Patents by Inventor Shunya Watanabe
Shunya Watanabe 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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Publication number: 20240092321Abstract: A control device is applied to a friction brake device of a vehicle. The friction brake device produces a friction brake force in the vehicle by starting driving of an electric motor. The control device includes a motor control unit configured to control the electric motor. The control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an index value corresponding to a magnitude of a target value of the friction brake force. A value for determining a magnitude of the index value is set as a limit determination value. The motor control unit limits an increase speed of the number of rotations of the electric motor if the index value is equal to or less than the limit determination value, and releases the limit if the index value exceeds the limit determination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunya WATANABE, Yoshio MASUDA
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Publication number: 20230365089Abstract: The present invention provides a side collision energy absorbing structure that gives a good performance while avoiding breakage of a door trim. A side collision energy absorbing structure 2 includes an energy absorber 10 made of molded resin and formed separately from a door trim 1. The energy absorber 10 includes a deformable portion 110 protruded outward in a vehicle width direction and a plurality of mounting flange portions 121, 122, 123 formed in an end portion of the deformable portion 110 on the door trim side. Boss portions 6, 7, 8 of the door trim 1 are respectively inserted and fixed in holes 121a, 122a, 125 of the mounting flange portions 121, 122, 123. The hole 125 of the mounting flange portion 123 is an elongated hole. The elongated hole 125 extends from where the boss portion 8 is inserted toward the deformable portion 110.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Kenji INAGAKI, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230365090Abstract: A vehicle door trim includes a side collision energy absorbing structure with a relatively simple structure that gives a good side collision energy absorbing performance while avoiding breakage of a door trim body. The side collision energy absorbing structure 5 includes a first energy absorber 10 formed as a separate body from a door trim body 1 and a second energy absorber 20 integrally formed with the door trim body 1. The first energy absorber 10 includes a peripheral wall 11 extending over a generally entire periphery thereof and an end wall 12 that closes a distal end of the peripheral wall 11. A basal end of the peripheral wall 11 is fixed to the door trim body 1. The second energy absorber 20 is protruded outward in the vehicle width direction and is disposed in an inner space 15 of the first energy absorber 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Kenji INAGAKI, Shunya WATANABE
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Patent number: 11807215Abstract: A brake control device is applied to a vehicle including a regenerative generator. The brake control device includes a pressure adjustment unit that includes an electric pump and a pressure adjustment valve, and that adjusts adjustment liquid pressure of a pressure adjustment fluid path between the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve; and a controller that controls the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve. The controller, before starting a replacement operation to replace a regenerative braking force by the regenerative generator with a friction braking force by the adjustment liquid pressure, performs preceding pressurization to increase the adjustment liquid pressure from “0” and maintain the adjustment liquid pressure at predetermined liquid pressure, and after performing the preceding pressurization, increases the adjustment liquid pressure more than the predetermined liquid pressure by increasing a rotation speed of the electric pump, and then execute the replacement operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Shunya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11787292Abstract: A brake control device applied to a vehicle including a regenerative generator connected to a front wheel has an electric pump, and first and second pressure adjustment valves. The first pressure adjustment valve is provided in a brake fluid reflux path including the electric pump, adjusts the brake fluid to a first hydraulic pressure, and adjusts a rear wheel hydraulic pressure in a rear wheel cylinder to the first hydraulic pressure. The second pressure adjustment valve is provided in the reflux path, reduces the first hydraulic pressure to a second hydraulic pressure, and adjusts front wheel hydraulic pressure in a front wheel cylinder to the second hydraulic pressure. A front wheel flow rate to increase the front wheel hydraulic pressure is calculated using a brake operation member operation amount and a regeneration amount of the regenerative generator. The first pressure adjustment valve is controlled using the front wheel flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Shunya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11518351Abstract: This braking control device pumps a brake fluid from a reservoir to each wheel cylinder by one fluid pump and includes an electric motor which drives the fluid pump; and a controller which controls the electric motor. The controller calculates a target fluid pressure on the basis of at least one among the vehicle wheel speed, the vehicle deceleration state, and the turning state of the vehicle, calculates a target discharge amount for the fluid pump on the basis of the target fluid pressure, and controls the electric motor on the basis of the target discharge amount. The controller has a front wheel calculation map of the relationship between the fluid pressure and the inflow volume of the brake fluid corresponding to a front wheel cylinder, and a rear wheel calculation map corresponding to a rear wheel cylinder, and calculates the target discharge amount on the basis of the maps.