Patents by Inventor Masaki Matsushita
Masaki Matsushita 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: 12115844Abstract: A back door that reduces noise in a vehicle interior by suppressing vibration of an outer panel while reducing the weight and costs includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel includes a horizontal frame part, vertical frame parts, merging parts, and connecting parts. The connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in a width direction of the horizontal frame part, the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part, and the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part. The connecting parts are respectively connected to the outer panel. The merging parts are formed with higher torsional rigidity than the horizontal frame part and the vertical frame parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Matsushita, Kohei Fukumitsu, Atsushi Ito, Takayuki Sugishima
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Patent number: 12092002Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device and a catalyst deterioration diagnostic method according to the present invention control the amount of fuel to be supplied to an internal combustion engine such that the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust on the downstream side of the exhaust purification catalyst is alternately switched between rich and lean, measure the oxygen storage capability of the exhaust purification catalyst during a measurement period within a reversal period of the air-fuel ratio, and diagnose deterioration of the exhaust purification catalyst based on a measurement value of the oxygen storage capability. A time point at which the output of an exhaust sensor indicates that the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust on the downstream side of the exhaust purification catalyst begins to change from a vicinity of a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to rich or lean is set as the time of end of the measurement period.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Matsushita, Masaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230339300Abstract: A back door structure of a vehicle capable of reducing noise in a vehicle interior by suppressing vibration of an outer panel while reducing the weight and costs includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel includes a horizontal frame part, side-direction frame parts, and connecting parts. The horizontal frame part and each of the side-direction frame parts are mutually connected. The connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in a vertical width direction of the horizontal frame part, the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the vertical width direction of the side-direction frame part, and the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the vertical width direction of the side-direction frame part. The connecting parts are respectively connected to the outer panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Masaki MATSUSHITA, Kohei Fukumitsu, Atsushi Ito, Takayuki Sugishima
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Publication number: 20230339299Abstract: A back door that reduces noise in a vehicle interior by suppressing vibration of an outer panel while reducing the weight and costs includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel includes a horizontal frame part, vertical frame parts, merging parts, and connecting parts. The connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in a width direction of the horizontal frame part, the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part, and the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part. The connecting parts are respectively connected to the outer panel. The merging parts are formed with higher torsional rigidity than the horizontal frame part and the vertical frame parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Masaki MATSUSHITA, Kohei FUKUMITSU, Atsushi ITO, Takayuki SUGISHIMA
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Patent number: 11150072Abstract: There is provided a displacement measuring device that minimize unnecessary power consumption and improves power efficiency. A displacement measuring device includes a main scale and a detection head that is provided in such a manner as to be relatively displaceable to the main scale and outputs a periodic signal having a phase to be changed according to relative displacement to the main scale. The detection head outputs, as the periodic signal, a coarse scale signal having a coarse period and a fine scale signal having a fine period. A coarse phase detector calculates, from two pieces of phase information acquired from the coarse scale signal, the average phase of the coarse scale signal. A fine phase detector calculates, from four pieces of phase information acquired from the fine scale signal, the average phase of the fine scale signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Matsushita, Satoshi Adachi
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Publication number: 20210102796Abstract: There is provided a displacement measuring device that minimize unnecessary power consumption and improves power efficiency. A displacement measuring device includes a main scale and a detection head that is provided in such a manner as to be relatively displaceable to the main scale and outputs a periodic signal having a phase to be changed according to relative displacement to the main scale. The detection head outputs, as the periodic signal, a coarse scale signal having a coarse period and a fine scale signal having a fine period. A coarse phase detector calculates, from two pieces of phase information acquired from the coarse scale signal, the average phase of the coarse scale signal. A fine phase detector calculates, from four pieces of phase information acquired from the fine scale signal, the average phase of the fine scale signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Masaki Matsushita, Satoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 10520336Abstract: The displacement detector is configured to receive a transmission signal output from a transmission signal output unit by a reception electrode disposed in a detection head to detect a displacement between the detection head and a scale based on the received signal. The transmission signal is transmitted from a transmission electrode disposed in the detection head to the reception electrode through a coupling electrode disposed in the scale. Phase adjustment units generates a signal whose phase is adjusted from the transmission signal output from the transmission signal output unit. An amplitude adjustment unit adjusts an amplitude of the signal whose phase is adjusted by the phase adjustment unit to generate a crosstalk correction signal. A demodulation unit samples a signal generated by synthesizing the crosstalk correction signal and the received signal and to demodulate the sampled signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kawatoko, Masaki Matsushita
