Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Ogura

Yoshinobu Ogura 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: 20240278668
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle management device used for a vehicle that includes a drive unit for traveling, a power storage device that is able to supply power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system that is able to generate power from a solar cell and supply the power to the power storage device, and that is able to perform external charging in which the power storage device is charged with power from an outside of the vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, a target external charging amount of the external charging is set to a value obtained by subtracting, from a target power storage amount of the power storage device at a next scheduled traveling start time, a predicted power generation amount of the solar cell up to the next scheduled traveling start time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo SAKAMOTO, Yoshinobu NOZAKI, Hiroyuki OGURA, Mitsuaki TOMITA, Yasunobu SEKI, Shoichi IWAMOTO, Hisashi FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240278682
    Abstract: The vehicle management device includes a drive unit for driving, a power storage device that can supply power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system that can generate electricity from a solar cell and supply it to the power storage device, and also supplies power to the outside of the vehicle. Vehicles that can be used. While the vehicle is parked, the vehicle management device sets an allowable power supply amount for the outside of the vehicle within the range of the predicted power generation amount of the solar cell until the next scheduled start time of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi IWAMOTO, Hisashi Fujisawa, Hiroyuki Ogura, Yoshinobu Nozaki, Hideo Sakamoto, Yasunobu Seki, Mitsuaki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20240278669
    Abstract: A vehicle equipped with a driving unit for traveling, a power storage device capable of supplying power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system capable of supplying power generated by a solar cell to the power storage device. A vehicle management device that determines the cause, based on whether or not a decrease in the amount of power generation has occurred while the vehicle is running and whether or not a decrease in the amount of power generation has occurred while the vehicle is parked, determines whether the decrease in the amount of power generation is caused by the state abnormality of the solar cell or the external environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OGURA, Hideo SAKAMOTO, Yoshinobu NOZAKI, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shoichi IWAMOTO, Mitsuaki TOMITA, Yasunobu SEKI
  • Publication number: 20240258965
    Abstract: Equipped with a solar power generation device that includes a light collecting member that collects and irradiates sunlight, a drive device that drives the light collecting member, and a control device that controls the drive device, and that has at least one solar cell panel. A light collecting device that irradiates light to a parked vehicle using a light concentrating member, the control device determining the power generation efficiency of solar power generation by the solar power generation device based on the position of the solar cell panel. The drive device is controlled so that the power generation efficiency is equal to or higher than the initial power generation efficiency that is the power generation efficiency at the initial position of the light collecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo SAKAMOTO, Yoshinobu NOZAKI, Hioyuki OGURA, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Mitsuaki TOMITA, Yasunobu SEKI, Shoichi IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240253526
    Abstract: A charge and discharge management system for managing charging/discharging of a power storage device in a plurality of vehicles having a power storage device and capable of performing external charging for charging the power storage device using electric power from an external power supply and external power supply for supplying power from the power storage device to the outside of the vehicle. A system obtains the scheduled departure times of a plurality of parked vehicles, and determines, among the plurality of vehicles, vehicles whose outside air temperature is lower than the lowest temperature in a predetermined temperature range. To terminate external charging or external power supply at a time closer to a scheduled departure time than a vehicle under environmental conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo SAKAMOTO, Hiroyouki OGURA, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shoichi IWAMOTO, Mitsuaki TOMITA, Yasunobu SEKI, Yoshinobu NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240249622
    Abstract: A vehicle management device for managing parking positions in a parking lot of a plurality of vehicles equipped with a solar battery and a power storage device for storing electric power generated by the solar battery, wherein based on the conversion efficiency of the solar battery of each vehicle and the sunlight conditions of the parking lot, the parking position of each vehicle is set so that the amount of solar electric power generation by multiple vehicles per unit time or the sum total of the amount of power generated by the solar cells mounted on multiple vehicles is large. As a result, the amount of electric power generated per unit time and the sum of the amount of electric power generated of the vehicles as a whole can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo SAKAMOTO, Yoshinobu NOZAKI, Hiroyuki OGURA, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Mitsuaki TOMITA, Yasunobu SEKI, Shoichi IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9452444
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spline telescopic shaft, includes a sliding step of sliding in an axial direction an inner shaft manufacturing intermediate member and an outer shaft manufacturing intermediate member, in one of which a resin coating is disposed on splines. In the sliding step, a sliding load of the inner shaft manufacturing intermediate member and the outer shaft manufacturing intermediate member is detected, and sliding is ended at a timing when the detected sliding load reaches a threshold load which is determined based on an initial sliding load detected at a start of the sliding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, KOYO MACHINE INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Miyawaki, Kenji Higashi, Masanori Kobayashi, Shoji Sasaki, Seijun Inoue, Yoshinobu Ogura
