Patents by Inventor Noboru Kudo
Noboru Kudo 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: 9637108Abstract: A vehicular driving torque control apparatus, comprising: a limitation variation rate setting section included in a driving torque control section and configured to set, in a form of a limitation variation rate, a low torque side limitation variation rate used in a low torque side until the target driving torque reaches to a torque variation rate switching threshold value and a high torque side limitation variation rate used in a high torque side exceeding the torque variation rate switching threshold value and to execute a limitation suppression variation rate setting process in which the low torque side limitation variation rate is set to be larger than the high torque side limitation variation rate until the target driving torque reaches to the torque variation rate switching threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Munetoshi Ueno, Jun Amemiya, Noboru Kudo
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Patent number: 9636989Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device includes an engine, a motor/generator, an automatic transmission in which the gear ratio can be fixed by the driver's intention; and a drive wheel. The control device has an assist traveling mode and an engine generation traveling mode as hybrid modes in which the engine and the motor/generator are drive sources. The control device includes a rotational speed limit setting unit which sets a value that exceeds the upper rotational speed limit, at which the motor/generator can carry out a torque output, as the rotational speed limit of the engine motor rotational speed, and a rotational speed limit control unit for reducing the rotational speed limit to the rotational speed limit at which the motor/generator can carry out a torque output, when the engine motor rotational speed has reached the rotational speed limit and there is a torque output request of the motor/generator.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Amemiya, Munetoshi Ueno, Tatsuya Uchida, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20160200310Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device includes an engine, a motor/generator, an automatic transmission in which the gear ratio can be fixed by the driver's intention; and a drive wheel. The control device has an assist traveling mode and an engine generation traveling mode as hybrid modes in which the engine and the motor/generator are drive sources. The control device includes a rotational speed limit setting unit which sets a value that exceeds the upper rotational speed limit, at which the motor/generator can carry out a torque output, as the rotational speed limit of the engine motor rotational speed, and a rotational speed limit control unit for reducing the rotational speed limit to the rotational speed limit at which the motor/generator can carry out a torque output, when the engine motor rotational speed has reached the rotational speed limit and there is a torque output request of the motor/generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun AMEMIYA, Munetoshi UENO, Tatsuya UCHIDA, Noboru KUDO
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Publication number: 20160185336Abstract: A vehicular driving torque control apparatus, comprising: a limitation variation rate setting section included in a driving torque control section and configured to set, in a form of a limitation variation rate, a low torque side limitation variation rate used in a low torque side until the target driving torque reaches to a torque variation rate switching threshold value and a high torque side limitation variation rate used in a high torque side exceeding the torque variation rate switching threshold value and to execute a limitation suppression variation rate setting process in which the low torque side limitation variation rate is set to be larger than the high torque side limitation variation rate until the target driving torque reaches to the torque variation rate switching threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2013Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Munetoshi UENO, Jun AMEMIYA, Noboru KUDO
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Patent number: 9205833Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device includes an engine start control section that begins an engine start control when a mode transition request to change to a hybrid vehicle mode occurs due to an accelerator operation while traveling in an electric vehicle mode in which a first clutch is opened. The engine start control section begins engagement of the first clutch after slip engagement of a second clutch is determined and starting the engine using a motor as a starter motor. A negative slip detecting/predicting section detects/predicts if a slip polarity of the second clutch has transitioned from positive slip to negative slip after the engine start control has begun and before the engine has started. A forced backup start control section starts the engine with the second clutch in a fully engaged state when a transition of the second clutch to negative slip has been detected or predicted.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kawamura, Kaori Tanishima, Fumihiro Yamanaka, Yutaka Takamura, Munetoshi Ueno, Noboru Kudo
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Patent number: 9050970Abstract: A driving torque control device for a hybrid vehicle has an engine torque estimation unit configured to estimate an engine torque by compensating for a retardation caused by a delay filter in an engine torque instruction value, and a retardation factor selection unit configured to select, as a retardation factor indicating a retardation degree of the delay filter, any one of an increase-side retardation factor for a case where the engine torque instruction value increases and a decrease-side retardation factor for a case where the engine torque instruction value decreases. The retardation factor selection unit performs switching between the increase-side retardation factor and the decrease-side retardation factor in a case where a difference between the engine torque estimation value and the engine torque instruction value as a filter input value is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Munetoshi Ueno, Takeshi Ohno, Noboru Kudo
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Patent number: 8999120Abstract: An energy-saving ionized water production device and a production method are provided that are capable of producing strongly alkaline ionized in a short period of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Alone WorldInventors: Kazunori Osamura, Takao Kawajiri, Yutaka Nakamura, Noboru Kudo, Masae Shimizu
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Patent number: 8868273Abstract: Compatibility between prevention of hunting of engine start and stop and improvement of fuel consumption is achieved during traveling with mode transitions. An apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a motor-generator, a first clutch and a mode transition control means. The motor-generator is disposed in a drive system (power train) between engine and tire wheels to perform a start of the engine and drive for the tire wheels according to motor acceleration and power generation according to regeneration. The first clutch switches between an HEV mode and an EV mode. Mode transition control means implements a delay time from a time at which an engine stop allowance condition is established to a time at which a mode transition from the HEV mode to the EV mode is started in a high vehicle speed area that is higher than a delay time in another vehicle speed area.