Patents by Inventor Hiroki Tomizawa

Hiroki Tomizawa 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: 12264916
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a sensor element, a housing provided around the sensor element, and a processor. The sensor element includes a base body including first and second base body regions, and first and second sensor parts. The first sensor part is provided in the first base body region, and includes a first sensor movable part. The second sensor part is provided in the second base body region and includes first and second beams. The processor can derive a rotation angle and an angular velocity based on a signal obtained from the first sensor movable part. The processor can detect acceleration and a temperature based on a first resonance frequency of the first beam and a second resonance frequency of the second beam. The processor can correct one of the rotation angle or the angular velocity based on one of the temperature or the acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Gando, Daiki Ono, Yasushi Tomizawa, Fumito Miyazaki, Shiori Kaji, Kei Masunishi, Hiroki Hiraga, Etsuji Ogawa, Kengo Uchida
  • Patent number: 12263897
    Abstract: A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained based on the correction element information into the storage unit. In the start-up state, the control unit is configured to execute an abnormal condition determination process of determining whether an abnormal condition indicating that the correction information is abnormal is met. The correction information storing process is re-executed when the abnormal condition is met. The abnormal condition determination process is executed at least either before or after the correction information storing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Koudai, Yuji Fujita, Yugo Nagashima, Kazuma Hasegawa, Yuuta Kajisawa, Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Satou, Yosuke Yamashita, Kazuaki Iida, Shintaro Takayama, Takeshi Iwana, Toyohiro Hayashi, Hayaki Tanabe, Nobuyori Nakajima, Hiroki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 12260754
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
  • Patent number: 12240339
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a driving control device and an auxiliary control device, the vehicle including a main power source, an auxiliary power source, and a supply path, the supply path being a path configured to be opened and closed according to a state of a start switch of the vehicle. The driving control device is a device that controls a state of equipment installed in the vehicle and the auxiliary control device is a device that controls a state of the auxiliary power source. The driving control device is configured to execute a storage process, a permission signal transmission process, and an initial value process, and the auxiliary control device is configured to execute a permission signal reception process and a stop process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuta Kajisawa, Yuji Fujita, Yugo Nagashima, Kazuma Hasegawa, Takashi Koudai, Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Satou, Yosuke Yamashita, Kazuaki Iida, Hiroyuki Katayama, Shintaro Takayama, Toyohiro Hayashi, Takeshi Iwana, Hayaki Tanabe, Nobuyori Nakajima, Hiroki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 12233972
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object by starting in response to powering-on of a vehicle and to perform power latch control for continuing to be supplied with electric power in a predetermined period in response to powering-off of the vehicle. Each of the control circuits is configured to perform starting after all of the control circuits have recognized the powering-on of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is powered on while the power latch control is being performed after the vehicle has been powered off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yugo Nagashima, Yuji Fujita, Kazuma Hasegawa, Yuuta Kajisawa, Takashi Koudai, Masaharu Yamashita, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Kazuaki Iida, Hiroyuki Katayama, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12214830
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a control circuit configured to control driving of a reaction force motor that generates steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel in which power transmission with turning wheels of a vehicle is separated. When a vehicle power source is turned on, the control circuit requests a vehicle control device to stop traveling of the vehicle when information is exchanged with the vehicle control device in a manner that does not follow a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yugo Nagashima, Yuji Fujita, Yuuta Kajisawa, Kazuma Hasegawa, Takashi Koudai, Masaharu Yamashita, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Hiroki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 12128964
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object in cooperation or in combination by starting with powering-on of a vehicle as a trigger. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to perform a synchronization process and power latch control. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to maintain the operation mode immediately before the vehicle has been powered off in a period in which the power latch control is being performed. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured not to perform the synchronization process in a predetermined period when the vehicle has been powered on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Hasegawa, Yuji Fujita, Yugo Nagashima, Masaharu Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Yosuke Yamashita, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12116063
