Patents by Inventor Satoshi Umemura

Satoshi Umemura 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: 20240077128
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including first and second attachment members connected by a main rubber elastic body. The second attachment member includes a main rubber outer member having a first tubular part fastened to an outer peripheral end of the main rubber elastic body, and a drawing fitting having a second tubular part attached externally about the first tubular part of the main rubber outer member. The first tubular part is axially inserted in the second tubular part, and the second tubular part is reduced in diameter to be fitted to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular part. Fitted portions of the first tubular part and the second tubular part include respective tapered parts decreasing in diameter in a direction of dislodgment that is opposite to a direction of insertion of the first tubular part in the second tubular part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUI, Mutsumi MURAOKA, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Patent number: 11143192
    Abstract: An electric supercharger that can reduce vibration amplitude in an end of a shaft due to rotational vibration is provided. An electric supercharger 101 comprises: an impeller 40 for supercharging a fluid by rotation; an impeller chamber 15 for accommodating the impeller 40; a motor 30 for driving the impeller 40 to rotate; and a motor chamber 18 for accommodating the motor 30. An opening 28 is provided between the impeller chamber 15 and the motor chamber 18 wherein the fluid is able to pass therethrough. Seal structures 50, 51, 52 are provided for separating the motor chamber 18 from the exterior at portions other than the opening 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio Oshita, Toshihiro Yamamichi, Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Satoshi Umemura
  • Patent number: 10527010
    Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine includes an electric supercharger that includes a compressor wheel that is configured to be rotated by an electric motor. The control system includes a bypass passage, a bypass valve, and an exhaust gas recirculation passage. The control device is configured to control the electric supercharger and the bypass valve based on an operation condition of the internal combustion engine. The control device is configured to cause a stepping operation of the electric supercharger in which acceleration and stopping of the compressor wheel are repeated within a predetermined cleaning time after operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio Oshita, Toshihiro Yamamichi, Satoshi Umemura
  • Publication number: 20190288576
    Abstract: An electric turbo-machine includes a housing, a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the housing through a rolling bearing, an impeller, and an electric motor. The housing has an oil supply section to which lubricating oil is supplied. A tubular oil supply member is mounted to the oil supply section. The oil supply member has a supply passage extending within the oil supply member in the axial direction of the oil supply member and in communication at a first end of the oil supply member with the oil supply section and an ejection hole in communication with the supply passage and configured so as to eject lubricating oil toward a portion between the inner ring and outer ring of the rolling bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio OSHITA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Patent number: 10415572
    Abstract: There is provided an electric supercharger having a compressor including a compressor impeller, a motor housing, an electric motor rotationally driving the compressor, and a first bearing and a second bearing provided to support a shaft and a rotor in the motor housing. The first bearing is located on the compressor side of the rotor and the second bearing is located on the other side of the rotor. The motor housing includes a thermal conductive passage through which heat generated by a coil wound around a stator is transmitted to the first and second bearings. The thermal conductive passage between the coil and the first bearing is formed with a reduced thickness portion in such a way that thickness of the thermal conductive passage is reduced in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which the heat is transmitted through the thermal conductive passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio Oshita, Satoshi Umemura, Yutaka Fujiki, Toshihiro Yamamichi
  • Patent number: 10020146
    Abstract: A current interruption device includes: a deforming plate configured to deform when the internal pressure of the casing rises above the predetermined level; a conducting plate which configures the current path; and a contact plate. The conducting plate includes a first contact portion configured to contact the contact plate. The contact plate includes a second contact portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The deforming plate includes a pressure receiving portion configured to receive the internal pressure of the casing and a contacting portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The second contact portion is configured to be separated from the conducting plate by deformation causing the contacting portion to move toward the contact plate. The deforming plate is insulated from the conducting plate and the contact plate. The conducting plate is disposed to be interleaved between the deforming plate and the contact plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoaki Okuda, Satoshi Umemura, Takayuki Kato, Hiroyasu Nishihara, Atsushi Minagata, Hirokuni Akiyama, Toshio Odagiri, Takayuki Hirose, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Toshiaki Iwa
  • Publication number: 20180163675
    Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine includes an electric supercharger that includes a compressor wheel that is configured to be rotated by an electric motor. The control system includes a bypass passage, a bypass valve, and an exhaust gas recirculation passage. The control device is configured to control the electric supercharger and the bypass valve based on an operation condition of the internal combustion engine. The control device is configured to cause a stepping operation of the electric supercharger in which acceleration and stopping of the compressor wheel are repeated within a predetermined cleaning time after operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio OSHITA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Patent number: 9973122
