Patents by Inventor Manabu Endou

Manabu Endou 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: 11940015
    Abstract: A system for using a motor to control a power transmission device for driving a vehicle is provided with a clutch member movable bidirectionally in an axial direction; a base member prevented from rotating about an axis; a counter member axially away from and opposed to the base member, the counter member being restrained from moving in both a circumferential direction and the axial direction; an action member interposed between the base member and the counter member, movable in the axial direction, drivingly coupled with the clutch member, and coupled with the motor to create a rotational motion about the axis; and a cam slope tilting in the circumferential direction and ascending from the base member toward the counter member to convert the rotational motion into a motion of the action member in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Masato Horiguchi, Manabu Endou
  • Patent number: 11879533
    Abstract: A differential device is provided with: a casing rotatable about an axis; a differential gear set including a pair of side gears housed in the casing and rotatable about the axis, a pinion shaft penetrating perpendicular to the axis and being secured to the casing; and pinion gears rotatably supported by the pinion shaft and so meshed with the side gears as to enable differential motion between the side gears; friction clutches interposed between the side gears and an inner periphery of the casing to limit the differential motion; a pair of repulsive bodies respectively applying force in directions along the axis to the friction clutches; and a block in contact with and supporting in the directions along the axis both the repulsive bodies, the block so fitting on the pinion shaft as to impose reaction forces from the friction clutches on the pinion shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20230341007
    Abstract: A system for using a motor to control a power transmission device for driving a vehicle is provided with a clutch member movable bidirectionally in an axial direction; a base member prevented from rotating about an axis; a counter member axially away from and opposed to the base member, the counter member being restrained from moving in both a circumferential direction and the axial direction; an action member interposed between the base member and the counter member, movable in the axial direction, drivingly coupled with the clutch member, and coupled with the motor to create a rotational motion about the axis; and a cam slope tilting in the circumferential direction and ascending from the base member toward the counter member to convert the rotational motion into a motion of the action member in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Masato Horiguchi, Manabu Endou
  • Patent number: 11796044
    Abstract: A gear device drivingly coupling a drive shaft with first and second axles is provided with a case coupled via gearing with the drive shaft, and rotatable about an axis; a hub that is couplable with the first axle; a clutch member retained by the case and disengageably engaged with the hub; a biasing element retaining the clutch member at a position where the clutch member engages with the hub; and a differential gear set coupling the case via gearing with the first and second axles and locked by the clutch member to prevent differential motion between the first axle and the second axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Noboru Higano, Manabu Endou, Kazuhiro Ohashi, Shungo Numabe
  • Publication number: 20230052929
    Abstract: A differential device is provided with: a casing rotatable about an axis; a differential gear set including a pair of side gears housed in the casing and rotatable about the axis, a pinion shaft penetrating perpendicular to the axis and being secured to the casing; and pinion gears rotatably supported by the pinion shaft and so meshed with the side gears as to enable differential motion between the side gears; friction clutches interposed between the side gears and an inner periphery of the casing to limit the differential motion; a pair of repulsive bodies respectively applying force in directions along the axis to the friction clutches; and a block in contact with and supporting in the directions along the axis both the repulsive bodies, the block so fitting on the pinion shaft as to impose reaction forces from the friction clutches on the pinion shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11402006
    Abstract: A differential device is provided with a casing rotatable about an axis, a differential gear set coupled therewith including a pinion gear with a pressure angle (a4) and side gears in mesh therewith, output members respectively mediating torque transmission from the side gears to axles, each of which includes a friction face as a friction clutch for limiting the differential motion, dog teeth, and an oblique face forming an angle (a1) and constituting a cam for operating the friction clutch, a clutch member axially movable for functioning as a clutch to lock the differential motion and including a leg having a side face forming an angle (a2) to function as a cam and movable dog teeth each forming an angle (a3) satisfying an inequality a2?a3; and an actuator capable of driving the clutch member toward a position where the movable dog teeth mesh with the dog teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20220163103
    Abstract: A final reduction apparatus includes a carrier, a differential device, a clutch member for interrupting a differential movement of the differential device, and an actuator for operating the clutch member. The clutch member is accommodated in a differential case of the differential device. The actuator is disposed outside the differential case. The carrier includes a main body in which an opening is formed and a cover that closes the opening. The differential device is insertable via the opening into the main body. The actuator is disposed on a side of the cover that is, on an opposite side of the actuator with respect to the opening than the differential device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Masato Horiguchi, Manabu Endou
  • Publication number: 20220034391
    Abstract: A gear device drivingly coupling a drive shaft with first and second axles is provided with a case coupled via gearing with the drive shaft, and rotatable about an axis; a hub that is couplable with the first axle; a clutch member retained by the case and disengageably engaged with the hub; a biasing element retaining the clutch member at a position where the clutch member engages with the hub; and a differential gear set coupling the case via gearing with the first and second axles and locked by the clutch member to prevent differential motion between the first axle and the second axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Noboru Higano, Manabu Endou, Kazuhiro Ohashi, Shungo Numabe
  • Publication number: 20210293316
    Abstract: A differential device is provided with a casing rotatable about an axis, a differential gear set coupled therewith including a pinion gear with a pressure angle (a4) and side gears in mesh therewith, output members respectively mediating torque transmission from the side gears to axles, each of which includes a friction face as a friction clutch for limiting the differential motion, dog teeth, and an oblique face forming an angle (a1) and constituting a cam for operating the friction clutch, a clutch member axially movable for functioning as a clutch to lock the differential motion and including a leg having a side face forming an angle (a2) to function as a cam and movable dog teeth each forming an angle (a3) satisfying an inequality a2?a3; and an actuator capable of driving the clutch member toward a position where the movable dog teeth mesh with the dog teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 10704612
