Patents by Inventor Shuuji Satake

Shuuji Satake 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: 11114888
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a main power supply, a sub-power supply, a main power supply path, a sub-power supply path, a power supply selector switch, and a load selector switch group. The main power supply path is connected to the main power supply. The sub-power supply path is different from the main power supply path and is connected to the sub-power supply. The load selector switch group is disposed between the main power supply path and the sub-power supply path, and the load unit, and performs switching so as to connect one of the main power supply path and the sub-power supply path to the load unit and to disconnect the other from the load unit, according to switching of the power supply selector switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Yoshihito Aoki, Hiroo Yabe, Tsutomu Saigo
  • Patent number: 10960775
    Abstract: The two DC/DC converters perform DC/DC conversion of the power source voltage of the driving battery for supplying power to the motor of the vehicle and supply to an automatic operation load and a general load as an electrical component mounted on the vehicle. A switch is connected between the outputs of the two DC/DC converters. The two DC/DC converters and the switch are accommodated in one accommodating case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuuji Satake
  • Patent number: 10960836
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply unit capable of simplifying a structure of a temperature adjustment mechanism. Electric component power supplies and DC/DC converters and a junction box are accommodated in the same accommodating unit as a drive power supply, and thus the drive power supply and the box and the electrical component power supplies are arranged close to each other. As a result, a cooling unit for cooling the drive power supply and the electrical component power supplies can be made common. Further, heat can be transferred between parts housed in the accommodating unit, omitting the heating unit and lowering the capacity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuuji Satake
  • Patent number: 10965127
    Abstract: A plurality of DC/DC converters is provided for each group of solar panels and is configured to convert an output power of the solar panels. A charger includes an input to which outputs of the plurality of DC/DC converters are connected and is configured to convert an input voltage with maintaining the input voltage to a lower limit voltage during charging. The control device controls each of the plurality of DC/DC converters independently. Each of the plurality of control devices is configured to control so as to gradually increase the output voltage of the DC/DC converter from the lower limit voltage, measure the output power of the solar panel each time the output voltage is increased, and search for the output voltage where the measured output power is maximum and maintain that output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuuji Satake
  • Patent number: 10933762
    Abstract: The two DC/DC converters perform DC/DC conversion of the power source voltage of the driving battery for supplying power to the motor of the vehicle and supply to an automatic operation load and a general load as electrical components mounted on the vehicle. The control units control the two DC/DC converters. The control units make only one of the two DC/DC converters DC/DC conversion at the start of the DC/DC conversion, and then make both of the two DC/DC converters DC/DC conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Michito Enomoto
  • Patent number: 10936236
    Abstract: Provided are a rewriting system capable of shortening rewrite time, a rewriting system and a computer used for the rewriting system. The rewriting system includes an ECU and a rewriting device for at least transmitting to the ECU a rewrite data of memory contents stored in a flash ROM 14B (memory), the flash ROM 14B (memory) includes a rewrite target area A2 in which the memory contents to be rewritten are stored and a non-rewrite target area A1 in which the memory contents not to be rewritten are stored, and the rewriting device transmits the rewrite data of the memory contents to the ECU only for the memory contents of the rewrite target area in the flash ROM 14B (memory).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakamura, Satoshi Morita, Yasuyuki Shigezane, Yoshinori Ikuta, Shuuji Satake
  • Publication number: 20210050740
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a main power supply, a sub-power supply, a main power supply path, a sub-power supply path, a power supply selector switch, and a load selector switch group. The main power supply path is connected to the main power supply. The sub-power supply path is different from the main power supply path and is connected to the sub-power supply. The load selector switch group is disposed between the main power supply path and the sub-power supply path, and the load unit, and performs switching so as to connect one of the main power supply path and the sub-power supply path to the load unit and to disconnect the other from the load unit, according to switching of the power supply selector switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Yoshihito Aoki, Hiroo Yabe, Tsutomu Saigo
  • Patent number: 10916396
    Abstract: A plurality of semiconductor relays is provided between a power source and loads. The semiconductor relays have a function of a current detection for detecting a current passing through themselves. The loads are connected to output terminals respectively. A switching unit arbitrarily selects and switches a connecting destination of the semiconductor relays from among the plurality of output terminals. A microcomputer controls the switching unit on the basis of the detection results of a current flowing through the semiconductor relays, and adjusts the number of the semiconductor relays connected to the same load and connected to each other in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shiozaki, Yoshihide Nakamura, Satoshi Morita, Yoshinori Ikuta, Shuuji Satake
  • Patent number: 10676049
    Abstract: An electrical wiring device for vehicle includes a distribution module that is disposed between an auxiliary connector and optional devices. The distribution module includes: semiconductor relays connected to a power supply line; input/output interfaces; a control unit configured to control the semiconductor relays and the input/output interfaces on the basis of various kinds of signals acquired via a communication line; and a connecting terminal for connecting outputs of the semiconductor relays and outputs of the input/output interfaces to the optional devices. The control unit controls operations of the semiconductor relays and the input/output interfaces corresponding to the optional devices connected to the connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Masato Kakehi
  • Patent number: 10665091
    Abstract: An ID setting device includes: an output circuit configured to output, as serial data, an ID to be set in an ECU, which is an ID setting target; an input circuit to which an ID that is set is input as serial data from the ECU; and a control unit configured to check the ID output by the output circuit and the ID input to the input circuit against each other. The serial data has a duty cycle which is according to setting data on a per bit basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakamura, Satoshi Morita, Yasuyuki Shigezane, Yoshinori Ikuta, Shuuji Satake
