Patents by Inventor Motoyuki Oniki

Motoyuki Oniki 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: 20220069370
    Abstract: An ECU calculates a surface potential of a negative electrode active material relative to a lithium reference potential, according to a battery model for calculating lithium concentration distribution inside the negative electrode active material. The ECU calculates a voltage drop amount associated with charging of a battery, using a charging current to the battery and a reaction resistance, and calculates a negative electrode potential by subtracting the voltage drop amount from the surface potential. The ECU corrects the negative electrode potential, using an SOC of the battery, an average current in a charging period of the battery, and an integrated current in the charging period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoyuki Oniki, Takashi Ogura, Risa Atarashi
  • Patent number: 11196103
    Abstract: An ECU calculates a surface potential of a negative electrode active material relative to a lithium reference potential, according to a battery model for calculating lithium concentration distribution inside the negative electrode active material. The ECU calculates a voltage drop amount associated with charging of a battery, using a charging current to the battery and a reaction resistance, and calculates a negative electrode potential by subtracting the voltage drop amount from the surface potential. The ECU corrects the negative electrode potential, using an SOC of the battery, an average current in a charging period of the battery, and an integrated current in the charging period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoyuki Oniki, Takashi Ogura, Risa Atarashi
  • Patent number: 10490864
    Abstract: A temperature history of a lithium ion secondary battery is recorded; a SOC history of the lithium ion secondary battery is recorded; a deterioration degree (K1) of a positive electrode of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a first data table; a deterioration degree (K2) of a negative electrode of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a second data table; an amount of lithium trapped (TLi) in the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a third data table; and a deterioration degree of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the deterioration degree of the positive electrode, the deterioration degree of the negative electrode, and the amount of lithium trapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoyuki Oniki
  • Publication number: 20190198941
    Abstract: An ECU calculates a surface potential of a negative electrode active material relative to a lithium reference potential, according to a battery model for calculating lithium concentration distribution inside the negative electrode active material. The ECU calculates a voltage drop amount associated with charging of a battery, using a charging current to the battery and a reaction resistance, and calculates a negative electrode potential by subtracting the voltage drop amount from the surface potential. The ECU corrects the negative electrode potential, using an SOC of the battery, an average current in a charging period of the battery, and an integrated current in the charging period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoyuki Oniki, Takashi Ogura, Risa Atarashi
  • Publication number: 20160351974
    Abstract: A temperature history of a lithium ion secondary battery is recorded; a SOC history of the lithium ion secondary battery is recorded; a deterioration degree (K1) of a positive electrode of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a first data table; a deterioration degree (K2) of a negative electrode of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a second data table; an amount of lithium trapped (TLi) in the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the temperature history, the SOC history, and a third data table; and a deterioration degree of the lithium ion secondary battery is calculated based on the deterioration degree of the positive electrode, the deterioration degree of the negative electrode, and the amount of lithium trapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoyuki ONIKI
  • Patent number: 9142166
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving motion blur and preventing excessive current flow into a light source with a desired balance in a structure where the light intensity of a backlight device is properly changed in conjunction with the ambient illuminance. If the ambient illuminance (S1) of a liquid crystal display device is lower than a preliminarily set predetermined illuminance, a backlight scanning process (intermittent lighting process) is implemented (Yes of S2, S3), while if the ambient illuminance is not lower than the predetermined illuminance, the backlight scanning process (intermittent lighting process) is terminated (No of S2, S21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoyuki Oniki
  • Patent number: 8860321
    Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza
  • Patent number: 8842140
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the occurrence of a multi-contour in the display of a moving image to the minimum, the cycle of execution of an intermittent lighting operation in backlight scanning and the cycle of a vertical synchronization signal are made equal when an interpolation image insertion mode in which an interpolation image signal generated on the basis of two or more continuous frame images is inserted between frames and written into a liquid crystal panel is executed, and the cycle of the execution of the intermittent lighting operation in the backlight scanning is made longer than the cycle of the vertical synchronization signal (or the backlight scanning is disabled) when an overlapped image output mode in which the same frame image is written into the liquid crystal panel continuously n times is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motoyuki Oniki
  • Patent number: 8797253
    Abstract: In an LCD device, picture quality luminance is controlled through the combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) system and current value control system, reducing the electrical power consumption associated with turning on an LED. In the LED backlight, the light emitting luminance of the LED is controlled by both PWM and also by current value control, which selects the value of the current supplied to the LED from a plurality of set values. At least one of the plurality of set values is a predetermined current value at which duty reaches a maximum value at the maximum luminance value used in a specified picture quality mode of the picture quality modes established in the liquid crystal display device. In the aforementioned specified picture quality mode, the greatest luminance value to be used is smaller than at least the greatest luminance value used in other specified picture quality modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Iwasaki, Motoyuki Oniki
  • Publication number: 20130057165
    Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza
  • Publication number: 20130016140
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving motion blur and preventing excessive current flow into a light source with a desired balance in a structure where the light intensity of a backlight device is properly changed in conjunction with the ambient illuminance. If the ambient illuminance (S1) of a liquid crystal display device is lower than a preliminarily set predetermined illuminance, a backlight scanning process (intermittent lighting process) is implemented (Yes of S2, S3), while if the ambient illuminance is not lower than the predetermined illuminance, the backlight scanning process (intermittent lighting process) is terminated (No of S2, S21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoyuki Oniki
  • Publication number: 20120162532
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus and a television receiver enable an improvement in visibility in a low-tone range in a configuration in which the brightness of a backlight is changed on the basis of brightness information relating to an image. The apparatus includes an APL curve setting portion and a histogram luminance modulating portion which adjust the brightness of the backlight and a tone signal on the basis of the average brightness of the image and the brightness histogram of the image. A black extending portion applies gamma correction to the tone signal adjusted by the histogram luminance modulating portion on the basis of a previously set gamma value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Motoyuki Oniki, Tetsuo Ikeyama
  • Publication number: 20120162289
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the occurrence of a multi-contour in the display of a moving image to the minimum, the cycle of execution of an intermittent lighting operation in backlight scanning and the cycle of a vertical synchronization signal are made equal when an interpolation image insertion mode in which an interpolation image signal generated on the basis of two or more continuous frame images is inserted between frames and written into a liquid crystal panel is executed, and the cycle of the execution of the intermittent lighting operation in the backlight scanning is made longer than the cycle of the vertical synchronization signal (or the backlight scanning is disabled) when an overlapped image output mode in which the same frame image is written into the liquid crystal panel continuously n times is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoyuki Oniki
  • Publication number: 20120105515
    Abstract: In an LCD device, picture quality luminance is controlled through the combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) system and current value control system, reducing the electrical power consumption associated with turning on an LED. In the LED backlight, the light emitting luminance of the LED is controlled by both PWM and also by current value control, which selects the value of the current supplied to the LED from a plurality of set values. At least one of the plurality of set values is a predetermined current value at which duty reaches a maximum value at the maximum luminance value used in a specified picture quality mode of the picture quality modes established in the liquid crystal display device. In the aforementioned specified picture quality mode, the greatest luminance value to be used is smaller than at least the greatest luminance value used in other specified picture quality modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Iwasaki, Motoyuki Oniki