Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Yamashita

Yoshinori Yamashita 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: 8836253
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes: a current detection section detecting current from a power converter to the AC rotary machine; and a control section generating a three-phase AC voltage instruction to the power converter, based on current detected by the current detection section and a torque instruction. The control section includes: an observer calculating a magnetic flux estimated value of the AC rotary machine, based on detected current and the voltage instruction; a current instruction calculation unit calculating current instruction values on rotational two axes, based on the torque instruction and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer; and a voltage instruction calculation unit calculating the voltage instruction, based on the current instruction values from the current instruction calculation unit and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sho Kato, Hisanori Yamasaki, Keita Hatanaka, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8816622
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC rotating machine that can reliably and stably start up an AC rotating machine, particularly a synchronous motor using a permanent magnet, in position-sensorless vector control thereof, includes: a steady speed calculator that calculates, during steady state control of the AC rotating machine, a rotation angular frequency of the AC rotating machine based on an AC current and voltage commands; and a start-up speed calculator that calculates, during start-up control within a predetermined period after the AC rotating machine has been started up, the rotation angular frequency of the AC rotating machine based on the AC current and the voltage commands. The control apparatus corrects during the start-up control current commands so that the AC voltage amplitude of the voltage commands will be a constant value not more than the maximum output voltage of a power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sho Kato, Hisanori Yamasaki, Keita Hatanaka, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20140182451
    Abstract: A valve member of a pressure relief valve has a shaft portion, a pressure receiving portion, and a guide portion, wherein the valve member is axially movable in a fuel return passage. When a forward end of the shaft portion is seated on a valve seta, the fuel return passage is closed, while the shaft portion is separated from the valve seat the fuel return passage is opened. A notched portion is formed at an outer wall of the guide portion to thereby form an outer-surface passage. A fuel inlet port is formed in the valve member for communicating a fuel inlet chamber to the fuel return passage at a downstream side of the valve member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu OIKAWA, Yoshinori Yamashita, Katsunori Furuta, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeto Tsuge
  • Patent number: 8701631
    Abstract: A valve member of a pressure relief valve has a shaft portion, a pressure receiving portion, and a guide portion, wherein the valve member is axially movable in a fuel return passage. When a forward end of the shaft portion is seated on a valve seta, the fuel return passage is closed, while the shaft portion is separated from the valve seat the fuel return passage is opened. A notched portion is formed at an outer wall of the guide portion to thereby form an outer-surface passage. A fuel inlet port is formed in the valve member for communicating a fuel inlet chamber to the fuel return passage at a downstream side of the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Oikawa, Yoshinori Yamashita, Katsunori Furuta, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeto Tsuge
  • Patent number: 8679412
    Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying system for purifying exhaust gas discharged from a diesel engine includes a diesel oxidation catalyst through which the exhaust gas passes, a diesel particulate filter which includes a filter substrate and an active component supported by the filter substrate and exhibiting a catalytic activity for selective catalytic reduction and through which the exhaust gas having passed through the diesel oxidation catalyst penetrates, and an ammonia slip catalyst which includes a zeolite whose alkaline metal ions are partially exchanged with transition metal ions and through which the exhaust gas having penetrated the diesel particulate filter passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yamashita, Daisuke Oki, Mai Huong Tran, Takuya Sato
  • Patent number: 8669729
    Abstract: A controller that controls ON/OFF of switching elements and opening/closing of an opening/closing unit based on currents detected by current detectors. The controller includes a fault detector that detects whether any of the switching elements has a short-circuit fault and outputs a signal indicating a detection result, an ON/OFF controller that sets one of the switching elements that constitutes a phase other than a first phase that involves the short-circuit fault to an ON operation state and outputs a signal for opening the opening/closing unit, and an opening/closing controller that opens an opening/closing unit connected to a third phase other than the first phase and the second phase in which one of the switching elements is set to the ON operation state by the ON/OFF controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Kono, Kenichi Kusano, Yoshinori Yamashita, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Keita Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 8580215
    Abstract: A NOx selective reduction catalyst for reducing NOx by the ammonia adsorbed is disposed in an engine exhaust gas passage. As states of adsorption of ammonia by the catalyst, there are a first adsorption state of ammonia that occurs when the ammonia is adsorbed during low temperature and a second adsorption state of ammonia that occurs when the ammonia is adsorbed or has already been adsorbed during high temperature. The amount of adsorbed ammonia in the first state is restricted to control concentration of the ammonia that is in the first state and desorbed when the temperature of the catalyst increases so as to be not higher than an allowable concentration, and that in the second state is restricted to control concentration of the ammonia that is in the second state and desorbed when the temperature of the catalyst increases so as to be not higher than an allowable concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hirota, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8448428
