Patents by Inventor Kohei Tsuda
Kohei Tsuda 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: 20180194355Abstract: A control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which an input member, an engagement device, a shift input member, a transmission device, and an output member are disposed in this order on a power transmission path connecting an internal combustion engine and wheels, the control device includes an electronic control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei TSUDA, Shoichi ISHIDA, Norihiro MUTO
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Patent number: 9919698Abstract: A control device for a vehicle driving device which controls the vehicle driving device provided with a particular engagement device, a rotary electric machine, and a transmission apparatus disposed in a power transmission path coupling an internal combustion engine with wheels in order from the internal combustion engine side, wherein the transmission apparatus includes a plurality of engagement devices, and selectively forms a plurality of transmission shift stages different in transmission shift ratio according to a state of engagement of the plurality of engagement devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi Tajima, Kohei Tsuda
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Patent number: 9914447Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive apparatus, the vehicle drive apparatus including an output shaft connected to an engine; an input shaft connected to a wheel; an electric motor that generates rotational torque of the wheel; and a hydraulic clutch that connects the output shaft to the input shaft when placed in an engaged state, and disconnects the output shaft from the input shaft when placed in a released state.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Kohei Tsuda
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Publication number: 20180056969Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle drive system in which a first engagement device, a rotating electric machine, and a second engagement device are provided in a power transfer path connecting an internal combustion engine to wheels and are arranged sequentially from an internal combustion engine side, the control device including an electronic control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei TSUDA, Takashi YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20180043880Abstract: A control device that includes an electronic control unit that causes a rotational speed of the rotating electric machine to change according to a predetermined first change pattern after the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine changes from a pre-shifting synchronous rotational speed in association with progress of the shifting operation until reaching a first synchronous range that is determined on the basis of a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine, the pre-shifting synchronous rotational speed being the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine in a shift speed established before the shifting operation is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichi ISHIDA, Kohei TSUDA, Keiichirou KUSABE
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Publication number: 20180037220Abstract: A control device that includes an electronic control unit that is configured to, in a case where a request to start the internal combustion engine is made while a downshift for changing a speed ratio of the speed change device so that the speed ratio after shifting is higher than the speed ratio before shifting is being performed in the electric drive state, perform the first start control after the downshift is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei TSUDA, Takashi YOSHIDA, Nao KATAGIRI
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Publication number: 20180009308Abstract: A control device for performing start assist control for an internal combustion engine includes: a first start assist processing unit that executes a first start assist process that brings a first engagement device into slip engagement at a first engagement pressure while increasing a torque generated by a rotating electrical machine; and a second start assist processing unit that increases, when the first start assist process fails to start the internal combustion engine, an engagement pressure of the first engagement device to a second engagement pressure higher than the first engagement pressure while increasing the torque generated by the rotating electrical machine. The second start assist processing unit determines the second engagement pressure on the basis of a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine in the first start assist process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Takashi YOSHIDA, Kohei TSUDA
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Publication number: 20170327122Abstract: A control device that controls a vehicle drive transfer device in which a speed change device that includes a plurality of engagement devices and that selectively establishes one of a plurality of shift speeds with different speed ratios in accordance with a state of engagement of the plurality of engagement devices is provided in a power transfer path that connects between a drive force source and wheels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichi ISHIDA, Kohei TSUDA, Keiichirou KUSABE
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Patent number: 9815455Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive device having a speed change mechanism that attains a predetermined shift speed by engaging multiple engagement elements. The control device predicts an amount of heat generation and determines whether any jumping shift from the current shift speed to the shift speed that is the multiple shift speeds higher or lower than the current shift speed can be permitted or not between the current shift speed and the target shift speed, and if the jumping shift can be permitted, the control unit performs the jumping shift and controls the speed change mechanism so as to shift the shift speed from the current shift speed to the target shift speed.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Tomohiro Onouchi, Keiichirou Kusabe
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Patent number: 9746074Abstract: A vehicle transmission apparatus having a starting engagement friction element, which has friction plates and a hydraulic servo including a piston that is moved according to a supplied oil pressure to press the friction plates, which is controlled to be engaged when a vehicle is started by using at least a driving force of the internal combustion engine, and which transfers creep torque. A control device capable of receiving an accelerator operation amount signal and capable of outputting a command value that controls the oil pressure. The control device executes temporary increase control of temporarily increasing the command value, when the accelerator operation amount signal is turned on from a state where the accelerator operation amount signal is off and the command value is output so that the starting engagement friction element transfers the creep torque.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Kitazawa, Kohei Tsuda
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Patent number: 9688267Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle driving device provided with a transmission apparatus including a plurality of engagement devices in a power transmission path between a driving force source and a wheel and selectively forming a plurality of transmission shift stages having different transmission shift ratios depending on engagement states of the plurality of engagement devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Keiichirou Kusabe, Tomohiro Onouchi, Shoichi Ishida
