Patents by Inventor Kazuhisa Ozaki

Kazuhisa Ozaki 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: 8611761
    Abstract: New method to control the optical transmitter is disclosed. The optical transmitter provides both of the ATC feedback loop and the APC feedback loop. When a failure occurs in the ATC feedback loop and the temperature sensor is unable to output an adequate signal any longer, the optical transmitter cuts the APC loop and operates the LD in constant conditions. The output of the monitor PD is transferred to the ATC loop to control the TEC based on the optical output of the LD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Takei, Takeshi Irie, Tomoki Ito, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Masatsugu Togasaki
  • Patent number: 8029406
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Publication number: 20110164885
    Abstract: New method to control the optical transmitter is disclosed. The optical transmitter provides both of the ATC feedback loop and the APC feedback loop. When a failure occurs in the ATC feedback loop and the temperature sensor is unable to output an adequate signal any longer, the optical transmitter cuts the APC loop and operates the LD in constant conditions. The output of the monitor PD is transferred to the ATC loop to control the TEC based on the optical output of the LD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryutaro TAKEI, Takeshi Irie, Tomoki Ito, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Masatsugu Togasaki
  • Patent number: 7967716
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Publication number: 20100298087
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko AOKI, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Publication number: 20100298085
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Patent number: 7819773
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Patent number: 7731627
    Abstract: A vehicle parking control system includes a shift-by-wire apparatus that is operated based on an electric range position signal corresponding to one of the driving range and the non-driving range of the drive unit and that switches the lock mechanism to an engaged state and a released state in conjunction with a switching of one of the driving range and the non-driving range of the drive unit; a vehicle parking brake unit that is operated based on the range position signal and that switches a brake unit, which is provided to stop a rotation of the rotating member of the vehicle, between a braking state and a released state; and a control unit that operates the shift-by-wire apparatus and the vehicle parking brake unit based on the range position signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Shimizu, Kazuo Takemoto, Kazumasa Tsukamoto, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Saijiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7721624
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes a case; and a range shift device that includes: a housing with an opening portion on one side, a motor that produces a driving force based on a signal from a manually operated shift operating device, and a mechanical transmission that transmits the driving force of the motor to a manual valve, wherein the range shift device shifts a running range in accordance with a shift position of the manual valve, and the case has a joining portion that closes the opening portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michimasa Tanaka, Kazumichi Kayama, Takeo Arai, Kazumasa Tsukamoto, Kazuhisa Ozaki
  • Patent number: 7650973
    Abstract: A hydraulic power transmission device includes a toroid portion, a turbine hub, and a lock-up device. The toroid portion includes a pump impeller and a turbine runner. The turbine hub is engaged with an input shaft of a transmission and holds the turbine runner. The lock-up device is installed so that it engages and disengages freely and it mechanically transmits to the turbine hub rotation that is transmitted from a drive power source. The toroid portion and the lock-up device overlap in the axial direction. Because the toroid portion and the lock-up device overlap in the axial direction, the size of the hydraulic power transmission device in the axial direction can be reduced, and the hydraulic power transmission device can be made more compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tsukamoto, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takeshi Inuzuka, Mitsugu Yamashita, Atsuhiro Mase
  • Patent number: 7637336
    Abstract: Drain holes are arranged in positions offset from valve holes of a valve body. The drain holes have a long chimney-shaped space such that even if insulation material, that has peeled off of an electric motor, is suspended in oil, it is less likely to enter drain chambers through the drain holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhito Enomoto, Kiyotomo Mirua, Satoru Wakuta, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Nobuyuki Nagashima, Masato Fujikawa, Tomoyuki Maruyama, Masatoshi Adachi
  • Patent number: 7628726
    Abstract: A vehicle automatic transmission includes a planetary gear that reduces a speed of an input rotation of an input shaft and outputs a reduced speed rotation; at least two clutches that are capable of transmitting the reduced speed rotation that passes through the planetary gear; a planetary gear set having at least two rotation elements, wherein each rotation element can transmit the reduced speed rotation transmitted by the clutches; and an input transmitting clutch that is capable of transmitting the input rotation into one of the at least two rotation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fukuyama, Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Fujimine, Takuya Ishii, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andou
  • Patent number: 7621359
    Abstract: An output shaft is divided into a first output shaft and a second output shaft. Torque from a motive power distributing planetary gear is transferred to the first output shaft. The first output shaft is supported on partition walls by a both-end support structure via bearings. Assist torque from a transmission is applied to the second output shaft. The second output shaft is also supported on partition walls by a both-end support structure via bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seigo Kano, Satoru Wakuta, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Toshiharu Ikeda, Atsushi Ishibashi, Masahiro Kojima, Masatoshi Adachi
