Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Nagami

Kiyoshi Nagami 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: 8886435
    Abstract: A lock-up device supplies hydraulic pressure to a lock-up clutch when lock-up capacity becomes insufficient with increasing accelerator operation amount during slip control. The lock-up device (1) sets a hydraulic unit pressure command value corresponding to drive source torque so rotational speed difference becomes target slip speed when a variation in accelerator operation amount is in a predefined range, and deriving an estimated drive source output torque corresponding to the accelerator operation amount to set the pressure command value corresponding to the estimated drive source torque so the rotational speed difference becomes target slip speed when accelerator operation amount variation exceeds the range's upper limit, and (2) controls the hydraulic unit to supply hydraulic pressure corresponding to hydraulic pressure command value to the lock-up clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nagami, Masatake Ichikawa, Makoto Hashizume
  • Patent number: 8768588
    Abstract: A transmission includes a controller being provided with a change-speed stage anticipator. The controller adopts a time, which one of the transmission's gear-mechanism selectors requires in shifting a current change-speed stage to another change-speed stage, as a pre-shift time for selecting the latter change-speed stage. The change-speed stage anticipator operates the one of the gear-mechanism selectors while adopting a temporary change-speed stage as a subsequent change-speed stage when the temporary change-speed stage, which is estimated from a state of vehicle after the pre-shift time, the state of vehicle being relevant to each element of an anticipated change-speed stage group that is made up of one or more of the change-speed stages that can be selected by the one of the gear-mechanism selectors being set on one of the transmission's input shafts that is disconnected from a power source, coincides with an anticipated change-speed stage that corresponds to the pre-shift time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin AI Co., Ltd., Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Hatori, Hiroshi Toyoda, Takeshige Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ito, Kiyoshi Nagami, Atsushi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8256312
    Abstract: A transmission includes a controller that has a rapid-deceleration judge and a rapid-deceleration processor. The rapid-deceleration judge judges whether a vehicle is decelerating rapidly or not. The rapid-deceleration processor includes a torque-fluctuation inhibitor, and an after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator. The torque-fluctuation inhibitor shuts off power transmission from a power source, or holds power transmission by way of a current change-speed stage or lower, when the vehicle is decelerating rapidly. The after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator anticipates a subsequent change-speed stage being adapted for restarting or reaccelerating the vehicle that has come out of rapid deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Aisin AI Co., Ltd., Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Hatori, Takeshige Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ito, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kiyoshi Nagami, Atsushi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20120143453
    Abstract: A lock-up device supplies hydraulic pressure to a lock-up clutch when lock-up capacity becomes insufficient with increasing accelerator operation amount during slip control. The lock-up device (1) sets a hydraulic unit pressure command value corresponding to drive source torque so rotational speed difference becomes target slip speed when a variation in accelerator operation amount is in a predefined range, and deriving an estimated drive source output torque corresponding to the accelerator operation amount to set the pressure command value corresponding to the estimated drive source torque so the rotational speed difference becomes target slip speed when accelerator operation amount variation exceeds the range's upper limit, and (2) controls the hydraulic unit to supply hydraulic pressure corresponding to hydraulic pressure command value to the lock-up clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi NAGAMI, Masatake ICHIKAWA, Makoto HASHIZUME
  • Patent number: 7967727
    Abstract: An oil pressure command value for slip-control of a lock-up clutch of a torque converter is calculated based on a feed-forward oil pressure value calculated by an FF value calculating unit and a feed-back oil pressure value calculated by a feedback value calculating unit. When the feedback oil pressure value is calculated, a deviation out-of-range determining unit determines whether a deviation between actual rotational speed difference and target rotational speed difference is outside of a predetermined range. If the deviation is outside of the predetermined range, a feedback value correcting unit calculates a correction value and corrects the feedback oil pressure value. Therefore, when the deviation is outside of the predetermined range, the actual rotational speed difference is brought into convergence with the target rotational speed difference with rapid response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nagami, Yoshio Umemura, Makoto Hashizume, Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20100242671
