Patents by Inventor Masaaki Yamaguchi
Masaaki Yamaguchi 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: 20240107633Abstract: A heater element includes: a honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral wall and partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from a first end face to a second end face to form a flow path; a pair of electrode layers provided on the outer peripheral wall and the partition walls on the first end face and the second end face; and terminals capable of electrically connecting the electrode layers to a conducting wire. At least a part of each of the electrode layers has an extending portion extending outwardly from an outer edge of each of the first end face and the second end face. Each of the terminals is connected to the extending portion and disposed to face a side surface of the honeycomb structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Masaaki MASUDA, Takuya NAKASHIMA, Hirofumi YAMAGUCHI, Toru HAYASE, Koji KUZUTANI
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Publication number: 20230302969Abstract: A conveyance seat includes a cover member protecting an anchor member extending from the seat main body so that a child safety seat is connected. The cover member includes an outside cover, and an inside cover accommodated in the outside cover and having an anchor engaging portion. The cover member sandwiches an extending part of the anchor member with the outside cover and the inside cover. The cover member is attached to the seat main body such that an outer periphery portion of a skin opening hole is sandwiched by the outside cover and the inside cover. A skin locking member is accommodated in a flange accommodating recess of the outside cover together with an outer peripheral flange of the inside cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Kotaro TOMIOKA, Sadahiro KINOSHITA, Tsubasa HITOMI, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11635085Abstract: A controller includes: a control unit configured to calculate a control command value of an opening degree of a solenoid valve to control an opening degree of the solenoid valve; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire an estimated amount and a target amount of a working fluid in a labyrinth chamber, and a rotation speed of a drive shaft. The control unit calculates a final control command value based on a feedback control command value and a feedforward control command value, and controls the solenoid valve, the feedback control command value being calculated based on deviation between the estimated amount and the target amount, the feedforward control command value being used to maintain a rotation speed of a fan constant based on the estimated amount and the rotation speed of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Akiyama, Noboru Takagi, Daichi Yamazaki, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20230079694Abstract: A storage stores setting information of a user related to running. An acquirer acquires information of a plurality of runners existing around the user. A determiner specifies one runner from the plurality of runners on the basis of the setting information stored in the storage and the information acquired by the acquirer. An outputter outputs presentation information for presenting one runner specified by the determiner to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Eiichi HOSONO, Yusuke SHIMIZU, Koki MAENO, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KOJIMA
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Patent number: 11566558Abstract: A controller of a fan coupling device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an acceleration parameter and a deviation parameter; a control unit that controls a regulation mechanism; a prediction unit that predicts that hunting occurs in the rotation speed of the fan, when an operating point of the fan expressed with the deviation parameter and the acceleration parameter belongs to a predicted region; and a restraining unit that executes, when the hunting is predicted to occur, a hunting restraining process of executing at least one of lowering an integral gain of a feedback control to be lower than when the hunting is not predicted to occur and increasing a derivative gain of the feedback control to be higher than when the hunting is not predicted to occur.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaaki Yamaguchi, Toshio Takaoka, Noboru Takagi, Shoichi Akiyama
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Patent number: 11499510Abstract: In an engine system including an engine, and an exhaust gas recirculation device including a communicating pipe that communicates an exhaust pipe of the engine with an intake pipe, and a valve provided in the communicating pipe, and an electronic control unit, and its control method, the electronic control unit estimates the pressure in the intake pipe as an estimated intake pressure, and performs a jamming diagnosis to determine whether foreign matter is stuck in the valve, by comparing an intake pressure difference between a detected intake pressure and the estimated intake pressure with a threshold value, when a diagnosis condition including an opening change condition that the target opening becomes equal to or larger than a first predetermined opening and then becomes equal to or smaller than a second predetermined opening that is smaller than the first predetermined opening is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Ichikawa, Hisayuki Itoh, Hirokazu Kato, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11434808Abstract: A controller includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a deviation between an estimated amount and a target amount of a working fluid in the labyrinth chamber, and a fluid amount parameter corresponding to the estimated amount; and a control unit that executes feedback control including at least integral control of the deviation so as to control a regulation mechanism. When the fluid amount parameter is equal to or greater than a threshold, the control unit executes the feedback control in a state where the integral control is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Akiyama, Noboru Takagi, Daichi Yamazaki, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11359586Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, an exhaust gas recirculation device, a traveling motor, and a control device. The exhaust gas recirculation device includes a communication pipe that allows an exhaust pipe and an intake pipe of the engine to communicate with each other and a valve that is provided in the communication pipe. The control device is configured to perform foreign matter removal control for opening and closing the valve when foreign matter caught in the valve is detected and the hybrid vehicle stops.