Patents by Inventor Kimihito Nakamura
Kimihito Nakamura 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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Patent number: 11750006Abstract: An estimation system, includes: a secondary battery; a monitoring device that detects a voltage and a current of the secondary battery; and a processor that estimates a full charge capacity of the secondary battery using a detection result of the monitoring device. The processor calculates a first charging rate of the secondary battery using a current integration amount in charging, discharging, or charging and discharging of the secondary battery and using a full charge capacity of the secondary battery that was estimated last time; calculates a second charging rate of the secondary battery using an open circuit voltage of the secondary battery, when a predetermined time has elapsed without charging and discharging since the first charging rate is calculated; and performs correction, when a magnitude of a difference between the first and second charging rates is larger than a threshold, on the full charge capacity based on the difference.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Sugino, Kimihito Nakamura, Masanari Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11541779Abstract: A vehicle includes: an engine; an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas from the engine is released; a battery pack located near the exhaust pipe; and an ECU that executes, during limp-home traveling of the vehicle, control in which the battery pack is not charged and discharged, and output suppression control in which output of the engine is suppressed. In the output suppression control, when the catalyst temperature is above a threshold value, the ECU suppresses the output of the engine, as compared to when the catalyst temperature is below the threshold value, while maintaining a state in which the engine can output power.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Kimihito Nakamura, Kenta Fujimoto, Takayuki Oshino, Yoshihiro Uchida, Koichi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20210152002Abstract: An estimation system, includes: a secondary battery; a monitoring device that detects a voltage and a current of the secondary battery; and a processor that estimates a full charge capacity of the secondary battery using a detection result of the monitoring device. The processor calculates a first charging rate of the secondary battery using a current integration amount in charging, discharging, or charging and discharging of the secondary battery and using a full charge capacity of the secondary battery that was estimated last time; calculates a second charging rate of the secondary battery using an open circuit voltage of the secondary battery, when a predetermined time has elapsed without charging and discharging since the first charging rate is calculated; and performs correction, when a magnitude of a difference between the first and second charging rates is larger than a threshold, on the full charge capacity based on the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki SUGINO, Kimihito NAKAMURA, Masanari ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20210070193Abstract: A vehicle includes: an engine; an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas from the engine is released; a battery pack located near the exhaust pipe; and an ECU that executes, during limp-home traveling of the vehicle, control in which the battery pack is not charged and discharged, and output suppression control in which output of the engine is suppressed. In the output suppression control, when the catalyst temperature is above a threshold value, the ECU suppresses the output of the engine, as compared to when the catalyst temperature is below the threshold value, while maintaining a state in which the engine can output power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki TANAKA, Kazuki KUBO, Kimihito NAKAMURA, Kenta FUJIMOTO, Takayuki OSHINO, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Koichi TSUJI
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Patent number: 9937813Abstract: A vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect a first current value in a period in which a current path is switched to a non-conductive state by an ignition-off operation. The electronic control unit is configured to detect a second current value in a period that is after an ignition-on operation is performed and before the current path is switched from the non-conductive state to a conductive state in the case where the first current value falls out of a specified reference range. The electronic control unit is configured to diagnose that there is an abnormality of the current sensor when the second current value falls out of the reference range and to diagnose that there is no abnormality of the current sensor when the second current value falls within the reference range.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kimihito Nakamura
