kagawa 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: 20210080846Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle including a binder resin, wherein in a temperature T (° C.)-storage elastic modulus G? (Pa) curve obtained by measuring the toner with a rheometer, a storage elastic modulus G? (80° C.) at 80° C. is from 2.0×103 Pa to 2.0×105 Pa; and a local minimum value of a change amount (dG?/dT) of a storage elastic modulus G? in a range of 60° C. to 80° C. with respect to a temperature T is ?1.0×106 or less, and when the temperature of the toner is raised, where a projected area of the toner at 80° C. is S1 (?m2), a radius of the projected area of the toner at 80° C. is R1 (?m), and a projected area of the toner at 120° C. is S2 (?m2), the S1, R1 and S2 satisfy a following formula (1): S2/S1×1/R1?0.22.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Takuya Mizuguchi, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Hiroyuki Tomono, Osamu Matsushita, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
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Publication number: 20210055667Abstract: A toner comprising a resin that contains an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment as a binder resin, wherein a proportion of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of a resin component is from 40% by mass to 80% by mass; in differential scanning calorimeter measurement of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter, where a temperature of a maximum endothermic peak is denoted by Tm [° C.] and an endothermic quantity is denoted by H(I) [J/g], the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: 55.0?Tm?80.0??(1) 10.0?H(I)?80.0??(2).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
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Patent number: 10801499Abstract: An external gear pump includes a pump housing in which a pump chamber is formed, a primary gear having a plurality of external teeth housed in the pump chamber, a secondary gear having a plurality of external teeth that mesh with the plurality of external teeth of the primary gear in the pump chamber, a first electric motor configured to generate a torque for rotationally driving the primary gear, a second electric motor configured to generate a torque for rotationally driving the secondary gear, and a control unit configured to control the first and second electric motors. The control unit controls the first and second electric motors so that the torque generated by the first electric motor is greater than the torque generated by the second electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Kagawa
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Publication number: 20200285164Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and in viscoelasticity measurement of the toner with Tp being a peak temperature of an endothermic peak derived from the crystalline resin in DSC of the toner, given G?(Tp—5, 0.01 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp—5° C. and a frequency of 0.01 Hz, G?(Tp—5, 10 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp—5° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz, and G?(Tp—30, 10 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp—30° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz, the following formulae are satisfied: G?(Tp—30,10 Hz)/G?(Tp—5,0.01 Hz)?1.40 G?(Tp—5,10 Hz)/G?(Tp—5,0.01 Hz)?2.20.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Hiroki Akiyama, Shuhei Moribe, Hiroyuki Tomono, Tatsuya Saeki, Hiroki Kagawa, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Katsuhisa Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20200240317Abstract: A cooling system includes an electric pump, a cooling target temperature sensor, a coolant temperature sensor, and an electronic control unit. The electric pump pumps a coolant to a circulation channel connected to an inlet and an outlet of a cooling channel in which heat is exchanged with a cooling target. The cooling target temperature sensor detects a cooling target temperature. The coolant temperature sensor is arranged upstream of the inlet in the circulation channel, and detects a coolant temperature. The electronic control unit controls driving of the electric pump so that a discharge flow rate of the electric pump matches a target flow rate, and sets the target flow rate using an equation based on a reference value obtained by dividing a difference between the cooling target temperature and a target cooling temperature of the cooling target by a difference between the cooling target temperature and the coolant temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CorporationInventor: Hiroki KAGAWA
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Publication number: 20190384192Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a magnetic body, wherein the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit, the first polymerizable monomer is at least one selected from the group consisting of the (meth)acrylic acid esters having C18-36 alkyl groups, a content of the first monomer unit and a content of the second monomer unit based on the total moles of all monomer units in the polymer A are respectively 5.0 to 60.0 mol % and 20.0 to 95.0 mol %, and assuming that an SP value of the first monomer unit and the second monomer unit are taken as SP11 (J/cm3)0.5 and SP21(J/cm3)0.5, respectively, 3.00?(SP21?SP11)?25.00 is satisfied, and an oil absorption of the magnetic body is 5 to 40 ml/100 g.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Tatsuya Saeki, Takashi Matsui
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Publication number: 20190384195Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, the storage elastic modulus Gt? (150) of the toner at 150° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa, the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first monomer unit derived from a first polymerizable monomer and a second monomer unit derived from a second polymerizable monomer different from the first polymerizable monomer, the first polymerizable monomer is selected from specific (meth)acrylic acid esters, the contents of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit in the polymer A are within specific ranges, and the SP values of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit are within specific ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Tatsuya Saeki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa, Takashi Matsui
