Patents by Inventor Yusuke Koike
Yusuke Koike 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).
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Patent number: 12594608Abstract: A cutting tool includes a shaft, and a sensor device disposed in such a manner as to surround a portion of the shaft. The sensor device includes a sensor module including first sensors, a substrate connected to the first sensors, and a wireless communication unit connected to the substrate and configured to transmit a signal including information detected by the first sensors to outside and a housing accommodating the sensor module. A region of the shaft surrounded by the sensor device includes a first region having a shape of a 4n-sided polygon when viewed from a direction in which the rotation axis extends. The plurality of first sensors are arranged on at least two of outer peripheral surfaces of the first region, perpendicular lines of the outer peripheral surfaces passing through the rotation axis and intersecting at 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Hiromitsu Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20260084227Abstract: A state detection system for a milling tool used includes: a milling tool including a shaft portion having a first end portion and a second end portion, the milling tool being rotatable about a rotation axis; a plurality of sensors attached to the shaft portion to detect an external force acting on the milling tool; a display device; and a management device. The plurality of sensors detect a first force acting on the milling tool in a first direction along the rotation axis, a second force acting on the milling tool in a direction along a plane normal to the rotation axis, and a load torque acting on the milling tool in a direction for preventing rotation of the milling tool. The management device causes the display device to display first information based on at least two of the first force, the second force, and the load torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 26, 2026Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke KOIKE
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Publication number: 20260077441Abstract: A processing device comprising a receiver configured to receive from a cutting tool an output value of a sensor mounted on the cutting tool, a processor configured to calculate a physical quantity related to the cutting tool from the output value received by the receiver, and a displayer configured to display an image including a graph representing time-series data of the physical quantity and a distribution image representing distribution of the physical quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: March 19, 2026Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro TOYOSHIMA, Yusuke KOIKE
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Patent number: 12358056Abstract: A cutting tool includes a shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an increased-diameter portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of other portion of the shaft portion. The increased-diameter portion has a recessed portion formed in a peripheral surface of the increased-diameter portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Koike
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Patent number: 12353190Abstract: A processing system includes a cutting tool for milling, a plurality of sensors, and a processing unit. The plurality of sensors each is configured to measure a physical quantity that indicates a state related to loads on the cutting tool during cutting. The processing unit is configured to generate, based on measurement results from the respective sensors at a plurality of measurement time points, measurement data that is related to the loads in two directions on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of the cutting tool and that includes two-dimensional data at each of the measurement time points, and to perform a determination process concerning cutting in which the cutting tool is used, based on a two-dimensional shape indicated by the generated measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Yuma Higashiura
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Patent number: 12314029Abstract: A processing system includes a cutting tool for milling, a plurality of sensors, and a processing unit. The plurality of sensors each is configured to measure a physical quantity that indicates a state related to loads on the cutting tool during cutting. The processing unit is configured to generate, based on measurement results from the respective sensors at a plurality of measurement time points, measurement data that is related to the loads in two directions on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of the cutting tool and that includes two-dimensional data at each of the measurement time points, and to perform a determination process concerning cutting in which the cutting tool is used, based on a two-dimensional shape indicated by the generated measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Yuma Higashiura
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Patent number: 12285834Abstract: A processing system includes a cutting tool, a sensor attached to the cutting tool, an analog-to-digital (AD) converter configured to perform sampling on an analog signal output from the sensor to generate a digital signal, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to, based on a rotation rate [rpm] of a rotor; an upper-limit period that is an upper-limit value of a process period; and an upper-limit pitch that is an upper-limit value of an angle pitch [degree], determine the process period and a sampling frequency with which the AD converter performs sampling such that a set value of the angle pitch is equal to the upper-limit pitch or less in a time period taken by the rotor to rotate N times with the process period that is equal to the upper-limit period or shorter.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Koike
