Patents by Inventor Kakuzou Kaneko

Kakuzou Kaneko 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: 10837347
    Abstract: A control method and a control device are provided for an internal combustion engine structured to vary a mechanical compression ratio by varying a range of slide of a piston with respect to a cylinder bore, and structured to control a flow of cooling water in a water jacket formed around the cylinder bore, wherein variation of the mechanical compression ratio causes the piston to slide on a corroded portion formed in the cylinder bore. A control process includes: acquiring a temperature correlating with a cylinder bore wall temperature; and stopping the flow of cooling water in the water jacket, in response to a condition that the acquired temperature is lower than a preset temperature point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hoshikawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Tomohiro Kawata, Takayoshi Ichihara, Kazuo Muraki
  • Patent number: 10815879
    Abstract: A control method and a control device are provided for an internal combustion engine structured to vary a mechanical compression ratio by varying a range of slide of a piston with respect to a cylinder bore. A control process includes: acquiring a temperature correlating with a cylinder bore wall temperature; fixing the mechanical compression ratio to a preset compression ratio point, in response to a condition that the acquired temperature is lower than a preset temperature point; and setting the preset temperature point higher than a point corresponding to a point of the cylinder bore wall temperature at which condensed water occurs in the cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hoshikawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Yukinaga Moriguchi, Kazuo Muraki
  • Publication number: 20200141302
    Abstract: A control method and a control device are provided for an internal combustion engine structured to vary a mechanical compression ratio by varying a range of slide of a piston with respect to a cylinder bore, and structured to control a flow of cooling water in a water jacket formed around the cylinder bore, wherein variation of the mechanical compression ratio causes the piston to slide on a corroded portion formed in the cylinder bore. A control process includes: acquiring a temperature correlating with a cylinder bore wall temperature; and stopping the flow of cooling water in the water jacket, in response to a condition that the acquired temperature is lower than a preset temperature point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki HOSHIKAWA, Kakuzou KANEKO, Tomohiro KAWATA, Takayoshi ICHIHARA, Kazuo MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20200056537
    Abstract: A control method and a control device are provided for an internal combustion engine structured to vary a mechanical compression ratio by varying a range of slide of a piston with respect to a cylinder bore. A control process includes: acquiring a temperature correlating with a cylinder bore wall temperature; fixing the mechanical compression ratio to a preset compression ratio point, in response to a condition that the acquired temperature is lower than a preset temperature point; and setting the preset temperature point higher than a point corresponding to a point of the cylinder bore wall temperature at which condensed water occurs in the cylinder bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki HOSHIKAWA, Kakuzou KANEKO, Yukinaga MORIGUCHI, Kazuo MURAKI
  • Patent number: 10502314
    Abstract: An oil pump driving control device of a vehicle having a main oil pump (14) that is driven by a motor/generator (4) and produces a pump discharge oil to a first clutch (3), a second clutch (5) and a belt-type continuously variable transmission (6) provided on a driving force transmission line. A hybrid control module (81) is provided in this FF hybrid vehicle. The hybrid control module (81) is configured to perform a control so that during vehicle stop, the lower an ATF oil temperature is, the more the pump driving energy to drive the main oil pump (14) is decreased. With this control, consumption energy during the vehicle stop can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takanobu Mouri, Taiichi Onoyama, Seishi Shimamura, Kakuzou Kaneko, Akihiro Toyofuku, Ryuichi Arai, Ryuzo Noguchi, Satoshi Harui, Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Kenichi Watanabe, Masumi Fujikawa, Kouichi Kotsuji, Shingo Suzuki, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Keisuke Iwado, Kazuhiro Miyachi
  • Patent number: 10399426
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a motor which drives by power of a battery, and an air conditioner which operates by power of the battery, includes a target driving force calculator configured to calculate a target value of driving three transmitted to a drive wheel from a driving source as target driving force, an air conditioner manager configured to manage an ON/OFF state of an air conditioner, and a controller configured to calculate a request output by adding the target driving force to a system output requested to the drive source by a system request, calculate an operation point of the engine for optimally driving the engine in response to the request output, control the engine to drive at the operation point, and control the motor based on the request output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ochiai, Hiroshi Arita, Masashi Ono, Kakuzou Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10377368