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Publication number: 20190063431Abstract: An external gear pump includes a pump housing in which a pump chamber is formed, a primary gear having a plurality of external teeth housed in the pump chamber, a secondary gear having a plurality of external teeth that mesh with the plurality of external teeth of the primary gear in the pump chamber, a first electric motor configured to generate a torque for rotationally driving the primary gear, a second electric motor configured to generate a torque for rotationally driving the secondary gear, and a control unit configured to control the first and second electric motors. The control unit controls the first and second electric motors so that the torque generated by the first electric motor is greater than the torque generated by the second electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Kagawa
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Publication number: 20170175745Abstract: An electric pump system includes a pump, a motor, and a control circuit. The motor drives the pump. The control circuit controls operation of the motor. The control circuit includes a determination circuit, a generation circuit, and a drive circuit. The determination circuit determines the amount of fluid to be discharged from the pump. The generation circuit generates, based on a maximum rotational speed of the motor, a control profile that is used to control the number of revolutions of the motor. The maximum rotational speed of the motor is set according to the environment in which the pump is used. The control profile is used for the pump to discharge the amount of fluid determined by the determination circuit in the shortest time. The drive circuit drives the motor based on the control profile generated by the generation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki KAGAWA
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Patent number: 9683573Abstract: A control unit includes an excessive output suppression control unit which suppresses an excessive output by reducing a current command value from a host control apparatus. A control signal output unit obtains a motor control signal by adding a reduction amount of the current command value to the current command value. The excessive output suppression control unit includes: an oil pressure estimating unit which estimates oil pressure based on a current and a rotating speed of the electric motor; and a current command value correction amount calculating unit which compares outputs the reduction amount of the current command value if the estimated oil pressure is higher than target oil pressure. One of the target oil pressure and the estimated oil pressure compared by the current command value correction amount calculating unit is corrected based on oil temperature information.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Kengo Uda, Yasuyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 9309881Abstract: In an electric pump system, hydraulic fluid that is stored in an oil pan is supplied to a transmission mechanism through an oil passage by driving an oil pump with the use of a motor. An EOPECU estimates a hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic fluid on the basis of a driving current for the motor and a rotation speed of the motor, and executes drive control on the motor on the basis of the estimated hydraulic pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Uda, Yasuyuki Aoki, Hiroki Kagawa
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Patent number: 9145876Abstract: A control signal output unit obtains a motor control signal by applying a reduction amount for a current command value obtained by an over-power suppression control unit to a current command value from a host control unit. The over-power suppression control unit includes a hydraulic pressure estimation unit that estimates hydraulic pressure, and a current command value correction amount calculation unit that compares a target hydraulic pressure with an estimated hydraulic pressure and outputs the reduction amount for the current command value. Load information indicating whether a load on the pump is a low load or a high load that is higher than the low load is input into a control circuit from the host control unit, and the over-power suppression control unit changes the target hydraulic pressure in accordance with a magnitude of the load indicated by the load information.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Kagawa
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Patent number: 9046173Abstract: A transmission driving device that is capable of preventing displacement of a shift operation member or a select operation member in a case where there is reverse input in the shift operation member or the select operation member by inhibiting rotation of a rotation member which is released from an input shaft. When an input shaft and a first rotor are connected, the first electromagnetic coil is an excitation state and a second electromagnetic coil is in a non-excitation state. In this state, a second magnetic ring is not attracted to the side of the second electromagnetic coil, a seventh facing, which is fixed to the second magnetic ring, and an eighth facing are engaged with each other, and a second rotor and a casing are connected to each other. In a connection state of the second rotor and the casing, the second rotor cannot be rotated.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Yasuhiro Yukitake
