Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Izumi

Tetsuya Izumi 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: 11972270
    Abstract: A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koki Izumi, Satoshi Matsushita, Satoru Yanagi, Munehisa Matsuda, Kiyotaka Ohara, Katsunori Enomoto, Yuki Yada, Kyohei Mori, Hideki Nogawa, Tetsuya Okuno
  • Patent number: 10724633
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a vehicle including a motor-generator, a transmission, a shift hydraulic control unit, and a CVT control unit (CVTCU). When a downshift of the transmission is performed without an acceleration request from a driver, the CVTCU sets a pulley thrust at a secondary pulley on the basis of a first lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of a fundamental thrust and a first correction thrust. The CVTCU also sets a pulley thrust at a primary pulley on the basis of a second lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of the fundamental thrust and a second correction thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Sungpil Ryu, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10690238
    Abstract: Provided are a variator and a transmission controller in an engine-driven vehicle. The transmission controller has an instantaneous interruption recovery control portion configured to, upon a power reset from an instantaneous interruption during running, set a target through transmission ratio and a desired through transmission ratio to a lowest transmission ratio value by initialization and perform recovery control to recover an actual through transmission ratio of the variator to a transmission ratio value for shifting to normal control. The instantaneous interruption recovery control portion is further configured to, upon the power reset from the instantaneous interruption during the running, set a change speed of the target through transmission ratio from the lowest transmission ratio value to the desired through transmission ratio, to be higher than that under the normal control, before a time at which the desired through transmission ratio value deviates from the lowest transmission ratio value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Ishii, Tetsuya Izumi, Sungpil Ryu, Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi
  • Patent number: 10612651
    Abstract: In a vehicle equipped with a torque converter 4 having a lock-up clutch (3), learning control for obtaining a learning value (L_n) on the basis of meet-point information, with which the lock-up clutch (3) initiates torque transmission, is carried out. When the lock-up clutch (3) experiences a transition to an engaged state during travel, a meet-point learning control unit (12c) calculates an LU transmission torque estimate on the basis of the difference between the engine torque (engine torque signal value Te) and the torque converter transmission torque (?·Ne2). Excess clutch capacity is detected when the LU transmission torque estimate is greater than an excess capacity determination transmission torque threshold within a prescribed amount of time after an initial pressure (P_n) based on the learning value (L_n) is instructed. When excess clutch capacity is detected, a learning value correction that reduces the learning value (L_n) is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Araki, Hideshi Wakayama, Kouji Saitou, Seiji Kasahara, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10550938
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure controller includes belt sandwiching force increasing means. The belt sandwiching force increasing means increases a belt sandwiching force by a primary pulley and a secondary pulley on the basis of a braking force request from a driver, up to a predetermined value to prevent a belt from slipping due to a braking force. The belt sandwiching force increasing means increases the belt sandwiching force in a range of less than the predetermined value before the braking force request occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Publication number: 20200025288
    Abstract: Provided are a variator and a transmission controller in an engine-driven vehicle. The transmission controller has an instantaneous interruption recovery control portion configured to, upon a power reset from an instantaneous interruption during running, set a target through transmission ratio and a desired through transmission ratio to a lowest transmission ratio value by initialization and perform recovery control to recover an actual through transmission ratio of the variator to a transmission ratio value for shifting to normal control. The instantaneous interruption recovery control portion is further configured to, upon the power reset from the instantaneous interruption during the running, set a change speed of the target through transmission ratio from the lowest transmission ratio value to the desired through transmission ratio, to be higher than that under the normal control, before a time at which the desired through transmission ratio value deviates from the lowest transmission ratio value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori ISHII, Tetsuya IZUMI, Sungpil RYU, Hiroki IWASA, Hironori MIYAISHI
  • Patent number: 10507833
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle including an oil pump driven by a transmission of a rotation of the motor-generator; and a hydraulic pressure supply unit for supplying a hydraulic pressure to the continuously variable transmission. The hydraulic pressure is generated by regulating a pressure of an oil discharged from the oil pump. When a regenerative braking is performed by the motor-generator based on a deceleration request from a driver, the hydraulic pressure supply unit supplies a hydraulic pressure based on a first hydraulic pressure and a second hydraulic pressure to the continuously variable transmission. The first hydraulic pressure is a hydraulic pressure to transmit an input torque input to the continuously variable transmission during the regenerative braking. The second hydraulic pressure is a hydraulic pressure to shift the continuously variable transmission during the regenerative braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10502314