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisayuki Itoh, Koji Ichikawa, Hirokazu Kato, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11199124Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a pump, a radiator, a flow rate adjustment valve, a bypass passage, and a controller. The flow rate adjustment valve includes a valve member that rotates to change an open degree of the flow rate adjustment valve and a valve member biasing component that biases the valve member in a valve-closing direction in which the open degree decreases. The valve member rotates in a valve-opening direction in which the open degree increases when a pressure difference increases between positions upstream and downstream of the valve member in a flow direction of coolant in the circulation circuit and rotate in the valve-closing direction when the pressure difference decreases. The controller increases the pump discharge amount as a target radiator flow rate that is a target of an amount of coolant passing through the radiator increases.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noboru Takagi, Hirokazu Kato, Rihito Kaneko, Naoto Hisaminato, Hirokazu Ando, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Watanabe, Masahiro Yoshida, Koji Nunami, Naoto Yumisashi, Masafumi Yoshida, Takahiko Aoyagi
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Publication number: 20210332739Abstract: A controller of a fan coupling device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an acceleration parameter and a deviation parameter; a control unit that controls a regulation mechanism; a prediction unit that predicts that hunting occurs in the rotation speed of the fan, when an operating point of the fan expressed with the deviation parameter and the acceleration parameter belongs to a predicted region; and a restraining unit that executes, when the hunting is predicted to occur, a hunting restraining process of executing at least one of lowering an integral gain of a feedback control to be lower than when the hunting is not predicted to occur and increasing a derivative gain of the feedback control to be higher than when the hunting is not predicted to occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki YAMAGUCHI, Toshio TAKAOKA, Noboru TAKAGI, Shoichi AKIYAMA
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Publication number: 20210332825Abstract: A controller includes: a control unit configured to calculate a control command value of an opening degree of a solenoid valve to control an opening degree of the solenoid valve; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire an estimated amount and a target amount of a working fluid in a labyrinth chamber, and a rotation speed of a drive shaft. The control unit calculates a final control command value based on a feedback control command value and a feedforward control command value, and controls the solenoid valve, the feedback control command value being calculated based on deviation between the estimated amount and the target amount, the feedforward control command value being used to maintain a rotation speed of a fan constant based on the estimated amount and the rotation speed of the drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi AKIYAMA, Noboru TAKAGI, Daichi YAMAZAKI, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210332738Abstract: A controller includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a deviation between an estimated amount and a target amount of a working fluid in the labyrinth chamber, and a fluid amount parameter corresponding to the estimated amount; and a control unit that executes feedback control including at least integral control of the deviation so as to control a regulation mechanism. When the fluid amount parameter is equal to or greater than a threshold, the control unit executes the feedback control in a state where the integral control is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi AKIYAMA, Noboru TAKAGI, Daichi YAMAZAKI, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11149705Abstract: An engine controller includes an ignition timing control unit and a rich imbalance determining unit. The rich imbalance determining unit designates one of multiple cylinders as a subject cylinder for determination and executes lean active control that commands a smaller amount of fuel injection for the subject cylinder than for the other cylinders. The rich imbalance determining unit determines whether an air-fuel ratio of the subject cylinder deviates to be richer based on a rotational fluctuation amount of a crankshaft during the execution of the lean active control. The ignition timing control unit executes an advancement limiting process that limits advancement of the ignition timing by the knock control during the execution of the lean active control.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihito Hanai, Takayuki Hosogi, Kenji Senda, Rihito Kaneko, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11143327Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a circulation circuit, a pump, a flow rate adjustment valve, and a controller. The flow rate adjustment valve includes a valve member that rotates to change an open degree of the flow rate adjustment valve and a stopper that moves between a restriction position and a retraction position. The controller is configured to execute, when maintaining the open degree of the flow rate adjustment, a preparatory process of moving the stopper to the restriction position after arranging the stopper at the retraction position and arranging the valve member further in the valve-closing direction than the stopper through control of the pump discharge amount.