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Shunya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220360152Abstract: It is possible to reduce a rise in temperature of a rotor by reducing the temperature of a stator. The motor 1 includes a stator 5, and a rotor 4, which is disposed with a gap from the stator 5, being arranged in a housing 2, in which the stator 5 is provided with an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding from an inner peripheral portion of the yoke toward the rotor 4; slots in which coils 6 wound around the teeth are arranged are respectively formed between the teeth that are adjacent to each other; a mold resin portion 30 in which the stator 5 and the coils 6 are molded is provided; the mold resin portion 30 includes a flow path 32 formed within at least one slot among a plurality of slots; and the flow path 32 is supplied with a cooling medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunya Watanabe, Nobuo Aruga, Mamoru Kosaki, Masayasu Kayukawa
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Publication number: 20210394733Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a first supply unit supplying fluid to main flow channels connected to wheel cylinders of a vehicle, a differential solenoid valve provided on the main flow channels and generating a differential pressure across the differential solenoid valve, a second supply unit supplying fluid to the wheel cylinders by drawing at least some fluid supplied from the first supply unit through branch flow channels branching off from the main flow channels upstream of the differential solenoid valve, and a setting unit setting a supply amount of fluid supplied from the first supply unit in accordance with a draw amount of fluid drawn by the second supply unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Yoshio MASUDA, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210276534Abstract: A brake control device is applied to a vehicle including a regenerative generator. The brake control device includes a pressure adjustment unit that includes an electric pump and a pressure adjustment valve, and that adjusts adjustment liquid pressure of a pressure adjustment fluid path between the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve; and a controller that controls the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve. The controller, before starting a replacement operation to replace a regenerative braking force by the regenerative generator with a friction braking force by the adjustment liquid pressure, performs preceding pressurization to increase the adjustment liquid pressure from “0” and maintain the adjustment liquid pressure at predetermined liquid pressure, and after performing the preceding pressurization, increases the adjustment liquid pressure more than the predetermined liquid pressure by increasing a rotation speed of the electric pump, and then execute the replacement operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210221231Abstract: A brake control device applied to a vehicle including a regenerative generator connected to a front wheel has an electric pump, and first and second pressure adjustment valves. The first pressure adjustment valve is provided in a brake fluid reflux path including the electric pump, adjusts the brake fluid to a first hydraulic pressure, and adjusts a rear wheel hydraulic pressure in a rear wheel cylinder to the first hydraulic pressure. The second pressure adjustment valve is provided in the reflux path, reduces the first hydraulic pressure to a second hydraulic pressure, and adjusts front wheel hydraulic pressure in a front wheel cylinder to the second hydraulic pressure. A front wheel flow rate to increase the front wheel hydraulic pressure is calculated using a brake operation member operation amount and a regeneration amount of the regenerative generator. The first pressure adjustment valve is controlled using the front wheel flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210197779Abstract: A brake control device adjusts a hydraulic pressure in a wheel cylinder in response to an operation amount of a brake operation member, and includes “a pressure adjustment unit that includes an electric pump and a pressure adjustment valve and adjusts hydraulic pressure in a pressure adjustment fluid path between the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve”, and “a controller that controls the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve”. The controller calculates an operation speed equivalent amount based on the operation amount, calculates a target rotation speed based on the operation speed equivalent amount, and controls the electric pump such that an actual rotation speed of the electric pump approaches the target rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki MARUYAMA, Shunya WATANABE
