Patents by Inventor Kengo Ueda

Kengo Ueda 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: 11772744
    Abstract: A control device of a gear transmission-equipped vehicle includes a power controller that starts power reduction control when it is determined that a start condition is satisfied, the power reduction control being control of reducing power transmitted from a driving source to a gear transmission. The start condition includes: a condition that a detection value of a gear position sensor that detects a current gear position of the gear transmission falls within a transition region between engagement regions corresponding to respective gear positions; and a condition that a speed difference obtained by subtracting a rotational speed of an output shaft of the gear transmission from a rotational speed of an input shaft of the gear transmission is a threshold or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Ueda, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Arima
  • Publication number: 20230182863
    Abstract: A control device of a gear transmission-equipped vehicle includes a power controller that starts power reduction control when it is determined that a start condition is satisfied, the power reduction control being control of reducing power transmitted from a driving source to a gear transmission. The start condition includes: a condition that a detection value of a gear position sensor that detects a current gear position of the gear transmission falls within a transition region between engagement regions corresponding to respective gear positions; and a condition that a speed difference obtained by subtracting a rotational speed of an output shaft of the gear transmission from a rotational speed of an input shaft of the gear transmission is a threshold or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Kengo UEDA, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Kazuki ARIMA
  • Patent number: 11597472
    Abstract: A control device of a gear transmission-equipped vehicle includes a power controller that starts power reduction control when it is determined that a start condition is satisfied, the power reduction control being control of reducing power transmitted from a driving source to a gear transmission. The start condition includes: a condition that a detection value of a gear position sensor that detects a current gear position of the gear transmission falls within a transition region between engagement regions corresponding to respective gear positions; and a condition that a speed difference obtained by subtracting a rotational speed of an output shaft of the gear transmission from a rotational speed of an input shaft of the gear transmission is a threshold or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Ueda, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Arima
  • Publication number: 20220111927
    Abstract: A control device of a gear transmission-equipped vehicle includes a power controller that starts power reduction control when it is determined that a start condition is satisfied, the power reduction control being control of reducing power transmitted from a driving source to a gear transmission. The start condition includes: a condition that a detection value of a gear position sensor that detects a current gear position of the gear transmission falls within a transition region between engagement regions corresponding to respective gear positions; and a condition that a speed difference obtained by subtracting a rotational speed of an output shaft of the gear transmission from a rotational speed of an input shaft of the gear transmission is a threshold or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo UEDA, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Kazuki ARIMA
  • Patent number: 11079815
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a device case that is arranged in an enclosure having a midplane, with a case front face facing the midplane. The device case includes a first fan unit for generating a flow of air from a side with the case front face to a side with a case rear face of the device case and a second fan unit, being stored at closer position to the side with the case front face than the first fan unit, for taking in part of air passing through one side in a width direction of the device case and flowing to the first fan unit and sending out the part of the air to the other side in the width direction of the device case. The air flow by the second fan unit can effectively cool circuitries at the rear side of the midplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 11075570
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary electric machine that ensures improving a maximum torque and a rated power factor while reducing an increase in a starting current. In view of this, the rotary electric machine includes a shaft, a rotor, and a stator. The rotor is fixed to an outer periphery of the shaft. The stator is located so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor iron core including a plurality of rotor slots located at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and rotor bars inserted into the rotor slots. Rotor slits communicate with outer peripheral sides of the rotor slots. The rotor slits have a width ws in a circumferential direction. The width ws is smaller than a height hs in a radial direction of the rotor slit, and when a rated current is denoted as I1, a turn ratio (primary/secondary) is denoted as Tr, and a magnetic permeability in a vacuum is denoted as ?0, a relationship of ws>?0×I1×Tr/0.6 is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nishihama, Masanori Sawahata, Takayuki Koyama, Makoto Imura, Yuuichirou Yoshitake, Kenichi Sugimoto, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 10746299
