Patents by Inventor Minoru Sugano

Minoru Sugano 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: 12233936
    Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus is configured to apply, to a steered wheel of a vehicle, a driving force for canceling a toe change amount caused by a road irregularity. The vehicle steering apparatus includes a road reaction force detector configured to detect a road reaction force received by a tire of the steered wheel, a toe adjustment actuator coupled to the steered wheel, and a controller configured to control a driving force of the toe adjustment actuator. The controller includes a toe change amount setter configured to set the toe change amount based on the road reaction force detected by the road reaction force detector, an operation amount calculator configured to calculate an actuator operation amount for canceling the toe change amount set by the toe change amount setter, and a driver configured to drive the toe adjustment actuator by the actuator operation amount calculated by the operation amount calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Oowada, Hiroomi Kobayashi, Taichi Murai, Yosuke Takebayashi, Takeshi Yoneda, Kaoru Sugano, Akihiro Nabeshima, Minoru Suyama, Tatsuya Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 12208678
    Abstract: A front-rear wheel driving force distribution device includes a center differential and a limited slip differential. The limited slip differential includes a first clutch, a second clutch, a first piston, a second piston, and a one-way clutch provided between the first clutch and a rear propeller shaft. If the second clutch is engaged by the second piston, the propeller shaft on the rear side rotates at increased speed as compared with a case where the first clutch is engaged by the first piston. The one-way clutch couples the first clutch and the rear propeller shaft if a number of rotations of the first clutch is same as or higher than a number of rotations of the rear propeller shaft, and idles if the number of rotations of the first clutch is lower than the number of rotations of the rear propeller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Oowada, Hiroomi Kobayashi, Taichi Murai, Takeshi Yoneda, Yosuke Takebayashi, Minoru Suyama, Tatsuya Takayanagi, Akihiro Nabeshima, Kaoru Sugano
  • Patent number: 7322320
    Abstract: A cylinder block including a block with two parts, a cylinder liner portion defining an inner wall of a water jacket and a cylinder block body defining an outer wall of the water jacket. The water jacket, which extends around the cylinders, is defined between the cylinder liner portion and the cylinder block body. A cylinder connector includes rectangular partition walls arranged in the direction cylinder liners are aligned. Each partition wall partitions adjacent cylinder lines and extends vertically downward from the bottom of the cylinder connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Minoru Sugano
  • Patent number: 7059292
    Abstract: A cylinder block includes an inner block member having a cylinder liner portion and an outer block member having a cylinder outer wall portion. With the inner and outer block members assembled together, a water jacket is defined between the outer and inner circumferential surface. A first sealing surface of the cylinder liner portion is opposed to a second sealing surface of the cylinder outer wall portion below the water jacket, and a liquid gasket is provided between the first and second sealing surfaces. A continuous projection is provided on the first sealing surface. When the cylinder liner portion is inserted into the space defined by the cylinder outer wall portion, the projection prevents the gasket from being displaced to a trailing side on the cylinder liner portion with respect to the inserting direction. As a result, the clearance between the block members is sealed reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Sugano, Kazunari Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20060037566
    Abstract: A cylinder block including a block with two parts, a cylinder liner portion defining an inner wall of a water jacket and a cylinder block body defining an outer wall of the water jacket. The water jacket, which extends around the cylinders, is defined between the cylinder liner portion and the cylinder block body. A cylinder connector includes rectangular partition walls arranged in the direction cylinder liners are aligned. Each partition wall partitions adjacent cylinder lines and extends vertically downward from the bottom of the cylinder connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventor: Minoru Sugano
  • Publication number: 20050151328
    Abstract: A cylinder block includes an inner block member having a cylinder liner portion and an outer block member having a cylinder outer wall portion. With the inner and outer block members assembled together, a water jacket is defined between the outer and inner circumferential surface. A first sealing surface of the cylinder liner portion is opposed to a second sealing surface of the cylinder outer wall portion below the water jacket, and a liquid gasket is provided between the first and second sealing surfaces. A continuous projection is provided on the first sealing surface. When the cylinder liner portion is inserted into the space defined by the cylinder outer wall portion, the projection prevents the gasket from being displaced to a trailing side on the cylinder liner portion with respect to the inserting direction. As a result, the clearance between the block members is sealed reliably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Minoru Sugano, Kazunari Takenaka
  • Patent number: 5067075
    Abstract: In a system comprising input/output devices, a memory and a control processor, direct memory access information (memory address and data) from an input/output device to the processor is stored temporarily and then a direct memory access request is transmitted to the processor. The processor bus holding time at direct memory access is reduced, and the processing speed of the processor is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.
    Inventors: Minoru Sugano, Akira Horiki, Zenichi Yashiro, Hironori Matsushima
  • Patent number: 4876681
    Abstract: In order to enable an expansion of a packet switched network and a constitution change thereof to be readily achieved in a multistage switched network constitution, in a packet switched network including a packet data terminal, a packet switching equipment, a PBX, a multiplexer, an LAN, a voice communication apparatus such as a telephone set, and a facsimile or in a linkage between switching modules in a packet switching apparatus, the basic switching modules called configuration units connected to the network are interconnected to each other to form a hierarchic tree structure of which the number of hierarchic levels can be selected depending on a size of the packet switched network. Furthermore, in order to increase the reliability of the packet data transfer in the multi-stage switched network configuration, there are disposed a plurality of connecting lines between bit switches and upper-level configuration units so as to establish a redundant configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hagiwara, Michio Suzuki, Ryoichi Sasaki, Minoru Sugano, Akira Horiki, Kazuyuki Hayashi