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, a NOx selective reduction catalyst for reducing NOx with ammonia that is adsorbed on the NOx selective reduction catalyst is disposed in an exhaust passage of the engine. In the NOx selective reduction catalyst, ammonia in a first adsorption state that is adsorbed at a low temperature and ammonia in a second adsorption state that is adsorbed at a high temperature are present. Because ammonia, which has been in the first adsorption state and which is desorbed from the NOx selective reduction catalyst, tends to be discharged to the atmosphere, a control section that estimates an adsorption amount of ammonia in the first adsorption state is provided in the exhaust gas purification system for the internal combustion engine in order to control the adsorption amount of ammonia in the first adsorption state within a specified level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hirota, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130113398
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes: a current detection section detecting current from a power converter to the AC rotary machine; and a control section generating a three-phase AC voltage instruction to the power converter, based on current detected by the current detection section and a torque instruction. The control section includes: an observer calculating a magnetic flux estimated value of the AC rotary machine, based on detected current and the voltage instruction; a current instruction calculation unit calculating current instruction values on rotational two axes, based on the torque instruction and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer; and a voltage instruction calculation unit calculating the voltage instruction, based on the current instruction values from the current instruction calculation unit and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sho Kato, Hisanori Yamasaki, Keita Hatanaka, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130106329
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC rotating machine that can reliably and stably start up an AC rotating machine, particularly a synchronous motor using a permanent magnet, in position-sensorless vector control thereof, includes: a steady speed calculator that calculates, during steady state control of the AC rotating machine, a rotation angular frequency of the AC rotating machine based on an AC current and voltage commands; and a start-up speed calculator that calculates, during start-up control within a predetermined period after the AC rotating machine has been started up, the rotation angular frequency of the AC rotating machine based on the AC current and the voltage commands. The control apparatus corrects during the start-up control current commands so that the AC voltage amplitude of the voltage commands will be a constant value not more than the maximum output voltage of a power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sho Kato, Hisanori Yamasaki, Keita Hatanaka, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130017136
    Abstract: A NOx selective reduction catalyst for reducing NOx by the ammonia adsorbed is disposed in an engine exhaust gas passage. As states of adsorption of ammonia by the catalyst, there are a first adsorption state of ammonia that occurs when the ammonia is adsorbed during low temperature and a second adsorption state of ammonia that occurs when the ammonia is adsorbed or has already been adsorbed during high temperature. The amount of adsorbed ammonia in the first state is restricted to control concentration of the ammonia that is in the first state and desorbed when the temperature of the catalyst increases so as to be not higher than an allowable concentration, and that in the second state is restricted to control concentration of the ammonia that is in the second state and desorbed when the temperature of the catalyst increases so as to be not higher than an allowable concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Hirota, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130000605
    Abstract: A fuel injection system, and a structure for mounting a fuel injection valve to an internal combustion engine, that includes: a combustion chamber formed at an end surface of a piston that reciprocates in a cylinder; an intake port through which intake air drawn into the combustion chamber flows; and an intake valve that opens and closes a connection between the intake port and the combustion chamber, the fuel injection valve being placed to inject fuel into intake air in the intake port, wherein an end portion of the fuel injection valve located on a combustion chamber side thereof is placed at a location that overlaps with an imaginary plane perpendicular to a center axis of the cylinder and extends along a portion of a wall surface of the intake port where the intake valve protrudes, or is projected out from the imaginary plane toward the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio TOMIITA, Hidekazu OOMURA, Yoshihiro NAKASE, Fumiaki AOKI, Yoshinori YAMASHITA, Takanori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8297257
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has multiple cylinders each provided with multiple injectors. A fuel supply pipe device includes multiple fuel passages, which receive fuel through multiple fuel paths and supply the fuel correspondingly to the multiple injectors. The multiple fuel passages are separated respectively from the multiple fuel passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Sugiyama, Yoshinori Yamashita, Hideaki Ichihara, Hidekazu Oomura, Hideki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8281766
