Patents by Inventor Yuki Iwama

Yuki Iwama 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: 11585352
    Abstract: A seal structure of a drive device is provided which includes a case in which a motor chamber for accommodating an electric motor and a gear chamber for accommodating a gear mechanism are located adjacent to each other, a partition that separates the motor chamber and the gear chamber, a bearing that supports a rotating shaft, a seal part that seals between the rotating shaft and the partition, a lubricating oil that lubricates the gear mechanism, and a coolant that cools the electric motor, and also includes a first bearing on the motor chamber side, a second bearing on the gear chamber side, a first seal part on the motor chamber side, a second seal part on the gear chamber side, and at least the second seal part of the first seal part and the second seal part is provided between the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Tominaga, Daisuke Tokozakura, Yuki Iwama, Hiroyuki Shibata
  • Patent number: 11342873
    Abstract: A controller for a switched reluctance motor, which includes a rotor, a stator, and coils wound around the stator and which is mounted on a vehicle as a traveling drive source, the controller including: a control unit performing regenerative control to apply a positive voltage and a negative voltage to the coils so that a current value of the coils becomes a first target current value in a predetermined regenerative region. Further, when the battery charge state value is a predetermined value or more, the control unit reduces a section where a negative voltage is applied to the coils to be narrower than that in a case where a battery charge state value is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Deguchi, Hideki Kubonoya, Tadashi Fujiyoshi, Yuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20220018354
    Abstract: A seal structure of a drive device is provided which includes a case in which a motor chamber for accommodating an electric motor and a gear chamber for accommodating a gear mechanism are located adjacent to each other, a partition that separates the motor chamber and the gear chamber, a bearing that supports a rotating shaft, a seal part that seals between the rotating shaft and the partition, a lubricating oil that lubricates the gear mechanism, and a coolant that cools the electric motor, and also includes a first bearing on the motor chamber side, a second bearing on the gear chamber side, a first seal part on the motor chamber side, a second seal part on the gear chamber side, and at least the second seal part of the first seal part and the second seal part is provided between the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi TOMINAGA, Daisuke TOKOZAKURA, Yuki IWAMA, Hiroyuki SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20210167666
    Abstract: A cooling device cools a motor mounted on a vehicle and an inverter driving the motor. The cooling device includes: a common flow path through which coolant flows; a first flow path branching from the common flow path and arranged to cool the inverter and a stator of the motor; and a second flow path branching from the common flow path, being independent of the first flow path, and arranged to cool a rotor of the motor. The cooling device further includes a distribution structure configured to distribute the coolant to the first flow path and the second flow path, and to change a distribution ratio of a first coolant distributed to the first flow path out of the coolant and a second coolant distributed to the second flow path out of the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Junichi Deguchi, Eiji Yamada, Hiroyuki Hattori, Hiroaki Kodera, Daisuke Tokozakura, Satoshi Tominaga, Yuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20190267924
    Abstract: A controller for a switched reluctance motor, which includes a rotor, a stator, and coils wound around the stator and which is mounted on a vehicle as a traveling drive source, the controller including: a control unit performing regenerative control to apply a positive voltage and a negative voltage to the coils so that a current value of the coils becomes a first target current value in a predetermined regenerative region. Further, when the battery charge state value is a predetermined value or more, the control unit reduces a section where a negative voltage is applied to the coils to be narrower than that in a case where a battery charge state value is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Junichi Deguchi, Hideki Kubonoya, Tadashi Fujiyoshi, Yuki Iwama