    Abstract: A vehicle with an automatic downshift function, comprises an engine including a throttle device and an ignition device; an engine speed sensor which detects an engine speed; a shift operation member which is operated by a rider; a manual transmission connected to the engine, a shift operation sensor which detects the operation of the shift operation member; and a controller which controls the engine based on a detection signal of the engine speed sensor and a detection signal of the shift operation sensor. In a case where the controller determines that a deceleration shift operation has been initiated based on the detection signal of the shift operation sensor, the controller performs an automatic downshift control so that the controller controls the throttle device to increase an intake-air amount and controls the ignition device to change an ignition timing, based on the engine speed detected by the engine speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Ueda, Hiroki Tominaga
  • Patent number: 10668902
    Abstract: A wheelie determining device comprises a lift-off start determiner section which determines whether or not a lift-off of a front wheel from a ground surface has started, based on a traveling state value indicating a traveling state of a vehicle and an operation value indicating a rider's driving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 10479364
    Abstract: An engine power suppressing device includes a controller which controls an operation of a power changing element which changes engine power for driving a vehicle; and an environment sensor which detects an environment parameter indicating an environment in which the vehicle is used, wherein the controller determines whether or not a power suppressing condition in which a vehicle state is a state in which the engine power is to be suppressed, is met, wherein in a case where the controller determines that the power suppressing condition is met, the controller sets a suppressing value for the power changing element to suppress the engine power, and compensates the suppressing value based on the environment parameter detected by the environment sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20190140530
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary electric machine that ensures improving a maximum torque and a rated power factor while reducing an increase in a starting current. In view of this, the rotary electric machine includes a shaft, a rotor, and a stator. The rotor is fixed to an outer periphery of the shaft. The stator is located so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor iron core including a plurality of rotor slots located at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and rotor bars inserted into the rotor slots. Rotor slits communicate with outer peripheral sides of the rotor slots. The rotor slits have a width ws in a circumferential direction. The width ws is smaller than a height hs in a radial direction of the rotor slit, and when a rated current is denoted as I1, a turn ratio (primary/secondary) is denoted as Tr, and a magnetic permeability in a vacuum is denoted as ?0, a relationship of ws>?0×I1×Tr/0.6 is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIHAMA, Masanori SAWAHATA, Takayuki KOYAMA, Makoto IMURA, Yuuichirou YOSHITAKE, Kenichi SUGIMOTO, Kengo UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190128418
    Abstract: A vehicle with an automatic downshift function, comprises an engine including a throttle device and an ignition device; an engine speed sensor which detects an engine speed; a shift operation member which is operated by a rider; a manual transmission connected to the engine, a shift operation sensor which detects the operation of the shift operation member; and a controller which controls the engine based on a detection signal of the engine speed sensor and a detection signal of the shift operation sensor. In a case where the controller determines that a deceleration shift operation has been initiated based on the detection signal of the shift operation sensor, the controller performs an automatic downshift control so that the controller controls the throttle device to increase an intake-air amount and controls the ignition device to change an ignition timing, based on the engine speed detected by the engine speed sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kengo Ueda, Hiroki Tominaga
  • Patent number: 10203034
    Abstract: An output control system incorporated in a vehicle including a clutch device which shifts a drive system from a no-load state to a connected state, comprises an upper limit setting section which sets an upper limit value of an output of the drive source while the output control system is performing a starting control; and a state determiner section which determines a state of the drive system while the output control system is performing a starting control, the upper limit setting section sets the upper limit value to a first upper limit value, while the state determiner section is determining that the drive system is in the no-load state, and the upper limit setting section sets the upper limit value to a second upper limit value larger than the first upper limit value, when the state determiner section determines that the connected state of the drive system is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 9988995