    Abstract: A cam mechanism used is provided with: a cam ring forming a circle around an axis and including a plurality of cam faces arranged circumferentially on a face of the circle facing in an axial direction, each of the cam faces sloping in a circumferential direction relative to a circumferential face perpendicular to the axis; a pressure ring adjacent axially to the face of the cam ring and including a plurality of cam faces opposed to the face of the cam ring and respectively symmetrical to the plurality of cam faces of the cam ring, the pressure ring being rotatable relatively to the cam ring about the axis; and a plurality of taper rollers interposed between the cam ring and the pressure ring, each of the taper rollers including a conical face tapering radially inwardly and capable of rolling on the cam faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Atsushi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180231069
    Abstract: A cam mechanism used is provided with: a cam ring forming a circle around an axis and including a plurality of cam faces arranged circumferentially on a face of the circle facing in an axial direction, each of the cam faces sloping in a circumferential direction relative to a circumferential face perpendicular to the axis; a pressure ring adjacent axially to the face of the cam ring and including a plurality of cam faces opposed to the face of the cam ring and respectively symmetrical to the plurality of cam faces of the cam ring, the pressure ring being rotatable relatively to the cam ring about the axis; and a plurality of taper rollers interposed between the cam ring and the pressure ring, each of the taper rollers including a conical face tapering radially inwardly and capable of rolling on the cam faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Manabu Endou, Atsushi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8305313
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is composed of a plurality of pixels, a plurality of switches and a driver circuit for driving the plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of pixels is provided with a liquid crystal element in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pixel driving electrode and a common electrode confronting with each other, a first sampling and holding circuit, a second sampling and holding circuit and a switching device. The switching device switches a positive image signal voltage and a negative image signal voltage, and supplies the positive and negative image signal voltages alternately to the pixel driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Furuya, Shuichi Konno, Manabu Endou, Yoshihiro Hori, Takashi Kozakai, Aiichiro Fujiyama, Taku Katayama, Hideo Kurogane
  • Patent number: 8026986
    Abstract: A projection type display device is provided to display high quality images. In the device, a WB-PBSW 2 is inclined to liquid crystal display devices 1r, 1b, 1g and has wire grids 2a parallel with a first substrate 11. One of directions of projection lines obtained by projecting the wire grids 2a on a second substrate 12 vertically, the one direction being directed to a direction where one extension surface of the polarization spectroscopic surface intersects with another extension surface of the second substrate when the one direction is turned in the counterclockwise direction by 90°, is defined as X-axis. If the liquid crystal display devices 1r, 1b, 1g are a type of first twist (normal twist), device reference line vectors are located at 225°±10° in the counterclockwise direction in view from the first substrate 11. In case of a second twist (reverse twist) type, the device reference line vectors are located at 315°±10° in the counterclockwise direction in view from the first substrate 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Shunsuke Izawa, Takashi Moroboshi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Manabu Endou, Yasuo Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20100073585
    Abstract: A projection type display device is provided to display high quality images. In the device, a WB-PBSW 2 is inclined to liquid crystal display devices 1r, 1b, 1g and has wire grids 2a parallel with a first substrate 11. One of directions of projection lines obtained by projecting the wire grids 2a on a second substrate 12 vertically, the one direction being directed to a direction where one extension surface of the polarization spectroscopic surface intersects with another extension surface of the second substrate when the one direction is turned in the counterclockwise direction by 90°, is defined as X-axis. If the liquid crystal display devices 1r, 1b, 1g are a type of first twist (normal twist), device reference line vectors are located at 225°±10° in the counterclockwise direction in view from the first substrate 11. In case of a second twist (reverse twist) type, the device reference line vectors are located at 315°±10° in the counterclockwise direction in view from the first substrate 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shunsuke Izawa, Takashi Moroboshi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Manabu Endou, Yasuo Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20090219238
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is composed of a plurality of pixels, a plurality of switches and a driver circuit for driving the plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of pixels is provided with a liquid crystal element in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pixel driving electrode and a common electrode confronting with each other, a first sampling and holding circuit, a second sampling and holding circuit and a switching device. The switching device switches a positive image signal voltage and a negative image signal voltage, and supplies the positive and negative image signal voltages alternately to the pixel driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Furuya, Shuichi Konno, Manabu Endou, Yoshihiro Hori, Takashi Kozakai, Aiichiro Fujiyama, Taku Katayama, Hideo Kurogane
  • Publication number: 20080026900
    Abstract: A differential gear includes first and second differential mechanisms that are compact in radial and axial directions, the first and second differential mechanisms 5 and 7 arranged side by side along an axis of rotation in a center casing 3 that is rotatably supported, the differential gear 1 configured to form one of first and second coupling configurations, the first coupling configuration that couples the center casing and first and second differential mechanisms in such a way as to transmit rotation of the center casing to the first and second differential mechanisms in parallel, the second coupling configuration that couples the center casing and first and second differential mechanisms in such a way as to transmit rotation of the center casing to one of the first and second differential mechanisms (e.g. a front casing 31) via the other thereof (e.g. a second output gear 61), and at least one of the first and second differential mechanisms including face gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: GKN Driveline Torque Technology KK
    Inventors: Masaki Gotoh, Noboru Higano, Manabu Endou