Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Fukushima
Tomohiro Fukushima 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: 20220300982Abstract: A customer service system for providing customer service using a robot for customer service is provided. A first acquisition unit acquires first information regarding a topic provided by a person in charge of response in a negotiation between a visitor and the person in charge of response. A second acquisition unit acquires a detection result regarding speech and behavior of the visitor by the robot. An estimation unit estimates a reaction of the visitor on a basis of the detection result acquired by the second acquisition unit. An output unit outputs second information regarding the reaction estimated by the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Leo Ito, Jingwen Han, Tomohiro Tsukamoto, Eriko Okabe, Yuichi Kawasaki, Misato Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220301029Abstract: An information delivery system comprises: a user information storage unit configured to store user information; a reservation information storage unit configured to store reservation information accepted from a user in association with the user information; an authentication unit configured to authenticate a visiting user who enters a facility on the basis of a comparison between information acquired from an image of the visiting user and the user information; a checking unit configured to check the information about the visiting user authenticated by the authentication unit against the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit; and a communication unit configured to output, to a customer service support unit, visit information obtained by combining the information about the visiting user checked by the checking unit and the reservation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Leo ITO, Jingwen HAN, Tomohiro TSUKAMOTO, Eriko OKABE, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Misato FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20220251447Abstract: Provided is an anti oxidant supply composition that enables replenishment of a rubber article with anti oxidant without taking a long time. An anti oxidant supply composition comprises: a base material and 5 mass % or more of anti oxidant, wherein a solubility parameter (SP value) of the base material is less than 7.8 (cal/cm3)1/2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi FUKUSHIMA, Hiroshi KANNO, Seiichi TAHARA, Takahiro MIURA, Tomohiro URATA
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Patent number: 11005108Abstract: Disclosed are surface immobilized (electro)catalysts that may be prepared by a condensation reaction that generates an aromatic unit that is robust to acid and base and elevated temperatures. Among their many desirable characteristics, the catalysts are far less prone to the bimolecular deactivation pathways commonly observed for homogeneous catalysts, and may be used in solvents with a range of polarities and dielectric strengths. The catalysts are suitable for a wide array of thermal catalytic reactions (polymerization, oxidation, hydrogenation, cross-coupling etc.) and as anodes and/or cathodes in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and in batteries and supercapacitors.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yogesh Surendranath, Tomohiro Fukushima, Matthew E. O'Reilly, Seokjoon Oh, Alexander T. Murray, Corey Jarin Kaminsky, Sterling Ben Chu, Megan N. Jackson
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Patent number: 10183581Abstract: A control system for a vehicle drive motor includes a motor torque obtaining portion, a current distributing state obtaining portion obtaining a state of current distribution to coils of respective phases of a stator of the motor, a temperature sensor detecting temperature of a specific phase coil, a motor torque control portion updating other phase estimated temperatures by using the coil sensor temperature and an added-up value of a temperature rise per unit time of each of other phase coils at each time point, the motor torque control portion controlling the motor torque by using the other phase estimated temperatures, wherein the temperature rise per unit time of each of the other phase coils at each time point is determined by the motor torque control portion in accordance with a combination of the motor torque and the state of current distribution at each time point.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro Ichikawa, Tomohiro Fukushima, Hideki Kakisako, Shota Hirose
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Publication number: 20180079311Abstract: A control system for a vehicle drive motor includes a motor torque obtaining portion, a current distributing state obtaining portion obtaining a state of current distribution to coils of respective phases of a stator of the motor, a temperature sensor detecting temperature of a specific phase coil, a motor torque control portion updating other phase estimated temperatures by using the coil sensor temperature and an added-up value of a temperature rise per unit time of each of other phase coils at each time point, the motor torque control portion controlling the motor torque by using the other phase estimated temperatures, wherein the temperature rise per unit time of each of the other phase coils at each time point is determined by the motor torque control portion in accordance with a combination of the motor torque and the state of current distribution at each time point.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro ICHIKAWA, Tomohiro FUKUSHIMA, Hideki KAKISAKO, Shota HIROSE
