Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Honma
Tomoaki Honma 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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Patent number: 11535229Abstract: A controller includes a control unit configured to perform stepwise shift that upshifts a CVT in a stepped manner to accelerate a vehicle. The control unit performs a downshift control configured to downshift the continuously variable transmission in a case in which an accelerator pedal is continuously stepped on from before prohibition of the stepwise shift to after prohibition of the stepwise shift.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonghwan Lee, Tomoaki Honma, Satoshi Nakano, Koutarou Tagami, Yusuke Ushikubo
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Patent number: 11365805Abstract: A vehicle includes a transmission having a variator and a sub-transmission mechanism, a controller serving as a shift control unit adapted to, as shift of the transmission, shift the sub-transmission mechanism and the variator so that a through speed ratio becomes a target speed ratio, and an engine serving as a torque increasing portion adapted to increase a torque inputted to the transmission in association with the shift of the transmission. The controller has a torque setting unit adapted to make a magnitude of an inclination larger as an increase amount of the engine rotation speed in association with the shift of the transmission is larger.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiya Kitagawa, Tomoaki Honma
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Publication number: 20220055601Abstract: A controller includes a control unit configured to perform stepwise shift that upshifts a CVT in a stepped manner to accelerate a vehicle. The control unit performs a downshift control configured to downshift the continuously variable transmission in a case in which an accelerator pedal is continuously stepped on from before prohibition of the stepwise shift to after prohibition of the stepwise shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonghwan LEE, Tomoaki HONMA, Satoshi NAKANO, Koutarou TAGAMI, Yusuke USHIKUBO
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Patent number: 11077852Abstract: A shift control device for a vehicle includes: an engine; a shift mechanism disposed between the engine and driving wheels; a shift control section configured to control a transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism; and a fuel cut control section configured to stop a fuel supply to the engine, at least when an accelerator pedal is in a release state, and when an engine speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined rotation speed, the shift control section being configured to perform a minimum rotation speed restriction control to control the transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism so that the minimum rotation speed of the engine is equal to or greater than the predetermined rotation speed regardless of a vehicle front condition and an accelerator operation condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshimitsu Araki, Tomoaki Honma, Yasuhiro Endo, Hiroshi Kuroiwa
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Publication number: 20200248802Abstract: A vehicle includes a transmission having a variator and a sub-transmission mechanism, a controller serving as a shift control unit adapted to, as shift of the transmission, shift the sub-transmission mechanism and the variator so that a through speed ratio becomes a target speed ratio, and an engine serving as a torque increasing portion adapted to increase a torque inputted to the transmission in association with the shift of the transmission. The controller has a torque setting unit adapted to make a magnitude of an inclination larger as an increase amount of the engine rotation speed in association with the shift of the transmission is larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiya KITAGAWA, Tomoaki HONMA
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Publication number: 20200023849Abstract: A shift control device for a vehicle includes: an engine; a shift mechanism disposed between the engine and driving wheels; a shift control section configured to control a transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism; and a fuel cut control section configured to stop a fuel supply to the engine, at least when an accelerator pedal is in a release state, and when an engine speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined rotation speed, the shift control section being configured to perform a minimum rotation speed restriction control to control the transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism so that the minimum rotation speed of the engine is equal to or greater than the predetermined rotation speed regardless of a vehicle front condition and an accelerator operation condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshimitsu ARAKI, Tomoaki HONMA, Yasuhiro ENDO, Hiroshi KUROIWA
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Patent number: 10527165Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes: a first engagement control section configured to bring the lockup clutch to a full engagement state after a rotation of the internal combustion engine is increased in a slip engagement state while a torque transmission capacity of the lockup clutch is increased, and a second engagement control section configured to add a predetermined capacity to the increased torque transmission capacity when the torque judging section judges an increase of the output torque of the internal combustion engine in a state where a sensed rotation speed difference in the slip engagement state of the engagement state of the first engagement control is increased to be equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, and then decreased to be equal to or smaller than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Kamiya, Tomoaki Honma, Akito Suzuki, Yasuhiro Endo
