Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Suzuki

Yoshiaki Suzuki 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: 9457837
    Abstract: A steering device (1) includes: a steering member (4) that is provided in a vehicle (2) and configured to be rotationally operated; an actuator (8) that generates a torque assisting a steering operation on the steering member (4); a detection device (9) that detects a torque applied to a steering shaft portion (5) that rotates together with the steering member (4); and a steering control device (11) that performs vibration suppression control to suppress vibrations transmitted to the steering member (4) by adjusting a torque generated by the actuator (8), on a basis of a detected torque that is a torque detected by the detection device (9). The steering control device (11) controls the actuator (8) such that a torque of a frequency band in a first predetermined range, which corresponds to the detected torque is not suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Kudo, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Motoaki Kataoka, Daiji Watanabe, Hisaya Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 9443173
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from a stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit which determines whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet. The determination unit determines whether the printing sheet is suitable for overlap conveyance, and if the determination unit determines that the printing sheet is unsuitable for overlap conveyance, the conveyance control unit conveys the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet does not overlap the preceding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motoyuki Taguchi, Syunichi Kunihiro, Tetsuya Saito, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryo Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 9387876
    Abstract: A steering system includes a steering angle detection unit that detects a steering angle of a steering wheel; a steering torque detection unit that detects a steering torque with respect to the steering wheel; an ECU that calculates a corrected steering angle by nonlinearly correcting the steering angle, a first steering parameter as the product of an angular velocity of the steering angle and the steering torque, a second steering parameter as the product of the corrected steering angle and a time differential value of the steering torque, and a target control amount based on the first steering parameter and the second steering parameter; and a steering support unit that applies a rotation torque to the steering wheel based on the target control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Kojo, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Yoji Kunihiro, Yoshio Kudo, Masao Ueyama, Yukihide Kimura
  • Patent number: 9379510
    Abstract: The wire harness as the circuit body is obtained as described below. In step S1, a long core wire constructed of a conductive metal is cut in a predetermined length. In step S2, a terminal part is molded in an end portion of the core wire and the core wire is bent in a predetermined shape. In step S3, a covering part is integrally molded in the center of the core wire. In step S4, a rubber stopper is integrally molded in an end portion of the covering part. In step S5, a conductor thin film sheet and a shield shell are assembled. In step S6, a connector housing is integrally molded. In step S7, packing is integrally molded. In step S8, a protective part is integrally molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Yoshiaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9370946
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet, a printing unit configured to print on the printing sheet, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet overlap each other, a determination unit configured to determine whether the leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlaps the trailing edge of the preceding sheet, and a delay unit configured to delay conveyance of the preceding sheet when the determination unit determines that the leading edge of the succeeding sheet does not overlap the trailing edge of the preceding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Masashi Ito, Naoki Aoyama, Syunichi Kunihiro
  • Patent number: 9360819
    Abstract: A printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit including a pair of rollers, a printing unit, a control unit and a determination unit. The control can execute successive overlapped conveyance and skew correction. In the skew correction a leading edge of the printing medium abuts against the pair of rollers in a stop state. The determination unit determines whether to execute the successive overlapped conveyance. The control unit executes the skew correction of the succeeding printing medium at a timing according to a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Syunichi Kunihiro, Naoki Aoyama, Toshiyuki Kuroda, Yoshiaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160155590
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch for a starter includes a coil that includes a first lead wire connected to a power supply side and a second lead wire connected to a ground side, the coil being supplied with an energization current through the first and second lead wires to form an electromagnet while a starter relay is on. The electromagnetic switch further includes a surge suppression device that absorbs part of energy emitted from the coil when the starter relay is turned from on to off so that a remaining part of the energy is applied to the starter relay to cause an arc current to flow between contacts of the starter relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160148739
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch includes a first and a second solenoid arranged in alignment in an axial direction of a housing and brings a pinion into mesh with a ring gear of an engine and close main contacts in a power supply circuit for an electric motor which cranks the engine. A retainer is provided which extends from a first bobbin of the first solenoid at least to a location of an air gap formed in a magnetic circuit of the second solenoid. The retainer holds a portion of a lead wire extending from a bobbin of the first solenoid at least in a range between the bobbin and the air gap, thereby minimizing inclination or deflection of the lead wire when the first and second solenoids are fabricated within the housing, thus facilitating the ease with which the first and second solenoids are mounted in place in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshiaki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160136981
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a sheet; a driving unit configured to apply a rotational force to a roll member that is rotatably held; and a pressing unit having a roller configured to apply a pressing force to an outer peripheral surface of a roll sheet wound around the roll member, wherein the pressing unit changes the pressing force in a sequence in which the driving unit applies a rotational force to the roll member and a sheet that has passed through the printing unit is wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Ryoya Shinjo, Tsuyoshi Mikoshiba, Masaki Komatsu, Ryo Kobayashi, Ryo Harigae
  • Publication number: 20160136980
    Abstract: A sheet can be securely drawn out of a sheet roll irrespective of an outer diameter of the sheet roll, and then, can be conveyed. A driven roller moves according to the outer diameter of the sheet roll, so as to be brought into press-contact with an outer periphery of the sheet roll from under in a gravity direction irrespective of the outer diameter of the sheet roll. An arm member moves according to the outer diameter of the sheet roll, so as to guide a lower side of the sheet drawn through above the driven roller irrespective of the outer diameter of the sheet roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Ryo Kobayashi, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Masaki Sumioka, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160136976
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus having a supply function and a winding function, in which a sheet is guided to a desirable position. To achieve this, the apparatus includes: a supply unit configured to hold a plurality of rolls of a wound continuous sheet; a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet drawn from one of the rolls held by the supply unit; a storage unit configured to store a sheet printed in the printing unit; and a guiding unit configured to guide a sheet discharged from the printing unit to the storage unit, wherein the guiding unit is capable of switching between guiding the sheet discharged from the printing unit to the storage unit and guiding the sheet discharged from the printing unit to the supply unit so that the sheet is wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Ryoya Shinjo, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mikoshiba, Masaki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9321480
    Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus (100) in a vehicle (10), which is provided with: a steering system including at least a rudder angle varying device (400, 700) capable of changing a relation between a steering angle, which is a rotation angle of a steering wheel (12), and a rudder angle of steered wheels and a steering torque assisting device (500) capable of assisting a driver steering torque; and a power supply source (800) for supplying electric power to the steering system, is provided with: a limiting device for limiting electric current consumption of the steering torque assisting device if a consumption current value of the steering system is greater than a maximum allowable current value in a case where supply capacity of supplying an electric current in the power supply source is reduced with respect to a reference; and a controlling device for matching a neutral position of the steering wheel with a neutral position of the steered wheels in a situation in which the electric current consumption o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Theerawat Limpibunterng, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Kojo, Taro Hirose, Yoshiaki Tsuchiya, Masahiro Miyata, Susumu Fujii
  • Patent number: 9242470
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a recording head arranged so as to oppose a sheet moving in a first direction, in which a plurality of first nozzle chips and a plurality of second nozzle chips each having a nozzle array are arranged as different arrays in a second direction crossing the first direction, and in which the first nozzle chips and the second nozzle chips adjacent to each other are shifted from each other in the second direction, a first suction unit opposed to the first nozzle chips and configured to suction ink from a part of the nozzle arrays included in the first nozzle chips, a second suction unit opposed to the second nozzle chips and configured to suction ink from a part of the nozzle arrays included in the second nozzle chips, a suction holder configured to retain the first suction unit and the second suction unit, and a movement mechanism configured to cause relative movement between the recording head and the suction holder in the second direction, wherein the first suction unit and the second suct
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Yuji Kanome, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Masahiro Sugimoto, Susumu Hirosawa, Takeaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 9216597
    Abstract: At least one of processing units is capable of being pulled out of a main body of an apparatus during the occurrence of a sheet conveyance jam. A first cutter and a second cutter are arranged in the vicinity of the processing unit. The first cutter is configured to cut the sheet on an upstream of the processing unit. The second cutter is configured to cut the sheet on a downstream thereof. When the processing unit is pulled, the sheet is cut on the upstream and downstream of the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanto Kurasawa, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Toshiaki Tokisawa, Masahito Yoshida, Kota Uchida, Takayuki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150353308
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from a stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit which determines whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet. The determination unit determines whether the printing sheet is suitable for overlap conveyance, and if the determination unit determines that the printing sheet is unsuitable for overlap conveyance, the conveyance control unit conveys the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet does not overlap the preceding sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Motoyuki Taguchi, Syunichi Kunihiro, Tetsuya Saito, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryo Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20150353307
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet, a printing unit configured to print on the printing sheet, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet overlap each other, a determination unit configured to determine whether the leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlaps the trailing edge of the preceding sheet, and a delay unit configured to delay conveyance of the preceding sheet when the determination unit determines that the leading edge of the succeeding sheet does not overlap the trailing edge of the preceding sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Masashi Ito, Naoki Aoyama, Syunichi Kunihiro
  • Publication number: 20150355592
    Abstract: A printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit including a pair of rollers, a printing unit, a control unit and a determination unit. The control can execute successive overlapped conveyance and skew correction. In the skew correction a leading edge of the printing medium abuts against the pair of rollers in a stop state. The determination unit determines whether to execute the successive overlapped conveyance. The control unit executes the skew correction of the succeeding printing medium at a timing according to a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Syunichi Kunihiro, Naoki Aoyama, Toshiyuki Kuroda, Yoshiaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150284022
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a vibration suppression control unit configured to suppress transmission of vibration of a steering system including a steering wheel and a turning wheel, which are mechanically connected to each other, to the steering wheel. The vibration suppression control unit is configured to execute, at a time a braking force is generated on the turning wheel, suppression control of braking time vibration associated with braking operation of the turning wheel based on a value in a predetermined frequency band of a brake fluid pressure of the turning wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio Kudo, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Yoji Kunihiro, Ikuo Kushiro, Takeshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20150274201
    Abstract: A drive supporting device includes a supporting device mounted on a vehicle and capable of executing driving support in the vehicle; a steering angle detecting device configured to detect a steering angle of a steering member of the vehicle; a torque detecting device configured to detect a torque acting on a steering shaft portion that rotates with the steering member; and a controller configured to control the supporting device, wherein the controller changes content of the driving support by the supporting device between a case in which a steering power corresponding to a product of a parameter associated with the steering angle detected by the steering angle detecting device and a parameter associated with the torque detected by the torque detecting device is greater than or equal to a reference value set in advance, and a case in which the steering power is smaller than the reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Takeshi Goto, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Ikuo Kushiro, Kimiaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20150266504
    Abstract: A steering intention determination device includes a calculation unit that calculates a value based on the product of a steering angular velocity and a steering torque and the product of a steering angle and the time differential value of the steering torque, and a determination unit that determines that the driver has a turn-and-steer steering intention in a case where the value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, determine that the driver has a steering holding intention in a case where the value is less than the predetermined value and the absolute value of the steering angular velocity is less than a predetermined angular velocity, and determine that the driver has a switchback steering intention in a case where the value is less than the predetermined value and the absolute value of the steering angular velocity is equal to or greater than the predetermined angular velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji KUNIHIRO, Takahiro KOJO, Yoshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshio KUDO, Masao UEYAMA, Takeshi GOTO, Yukihide KIMURA