Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sakata

Tomohiro Sakata 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: 11973380
    Abstract: An aspect of an electric pump of the present invention is an electric pump attached to a predetermined object. The electric pump includes a motor having a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending in an axial direction, a pump mechanism coupled to the rotor, a circuit board located radially outside the motor and having a plate face directed in a radial direction, an electrolytic capacitor attached to the plate face of the circuit board, and a housing that houses the motor, the pump mechanism, the circuit board, and the electrolytic capacitor therein. The housing has a mounting face attached to a predetermined object. The mounting face is a face directed radially outward. The plate face of the circuit board is disposed along a direction intersecting the mounting face. The electrolytic capacitor is disposed at a position closer to the mounting face than the center axis in the direction orthogonal to the mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Sakata, Yuzo Nagai, Hideo Nagai
  • Publication number: 20240096551
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an inductor component includes preparing an insulating paste that is photosensitive and that includes a filler material composed of quartz, a glass material and a resin material, and a conductive paste, forming a first insulating layer by applying the insulating paste, and exposing the first insulating layer in a state where a first portion of the first insulating layer is shielded by a mask. The method further includes removing the first portion of the first insulating layer to form a groove at a position corresponding to the first portion, applying the conductive paste in the groove to form a coil conductor layer in the groove, and applying the insulating paste on the first insulating layer and the coil conductor layer to form a second insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki OOTA, Tomohiro KIDO, Tomonori SAKATA, Masahiro KUBOTA, Kenta KONDO
  • Patent number: 11686268
    Abstract: A control method of an internal combustion engine including an in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve arranged to inject a fuel to a combustion chamber, and a port injection fuel injection valve arranged to inject the fuel to an intake port, the control method includes: sensing or estimating a fuel temperature at a tip end portion of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve; sensing an intake pressure; judging whether or not a flash boiling condition based on the fuel temperature and the intake pressure; setting the in-cylinder fuel injection valve to a default fuel injection valve; and injecting an entire or a part of the fuel from the port injection fuel injection valve by decreasing an injection amount ratio of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve when the flash boiling condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sakata, Taiichiro Sugano
  • Publication number: 20230060752
    Abstract: A fashion database system includes a database that manages information on a merchant that keeps and manages clothes, information on a user who leaves clothes with the merchant, rental availability information indicating whether the clothes left by the user can be lent to a third party, and transaction availability information indicating whether the clothes can be sold to a third party, and a management server that mutually communicates with the database. The management server processes, on the basis of the rental availability information stored in the database, a rental request from a third party who wishes to rent the clothes left by the user; processes a purchase request from a third party who wishes to purchase the clothes left by the user; and updates the information stored in the database in response to a change request to the rental availability information or the transaction availability information from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220416617
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about an axis extending in an axial direction and a stator with a coil wire, a pump connected to the rotor, a circuit board on a first side in the axial direction of the motor, and a coil guide between the motor and the circuit board. The coil wire extends to the first side in the axial direction and is connected to the circuit board. The coil guide includes a first portion guiding the coil wire along the axial direction, and a second portion which faces the motor and in which the first portion is opened. The second portion is a surface inclined to the first side in the axial direction toward an opening of the first portion. A width of the second portion as viewed from the axial direction decreases toward the opening of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKATA, Shigehiro KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220416618
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about an axis extending in an axial direction and a stator, a circuit board on a first side in the axial direction of the motor, a pump mechanism connected to the rotor on a second side in the axial direction of the motor, a housing with a housing space for the motor, the pump mechanism, and the circuit board, and a seal member. The stator includes a coil wire extending to the first side and connected to the circuit board. The seal member includes a first surface facing the motor and a second surface facing the circuit board, a first guide penetrating the seal member in the axial direction, a potting material between the coil wire and the first guide, and a second guide which is on the first surface and in which the first guide is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKATA, Shigehiro KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220307496
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor unit rotationally driving a drive shaft, and a pump unit. The pump unit includes a pump rotor that sends the fluid by a driving force of the driving shaft, and a pump housing that surrounds at least one side of the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an attachment surface extending in the axial direction and in contact with an attached body, first and second flow paths respectively on the suction side and the discharge side, and a fixing location within the attachment surface and fixed to the attached body by a fixing member within a maximum outer shape of the motor housing as viewed in the axial direction. Opening locations of the first and second flow paths are displaced from each other in the axial direction on the attachment surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Nan WU, Tomohiro SAKATA, Nguyen Thi Thanh TAM
  • Publication number: 20220235765
    Abstract: An aspect of an electric pump of the present invention is an electric pump attached to a predetermined object. The electric pump includes a motor having a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending in an axial direction, a pump mechanism coupled to the rotor, a circuit board located radially outside the motor and having a plate face directed in a radial direction, an electrolytic capacitor attached to the plate face of the circuit board, and a housing that houses the motor, the pump mechanism, the circuit board, and the electrolytic capacitor therein. The housing has a mounting face attached to a predetermined object. The mounting face is a face directed radially outward. The plate face of the circuit board is disposed along a direction intersecting the mounting face. The electrolytic capacitor is disposed at a position closer to the mounting face than the center axis in the direction orthogonal to the mounting face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro SAKATA, Yuzo NAGAI, Hideo NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20220235722
