Patents by Inventor Ryo Katoh

Ryo Katoh 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: 11987284
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an ADK attachable to and removable from a vehicle main body, the ADK issuing an instruction for autonomous driving, a VP including a plurality of functional units that perform a plurality of prescribed functions of the vehicle main body, and a VCIB that issues a control instruction to the functional units in accordance with an instruction from the ADK. One of the plurality of functional units is a steering system that steers the vehicle main body. The steering system specifies a limit value of a steering rate in accordance with a prescribed reference and transmits the specified limit value to the ADK through the VCIB. The ADK calculates a target steering angle to satisfy the limit value received from the steering system and transmits an instruction for the calculated steering angle to the steering system through the VCIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma Suzuki, Satoshi Katoh, Ryo Irie
  • Patent number: 5183394
    Abstract: A swash plate type compressor which includes a pair of cylinder blocks. The cylinder blocks contains a crank case and a plurality of cylinders leading to a suction port. A pair of housing sections cover the cylinder blocks, and contain a suction chamber leading to each about the center of the cylinders, and a discharge chamber which is fluidly connected to the cylinders. The cylinder blocks rotatably support a drive shaft. The suction chamber contains a shaft sealing device in order to seal a forward section of the drive shaft. A refrigerant fluid within the crank case is sucked into the cylinders via the suction chamber. A refrigerant passage is provided along the central axis of the drive shaft. A plurality of inlet and outlet ports are connected to the refrigerant passage and to the crank case and suction chamber. The refrigerant passage, the outlet ports and the inlet ports form a refrigerant suction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Toshiro Fujii, Hayato Ikeda, Ryo Katoh, Hitoshi Inukai