Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki KITTAKA

Tomoyuki KITTAKA 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: 11920508
    Abstract: An anomaly determination device, an anomaly determination method, and a memory medium for a water pump are provided. An acquisition process acquires an input variable of a map from image data obtained by capturing an outer surface of the water pump. Execution circuitry obtains provisional determination results from maps, respectively. The provisional determination results are respectively obtained by executing the provisional determination processes for output variables output from the maps. A determination finalizing process treats, as a majority of the provisional determination results, a final determination result indicating whether coolant has leaked out of the water pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kittaka, Tomoaki Suzuki, Makoto Ohno, Takuya Tsujiyama, Tadanobu Sobue, Raishiro Wada
  • Publication number: 20230304435
    Abstract: An anomaly determination device, an anomaly determination method, and a memory medium for a water pump are provided. An acquisition process acquires an input variable of a map from image data obtained by capturing an outer surface of the water pump. Execution circuitry obtains provisional determination results from maps, respectively. The provisional determination results are respectively obtained by executing the provisional determination processes for output variables output from the maps. A determination finalizing process treats, as a majority of the provisional determination results, a final determination result indicating whether coolant has leaked out of the water pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KITTAKA, Tomoaki SUZUKI, Makoto OHNO, Takuya TSUJIYAMA, Tadanobu SOBUE, Raishiro WADA
  • Patent number: 10107212
    Abstract: A control device for an engine includes an electronic control unit configured to estimate a water content mixed in engine oil based on a history of a fuel injection amount during an operation of the engine and restrain freezing of water such that, when the water content thus estimated is a predetermined amount or more, the electronic control unit increases a mixing amount of the fuel into the engine oil as compared with a case where the water content thus estimated is less than the predetermined amount. The control device estimates the water content mixed in the engine oil as a function of an integrated value of water content while an oil temperature of the engine is less than a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20160298555
    Abstract: A control device for an engine is configured to use a fuel containing alcohol, and the control device includes: an electronic control unit configured to: i) estimate a water content mixed in engine oil based on a history of a fuel injection amount during an operation of the engine; and ii) restrain freezing of water such that, when the water content thus estimated is a predetermined amount or more, the electronic control unit increases a mixing amount of the fuel into the engine oil as compared with a case where the water content thus estimated is less than the predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki KITTAKA
  • Publication number: 20150354564
    Abstract: A guide slot having an elongated-hole shape is formed in a capacity adjustment member, so that displacement of the capacity adjustment member is regulated, by a guide pin inserted into the guide slot, to a longitudinal direction of the guide slot. Two spaces separated by the guide pin into one side and the other side in the longitudinal direction of the guide slot are formed inside the guide slot, and a communicating passage is provided so as to communicate the spaces with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuaki TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro YOKOTA, Nobuyuki MURAKAMI, Tomoyuki KITTAKA, Hisashi ONO, Yuki NISHIDA