Patents by Inventor Susumu Kuromida

Susumu Kuromida 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: 4957194
    Abstract: A torque converter slip control device used in an automatic transmission of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle has a torque converter to transfer engine torque to an input shaft of the automatic transmission. A feed-forward slip control subroutine controls a hydraulic circuit in a feed-forward control to vary the coupling efficiency of a lockup clutch to cause the torque converter to allow slippage at a rate suitable for cancelling a fluctuation of engine torque when the internal combustion engine is at rotational speeds higher than a preselected rotational speed higher than a predetermined fuel injection recovery speed at which an injection of fuel by a fuel system is recovered during the detection of the deceleration state of the vehicle by a deceleration senser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sawa, Susumu Kuromida, Keiji Bota