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Patent number: 10899328Abstract: A braking control device comprising: an operation amount acquisition device that obtains an operation amount for a braking operation member; a pressurizing unit that presses a friction member to a rotating member fixed to a wheel, by using an electric motor; a control that controls the output of the motor based on the operation amount; a pressing force acquisition device that obtains the actual pressing force of the friction member pressing on the rotating member; and a rotation angle acquisition device that obtains the actual rotation angle of the motor. The control: stores the correlation between the actual pressing force and the actual rotation angle; approximates a function map indicated by a second degree or higher polynomial based on the correlation; calculates a target rotation angle based on the operation amount and the function map; and controls the motor such that the actual rotation angle matches the target rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Shunya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200130656Abstract: A braking control device comprising: an operation amount acquisition device that obtains an operation amount for a braking operation member; a pressurizing unit that presses a friction member to a rotating member fixed to a wheel, by using an electric motor; a control that controls the output of the motor based on the operation amount; a pressing force acquisition device that obtains the actual pressing force of the friction member pressing on the rotating member; and a rotation angle acquisition device that obtains the actual rotation angle of the motor. The control: stores the correlation between the actual pressing force and the actual rotation angle; approximates a function map indicated by a second degree or higher polynominal based on the correlation; calculates a target rotation angle based on the operation amount and the function map; and controls the motor such that the actual rotation angle matches the target rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu TANAKA, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20200079331Abstract: This braking control device pumps a brake fluid from a reservoir to each wheel cylinder by one fluid pump and includes an electric motor which drives the fluid pump; and a controller which controls the electric motor. The controller calculates a target fluid pressure on the basis of at least one among the vehicle wheel speed, the vehicle deceleration state, and the turning state of the vehicle, calculates a target discharge amount for the fluid pump on the basis of the target fluid pressure, and controls the electric motor on the basis of the target discharge amount. The controller has a front wheel calculation map of the relationship between the fluid pressure and the inflow volume of the brake fluid corresponding to a front wheel cylinder, and a rear wheel calculation map corresponding to a rear wheel cylinder, and calculates the target discharge amount on the basis of the maps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu TANAKA, Shunya WATANABE
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Patent number: 10442314Abstract: To provide a vehicle interior component having a sufficient air intake performance and excellent appearance, and a vehicle therewith. A luggage side trim is arranged between a seat back of a seat for an occupant and a vehicle body side portion. The luggage side trim includes a trim body that includes an air inlet port through which air in a vehicle interior is taken. The trim body includes a mountain-shaped swell portion. The air inlet port is arranged at a range that includes a second wall section.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: KASAI KOGYO CO., LTD., SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Yoshihara, Akihisa Kogure, Shunya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190084440Abstract: To provide a vehicle interior component having a sufficient air intake performance and excellent appearance, and a vehicle therewith. A luggage side trim is arranged between a seat back of a seat for an occupant and a vehicle body side portion. The luggage side trim includes a trim body that includes an air inlet port through which air in a vehicle interior is taken. The trim body includes a mountain-shaped swell portion. The air inlet port is arranged at a range that includes a second wall section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Yuji YOSHIHARA, Akihisa KOGURE, Shunya WATANABE
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Patent number: 10020163Abstract: For a novice user to easily recognize a difference between imaging results caused by a difference between observation conditions, a computer has an operation screen display observation target setting buttons for changing an observation condition for a specimen including a combination of parameter setting values of a charged particle beam apparatus. The processing unit has the operation screen display a radar chart including a characteristic, indicated by three or more incompatible items, of an observation condition for each of the observation target setting buttons. The radar chart indicates at least items of high resolution, emphasis on surface structure and emphasis on material difference.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Yayoi Konishi, Mitsugu Sato, Masaki Takano, Shotaro Tamayama, Masako Nishimura, Shunya Watanabe, Mami Konomi
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Publication number: 20160343542Abstract: For a novice user to easily recognize a difference between imaging results caused by a difference between observation conditions, a computer has an operation screen display observation target setting buttons for changing an observation condition for a specimen including a combination of parameter setting values of a charged particle beam apparatus. The processing unit has the operation screen display a radar chart including a characteristic, indicated by three or more incompatible items, of an observation condition for each of the observation target setting buttons. The radar chart indicates at least items of high resolution, emphasis on surface structure and emphasis on material difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Yayoi KONISHI, Mitsugu SATO, Masaki TAKANO, Shotaro TAMAYAMA, Masako NISHIMURA, Shunya WATANABE, Mami KONOMI
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Patent number: D774045Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPROATIONInventors: Yayoi Konishi, Naoko Ushio, Masako Nishimura, Mami Konomi, Shunya Watanabe
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Patent number: D774046Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Yayoi Konishi, Masako Nishimura, Shunya Watanabe