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Patent number: 10495222Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes: a transmission gear ratio control section configured to control the transmission gear ratio so that a rotation speed of the output element rapidly becomes closer to a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, a first engagement control section configured to perform a first engagement control to be brought to the full engagement state after the rotation of the internal combustion engine is increased in the slip engagement state while a torque transmission capacity of the lockup clutch is increased when the lockup clutch is switched through the slip engagement state to the full engagement state by an ON operation of an accelerator of the vehicle, the transmission gear ratio control being prohibited during the first engagement control by the first engagement control section.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Kamiya, Tomoaki Honma, Yasuhiro Endo
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Patent number: 10364888Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission includes: a line pressure generating-section configured to generate a line pressure; a pilot valve configured to supply a pilot pressure regulated so as not to exceed a first predetermined pressure when the line pressure exceeds the first predetermined pressure; a control section configured to generate the clamping forces by controlling the pilot pressure; a line pressure increase section configured to increase the line pressure to be greater than the first predetermined pressure when the control to increase the line pressure is performed when the line pressure is lower than the first predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Hiromu Ogino
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Patent number: 10252719Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission includes a lock-up clutch of a torque converter which is arranged to connect and disconnect a power transmission between a power source and the driving wheel, and a control section configured to output a hydraulic pressure command value. The control section is configured to control a transmission gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission and an engagement state of the lock-up clutch in accordance with a traveling state of a vehicle. The control device includes a learning control section configured to perform a learning control of the engagement state of the lock-up clutch with respect to the hydraulic pressure command value, an oil vibration sensing section configured to sense oil vibration of a line pressure, and a learning control prohibiting section configured to prohibit the learning control when the oil vibration sensing section senses the oil vibration.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Hiromu Ogino
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Patent number: 10207714Abstract: Control device for continuously variable transmission has continuously variable transmission mechanism (CVT) transmitting power with belt (7) wound around primary and secondary pulley (5, 6); torque convertor (2) having pump impeller (20), turbine runner (21) and lock-up clutch (2a); and control unit (10) controlling lock-up clutch (2a) to predetermined engagement state and controlling the CVT to predetermined transmission ratio, according to travelling condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Sunghoon Woo, Takaaki Matsui, Tomoaki Honma, Yoshio Yasui, Yuta Suzuki, Masayuki Mannen, Susumu Saitou
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Patent number: 10183670Abstract: The drive system from the engine (1) to the drive wheels (7) of a vehicle is equipped with a torque converter (2), which has a lock-up clutch (3), and a variator (4). Said engined car is provided with a lock-up control means for controlling the engagement/disengagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and a gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) for performing control to switch between a “continuously variable gear change mode” and a “DSTEP gear change mode.” While traveling, the gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) prohibits gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is at or below a lock-up engagement-permitting threshold for permitting engagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and allows gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is higher than the lock-up engagement-permitting threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Tomoaki Honma, Akihiro Tanabe, Tomoko Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180372220Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes: a transmission gear ratio control section configured to control the transmission gear ratio so that a rotation speed of the output element rapidly becomes closer to a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, a first engagement control section configured to perform a first engagement control to be brought to the full engagement state after the rotation of the internal combustion engine is increased in the slip engagement state while a torque transmission capacity of the lockup clutch is increased when the lockup clutch is switched through the slip engagement state to the full engagement state by an ON operation of an accelerator of the vehicle, the transmission gear ratio control being prohibited during the first engagement control by the first engagement control section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei KAMIYA, Tomoaki HONMA, Yasuhiro ENDO
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Patent number: 10125864Abstract: A control device for a lock-up-clutch installed in a torque converter arranged between an engine and an automatic transmission mechanism includes an engagement control means that carries out a calculation to increase an engaging capacity of the lock-up-clutch with the passage of time during an engagement control time in which the torque converter is shifted from a converter condition to a lock-up condition in which the prime mover drives an auxiliary device and in which when, during the control to increase the engaging capacity of the lock-up-clutch, an input torque to the torque converter from the engine is increased due to reduction in load of the auxiliary device, the engagement control means promotes the increase of the engaging capacity of the lock-up-clutch based on the amount of increase of the input torque thereby eliminating undesired pressure shortage that would be induced in the period toward the lock-up condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Kohei Kamiya, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Hiromu Ogino, Yasuhiro Endo, Yuzuru Tohta, Kouki Saitou
