Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Kawagoe
Kuniaki Kawagoe 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: 10577048Abstract: In one aspect, a controller for driving a motor of the present invention includes a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor, and a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of the pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a backward rotation amount of the pedal while the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the backward rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Satoru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20180194430Abstract: In one aspect, a controller for driving a motor of the present invention includes a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor, and a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of the pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a backward rotation amount of the pedal while the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the backward rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Satoru Shimizu
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Patent number: 9902462Abstract: In one aspect, a controller for driving a motor of the present invention includes a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor, and a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of a pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a rotation amount of the pedal while the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Satoru Shimizu
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Patent number: 9428172Abstract: An appropriate motor control in accordance with a pedal operation of a driver is to be achieved. A motor drive control device according to the present invention is a motor drive control device for an electric power-assisted vehicle that has one-way clutches respectively provided for a motor drive system and for a pedal drive system. The motor drive control device according to the present invention includes: a first calculating part that calculates a pedal rotation conversion speed that is converted from a pedal rotation; and a second calculating part that calculates a second target torque for a motor based on the pedal rotation conversion speed, during a period in which a first target torque derived from a pedal torque is not detected.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignees: MICROSPACE CORPORATION, TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Yasuo Hosaka, Kuniaki Kawagoe
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Publication number: 20160107719Abstract: In one aspect, a controller for driving a motor of the present invention includes a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor, and a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of a pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a rotation amount of the pedal while the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Satoru Shimizu
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Patent number: 8725340Abstract: A controller for driving a motor in a motor driven vehicle, provided with: a detection part, a control coefficient computing part, and a control part. The control coefficient computing part identifies, as a first vehicle speed, the speed of the vehicle when the detection part detects a start signal for regeneration control, the control coefficient computing part assigning a prescribed value to a control coefficient that determines a value of a control parameter that controls the motor relative to a target value of the control parameter. The target value is a value of the control parameter at which the motor achieves a desired power generation efficiency, and the control coefficient computing part increases the control coefficient if a current vehicle speed becomes faster than the first vehicle speed, and decreases the control coefficient if the current vehicle speed becomes slower than the first vehicle speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Hirokazu Shirakawa, Kuniaki Kawagoe
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Publication number: 20140121877Abstract: A controller for driving a motor in a motor driven vehicle, provided with: a detection part, a control coefficient computing part, and a control part. The control coefficient computing part identifies, as a first vehicle speed, the speed of the vehicle when the detection part detects a start signal for regeneration control, the control coefficient computing part assigning a prescribed value to a control coefficient that determines a value of a control parameter that controls the motor relative to a target value of the control parameter. The target value is a value of the control parameter at which the motor achieves a desired power generation efficiency, and the control coefficient computing part increases the control coefficient if a current vehicle speed becomes faster than the first vehicle speed, and decreases the control coefficient if the current vehicle speed becomes slower than the first vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo HOSAKA, Kazuo ASANUMA, Hirokazu SHIRAKAWA, Kuniaki KAWAGOE
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Publication number: 20130317679Abstract: An appropriate motor control in accordance with a pedal operation of a driver is to be achieved. A motor drive control device according to the present invention is a motor drive control device for an electric power-assisted vehicle that has one-way clutches respectively provided for a motor drive system and for a pedal drive system. The motor drive control device according to the present invention includes: a first calculating part that calculates a pedal rotation conversion speed that is converted from a pedal rotation; and a second calculating part that calculates a second target torque for a motor based on the pedal rotation conversion speed, during a period in which a first target torque derived from a pedal torque is not detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicants: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD., MICROSPACE CORPORATIONInventors: Masato TANAKA, Kazuo ASANUMA, Yasuo HOSAKA, Kuniaki KAWAGOE
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Publication number: 20090055216Abstract: In a bed (home care equipment) 1, based on the switch operation, respective drive units of a head unit 12, a leg unit 13, and a height adjustment unit 14 are actuated by motor units 15a to 15c and actuator units 16a to 16c. The actuation state of the respective drive units are detected by the sensor units 17a to 17c, and a respective-unit-operation control means 21 figures out the actuation state of the drive units based on a detection signal, and stores the performance history of the drive units in the operation history storage unit 22 as operation history information. The operation history information in the operation history storage unit 22 is transmitted to a host computer 4 by a communication unit 7. The host computer 4 processes the received operation history information to data which can be displayed by the animation display, graph display, and accumulated time period display, and transmits thus processed data to a computer 5 etc. which is connected to the host computer 4 through the Internet line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2006Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Mitsunori Inaba, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Yuichi Nagase, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Masato Shimokawa, Rika Matsumiya