Patents by Inventor Satoshi Usui
Satoshi Usui 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: 10762790Abstract: A parking assistance service management device that manages a parking assistance service in which an agent provides parking assistance for a vehicle of a service user includes a processor configured to acquire position information on the vehicle from a terminal of the agent driving the vehicle to a parking lot on behalf of the service user, and to generate, based on the position information, information indicating a path along which the vehicle has traveled to the parking lot from a delivery place at which the vehicle is delivered to the agent, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information indicating the path to a terminal of the service user.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Yanagida, Chikage Kubo, Ai Fujimura, Shunsuke Noda, Satoshi Usui
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Patent number: 10753357Abstract: A fuel pump includes an intake valve unit which is provided between a low-pressure chamber and a pressurizing chamber. The intake valve unit includes an intake valve configured to move in an axial direction of the intake valve unit and a valve stopper arranged between the intake valve and the pressurizing chamber. A plurality of fuel passages configured to allow fuel to communicate between the low-pressure chamber and the pressurizing chamber are formed on a radially outward of an outer peripheral surface of the valve stopper.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Kenichiro Tokuo, Tatsuo Kawano, Masahiko Hayatani, Shingo Tamura, Hiroyuki Yamada, Katsumi Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20200248663Abstract: To provide a high-pressure fuel pump capable of ensuring good magnetic properties and reliability for cracking. Therefore, the fixed core 39 is precipitation hardening type ferritic stainless steel (ferritic precipitation hardening type metal). The anchor 36 is precipitation hardening type ferritic stainless steel attracted by the magnetic attraction force of the fixed core 39. The outer core 38 has an inner peripheral surface on which the outer peripheral surface of the anchor 36 slides. The seal ring 48 is formed of a material having hardness lower than that of the fixed core 39 and the anchor 36, and connects the fixed core 39 and the outer core 38.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro TOKUO, Satoshi USUI, Ryo KUSAKABE
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Patent number: 10731615Abstract: Responsiveness of an electromagnetic flow-rate control valve provided for closing a suction valve is improved and a discharge flow rate is controlled to a desired value. A flow-rate control valve includes a fixed core arranged on an inner circumferential side of a coil, a yoke arranged on an outer circumferential side of the coil, and a cover portion opposed to the coil in an axial direction, in which the fixed core has an enlarged portion in contact with the cover portion in the axial direction and enlarging toward the coil, and the cover portion is regulated in the axial direction only by a contact portion with the fixed core.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Kenichiro Tokuo, Satoshi Usui, Minoru Hashida, Masayuki Suganami, Atsushi Hohkita, Eiichi Kubota, Daisuke Kitajima, Hiroshi Horie
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Publication number: 20200242931Abstract: A notification system includes a notification unit configured to notify a second person of position information relating to a parking position of a vehicle and auxiliary information to help the second person to find the vehicle after the vehicle is moved and parked by a first person.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru YANAGIDA, Chikage KUBO, Ai FUJIMURA, Shunsuke NODA, Satoshi USUI
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Patent number: 10718296Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply pump including an electromagnetically driven intake valve is configured such that a pressure equalizing hole is provided in the valve stopper positioned between the valve and a pressurizing chamber. The pressure equalization hole connects a spring storage space, provided between a valve and a valve stopper, with a surrounding fluid passage. The high-pressure fuel supply pump is further configured such that an opening of the pressure equalizing hole at the spring storage chamber side is open at a position at the inner side of a diameter of the spring. Since the pressure in the pressurizing chamber can be introduced into the inner side of the spring without traversing the spring, the unstable behavior of the spring or the valve due to the introduced pressure eliminated. Since the force applied to the valve when the valve closes is stabilized, the closing timing of the valve is stable.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Hayatani, Satoshi Usui, Hideki Machimura, Tatsuo Kawano, Syunsuke Aritomi, Shingo Tamura
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Patent number: 10683835Abstract: A fuel pump includes an electromagnetically driven intake valve mechanism, a pump housing, a discharge valve, an opening, a seal member, and a first relief passage. The relief valve mechanism has a relief valve, a relief valve seat contacting the relief valve when the relief valve is closed and a relief spring biasing the relief valve against the relief valve seat. A second relief passage, communicating the first relief passage and a hole formed in the relief seat, is formed between the seal member and the relief valve seat. The relief valve seat, the relief valve, and the relief spring are arranged in this order beginning from the open end side.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Saso, Atsuji Saito, Satoshi Usui, Shingo Tamura, Moritsugu Akiyama, Hiroyuki Yamada, Atsushi Hohkita