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a steering device including an electric motor and configured to steer a wheel by a force generated by the electric motor; a controller configured to control the steering device, wherein the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operating member while imposing limitation on a supply current to the electric motor, and wherein the limitation imposed on the supply current is made smaller when a running speed of the vehicle is lower than a set speed and a steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to decrease a steering amount than i) when the running speed of the vehicle is not lower than the set speed and ii) when the steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to increase the steering amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Yuji Fujita, Yuuta Kajisawa, Kenichi Abe, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12116052
    Abstract: Control calculation units of a back system in each actuator operate by a collaborative drive mode in which a torque is output to a motor drive unit by using an information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between the systems in common. Cooperative control calculation units in a reaction force actuator and a turning actuator can operate in cooperation with each other based on the information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between actuators. A communication between adjacent systems and a communication between adjacent actuators are restored, when a focus control calculation unit is restored, after the focus control calculation unit is stopped during operation and at least one of the communication between adjacent systems or the communication between adjacent actuators is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Takesaki, Hisashi Kameya, Hiroki Tomizawa, Masaharu Yamashita, Kenji Shibata, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Toshihiro Takahashi, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Yugo Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20240308574
    Abstract: In a motor control device for a steer-by-wire steering device, the motor control device having a redundant system consisting of two systems, a first turning current command value is calculated in a first system, and a second turning current command value is calculated in a second system. A third processor outputs the first turning current command value when the two current command values are not divergent and outputs the second turning current command value when the two current command values are divergent. When a determination of a rapid steering operation is made, the third processor outputs the first turning current command value regardless of whether or not the two current command values are divergent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shibata, Koichi Nishimura, Takahito Ishino, Ryo Yamazaki, Hiroyasu Inoue, Isao Namikawa, Nobuyori Nakajima, Hiroki Tomizawa, Takuya Maegawa
  • Patent number: 12084126
    Abstract: A motor drive system includes a first actuator and a second actuator each functioning as a motor configured to output torque. Each of the first actuator and the second actuator includes a plurality of control calculation units and a plurality of motor drive units. The plurality of control calculation units are provided redundantly and each configured to perform a calculation related to a motor drive control. The plurality of motor drive units are provided redundantly and each configured to drive based on a drive signal generated by a corresponding control calculation unit and output the torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 12040681
    Abstract: A housing is shaped in a bottomed tubular form. A stator is fixed to a stator receiving portion of a tubular portion of the housing at an arbitrary angle position around an axis of the tubular portion. A heat sink is fixed to a heat sink fixing portion of the tubular portion at an arbitrary angle position around the axis of the tubular portion. A control device includes a connector for electrically connecting with an external device and is configured to control energization of the stator. Each of a plurality of externally mounting portions is a part of a bottom portion of the housing and is formed integrally with the housing in one-piece. A plurality of housing positioning holes are formed at the bottom portion of the housing and are arranged at equal intervals along a circle that is concentric with the tubular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Tomizawa, Asuka Tanaka, Masashi Yamasaki, Takamasa Mutou, Yasuaki Koyano, Hisashi Yamamoto, Yusuke Shikata
  • Publication number: 20240227923
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a power source control device that executes a process of switching a connection state of a driving circuit to the main power source and an auxiliary power source including; a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a backup state as a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, and a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a normal state as the voltage decrease of the main power source is resolved. After a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, a turning-side control device of a steering control unit sets an output-limited state for a turning-side motor. The output-limited state is canceled upon the power source control device completing switching of the connection state so as to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Kaishi MONOBE, Kenichi ABE, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Kazuaki IIDA, Yasushi HORA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi IWANA
  • Patent number: 12024174
    Abstract: A control device includes control circuits of a plurality of systems. When a transition condition is established, the control circuits of the systems make transition of a driving mode from a first driving mode to a second driving mode, and when a return condition is established in a state in which the driving mode has transitioned to the second driving mode, the control circuits of the systems make transition of the driving mode from the second driving mode to the first driving mode while gradually changing the current command values of the control circuits' own systems toward the current command values before the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Hasegawa, Yuji Fujita, Takashi Kodera, Isao Namikawa, Atsushi Ishihara, Masaharu Yamashita, Kenji Shibata, Yuko Goto, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11987298
