Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Yanagida
Tomoaki Yanagida 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: 9182017Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission adapted to prevent a tilting motion of a sheave under high temperature. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is comprised of a pair of pulleys individually comprised of a fixed sheave rotated integrally with a rotary shaft and a movable sheave fitted onto the rotary shaft while being allowed to reciprocate thereon, and a driving belt applied to the pulleys to transmit power therebetween. a stopper member is disposed on an outer circumferential side and in a side where the driving belt is not contacted with the movable sheave so as to prevent the movable sheave from being tilted to widen a width between the fixed sheave and the movable sheave holding the driving belt by a load from the driving belt.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michio Yoshida, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida, Kazunori Harima
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Patent number: 9033831Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission having a downsized torque cam assembly for creating forward thrust to push a movable sheave toward a fixed sheave. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is adapted to output a torque while changing a speed ratio continuously by altering an effective diameter position of a driving belt.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaho Kawakami, Tomoaki Yanagida, Shuji Moriyama, Takuro Morino
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Publication number: 20150104702Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Nobuhiko HOJO, Yu OHTSUKA, Takakazu YAMAMOTO, Takahisa SHIMIZU, Takayuki SASAKI, Tomoaki YANAGIDA
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Patent number: 8945769Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode 31, a negative electrode 32, and an electrolytic solution 29 located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode 32 contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Nobuhiko Hojo, Yu Ohtsuka, Takakazu Yamamoto, Takahisa Shimizu, Takayuki Sasaki, Tomoaki Yanagida
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Publication number: 20140166402Abstract: A lubricating device of an automatic transmission includes a partitioning member that partitions an oil chamber, to which a lubricating oil of a first oil chamber is introduced; a second oil chamber partitioned by the partitioning member and to which lubricating oil to supply to a forward clutch is introduced; and a third oil chamber partitioned by the partitioning member and to which lubricating oil to supply to a pinion unit such as a pinion gear coupled with one engagement unit of the forward clutch is introduced; wherein a clutch oil path that introduces the lubricating oil of the first oil chamber to the second oil chamber and a pinion oil path that introduces the lubricating oil of the first oil chamber to the third oil chamber are formed in a clutch drum interposed between the first oil chamber and the oil chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoaki Yanagida, Takaho Kawakami
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Publication number: 20140031154Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission adapted to prevent a tilting motion of a sheave under high temperature. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is comprised of a pair of pulleys individually comprised of a fixed sheave rotated integrally with a rotary shaft and a movable sheave fitted onto the rotary shaft while being allowed to reciprocate thereon, and a driving belt applied to the pulleys to transmit power therebetween. a stopper member is disposed on an outer circumferential side and in a side where the driving belt is not contacted with the movable sheave so as to prevent the movable sheave from being tilted to widen a width between the fixed sheave and the movable sheave holding the driving belt by a load from the driving belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michio Yoshida, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida, Kazunori Harima
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Publication number: 20140019021Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an engine that is a power source of a vehicle, a transmission configured to connect the engine to a drive wheel of the vehicle, and a clutch configured to connect or block transmission of power between the engine and the drive wheel through the transmission. The vehicle control device is capable of executing predetermined control to allow the vehicle to travel while stopping supplying fuel to the engine and releasing the clutch that has been engaged, during travel of the vehicle, and the vehicle control device downshifts the transmission at the time the clutch is released in the predetermined control. It is possible to shift the transmission into a lowest-speed side gear ratio by the downshift.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Tomoaki Yanagida, Shuji Moriyama, Takuro Morino, Hitoshi Matsunaga, Yuji Hattori
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Publication number: 20130324334Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission having a downsized torque cam assembly for creating forward thrust to push a movable sheave toward a fixed sheave. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is adapted to output a torque while changing a speed ratio continuously by altering an effective diameter position of a driving belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaho Kawakami, Tomoaki Yanagida, Shuji Moriyama, Takuro Morino
