Patents by Inventor Tadasumi MATSUI

Tadasumi MATSUI 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).

  • METHOD OF LIMITING VEHICLE SPEED DURING EVACUATION RUNNING, AND VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150321562
    Abstract: The present application relates to a vehicle and a method of limiting a vehicle speed during evacuation running designed to prevent a normal battery block from being overcharged by regenerative electric power during evacuation running, in which a vehicle driven by a parallely connected battery blocks runs under a condition in which some abnormal battery blocks are separated. The method may include determining whether a vehicle is performing evacuation running, calculating receivable regenerative electric power for the battery blocks used for running of the vehicle, calculating a limit speed of the vehicle according to the receivable regenerative electric power, and limiting the speed of the vehicle to the limit speed or to a speed lower than the limit speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NOMURA, Tadasumi MATSUI, Kenji NISHIGAKI, Masashi KIDONO, Takahiro TSUZUKU, Hiromasa YOSHIZAWA