  • Publication number: 20140212593
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spline telescopic shaft, includes a sliding step of sliding in an axial direction an inner shaft manufacturing intermediate member and an outer shaft manufacturing intermediate member, in one of which a resin coating is disposed on splines. In the sliding step, a sliding load of the inner shaft manufacturing intermediate member and the outer shaft manufacturing intermediate member is detected, and sliding is ended at a timing when the detected sliding load reaches a threshold load which is determined based on an initial sliding load detected at a start of the sliding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: KOYO MACHINE INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto MIYAWAKI, Kenji HIGASHI, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Shoji SASAKI, Seijun INOUE, Yoshinobu OGURA
  • Patent number: 8061742
    Abstract: A door locking system for a vehicle includes a striker, a latch, a pawl allowing and regulating the latch to rotate, a lock release operating portion moving the pawl to release the regulation on the latch rotation, a latch driving motor driven in one direction to shift the door to a fully closed state from a half-closed state, the latch driving motor driven in the other direction to move the pawl to be release position when the lock release operating portion is operated, and a power transmission system switching mechanism connecting a motor output shaft of the motor to the latch for driving the latch in the locking direction, the power transmission system switching mechanism connecting the motor output shaft of the motor to the pawl for moving the pawl to the release position and including a first canceling mechanism for switching a power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Kiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Machida, Jun Ishida, Yoshinobu Ogura, Shinsuke Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20090236863
    Abstract: An electric door latch apparatus includes a manual operation portion adapted to be mounted on a vehicle door and configured to be switched between a closed door retaining state in which the vehicle door is retained at a closed position and a door openable state in which the vehicle door is openable by an electric actuation, the manual operation portion being switched from the closed door retaining state to the door openable state by a manual operation in an electrically inoperable condition, and the manual operation portion positioned within the vehicle door and including a tool fitting hole on a surface thereof facing a vehicle compartment side wall portion of the vehicle door. The manual operation portion is configured to be rotated by fitting a predetermined tool into the tool fitting hole via an operation hole formed penetrating through the vehicle compartment side wall portion of the vehicle door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryujiro AKIZUKI, Takeshi TADA, Yoshinobu OGURA
  • Publication number: 20080105011
    Abstract: A door locking system for a vehicle includes a striker, a latch, a pawl allowing and regulating the latch to rotate, a lock release operating portion moving the pawl to release the regulation on the latch rotation, a latch driving motor driven in one direction to shift the door to a fully closed state from a half-closed state, the latch driving motor driven in the other direction to move the pawl to be release position when the lock release operating portion is operated, and a power transmission system switching mechanism connecting a motor output shaft of the motor to the latch for driving the latch in the locking direction, the power transmission system switching mechanism connecting the motor output shaft of the motor to the pawl for moving the pawl to the release position and including a first canceling mechanism for switching a power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN KIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio MACHIDA, Jun ISHIDA, Yoshinobu OGURA, Shinsuke TAKAYANAGI
  • Patent number: 5494321
    Abstract: A vehicle door locking assembly includes a housing, a latch member and a pawl member provided in the housing for holding a vehicle door in a closed position, a manually actuatable door opening member provided on the housing for rotational movement, and a rotatably mounted lift lever which is operatively connected with the latch member. A release lever is mounted on the door opening member for rotational movement between a first position in which the release lever engages the lift lever so that rotational movement of the door opening member is transmitted through the release lever and the lift lever to the pawl member to release the door and a second position in which the release lever cannot engage the lift lever so that rotational movement of the door opening member is not transmitted to the lift lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishihara, Yoshinobu Ogura
  • Patent number: 5466021
    Abstract: A door closing device comprises a door-lock mechanism provided between a door and a body and including a striker secured to the body and a latch member provided on the door, a driving mechanism, and a door-closing mechanism for establishing a perfect closed condition of the door relative to the body when the striker is in receipt of a groove of the latch member. The door-closing mechanism includes a passive-lever adapted to be moved in a linear mode by the driving mechanism in order to be brought into engagement with the latch member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishihara, Yoshinobu Ogura
  • Patent number: 5454607
    Abstract: A door closing device comprises a door-lock mechanism provided between a door and a body and including a striker secured to the body and a pawl provided on the door, a driving mechanism, and a door-closing mechanism for establishing a fully closed condition of the door relative to the body, the door-closing mechanism including an active-lever operatively connected to the driving mechanism, a passive-lever operatively connected to the door-lock mechanism, and a cancel-lever disposed between the active-lever and the passive-lever. The cancel-lever is rotatable relative to one of the active-lever and the passive-lever so as to be brought into engagement with a portion of the other of the active-lever and the passive-lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Alsin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishihara, Yoshinobu Ogura