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Patent number: 9840127Abstract: A temperature regulation system includes: an electric storage device, installed in a vehicle and configured to perform charge and discharge; an intake duct that leads air of a vehicle interior to the electric storage device; a fan configured to cause the air to be taken into the intake duct; a filter that is provided inside the intake duct and that prevents passage of foreign matter; and a controller that estimates a clogging amount of the foreign matter on the filter. The controller is configured to increase the estimated clogging amount as there increases a total amount of the air that is supplied to the electric storage device accompanying driving of the fan, and the number of times that the vehicle is brought to a state in which air is allowed to flow into and flow out of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichi Minamiura, Kimihito Nakamura, Toyotaka Maeda, Yoshiaki Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9608468Abstract: ECU executes program including the steps of turning on an overcharge tentative determination flag and performing limitation on Win in a case where a rising rate ?TB is higher than or equal to ?TB(0), and a current average value IBs is a value on a side of charging, and the steps of turning off the overcharge tentative determination flag and cancelling the limitation on Win in a case where the rising rate ?TB is lower than or equal to ?TB(1), or the current average value IBs exhibits a value on a side of discharging, and the steps of determining that a battery is in the overcharging state and executing a fail safe process in a case where the integrated value IBs of current from a time point at which the overcharge tentative determination flag is switched from an off-state to an on-state becomes greater than or equal to IBs(0).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Masahiko Kubo, Yoshihiko Hiroe, Motoyoshi Okumura, Kimihito Nakamura, Hideki Kawamura
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Publication number: 20160347196Abstract: A vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect a first current value in a period in which a current path is switched to a non-conductive state by an ignition-off operation. The electronic control unit is configured to detect a second current value in a period that is after an ignition-on operation is performed and before the current path is switched from the non-conductive state to a conductive state in the case where the first current value falls out of a specified reference range. The electronic control unit is configured to diagnose that there is an abnormality of the current sensor when the second current value falls out of the reference range and to diagnose that there is no abnormality of the current sensor when the second current value falls within the reference range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kimihito NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20150333380Abstract: A temperature regulation system includes: an electric storage device, installed in a vehicle and configured to perform charge and discharge; an intake duct that leads air of a vehicle interior to the electric storage device; a fan configured to cause the air to be taken into the intake duct; a filter that is provided inside the intake duct and that prevents passage of foreign matter; and a controller that estimates a clogging amount of the foreign matter on the filter. The controller is configured to increase the estimated clogging amount as there increases a total amount of the air that is supplied to the electric storage device accompanying driving of the fan, and the number of times that the vehicle is brought to a state in which air is allowed to flow into and flow out of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichi MINAMIURA, Kimihito NAKAMURA, Toyotaka MAEDA, Yoshiaki KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20140247018Abstract: ECU executes program including the steps of turning on an overcharge tentative determination flag and performing limitation on Win in a case where a rising rate ?TB is higher than or equal to ?TB(0), and a current average value IBs is a value on a side of charging, and the steps of turning off the overcharge tentative determination flag and cancelling the limitation on Win in a case where the rising rate ?TB is lower than or equal to ?TB(1), or the current average value IBs exhibits a value on a side of discharging, and the steps of determining that a battery is in the overcharging state and executing a fail safe process in a case where the integrated value IBs of current from a time point at which the overcharge tentative determination flag is switched from an off-state to an on-state becomes greater than or equal to IBs(0).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Masahiko Kubo, Yoshihiko Hiroe, Motoyoshi Okumura, Kimihito Nakamura, Hideki Kawamura
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Patent number: 8418789Abstract: A fan motor is controlled via a switching circuit from the moment when a cooling fan control routine is started until the moment when the rotational speed of the fan motor reaches a control-switching speed so that the higher the detected auxiliary battery voltage is when the cooling fan control is started, the lower the command duty ratio that is set. Accordingly, it is possible to activate the fan motor more reliably and to avoid generating excessive operating noise by the cooling fan when the fan motor is activated.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kimihito Nakamura, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Masahito Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100155162Abstract: A fan motor is controlled via a switching circuit from the moment when a cooling fan control routine is started until the moment when the rotational speed of the fan motor reaches a control-switching speed so that the higher the detected auxiliary battery voltage is when the cooling fan control is started, the lower the command duty ratio that is set. Accordingly, it is possible to activate the fan motor more reliably and to avoid generating excessive operating noise by the cooling fan when the fan motor is activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kimihito Nakamura, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Masahito Suzuki