Patents by Inventor Shuji Endo

Shuji Endo 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: 20240339674
    Abstract: A battery string is configured such that a plurality of battery circuit modules can be connected in series. A middle point between a first capacitor and a second capacitor provided on a detection line connecting a positive electrode output line and a negative electrode output line of the battery string to each other is grounded by a ground line through a limiting resistor. During operation of the battery string, an electric leakage detection unit sets a battery circuit module in a pass-through state, and detects electric leakage in the battery string based on a differential voltage that is a difference between a first voltage being the voltage of the first capacitor and a second voltage being the voltage of the second capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ENDO, Junta IZUMI, Hironori MIKI, Kenji KIMURA, Takayuki BAN, Takuya MIZUNO, Naoki YANAGIZAWA, Shuji TOMURA, Kazuo OOTSUKA, Hiroshi TSUKADA
  • Patent number: 12091595
    Abstract: Provided is a curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition for a thermally sensitive paper wherein a releasing layer that has high adhesion and a good peeling force that is cured quickly at a low temperature without producing curing failures when coated on a thermally sensitive coloring layer, and that is resistant to gellification at room temperature, and that has superior ease of handling, can be formed. The curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition comprises: (A) one or more organopolysiloxanes having an alkenyl group with a number of carbon atoms between 4 and 12, where the inclusion proportion of vinyl (CH2?CH—) within the alkenyl group is between 0.5 and 3.0 mass %; (B) an organohydrogen polysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms (Si—H) in a single molecule; (C) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction inhibiting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji Endo
  • Patent number: 12084125
    Abstract: A processor acquires a steering torque detected by a steering torque sensor and a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor, changes a gain and a phase to be applied to the steering torque in accordance with a steering frequency when a driver steers a steering wheel, determines a magnitude of an assist torque based on the steering torque to which the gain and the phase have been applied and the vehicle speed, and generates a torque command value to be used to control driving of the motor based on the determined assist torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
  • Publication number: 20240266860
    Abstract: The battery string is configured so that a plurality of battery circuit modules can be connected in series. The drive circuit SU5 from the drive circuit SU0 of the battery circuit module transmits a gate signal for ON/OFF of the switch to the downstream drive circuit SU while delaying the gate signal by a predetermined delay time Td. When a particular battery circuit module (drive circuit SU4 in FIG. 4) is passed through, the delay time is switched from the delay time Td to the delay time Tds. The delay time Tds is longer than the delay time Td. As a result, the period of the gate signal, which is the “delay time×the number of battery circuit modules to be operated”, can be suppressed from becoming short (the increase in frequency can be suppressed), and an increase in loss can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Junta Izumi, Hironori Miki, Kenji Kimura, Takayuki Ban, Takuya Mizuno, Shuji Tomura, Naoki Yanagizawa, Kazuo Ootsuka, Hiroshi Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20240266839
    Abstract: A power source system includes a first battery string, a second battery string, and a third battery string. Each of the battery strings includes a plurality of batteries capable of outputting direct-current power. The battery strings are Y-connected so as to output three-phase alternating-current power to three-phase output terminals (alternating-current output terminals) as well as connected to a neutral line. On the neutral line, a neutral line capacitor for blocking a direct current, a neutral line switch disposed in series to the neutral line capacitor, and an electric resistance element disposed in parallel to the neutral line switch are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ENDO, Junta IZUMI, Hironori MIKI, Kenji KIMURA, Takayuki BAN, Takuya MIZUNO, Shuji TOMURA, Naoki YANAGIZAWA, Kazuo OOTSUKA, Hiroshi TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20240258800
    Abstract: The alternating current sweep unit outputs alternating current power from three battery strings that are Y-connected. The offset voltage command Vst_offset is calculated by adding the offset component V*abc_off of the string voltage obtained from the string voltage command V*abc, the amplitude Vamp of the command voltage calculated using dq shaft voltage command values v*d and v*q, and the margin voltage Vmrg. By determining the on-time ton of the gate signal by using the string voltage command V*abc and the offset voltage command Vst_offset and performing duty control on the gate signal, it is possible to set an offset voltage corresponding to the command voltage, and thus it is possible to suppress an increase in battery loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ENDO, Junta IZUMI, Hironori MIKI, Kenji KIMURA, Takayuki BAN, Takuya MIZUNO, Shuji TOMURA, Naoki YANAGIZAWA, Kazuo OOTSUKA, Hiroshi TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20240249569
    Abstract: A control unit provided in an information processing device executes driving diagnosis of a vehicle for a plurality of items in a predetermined period, obtains a score for each of the plurality of items, and performs driving diagnosis among the plurality of items. Determining a comprehensive evaluation according to the number of items whose diagnostic results are equal to or less than a predetermined score; displaying the comprehensive evaluation on an initial screen of a user interface that displays the results of the driving diagnosis; and displaying the evaluation for each of the plurality of items on another screen associated with.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi AKIMA, Shuji Miyai, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20240249308
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to: acquire information on driving of a user; determine, for each trip, whether a predetermined event has occurred based on the information on the driving of the user, and create a diagnostic report associated with the predetermined event; and notify the user that the diagnostic report is present in response to creation of the diagnostic report associated with the predetermined event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuji Miyai, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Masato Endo, Seira Nakata
  • Publication number: 20240249643
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute: a process of presenting a user a plurality of missions respectively corresponding to a plurality of items of driving assessment; a process of setting one or more first missions for the user, the one or more first missions being selected by the user from among the plurality of missions; a process of determining whether the user has cleared the one or more first missions based on the driving assessment corresponding to the one or more first missions; and a process of presenting the user the plurality of missions including a second mission higher in difficulty level than the one or more first missions in response to a situation that the user has cleared the one or more first missions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji MIYAI, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO, Seira NAKATA
  • Patent number: 12017707
