Patents by Inventor Masanari NUMATA

Masanari NUMATA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240262249
    Abstract: An energy manager serving as a battery management device manages a state of a driving battery mounted on a vehicle. The battery management device includes a temperature adjustment unit, an environmental information acquisition unit, a temperature estimation unit, a target temperature setting unit, and a travel speed adjustment unit. The target temperature setting unit sets a target battery temperature at which the battery can be efficiently charged by operating the temperature adjustment unit when the vehicle arrives at a charging facility. The travel speed adjustment unit uses battery temperature estimated by the temperature estimation unit and target battery temperature set by the target temperature setting unit to determine an adjustment amount of a travel speed when the vehicle travels to the charging facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Yasuteru FUKUI, Nobuharu KAKEHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240239158
    Abstract: A system includes a refrigeration circuit, low-temperature circuit and controller. The refrigeration circuit includes: a tiller for absorbing heat from a colling water to a refrigerant; and a condenser for releasing heat from the refrigerant to an outside, and realizes a refrigeration cycle by circulating the refrigerant therethrough. The low-temperature circuit includes the tiller and an external heat exchanger for absorbing heat from an outside to the first heat medium, and circulate the cooling water therethrough. The controller can change a heat absorption amount of the refrigerant at the tiller. The controller controls the device so that a change in the heat absorption amount of the refrigerant at the first heat exchanger in accordance with a change in a temperature of the first heat medium is reduced, if the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the first heat exchanger changes by a reference value or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MICHIKAWAUCHI, Hidefumi AIKAWA, Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Satoshi ITO, Naoki KATO, Tatsuhito MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240239157
    Abstract: A system includes: a low-temperature circuit having a chiller and in which a cooling water circulates therethrough; a heat dissipation unit for dissipating heat to an air; a refrigeration circuit in which a refrigerant circulates and for absorbing heat from the cooling water to the refrigerant at the chiller and dissipating heat from the refrigerant at the heat dissipation unit; a ratio adjusting device for adjusting a heat dissipation unit passing ratio; and a controller for controlling an heat transfer amount adjusting apparatus capable of adjusting the heat transfer amount in the refrigeration circuit and the ratio adjusting device. If it is predicted that the temperature of the cooling water decreases, the controller controls the apparatus so that the heat transfer amount is increased and controls the ratio adjusting device so that the ratio is decreased, before the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the chiller decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MICHIKAWAUCHI, Hidefumi AIKAWA, Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Satoshi ITO, Naoki KATO, Tatsuhito MATSUMOTO