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noboru Takagi, Hirokazu Kato, Rihito Kaneko, Naoto Hisaminato, Hirokazu Ando, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Watanabe, Takahiko Aoyagi, Masahiro Yoshida, Koji Nunami, Naoto Yumisashi, Masafumi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11035324Abstract: A vehicle including: an engine; an exhaust gas recirculation device including a communication pipe by which an exhaust pipe of the engine and an intake pipe of the engine communicating, and a valve that is provided in the communication pipe; and a control device configured to control the engine, to control the valve based on a target opening of the valve, to perform automatic stopping of the engine based on satisfaction of an automatic stopping condition, and to perform automatic starting of the engine based on satisfaction of an automatic starting condition. The control device is configured to prohibit automatic stopping of the engine when it is determined that foreign matter is caught in the valve through catching diagnosis which is diagnosis of whether foreign matter is caught in the valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisayuki Itoh, Koji Ichikawa, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Kato
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Patent number: 11028763Abstract: An engine cooling device has a mechanical water pump, a flow rate control valve having a valve body of which a relative rotational position is changed by a motor, and a control unit that performs drive control of the motor to change the relative rotational position of the valve body to a target relative rotational position. The control unit performs protection control for setting the relative rotational position where a withstanding pressure limit rotational speed is equal to or higher than a current engine rotational speed, as a target operating position of the valve body of the flow rate control valve when the engine rotational speed rises, and performs retreat control for reducing a set range of the target relative rotational position to a prescribed retreat operation range when the supply voltage of the in-vehicle electric power supply has dropped.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noboru Takagi, Kazuki Kato, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Toshio Takaoka
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Publication number: 20210123396Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, an exhaust gas recirculation device, a traveling motor, and a control device. The exhaust gas recirculation device includes a communication pipe that allows an exhaust pipe and an intake pipe of the engine to communicate with each other and a valve that is provided in the communication pipe. The control device is configured to perform foreign matter removal control for opening and closing the valve when foreign matter caught in the valve is detected and the hybrid vehicle stops.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Hisayuki ITOH, Koji ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu KATO, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210123397Abstract: An engine unit includes an engine, an exhaust gas recirculation device including a communication pipe by which an exhaust pipe of the engine and an intake pipe of the engine to communicating and a valve that is provided in the communication pipe, and a control device. The control device is configured to perform a foreign matter removal control that is opening and closing the valve when catching of foreign matter in the valve is detected and the engine stops.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Hisayuki ITOH, Koji ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu KATO, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210115881Abstract: In an engine system including an engine, and an exhaust gas recirculation device including a communicating pipe that communicates an exhaust pipe of the engine with an intake pipe, and a valve provided in the communicating pipe, and an electronic control unit, and its control method, the electronic control unit estimates the pressure in the intake pipe as an estimated intake pressure, and performs a jamming diagnosis to determine whether foreign matter is stuck in the valve, by comparing an intake pressure difference between a detected intake pressure and the estimated intake pressure with a threshold value, when a diagnosis condition including an opening change condition that the target opening becomes equal to or larger than a first predetermined opening and then becomes equal to or smaller than a second predetermined opening that is smaller than the first predetermined opening is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Koji ICHIKAWA, Hisayuki ITOH, Hirokazu KATO, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210115882Abstract: A vehicle including: an engine; an exhaust gas recirculation device including a communication pipe by which an exhaust pipe of the engine and an intake pipe of the engine communicating, and a valve that is provided in the communication pipe; and a control device configured to control the engine, to control the valve based on a target opening of the valve, to perform automatic stopping of the engine based on satisfaction of an automatic stopping condition, and to perform automatic starting of the engine based on satisfaction of an automatic starting condition. The control device is configured to prohibit automatic stopping of the engine when it is determined that foreign matter is caught in the valve through catching diagnosis which is diagnosis of whether foreign matter is caught in the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Hisayuki ITOH, Koji ICHIKAWA, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI, Hirokazu KATO