Patents by Inventor Masaaki Nishida

Masaaki Nishida 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: 8298111
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes an input shaft, an acceleration/deceleration output unit that is coupled to the input shaft and has a first element that selectively outputs a decelerated rotation or an accelerated rotation of the input shaft and a second element that outputs a same number of rotations as the input shaft, a multiple planetary gear set for shifting having third, fourth, fifth and sixth elements, a first clutch coupling the first element and the sixth element selectively, a second clutch coupling the input shaft and the fourth element selectively, a third clutch coupling the first element and the third element selectively, a fourth clutch coupling the second element and the third element selectively, a first brake fixing the third element selectively, a second brake fixing the fourth element selectively and an output shaft coupled directly to the fifth element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Masaaki Nishida
  • Patent number: 8167756
    Abstract: A lubricating oil supply device for an automatic transmission that includes a washer arranged inside the automatic transmission and regulating a movement of an input shaft in the automatic transmission in a shaft direction, wherein the washer includes: an oil reception section that receives lubricating oil scattered by a centrifugal force in a radial direction of the input shaft of the automatic transmission, and a guide path that guides the lubricating oil received by the oil reception section to a thrust surface at an end surface of the washer in the shaft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki, Yusuke Takahashi, Toru Souda, Satoru Kasuya
  • Patent number: 8033941
    Abstract: A lubricating oil feeding device includes a carrier and a carrier cover that are attached to both ends of the pinion shaft of the planetary gear and that are arranged in an axial direction of an input shaft of the automatic transmission; an oil sump groove that opens in a peripheral direction and the axial direction of the input shaft, the oil sump groove is structured by a wall portion of the carrier cover formed radiating from a center of the input shaft, a base portion of the carrier cover that extends in an axial direction of the pinion shaft, and an end portion on an inner peripheral surface of a clutch hub that is connected with the base portion; and an oil passage that feeds lubricating oil from the oil sump groove to the pinion shaft, and provides the lubricating oil for the planetary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Kato, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki
  • Patent number: 8002663
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes two adjacent clutches. Two clutches each include a clutch drum, a piston that structures an operating oil chamber with a portion of the clutch drum used as a cylinder, a plurality of friction plates that engage with the clutch drum, a cancel oil chamber that is arranged on a back surface side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal oil pressure acting on the operating oil chamber, and a return spring that is provided within the cancel oil chamber and that is structured between a cancel plate and a back surface of the piston and that biases the piston toward the operating oil chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Kohei Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7931558
    Abstract: An automatic transmission which can establish properly separated gear ratios of forward ten gears or eleven gears and reverse two gears, which is simple and compact and can comfortably change gears. A fourth sun gear of a speed-changing dual planetary gear is connected to a speed-reducing common ring gear of a speed-reducing dual planetary gear through a first clutch, a speed-changing common carrier is connected to an input shaft through a second clutch and is selectively fixed by a second brake. A third sun gear of the speed-changing dual planetary gear is connected to the speed-reducing common ring gear of the speed-reducing dual planetary gear through a third clutch, connected to the speed-changing common carrier through a fourth clutch, and selectively to a first sun gear through a fifth clutch, and is selectively fixed through a first brake. A speed-changing common ring gear is directly connected to an output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Masaaki Nishida
  • Patent number: 7914413
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that is structured such that the first clutch, the third clutch, and the fourth clutch are disposed in an axial direction more toward the speed-reduction planetary gear than the planetary gear unit; friction plates of the first clutch are disposed so as to be offset in the axial direction with respect to friction plates of the third clutch and friction plates of the fourth clutch; and the friction plates of the fourth clutch are disposed such that at least a portion thereof coincides in the axial direction with the friction plates of the third clutch on an inner peripheral side of the friction plates of the third clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki, Hiroki Shintani
  • Patent number: 7862465
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes two clutches that are provided in mutually different positions in a radial direction while overlapping each other in an axial direction. The two clutches each include a clutch drum; a piston that structures a operating oil chamber while using a part of the clutch drum as a cylinder; a plurality of friction plates that engage the clutch drum; and a cancel oil chamber that is disposed on a back face side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal hydraulic pressure acting on the operating oil chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Kohei Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7862461