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Patent number: 9995389Abstract: A continuously variable transmission (100), wherein pressure equalization control is performed to make line pressure (PL) equal to secondary pressure (Psec) when prescribed start conditions are satisfied. During pressure equalization control, a secondary pressure indicated value (Psec_co) is raised by a prescribed amount (S10), then a line pressure indicated value (PL_co) is gradually decreased (S30). If determination is made that line pressure is the same as the secondary pressure after secondary actual pressure (Psec) is lowered (S40), then the line pressure is controlled so that the secondary actual pressure (Psec) becomes the secondary pressure indicated value (Psec_co) (S50). At the start of pressure equalization control, if the difference (?Psec) found by subtracting the secondary pressure indicated value from the secondary actual value is negative (S120), then a primary pressure indicated value is corrected on the basis of the difference (S130).Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Tomoaki Honma, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara
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Patent number: 9958063Abstract: A hydraulic control device controls hydraulic pressure supplied to a continuously variable transmission. The hydraulic control device includes a pressure regulating valve, a solenoid valve configured to control the pilot pressure, line pressure control means, and hydraulic control means. The pressure regulating valve includes an input port to which line pressure is input, an output port configured to supply an oil chamber of a second pulley with a second pulley pressure, a drain port configured to discharge the second pulley pressure from the oil chamber, and a spool moving according to pilot pressure to regulate the second pulley pressure. The line pressure control means is configured to control the line pressure on the basis of the second pulley pressure and first pulley pressure of first pulley. The hydraulic control means is configured to temporarily change the pilot pressure from set pressure to configure the line pressure identical to the second pulley pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Yasuyuki Hashimoto, Seiichiro Takahashi, Tomoaki Honma, Tomoaki Kabe, Nobuhiko Morifuji, Nobuhide Kato, Hitoshi Goka, Koichi Sugita
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Patent number: 9958062Abstract: A CVTECU includes a secondary-pressure control section and a line-pressure control section that performs a same-pressure control to equalize a line pressure and a secondary pressure with each other if a predetermined start condition is satisfied. The line-pressure control section realizes a same-pressure state between the line pressure and the secondary pressure by lowering the line pressure below a target secondary pressure, and then controls the line pressure such that an actual secondary pressure is brought to the target secondary pressure by hydraulic feedback control while maintaining the same-pressure state. The secondary-pressure control section includes a restriction section that restricts an accumulation of integral term of an integral action for a duration between a time point at which the actual secondary pressure starts to be pushed down and a time point at which the same-pressure state between the line pressure and the secondary pressure is realized.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Tomoaki Honma, Seiichiro Takahashi, Takahiro Kobayashi, Takashi Eguchi, Hisao Nobu, Kenji Sakakibara
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Patent number: 9939063Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission includes: a line pressure generating means configured to generate a line pressure; a pilot valve configured to supply a pilot pressure regulated so as not to exceed a first predetermined pressure when the line pressure exceeds the first predetermined pressure; a control means configured to control solenoid valves by the pilot pressure, and thereby to generate belt clamping forces; an oil vibration sensing means configured to sense an oil vibration; and a line pressure increase means configured to increase the line pressure to be greater than the first predetermined pressure when the oil vibration sensing means senses the oil vibration.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Hiromu Ogino
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Publication number: 20180073632Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes: a first engagement control section configured to bring the lockup clutch to a full engagement state after a rotation of the internal combustion engine is increased in a slip engagement state while a torque transmission capacity of the lockup clutch is increased, and a second engagement control section configured to add a predetermined capacity to the increased torque transmission capacity when the torque judging section judges an increase of the output torque of the internal combustion engine in a state where a sensed rotation speed difference in the slip engagement state of the engagement state of the first engagement control is increased to be equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, and then decreased to be equal to or smaller than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei KAMIYA, Tomoaki HONMA, Akito SUZUKI, Yasuhiro ENDO
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Publication number: 20170349180Abstract: The drive system from the engine (1) to the drive wheels (7) of a vehicle is equipped with a torque converter (2), which has a lock-up clutch (3), and a variator (4). Said engined car is provided with a lock-up control means for controlling the engagement/disengagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and a gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) for performing control to switch between a “continuously variable gear change mode” and a “DSTEP gear change mode.” While traveling, the gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) prohibits gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is at or below a lock-up engagement-permitting threshold for permitting engagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and allows gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is higher than the lock-up engagement-permitting threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: JATCO LtdInventors: Tomoaki HONMA, Akihiro TANABE, Tomoko SASAKI