Patents by Inventor Kazuki Kojima
Kazuki Kojima 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).
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Publication number: 20210285538Abstract: A drive apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: (a) a hybrid drive unit having (a-1) an automatic transmission, (a-2) a first rotating machine and (a-3) an engine connected to the first rotating machine through a hydraulically-operated connecting/disconnecting device; (b) an electric drive unit including a second rotating machine; and (c) a hybrid control device configured, in event of an anomaly that disables a shift control of the automatic transmission, to generate an electric power by causing the first rotating machine to be rotated by the engine and drive the hybrid vehicle to run by causing the second rotating machine of the electric drive unit to be operated with use of the generated electric power, in a state in which a power transmission through the automatic transmission is cut off and the connecting/disconnecting device is engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya KITAI, Kazuhiro YAMAMOTO, Kazuki KOJIMA, Hironori SUGIURA, Ryuki SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210223058Abstract: A virtual image is superimposed on a foreground scenery of an occupant of a vehicle. A position of the vehicle is acquired. High-precision map information or low-precision map information with lower accuracy than the high-precision map information, corresponding to the position is acquired. The virtual image is generated in a first display mode based on the high-precision map information when the high-precision map information can be acquired. The virtual image is generated in a second display mode different from the first display mode based on the low-precision map information when the high-precision map information cannot be acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Yusuke KONDO, Takeshi HATO, Kazuki KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20210095665Abstract: A vane pump that includes a first communication passage that extends along an outer periphery of the cam ring and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the first suction port from the first inflow passage to the second suction port; a second communication passage that extends along the outer periphery of the cam ring on an opposite side of the first communication passage with respect to the rotor and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the second suction port from the second inflow passage to the first suction port; and a rectifying portion that guides the fluid from the second inflow passage so that the fluid flows into the second suction port along the outer periphery of the cam ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TORII, Kazuki KOJIMA, Naohito YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi EBIHARA
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Publication number: 20200087827Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause a processor of an embroidery pattern displaying device provided with a capturing portion and a displaying portion to perform steps. The steps include detecting a marker associated with an embroidery pattern arranged within an augmented reality space from a real image that is an image of a real space captured by the capturing portion. The steps include displaying, when the marker is detected from the real image, a pattern image indicating the embroidery pattern associated with the detected marker, superimposed on the real image with the detected marker as a reference, on the displaying portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta KAMIHIRA, Kazuki KOJIMA
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Patent number: 10519581Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause a processor of an embroidery pattern editing device provided with a capturing portion, a displaying portion, and an input portion to perform steps. The steps include detecting a marker associated with an embroidery pattern arranged within an augmented reality space from a real image that is an image of a real space captured by the capturing portion, displaying, when the marker is detected from the real image, a pattern image indicating the embroidery pattern associated with the detected marker, superimposed on the real image with the detected marker as a reference, on the displaying portion, receiving editing content with respect to the embroidery pattern via the input portion, and reflecting, when the editing content with respect to the embroidery pattern is received, the received editing content in the pattern image displayed on the displaying portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Kamihira, Kazuki Kojima
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Patent number: 10125862Abstract: A hydraulic control device with a second oil passage check valve provided in the second oil passage between a connection portion with the first oil passage and the second solenoid valve, the second oil passage check valve being configured such that a hydraulic pressure is supplied in a direction from the second solenoid valve toward the first oil passage and a hydraulic pressure is not supplied in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Koji Makino, Yoshimitsu Hyodo, Kenichi Tsuchida
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Patent number: 10107389Abstract: A hydraulic control device including: a throttle valve; a pressure regulating valve; an on/off solenoid valve of a normally open type that allows communication therethrough when not energized; and a failure circuit that, when power supply to the linear solenoid valve and the on/off solenoid valve is cut off, supplies a certain hydraulic pressure based on switching off of the on/off solenoid valve to the control oil chamber of the pressure regulating valve.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Koji Makino, Yoshimitsu Hyodo, Kenichi Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20180258569Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause a processor of an embroidery pattern editing device provided with a capturing portion, a displaying portion, and an input portion to perform steps. The steps include detecting a marker associated with an embroidery pattern arranged within an augmented reality space from a real image that is an image of a real space captured by the capturing portion, displaying, when the marker is detected from the real image, a pattern image indicating the embroidery pattern associated with the detected marker, superimposed on the real image with the detected marker as a reference, on the displaying portion, receiving editing content with respect to the embroidery pattern via the input portion, and reflecting, when the editing content with respect to the embroidery pattern is received, the received editing content in the pattern image displayed on the displaying portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Yuta KAMIHIRA, Kazuki KOJIMA
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Patent number: 9958066Abstract: A range switching device for switching supply and non-supply of a source pressure based on a hydraulic pressure from a hydraulic pressure generating source to a parking device, the parking device being switched into a parking release state while the source pressure is supplied thereto and being switched into a parking state while the source pressure is not supplied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Ichikawa, Kazuki Kojima, Yoshimitsu Hyodo, Koji Makino, Kenichi Tsuchida
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Patent number: 9863531Abstract: A hydraulic control device that includes a second switching valve that is switchable between a third position in which the forward range pressure input from the first switching valve is output to the shift controller and the reverse range pressure is blocked when the second signal pressure is off and a fourth position in which the reverse range pressure input from the first switching valve is output to the shift controller and the forward range pressure is blocked when the second signal pressure is on.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Koji Makino, Yoshimitsu Hyodo, Kenichi Tsuchida
