Patents by Inventor Junya KONO

Junya KONO 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).

  • Publication number: 20230116289
    Abstract: To provide a contactor failure determination apparatus capable of appropriately determining failure of a contactor provided in a vehicle, a voltage sensor capable of detecting rising or dropping of a voltage of a second circuit including an external charger is provided. When an external charging request is made, a first control for closing each external charging contactor is executed, a second control for closing a pre-charge contactor is executed after execution of the first control, a third control for closing a second main contactor is executed after execution of the second control, and response to the voltage sensor detecting that the voltage of the second circuit has not risen after execution of the third control, it is determined that at least one of the external charging contactors has failed in an open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Fujioka, Haruki Yamane, Junya Kono, Yuki Ida, Yuta Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20230106827
    Abstract: To provide a contactor failure determination apparatus capable of appropriately determining failure of a contactor provided in a vehicle, a voltage sensor capable of detecting rising or dropping of a voltage of a second circuit including an external charger is provided. When a vehicle start request is made, a first control for closing one external charging contactor is executed, a second control for closing a pre-charge contactor is executed after execution of the first control, a third control for closing a main contactor, which is not parallel with the pre-charge contactor, is executed after execution of the second control, and in response to the voltage sensor detecting that the voltage of the second circuit has risen after execution of the third control, it is determined that the other external charging contactor has failed in a closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Fujioka, Haruki Yamane, Junya Kono, Yuki Ida, Yuta Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11329343
    Abstract: A battery device for a vehicle, which can be miniaturized while including ancillary instruments such as a relay device. The battery device is mounted in a lower portion of a vehicle, and including a battery case; a plurality of battery modules accommodated in the battery case and arranged such that at least some of the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels; and a first relay device that switches connection and disconnection between external electric devices and the battery modules. The first relay device is disposed on a side in a vehicle width direction of a portion where the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Iwata, Junya Kono, Yoshihiko Yayoshi, Tomohiro Masui, Tomoyoshi Matsushima, Kunihiro Jo, Daisuke Watanabe, Yoshinobu Katayama
  • Publication number: 20200343502
    Abstract: A battery device for a vehicle, which can be miniaturized while including ancillary instruments such as a relay device. The battery device is mounted in a lower portion of a vehicle, and including a battery case; a plurality of battery modules accommodated in the battery case and arranged such that at least some of the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels; and a first relay device that switches connection and disconnection between external electric devices and the battery modules. The first relay device is disposed on a side in a vehicle width direction of a portion where the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo IWATA, Junya KONO, Yoshihiko YAYOSHI, Tomohiro MASUI, Tomoyoshi MATSUSHIMA, Kunihiro JO, Daisuke WATANABE, Yoshinobu KATAYAMA