    Abstract: A controller is provided so as to control, when an electric vehicle (EV) mode is selected, a belt clamping pressure on the basis of discharged oil from a main oil pump which is driven by a motor generator. The controller is provided for a hybrid vehicle and is configured to perform control such that when the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a creep cut condition which does not require creep torque from the motor generator is met, a first motor idling rotation speed is set as a motor rotation speed. When the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a standby learning control completes learning of a zero-point oil pressure command value, the controller reduces a rotation speed of the motor generator to a second motor idling rotation speed which is lower than the first motor idling rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Kenichi Watanabe, Masumi Fujikawa, Kouichi Kotsuji, Shingo Suzuki, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Keisuke Iwado, Takanobu Mouri, Taiichi Onoyama, Seishi Shimamura, Akihiro Toyofuku, Ryuichi Arai, Kakuzou Kaneko, Ryuzo Noguchi, Satoshi Harui
  • Publication number: 20180093556
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a motor which drives by power of a battery, and an air conditioner which operates by power of the battery, includes a target driving force calculator configured to calculate a target value of driving three transmitted to a drive wheel from a driving source as target driving force, an air conditioner manager configured to manage an ON/OFF state of an air conditioner, and a controller configured to calculate a request output by adding the target driving force to a system output requested to the drive source by a system request, calculate an operation point of the engine for optimally driving the engine in response to the request output, control the engine to drive at the operation point, and control the motor based on the request output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ochiai, Hiroshi Arita, Masashi Ono, Kakuzou Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180073628
    Abstract: An oil pump driving control device of a vehicle having a main oil pump (14) that is driven by a motor/generator (4) and produces a pump discharge oil to a first clutch (3), a second clutch (5) and a belt-type continuously variable transmission (6) provided on a driving force transmission line. A hybrid control module (81) is provided in this FF hybrid vehicle. The hybrid control module (81) is configured to perform a control so that during vehicle stop, the lower an ATF oil temperature is, the more the pump driving energy to drive the main oil pump (14) is decreased. With this control, consumption energy during the vehicle stop can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Takanobu MOURI, Taiichi ONOYAMA, Seishi SHIMAMURA, Kakuzou KANEKO, Akihiro TOYOFUKU, Ryuichi ARAI, Ryuzo NOGUCHI, Satoshi HARUI, Hironori MIYAISHI, Tomoyuki MIZUOCHI, Kenichi WATANABE, Masumi FUJIKAWA, Kouichi KOTSUJI, Shingo SUZUKI, Akito SUZUKI, Tetsuya IZUMI, Keisuke IWADO, Kazuhiro MIYACHI
  • Publication number: 20180072308
    Abstract: It controls, when EV mode is selected, belt clamping pressure on the basis of discharged oil from a main oil pump (14) which is driven by a motor generator (4). This control device for a FF hybrid vehicle is provided with a motor controller (83) that performs control such that when a vehicle is stopped in EV mode and a creep cut condition which does not require creep torque from the motor generator (4) is met, a first motor idling rotation speed Nma1 is set as a motor rotation speed. When the vehicle is stopped in EV mode and a standby learning controlling means completes learning of a zero-point oil pressure command value, the motor controller (83) reduces the rotation speed of the motor generator (4) to a second motor idling rotation speed Nma2 which is lower than the first motor idling rotation speed Nma1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori MIYAISHI, Tomoyuki MIZUOCHI, Kenichi WATANABE, Masumi FUJIKAWA, Kouichi KOTSUJI, Shingo SUZUKI, Akito SUZUKI, Tetsuya IZUMI, Keisuke IWADO, Takanobu MOURI, Taiichi ONOYAMA, Seishi SHIMAMURA, Akihiro TOYOFUKU, Ryuichi ARAI, Kakuzou KANEKO, Ryuzo NOGUCHI, Satoshi HARUI
  • Patent number: 9476395
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle has an engine, a starter motor that starts the engine, a driving motor that transmits a motor torque to the engine and a drive wheel, a starting motor selective control unit that starts the engine using the starter motor in response to a driving force request by a driver of the hybrid vehicle during a selected mode of operation in which the driving motor serves as the driving source, and that starts the engine using the driving motor in response to a system request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Konishi, Kakuzou Kaneko, Susumu Kubo
  • Patent number: 8880263
    Abstract: A control device is provided for controlling a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a motor generator, and a battery arranged to be charged by and to discharge to the motor generator. The control device includes an abnormality judging section configured to judge whether or not an abnormality is generated in the engine. The control device further includes an assist prohibition section configured to prohibit the motor generator from being used as a power source when the abnormality is generated in the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Hirotaka Koyama
  • Publication number: 20140210216
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle has an engine, a starter motor that starts the engine, a driving motor that transmits a motor torque to the engine and a drive wheel, a starting motor selective control unit that starts the engine using the starter motor in response to a driving force request by a driver of the hybrid vehicle during a selected mode of operation in which the driving motor serves as the driving source, and that starts the engine using the driving motor in response to a system request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: RENAULT S.A.S., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Konishi, Kakuzou Kaneko, Susumu Kubo