    Abstract: A transmission includes a controller that has a rapid-deceleration judge and a rapid-deceleration processor. The rapid-deceleration judge judges whether a vehicle is decelerating rapidly or not. The rapid-deceleration processor includes a torque-fluctuation inhibitor, and an after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator. The torque-fluctuation inhibitor shuts off power transmission from a power source, or holds power transmission by way of a current change-speed stage or lower, when the vehicle is decelerating rapidly. The after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator anticipates a subsequent change-speed stage being adapted for restarting or reaccelerating the vehicle that has come out of rapid deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroki HATORI, Takeshige Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ito, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kiyoshi Nagami, Atsushi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100250078
    Abstract: A transmission includes a controller being provided with a change-speed stage anticipator. The controller adopts a time, which one of the transmission's gear-mechanism selectors requires in shifting a current change-speed stage to another change-speed stage, as a pre-shift time for selecting the latter change-speed stage. The change-speed stage anticipator operates the one of the gear-mechanism selectors while adopting a temporary change-speed stage as a subsequent change-speed stage when the temporary change-speed stage, which is estimated from a state of vehicle after the pre-shift time, the state of vehicle being relevant to each element of an anticipated change-speed stage group that is made up of one or more of the change-speed stages that can be selected by the one of the gear-mechanism selectors being set on one of the transmission's input shafts that is disconnected from a power source, coincides with an anticipated change-speed stage that corresponds to the pre-shift time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroki HATORI, Hiroshi Toyoda, Takeshige Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ito, Kiyoshi Nagami, Atsushi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100250080
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an automated manual transmission having a plurality of power transmitting units respectively including clutches for connecting and disconnecting a power transmission path between a power source and the automated manual transmission and transmission mechanisms connected to the corresponding clutches so as to transmit a power of the power source, includes a clutch temperature calculating means for calculating a temperature of each of the clutches, and a vehicle moving start controlling means for controlling a moving start of the vehicle so that when the temperature of one of the clutches, calculated by means of the clutch temperature calculating means, is equal to or higher than a predetermined usage restriction threshold value, the other one of the clutches is used so as to transmit the power of the power source to the other one of the power transmission units, having the other one of the clutches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi DOMAE, Atsushi Takeuchi, Kiyoshi Nagami, Takeshige Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ito, Hiroki Hatori, Hiroshi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20090247363
    Abstract: An oil pressure command value for slip-control of a lock-up clutch of a torque converter is calculated based on a feed-forward oil pressure value calculated by an FF value calculating unit and a feed-back oil pressure value calculated by a feedback value calculating unit. When the feedback oil pressure value is calculated, a deviation out-of-range determining unit determines whether a deviation between actual rotational speed difference and target rotational speed difference is outside of a predetermined range. If the deviation is outside of the predetermined range, a feedback value correcting unit calculates a correction value and corrects the feedback oil pressure value. Therefore, when the deviation is outside of the predetermined range, the actual rotational speed difference is brought into convergence with the target rotational speed difference with rapid response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nagami, Yoshio Umemura, Makoto Hashizume, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 5954618
    Abstract: A slip control system for an automatic transmission includes a fluid coupling including a release side oil chamber, an apply side oil chamber and a lockup clutch unit that is applied and released on an basis of the oil pressure that is fed to at least one of the release side oil chamber and the apply side oil chamber; an oil pressure generating unit for generating the oil pressure; a vehicular running state detecting unit for a detecting vehicular running state; an electronic control unit for determining whether a slip control is to be made, on the basis of a determination upon whether the present vehicular running state, as detected by the vehicular running state detecting unit, belongs to a predetermined slip control region; and an oil pressure regulating unit for regulating the oil pressure in response to a signal coming from the electronic control unit, to make the slip control by sliding the lockup clutch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mikami, Muneo Kusafuka, Kazuomi Okasaka, Kiyoshi Nagami, Koji Hayakawa, Kazuhito Yamada