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Patent number: 11913400Abstract: During a predetermined operation state in which the opening degree of a throttle valve is fixed, an air flow meter positioned more on the upstream side than a pressure control valve detects a first intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve positioned on the upstream side of the throttle valve is set to a predetermined first valve opening degree and a second intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve is set to a predetermined second valve opening degree smaller than the first valve opening degree. On the basis of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, a diagnosis is made regarding whether there is an abnormality in a first pipe, a second pipe, a third pipe and the like which are included in a blow-by gas recirculation system for blow-by gas treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Takeshi Miyamoto, Hitoshi Ishii
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Publication number: 20240042565Abstract: A processing system includes a cutting tool, a sensor attached to the cutting tool, an analog-to-digital (AD) converter configured to perform sampling on an analog signal output from the sensor to generate a digital signal, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to, based on a rotation rate [rpm] of a rotor; an upper-limit period that is an upper-limit value of a process period; and an upper-limit pitch that is an upper-limit value of an angle pitch [degree], determine the process period and a sampling frequency with which the AD converter performs sampling such that a set value of the angle pitch is equal to the upper-limit pitch or less in a time period taken by the rotor to rotate N times with the process period that is equal to the upper-limit period or shorter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yusuke KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240024959Abstract: A cutting tool includes a shaft, and a sensor device disposed in such a manner as to surround a portion of the shaft. The sensor device includes a sensor module including first sensors, a substrate connected to the first sensors, and a wireless communication unit connected to the substrate and configured to transmit a signal including information detected by the first sensors to outside and a housing accommodating the sensor module. A region of the shaft surrounded by the sensor device includes a first region having a shape of a 4n-sided polygon when viewed from a direction in which the rotation axis extends. The plurality of first sensors are arranged on at least two of outer peripheral surfaces of the first region, perpendicular lines of the outer peripheral surfaces passing through the rotation axis and intersecting at 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke KOIKE, Hiromitsu KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230340922Abstract: During a predetermined operation state in which the opening degree of a throttle valve is fixed, an air flow meter positioned more on the upstream side than a pressure control valve detects a first intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve positioned on the upstream side of the throttle valve is set to a predetermined first valve opening degree and a second intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve is set to a predetermined second valve opening degree smaller than the first valve opening degree. On the basis of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, a diagnosis is made regarding whether there is an abnormality in a first pipe, a second pipe, a third pipe and the like which are included in a blow-by gas recirculation system for blow-by gas treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke KOIKE, Takeshi MIYAMOTO, Hitoshi ISHII
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Publication number: 20230166376Abstract: A cutting system includes a cutting tool for milling, a plurality of sensors, and a processor, wherein the cutting tool performs a cutting process using two or more cutting blades, the plurality of sensors measure a physical quantity indicating a state regarding a load of the cutting tool at a time of the cutting process, and the processor generates, based on measurement results of the sensors at a plurality of measurement timings, two-dimensional data for each measurement timing, the two-dimensional data regarding the load in two directions on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of the cutting tool, classifies pieces of the generated two-dimensional data into any of a plurality of unit regions, a number of which is equal to or greater than a number of the cutting blades on the plane, and detects, based on the two-dimensional data for each unit region, an abnormality of the cutting blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yusuke KOIKE
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Patent number: 11542900Abstract: A battery temperature adjusting device for a vehicle on which a battery is mounted, the battery being a lithium ion battery disposed near a powertrain unit inside an engine bay, is provided. The device includes a first air duct provided to an intake passage configured to lead intake air to a combustion chamber of an engine, a second air duct provided to the intake passage and provided with an intake opening that opens toward a space between the powertrain unit and the battery, an intake-air-amount adjusting part, and a controller configured to acquire an ambient temperature of the powertrain unit. The controller increases a ratio of the second intake air amount relative to the sum of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, when the ambient temperature exceeds a first threshold temperature, compared with when the ambient temperature is below the first threshold temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yusuke Koike, Yusuke Marutani, Toshiki Takahashi, Wataru Masuda, Takafumi Tanehira, Yuma Yamaga
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Publication number: 20220324032Abstract: A cutting tool includes a shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an increased-diameter portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of other portion of the shaft portion. The increased-diameter portion has a recessed portion formed in a peripheral surface of the increased-diameter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yusuke KOIKE
