Patents by Inventor Yuji Inoue

Yuji Inoue 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: 20190056025
    Abstract: A vehicle power transmission device includes: a differential mechanism and provided with a through-hole in an outer circumferential surface, a pair of pinion gears respectively fitted to both ends of a pinion shaft, and a pair of side gears rotatably supported by the differential case and meshed with the pinion gears; and a baffle plate that includes an oil passage component functioning as an oil passage for supplying a lubricating oil for lubricating the pinion gears and the side gears and that is fixedly disposed to cover an outer circumference of the differential case. The oil passage component is provided with an opening portion allowing the lubricating oil in the oil passage to flow out downward, and the opening portion is disposed above the pinion shaft and between a pair of inner-circumferential-side end surfaces of the pair of the pinion gears when the pinion shaft is horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohei IMANISHI, Hirofumi FUJITA, Yuji INOUE
  • Patent number: 9878605
    Abstract: A power transmission system (10) for a hybrid vehicle, the power transmission system (10) includes a transmission (TM, 20), a clutch (18), a motor (MG), an engine (14), a first oil pump (44), a second oil pump (68), a first hydraulic circuit in which the first oil pump (44) is provided, and a second hydraulic circuit in which the second oil pump (68) is provided. The motor (MG) is connected to a driving wheel (26) through the transmission (TM, 20). The engine (14) is connected to the motor (MG) through the clutch (28). The first oil pump (44) supplies oil to the transmission (20). The second oil pump (68) supplies oil to the motor (MG) and the clutch (28). The second hydraulic circuit is independent from the first hydraulic circuit. Selected drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio, Yousuke Michikoshi, Daiki Suyama, Naoya Jinnai, Kensuke Wada
  • Publication number: 20180023179
    Abstract: A method for producing a plug includes: a step of preparing a plug base metal having a concave portion along a circumferential direction in an outer peripheral surface; and an arc spraying step of spraying a spraying wire rod material onto the outer peripheral surface of the plug base metal by arc spraying to form films containing Fe and Fe oxides on the outer peripheral surface of the plug base metal. The arc spraying step includes: a separating step of separating the outer peripheral surface of the plug base metal into a plurality of regions along an axial direction; and a step of performing arc spraying separately in each of the regions. In the separating step, a boundary between the regions is set at the concave portion. In this way, peeling of films at a connecting portion is prevented, and the lifetime of the plug can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Kouji Yamane, Yasuto Higashida, Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Yuji Inoue, Shusuke Shimooka
  • Publication number: 20180003107
    Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio IWASE, Daiki SUYAMA, Naoya JINNAI, Kensuke WADA, Yuji INOUE, Yukihiko IDESHIO
  • Patent number: 9842503
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique which can enhance a possibility of giving notice of only a detected object in a dead angle area which is significant for a user. A controller causes a notification unit, in a first vehicle, to give notice of a detected object, which is determined to have an influence on a traveling of the first vehicle in a dead angle point which the first vehicle travels from among the detected object which is not detected by the first vehicle but detected by the second vehicle, as a travel influencing object based on a route information of the first vehicle, a current position information of the first vehicle, and a detected object information of the first vehicle and a second vehicle which are obtained by the information receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 9797305
    Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio Iwase, Daiki Suyama, Naoya Jinnai, Kensuke Wada, Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Patent number: 9772019
    Abstract: A fluid transmission device for a vehicle includes a cover and a positioning member. The cover is configured to be driven rotatably about the axis of the fluid transmission device integrally with a drive plate. The drive plate includes a positioning hole that positions the drive plate and the cover. The positioning member is a columnar member. The positioning member is provided on the surface side of the cover, which is opposed to the drive plate, at a radially outer position of the cover. The positioning member protrudes to a drive-plate side in a state where the positioning member is arranged in the positioning hole. The positioning member protrudes from the drive plate obliquely with respect to the axis direction of the fluid transmission device. A radially outermost position of the positioning member is located on the radially inner side relative to a radially outermost position of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Ideshio, Yuji Inoue, Minoru Abe
  • Patent number: 9718464
    Abstract: Even when a motor fails in an EV travel mode in which a clutch is disengaged, an amount of hydraulic oil that is supplied to the clutch can be secured by reducing a transmission leaked amount. Accordingly, the clutch can be engaged, and an oil pump can be driven by power of an engine. Thus, an evacuation travel by the engine is allowed when the motor fails in the EV travel mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Patent number: 9701311
    Abstract: A controller for vehicle, the vehicle including plural engagement elements for performing engagement operation by hydraulic pressure, the plural engagement elements having a common engagement element being an engagement element common to plural transmission gear stages, the common engagement element being an engagement element that is brought into an engaged state for establishing a transmission gear stage immediately before start of economic running and a transmission gear stage immediately after cancellation of the economic running, the controller includes at least one electronic control unit configured to stop an engine in the case where a specified economic running start condition is established and switch the plural engagement elements between the engaged states and disengaged states such that the common engagement element is switched from the engaged state to the disengaged state after another engagement element that is brought into the engaged state together with the common engagement element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Hirofumi Ohta
  • Patent number: 9695742
    Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio Iwase, Daiki Suyama, Naoya Jinnai, Kensuke Wada, Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Patent number: 9670838
    Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio Iwase, Daiki Suyama, Naoya Jinnai, Kensuke Wada, Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Publication number: 20170116862