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Patent number: 9568090Abstract: A spool valve that has a hollow portion formed with an input port, a first output port, and a second output port, and a spool capable of sliding within the hollow portion and having a plurality of lands, the spool valve being configured to distribute output for input to the input port to the first output port and the second output port in accordance with a proportion of distribution that matches a position of the spool. An opening of the second output port is formed in such a shape that a width of the opening becomes gradually smaller in a direction of movement of the spool in which distribution of the output to the first output port is increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Tetsuya Shimizu, Kenichi Tsuchida, Kazunori Ishikawa, Tomomi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9546730Abstract: A hydraulic control device is provided with a solenoid valve, a pressure regulating valve, a switching valve, and a control unit. The control unit, when shifting from a first shift speed to a second shift speed, causes a first signal pressure to be input to an oil chamber of the switching valve with the pressure regulating valve, and presses a valving element to a first input port side to be locked at a blocking position at which communication between the first input port and an output port is blocked at least until a third engagement element is brought into an engaged state from a disengaged state.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Koji Makino, Yoshimitsu Hyodo, Kenichi Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20160334015Abstract: A range switching device for switching supply and non-supply of a source pressure based on a hydraulic pressure from a hydraulic pressure generating source to a parking device, the parking device being switched into a parking release state while the source pressure is supplied thereto and being switched into a parking state while the source pressure is not supplied thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya ICHIKAWA, Kazuki KOJIMA, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Koji MAKINO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20160334013Abstract: A hydraulic control device with a second oil passage check valve provided in the second oil passage between a connection portion with the first oil passage and the second solenoid valve, the second oil passage check valve being configured such that a hydraulic pressure is supplied in a direction from the second solenoid valve toward the first oil passage and a hydraulic pressure is not supplied in the opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KUTSUBO, Kazuki KOJIMA, Koji MAKINO, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20160327154Abstract: A hydraulic control device that includes a second switching valve that is switchable between a third position in which the forward range pressure input from the first switching valve is output to the shift controller and the reverse range pressure is blocked when the second signal pressure is off and a fourth position in which the reverse range pressure input from the first switching valve is output to the shift controller and the forward range pressure is blocked when the second signal pressure is on.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KUTSUBO, Kazuki KOJIMA, Koji MAKINO, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20160327155Abstract: A hydraulic control device including: a throttle valve; a pressure regulating valve; an on/off solenoid valve of a normally open type that allows communication therethrough when not energized; and a failure circuit that, when power supply to the linear solenoid valve and the on/off solenoid valve is cut off, supplies a certain hydraulic pressure based on switching off of the on/off solenoid valve to the control oil chamber of the pressure regulating valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KUTSUBO, Kazuki KOJIMA, Koji MAKINO, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20160265656Abstract: A hydraulic control device is provided with a solenoid valve, a pressure regulating valve, a switching valve, and a control unit. The control unit, when shifting from a first shift speed to a second shift speed, causes a first signal pressure to be input to an oil chamber of the switching valve with the pressure regulating valve, and presses a valving element to a first input port side to be locked at a blocking position at which communication between the first input port and an output port is blocked at least until a third engagement element is brought into an engaged state from a disengaged state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KUTSUBO, Kazuki KOJIMA, Koji MAKINO, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Patent number: 9243703Abstract: A lubricating oil supply device that supplies hydraulic oil used to actuate a vehicle's transmission. The supply device configured with a pump that generates a hydraulic pressure, and a line pressure generation valve that discharges a part of the hydraulic pressure from the pump as a discharge pressure to generate a line pressure for actuating the transmission. A signal pressure output valve that outputs a signal pressure for actuating the line pressure generation valve in accordance with at least a throttle operation amount or torque input to the transmission. Furthermore, a switching valve that is actuated by the signal pressure from the signal pressure output valve and that supplies lubricating oil input to an input port to the object to be lubricated from an output port with a flow rate of the lubricating oil changed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kutsubo, Kazuki Kojima, Tetsuya Shimizu, Kenichi Tsuchida, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9194067Abstract: A sewing machine includes a coordinate indicator, a processor, and a memory. The coordinate indicator includes a cylindrical housing, a rod-shaped indicating member, a switch, a single transmitter, a receiver, and a flat surface. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the sewing machine to perform processes that include computing a plurality of sets of first coordinates based on a plurality of times at which the receiver receives a ultrasonic wave, computing a movement direction based on at least some of the computed plurality of sets of the first coordinates, computing a movement distance based on at least some of the computed plurality of sets of the first coordinates, and computing second coordinates based on at least some of the plurality of sets of the first coordinates, the movement direction, and the movement distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Jimbo, Yutaka Nomura, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Kentaro Torii, Kazuki Kojima, Daisuke Honda
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Publication number: 20150275410Abstract: A sewing machine includes a coordinate indicator, a processor, and a memory. The coordinate indicator includes a cylindrical housing, a rod-shaped indicating member, a switch, a single transmitter, a receiver, and a flat surface. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the sewing machine to perform processes that include computing a plurality of sets of first coordinates based on a plurality of times at which the receiver receives a ultrasonic wave, computing a movement direction based on at least some of the computed plurality of sets of the first coordinates, computing a movement distance based on at least some of the computed plurality of sets of the first coordinates, and computing second coordinates based on at least some of the plurality of sets of the first coordinates, the movement direction, and the movement distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Masaru JIMBO, Yutaka NOMURA, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Kentaro TORII, Kazuki KOJIMA, Daisuke HONDA