    Abstract: A sensorless electric motor control device is provided that completes a phase detection of a rotor before an activation signal is received, so as to shorten a time period from when the activation signal is received to when the rotor reaches a target number of rotations. The control device for a sensorless electric motor 10 includes an inverter 11 that drives the electric motor 10 and a first processor 18 that serves as a phase detection unit that causes the inverter 11 to perform a phase detection before the inverter 11 receives an activation signal that activates the electric motor 10, wherein the phase detection aligns a magnetic pole of a rotor of the electric motor 10 with a predetermined position with respect to a stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Satoshi Umemura, Yoshihiro Maeda, Makio Oshita, Toshihiro Yamamichi
  • Publication number: 20180023593
    Abstract: An electric supercharger includes an electric motor, a motor housing, a drive circuit, a circuit housing, and a compressing portion. The circuit housing includes an accommodating wall having a shape projecting from an outer surface of the motor housing, and a bottom located at a distal end in the projecting direction of the accommodating wall. The circuit housing together with the motor housing, hermetically confines the drive circuit. The bottom includes a heat release portion that faces the outer side of the circuit housing. The drive circuit is thermally coupled to an inner surface of the heat release portion that faces the inner side of circuit housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yutaka FUJIKI, Satoshi UMEMURA, Kiyoshi UETSUJI, Makio OSHITA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI
  • Publication number: 20170138365
    Abstract: There is provided an electric supercharger having a compressor including a compressor impeller, a motor housing, an electric motor rotationally driving the compressor, and a first bearing and a second bearing provided to support a shaft and a rotor in the motor housing. The first bearing is located on the compressor side of the rotor and the second bearing is located on the other side of the rotor. The motor housing includes a thermal conductive passage through which heat generated by a coil wound around a stator is transmitted to the first and second bearings. The thermal conductive passage between the coil and the first bearing is formed with a reduced thickness portion in such a way that thickness of the thermal conductive passage is reduced in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which the heat is transmitted through the thermal conductive passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio OSHITA, Satoshi UMEMURA, Yutaka FUJIKI, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI
  • Publication number: 20170133963
    Abstract: A sensorless electric motor control device is provided that completes a phase detection of a rotor before an activation signal is received, so as to shorten a time period from when the activation signal is received to when the rotor reaches a target number of rotations. The control device for a sensorless electric motor 10 includes an inverter 11 that drives the electric motor 10 and a first processor 18 that serves as a phase detection unit that causes the inverter 11 to perform a phase detection before the inverter 11 receives an activation signal that activates the electric motor 10, wherein the phase detection aligns a magnetic pole of a rotor of the electric motor 10 with a predetermined position with respect to a stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kiyoshi UETSUJI, Satoshi UMEMURA, Yoshihiro MAEDA, Makio OSHITA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI
  • Publication number: 20170101995
    Abstract: An electric supercharger that can reduce vibration amplitude in an end of a shaft due to rotational vibration is provided. An electric supercharger 101 comprises: an impeller 40 for supercharging a fluid by rotation; an impeller chamber 15 for accommodating the impeller 40; a motor 30 for driving the impeller 40 to rotate; and a motor chamber 18 for accommodating the motor 30. An opening 28 is provided between the impeller chamber 15 and the motor chamber 18 wherein the fluid is able to pass therethrough. Seal structures 50, 51, 52 are provided for separating the motor chamber 18 from the exterior at portions other than the opening 28.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Makio OSHITA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI, Kiyoshi UETSUJI, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Publication number: 20160359382
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a rotary shaft supported rotatably by the housing, a rotor fixed to the rotary shaft, and a stator fixed to the housing and provided opposite the rotor on a radial direction outer side of the rotor, wherein the stator includes a stator core formed by laminating a plurality of steel plates, the stator core is fixed to a stator attachment surface provided on an inner peripheral surface of the housing, and an inner diameter expansion region is provided adjacent to the stator attachment surface on the inner peripheral surface of the housing in a position corresponding to an end part of the stator core, the inner diameter expansion region having a larger diameter than the stator attachment surface so as not to contact the stator core. As a result, deformation of the laminated steel plates forming the stator core can be prevented by means of a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kiyoshi UETSUJI, Satoshi UMEMURA, Makio OSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160334172
    Abstract: A chemical thermal storage device includes a reactor that is disposed around a heat exchanger and contains a thermal storage material that generates heat upon chemical reaction with NH3 and desorbs NH3 upon reception of waste heat, an adsorber containing an adsorption material capable of retention and desorption of NH3 through physical adsorption, a solenoid valve that is provided between the reactor and the adsorber and opens and closes a flow channel between both, and a safety valve that is provided in parallel to the solenoid valve between the reactor and the adsorber and mechanically opens when a pressure in the reactor reaches a preset valve-opening setting pressure. The safety valve has a check valve function to shut off a flow of NH3 from the adsorber to the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukihiro NOGUCHI, Hiroyasu KAWAUCHI, Takanori MURASAKI, Kenji MORI, Yasushi SATAKE, Satoshi HARIU, Takafumi YAMASAKI, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Patent number: 9200690