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique which can enhance a possibility of giving notice of only a detected object in a dead angle area which is significant for a user. A controller causes a notification unit, in a first vehicle, to give notice of a detected object, which is determined to have an influence on a traveling of the first vehicle in a dead angle point which the first vehicle travels from among the detected object which is not detected by the first vehicle but detected by the second vehicle, as a travel influencing object based on a route information of the first vehicle, a current position information of the first vehicle, and a detected object information of the first vehicle and a second vehicle which are obtained by the information receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji INOUE
  • Patent number: 9605605
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control apparatus. To start an engine by a motor-generator under the state that a vehicle is stopped, the vehicle control apparatus synchronizes a rotation of the engine with a rotation of the motor-generator at a synchronous rotational speed lower than a target rotational speed to start the engine, and increases a rotational speed of the engine by the motor-generator from the synchronous rotational to the target rotational speed, and starts the engine at the target rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukihiko Ideshio, Terufumi Miyazaki, Yuji Inoue, Shingo Eto, Yousuke Michikoshi
  • Patent number: 9579860
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire comprises a forming step of a tread rubber which includes a two-shot stage of simultaneously winding a first rubber ribbon constructed by a nonconductive rubber, and a second rubber ribbon constructed by a nonconductive rubber. In the two-shot stage, the first rubber ribbon and the second rubber ribbon which are adjacent to each other are spirally wound in such a manner as to come into contact with each other, and a ribbon winding position passes through an L-shaped route. A conductive rubber is partly provided in the first rubber ribbon in the winding process when the ribbon winding position passes through the L-shaped route. A conductive portion which spirally and continuously extends to the tread end from the ground-contacting surface and intermittently appears in the tire meridian cross section is formed by the conductive rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Syuuichi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9574258
    Abstract: An aluminum-alloy sheet includes 0.10 to 0.40 mass % of Si, 0.35 to 0.80 mass % of Fe, 0.10 to 0.35 mass % of Cu, 0.20 to 0.80 mass % of Mn, and 1.5 to 2.5 mass % of Mg, the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a content ratio (Si/Fe) of the Si to the Fe is 0.75 or less, the area fraction of Mg2Si intermetallic compound grains having a maximum length of 1 ?m or more is 0.10% or more in a region of a section of the aluminum-alloy sheet, the region being a central region in the thickness direction of the aluminum-alloy sheet, and the aluminum-alloy sheet has a proof stress of 225 to 270 N/mm2 after having been baked at 270° C. for 20 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Yasuhiro Aruga, Katsushi Matsumoto, Kiyohito Tsuruda, Kazuharu Masada
  • Patent number: 9550492
    Abstract: A control device of a vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and a first clutch connecting/disconnecting a power transmission path between the engine and the electric motor, and a second clutch configured to achieve a mechanically directly-coupled state of a power transmission path between the engine/the electric motor and drive wheels, the control device of a vehicle increasing a torque of the electric motor and causing the second clutch to slip-engage when the engine is started by controlling the first clutch toward engagement during motor running using only the electric motor as a drive force source for running with the first clutch released and the second clutch engaged, when the torque of the electric motor increased at the start of the engine relative to the torque of the electric motor during the motor running is larger, a slip amount of the second clutch being made larger as compared to when the torque is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Michikoshi, Shingo Eto, Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio, Akihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9546411
    Abstract: An aluminum-alloy sheet includes 0.10 to 0.40 mass % of Si, 0.35 to 0.80 mass % of Fe, 0.10 to 0.35 mass % of Cu, 0.20 to 0.80 mass % of Mn, and 1.5 to 2.5 mass % of Mg, the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a content ratio (Si/Fe) of the Si to the Fe is 0.75 or less, the solute Mn content is 0.12 to 0.20 mass %, and the aluminum-alloy sheet has a proof stress of 225 N/mm2 or more after having been baked at 270° C. for 20 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Yasuhiro Aruga, Katsushi Matsumoto, Kiyohito Tsuruda, Kazuharu Masada
  • Patent number: 9545658
    Abstract: There is provided a piercing apparatus in which the occurrence of an inner surface flaw in a hollow shell is suppressed. A piercing apparatus (10) according to an embodiment of the present invention is the piercing apparatus (10) which pierces a billet (18). The piercing apparatus (10) has a plug (14). The plug (14) has a through hole (30). The through hole (30) extends along the central axis, and allows the central portion of the billet (18) being pierced to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa, Kouji Yamane, Yuji Inoue, Syusuke Shimooka, Kouji Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 9533671
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle control apparatus which can suppress a shock in a clutch from being generated at a time of starting an engine by a motor in a vehicle having the clutch provided therein between the engine and the motor, thereby improving a drivability of the vehicle. Provided is a vehicle control apparatus, comprising: an engine, a motor generator connected to vehicle wheels of a vehicle, and a clutch that switches a transmission state between a disengaging state and an engaging state, in which the vehicle control apparatus switches the clutch in the engaging state to start the engine by the motor generator. When the engine is started by the motor generator, the vehicle control apparatus constantly keeps the compensation torque of the motor generator smaller than the clutch torque of the clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Yukihiko Ideshio, Shingo Eto, Yousuke Michikoshi, Kenji Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9491446
    Abstract: An image processing device for receiving input image data in which multiple images displayed in mutually differing directions from a display are combined includes: a crosstalk correction processor for performing a crosstalk correction; and a response speed improvement correction processor for performing a response speed improvement correction. The crosstalk correction processor has an optical crosstalk correction processor for performing an optical crosstalk correction, and an electrical crosstalk correction processor for performing an electrical crosstalk correction. The optical crosstalk correction processor performs the correction based on the input image data and outputs optical crosstalk correction processed image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Inoue, Hidetsugu Suginohara, Satoshi Yamanaka, Kazuhiro Ishiguchi