Patents by Inventor Toshiya Hashimoto
Toshiya Hashimoto 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: 8788177Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a control unit configured to, when accelerator operation and brake operation are simultaneously performed, execute output reduction control that reduces drive power source output, and configured to perform recovery of the drive power source output, when it becomes impossible to certainly determine presence or absence of the brake operation during execution of the output reduction control.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Hideaki Yaguchi
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Patent number: 8718854Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a plurality of motor generators and an engine for generating a vehicle-driving force. A motor ECU controls the motor generators in accordance with respective torque command values for the motor generators. The motor ECU selects a motor generator used for performing vibration-reduction control, based on the operating state of the motor generators each. The output torque of the motor generator used for the vibration-reduction control is controlled so that a compensation torque corresponding to a periodic vibration-reduction torque component for cancelling out a periodic variation component of the rotational speed of drive wheels is superimposed on the torque for generating the vehicle-driving force.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140107314Abstract: The polymerizable composition of the present invention contains a ketone compound including one or more carbonyl groups, at least one kind of isocyanate compounds and at least one kind of thiol compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Nobuo Kawato, Toshiya Hashimoto, Koya Kojima
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Patent number: 8682544Abstract: In the case that operation stop of the engine is requested while the clutch is engaged and the engine is driven at a higher rotation speed than the resonance rotation speed band, the clutch is disengaged and the engine is driven in the self-sustaining operation at the self-sustaining rotation speed higher than the resonance rotation speed band, the rotation speed Ne of the engine is lowered less than or equal to the second rotation speed Nref2 lower than the resonance rotation speed band with stop of fuel injection into the engine and the partially-engaged clutch after the rotation speed Nm of the motor MG becomes less than or equal to the first rotation speed Nref1 predetermined as a rotation speed lower than the resonance rotation speed after the clutch is disengaged. The rotation speed of the engine is therefore enabled to pass more rapidly through the resonance rotation speed band.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8666580Abstract: A crankshaft of an engine, an output shaft of a first electric motor, and an output shaft of a second electric motor are directly or indirectly connected to each other mechanically. When the engine is started, a vibration reduction torque is caused to act on the crankshaft that is set in the form of a periodic torque based on the crank angle, so that torque pulsation of the engine is suppressed. The output torque of the first electric motor is controlled in accordance with the sum of a motoring torque and a part of the vibration reduction torque. The output torque of the second electric motor is controlled in accordance with the sum of its essential output torque for causing the vehicle to travel and a torque for compensating for a shortage of the vibration reduction torque that occurs because a part of the vibration reduction torque is output from the first electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8655523Abstract: A vehicle control device (10) comprises a driving device (20) including an engine (22) and a rotary electric machine (24), a power circuit (30) connected to the rotary electric machine (24), a control part (50), and an ecoswitch (42). The CPU (52) of the control part (50) comprises a low fuel consumption travel instruction judgment module (60) for judging on or off of the ecoswitch (42), an operation condition switch module (62) for switching the operation condition of the rotary electric machine on the basis of the on or off of the ecoswitch (42), an engine state judgment module (64) for judging whether or not the engine (22) is in a started state or a stopped state, and a damping control module (68) for carrying out damping control when the engine (22) is stalled or stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Fukushiro, Koji Yamamoto, Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20130179018Abstract: In a control apparatus for a vehicle, an ECU includes an operation reception unit that receives depression of a power switch (i.e., a vehicle system activation operation is performed) in a “ready-off state” as a non-drivable state, and a control execution unit that executes, when the vehicle system activation operation is received by the operation reception unit during running of a hybrid vehicle HV and an engine is started, a startability improvement control for improving startability of the engine as compared with the startability thereof when the vehicle system activation operation is received by the operation reception unit during stop of the hybrid vehicle HV and the engine is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: Koji YAMAMOTO, Takayoshi OKUDA, Hideaki YAGUCHI, Toshiya HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20130175809Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a first motor-generator, which allows cranking an engine, and an inverter, which drives the first motor-generator. During running of the vehicle, when an operation to stop the hybrid system is performed, and then when an operation to start a hybrid system is performed before the vehicle stops, an HVECU operates the inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: Koji YAMAMOTO, Takayoshi OKUDA, Hideaki YAGUCHI, Toshiya HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20130173108Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a plurality of motor generators and an engine for generating a vehicle-driving force. A motor ECU controls the motor generators in accordance with respective torque command values for the motor generators. The motor ECU selects a motor generator used for performing vibration-reduction control, based on the operating state of the motor generators each. The output torque of the motor generator used for the vibration-reduction control is controlled so that a compensation torque corresponding to a periodic vibration-reduction torque component for cancelling out a periodic variation component of the rotational speed of drive wheels is superimposed on the torque for generating the vehicle-driving force.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20130151053Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes, as a drive power source, a hybrid system that has an engine and a motor. The control apparatus includes a control unit configured to reduce an output of the hybrid system and maintain or increase an engine rotation speed when a driver performs an accelerator operation and a brake operation simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Hideaki Yaguchi
