Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Asami
Tomohiro Asami 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: 10808835Abstract: A shift control device of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a multi-speed transmission in series, the shift control device comprises: a control portion providing a downshift control in which an input shaft rotation speed of the multi-speed transmission is increased through a torque-up of the internal combustion engine toward a post-shift input shaft rotation speed in a neutral state where a release-side engagement device to be released during a downshift of the multi-speed transmission is released, so as to engage an engagement-side engagement device to be engaged after the shift. In the case of a shift pattern having a large internal inertia of the multi-speed transmission, the control portion controls a torque capacity of the engagement-side engagement device to a value greater than zero before starting a torque-up control of the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Hiromasa Takai, Masataka Hirano, Daiki Fukuda, Takuma Sugino
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Patent number: 10464567Abstract: An internal combustion engine and a multi-speed transmission in series, the shift control device comprising: a control portion providing a downshift control input shaft rotation speed of the multi-speed transmission is increased through a torque-up control of the internal combustion engine toward a post-shift input shaft rotation speed in a neutral state where a release-side frictional engagement device during a downshift of the multi-speed transmission is released, an engagement-side frictional engagement device to be engaged after the shift; and a torque setting portion setting a required torque of the internal combustion engine in the torque-up control of the internal combustion engine increasing rate of an actual torque of the internal combustion engine becomes smaller in the case of a shift pattern having a large internal inertia of the multi-speed transmission during the downshift as compared to the case of a shift pattern in which the internal inertia is small.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami
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Patent number: 10442437Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including a multi-speed transmission having gear positions switched by executing release of a release-side engagement device out of a plurality of engagement devices and engagement of an engagement-side engagement device out of the plurality of engagement devices, and an engine of which a power is transmitted through the multi-speed transmission to drive wheels, the control device performing a shift of the multi-speed transmission by using a predefined shift model for determining control operation amounts of a torque at an input rotating member of the multi-speed transmission, a torque capacity of the release-side engagement device, and a torque capacity of the engagement-side engagement device, the control operation amounts achieving shift target values that are a target value of a torque at an output rotating member of the multi-speed transmission and a target value of angular acceleration of the input rotating member of the multi-speed transmission, the control device comprisiType: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami
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Patent number: 10415701Abstract: An electronic control unit is configured to control a hydraulic pressures of engaging element and disengaging element in accordance with a preset target output shaft torque during a power-on downshift. The electronic control unit is configured to delay a start of decrease in the hydraulic pressure of the disengaging element from a start of a torque phase while maintain the hydraulic pressure of the disengaging element at the start of the torque phase. The electronic control unit is configured to start decreasing the hydraulic pressure of the disengaging element when the electronic control unit determines that overspeed of an input shaft is occurring during the torque phase and a predetermined condition is established.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Chimbe, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Keisuke Ota, Tomohiro Asami, Hiromasa Takai, Daiki Fukuda
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Patent number: 10323743Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including a motor and a multi-speed type automatic transmission including a plurality of engagement devices, the control device engaging the engagement device to be engaged and releasing the engagement device to be released when the shift is determined, and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be released during an upshift in a driven state and a downshift in a driving state and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be engaged during an upshift in the driving state and a downshift in the driven state so as to control a rotation speed of a rotating element of the automatic transmission, the control device increasing an instruction pressure of the engagement device to a target surge pressure for a target surge time when switching is performed during the upshift and the downshift in the driven state, to the driving state.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Keisuke Ota, Hiromasa Takai
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Patent number: 10288131Abstract: A vehicle control device including a multi-speed transmission switching gear shift positions in accordance with a combination of hydraulic friction engagement devices operations and pressure control solenoid valves, the control device shifting gears by providing a shift output signal including a quick-apply signal to the valves after a first time from a shift request, the control device has: a pulsation drive control portion to control selectively pulsating the pressure control solenoid valves in a cycle; and a quick-apply control prohibiting portion to prohibit a provision of a quick-apply control using the quick-apply signal for a second time from a time of termination of the pulsation drive control, and to permit the provision of the quick-apply control after the elapse of the second time, for a valve having undergone the control, the pulsation drive control portion to terminate the control for a valve when the shift request is made.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Kitamura, Hironobu Aratake, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Hiromasa Takai, Daiki Fukuda
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Patent number: 10281032Abstract: Under an abnormal determination, when a transmission gear stage is switched, a torque limit value is changed from a value before switching of the transmission gear stage to a value after switching thereof in a period in which this transmission gear stage is switched.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Asami, Masakazu Owatari, Takashi Miura, Yuki Murakami