  • Patent number: 8788132
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle is provided with an abnormality detection unit, a start determination unit, and a start control unit. The abnormality detection unit detects abnormality in at least one of an engine, a first clutch, and an automatic transmission. The start determination unit determines whether or not to allow the engine to be started, and the start control unit controls to start the engine. If an abnormality has been detected by the abnormality detection unit, the start determination unit inhibits the start control unit from starting the engine, and maintains the inhibition even when the abnormality has been eliminated, when the accelerator pedal opening is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Hirotaka Koyama
  • Patent number: 8636620
    Abstract: An automatic transmission has a transmission control section performing a control so that a transmission ratio defined as input rpm/output rpm of the automatic transmission becomes a target transmission ratio, a slip control section slip-controlling a frictional engagement element in the automatic transmission so that the input rpm becomes a value obtained by multiplying the output rpm by the target transmission ratio also adding a predetermined slip revolution speed; and an abnormality judgment section judging abnormality in the automatic transmission. When the slip-control is not in progress, if an actual transmission ratio is out of a predetermined range of the target transmission ratio, the abnormality judgment section judges that abnormality occurs. When the slip-control is in progress, if a value obtained by correcting the actual transmission ratio on the basis of the slip revolution speed is out of the predetermined range, the abnormality judgment section judges that abnormality occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Fumitaka Nagashima, Hajime Tasaka, Takateru Kawaguchi, Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20130218392
    Abstract: A control device 60 for controlling a hybrid vehicle 1 including an engine 10, a motor generator 20, and a battery 30 arranged to be charged by and discharge to the motor generator 20, the control device 60 includes an abnormality judging section 410 configured to judge whether or not an abnormality is generated in the engine 10, and an assist prohibition section 420 configured to prohibit the motor generator 20 from being used as a power source when the abnormality is generated in the engine 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Hirotaka Koyama
  • Publication number: 20130218391
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle is provided with an abnormality detection unit, a start determination unit, and a start control unit. The abnormality detection unit detects abnormality in at least one of an engine, a first clutch, and an automatic transmission. The start determination unit determines whether or not to allow the engine to be started, and the start control unit controls to start the engine. If an abnormality has been detected by the abnormality detection unit, the start determination unit inhibits the start control unit from starting the engine, and maintains the inhibition even when the abnormality has been eliminated, when the accelerator pedal opening is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko, Hirotaka Koyama
  • Publication number: 20120108391
    Abstract: An automatic transmission has a transmission control section performing a control so that a transmission ratio defined as input rpm/output rpm of the automatic transmission becomes a target transmission ratio, a slip control section slip-controlling a frictional engagement element in the automatic transmission so that the input rpm becomes a value obtained by multiplying the output rpm by the target transmission ratio also adding a predetermined slip revolution speed; and an abnormality judgment section judging abnormality in the automatic transmission. When the slip-control is not in progress, if an actual transmission ratio is out of a predetermined range of the target transmission ratio, the abnormality judgment section judges that abnormality occurs. When the slip-control is in progress, if a value obtained by correcting the actual transmission ratio on the basis of the slip revolution speed is out of the predetermined range, the abnormality judgment section judges that abnormality occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Fumitaka Nagashima, Hajime Tasaka, Takateru Kawaguchi, Takeo Aizawa, Kakuzou Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6466860
    Abstract: When a restart of an engine is performed due to the requirement of a vehicle state unintended by a driver, a creep force which is initially generated is suppressed to a small value so that a vehicle is prevented from moving off. When automatic stop conditions are satisfied, the engine 1 stops, and when restart conditions are satisfied, a starting motor 2 is started so as to restart an engine 1. A condition for engine restart unintended by the driver is determined, and during a predetermined time when the engine restarts unintended by the driver, a smaller creep drive force is generated than when the engine restarts which is intended by the driver. During this predetermined time, only the motor 2 is rotated without starting the engine, and the creep force is suppressed low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kakuzou Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20020116113
    Abstract: When a restart of an engine is performed due to the requirement of a vehicle state unintended by a driver, a creep force which is initially generated is suppressed to a small value so that a vehicle is prevented from moving off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventor: Kakuzou Kaneko