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes one clutch that includes a clutch drum; a piston that forms a hydraulic oil chamber using a part of the clutch drum as a cylinder; a plurality of friction plates that engage with the clutch drum; and a cancel oil chamber that is provided on a rear side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal oil pressure that acts on the hydraulic oil chamber. Oil is supplied to the cancel oil chamber from a boss portion formed in the clutch drum on a radially inner side, and the oil is discharged from discharge holes formed in the boss portion to an outside of a hydraulic oil chamber side of the clutch drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Kohei Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7775336
    Abstract: Lubricating oil supply holes are drilled into a first member that is fitted to a plurality of first annular plates by a spline. Of splines to which each lubricating oil supply hole corresponds, lubricating oil grooves provided in the plurality of first annular plates do not overlap the splines on at least one of the front and rear surfaces of the first annular plates, and therefore lubricating oil flowing out of the lubricating oil supply holes is dispersed in a circumferential direction and flows from the inner periphery to the outer periphery of the first annular plates, rather than gathering in each lubricating oil groove and flowing in an outer peripheral direction. As a result, a force generated by an axial lubricating oil flow, which acts in a direction for causing the second annular plates to contact friction materials on the first annular plates, is suppressed, leading to a reduction in drag torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aishin Kako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Satoru Kasuya, Masashi Kito, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Akitomo Suzuki, Masato Fujikawa, Ryuji Ibaraki, Masatoshi Adachi, Tsuyoshi Mikami, Hideo Ono
  • Patent number: 7731239
    Abstract: A card forming sheet includes an opaque printing sheet and a transparent film placed over the printing sheet, so that the transparent film can be peeled away from the printing sheet and cannot be re-bonded to the printing sheet. Moreover, the card forming sheet includes a transparent adhesive and a peeling sheet placed over the adhesive layer. The printing sheet is divided into a substantially rectangular address describing part, an information describing part adjacent to one side of the address describing part, and a concealing part adjacent to another side of the address describing part. The card forming sheet is folded along a boundary between the address describing part and the information describing part. The two sides are bonded together so that the printing sheet is placed to the outside, and the card forming sheet is then folded along a boundary between the concealing part and the address describing part and bonded together, removably concealing the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Kalbas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Takao Tsubouchi, Mariko Ueki, Kenji Hirose
  • Patent number: 7731624
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes two clutches that are disposed at positions that overlap in an axial direction and are different in a radial direction. The two clutches each include: a clutch drum, a piston that structures a working oil chamber with a portion of the clutch drum used as a cylinder, a plurality of friction plates that engage the clutch drum, and a cancel oil chamber that is disposed on a back surface side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal hydraulic pressure that acts on the working oil chamber. An inner spline is formed on the clutch drum of one clutch, among the two clutches, that is positioned on an outer diameter side. An outer spline is formed on the clutch drum of the other clutch, among the two clutches, that is positioned on an inner diameter side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki
  • Patent number: 7731623
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes two clutches that are disposed such that they overlap in an axial direction and occupy different positions in a radial direction. Each of the two clutches includes a clutch drum, a piston that forms a working fluid chamber for which a portion of the clutch drum serves as a cylinder, a plurality of friction plates that engage the clutch drum, and a cancel oil chamber that is disposed on a rear face side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal oil pressure that acts on the working fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Kohei Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20100129236
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes a starting apparatus having a housing that rotates based on torque of a driving source, and a clutch mechanism portion positioned in the housing; an oil pump that is positioned on a side opposite to the driving source with respect to the starting apparatus in a rotational axis direction of the housing, and is driven by transmission of rotation of the housing; an oil pump housing in which the oil pump is accommodated; and a speed change mechanism that is positioned on a side opposite to the starting apparatus with respect to the oil pump housing in the rotational axis direction, and has an input shaft, which extends through the oil pump and the oil pump housing and is connected to the clutch mechanism portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuito Abe, Masaaki Nishida, Tomoko Nishida, Hiroshi Kato, Masashi Kito
  • Publication number: 20100109461