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter and a control calculation unit. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a compensation calculation unit that compensates at least one of a k-th component and a 1/k-th component in the motor with respect to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit. The compensation calculation unit calculates a compensation value on the basis of an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates and the target current command value, while also taking into account advance angle control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Akitoshi Harada, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori, Tokuji Tatewaki
  • Patent number: 11958543
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, and a control calculation unit that feedback-controls the inverter. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between a current command value and an actual current detection value, a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and a current limit calculation unit that limits the current command value by adaptive control based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
  • Patent number: 11952057
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, a voltage control calculating a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter based on a deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a torque ripple compensation unit adding a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control unit. The torque ripple compensation unit includes a phase compensator calculating a compensation value component in the voltage control unit based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and an inverse characteristic processor calculating a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple based on an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in a feedback control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
  • Patent number: 11897559
    Abstract: A steering control device for controlling drive of a motor that drives a steering mechanism according to an operation amount of a steering wheel, includes a first torque command controller that instructs the motor on motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel, and a second torque command controller that instructs the motor on the motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel in parallel with the first torque command controller. The second torque command controller suppresses a frequency region corresponding to disturbance added to the steering mechanism with respect to the operation amount of the steering wheel with a filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishimura, Shuji Endo, Hanyu Sun
  • Patent number: 11807315
    Abstract: Both responsiveness and stability of a power assist control system are satisfied. A processor executes, in accordance with a program, determining base assist gain based on steering torque and base assist torque, generating stabilizing compensation torque based on the base assist torque, with use of a stabilizing compensator that has a second-order or higher transfer function in which a frequency characteristic is variable in accordance with the base assist gain and which is expressed using a responsiveness parameter ? and a damping parameter ?, and generating a current command value for use in control of the motor based on the stabilizing compensation torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
  • Patent number: 11713074
    Abstract: To improve steering feeling felt by a driver, a motor control device includes a processor and a memory which stores a program for controlling an operation of the processor. According to the program, the processor executes: switching from n-phase (n is an integer of three or more) energization control to n?1 phase energization control in response to a switching signal; acquiring a torque command value, an electrical angle of a motor, and an actual current value of the motor; generating a pre-current command value on the basis of the torque command value, the electrical angle of the motor, and the actual current value of the motor which are acquired; generating a current command value by applying dither control to the pre-current command value in a dead point range of an electrical angle range from 0 to 2?; and performing the n?1 phase energization control on the basis of the current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Masaya Ishikawa, Hiroaki Mizushima
  • Publication number: 20230227098
    Abstract: In a control device to control a motor in an electric power steering apparatus including the motor, processor executes, according to a program calculation of a target assist torque by performing proportional integral (PI) control based on a target steering wheel angle and a steering angle, and control of the motor based on the target assist torque. A gain of an integrator used for integral (I) control of the PI control is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Hiroaki MIZUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11702131
    Abstract: A control device obtains a post-code extension steering torque by performing moving average processing of weighting an oversampling signal obtained by oversampling processing, obtains a base assist torque based on the post-code extension steering torque signal, acquires a base assist torque signal that decreases the base assist torque as a vehicle speed increases, performs stabilization processing on the base assist torque signal to obtain an assist torque signal according to the assist torque of an electric power steering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Endo, Hiroyuki Ishimura
  • Patent number: 11705844
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a controller to control a three-phase current by feeding back a control current value obtained based on the three-phase current. The controller is configured or programmed to execute first feedback control of feeding back any one of a first control current value calculated based on a second phase current and the third phase current, a second control current value calculated based on the third phase current and a first phase current, and a third control current value calculated based on the first phase current and the second phase current as a control current value and second feedback control in which the first control current value, the second control current value, and the third control current value are switched and fed back as the control current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Mizushima, Shuji Endo
  • Publication number: 20230202554
    Abstract: A control device that controls a control target including at least a motor in a steering mechanism including an input shaft to which a steering wheel is connected, an output shaft connected to the input shaft via a torsion bar, and the motor connected to the output shaft. The control device includes a reaction force controller to generate an input torque input to the control target based on a torsion bar torque generated in the torsion bar and to control a reaction force transmitted from the steering wheel to the steering person, and an assist controller to generate a correction torque to correct the input torque based on an output of the control target and a nominal model. The assist controller is configured or programmed such that a transfer function of the control target is constrained by a transfer function of the nominal model in a frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Masaya ISHIKAWA, Daisuke NOTSU
  • Publication number: 20230202560
    Abstract: A control device includes a reaction force controller to generate an input torque input to the control target and control a reaction force transmitted from a steering wheel to a steering person, an assist controller to generate a correction torque to correct the input torque based on an output of the control target and a nominal model, and a state feedback circuit to feed back a state compensation value to the input torque based on the output of the control target. The assist controller is configured or programmed such that the transfer function of the control target is constrained by the transfer function of the nominal model in the frequency band where the gain in the gain characteristic of the complementary sensitivity function with respect to the modeling error between the control target and the nominal model is approximately 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Shuji ENDO, Sohei MIYAKE, Masaya ISHIKAWA, Daisuke NOTSU