  • Patent number: 7618344
    Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus for a multi-stage automatic transmission includes solenoid valves such as the linear solenoid valves that are formed as normally closed valves. A first clutch apply relay valves that outputs a forward range pressure as a reverse input pressure during an all-solenoid-off mode, and a second clutch apply relay valve that switches between a left half position that inputs a reverse input pressure to a discharge port and a right half position that inputs the reverse pressure to the discharge port are provided. The second clutch apply relay valve is set to the right half position during normal engine startup and locked based on the lock pressure by feeding the line pressure as a lock pressure and is set at the left half position that interrupts the lock pressure after the engine is restarted during all-solenoids-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Hayashi, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Noda, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Kazutoshi Nozaki, Atsushi Honda
  • Patent number: 7614466
    Abstract: A front end portion of an output shaft is supported by a bearing mounted to an inner peripheral surface of a partition that separates a power distributing planetary gear and a speed change unit. A rear end portion of the output shaft is supported via a bearing which is interposed along a portion of the same plane along which also lies a mounting surface of a bearing in a rear wall that supports a rear end portion of a rotor of a second motor. As a result, the output shaft is supported by a twin support structure via the bearings by the partition and the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seigo Kano, Satoru Wakuta, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Toshiharu Ikeda, Atsushi Ishibashi, Masahiro Kojima, Masatoshi Adachi
  • Patent number: 7582042
    Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus for an automatic transmission comprises a linear solenoid valve for outputting a control pressure, a primary regulator valve for regulating a line pressure in accordance with the control pressure, and a secondary regulator valve for regulating a secondary pressure in accordance with the control pressure, the secondary pressure being supplied to a lock-up clutch and a torque converter. A spool of the secondary regulator valve is formed to comprise a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion, thereby eliminating the need for components such as a sleeve, and the line pressure can be input into an oil chamber formed between the large diameter portion and small diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Sato, Takuya Fujimine, Kazuyuki Noda, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Kazutoshi Nozaki, Masafumi Kinoshita, Atsushi Honda, Akiharu Abe
  • Patent number: 7470205
    Abstract: A vehicular drive apparatus includes a case, a first brake having a first friction plate set and a second brake having a second friction plate set wherein the first friction plate set and the second friction plate set are sequentially arranged on a single axis, and a first hydraulic servo arranged to correspond to the first brake and a second hydraulic servo arranged to correspond to the second brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiro Mae, Kenji Omote, Satoru Wakuta, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Kinya Yoshii, Masatoshi Adachi
  • Patent number: 7462126
    Abstract: A vehicular automatic transmission is provided with a reduction planetary gear for reducing and outputting an inputted rotation of an input shaft, first and third clutches for enabling the transmission of a reduced rotation reduced through the reduction planetary gear, a planetary gear unit having second and third sun gears to which the reduced rotation is transmitted by the first and third clutches and a fourth clutch for enabling the transmission of the inputted rotation to the second sun gear. The fourth clutch is linked to the second sun gear of the planetary gear unit via output side members, i.e., a clutch drum and a link member, of the third clutch to commonly use as the output side members. Thereby, the automatic transmission may be compactly built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fukuyama, Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Fujimine, Takuya Ishii, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Publication number: 20080125280
    Abstract: An output side transfer member 103 of a second clutch C-2 extends around the outer circumferences of the output side transfer members 101, 102 of the third and first clutches C-3, C-1, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4 and the output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3 are linked to a sun gear S2, the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of a fourth clutch C-4, an output side transfer member 101 of a third clutch C-3, and a sun gear S2, which rotate integrally, are disposed radially inward with respect to the output side transfer member 102 of the first clutch C-1. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the diameter of the output side transfer member 104 (or 13, 101) of the fourth clutch C-4, to reduce the weight and inertia, and to improve the controllability of the automatic transmission 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Minoru Todo, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Takuya Ishii, Satoshi Fukuyama, Tomochika Inagaki, Yousuke Andoh
  • Patent number: 7377870
    Abstract: A planetary gear lubrication unit includes a planetary gear unit having a sun gear and a carrier that has a plurality of pinion shafts, wherein each of the plurality of pinion shafts rotatably supports a pinion, a plurality of side plates that support the plurality of pinion shafts, and a rotating shaft arranged in a center portion of the planetary gear unit, in which lubrication oil supplied from the rotating shaft is led to a portion of the pinion shafts that support the pinions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junji Matsushita, Satoru Wakuta, Yoshio Kintou, Seigo Kano, Kazuhisa Ozaki, Kinya Yoshii, Masatoshi Adachi