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Munetoshi Ueno, Tadashi Okuda, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20140303822Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device includes an engine start control section that begins an engine start control when a mode transition request to change to a hybrid vehicle mode occurs due to an accelerator operation while traveling in an electric vehicle mode in which a first clutch is opened. The engine start control section begins engagement of the first clutch after slip engagement of a second clutch is determined and starting the engine using a motor as a starter motor. A negative slip detecting/predicting section detects/predicts if a slip polarity of the second clutch has transitioned from positive slip to negative slip after the engine start control has begun and before the engine has started. A forced backup start control section starts the engine with the second clutch in a fully engaged state when a transition of the second clutch to negative slip has been detected or predicted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Hiroaki Kawamura, Kaori Tanishima, Fumihiro Yamanaka, Yutaka Takamura, Munetoshi Ueno, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20130226385Abstract: A driving torque control device for a hybrid vehicle has an engine torque estimation unit configured to estimate an engine torque by compensating for a retardation caused by a delay filter in an engine torque instruction value, and a retardation factor selection unit configured to select, as a retardation factor indicating a retardation degree of the delay filter, any one of an increase-side retardation factor for a case where the engine torque instruction value increases and a decrease-side retardation factor for a case where the engine torque instruction value decreases. The retardation factor selection unit performs switching between the increase-side retardation factor and the decrease-side retardation factor in a case where a difference between the engine torque estimation value and the engine torque instruction value as a filter input value is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Munetoshi Ueno, Takeshi Ohno, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20130124026Abstract: Compatibility between prevention of hunting of engine start and stop and improvement of fuel consumption is achieved during traveling with mode transitions. An apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a motor-generator, a first clutch and a mode transition control means. The motor-generator is disposed in a drive system (power train) between engine and tire wheels to perform a start of the engine and drive for the tire wheels according to motor acceleration and power generation according to regeneration. The first clutch switches between an HEV mode and an EV mode. Mode transition control means implements a delay time from a time at which an engine stop allowance condition is established to a time at which a mode transition from the HEV mode to the EV mode is started in a high vehicle speed area that is higher than a delay time in another vehicle speed area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Munetoshi Ueno, Tadashi Okuda, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20120255874Abstract: An energy-saving ionized water production device and a production method are provided that are capable of producing strongly alkaline ionized in a short period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Alone WorldInventors: Kazunori Osamura, Takao Kawajiri, Yutaka Nakamura, Noboru Kudo, Masae Shimizu
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Patent number: 7755141Abstract: Integrated circuits such as semiconductor memories, image sensors, PLA's, and the like have been formed on rigid, planar substrates such as silicon substrates. This has resulted in shapes without flexibility and limited applicabilities. Further, since multiple circuit elements are continuously formed on a flat surface, it has been impossible to produce a non-defective semiconductor memory unless all the circuit elements are fabricated without defects, making it difficult to improve a yield. It is thus devised to weave or braid linear devices into a fabric shape to prepare a planar semiconductor memory, or to bundle up linear devices to prepare a linear semiconductor memory. The integrated circuit comprising the linear devices is flexible and light-weighted, and is thus usable in various applications. It becomes possible to prepare an integrated circuit by once fabricating linear devices and selecting only non-defective ones therefrom, thereby enabling an improved production yield of integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Ideal Star, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20080226835Abstract: According to a containing-fullerene production method by the background art, containment target ions obtained by ionizing containment target atoms have been irradiated to empty fullerene within a vacuum vessel. This has resulted in a problem of a lower formation efficiency of containing-fullerene, in case of forming containing-fullerene which internally contains an atom larger than a six-membered ring of fullerene. It is thus devised to irradiate ions having larger diameters and masses to a fullerene film, simultaneously with irradiation of containment target ions thereto. Since ions having larger masses collide with fullerene molecules, the fullerene molecules are largely deformed and openings thereof are enlarged. Containment target ions are caused to enter cages of fullerene molecules, thereby increasing a probability of formation of containing-fullerene.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20070278527Abstract: Integrated circuits such as semiconductor memories, image sensors, PLA's, and the like have been formed on rigid, planar substrates such as silicon substrates. This has resulted in shapes without flexibility and limited applicabilities. Further, since multiple circuit elements are continuously formed on a flat surface, it has been impossible to produce a non-defective semiconductor memory unless all the circuit elements are fabricated without defects, making it difficult to improve a yield. It is thus devised to weave or braid linear devices into a fabric shape to prepare a planar semiconductor memory, or to bundle up linear devices to prepare a linear semiconductor memory. The integrated circuit comprising the linear devices is flexible and light-weighted, and is thus usable in various applications. It becomes possible to prepare an integrated circuit by once fabricating linear devices and selecting only non-defective ones therefrom, thereby enabling an improved production yield of integrated circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2004Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Noboru Kudo
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Publication number: 20070145352Abstract: With regard to a solid polymer based fuel cell, an electrolyte membrane for conducting proton between a fuel electrode and an air electrode is conventionally made from a material obtained by chemically modifying a hollow fullerene such as C60 by means of a proton dissociable group. However, this fuel cell poses a following problem: since the proton conductivity of the membrane is so low that the internal resistance of battery is increased, which, when big current is extracted, causes the electromotive force to be reduced. The electrolyte membrane is made of a material obtained by chemically modifying an endohedral fullerene doped with an atom whose electronegativity is equal to or higher than 3, by means of a proton dissociable group, or a material made from an endohedral fullerene doped with an atom whose electronegativity is equal to or lower than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: IDEAL STAR INC.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Noboru Kudo
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Patent number: 6726319Abstract: Particles adherent to a semiconductor wafer surface, and defects such as SFs, mounds, and dislocations present near the semiconductor wafer surface can be accurately divided according to their types at a low cost without being influenced by an inspector's ability. The wafer is scanned with a laser beam, scattered or reflected light from the wafer surface is detected from multiple light optics having different detecting angles, respectively, and forms and types of the occurrences present on the wafer surface are determined based on a ratio of detected light intensities from the multiple light optics.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon CorporationInventors: Yoshio Yanase, Osamu Nakamura, Takashi Koike, Noboru Kudo