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Patent number: 10655585Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply pump includes a pressurizing chamber, a piston plunger, and an electromagnetically-driven intake valve mechanism. The piston plunger reciprocates within the pressurizing chamber. The electromagnetically-driven intake valve mechanism is provided at an inlet of the pressurizing chamber. The electromagnetically-driven intake valve mechanism includes an anchor which pulls a plunger rod, a fixed core which attracts the anchor, and a yoke in which inner peripheral part has the fixed core and the anchor. The fixed core is fixed to a bottom part of the yoke. A through hole is formed at a bottom part of the fixed core.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Kenichiro Tokuo, Tatsuo Kawano, Masahiko Hayatani, Shingo Tamura, Hiroyuki Yamada, Katsumi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10655580Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a high pressure fuel supply pump capable of reducing pressure pulsation that occurs in a low pressure pipe, preventing damage to the low pressure pipe, or reducing noise due to vibrations of the low pressure pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Minoru Hashida, Masayuki Suganami, Hiroyuki Yamada, Atsushi Hohkita
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Patent number: 10657812Abstract: A notification system includes a notification unit configured to notify a second person of position information relating to a parking position of a vehicle and auxiliary information to help the second person to find the vehicle after the vehicle is moved and parked by a first person.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Yanagida, Chikage Kubo, Ai Fujimura, Shunsuke Noda, Satoshi Usui
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Publication number: 20200143678Abstract: A leading system has an output unit configured to output a predetermined signal to a first area around a vehicle, and a terminal carried by a person. The terminal has a receiving unit configured to receive the predetermined signal when the person enters the first area and a first notification unit configured to automatically perform a first notification to the person when the predetermined signal is received by the receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru YANAGIDA, Chikage KUBO, Ai FUJIMURA, Shunsuke NODA, Satoshi USUI
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Publication number: 20200132029Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump that ensures oil tightness even at high fuel pressure and has a small and lightweight inexpensive discharge valve structure. Therefore, a high-pressure fuel pump according to the present invention includes: a discharge valve arranged on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber; a discharge valve seat on which the discharge valve is seated; and a facing member configured independently as a separate member from the discharge valve seat and located on an opposite side of the discharge valve seat with the discharge valve interposed therebetween, in which a stroke direction regulating portion that regulates displacement of the discharge valve in a stroke direction is formed on a tapered surface of the facing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Moritsugu AKIYAMA, Satoshi USUI, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Shigehiko OMATA, Masashi NEMOTO
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Publication number: 20200080526Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent generation of wear at a rod collision portion in an electromagnetic intake valve of a high-pressure fuel supply pump by reducing inclinations of the intake valve and a rod. A structure of the electromagnetic intake valve of the high-pressure fuel supply pump is configured as follows. A seat portion of an intake valve and a guide portion of a rod are configured as an integral part, and further, a rod guide is made to have a sufficiently long length so that it is possible to perform guide at one portion. Further, the intake valve seat portion and a surface where the rod collides with the intake valve are formed on the same plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo KAWANO, Kenichiro TOKUO, Satoshi USUI, Masamichi YAGAI, Kazuaki TOKUMARU
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Patent number: 10585349Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus includes: an ejection unit that ejects droplets of a resin-based mask material on a substrate on the basis of a droplet dropping condition; and a control unit that selects a first droplet dropping condition according to a pattern to be transferred to the resin-based mask material and a second droplet dropping condition according to an underlying step difference amount that is concave-convex of a first shot area and causes the ejection unit to eject the droplets with respect to the first shot area, wherein the shot area where a pattern is formed on the substrate by one time of imprinting is set.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Satoshi Usui
