Patents by Inventor Hirotake Omoto

Hirotake Omoto 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: 11926273
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for a vehicle driving device includes an oil pump, a clutch oil passage, a cooling oil passage, a pressure regulating valve, and a shift valve. The cooling oil passage guides oil to a cooled portion of a vehicle. Supply of oil to the clutch oil passage and the cooling oil passage is switched by switching of the pressure regulating valve and the shift valve. The cooling oil passage includes: a shaft center cooling oil passage which supplies cooling oil to a shaft center of a rotation shaft of an electric motor mounted on the vehicle; and a cooling oil passage shift valve which switches presence/absence of supply of oil to the shaft center cooling oil passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takei, Hirotake Omoto
  • Publication number: 20230127235
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for a vehicle driving device includes an oil pump, a clutch oil passage, a cooling oil passage, a pressure regulating valve, and a shift valve. The cooling oil passage guides oil to a cooled portion of a vehicle. Supply of oil to the clutch oil passage and the cooling oil passage is switched by switching of the pressure regulating valve and the shift valve. The cooling oil passage includes: a shaft center cooling oil passage which supplies cooling oil to a shaft center of a rotation shaft of an electric motor mounted on the vehicle; and a cooling oil passage shift valve which switches presence/absence of supply of oil to the shaft center cooling oil passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKEI, Hirotake OMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200149631
    Abstract: When hydraulic information is not available for use, a lock mechanism control unit of a transmission's rotating shaft operated by hydraulic pressure sets the shift range to a non-running range and sets a parking lock to an unlocked state if a vehicle is in a running state and rotation speed of a drive unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, but sets the shift range to a parking range and sets the parking lock to a locked state if the vehicle is in a non-running state or the rotation speed is lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yuya Tachibanada, Kazuma Sasahara, Tetsuya Mochizuki, Koichi Fushimi, Hirotake Omoto, Shunsuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20180283533
    Abstract: Provided is a control device unit installation structure for a transmission in which wear of a terminal of a control device unit electrically connected to a lumped coupler is suppressed when the control device unit is fixed to a cover constituting a part of an outer wall of a transmission. In the control device unit installation structure for a transmission (1) in which a control device unit (60) of the transmission (1) of a vehicle is directly mounted on an outer wall of the transmission (1) and a harness connected to a functional part inside the transmission (1) is electrically connected to the control device unit (60), the control device unit (60) is installed on one cover (12) forming a part of the outer wall, and the harness is coupled to the controller device unit (60) on the one cover (12) via a lumped coupler installed in the transmission (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotake OMOTO, Shunsuke YOSHIDA, Hirotaka YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 8833191
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for an automatic transmission having multiple speeds constituted by four sets and speed selecting mechanisms corresponding to the four sets, assuming the speeds as seven among eight speeds of A to H in order of gear ratio, the four sets are constituted by a first set of A having a largest gear ratio and C that is next but one; a second set including at least H having a smallest gear ratio; a third set of B and D between two of the first set; and a fourth set including two of E, F and G between the second and third sets, and one of first and second pressure regulators selectively supplies hydraulic pressure to two of the mechanisms corresponding to the first and second sets, while the other thereof selectively supplies hydraulic pressure to two of the mechanisms corresponding to the third and fourth sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yagi, Yasushi Inagawa, Shirou Godai, Hirotake Omoto
  • Publication number: 20130025389
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for an automatic transmission having multiple speeds constituted by four sets and speed selecting mechanisms corresponding to the four sets, assuming the speeds as seven among eight speeds of A to H in order of gear ratio, the four sets are constituted by a first set of A having a largest gear ratio and C that is next but one; a second set including at least H having a smallest gear ratio; a third set of B and D between two of the first set; and a fourth set including two of E, F and G between the second and third sets, and one of first and second pressure regulators selectively supplies hydraulic pressure to two of the mechanisms corresponding to the first and second sets, while the other thereof selectively supplies hydraulic pressure to two of the mechanisms corresponding to the third and fourth sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yagi, Yasushi Inagawa, Shirou Godai, Hirotake Omoto