    Abstract: An output control system incorporated in a vehicle including a clutch device comprises an upper limit setting section which sets an upper limit value of an output of the drive source to a starting control upper limit value when the output control system is performing a starting control; and a wheelie determiner section which determines whether or not a wheelie is occurring in the vehicle when the output control system is performing the starting control, wherein when the wheelie determiner section determines that the wheelie is occurring, the output control system performs a wheelie suppressing control for suppressing the output of the drive source while maintaining the starting control in such a manner that the output becomes less when the wheelie determiner section determines that the wheelie is occurring than before the wheelie determiner section determines that the wheelie is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20180072316
    Abstract: An engine power suppressing device includes a controller which controls an operation of a power changing element which changes engine power for driving a vehicle; and an environment sensor which detects an environment parameter indicating an environment in which the vehicle is used, wherein the controller determines whether or not a power suppressing condition in which a vehicle state is a state in which the engine power is to be suppressed, is met, wherein in a case where the controller determines that the power suppressing condition is met, the controller sets a suppressing value for the power changing element to suppress the engine power, and compensates the suppressing value based on the environment parameter detected by the environment sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20180072286
    Abstract: A wheelie determining device comprises a lift-off start determiner section which determines whether or not a lift-off of a front wheel from a ground surface has started, based on a traveling state value indicating a traveling state of a vehicle and an operation value indicating a rider's driving operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 9895972
    Abstract: A wheelie suppressing device comprises a wheelie determiner section which detects a wheelie state; and a wheelie suppressing section which performs a wheelie suppressing control for suppressing an engine output when the wheelie determiner section has detected the wheelie state, wherein the wheelie suppressing control includes a first suppressing control for suppressing the engine output while performing fuel feeding and an ignition operation, and a second suppressing control for suppressing the engine output by performing the fuel feeding or the ignition operation at a reduced rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Patent number: 9779852
    Abstract: The rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes a stator coil obtained by curing the impregnating resin injected into the whole stator coil unit after an electrically insulated coil unit with a mica tape having been wrapped around a conductor is slotted into stator iron core slots via a slot liner. The high-heat-resistance resin component of the slot liner contains at least an epoxy resin having 3 or more epoxy groups. The high-heat-resistance resin component of the mica tape contains at least an alicyclic epoxy resin. The impregnating resin contains a bifunctional epoxy resin, and an acid curing agent having one acid anhydride skeleton. With the impregnating resin, the high-heat-resistance resin components of the slot liner and the mica tape form a liner cured portion and a mica insulating layer portion as an integral unit of different resin compositions inside the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikeda, Hiroaki Kojima, Motonobu Iiduka, Shoichi Maruyama, Kengo Ueda, Daisuke Kamegawa
  • Publication number: 20170131750
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a device case that is arranged in an enclosure having a midplane, with a case front face facing the midplane. The device case includes a first fan unit for generating a flow of air from a side with the case front face to a side with a case rear face of the device case and a second fan unit, being stored at closer position to the side with the case front face than the first fan unit, for taking in part of air passing through one side in a width direction of the device case and flowing to the first fan unit and sending out the part of the air to the other side in the width direction of the device case. The air flow by the second fan unit can effectively cool circuitries at the rear side of the midplane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kengo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20170101009
    Abstract: A wheelie suppressing device comprises a wheelie determiner section which detects a wheelie state; and a wheelie suppressing section which performs a wheelie suppressing control for suppressing an engine output when the wheelie determiner section has detected the wheelie state, wherein the wheelie suppressing control includes a first suppressing control for suppressing the engine output while performing fuel feeding and an ignition operation, and a second suppressing control for suppressing the engine output by performing the fuel feeding or the ignition operation at a reduced rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20170101008
    Abstract: A wheelie determining device comprises a wheelie preceding state determiner section which makes a comparison between a vehicle body speed with respect to a ground surface and a circumferential speed of a front wheel to determine whether or not a vehicle is in a wheelie preceding state; and a wheelie amount determiner section which calculates as a wheelie amount which is a lift-off amount of the front wheel with respect to the ground surface, an angular change amount of the vehicle body in a rotational direction in which the front wheel is away from the ground surface, from a time point when the wheelie preceding state determiner section has determined that the vehicle has been in the wheelie preceding state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirokami, Shohei Terai, Seiji Azuma, Kengo Ueda