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Patent number: 10281040Abstract: When an engagement-side clutch taking charge of rotation control in a downshift is the same as a rotation control clutch in the previous gear shift or a clutch of which the engagement has been switched in the previous gear shift, there is a likelihood that clutch hydraulic controllability will decrease and the clutch hydraulic controllability is secured by delaying start of the gear shift. It is possible to execute a gear shift which is a downshift without unnecessary waiting by setting a delay time by which the start of the gear shift is delayed depending on an accelerator depression amount such that the delay time is shorter when the accelerator depression amount is small than when the accelerator depression amount is large.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Keisuke Ota
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Patent number: 10274079Abstract: An electronic control unit is configured to set a target torque phase time which is used in torque phase control based on an output shaft torque difference. The electronic control unit sets the target torque phase time to be longer when the output shaft torque difference is large than when the output shaft torque difference is small. Accordingly, since the target torque phase time can be appropriately set, it is possible to achieve both of preventing a sudden change in driving force and torsion vibration of an output shaft and preventing a decrease in drivability due to hesitation at the same time. Sudden change in driving force and torsion vibration of the output shaft occur when the difference in driving force between before and after a gear shift is large. Hesitation occurs when the difference in driving force between before and after the gear shift is small.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Chimbe, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Keisuke Ota, Tomohiro Asami
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Patent number: 10239540Abstract: A vehicle control device in a vehicle including an engine and a multi-speed transmission having a plurality of gear positions, each gear position out of the plurality of gear positions established by engaging predetermined engagement devices out of a plurality of engagement devices, the vehicle control device including a shift control portion configured to control release of a release-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices and engagement of an engagement-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices so as to switch the gear position established in the multi-speed transmission, and an engine control portion configured to provide idling-reduction control of temporarily stopping the operation of the engine based on a predetermined engine stop condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Miura, Seiji Masunaga, Tomohiro Chimbe, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Yuji Kajiyama, Kazuki Imanishi
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Patent number: 10197155Abstract: When an engagement-side clutch taking charge of rotation control in an upshift is the same as a rotation control clutch of a previous gear shift, it is determined that there is a likelihood that a thermal load of a clutch friction material will increase, and the thermal load of the clutch friction material is decreased by delaying gear shift start. By setting a delay time by which the gear shift start is delayed when an accelerator depression amount is small to be shorter than when the accelerator depression amount is large depending on the accelerator depression amount, a gear shift which is an upshift can be performed without unnecessary waiting.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami, Keisuke Ota
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Patent number: 10173686Abstract: Lock-up clutch engagement hydraulic pressure learning control can be precisely performed by starting lock-up clutch engagement control and executing the lock-up clutch engagement hydraulic pressure learning control after execution of shift control is completed, in a case where the lock-up clutch engagement control is limited in a shift stage before execution of the shift control, when the shift control is executed in a state where a multi-disc lock-up clutch is released. Meanwhile, a decrease in fuel efficiency performance and a direct steering feeling is minimized by starting the lock-up clutch engagement control during shift control in a case where the lock-up clutch engagement control is not limited.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hironobu Aratake, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami
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Patent number: 10167947Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including a multi-speed transmission having plurality of gear positions different in gear ratio selectively established by controlling engagement and release predetermined engagement devices out of plurality engagement devices, the control device involves: shift control portion configured to provide delay control of delaying time point starting provision of release-side torque phase control reducing a torque capacity of release-side engagement device by a preset delay time with respect to time point of starting provision of a torque phase control of generating a torque capacity of an engagement-side engagement device during a torque phase in a drive upshift; and a delay time setting portion configured to preset the delay time such that the delay time is shortened when a shared torque of the release-side engagement device before start of the torque phase in the drive upshift is high, as compared to when the shared torque is low.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Chimbe, Norihiro Tsukamoto, Keisuke Ota, Tomohiro Asami, Yuji Kajiyama, Daiki Fukuda
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Patent number: 10167949Abstract: A control device of a vehicle power transmission device for the vehicle power transmission device including a line pressure regulating device regulating a hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic fluid discharged from an oil pump to a predetermined line pressure while changing an opening area of a discharge flow passage, and an automatic transmission having a predetermined gear position established by engagement of a hydraulic friction engagement element by using the line pressure as a source pressure, the control device comprising: an abnormality determination portion configured to detect a slip of the hydraulic friction engagement element establishing the predetermined gear position at the time of establishment of the predetermined gear position and, if an input torque at the time of occurrence of the slip is equal to or greater than an abnormality determination value defined in advance based on a torque transmittable at a minimum line pressure by the hydraulic friction engagement element establishing the predeterType: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Murakami, Masakazu Owatari, Tomohiro Asami