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a partition wall defining at least a part of a space where the rotating electrical machine is accommodated; a rotor support member that rotates about the rotation shaft center and supports the rotor; a bearing disposed between the rotor support member and the partition wall; a first seal member that forms a first oil chamber that is in contact with one side end of the bearing; a second seal member that forms a second oil chamber that is in contact with the other side end of the bearing; a supply oil passage that supplies oil to the first oil chamber; and a discharge oil passage that discharges oil from the second oil chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Masaaki Nishida, Tomoko Nishida
  • Publication number: 20100078282
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes first and second clutches disposed adjacent, wherein each of the first and second clutches includes a friction plate; a clutch drum in spline engagement with the friction plate; a piston that with the clutch drum forms a hydraulic oil chamber therebetween; a return spring that biases the piston toward the hydraulic oil chamber side; and a cancel plate that is disposed on a side opposite the hydraulic oil chamber of the piston to form a cancel oil chamber that cancels outs a centrifugal hydraulic pressure that acts on the hydraulic oil chamber, and that receives a reaction force of the return spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Kito, Masaaki Nishida, Tomoko Nishida, Hiroshi Kato, Norihiro Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20090062056
    Abstract: An automatic transmission which can establish properly separated gear ratios of forward ten gears or eleven gears and reverse two gears, which is simple and compact and can comfortably change gears. A fourth sun gear of a speed-changing dual planetary gear is connected to a speed-reducing common ring gear of a speed-reducing dual planetary gear through a first clutch, a speed-changing common carrier is connected to an input shaft through a second clutch and is selectively fixed by a second brake. A third sun gear of the speed-changing dual planetary gear is connected to the speed-reducing common ring gear of the speed-reducing dual planetary gear through a third clutch, connected to the speed-changing common carrier through a fourth clutch, and selectively to a first sun gear through a fifth clutch, and is selectively fixed through a first brake. A speed-changing common ring gear is directly connected to an output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KATO, Masaaki NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20090029820
    Abstract: In a lubricating oil supply device for an automatic transmission which supplies lubricating oil to a clutch arranged inside an automatic transmission, an oil reception section in a circumferential direction which receives the lubricating oil and is open in a shaft direction of an input shaft is formed in an approximately annular-shaped carrier cover by a wall section of the carrier cover which, together with a carrier, attaches a pinion shaft, a base section of the carrier cover extending in the shaft direction of the pinion shaft, and an end section as a part in an inner direction of the clutch hub connected with the base section of the carrier cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki, Yusuke Takahashi, Toru Souda, Satoru Kasuya
  • Publication number: 20090017954
    Abstract: A lubricating oil feeding device includes a carrier and a carrier cover that are attached to both ends of the pinion shaft of the planetary gear and that are arranged in an axial direction of an input shaft of the automatic transmission; an oil sump groove that opens in a peripheral direction and the axial direction of the input shaft, the oil sump groove is structured by a wall portion of the carrier cover formed radiating from a center of the input shaft, a base portion of the carrier cover that extends in an axial direction of the pinion shaft, and an end portion on an inner peripheral surface of a clutch hub that is connected with the base portion; and an oil passage that feeds lubricating oil from the oil sump groove to the pinion shaft, and provides the lubricating oil for the planetary gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Kato, Masashi Kitou, Yuichi Seki
  • Publication number: 20090011892
    Abstract: An automatic transmission that includes one clutch that includes a clutch drum; a piston that forms a hydraulic oil chamber using a part of the clutch drum as a cylinder; a plurality of friction plates that engage with the clutch drum; and a cancel oil chamber that is provided on a rear side of the piston and that cancels a centrifugal oil pressure that acts on the hydraulic oil chamber. Oil is supplied to the cancel oil chamber from a boss portion formed in the clutch drum on a radially inner side, and the oil is discharged from discharge holes formed in the boss portion to an outside of a hydraulic oil chamber side of the clutch drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Hiroshi Katou, Masashi Kitou, Kohei Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20090011893
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes an input shaft, an acceleration/deceleration output unit that is coupled to the input shaft and has a first element that selectively outputs a decelerated rotation or an accelerated rotation of the input shaft and a second element that outputs a same number of rotations as the input shaft, a multiple planetary gear set for shifting having third, fourth, fifth and sixth elements, a first clutch coupling the first element and the sixth element selectively, a second clutch coupling the input shaft and the fourth element selectively, a third clutch coupling the first element and the third element selectively, a fourth clutch coupling the second element and the third element selectively, a first brake fixing the third element selectively, a second brake fixing the fourth element selectively and an output shaft coupled directly to the fifth element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Masaaki Nishida