    Abstract: A cylindrical vibration-damping device wherein an outer cylindrical member is made in a configuration of two sections divided along an circumference, the outer cylindrical member being externally fitted onto intermediate rings in a non-adhesive manner by means of having the intermediate rings sandwiched by the outer cylindrical member in a radial direction, and a plurality of regulating protrusions protruding inward in the radial direction are formed on the outer cylindrical member at a given distance and arranged on both sides of the intermediate rings in an axial direction so as to provide a positioning member that positions the intermediate rings with respect to the outer cylindrical member in the axial direction by means of abutting the intermediate rings against the regulating protrusions in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shimpei Eguchi, Satoshi Umemura, Hiroaki Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20150079432
    Abstract: A current interruption device includes: a deforming plate configured to deform when the internal pressure of the casing rises above the predetermined level; a conducting plate which configures the current path; and a contact plate. The conducting plate includes a first contact portion configured to contact the contact plate. The contact plate includes a second contact portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The deforming plate includes a pressure receiving portion configured to receive the internal pressure of the casing and a contacting portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The second contact portion is configured to be separated from the conducting plate by deformation causing the contacting portion to move toward the contact plate. The deforming plate is insulated from the conducting plate and the contact plate. The conducting plate is disposed to be interleaved between the deforming plate and the contact plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicants: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Motoaki Okuda, Satoshi Umemura, Takayuki Kato, Hiroyasu Nishihara, Atsushi Minagata, Hirokuni Akiyama, Toshio Odagiri, Takayuki Hirose, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Toshiaki Iwa
  • Patent number: 8936235
    Abstract: A fluid-filled type vibration damping device including a base component and a tubular mating component. The tubular mating component is externally fitted onto the base component by means of a diameter-constricting caulking with a sealing rubber clasped therebetween so as to constitute a mate-fastened portion. The tubular mating component extends axially outward beyond a sealed section of the mate-fastened portion so as to provide a caulking tube portion. A diametrical position of the tubular mating component at the sealed section is determined by contact of the caulking tube portion against an outside peripheral face of a positioning projection provided on the base component so as to define a diametrical positioning portion. The caulking tube portion is constricted in diameter and held in engagement with an axial edge portion of the positioning projection so as to form an axial positioning portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignees: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Koyama, Mutsumi Muraoka, Hironori Daito, Satoshi Umemura, Jyoji Tsutsumida, Shinichi Suganuma, Takeshi Hamanaka, Kaoru Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140210148
    Abstract: A cylindrical vibration-damping device wherein an outer cylindrical member is made in a configuration of two sections divided along an circumference, the outer cylindrical member being externally fitted onto intermediate rings in a non-adhesive manner by means of having the intermediate rings sandwiched by the outer cylindrical member in a radial direction, and a plurality of regulating protrusions protruding inward in the radial direction are formed on the outer cylindrical member at a given distance and arranged on both sides of the intermediate rings in an axial direction so as to provide a positioning member that positions the intermediate rings with respect to the outer cylindrical member in the axial direction by means of abutting the intermediate rings against the regulating protrusions in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei EGUCHI, Satoshi UMEMURA, Hiroaki TANAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8789819
    Abstract: A fluid-filled type active vibration damping device including: a first mounting member; a second mounting member; a main rubber elastic body connecting the first and second mounting members; a fluid chamber; an oscillation member that partially defines a wall of the fluid chamber; an actuator having an output shaft, the output shaft being connected to the oscillation member; a connecting member that interconnects the oscillation member and the output shaft at one point with the oscillation member superposed against a projecting distal end of the output shaft; and an abutting portion provided by superposed faces of the oscillation member and the output shaft being positioned in abutment with each other at an outer peripheral side of a connected section where the oscillation member and the output shaft are interconnected by the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Muraoka, Satoshi Umemura, Hironori Koyama
  • Patent number: 8430382
    Abstract: A second bush of a torque rod is fastened and fixed such that a mating fastening member sandwiches an inner fitting in the axial direction. A rubber stopper on an acceleration side projecting from an outer fitting to the inner fitting is provided such that the rubber thickness increases toward a front end. The inner fitting is provided with a stopper contact forming a recessed space in which the rubber stopper is inserted. After the rubber stopper comes in contact with the stopper contact in a stopper function, the rubber stopper is deformed so as to fill the recessed space, and concurrently bulges in the axial direction to come in contact with the mating fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kashihara, Jyoji Tsutsumida, Satoshi Umemura