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Publication number: 20170047592Abstract: Disclosed are surface immobilized (electro)catalysts that may be prepared by a condensation reaction that generates an aromatic unit that is robust to acid and base and elevated temperatures. Among their many desirable characteristics, the catalysts are far less prone to the bimolecular deactivation pathways commonly observed for homogeneous catalysts, and may be used in solvents with a range of polarities and dielectric strengths. The catalysts are suitable for a wide array of thermal catalytic reactions (polymerization, oxidation, hydrogenation, cross-coupling etc.) and as anodes and/or cathodes in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and in batteries and supercapacitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Yogesh Surendranath, Tomohiro Fukushima, Matthew E. O'Reilly, Seokjoon Oh, Alexander T. Murray, Corey Jarin Kaminsky, Sterling Ben Chu, Megan N. Jackson
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Patent number: 9325211Abstract: A wave winding coil for a rotary electrical machine includes a coil conductor including coil side portions and coil end portions, the coil conductor being wound to include a wave winding configuration, a relational expression expressing a total number of the coil side portions included in a phase coil is expressed by a mathematical expression 1 m×k=n×q×2p, and m refers to the number of the phase unit coils that are parallelly connected to each other, k refers to the number of the coil side portions that are serially connected to each other, q refers to the number of serially-connected-conductors per magnetic pole, the serially-connected-conductor belongs to one of the kinds of the coil side portions, 2p refers to the number of the magnetic pole, m refers to a common divisor between q×2p and n.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Fukushima, Shuhei Yamashita
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Patent number: 8258670Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a case and a supporting portion. The stator formed by laminating plural disc plates includes a yoke portion having a plurality of first and second portions alternately formed in a circumferential direction of the stator, and plural tooth portions respectively radially protruding from an inner circumferential surface the yoke portion at the second portion of the yoke portion towards an axial center of the stator. The case provided at an outer circumference of the stator includes a first communicating passage extending in an axial direction of the stator to be in communication with both axial ends of the stator and defined by an inner circumferential surface of the case. The supporting portion protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the first communicating passage towards the stator and contacts an outer surface of the stator at one of the first portions of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masayuki Nishimura
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Patent number: 8195348Abstract: Front left and right wheel units are driven by an engine and a motor generator. Rear left and right wheel units are independently driven by in-wheel motor type motor generators. The motor generator and the motor generator are configured to have different rated outputs, respectively, and be subjected to different speed reduction ratios, respectively, between the motor generators and their respectively associated drive wheel units, and thus have characteristics, respectively, in efficiency with respect to torque and vehicular speed, that exhibit high efficiency in mutually different output ranges, respectively. When a mileage oriented mode is selected as a traveling mode, an ECU determines how a drive torque should be allocated between the motor generators, as based on the motors' required drive torque and vehicular speed and on each motor generator's characteristic in efficiency, to maximize the motor generators' total efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoji Mizutani, Michitaka Tsuchida, Yasuaki Tahara, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masafumi Sakuma
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Patent number: 8188625Abstract: An oil cooling system for a motor includes a rotor, a stator core annularly positioned around the rotor, a plurality of coils annularly arranged and each wound around the stator core, and a plurality of oil discharging holes annularly arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core, the oil discharging holes through which oil is discharged with pressure in an axial direction of the stator core to cool the coils.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Fukushima
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Patent number: 7958960Abstract: Right front wheel units (FL, FR) are driven independently by motor generators (MGL, MGR). A power control unit (1) is provided common to the motor generators (MGL, MGR) and integrally controls driving them. Each motor generator (MGL, MGR) and the power control unit (1) are selectively connected by switch circuits (SWL, SWR). The switch circuits (SWL, SWR) are switched by an ECU (3), as appropriate, in accordance with how the vehicle (100) is currently traveling (i.e., a driving force that the vehicle is required to output, and a direction in which the vehicle is traveling). In other words, the vehicle (100) can selectively implement traveling with the left and right front wheel units (FL, FR) both serving as driving wheel units, and traveling with only one of the left and right front wheel units (FL, FR) serving as a driving wheel unit, depending on how the vehicle is currently traveling.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoji Mizutani, Michitaka Tsuchida, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masafumi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20100052441Abstract: An oil cooling system for a motor includes a rotor, a stator core annularly positioned around the rotor, a plurality of coils annularly arranged and each wound around the stator core, and a plurality of oil discharging holes annularly arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core, the oil discharging holes through which oil is discharged with pressure in an axial direction of the stator core to cool the coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Fukushima
