Patents by Inventor Takafumi Yamaguchi
Takafumi Yamaguchi 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: 20220034475Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle includes a lighting device body that has a light source part and a housing body that supports the light source part, and a ventilation part-adjacent to the lighting device body and through which outside wind passes. The light source part has a light source element part that emits light and a heat release member that releases heat that is generated in the light source element part. The light source element part is inside of the housing body and the heat release member is exposed inside of the ventilation part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Toshifumi HIGASHI, Youjii FURUKUBO, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yuji IINO
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Publication number: 20210410286Abstract: A wiring board includes: a base material including, on one side of the base material, a protruding part that protrudes toward an outside, wherein the protruding part has a shape in which a center portion of a principal surface rises from the outer periphery, and a plurality of external connection terminals is arranged on the principal surface. A composite substrate includes: the above-mentioned wiring board and a metallic frame member, wherein the frame member includes an opening whose shape is corresponding to a shape in a plan view of the protruding part, and the frame member is arranged such that the opening surrounds the protruding part to fill a periphery of the protruding part. An electric device includes: an electric element on a right face of the wiring board.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Toshifumi HIGASHI, Youji FURUKUBO, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210391687Abstract: A substrate for mounting an electronic component according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a base that is a plate-shaped body, where a first surface of the base is sloped relative to a second surface that is opposed to the first surface, and when the base is bisected into a lower part and a higher part in a slope direction thereof, a thermal conductivity of the lower part is higher than a thermal conductivity of the higher part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Toshifumi HIGASHI, Youji FURUKUBO
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Patent number: 11167790Abstract: A steering control device includes a control circuit that controls a steering device. The control circuit is configured to execute an end-abutting relaxation control to correct a current command value such that decrease in an end interval angle is restricted, when the end interval angle is equal to or smaller than a predetermined angle, the end interval angle indicating the distance of an absolute steer angle from an end position correspondence angle. The control circuit is configured to perform a slewing intention determination of whether it is intended to perform the slewing travel of a vehicle during the execution of the end-abutting relaxation control. The control circuit is configured to perform a partial release control to reduce a correction amount of the current command value in the execution of the end-abutting relaxation control when it is determined that it is intended to perform the slewing travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuaki Kataoka, Takahiro Toko, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Yukinobu Ezaki
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Patent number: 11119456Abstract: A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignees: KANEKA CORPORATION, Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.Inventors: Kento Kanaya, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Yosuke Aoki
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Publication number: 20210229737Abstract: A steering control device includes: an absolute steering angle detecting unit configured to detect an absolute steering angle; and a current command value calculating unit configured to calculate a current command value corresponding to a target value of the motor torque output from the motor. The current command value calculating unit is configured to perform partial release control for decreasing a correction value of the current command value due to execution of the end contact relaxation control when a vehicle is tried to be turned at the time of execution of the end contact relaxation control. The current command value calculating unit is configured to stop the partial release control when the current command value which is calculated at the time of execution of the partial release control is a value which is not affected by decreasing the correction value based on execution of the partial release control.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210197889Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit that stores an end position corresponding angle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute end strike relaxation control, to execute partial release control in a case where turning of a vehicle is attempted during execution of the end strike relaxation control, to make a non-following determination and acquire a release-time restriction position determination angle that corresponds to the absolute steering angle detected at a time when the electronic control unit determines that the movement of the steered shaft is restricted, and to permit update of the end position corresponding angle based on the release-time restriction position determination angle, and update the end position corresponding angle in a case where the update of the end position corresponding angle is permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210122413Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform end contact relaxation control for correcting a current command value such that a decrease of an end separation angle indicating a distance of an absolute steering angle from an end-position-corresponding angle is limited when the end separation angle is equal to or less than a predetermined angle and to perform partial release control for decreasing a correction value of the current command value due to execution of the end contact relaxation control based on a steering torque which is input to a steering system when a vehicle is intended to travel while turning at the time of execution of the end contact relaxation control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Shingo NITTA, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210094609Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire a limit position determination angle corresponding to an absolute steering angle when it is determined that movement of a turning shaft is limited, to compare a first stroke width which is a sum of an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a right side and an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a left side with a stroke threshold value corresponding to an entire stroke range of the turning shaft when the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides are acquired, and to set end-position-corresponding angles on the right and left sides based on the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides when the first stroke width is greater than the stroke threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210094610Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit detects an absolute steering angle. The electronic control unit controls driving of a motor. The electronic control unit determines whether movement of a turning shaft to one of right and left sides has been limited by an end contact or execution of end contact relaxation control. The electronic control unit acquires a plurality of limit position determination angles corresponding to the absolute steering angle. The electronic control unit permits update of an end-position-corresponding angle. The electronic control unit updates the end-position-corresponding angle stored in the electronic control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210094608Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit configured to i) detect an absolute steering angle, ii) determine whether movement of a turning shaft to one of right and left sides has been limited, iii) acquire a limit position determination angle corresponding to the absolute steering angle detected when the electronic control unit determines that the movement of the turning shaft has been limited, and iv) set an end-position-corresponding angle based on the limit position determination angle, the end-position-corresponding angle being an angle indicating that the turning shaft is located at a right or left end position, and the end-position-corresponding angle being associated with the absolute steering angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210078628Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an absolute steering angle, to calculate a current command value, to control driving of a motor such that an actual current value which is supplied to the motor reaches the current command value, to store an end-position-corresponding angle which is correlated with the absolute steering angle, to perform end contact relaxation control for correcting the current command value such that a decrease of an end separation angle is regulated when the end separation angle is equal to or less than a predetermined angle, and to calculate the current command value such that an increase of the end separation angle is not regulated by the end contact relaxation control when the end separation angle is equal to or less than the predetermined angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TOKO, Nobuaki KATAOKA, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210070351Abstract: A steering control device includes a control circuit and a drive circuit. The control circuit is configured to perform a current feedback computation by which the actual current value of electric current to be supplied to a motor follows a current command value. The control circuit is configured to execute an end-abutting relaxation control to correct the current command value such that decrease in an end interval angle is restricted, when the end interval angle is equal to or smaller than a predetermined angle, the end interval angle indicating the distance of the absolute steer angle from the end position correspondence angle. The control circuit is configured to adjust a control gain to be used in the current feedback computation, such that the control gain increases, when overshoot of the actual current value occurs during the execution of the end-abutting relaxation control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki KATAOKA, Takahiro TOKO, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20210070352Abstract: A steering control device includes a control circuit that controls a steering device. The control circuit is configured to execute an end-abutting relaxation control to correct a current command value such that decrease in an end interval angle is restricted, when the end interval angle is equal to or smaller than a predetermined angle, the end interval angle indicating the distance of an absolute steer angle from an end position correspondence angle. The control circuit is configured to perform a slewing intention determination of whether it is intended to perform the slewing travel of a vehicle during the execution of the end-abutting relaxation control. The control circuit is configured to perform a partial release control to reduce a correction amount of the current command value in the execution of the end-abutting relaxation control when it is determined that it is intended to perform the slewing travel of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki KATAOKA, Takahiro TOKO, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Yukinobu EZAKI
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Publication number: 20200293011Abstract: A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.Inventors: Kento Kanaya, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Yosuke Aoki
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Publication number: 20200277016Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), a vehicle body frame (11) which supports the battery (100) and the power control unit (320), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, and a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the vehicle body frame (11) includes a pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17), and the power control unit (320) is disposed on an inward side in a left-right direction of the pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Okubo, Akira Kuramochi, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshifumi Shimamura, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10753305Abstract: A combustion control method in an engine of a vehicle wherein an exhaust path includes a catalyst and a NOx sensor provided on an upstream side of the catalyst, the method includes the following steps. A step of determining whether a NOx concentration in an exhaust gas falls within a predetermined reference range; a step of estimating a heat generation rate profile indicating crank angle dependency of a heat generation rate in the engine when the NOx concentration is determined out of the reference range; and a step of comparing a value of an index characterizing the estimated heat generation rate profile with a value of an index in an ideal heat generation rate profile specified from a driving condition of the vehicle and controlling a combustion condition in the engine based on a result.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventor: Takafumi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200247494Abstract: A saddle type electric vehicle (1) includes a charging cord (245) that is connectable to an external power supply, a cord accommodating section (230) configured to accommodate a charging cord (245), and a step floor (9) on which an occupant places his/her legs, a center tunnel (CT) bulging above the step floor (9) is provided in front of a front end of a seat (8) and below a handle (2), and the cord accommodating section (230) is disposed in the center tunnel (CT).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa, Ayumu Nishimiya, Toshifumi Shimamura, Junichi Ichioka
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Publication number: 20200247491Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1) having a battery (100) that is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle (1) includes a vehicle electronic lock (220) which enables the vehicle (1) to be locked and unlocked, a lock control unit (320) which controls the vehicle electronic lock (220), and a sub battery (327) which supplies electric power to the lock control unit (320), in which the lock control unit (320) enables the vehicle to be unlocked in a state in which the battery (100) is removed from the vehicle (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Akira Kuramochi, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Kazuo Tsuji
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Publication number: 20200239097Abstract: A saddle-type electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), and a charger (325) mounted on the vehicle body and configured to charge the battery (100), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the charger (325) is disposed to overlap the power control unit (320) in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa, Kazuo Tsuji, Katsuyuki Okubo, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Akira Kuramochi, Toshifumi Shimamura