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Patent number: 10082205Abstract: There is provided an abnormality determining apparatus for a hydraulic circuit of a vehicle including: a torque converter; a hydraulic clutch; a mechanically-driven hydraulic pump (14); an electrically-driven hydraulic pump (16); and a solenoid valve. The abnormality determining apparatus includes an electronic control unit configured to determine which of the electrically-driven hydraulic pump and the solenoid valve has an abnormality, and configured to determine that the electrically-driven hydraulic pump has an abnormality when a turbine speed of the torque converter becomes equal to or higher than a first determination value within a prescribed period of time from rise-up of an engine speed, and determine that the solenoid valve has an abnormality when the turbine speed becomes equal to or higher than a second determination value higher than the first determination value, after a lapse of the prescribed period of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Miura, Tomohiro Chinbe, Shuji Toyokawa, Tomohiro Asami
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Publication number: 20180252311Abstract: A shift control device of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a multi-speed transmission in series, the shift control device comprises: a control portion providing a downshift control in which an input shaft rotation speed of the multi-speed transmission is increased through a torque-up of the internal combustion engine toward a post-shift input shaft rotation speed in a neutral state where a release-side engagement device to be released during a downshift of the multi-speed transmission is released, so as to engage an engagement-side engagement device to be engaged after the shift. In the case of a shift pattern having a large internal inertia of the multi-speed transmission, the control portion controls a torque capacity of the engagement-side engagement device to a value greater than zero before starting a torque-up control of the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihiro TSUKAMOTO, Tomohiro ASAMI, Hiromasa TAKAI, Masataka HIRANO, Daiki FUKUDA, Takuma SUGINO
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Publication number: 20180237022Abstract: An internal combustion engine and a multi-speed transmission in series, the shift control device comprising: a control portion providing a downshift control input shaft rotation speed of the multi-speed transmission is increased through a torque-up control of the internal combustion engine toward a post-shift input shaft rotation speed in a neutral state where a release-side frictional engagement device during a downshift of the multi-speed transmission is released, an engagement-side frictional engagement device to be engaged after the shift; and a torque setting portion setting a required torque of the internal combustion engine in the torque-up control of the internal combustion engine increasing rate of an actual torque of the internal combustion engine becomes smaller in the case of a shift pattern having a large internal inertia of the multi-speed transmission during the downshift as compared to the case of a shift pattern in which the internal inertia is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Asami
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Publication number: 20180229734Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including a multi-speed transmission having gear positions switched by executing release of a release-side engagement device out of a plurality of engagement devices and engagement of an engagement-side engagement device out of the plurality of engagement devices, and an engine of which a power is transmitted through the multi-speed transmission to drive wheels, the control device performing a shift of the multi-speed transmission by using a predefined shift model for determining control operation amounts of a torque at an input rotating member of the multi-speed transmission, a torque capacity of the release-side engagement device, and a torque capacity of the engagement-side engagement device, the control operation amounts achieving shift target values that are a target value of a torque at an output rotating member of the multi-speed transmission and a target value of angular acceleration of the input rotating member of the multi-speed transmission, the control device comprisiType: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro TSUKAMOTO, Tomohiro ASAMI
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Publication number: 20180135746Abstract: A control device of a vehicle power transmission device for the vehicle power transmission device including a line pressure regulating device regulating a hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic fluid discharged from an oil pump to a predetermined line pressure while changing an opening area of a discharge flow passage, and an automatic transmission having a predetermined gear position established by engagement of a hydraulic friction engagement element by using the line pressure as a source pressure, the control device comprising: an abnormality determination portion configured to detect a slip of the hydraulic friction engagement element establishing the predetermined gear position at the time of establishment of the predetermined gear position and, if an input torque at the time of occurrence of the slip is equal to or greater than an abnormality determination value defined in advance based on a torque transmittable at a minimum line pressure by the hydraulic friction engagement element establishing the predeterType: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki MURAKAMI, Masakazu OWATARI, Tomohiro ASAMI
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Publication number: 20180118222Abstract: A vehicle control device in a vehicle including an engine and a multi-speed transmission having a plurality of gear positions, each gear position out of the plurality of gear positions established by engaging predetermined engagement devices out of a plurality of engagement devices, the vehicle control device including a shift control portion configured to control release of a release-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices and engagement of an engagement-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices so as to switch the gear position established in the multi-speed transmission, and an engine control portion configured to provide idling-reduction control of temporarily stopping the operation of the engine based on a predetermined engine stop condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi MIURA, Seiji MASUNAGA, Tomohiro CHIMBE, Norihiro TSUKAMOTO, Tomohiro ASAMI, Yuji KAJIYAMA, Kazuki IMANISHI