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Publication number: 20100004090Abstract: Right front wheel units (FL, FR) are driven independently by motor generators (MGL, MGR). A power control unit (1) is provided common to the motor generators (MGL, MGR) and integrally controls driving them. Each motor generator (MGL, MGR) and the power control unit (1) are selectively connected by switch circuits (SWL, SWR). The switch circuits (SWL, SWR) are switched by an ECU (3), as appropriate, in accordance with how the vehicle (100) is currently traveling (i.e., a driving force that the vehicle is required to output, and a direction in which the vehicle is traveling). In other words, the vehicle (100) can selectively implement traveling with the left and right front wheel units (FL, FR) both serving as driving wheel units, and traveling with only one of the left and right front wheel units (FL, FR) serving as a driving wheel unit, depending on how the vehicle is currently traveling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2006Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Mizutani, Michitaka Tsuchida, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masafumi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20090108700Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a case and a supporting portion. The stator formed by laminating plural disc plates includes a yoke portion having a plurality of first and second portions alternately formed in a circumferential direction of the stator, and plural tooth portions respectively radially protruding from an inner circumferential surface the yoke portion at the second portion of the yoke portion towards an axial center of the stator. The case provided at an outer circumference of the stator includes a first communicating passage extending in an axial direction of the stator to be in communication with both axial ends of the stator and defined by an inner circumferential surface of the case. The supporting portion protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the first communicating passage towards the stator and contacts an outer surface of the stator at one of the first portions of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masayuki Nishimura
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Publication number: 20090088914Abstract: Front left and right wheel units (FL, FR) are driven by an engine (ENG) and a motor generator (MG2). Rear left and right wheel units (RL, RR) are independently driven by in-wheel motor type motor generators (MGR, MGL). The motor generator (MG2) and the motor generator (MGR, MGL) are configured to have different rated outputs, respectively, and be subjected to different speed reduction ratios, respectively, between the motor generators and their respectively associated drive wheel units, and thus have characteristics, respectively, in efficiency with respect to torque and vehicular speed, that exhibit high efficiency in mutually different output ranges, respectively. When a mileage oriented mode is selected as a traveling mode, an ECU (30) determines how a drive torque should be allocated between the motor generators (MG2, MGR, MGL), as based on the motors' required drive torque and vehicular speed and on each motor generator's characteristic in efficiency, to maximize the motor generators' total efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Mizutani, Michitaka Tsuchida, Yasuaki Tahara, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masafumi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20080024019Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator core wound by a coil and a vibration-absorbing member provided between the coil and the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Katsuhiro Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Fukushima, Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita
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Patent number: 7279821Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a rotor core included in the rotor, the rotor core being configured to be embedded, therein, with at least one first magnet, a pair of end plates, one of the pair of end plates being positioned at an axial end of the motor, an other one of the pair of end plates being positioned at an other axial end of the motor, and the pair of end plates holding the rotor core at axial ends of the rotor core, and at least one second magnet embedded in the pair of end plates and supplying magnetic fields in an axial direction of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Fukushima, Masafumi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20060145561Abstract: To provide a three-phase synchronous reluctance motor which allows its stator to be formed compact by means of reduction in the width of a part of a back yoke portion of a stator while avoiding excessive increase in the magnetic resistance of the magnetic path of the back yoke portion. The includes a rotor (200) and a stator (100) having a plurality of teeth (103) formed in an inner face thereof along a peripheral direction and in opposition to the rotor (200), six of the teeth being in opposition to one of a plurality of rotor magnetic poles provided in the rotor, the stator having stator windings by a coil pitch corresponding to five teeth of the six teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2004Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Fukushima
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Patent number: 7015614Abstract: In a synchronous reluctance motor having a rotor having a plurality of pairs of an outer side slot formed at an outer periphery side and an inner side slot formed at inner side of the rotor. The distance between the outer periphery of the rotor and the outer side slot is determined to be the width of the stator magnetic pole portion of the stator multiplied by 0.7 to 1.3. A first total magnetic flux amount of an outer side permanent magnet disposed in the outer side slot is determined to be larger than or equal to a second total magnetic flux amount of an inner side permanent magnet disposed in the inner side slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Fukushima