    Abstract: A main power supply having a large capacity and a backup power supply having a small capacity are switchable by a power supply switching determination unit in a system. A motor control device drives a motor by the main power supply or the backup power supply. A drive control unit outputs a drive signal, calculated by feedback control of the current detection value with respect to the current command value, to an inverter circuit. When the power supply switching determination unit switches from the main power supply to the backup power supply, the drive control unit moves from a normal control using the main power supply to a backup control that restricts an electric power consumption and prevents the backup power supply from stopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Maegawa, Hiroki Tomizawa, Hiroyasu Otake, Yuuta Kajisawa, Yuji Fujita, Tokuaki Hibino, Yosuke Yamashita, Atsushi Satou, Masaharu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11973453
    Abstract: A first actuator and a second actuator each have a plurality of control calculation units provided redundantly and a plurality of motor drive units provided redundantly. In the first and the second actuators, the control calculation units of the systems paired with each other transmit and receive information to and from each other by a communication between the actuators. When a failure occurs in any system in either of the two actuators, or when a failure occurs in a communication between actuators in either system, the control calculation unit of each actuator of the system in which the failure occurred stops the motor drive control. Then, the motor drive control is continued by the control calculation unit of the normal system in both actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Tomizawa, Masaharu Yamashita, Kenji Shibata, Yosuke Yamashita, Shoji Kubota, Yugo Nagashima, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240132147
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a power source control device that executes a process of switching a connection state of a driving circuit to the main power source and an auxiliary power source including; a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a backup state as a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, and a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a normal state as the voltage decrease of the main power source is resolved. After a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, a turning-side control device of a steering control unit sets an output-limited state for a turning-side motor. The output-limited state is canceled upon the power source control device completing switching of the connection state so as to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Kaishi MONOBE, Kenichi ABE, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Kazuaki IIDA, Yasushi HORA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi IWANA
  • Publication number: 20240088814
    Abstract: When a DC power source fails, the following controls are performed. The normal control is resumed when an inverter input voltage recovers before a standby period elapses after a power failure time. A power source relay is turned off when the standby period elapses without recovery of the voltage. The power source relay is turned on again when a power source relay off period has elapsed from a turn-off time. The normal control is resumed when the inverter input voltage recovers at the turn-on time. The normal control is resumed when the inverter input voltage recovers before the power source relay on period elapses from the turn-on time. The power source relay is turned off, and driving of the actuator is stopped, when the power source relay on period passes without recovery of the voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Tomoaki YOSHIMI, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240025471
    Abstract: A vehicle control unit includes a controller configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of a vehicle is started. The start-up state is a state where it is possible to execute a preparation process, required for making a state transition to the normal control state, by controlling an operation member so as to move automatically. The controller is configured to execute, in the start-up state: a forced-ending condition determination process of determining whether a forced-ending condition showing that the preparation process being executed is to be forcedly ended from start of execution of the preparation process is met; a forced-ending process of forcedly ending the preparation process being executed when the forced-ending condition is met; and a notification process of notifying the driver of forced ending of the preparation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KOUDAI, Yuji FUJITA, Kenichi ABE, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Takeshi IWANA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hayaki TANABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240025473
    Abstract: A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained based on the correction element information into the storage unit. In the start-up state, the control unit is configured to execute an abnormal condition determination process of determining whether an abnormal condition indicating that the correction information is abnormal is met. The correction information storing process is re-executed when the abnormal condition is met. The abnormal condition determination process is executed at least either before or after the correction information storing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KOUDAI, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Takeshi IWANA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hayaki TANABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA