Patents by Inventor Shingo Uozumi

Shingo Uozumi 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: 8647234
    Abstract: A vehicle driving apparatus configured with a drive power source, a fluid coupling, a transmission apparatus; and a control apparatus. A rotation of a drive input member driven by the drive power source is transmitted to a shift input member via the fluid coupling and a rotation of the shift input member is shifted by the transmission apparatus and then transmitted to an output member. When a state shift command for shifting from a non-transmission state to a transmission state is input into a control apparatus in a state in which the drive power source does not generate a driving force, the control apparatus performs a shift input rotation operation before engaging a frictional engagement element and shifting to the transmission state by causing the drive power source to generate the driving force and rotating the shift input member via the fluid coupling while maintaining the non-transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsutsui, Shingo Uozumi, Takeshi Torii, Shin-ichirou Murakami, Takahiro Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 8323139
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a case with a case main body portion accommodating the speed change mechanism, and a connection case portion connecting the engine and the case main body portion and having a diameter increased toward the engine; a hydraulic pressure control device that is provided under the speed change mechanism, and controls a hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the speed change mechanism; and an electric pump that generates the hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the speed change mechanism through the hydraulic pressure control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Ike, Yasunari Muranaka, Takeshi Fukuma, Shinichiro Iga, Shingo Uozumi
  • Patent number: 8316640
    Abstract: A drain structure where oil sucked from the oil pan by the oil pump is supplied to the torque converter and circulates therein, and the oil is drained into the transmission case through a drain oil passage; and the drain oil passage passes through a gap between the torque converter and the oil pump, is guided to an upper part facing a fitting surface between the oil pump and the transmission case, and is further guided from the upper part to a part under the oil pump and opens above an oil level in the transmission case, and drain oil from the drain oil passage is discharged toward the oil pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Ito, Takeshi Torii, Yasunari Muranaka, Nobukazu Ike, Shingo Uozumi, Tomohiro Umemura
  • Patent number: 8166848
    Abstract: A transmission case includes a housing that accommodates a starting device, the housing having rib portions on an inner surface; and a speed change mechanism case connected to the housing, the speed change mechanism case accommodating a speed change mechanism, wherein a thin wall portion is provided in the housing by a groove formed in the housing, and the transmission case is structured such that stress is concentrated on the thin wall portion by at least one of the rib portions when an impact load is applied to the transmission case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Uozumi, Nobukazu Ike, Takeshi Fukuma, Masataka Kameyama, Ryota Sato
  • Publication number: 20110212809
    Abstract: A vehicle driving apparatus configured with a drive power source, a fluid coupling, a transmission apparatus; and a control apparatus. A rotation of a drive input member driven by the drive power source is transmitted to a shift input member via the fluid coupling and a rotation of the shift input member is shifted by the transmission apparatus and then transmitted to an output member. When a state shift command for shifting from a non-transmission state to a transmission state is input into a control apparatus in a state in which the drive power source does not generate a driving force, the control apparatus performs a shift input rotation operation before engaging a frictional engagement element and shifting to the transmission state by causing the drive power source to generate the driving force and rotating the shift input member via the fluid coupling while maintaining the non-transmission state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSUTSUI, Shingo UOZUMI, Takeshi TORII, Shin-ichirou MURAKAMI, Takahiro MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20100151993
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a case with a case main body portion accommodating the speed change mechanism, and a connection case portion connecting the engine and the case main body portion and having a diameter increased toward the engine; a hydraulic pressure control device that is provided under the speed change mechanism, and controls a hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the speed change mechanism; and an electric pump that generates the hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the speed change mechanism through the hydraulic pressure control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Ike, Yasunari Muranaka, Takeshi Fukuma, Shinichiro Iga, Shingo Uozumi
  • Patent number: 7637100
    Abstract: In an automatic transmission, a lip portion of an oil seal can be prevented from riding up reliably when an impeller hub is inserted into the oil seal so as to be attached thereto, even when the lip portion is provided with a tightening margin. The impeller hub is attached to the oil seal from the lip portion side of the oil seal , with an end portion thereof in which a notch is formed. The impeller hub has a first chamfer portion formed in a bottom portion outer peripheral edge portion of the notch as an inclined surface that decreases radially in an axial direction of the impeller hub toward the end portion of the impeller hub, and an axial distance of the first chamfer portion from the bottom portion outer peripheral edge portion increases from both end sides of a circumferential direction of the notch toward a circumferential direction central portion of the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shingo Uozumi, Hiroshi Kato, Yasunari Muranaka, Kazuhiko Sugita, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20090241727
    Abstract: A transmission case includes a housing that accommodates a starting device, the housing having rib portions on an inner surface; and a speed change mechanism case connected to the housing, the speed change mechanism case accommodating a speed change mechanism, wherein a thin wall portion is provided in the housing by a groove formed in the housing, and the transmission case is structured such that stress is concentrated on the thin wall portion by at least one of the rib portions when an impact load is applied to the transmission case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Uozumi, Nobukazu Ike, Takeshi Fukuma, Masataka Kameyama, Ryota Sato
  • Publication number: 20090241532
    Abstract: A drain structure where oil sucked from the oil pan by the oil pump is supplied to the torque converter and circulates therein, and the oil is drained into the transmission case through a drain oil passage; and the drain oil passage passes through a gap between the torque converter and the oil pump, is guided to an upper part facing a fitting surface between the oil pump and the transmission case, and is further guided from the upper part to a part under the oil pump and opens above an oil level in the transmission case, and drain oil from the drain oil passage is discharged toward the oil pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Ito, Takeshi Torii, Yasunari Muranaka, Nobukazu Ike, Shingo Uozumi, Tomohiro Umemura
  • Publication number: 20070292269
    Abstract: In an automatic transmission, a lip portion of an oil seal can be prevented from riding up reliably when an impeller hub is inserted into the oil seal so as to be attached thereto, even when the lip portion is provided with a tightening margin. The impeller hub is attached to the oil seal from the lip portion side of the oil seal, with an end portion thereof in which a notch is formed. The impeller hub has a first chamfer portion formed in a bottom portion outer peripheral edge portion of the notch as an inclined surface that decreases radially in an axial direction of the impeller hub toward the end portion of the impeller hub, and an axial distance of the first chamfer portion from the bottom portion outer peripheral edge portion increases from both end sides of a circumferential direction of the notch toward a circumferential direction central portion of the notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo UOZUMI, Hiroshi Kato, Yasunari Muranaka, Kazuhiko Sugita, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 5029688
    Abstract: A ring gear and an outer race of a one-way clutch are linked and secured in the axial direction. The outer peripheral section of a disk-shaped supporting member engages teeth of the ring gear and supports the ring gear, and a tapered snap ring is mounted in an indented groove with a tapered surface formed in the ring gear so that the side surface of the outer peripheral section of the support member is in intimate contact with the end surface of the outer race, and the support member is thus secured and prevented from withdrawing. An oil sump for lubricant supplied from the inner radial side is formed on the inner peripheral part of the outer race defined by the intimately contacted outer race and the support member. The ring gear of the planetary gear unit rotates when the automatic transmission actuates, and the integral support member also rotates based on the rotation of the ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Hayakawa, Chichiro Hosono, Masaaki Nishida, Shingo Uozumi