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Patent number: 10584668Abstract: Provide is a high-pressure fuel pump capable of improving the degree of freedom of layout of members to be attached to a pump body and a producing method thereof. Therefore, the high-pressure fuel pump includes the suction joint that sucks fuel, the pump body formed with the pressurizing chamber that pressurizes the fuel sucked from the suction joint, and the discharge joint that discharges the fuel pressurized in the pressurizing chamber. The pump body is formed so that at least a part of the side surface portion thereof becomes a cylindrical portion or a polygonal shape portion. At least one of the discharge joint and the suction joint may be fixed on the inner peripheral side with respect to the outermost peripheral portion of the cylindrical portion or the polygonal shape portion of the side surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Atsushi Hohkita, Masayuki Suganami, Kenichiro Tokuo, Minoru Hashida, Masamichi Yagai, Yuta Saso, Kazuaki Tokumaru, Atsuji Saito
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Patent number: 10563612Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of avoiding deterioration of combustion and reliably suppressing synthetic noise of a high pressure fuel pump and a fuel injection valve without affecting an operating state of the internal combustion engine. Therefore, when it is determined that there is synthetic noise of a high pressure fuel pump and a fuel injection valve, an operating angle of a variable valve mechanism provided in the internal combustion engine is made variable while satisfying a fuel injection request of the fuel injection valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Osamu Mukaihara, Satoshi Usui, Masahiro Toyohara
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Publication number: 20200049116Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump which can fix a cylinder to a pump body using a simple structure, and can reduce a displacement amount inward in a radial direction of the cylinder. A high-pressure fuel pump includes a pump body which is formed with a pressing chamber and a cylinder which is inserted in a hole formed in the pump body. The cylinder is swaged to the hole by pressing a convex portion on an outside in a radial direction to fit into the hole on an opposite side to the pressing chamber, by screwing a formed screw thread into the hole, or by being swaged with the opposite side to the pressing chamber. The cylinder is formed with a clearance in the radial direction with respect to the hole of the pump body all over a region from a bonding portion to an upper end.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Kazuaki TOKUMARU, Masahiko HAYATANI, Satoshi USUI, Atsuji SAITO, Kenichiro TOKUO, Masamichi YAGAI, Masayuki SUGANAMI
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Patent number: 10559204Abstract: A leading system has an output unit configured to output a predetermined signal to a first area around a vehicle, and a terminal carried by a person. The terminal has a receiving unit configured to receive the predetermined signal when the person enters the first area and a first notification unit configured to automatically perform a first notification to the person when the predetermined signal is received by the receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Yanagida, Chikage Kubo, Ai Fujimura, Shunsuke Noda, Satoshi Usui
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Publication number: 20200011314Abstract: A high pressure fuel pump according to the present invention includes a cylinder which is fitted in a concave portion formed in a pump housing and which defines a compression chamber of the pump and a plunger which pressurizes, by sliding against the cylinder, the fluid in the compression chamber. The high pressure fuel pump is structured such that the fluid sucked into the compression chamber by reciprocating motion of the plunger is pressurized and is then discharged from the compression chamber. The cylinder is formed of a cylindrical member which has a ceiling portion and in which the compression chamber is partitionedly formed. A fuel suction path formed in the pump housing reaches the compression chamber through the cylinder and a fuel discharge path formed in the pump housing is connected to the compression chamber through the cylinder. The cylinder is pressed, for sealed fixation, against the pump body by a fuel pressurizing force applied to the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo TAMURA, Atsuji SAITO, Satoshi USUI, Masahiko HAYATANI
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Publication number: 20190323465Abstract: An object of the present invention is to supply a high-pressure fuel supply pump capable of holding a spring holding member while reducing the height of the pump body. A high-pressure fuel supply pump is provided with a pump body for forming a pressurizing chamber at an inner wall portion, and a flange portion for fixing the pump body to a high-pressure fuel supply pump mounting portion. The high-pressure fuel supply pump is provided with a cylinder and a spring holding member. The cylinder is inserted into a hole portion of the pump body from a lower side and in which the pressurizing chamber is formed further above an uppermost end surface. The spring holding member has an outer peripheral portion press-fitted and fixed to the pump body and a holding portion holding a spring portion for biasing the pump body between the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuji SAITO, Satoshi USUI, Minoru HASHIDA, Masayuki SUGANAMI, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Kenichiro TOKUO, Masamichi YAGAI, Yuta SASO