  • Publication number: 20200136393
    Abstract: A plurality of DC/DC converters is provided for each group of solar panels and is configured to convert an output power of the solar panels. A charger includes an input to which outputs of the plurality of DC/DC converters are connected and is configured to convert an input voltage with maintaining the input voltage to a lower limit voltage during charging. The control device controls each of the plurality of DC/DC converters independently. Each of the plurality of control devices is configured to control so as to gradually increase the output voltage of the DC/DC converter from the lower limit voltage, measure the output power of the solar panel each time the output voltage is increased, and search for the output voltage where the measured output power is maximum and maintain that output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Shuuji SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20190366856
    Abstract: The two DC/DC converters perform DC/DC conversion of the power source voltage of the driving battery for supplying power to the motor of the vehicle and supply to an automatic operation load and a general load as an electrical component mounted on the vehicle. A switch is connected between the outputs of the two DC/DC converters. The two DC/DC converters and the switch are accommodated in one accommodating case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Shuuji SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20190366957
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply unit capable of simplifying a structure of a temperature adjustment mechanism. Electric component power supplies and DC/DC converters and a junction box are accommodated in the same accommodating unit as a drive power supply, and thus the drive power supply and the box and the electrical component power supplies are arranged close to each other. As a result, a cooling unit for cooling the drive power supply and the electrical component power supplies can be made common. Further, heat can be transferred between parts housed in the accommodating unit, omitting the heating unit and lowering the capacity thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Shuuji SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20190366861
    Abstract: The two DC/DC converters perform DC/DC conversion of the power source voltage of the driving battery for supplying power to the motor of the vehicle and supply to an automatic operation load and a general load as electrical components mounted on the vehicle. The control units control the two DC/DC converters. The control units make only one of the two DC/DC converters DC/DC conversion at the start of the DC/DC conversion, and then make both of the two DC/DC converters DC/DC conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Michito Enomoto
  • Patent number: 10374448
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply control device includes a plurality of area power supply slaves connected with respective different device groups configured with a plurality of different devices installed in a vehicle, and controlling power supplied to the devices in the connected device groups, a plurality of area power supply masters that are connected with respective different area power supply slaves and control power supplied to the connected area power supply slaves, and a vehicle power supply master connected with the area power supply masters and a battery of the vehicle and controlling power supplied to the area power supply masters from the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuuji Satake, Yoshihito Aoki
  • Patent number: 10351084
    Abstract: When an anomaly is determined in the transition of ECUs to a power saving state, a power supply control system sequentially turns on current supply switches while keeping a bypass switch on. A monitoring controller determines an anomaly in the transition of the ECUs to a power saving state on the basis of whether the dark current in the ECUs calculated from the amount of change at that time in the current in the power supply line is greater than an ordinary dark current. Further, in the startup state of the ECUs, power from a power supply can be supplied to the ECUs via the power supply line and individual supply lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Maruyama, Shuuji Satake, Satoshi Morita, Yoshinori Ikuta, Yoshihide Nakamura, Yasuyuki Shigezane
  • Publication number: 20190161033
    Abstract: Provided is a routing structure of a wire harness that prevents an electric wire having a large cross-sectional area from being routed long in a vehicle, and facilitates routing. The routing structure of a wire harness connects between a power supply and loads mounted on the vehicle through one or more distributors, and a distributor to be connected first when viewed from the power supply is located in or behind a dashboard of the vehicle, or inside and in front of a center console box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shuuji SATAKE, Akinori MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190066955
    Abstract: A plurality of semiconductor relays is provided between a power source and loads. The semiconductor relays have a function of a current detection for detecting a current passing through themselves. The loads are connected to output terminals respectively. A switching unit arbitrarily selects and switches a connecting destination of the semiconductor relays from among the plurality of output terminals. A microcomputer controls the switching unit on the basis of the detection results of a current flowing through the semiconductor relays, and adjusts the number of the semiconductor relays connected to the same load and connected to each other in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shiozaki, Yoshihide Nakamura, Satoshi Morita, Yoshinori Ikuta, Shuuji Satake
  • Publication number: 20190005810
    Abstract: An ID setting device includes: an output circuit configured to output, as serial data, an ID to be set in an ECU, which is an ID setting target; an input circuit to which an ID that is set is input as serial data from the ECU; and a control unit configured to check the ID output by the output circuit and the ID input to the input circuit against each other. The serial data has a duty cycle which is according to setting data on a per bit basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakamura, Satoshi Morita, Yasuyuki Shigezane, Yoshinori Ikuta, Shuuji Satake
  • Patent number: 10166939
    Abstract: When supplying electric power to a load from a power supply via a parallel circuit of two electrical wires having the same wiring resistance, a vehicular power supply control device uses a current measurement unit in intelligent power devices (IPDs) to measure a passing current flowing in a semiconductor switching device in each of the electrical wires. Then, in order to match the temperatures of the electrical wires as estimated by a present temperature estimation unit base on the measured current, a target duty ratio in a PWM control for reducing the passing current in the semiconductor switching device of the IPD on one electrical wire is calculated in a target duty ratio calculation unit, and the semiconductor switching device of the one IPD is turned on and off by a PWM/DC control and shutoff determination unit with the calculated target duty ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakamura, Keisuke Ueta, Yoshinori Ikuta, Yasuyuki Shigezane, Shuuji Satake