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Publication number: 20150010408Abstract: A control unit includes an excessive output suppression control unit which suppresses an excessive output by reducing a current command value from a host control apparatus. A control signal output unit obtains a motor control signal by adding a reduction amount of the current command value to the current command value. The excessive output suppression control unit includes: an oil pressure estimating unit which estimates oil pressure based on a current and a rotating speed of the electric motor; and a current command value correction amount calculating unit which compares outputs the reduction amount of the current command value if the estimated oil pressure is higher than target oil pressure. One of the target oil pressure and the estimated oil pressure compared by the current command value correction amount calculating unit is corrected based on oil temperature information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Kengo Uda, Yasuyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20140344714Abstract: An information terminal device (100) includes a message display section (304) which (i) displays a plurality of display regions on a display screen so that the plurality of display regions are arranged along a vertical direction of the display screen, the plurality of display regions each being for a time series, and (ii) displays, in each of the plurality of display regions, a posted message of a time series corresponding to the each of the plurality of display regions; and display change section (308) which, in a case where a horizontal moving operation is carried out with respect to a given one of the plurality of display regions, sequentially changes a posted message to be displayed in the given one of the plurality of display regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Hiroki Toyoshima, Akihiro Azuma, Hiroki Kagawa, Takayoshi Sasaoka, Michita Katayama
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Patent number: 8876501Abstract: A motor housing that accommodates a pump-driving electric motor and a controller that controls the electric motor is fixed to a pump body of a pump that sucks and discharges oil. A sealed motor chamber that accommodates the electric motor is formed within the motor housing. A cooling oil is filled in the motor chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Akihiko Kawano, Hiroki Kagawa
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Patent number: 8790095Abstract: An electric pump unit includes: a unit housing; a bearing unit provided within the unit housing; a rotary portion; and a motor stator fixed to the unit housing. The rotary portion includes: a pump driving motor shaft supported by the bearing unit such that an axial position of a center of gravity of the rotary portion falls within an axial range of the bearing unit, and a motor rotor. The motor rotor includes: a disc portion which extends radially outwards from an axial end portion of the motor shaft; and a cylindrical portion which extends from an outer circumferential portion of the disc portion towards the other axial end side and surrounds an outer circumference of the bearing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Takatoshi Sakata, Akihiko Kawano, Hiroki Kagawa
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Patent number: 8714041Abstract: A transmission that is able to perform shift operation and select operation using the driving force of a single electric motor is provided. A shift/select actuating device includes: an electric motor; a first conversion mechanism; a second conversion mechanism; and a changing unit that changes a destination, to which the rotational driving force of the electric motor is transmitted, between the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism. The changing unit includes: a first electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force of the electric motor to the first conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force; and a second electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force to the second conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Yukitake, Akiyoshi Tashiro, Hiroki Kagawa, Takafumi Uemoto
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Patent number: 8525456Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device that can continue to supply hydraulic pressure to hydraulically actuated equipment and that is also of reduced size. An electric pump device is provided with an oil pump that supplies oil to a stepless transmission device, a brushless motor that drives the oil pump, and a control device that controls the brushless motor. The control device is provided with a power supply part that supplies drive power to the brushless motor, and an out-of-synch determination part that determines whether or not the brushless motor is out of synch. The control device is provided with a drive control part that controls the power supply part so that supply of power to the brushless motor is stopped, and then controls the power supply part so that the brushless motor is started, when the out-of-synch determination part determines that the brushless motor is out of synch.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventor: Hiroki Kagawa
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Publication number: 20130008279Abstract: A transmission driving device that is capable of preventing displacement of a shift operation member or a select operation member in a case where there is reverse input in the shift operation member or the select operation member by inhibiting rotation of a rotation member which is released from an input shaft. When an input shaft and a first rotor are connected, the first electromagnetic coil is an excitation state and a second electromagnetic coil is in a non-excitation state. In this state, a second magnetic ring is not attracted to the side of the second electromagnetic coil, a seventh facing, which is fixed to the second magnetic ring, and an eighth facing are engaged with each other, and a second rotor and a casing are connected to each other. In a connection state of the second rotor and the casing, the second rotor cannot be rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Yasuhiro Yukitake