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Patent number: 9624848Abstract: A control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a first engagement device, a rotary electric machine, and a second engagement device are arranged in this order from an internal combustion engine on a power transmission path that connects the internal combustion engine to wheels. The control device is configured to determine an operation stop of the internal combustion engine in a state in which torque is transmitted from the internal combustion engine to the wheels, the control device executes rotational speed control that controls output torque of the rotary electric machine such that a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine approaches a target rotational speed and executes torque-down control that causes output torque of the internal combustion engine to decrease.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Kohei Tsuda, Masashi Kito, Yuichi Seki
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Publication number: 20170072934Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle driving device provided with a transmission apparatus including a plurality of engagement devices in a power transmission path between a driving force source and a wheel and selectively forming a plurality of transmission shift stages having different transmission shift ratios depending on engagement states of the plurality of engagement devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei TSUDA, Keiichirou KUSABE, Tomohiro ONOUCHI, Shoichi ISHIDA
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Patent number: 9567964Abstract: A control device that controls a vehicle drive device. A starting control section executes internal combustion engine starting control in which the internal combustion engine in a stationary state is started while causing the disconnecting engagement device to transition from a disengaged state to a direct engagement state. A timing decision section that decides, on the basis of a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine, a supply start timing to start supply of a hydraulic pressure to a specific engagement device, which is one of the plurality of shifting engagement devices and is caused to transition from a disengaged state to a direct engagement state in order to establish a target shift speed for the speed change mechanism after a change, in the case where the target shift speed is changed during execution of the internal combustion engine starting control.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Tomohiro Onouchi
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Publication number: 20160355173Abstract: A control device for a vehicle driving device which controls the vehicle driving device provided with a particular engagement device, a rotary electric machine, and a transmission apparatus disposed in a power transmission path coupling an internal combustion engine with wheels in order from the internal combustion engine side, wherein the transmission apparatus includes a plurality of engagement devices, and selectively forms a plurality of transmission shift stages different in transmission shift ratio according to a state of engagement of the plurality of engagement devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi TAJIMA, Kohei TSUDA
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Patent number: 9506559Abstract: A speed change ECU, in a case in which any one of a second speed to a fourth speed is established when the operation of the engine is stopped by an idle stop control, determines whether a rotation number of the engine is less than a synchronous rotation number of an input shaft that is defined based on a gear ratio (speed change ratio) ?1 at a first speed and a vehicle speed, in a case in which it is determined that the rotation number is equal to or greater than the synchronous rotation number, does not disengage any one of a brake, a clutch, and a clutch serving as a second engagement element, and in a case in which the rotation number is less than the synchronous rotation number, disengages any one of the brake, the clutch, and the clutch serving as the second engagement element.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Keiichirou Kusabe
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Patent number: 9457801Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle for use in a hybrid vehicle in which a first clutch, a rotary electric machine, and a second clutch are disposed on a power transfer path from an engine to wheels sequentially from the engine side. After power generation control in which the engine is driven with the first clutch directly engaged and with the second clutch disengaged is suspended on the basis of detection of the starting request from a state in which the vehicle is stationary with the power generation control performed, the second clutch control means controls the second clutch from a disengaged state to a slip engagement state, the first clutch control means controls the first clutch from an engaged state to a slip engagement state, and the rotary electric machine control means reduces the target revolving speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Onouchi, Kohei Tsuda
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Patent number: 9303758Abstract: A control device configured to control a vehicle. When the required driving force is equal to or less than a control judgment value, the shift control section judges that an implementing condition of engagement limited downshift control is met, starts transition control to cause the release-side engagement device to transition to a non-direct-coupled engagement state and, after the release-side engagement device transitions to a non-direct-coupled engagement state, starts increasing rotation speed control to control rotation speed of the input member to be higher than synchronized rotation speed, starts differential rotation speed control to control the rotation speed to be higher than the synchronized rotation speed, and prohibits engagement of the engagement-side engagement device until it becomes higher than the synchronized rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Tomohiro Onouchi
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Patent number: 9216734Abstract: A control device for a vehicle. A shift assist control section executes shift assist control of increasing a rotational speed of an input-side rotating member of the speed change mechanism. A possibility determining section that determines whether or not the rotating electrical machine can output required input torque. A mode selecting section that selects one shift mode from a first shift mode and a second shift mode that is different from the first shift mode in at least one of a condition for starting the downshift and processing. A torque compensating section that, if it is determined that the rotating electrical machine cannot output the required input torque, compensates for a shortfall in the required input torque in the shift assist control by using at least one of output torque of the internal combustion engine and torque that is transferred by the shift engagement device according to the shift mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Tsuda, Tomohiro Onouchi
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Publication number: 20150360673Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive apparatus, the vehicle drive apparatus including an output shaft connected to an engine; an input shaft connected to a wheel; an electric motor that generates rotational torque of the wheel; and a hydraulic clutch that connects the output shaft to the input shaft when placed in an engaged state, and disconnects the output shaft from the input shaft when placed in a released state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi YOSHIDA, Kohei TSUDA