Patents by Inventor Tomoyo MATSUMOTO

Tomoyo MATSUMOTO 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).

  • Publication number: 20230303260
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: a power converter for converting electric power of any one of a plurality of batteries and supplying the converted electric power to one or more second loads; a switch capable of selectively connecting any one of the plurality of batteries to the power converter; and a controller for comparing remaining capacities of the respective batteries, and when the difference between the highest remaining capacity and the lowest remaining capacity exceeds a predetermined threshold, controlling the switch to connect the power converter to the battery having the highest remaining capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoyo Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20220306300
    Abstract: In an aircraft, a cooling target having a different amount of heat depending on a situation is sufficiently cooled. An aircraft (10) is provided with a cooling facility (40a) having a first cooling circuit (42a) and a second cooling circuit (42b) that are independent of each other. The first cooling circuit (42a) includes a first circulation flow path (44a) that allows a first cooling medium to sequentially and repeatedly pass through a cooling target (34a, 34b). Similarly, the second cooling circuit (42b) includes a second circulation flow path (44b) that allows a second cooling medium to sequentially and repeatedly pass through the cooling target. Here, the first circulation flow path (44a) and the second circulation flow path (44b) do not communicate with each other. Therefore, the first cooling medium and the second cooling medium do not merge or split.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyo MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220311075
    Abstract: According to the disclosure, a battery module can be sufficiently cooled in both a steady operation and an emergency operation. A battery system 32 includes a battery module 30 having a plurality of unit cells 40. The battery module 30 is individually provided with a first cooling part 36 through which a first cooling medium 62 flows, by which heat of the unit cells 40 in the battery module 30 is transferred. The unit cells 40 in the battery module 30 are simultaneously cooled by the first cooling part. The battery system 32 includes a second cooling part 78 that discharges a second cooling medium 80 into a casing 34 that houses the battery module 30. The battery module 30 in the casing 34 is simultaneously cooled by the second cooling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyo MATSUMOTO, Kenro UDONO
  • Publication number: 20220311069
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery sets in which first unit cells and second unit cells are adjacent to each other. In the first unit cell, a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are oriented and extend in a first direction from a first end portion of a first main body. In the second unit cell, a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are oriented and extend in a second direction opposite to the first direction from a first end portion of a second main body. Then, in the battery set, at least a part of the first main body and the second main body overlap and are in contact with each other. Further, a heat conductive material that conducts heat from the first unit cell or the second unit cell is in contact with the battery set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro UDONO, Tomoyo MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10500961
    Abstract: A power converter which can prevent an erroneous detection even when a flow rate of a refrigerant is low and a vehicle having the power converter mounted therein are provided. A first inverter circuit including: an element group constituted by six transistors; six diode temperature sensors at least one of which is provided for each transistor to detect a temperature of the transistor; and a high arm-side refrigerant flow passage and a low arm-side refrigerant flow passage in which a refrigerant for cooling the transistors flows is provided. In a failure detection device of the first inverter circuit, a failure determination member selects two diode temperature sensors among the plurality of diode temperature sensors, which detect temperatures of two adjacent transistors, as an adjacent sensor pair, and determines a failure of any one of the plurality of diode temperature sensors using detection values of the adjacent sensor pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Kasagi, Jiro Fukui, Takuya Nomura, Tomoyo Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180065486
    Abstract: A power converter which can prevent an erroneous detection even when a flow rate of a refrigerant is low and a vehicle having the power converter mounted therein are provided. A first inverter circuit including: an element group constituted by six transistors; six diode temperature sensors at least one of which is provided for each transistor to detect a temperature of the transistor; and a high arm-side refrigerant flow passage and a low arm-side refrigerant flow passage in which a refrigerant for cooling the transistors flows is provided. In a failure detection device of the first inverter circuit, a failure determination member selects two diode temperature sensors among the plurality of diode temperature sensors, which detect temperatures of two adjacent transistors, as an adjacent sensor pair, and determines a failure of any one of the plurality of diode temperature sensors using detection values of the adjacent sensor pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke KASAGI, Jiro FUKUI, Takuya NOMURA, Tomoyo MATSUMOTO