    Abstract: A control method of an internal combustion engine including an in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve arranged to inject a fuel to a combustion chamber, and a port injection fuel injection valve arranged to inject the fuel to an intake port, the control method includes: sensing or estimating a fuel temperature at a tip end portion of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve; sensing an intake pressure; judging whether or not a flash boiling condition based on the fuel temperature and the intake pressure; setting the in-cylinder fuel injection valve to a default fuel injection valve; and injecting an entire or a part of the fuel from the port injection fuel injection valve by decreasing an injection amount ratio of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve when the flash boiling condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKATA, Taiichiro SUGANO
  • Patent number: 11398762
    Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The electric pump device includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing includes a motor housing portion for housing the motor and an inverter housing portion for housing the inverter substrate. The motor housing portion has strut portions which extend inside the inverter housing portion and fixed to the inverter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11300065
    Abstract: A control unit (8) calculates a temperature difference (?Tg). The temperature difference (?Tg) is a value obtained by subtracting the temperature (Tg) of a GPF (22) from a target GPF temperature (Tgt). If the temperature difference (?Tg) is less than or equal to zero, the control unit (8) implements a fuel economy-oriented conventional control. If the temperature difference (?Tg) is greater than zero, the control unit (8) implements a filter temperature-increasing control. The filter temperature-increasing control causes the exhaust temperature to be increased so that the temperature (Tg) of the GPF (22) becomes greater than or equal to the target GPF temperature (Tgt).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sakata, Futoshi Yoshimura, Yoshihiko Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 11254355
    Abstract: An electronic control device controls an electronic power steering apparatus including a motor configured to assist steering of a steering wheel provided in a vehicle and a torque sensor configured to detect a steering torque applied to the steering wheel. The electronic control device includes: a torque current control unit that sets a first current command value to be supplied to the motor according to a value of the steering torque applied to the steering wheel; a differential control unit that calculates a torque differential value as a differential value of the steering torque and sets a second current command value according to the torque differential value and a rotation speed of the motor; and a command value calculation unit that calculates a motor current command value to be supplied to the motor based on the first current command value and the second current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Kashiyama, Tomohiro Sakata, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 11245302
    Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Homma, Tomohiro Sakata, Susumu Maeda, Masato Aono, Takashi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20210239058
    Abstract: A control unit (8) calculates a temperature difference (?Tg). The temperature difference (?Tg) is a value obtained by subtracting the temperature (Tg) of a GPF (22) from a target GPF temperature (Tgt). If the temperature difference (?Tg) is less than or equal to zero, the control unit (8) implements a fuel economy-oriented conventional control. If the temperature difference (?Tg) is greater than zero, the control unit (8) implements a filter temperature-increasing control. The filter temperature-increasing control causes the exhaust temperature to be increased so that the temperature (Tg) of the GPF (22) becomes greater than or equal to the target GPF temperature (Tgt).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKATA, Futoshi YOSHIMURA, Yoshihiko IWABUCHI
  • Patent number: 11070111
    Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi, Hirotaka Kanamono
  • Publication number: 20200189650
    Abstract: An electronic control device controls an electronic power steering apparatus including a motor configured to assist steering of a steering wheel provided in a vehicle and a torque sensor configured to detect a steering torque applied to the steering wheel. The electronic control device includes: a torque current control unit that sets a first current command value to be supplied to the motor according to a value of the steering torque applied to the steering wheel; a differential control unit that calculates a torque differential value as a differential value of the steering torque and sets a second current command value according to the torque differential value and a rotation speed of the motor; and a command value calculation unit that calculates a motor current command value to be supplied to the motor based on the first current command value and the second current command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Kashiyama, Tomohiro Sakata, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200106321
    Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HOMMA, Tomohiro SAKATA, Susumu MAEDA, Masato AONO, Takashi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20200106331
    Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The device includes a motor, an inverter substrate, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing has a bearing holding wall portion which is disposed on one side in an axial direction of a stator and disposed on the other side in an axial direction of the inverter substrate to hold at least one of bearings; the bearing holding wall has recesses which are recessed from a surface of the bearing holding wall facing the one side in the axial direction toward the other side in the axial direction; the inverter substrate has an electronic component protruding toward the other side in the axial direction from a plate surface of the inverter substrate facing the other side in the axial direction; and the electronic component is inserted into the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Tomohiro SAKATA, Chisato SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200106330
    Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The electric pump device includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing includes a motor housing portion for housing the motor and an inverter housing portion for housing the inverter substrate. The motor housing portion has strut portions which extend inside the inverter housing portion and fixed to the inverter substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Tomohiro SAKATA, Chisato SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200106345
    Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Tomohiro SAKATA, Chisato SEKIGUCHI, Hirotaka KANAMONO