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Patent number: 11446984Abstract: A cooling system is provided to cool fluid used in a device mounted on a vehicle, by exchanging heat with cooler cooling water in a cooler. The system includes a cooling water passage connected to the cooler and having an undercover cooling water passage provided to an undercover, a cooler radiator configured to cool the cooler cooling water by exchanging heat between the cooler cooling water and air flowing into an engine bay from a grille, a flow rate adjuster configured to adjust a flow rate of the cooler cooling water supplied the undercover cooling water passage, and a controller configured to acquire at least a pressure or a temperature of the fluid, and control the flow rate adjuster to increase the flow rate of the cooler cooling water supplied to the undercover cooling water passage based on an increase in the pressure or the temperature of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yuma Yamaga, Yusuke Koike, Takafumi Tanehira, Yusuke Mikuni, Kanichi Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Taninaka
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Publication number: 20220281019Abstract: A rotating tool according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a rotating tool used in a state held by a tool holder, and the rotating tool includes a shaft portion having an end attached to the tool holder, a blade attaching portion or a blade portion provided at an end of the shaft portion opposite to the end, and a plurality of sensors attached to the shaft portion, and the plurality of sensors include an acceleration sensor and a strain sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke KOIKE, Tomoya AOKI
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Patent number: 11346271Abstract: A cooling system configured to cool an engine of a vehicle is provided, which includes a cooling water passage through which cooling water is supplied to a water jacket in the engine, and having an undercover cooling water passage provided in an undercover and where the cooling water is cooled by exchanging heat with air below the undercover, a radiator provided in the cooling water passage and configured to cool the cooling water by exchanging heat with air flowing into an engine bay from a grille, a flow rate adjuster, a grille shutter provided to the grille and configured to change an effective opening area of the grille, and a controller configured to determine abnormality of the grille shutter and control, when determined as abnormal, the flow rate adjuster to increase the flow rate of the cooling water supplied to the undercover cooling water passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yuma Yamaga, Yusuke Koike, Takafumi Tanehira, Kanichi Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Taninaka, Yusuke Mikuni, Yusuke Marutani
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Patent number: 11346272Abstract: A cooling system is provided to cool an engine of a vehicle, which includes a cooling water passage through which cooling water is supplied to a water jacket formed in the engine, and having an undercover cooling water passage provided in an undercover, a radiator provided in the cooling water passage and configured to cool the cooling water by exchanging heat with air flowing into an engine bay from a grille, a flow rate adjuster configured to adjust a cooling water flow rate supplied to the undercover cooling water passage, and a controller configured to acquire a temperature of the cooling water of the water jacket in the engine and, when the temperature is above a temperature threshold, control the flow rate adjuster to increase the flow rate of the cooling water supplied to the undercover cooling water passage compared to when the acquired temperature is below the temperature threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yuma Yamaga, Yusuke Koike, Takafumi Tanehira, Kanichi Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Taninaka, Yusuke Mikuni
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Patent number: 11110526Abstract: A cutting insert according to the present disclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a side surface, and a cutting edge. The first surface has a rake face continuous to the cutting edge. The cutting edge has a corner cutting edge, a flat cutting edge, and a main cutting edge. The rake face has a first rake face portion, a second rake face portion, and a third rake face portion, the first rake face portion being continuous to the flat cutting edge, the second rake face portion being continuous to the main cutting edge, the third rake face portion being continuous to the corner cutting edge and being located between the first rake face portion and the second rake face portion. The rake face is provided with a level difference portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Yasuyuki Kanada, Atsuhiko Maeta, Tomoyuki Fukuyama, Yoshinari Nagami, Yuta Morisaki
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Publication number: 20210262424Abstract: A battery temperature adjusting device for a vehicle on which a battery is mounted, the battery being a lithium ion battery disposed near a powertrain unit inside an engine bay, is provided. The device includes a first air duct provided to an intake passage configured to lead intake air to a combustion chamber of an engine, a second air duct provided to the intake passage and provided with an intake opening that opens toward a space between the powertrain unit and the battery, an intake-air-amount adjusting part, and a controller configured to acquire an ambient temperature of the powertrain unit. The controller increases a ratio of the second intake air amount relative to the sum of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, when the ambient temperature exceeds a first threshold temperature, compared with when the ambient temperature is below the first threshold temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Yusuke Marutani, Toshiki Takahashi, Wataru Masuda, Takafumi Tanehira, Yuma Yamaga