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Publication number: 20130151110Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a control unit configured to, when accelerator operation and brake operation are simultaneously performed, execute output reduction control that reduces drive power source output, and configured to perform recovery of the drive power source output, when it becomes impossible to certainly determine presence or absence of the brake operation during execution of the output reduction control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Hideaki Yaguchi
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Patent number: 8395277Abstract: A vehicle includes a converter for stepping up power provided from a power storage device, and an inverter for converting the power output from converter and outputting it to an alternating-current motor for driving the vehicle. In the vehicle, a rectangular voltage control unit controls the inverter by means of rectangular wave voltage control that is based on a torque command value and the like, so as to control an output torque of the alternating-current motor. A system voltage control unit controls a system voltage, which is an output voltage of the converter. The system voltage control unit lifts a restriction on a system voltage command value based on an accelerator pedal position and the like, and then increases it. When increasing the system voltage command value during the rectangular wave voltage control for the inverter, a cooperative control unit increases the system voltage command value and the torque command value in a cooperative manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshifumi Yamakawa, Hideto Hanada, Kazuhito Hayashi, Masayoshi Suhama, Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20120239237Abstract: A crankshaft of an engine, an output shaft of a first electric motor, and an output shaft of a second electric motor are directly or indirectly connected to each other mechanically. When the engine is started, a vibration reduction torque is caused to act on the crankshaft that is set in the form of a periodic torque based on the crank angle, so that torque pulsation of the engine is suppressed. The output torque of the first electric motor is controlled in accordance with the sum of a motoring torque and a part of the vibration reduction torque. The output torque of the second electric motor is controlled in accordance with the sum of its essential output torque for causing the vehicle to travel and a torque for compensating for a shortage of the vibration reduction torque that occurs because a part of the vibration reduction torque is output from the first electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20120215392Abstract: In the case that operation stop of the engine is requested while the clutch is engaged and the engine is driven at a higher rotation speed than the resonance rotation speed band, the clutch is disengaged and the engine is driven in the self-sustaining operation at the self-sustaining rotation speed higher than the resonance rotation speed band, the rotation speed Ne of the engine is lowered less than or equal to the second rotation speed Nref2 lower than the resonance rotation speed band with stop of fuel injection into the engine and the partially-engaged clutch after the rotation speed Nm of the motor MG becomes less than or equal to the first rotation speed Nref1 predetermined as a rotation speed lower than the resonance rotation speed after the clutch is disengaged. The rotation speed of the engine is therefore enabled to pass more rapidly through the resonance rotation speed band.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2009Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20120065826Abstract: A sprung vibration damping for suppressing sprung vibration which is generated to a vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels provided with the vehicle by controlling a torque of a motor, and the sprung vibration damping is subjected to a restriction including a prohibition in response to a state of) battery, which supplies power to the motor, such as a voltage and a temperature of the battery or a state of a control, which affects the power of the battery, such as a charge/discharge amount feedback control and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2009Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Gohki Kinoshita, Koichiro Muta, Masaya Yamamoto, Eiji Fukushiro, Shunsuke Oyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Takanori Aoki, Akihiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20120059544Abstract: A sprung mass damping control system of a vehicle, which aims to suppress sprung mass vibration generated in a vehicle body of a vehicle provided with at least a motor-generator (first and second motor-generators) as a drive source, includes a sprung mass damping control amount calculating device that sets a sprung mass damping control amount for suppressing the sprung mass vibration, and a drive source control device (a motor-generator control device) that executes sprung mass damping control by controlling a motor-generator control amount of the motor-generator to realize the sprung mass damping control amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Gohki Kinoshita, Koichiro Muta, Toshiya Hashimoto, Eiji Fukushiro, Takanori Aoki, Akihiro Kimura, Shunsuke Oyama, Masaya Yamamoto, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshitaka Oikawa, Takashi Saito
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Patent number: 8103394Abstract: During execution of an auto cruise function, in response to selection of a power mode, when an measured accelerator opening Acc is less than a preset opening Accref, a hybrid vehicle of the invention sets a power mode cancellation flag Fpmc to 1 and a power mode enabling flag Fpm to 0 (steps S540 and S550). This prohibits the use of an accelerator opening setting map in the power mode for execution of the auto cruise function. In the power mode, in response to an instruction for enabling the auto cruise function, the hybrid vehicle keeps the power mode enabling flag Fpm to the setting of 1 (step S560) as long as the measured accelerator opening Acc is not less than the preset opening Accref. This allows the use of the accelerator opening setting map in the power mode for execution of the auto cruise function.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiya Hashimoto
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Patent number: D646299Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Aruga, Kazuyuki Uenoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto
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Patent number: D682884Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Aruga, Kazuyuki Uenoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto
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Patent number: D700620Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Aruga, Kazuyuki Uenoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto