Patents by Inventor Yasushi Ando
Yasushi Ando 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: 11975778Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
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Publication number: 20240133109Abstract: A disclosed drum-type washing machine having a softening apparatus comprises: a cylindrical water tank accommodating laundry and having a rotating drum; a case for accommodating the water tank; and a softening apparatus having a hardness component remover for removing hardness components from washing water, and a regeneration agent accommodation unit spaced apart from the hardness component remover on opposite sides from a center of the tub, and for accommodating a regeneration agent that regenerates a function of the hardness component remover.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Atsushi OHYAGI, Hitoshi MINAI, Takashi ANDO, Tomoyuki OKUNO, Yasushi URAI
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Patent number: 9371788Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine in which an intake valve is provided in each of a plurality of cylinders and an ECU for controlling the engine. An intake valve provided for at least any one of the plurality of cylinders opens when an output shaft of the engine stops. The ECU changes an intake valve which opens when the output shaft of the engine stops, while the vehicle is running.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeo Okubo, Yasushi Ando, Daichi Yagi
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Patent number: 9126596Abstract: A control system for a vehicle including a brake pedal operable by a driver and an engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (a) execute cruise control, the cruise control selectively executed and stopped through an operation of the driver, (b) stop the engine upon depression of the brake pedal, when the cruise control is stopped, (c) stop the engine while the vehicle is being decelerated or stopped, even when the brake pedal is not depressed, when the cruise control is executed, and (d) keep the engine stopped even when the operation to stop the cruise control is performed, after the engine is stopped and the cruise control is executed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Ando, Norikazu Okita, Hiroki Naganuma
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Patent number: 9014889Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine; a rotating electrical machine that rotates an output shaft of the internal combustion engine; and a control unit that performs automatic stop control for the internal combustion engine. The control unit causes the output shaft to rotate using the rotating electrical machine, when a stop period of the internal combustion engine according to the automatic stop control is equal to or longer than a first period.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Ando, Shigeo Okubo, Daichi Yagi
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Publication number: 20140288798Abstract: A control system for a vehicle including a brake pedal operable by a driver and an engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (a) execute cruise control, the cruise control selectively executed and stopped through an operation of the driver, (b) stop the engine upon depression of the brake pedal, when the cruise control is stopped, (c) stop the engine while the vehicle is being decelerated or stopped, even when the brake pedal is not depressed, when the cruise control is executed, and (d) keep the engine stopped even when the operation to stop the cruise control is performed, after the engine is stopped and the cruise control is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Yasushi Ando, Norikazu Okita, Hiroki Naganuma
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Publication number: 20140025279Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine in which an intake valve is provided in each of a plurality of cylinders and an ECU for controlling the engine. An intake valve provided for at least any one of the plurality of cylinders opens when an output shaft of the engine stops. The ECU changes an intake valve which opens when the output shaft of the engine stops, while the vehicle is running.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeo Okubo, Yasushi Ando, Daichi Yagi
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Publication number: 20130035815Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine; a rotating electrical machine that rotates an output shaft of the internal combustion engine; and a control unit that performs automatic stop control for the internal combustion engine. The control unit causes the output shaft to rotate using the rotating electrical machine, when a stop period of the internal combustion engine according to the automatic stop control is equal to or longer than a first period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasushi Ando, Shigeo Okubo, Daichi Yagi
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Patent number: 8321082Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle, control is executed to operate an engine with fuel injection being performed, when an unexecuted percentage of catalyst degradation suppression control is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the unexecuted percentage, when a power storage percentage of a battery is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the power storage percentage and the battery is charging, and also when a vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the vehicle speed and a cumulative air amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the cumulative air amount, when a catalyst temperature is less than a first threshold temperature and equal to or greater than a second threshold temperature, when the catalyst temperature is equal to or greater than the first threshold temperature, when there is a braking request while the engine is operating.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasushi Ando
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Publication number: 20120072062Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle, control is executed to operate an engine with fuel injection being performed, when an unexecuted percentage of catalyst degradation suppression control is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the unexecuted percentage, when a power storage percentage of a battery is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the power storage percentage and the battery is charging, and also when a vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the vehicle speed and a cumulative air amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the cumulative air amount, when a catalyst temperature is less than a first threshold temperature and equal to or greater than a second threshold temperature, when the catalyst temperature is equal to or greater than the first threshold temperature, when there is a braking request while the engine is operating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasushi Ando
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Patent number: 7248947Abstract: A technique to provide an information-sharing system and the like is disclosed. According to this technique, there are provided an on-board information terminal to transmit one or more types of information among a vehicle information relating to user's own vehicle and on-board program information to acquire shared information, an area information acquiring system for acquiring area information, and an information-sharing server for calculating time function existing quantity based on time function according to one or more types of information among vehicle information and area information, calculates time function transmission quantity based on time function including the calculated time function existing quantity, arranges the calculated time function existing quantity and the time function transmission quantity to a corresponding position on a map, attaches the map information to the on-board program information, and transmits it to the on-board information terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Denso IT Laboratory, Inc. and Research Organization of Information and Systems of C/O National Institute of InformaticsInventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Osamu Masutani, Shinichi Honiden, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasushi Ando
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Publication number: 20060178788Abstract: A technique to provide an information-sharing system and the like is disclosed. According to this technique, there are provided an on-board information terminal to transmit one or more types of information among a vehicle information relating to user's own vehicle and on-board program information to acquire shared information, an area information acquiring system for acquiring area information, and an information-sharing server for calculating time function existing quantity based on time function according to one or more types of information among vehicle information and area information, calculates time function transmission quantity based on time function including the calculated time function existing quantity, arranges the calculated time function existing quantity and the time function transmission quantity to a corresponding position on a map, attaches the map information to the on-board program information, and transmits it to the on-board information terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2005Publication date: August 10, 2006Applicants: DENSO IT LABORATORY, INC, Research Organization of Information and Systems of C/O National Institute of InformaticsInventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Osamu Masutani, Shinichi Honiden, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasushi Ando
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Publication number: 20020123908Abstract: A health care system comprises plural subscriber terminal devices, a data management center, and a communication line connecting the subscriber terminal devices to the data management center, wherein each subscriber terminal device comprises an input means for inputting health data of the corresponding subscriber, a storage means for holding the inputted health data, a first communication means for performing data communication with the data management center, a display means for displaying the health data and information from the data management center, and an operation means with which the subscriber performs a series of operations; and the data management center comprises a second communication means for performing data communication with each subscriber terminal device, a storage means for holding health data transmitted from each subscriber terminal device, a group decision means for deciding a group to which each subscriber belongs on the basis of plural pieces of health data obtained from the storage mType: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2002Publication date: September 5, 2002Inventors: Yasushi Ando, Chie Nishikawa, Hiroshi Dohi
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Patent number: 5922656Abstract: The lubricant composition of the present invention can be used in automatic transmissions and contains 0.05 to 2% of a metallic salt of organic acid (component (A)), such as calcium sulfonate, 0.15 to 4% of a specific polyamide compound (component (B)) and 0.05 to 1.5% of acid phosphate or acid phosphite ester (component (C)) which are added to a lubricant base oil, wherein all percentages are by weight in the total lubricant composition. The lubricant composition for automatic transmissions can show high anti-shudder property, high anti-shudder durability for an extended period, high property of preventing clogging of the friction material, and sufficient transmission torque capacity, while retaining the lubricant characteristic requirements for use in automatic transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignees: Tonen Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Narihiko Yoshimura, Takanori Kugimiya, Takanori Nakada, Fumio Ueda, Yasushi Ando
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Resilient support for friction elements of a multi-disc clutch or brake of an automatic transmission
Patent number: 5158508Abstract: An automatic transmission for a vehicle having a planetary gear mechanism, which is accommodated in an automatic transmission case, is provided with an accordion-like leaf spring disposed in a gap for allowing interior spaces of an automatic transmission case to communicate with each other, the gap being provided in the automatic transmission case between an outer peripheral surface of axially movable brake elements which are fixed against rotation on the one hand, and an inner peripheral surface of the automatic transmission case on the other. The accordion-like leaf spring is adapted to engage and bias a friction plate and has folded-back portions or pleats that lie generally parallel to the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1991Date of Patent: October 27, 1992Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshikazu Sakaguchi, Takahiro Yasuda, Yasushi Ando, Masanori Kadotani -
Patent number: 4807492Abstract: A supporting mechanism for a transmission shaft in an automatic transmission apparatus for use in a vehicle, wherein said shaft is rotatably supported at both end portions (1A), (1C) and at the intermediate portion (1B), and the amount of play of said shaft at said intermediate portion is set greater than those at the end portions, with a view to preventing oscillation of the shaft at the intermediate portion between the supporting points and favorably overcoming difficulty in assembly work, e.g., centering associated with supporting at three points.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1986Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignees: Aisin-Warner Limited, Toyota Jidosha K.K.Inventors: Syuzo Moroto, Koji Sumiya, Yukihiro Kobayashi, Takenori Kano, Akira Hoshino, Yasushi Ando, Kazuaki Watanabe, Yutaka Taga
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Patent number: 4722247Abstract: In a shift control system of an automatic transmission, wherein the shift control system includes a first and a second transmissions capable of automatically switching speeds separately of one another, and the first and the second transmissions are shifted simultaneously or alternately, to thereby achieve multi-speed shifts, there is provided a system for starting and completing changes in rpm for the shift of rotary members of the second transmission during the operation of changes in rpm for the shift of rotary members of the first transmission, particularly when the first transmission is high gear shifted and the second transmission is shifted simultaneously, whereby the automatic transmission as a whole is up shifted, so that the shift characteristics can be maintained satisfactorily.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1985Date of Patent: February 2, 1988Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshio Shindo, Kunihiro Iwatsuki, Yasushi Ando
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Patent number: D500281Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Aruga, Hisao Arai, Kei Kitadate, Takafumi Nakatani, Kengo Hayashi, Yukihiko Nakata, Yasushi Ando, Naoki Futatsudera, Shinichiro Taura, Yuugo Fukuhara, Kenji Inaba, Kazuhide Shinoda, Yuichi Shimbo
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Patent number: D500282Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Aruga, Hisao Arai, Kei Kitadate, Takafumi Nakatani, Kengo Hayashi, Yukihiko Nakata, Yasushi Ando, Naoki Futatsudera, Shinichiro Taura, Yuugo Fukuhara, Kenji Inaba, Kazuhide Shinoda, Yuichi Shimbo