    Abstract: An oil pump driving control device of a vehicle having a main oil pump (14) that is driven by a motor/generator (4) and produces a pump discharge oil to a first clutch (3), a second clutch (5) and a belt-type continuously variable transmission (6) provided on a driving force transmission line. A hybrid control module (81) is provided in this FF hybrid vehicle. The hybrid control module (81) is configured to perform a control so that during vehicle stop, the lower an ATF oil temperature is, the more the pump driving energy to drive the main oil pump (14) is decreased. With this control, consumption energy during the vehicle stop can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takanobu Mouri, Taiichi Onoyama, Seishi Shimamura, Kakuzou Kaneko, Akihiro Toyofuku, Ryuichi Arai, Ryuzo Noguchi, Satoshi Harui, Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Kenichi Watanabe, Masumi Fujikawa, Kouichi Kotsuji, Shingo Suzuki, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Keisuke Iwado, Kazuhiro Miyachi
  • Patent number: 10457290
    Abstract: An FF hybrid vehicle control device having an HEV mode and an EV mode as drive modes is provided with a CVT control unit (84) for determining primary pulley pressure (Ppri) and secondary pulley pressure (Psec) with which a belt (6c) of a belt-type continuously variable transmission (6) will be clamped on the basis of a torque component inputted to the belt-type continuously variable transmission (6) during brake deceleration, and the corrected amount of brake torque which is an inertia torque correction component. The CVT control unit (84) reduces the corrected amount of brake torque during brake deceleration when EV mode is selected to be less than the corrected amount of brake torque during brake deceleration when HEV mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10377368
    Abstract: A controller is provided so as to control, when an electric vehicle (EV) mode is selected, a belt clamping pressure on the basis of discharged oil from a main oil pump which is driven by a motor generator. The controller is provided for a hybrid vehicle and is configured to perform control such that when the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a creep cut condition which does not require creep torque from the motor generator is met, a first motor idling rotation speed is set as a motor rotation speed. When the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a standby learning control completes learning of a zero-point oil pressure command value, the controller reduces a rotation speed of the motor generator to a second motor idling rotation speed which is lower than the first motor idling rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Kenichi Watanabe, Masumi Fujikawa, Kouichi Kotsuji, Shingo Suzuki, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Keisuke Iwado, Takanobu Mouri, Taiichi Onoyama, Seishi Shimamura, Akihiro Toyofuku, Ryuichi Arai, Kakuzou Kaneko, Ryuzo Noguchi, Satoshi Harui
  • Patent number: 10378644
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control apparatus for a vehicular transmission comprising: a vehicle speed sensor; an accelerator opening angle sensor; and a gear-shift control section (8D) of a CVTECU 8. The vehicle speed sensor includes: an output shaft rotation speed sensor (90) configured to detect a rotation speed (rotation numbers) of an output shaft (41) of the automatic transmission; road wheel rotation speed sensors configured to detect rotation speeds (rotation numbers) of four road wheels (90B through 90E); and a vehicle speed calculating section (8B) of CVTECU 8 configured to calculate the vehicle speed from the information of the road wheel rotation speeds when a preset predetermined condition as a condition under which vertical variations of the rotation speed of the output shaft are generated is established and calculate the vehicle speed from the output shaft rotation speed information if the predetermined condition is not established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10315504
    Abstract: A displayed rotation speed control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: a displayed rotation speed controller having a display mode in which a target primary rotation speed stepwisely set is displayed as a driving source rotation speed in the rotation speed display device in the simulated stepwise shift mode, when the mode is switched from the EV mode to the HEV mode to initiate a starting of the engine, and when the mode is switched from the continuous shift mode to the simulated stepwise shift mode while an actual engine speed is smaller than a predetermined rotation speed, the displayed rotation speed controller being configured to display a value obtained by retarding the actual engine speed, during a period from the initiation of the starting of the engine to a rotation speed smaller than a predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Miyaishi, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Toshiaki Motomura
  • Patent number: 10240672
    Abstract: When a switch condition where a shift of a continuously variable transmission is switched from a first shift that is any one of an upshift and a downshift to another second shift is satisfied, an integral term in the feedback control of the first shift is reduced to zero with a first predetermined gradient, an operation of an integral term in the feedback control of the second shift is started after the switch condition is satisfied and before the integral term in the feedback control of the first shift reaches zero, and the continuously variable transmission is shifted based on a sum of the integral term in the feedback control of the first shift and the integral term in the feedback control of the second shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Ryu Sungpil, Hironori Miyaishi, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10228055
    Abstract: A transmission controller increases hydraulic pressure supplied to a secondary pulley and decreases hydraulic pressure supplied to a primary pulley to shift a variator to a mechanical Low speed ratio when the hydraulic pressure supplied to the primary pulley and the secondary pulley vibrates. The transmission controller shifts the variator from the mechanical Low speed ratio to a High side when a sub-transmission mechanism is downshifted during controlling a speed ratio of the variator at the mechanical Low speed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Masashi Suwabe, Tetsuya Izumi, Masayuki Miyazono, Takuichiro Inoue, Kunihiro Takahashi, Makoto Komatsu, Yuji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20180297465
    Abstract: A displayed rotation speed control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: a displayed rotation speed controller having a display mode in which a target primary rotation speed stepwisely set is displayed as a driving source rotation speed in the rotation speed display device in the simulated stepwise shift mode, when the mode is switched from the EV mode to the HEV mode to initiate a starting of the engine, and when the mode is switched from the continuous shift mode to the simulated stepwise shift mode while an actual engine speed is smaller than a predetermined rotation speed, the displayed rotation speed controller being configured to display a value obtained by retarding the actual engine speed, during a period from the initiation of the starting of the engine to a rotation speed smaller than a predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori MIYAISHI, Akito SUZUKI, Tetsuya IZUMI, Toshiaki MOTOMURA
  • Publication number: 20180216729
    Abstract: In a vehicle equipped with a torque converter 4 having a lock-up clutch (3), learning control for obtaining a learning value (L_n) on the basis of meet-point information, with which the lock-up clutch (3) initiates torque transmission, is carried out. When the lock-up clutch (3) experiences a transition to an engaged state during travel, a meet-point learning control unit (12c) calculates an LU transmission torque estimate on the basis of the difference between the engine torque (engine torque signal value Te) and the torque converter transmission torque (?·Ne2). Excess clutch capacity is detected when the LU transmission torque estimate is greater than an excess capacity determination transmission torque threshold within a prescribed amount of time after an initial pressure (P_n) based on the learning value (L_n) is instructed. When excess clutch capacity is detected, a learning value correction that reduces the learning value (L_n) is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu ARAKI, Hideshi WAKAYAMA, Kouji SAITOU, Seiji KASAHARA, Tetsuya IZUMI
  • Patent number: 9964207
    Abstract: A transmission controller increases hydraulic pressure supplied to a secondary pulley and decreases hydraulic pressure supplied to a primary pulley to shift a variator to a mechanical Low speed ratio during the hydraulic pressure supplied to the primary pulley and the secondary pulley vibrates. The mechanical Low speed ratio is a speed ratio where a groove width of the primary pulley has a maximum value possible to be employed in structure of the primary pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Izumi, Masayuki Miyazono, Takuichiro Inoue, Masashi Suwabe, Makoto Komatsu, Yuji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20180106361
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control apparatus for a vehicular transmission comprising: a vehicle speed sensor; an accelerator opening angle sensor; and a gear-shift control section (8D) of a CVTECU 8. The vehicle speed sensor includes: an output shaft rotation speed sensor (90) configured to detect a rotation speed (rotation numbers) of an output shaft (41) of the automatic transmission; road wheel rotation speed sensors configured to detect rotation speeds (rotation numbers) of four road wheels (90B through 90E); and a vehicle speed calculating section (8B) of CVTECU 8 configured to calculate the vehicle speed from the information of the road wheel rotation speeds when a preset predetermined condition as a condition under which vertical variations of the rotation speed of the output shaft are generated is established and calculate the vehicle speed from the output shaft rotation speed information if the predetermined condition is not established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroki IWASA, Tetsuya IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20180080550
    Abstract: When a switch condition where a shift of a continuously variable transmission is switched from a first shift that is any one of an upshift and a downshift to another second shift is satisfied, an integral term in the feedback control of the first shift is reduced to zero with a first predetermined gradient, an operation of an integral term in the feedback control of the second shift is started after the switch condition is satisfied and before the integral term in the feedback control of the first shift reaches zero, and the continuously variable transmission is shifted based on a sum of the integral term in the feedback control of the first shift and the integral term in the feedback control of the second shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki IWASA, Ryu SUNGPIL, Hironori MIYAISHI, Tetsuya IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20180080553
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a vehicle including a motor-generator, a transmission, a shift hydraulic control unit, and a CVT control unit (CVTCU). When a downshift of the transmission is performed without an acceleration request from a driver, the CVTCU sets a pulley thrust at a secondary pulley on the basis of a first lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of a fundamental thrust and a first correction thrust. The CVTCU also sets a pulley thrust at a primary pulley on the basis of a second lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of the fundamental thrust and a second correction thrust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki IWASA, Hironori MIYAISHI, Sungpil RYU, Tetsuya IZUMI