Patents by Inventor Koichi Tabata
Koichi Tabata 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: 11970084Abstract: A vehicle drive device and a control method therefor are provided. The vehicle drive device includes: a power source including a first rotating electrical machine; a second rotating electrical machine; a differential unit including three rotating elements to which a first output shaft, a second output shaft, and the second rotating electrical machine are connected; and an electronic control device. The electronic control device regeneratively controls the first rotating electrical machine and the second rotating electrical machine in such a manner that negative torque is applied to the first output shaft and the second output shaft, when performing regenerative control by the second rotating electrical machine in a drive mode in which torque from the power source is distributed to the first output shaft and the second output shaft by controlling torque of the second rotating electrical machine during deceleration of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Koji Takaira, Yuki Makino, Akinori Homan, Yosuke Akiyama, Akira Ijichi, Kunihiko Usui
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Patent number: 11965469Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Tamachi, Yoshito Sekiguchi, Masato Nakano, Koichi Okuda, Tatsuya Imamura, Atsushi Tabata
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Publication number: 20240128282Abstract: A semiconductor device (10) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a driving section (40) that drives an object to be driven; an abnormality detecting circuit (30), which is one example of an instruction circuit that outputs an instruction signal to the driving section (40); and a light amount detecting section (20) that detects an amount of incident light and invalidates the instruction signal output from the abnormality detecting circuit (30) in accordance with the amount of incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Koichi Okamoto, Hideaki Mogi, Takashi Masuda, Shinichirou Saeki, Mitsushi Tabata
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Publication number: 20240123782Abstract: A suspension arm includes a main body. The main body includes a curved portion curved along a longitudinal direction and has a closed section. The main body includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The inner side wall corresponds to an inner side of a curve of the curved portion. The outer side wall corresponds to an outer side of the curve of the curved portion. A thickness of the inner side wall is larger than a thickness of the outer side wall. In sectional view of the main body perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of a length of the first side wall and a length of the second side wall is longer than each of a length of the inner side wall and a length of the outer side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuki KITAHARA
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Patent number: 11958471Abstract: A four-wheel drive vehicle includes: a drive-power distribution device for distributing a drive power from an engine to main and auxiliary drive wheels with a drive-power distribution ratio between the main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels; and a control apparatus for controlling an electric motor such that the drive-power distribution ratio becomes a target distribution ratio value, by setting an electric-current command value for driving an electric motor. The control apparatus is configured, in a drive-power transmitted state in which the drive power is transmitted to the drive-power distribution device, to execute a command-value reduction control operation for causing the electric motor to be driven with the electric-current command value being set to a value smaller than in a drive-power non-transmitted state in which the drive power is not being transmitted to the drive-power distribution device.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Koji Takaira, Akinori Takahashi, Yuuki Makino
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Vehicle control device, vehicle control system, vehicle learning device, and vehicle learning method
Patent number: 11959545Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor and memory. The memory stores relation-defining data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable relating to operations of a transmission installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, updating processing, counting processing, and limiting processing. The processor is configured to output the relation-defining data updated so that an expected income is increased when the transmission is operated following the relation-defining data, based on an updating map.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki Bunazawa, Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Ken Imamura, Kota Fujii, Keita Sasaki -
Publication number: 20240100583Abstract: Provided is a burring processing method, which is a method for forming a buffing processed portion including a raised portion and a curved portion in a metal component having a pilot hole formed therein, the method being characterized by including: a preforming step of enlarging a diameter of the pilot hole, moving an edge portion of the pilot hole relative to the metal component in a first direction of a thickness direction of the metal component in a first range around the pilot hole of the metal component, and forming the whole first range into a preformed portion raised from the metal component in the first direction; and a main forming step of deforming the preformed portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, forming a second range on an outer diameter side of the preformed portion to have the same height as the first range in the first direction, and forming part of a third range on an inner diameter side of the preformed portion from the second range to be part of the curved portionType: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuuki KITAHARA
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Patent number: 11932137Abstract: A regenerative torque upper limit is set to a larger value when a rear-wheel distribution ratio is small than when the rear-wheel distribution ratio is large. Accordingly, when a distribution of a drive power to front wheels is large, a regenerative torque of a second rotary machine can be increased such that wheels are less likely to slip at the time of performing of regeneration control when the distribution of the drive power to the front wheels is small in comparison with a case in which the regenerative torque upper limit is set to a constant value similarly to when the distribution of the drive power to the front wheels is small. In this way, it is possible to increase the regenerative torque of the second rotary machine according to the rear-wheel distribution ratio.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Masato Nakano, Yuki Makino
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Publication number: 20240067158Abstract: A vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an automatic transmission capable of transmitting and receiving torque to and from an output shaft of the internal combustion engine is controlled. During operation of the internal combustion engine, a process that calculates a diluted water amount based on an operation state of the internal combustion engine is executed. The diluted water amount is the amount of water contained in lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine. Further, a process that controls the automatic transmission such that torque per unit period in the internal combustion engine becomes smaller when the diluted water amount is relatively large compared to when the diluted water amount is relatively small, while continuing the operation of the internal combustion engine, is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi TABATA, Koichi OKUDA, Masato NAKANO, Nobuhiko SATAKE, Yoshito SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240068420Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiaki TAMACHI, Yoshito SEKIGUCHI, Masato NAKANO, Koichi OKUDA, Tatsuya IMAMURA, Atsushi TABATA
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Patent number: 11912125Abstract: A drive apparatus for vehicle comprising a first power source, a first output rotating member, a second output rotating member, a second power source, a differential device, a first engagement device, a second engagement device, and a control device. The control device establishes, as drive modes driving a vehicle, a first drive mode controlling a torque distribution ratio between front wheels and rear wheels by putting the vehicle in all-wheel drive state by power from the second power source while controlling the first engagement device to be in slip state with the second engagement device kept in engaged state, and a second drive mode putting the vehicle in all-wheel drive state by power from the first power source while fixing the torque distribution ratio with both the first engagement device and the second engagement device kept in engaged state.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Omuro, Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Yohei Habata
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Patent number: 4675943Abstract: The apparatus according to the present invention includes a rotatable leg-holding wheel for holding the legs of the bird. Said leg-holding wheel is mounted close to both the terminal portion of the defeathering line and the initial portion of the eviscerating line and operates to cause the birds to transfer from the defeathering line onto the eviscerating line. On the frame for the leg-holding wheel are fixedly mounted an engaging guide member for guiding the bird suspended from the defeathering shackle and for causing it to engage the leg-holding notches of the leg-holding wheel, a cutter for cutting the ankles of the bird engaged by the leg-holding notches to release the bird from the defeathering shackle, and an inclining guide member and a releasing guide member which coact to release the bird held in the leg-holding notches and cause it to engage with the eviscerating shackle.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1986Date of Patent: June 30, 1987Assignee: Gordon Johnson Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koichi Tabata
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Patent number: D263834Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1980Date of Patent: April 13, 1982Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Juhei Hayashi, Koichi Tabata