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Patent number: 10040475Abstract: A malfunction detection device for a resolver detects malfunction in a resolver with accuracy and stability even if a value of a square sum is varied between inside and outside of a normal range. When the resolver is in malfunction, a sine signal and a cosine signal are read. It is determined whether a malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, or not, from read values of the sine signal and the cosine signal, or square values thereof. When it is determined that the malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, the count value is accumulated and incremented every time the test value falls outside a normal range. When the count value arrives at a given value or higher, it is determined that the resolver is in malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi Wada, Takayuki Yamamoto, Ryoichi Yonezawa, Masaki Matsushita, Katsuya Ikemoto
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Publication number: 20180216971Abstract: The displacement detector is configured to receive a transmission signal output from a transmission signal output unit by a reception electrode disposed in a detection head to detect a displacement between the detection head and a scale based on the received signal. The transmission signal is transmitted from a transmission electrode disposed in the detection head to the reception electrode through a coupling electrode disposed in the scale. Phase adjustment units generates a signal whose phase is adjusted from the transmission signal output from the transmission signal output unit. An amplitude adjustment unit adjusts an amplitude of the signal whose phase is adjusted by the phase adjustment unit to generate a crosstalk correction signal. A demodulation unit samples a signal generated by synthesizing the crosstalk correction signal and the received signal and to demodulate the sampled signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Osamu Kawatoko, Masaki Matsushita
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Patent number: 9981684Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus includes a power-supply supply portion 101 supplying a power supply to a micro-controller 102, an inverter 104 supplying power to drive a motor 5, a gate driver 103 controlling the inverter 104, a motor relay 105 opening and closing a current-passing path between the inverter 104 and the motor 5, a motor relay driver 106 controlling the motor relay 105, and a monitoring control portion A 108a and a monitoring control portion B 108b monitoring a power-supply voltage of the power-supply supply portion 101. Because multiple monitoring control portions are included, even in the event of an inconvenience in either one of the monitoring control portions A 108a and B 108b, the motor 5 can be stopped quickly in a reliable manner when the power-supply voltage goes out of a normal operation range.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaki Matsushita, Takayuki Kifuku, Hiroyuki Kozuki, Masatoshi Saito, Yu Kawano
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Patent number: 9540037Abstract: A malfunction detection device for a resolver detects malfunction in a resolver with accuracy and stability even if a value of a square sum is varied between inside and outside of a normal range. When the resolver is in malfunction, a sine signal and a cosine signal are read. It is determined whether a malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, or not, from read values of the sine signal and the cosine signal, or square values thereof. When it is determined that the malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, the count value is accumulated and incremented every time the test value falls outside a normal range. When the count value arrives at a given value or higher, it is determined that the resolver is in malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi Wada, Takayuki Yamamoto, Ryoichi Yonezawa, Masaki Matsushita, Katsuya Ikemoto
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Publication number: 20160207563Abstract: A malfunction detection device for a resolver detects malfunction in a resolver with accuracy and stability even if a value of a square sum is varied between inside and outside of a normal range. When the resolver is in malfunction, a sine signal and a cosine signal are read. It is determined whether a malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, or not, from read values of the sine signal and the cosine signal, or square values thereof. When it is determined that the malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, the count value is accumulated and incremented every time the test value falls outside a normal range. When the count value arrives at a given value or higher, it is determined that the resolver is in malfunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi WADA, Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Ryoichi YONEZAWA, Masaki MATSUSHITA, Katsuya IKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20160207564Abstract: A malfunction detection device for a resolver detects malfunction in a resolver with accuracy and stability even if a value of a square sum is varied between inside and outside of a normal range. When the resolver is in malfunction, a sine signal and a cosine signal are read. It is determined whether a malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, or not, from read values of the sine signal and the cosine signal, or square values thereof. When it is determined that the malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, the count value is accumulated and incremented every time the test value falls outside a normal range. When the count value arrives at a given value or higher, it is determined that the resolver is in malfunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi WADA, Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Ryoichi YONEZAWA, Masaki MATSUSHITA, Katsuya IKEMOTO