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Patent number: 8481674Abstract: A polymer having a repeating unit structure represented by the following general formula (1), wherein in general formula (1), Ph is a phenyl group; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom; and R1 and R1 each independently contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a chained saturated hydrocarbon group, a chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a phenyl group, a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, an amino group, a nitro group and a nitroso group.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takakazu Yamamoto, Hiroki Fukumoto, Takahisa Shimizu, Tomoaki Yanagida, Yu Ohtsuka, Nobuhiko Hojo
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Patent number: 8225917Abstract: In a fluid coupling wherein a turbine shell is welded to a turbine hub, it is necessary to take care of the strength of the welded portion because the turbine shell is displaced toward the pump blade as the torque thereof is transmitted. A fluid coupling (10) according to the present invention is provided with an input-side rotary constituent (A) including a pump blade (18), to which is attached an input member, and an output-side rotary constituent (B) including a turbine shell (22), to which is attached a turbine blade (21) opposed to the pump blade (18), and a turbine hub, to which is coupled an output member (1), the turbine hub (15) being welded to an inner peripheral portion of the turbine shell (22), wherein the turbine shell (22) and the turbine hub (15) have contact surfaces (23, 24), respectively, extending along a rotational axis (10a) of the fluid coupling (10), and a joint portion (14) is formed by the welding on the contact surfaces (23, 24) closer to the pump blade (18).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiya Yamashita, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida
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Publication number: 20110091767Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode 31, a negative electrode 32, and an electrolytic solution 29 located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode 32 contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Nobuhiko Hojo, Yu Ohtsuka, Takakazu Yamamoto, Takahisa Shimizu, Takayuki Sasaki, Tomoaki Yanagida
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Publication number: 20110086267Abstract: A polymer having a structure represented by the following general formula (1), wherein in general formula (1), Ph is a phenyl group; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom; and R1 and R1 each independently contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a chained saturated hydrocarbon group, a chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a phenyl group, a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, an amino group, a nitro group and a nitroso group. The chained saturated hydrocarbon group, the chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, the cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group and the cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group each contain at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and a silicon atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Takakazu Yamamoto, Hiroki Fukumoto, Takahisa Shimizu, Tomoaki Yanagida, Yu Ohtsuka, Nobuhiko Hojo
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Publication number: 20100230225Abstract: In a fluid coupling wherein a turbine shell is welded to a turbine hub, it is necessary to take care of the strength of the welded portion because the turbine shell is displaced toward the pump blade as the torque thereof is transmitted. A fluid coupling (10) according to the present invention is provided with an input-side rotary constituent (A) including a pump blade (18), to which is attached an input member, and an output-side rotary constituent (B) including a turbine shell (22), to which is attached a turbine blade (21) opposed to the pump blade (18), and a turbine hub, to which is coupled an output member (1), the turbine hub (15) being welded to an inner peripheral portion of the turbine shell (22), wherein the turbine shell (22) and the turbine hub (15) have contact surfaces (23, 24), respectively, extending along a rotational axis (10a) of the fluid coupling (10), and a joint portion (14) is formed by the welding on the contact surfaces (23, 24) closer to the pump blade (18).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiya Yamashita, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida
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Publication number: 20100093970Abstract: A process of producing a plastic lens having a high refractive index, a high Abbe's number and good mechanical strength and a plastic lens obtained by that process. A process of producing a plastic lens including a step of polymerizing a mixture of (1) a prepolymer obtained by mixing and reacting from 0.1% by weight to 10% by weight, based on the whole amount of the mixture, of sulfur and an epithio group-containing compound, (2) a polyisocyanate compound, and (3) a polythiol compound; and a plastic lens obtained by this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Masahisa KOSAKA, Tomoaki YANAGIDA, Yoshitaka KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20050062932Abstract: A process of producing a plastic lens having a high refractive index, a high Abbe's number and good mechanical strength and a plastic lens obtained by that process. A process of producing a plastic lens including a step of polymerizing a mixture of (1) a prepolymer obtained by mixing and reacting from 0.1% by weight to 10% by weight, based on the whole amount of the mixture, of sulfur and an epithio group-containing compound, (2) a polyisocyanate compound, and (3) a polythiol compound; and a plastic lens obtained by this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Masahisa Kosaka, Tomoaki Yanagida, Yoshitaka Kitahara