Patents by Inventor Sho Okazaki

Sho Okazaki 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: 20240154502
    Abstract: A control device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to an air density in a coil and information related to a voltage applied to a rotary electric machine, an insulation determination unit configured to determine whether or not dielectric breakdown occurs in the coil based on the information related to the air density and the information related to the voltage acquired by the information acquisition unit, and configured to determine whether or not an insulation state of the coil is needed to be maintained by supplying an oil to the coil, and a drive instruction unit configured to drive an oil supply unit, when the insulation determination unit determines that dielectric breakdown occurs in the coil and determines that the insulation state of the coil is needed to be maintained by supplying the oil to the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta TABUCHI, Yoshitomo KAWANISHI, Shingo NAGAI, Sho OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240149660
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle may include a motor, a casing accommodating the motor, an electric pump unit attached to a lower part of the casing and configured to circulate heat medium within the casing and a filter unit attached to the lower part of the casing and configured to filter the heat medium. At least a part of the electric pump unit and at least a part of the filter unit each protrude outside the casing. Outside the casing, the filter unit is adjacent to the electric pump unit from a front in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Miyazono, Junya Kobayashi, Junichi Deguchi, Hironori Asaoka, Kei Ohta, Sho Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20240130204
    Abstract: A display device with both high display quality and high resolution is provided. The display device includes a light-emitting element and a connection portion. The connection portion is provided along an outer periphery of a display region where the light-emitting element is provided. The light-emitting element includes a pixel electrode, a first EL layer over the pixel electrode, a second EL layer over the first EL layer, and a common electrode over the second EL layer. The connection portion includes a connection electrode, a second EL layer over the connection electrode, and the common electrode over the second EL layer. The second EL layer includes a first region in contact with the connection electrode and a second region in contact with the common electrode. The area of a region where the first region and the second region overlap with each other in a top view is greater than or equal to 40000 square micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Daiki NAKAMURA, Sho KATO, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230402955
    Abstract: A device for estimating an internal temperature of an electric motor. The electric motor has a stator core extending cylindrically in a direction of an axis and around which a coil is wound, a rotor arranged rotatably around the axis, and a case that houses the stator core and the rotor, the coil being cooled by a first cooling liquid in the case. The device estimates the internal temperature by using a thermal circuit that regards a temperature of the first cooling liquid after heat reception from the coil as a first temperature equal to a temperature of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta TABUCHI, Sho Okazaki, Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: 11807250
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a rotor temperature estimation unit estimating a temperature of a rotor based on stator temperature information from a first temperature sensor for identifying a temperature of a stator, refrigerant temperature information from a second temperature sensor for identifying a temperature of refrigerant used to cool an electric motor, and rotation speed information about the rotor from a resolver for identifying a rotation speed of the rotor; and an electric motor control unit controlling at least one of an output characteristic and a drive condition of the electric motor based on the temperature of the rotor estimated by the rotor temperature estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho Okazaki, Takumu Honda, Toshinori Okochi, Yasutaka Tsuchida, Yoshinori Ogami, Hiroki Nakane
  • Publication number: 20220340147
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a rotor temperature estimation unit estimating a temperature of a rotor based on stator temperature information from a first temperature sensor for identifying a temperature of a stator, refrigerant temperature information from a second temperature sensor for identifying a temperature of refrigerant used to cool an electric motor, and rotation speed information about the rotor from a resolver for identifying a rotation speed of the rotor; and an electric motor control unit controlling at least one of an output characteristic and a drive condition of the electric motor based on the temperature of the rotor estimated by the rotor temperature estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho OKAZAKI, Takumu HONDA, Toshinori OKOCHI, Yasutaka TSUCHIDA, Yoshinori OGAMI, Hiroki NAKANE
  • Patent number: D899321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Suzuki, Hirofumi Fukui, Sho Okazaki