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Patent number: 9346487Abstract: The apparatus herein provided includes a plurality of systems including driving circuits (20a, 20b) for driving motor coils (3a, 3b) corresponding thereto, and a control unit (10) for controlling control values of the driving circuits (20a, 20b), wherein, when a fault occurs in at least one of the plurality of systems including the motor coils (3a, 3b), the control unit (10) decreases a control value of a system(s) in which the fault occurs from an ordinary time control value or stops the drive by the system(s) in which the fault occurs, and also increases a control value of another system(s) in which the fault does not occur to more than an ordinary time control value.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Kimpara, Akihiko Mori, Masaki Matsushita, Jiro Okada
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Patent number: 9335184Abstract: A malfunction detection device for a resolver detects malfunction in a resolver with accuracy and stability even if a value of a square sum is varied between inside and outside of a normal range. When the resolver is in malfunction, a sine signal and a cosine signal are read. It is determined whether a malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, or not, from read values of the sine signal and the cosine signal, or square values thereof. When it is determined that the malfunction determination of the resolver is prohibited, the count value is accumulated and incremented every time the test value falls outside a normal range. When the count value arrives at a given value or higher, it is determined that the resolver is in malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi Wada, Takayuki Yamamoto, Ryoichi Yonezawa, Masaki Matsushita, Katsuya Ikemoto
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Patent number: 9242670Abstract: In a steering control device, a road surface reaction force torque calculation module (52) uses a vehicle speed, steering angle, and vehicle model to calculate a caster-trail-caused torque, a self-aligning torque, and a road surface reaction force torque. A reaction force command current calculation module (53) uses the road surface reaction force torque and the vehicle speed to calculate a reaction force command current.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaya Endo, Masahiko Kurishige, Takayuki Kifuku, Masaki Matsushita, Hideki Doi
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Publication number: 20150298727Abstract: The apparatus herein provided includes a plurality of systems including driving circuits (20a, 20b) for driving motor coils (3a, 3b) corresponding thereto, and a control unit (10) for controlling control values of the driving circuits (20a, 20b) wherein, when a fault occurs in at least one of the plurality of systems including the motor coils (3a, 3b), the control unit (10) decreases a control value of a system(s) in which the fault occurs from an ordinary time control value or stops the drive by the system(s) in which the fault occurs, and also increases a control value of another system(s) in which the fault does not occur to more than an ordinary time control value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Akihiko MORI, Masaki MATSUSHITA, Jiro OKADA
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Publication number: 20150216860Abstract: The object is to provide a novel therapeutic strategy achieving high therapeutic effect on a skeletal dysplasia caused by excessive activation of FGFR3, particularly achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia. Provided is a therapeutic agent for a skeletal dysplasia, including meclizine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Kinji Ohno, Naoki Ishiguro, Hiroshi Kito, Masaki Matsushita
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Patent number: 8983727Abstract: A steering control apparatus is obtained which can achieve a sophisticated control function and redundancy of a motor output torque control unit with a simple construction. The apparatus includes a motor 3 that provides assist torque to a steering system, and a processing unit 2 that has an input processing section 21 for taking in detection signals of various kinds of sensors, and an inverter 25a for driving the motor 3, wherein a command is given to the inverter 25a based on the detection signals. The processing unit 2 has a motor target output torque calculation section 221a, a motor output torque control unit 222, a plurality of main-calculation sections, and a plurality of sub-calculation sections corresponding to the main-calculation sections, and determines abnormality of the motor output torque control unit 222 based on individual calculation results of the main-calculation sections and the sub-calculation sections.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takayuki Kifuku, Hiroyuki Kozuki, Masaki Matsushita
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Publication number: 20140350791Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus includes a power-supply supply portion 101 supplying a power supply to a micro-controller 102, an inverter 104 supplying power to drive a motor 5, a gate driver 103 controlling the inverter 104, a motor relay 105 opening and closing a current-passing path between the inverter 104 and the motor 5, a motor relay driver 106 controlling the motor relay 105, and a monitoring control portion A 108a and a monitoring control portion B 108b monitoring a power-supply voltage of the power-supply supply portion 101. Because multiple monitoring control portions are included, even in the event of an inconvenience in either one of the monitoring control portions A 108a and B 108b, the motor 5 can be stopped quickly in a reliable manner when the power-supply voltage goes out of a normal operation range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Matsushita, Takayuki Kifuku, Hiroyuki Kozuki, Masatoshi Saito, Yu Kawano