    Abstract: A combustion chamber side end portion of a fuel injection valve is placed at a location that overlaps with an imaginary plane, which is perpendicular to a center axis of a cylinder and extends along a portion of a wall surface of an intake port where an intake valve protrudes, or is projected out from the imaginary plane toward a combustion chamber. Alternatively, a center of a fuel injecting side end port of the fuel injection valve, which injects fuel into intake air that flows in a branch port branched from the intake port, may be placed on the center axis side of the intake valve in a radial direction of the cylinder. Further alternatively, an upstream side fuel injection valve may inject fuel into intake air that flows in the intake port, and a downstream side fuel injection valve may inject fuel into intake air that flows in the branch port branched from the intake port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Tomiita, Hidekazu Oomura, Fumiaki Aoki, Yoshinori Yamashita, Takanori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120181961
    Abstract: A controller that controls ON/OFF of switching elements and opening/closing of an opening/closing unit based on currents detected by current detectors. The controller includes a fault detector that detects whether any of the switching elements has a short-circuit fault and outputs a signal indicating a detection result, an ON/OFF controller that sets one of the switching elements that constitutes a phase other than a first phase that involves the short-circuit fault to an ON operation state and outputs a signal for opening the opening/closing unit, and an opening/closing controller that opens an opening/closing unit connected to a third phase other than the first phase and the second phase in which one of the switching elements is set to the ON operation state by the ON/OFF controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Kono, Kenichi Kusano, Yoshinori Yamashita, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Keita Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20120000190
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, a NOx selective reduction catalyst for reducing NOx with ammonia that is adsorbed on the NOx selective reduction catalyst is disposed in an exhaust passage of the engine. In the NOx selective reduction catalyst, ammonia in a first adsorption state that is adsorbed at a low temperature and ammonia in a second adsorption state that is adsorbed at a high temperature are present. Because ammonia, which has been in the first adsorption state and which is desorbed from the NOx selective reduction catalyst, tends to be discharged to the atmosphere, a control section that estimates an adsorption amount of ammonia in the first adsorption state is provided in the exhaust gas purification system for the internal combustion engine in order to control the adsorption amount of ammonia in the first adsorption state within a specified level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Hirota, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20110315005
    Abstract: A valve member of a pressure relief valve has a shaft portion, a pressure receiving portion, and a guide portion, wherein the valve member is axially movable in a fuel return passage. When a forward end of the shaft portion is seated on a valve seta, the fuel return passage is closed, while the shaft portion is separated from the valve seat the fuel return passage is opened. A notched portion is formed at an outer wall of the guide portion to thereby form an outer-surface passage. A fuel inlet port is formed in the valve member for communicating a fuel inlet chamber to the fuel return passage at a downstream side of the valve member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Oikawa, Yoshinori Yamashita, Katsunori Furuta, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeto Tsuge
  • Patent number: 8071498
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst wherein the catalytic activity can be recovered over a wide temperature range is provided. Also provided are a method for recovering an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, and a catalyst system for exhaust gas purification. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst is characterized by containing an oxide A containing an oxide (A-1) containing an alkaline earth metal and/or a rare earth metal and an inorganic oxide (A-2), and a noble metal B supported by the oxide A. This exhaust gas purifying catalyst is also characterized in that the weight ratio of the oxide (A-1) containing an alkaline earth metal and/or a rare earth metal to the noble metal B is from 1:10 to 1:500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko Aono, Yoshinori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8027777
    Abstract: A fuel supply system supplies composite fuel containing alcohol and gasoline to multiple cylinders of an internal combustion engine. The composite fuel includes main-fuel and sub-fuel. The sub-fuel is lower than main-fuel in concentration of alcohol. Each of multiple first fuel injection valves is provided to each of the cylinders for injecting fuel. Each of multiple second fuel injection valves is provided to each of the cylinders for injecting fuel. A fuel inlet portion supplies at least sub-fuel to each of the first fuel injection valves and each of the second fuel injection valves. A selector control unit selects one of main-fuel and sub-fuel supplied through the fuel inlet portion to each of the first fuel injection valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Ichihara, Yoshinori Yamashita, Kouichi Sugiyama, Hidekazu Oomura
  • Patent number: 7956060
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antitumor agent and the like, which comprises as an active ingredient, a pyrimidine derivative represented by Formula (I): [wherein —X—Y—Z— represents —O—CR3?N— (wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group and the like) and the like, R1 represents —NR10R11 (wherein R10 and R11 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like) and the like, R2 represents —NR13R14 (wherein R13 and R14 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like)] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Arai, Tsutomu Matsumura, Syoichi Isami, Hiroshi Ishida, Koji Hagihara, Hiroshi Umehara, Yoshinori Yamashita, Nana Oiwa, Yukimasa Shiotsu, Tomoki Naoe, Hitoshi Kiyoi