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1.

VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18485710
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-11
First Publication Date 2024-04-25
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Monobe, Kaishi
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Hora, Yasushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Iwana, Takeshi

Abstract

A vehicle power supply system includes a power source control device that executes a process of switching a connection state of a driving circuit to the main power source and an auxiliary power source including; a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a backup state as a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, and a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a normal state as the voltage decrease of the main power source is resolved. After a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, a turning-side control device of a steering control unit sets an output-limited state for a turning-side motor. The output-limited state is canceled upon the power source control device completing switching of the connection state so as to transition.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • H02P 23/00 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by a control method other than vector control

2.

AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, AND STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18278058
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-19
First Publication Date 2024-04-18
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Totoumi, Tomonori
  • Mio, Takumi
  • Sato, Fumihiko
  • Shinoda, Satoshi
  • Nitta, Hiroki
  • Ota, Kouhei

Abstract

An auxiliary power supply unit includes an auxiliary power supply device and a downstream power supply line group connecting the auxiliary power supply device to motor units. The auxiliary power supply device includes: an auxiliary power supply provided on a power supply path; and a switching circuit configured to switch the connection state of the auxiliary power supply to the power supply path. The connection state of the auxiliary power supply includes a boost state in which the auxiliary power supply is connected in series with the external power supply. The downstream power supply line group includes branch first downstream drive lines and branch second downstream drive lines. Each of the upstream ends of the branch first downstream drive lines and the branch second downstream drive lines is connected to the power supply path at a position downstream of the auxiliary power supply.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B60R 16/033 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries
  • H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
  • H02J 9/06 - Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting in which the distribution system is disconnected from the normal source and connected to a standby source with automatic change-over
  • H02J 7/34 - Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering

3.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 18485068
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-11
First Publication Date 2024-04-18
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsumoto, Taiki
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu

Abstract

A steering control device configured to control a steering device, the steering device including a steering shaft to which a handle is detachably coupled and a motor configured to generate torque that is given to the steering shaft. The steering control device includes a processing circuit configured to execute a process for controlling driving of the motor. The process for controlling the driving of the motor includes a lock process of driving the motor such that a rotation position of the steering shaft is fixed at a specific position, in a state where the handle has been detached from the steering shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

4.

WHEEL BEARING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18275485
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-01
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Shiramizu, Koki

Abstract

A wheel bearing device includes: an inner shaft including a wheel mounting flange on one side in an axial direction and including double row inner raceway surfaces on the other; an outer ring including double row outer raceway surfaces facing the inner surfaces; a plurality of first balls interposed between a first inner raceway surface located on the one side in the axial direction out of the double row inner raceway surfaces and a first outer raceway surface located on the one side in the axial direction out of the double row outer raceway surfaces; and a plurality of second balls interposed between a second inner raceway surface and a second outer raceway surface. The plurality of first balls and the plurality of second balls have the same diameter. A contact angle of the plurality of first balls is smaller than a contact angle of the plurality of second balls.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 19/18 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing balls essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows for both radial and axial load with two or more rows of balls
  • F16C 33/58 - Raceways; Race rings

5.

GREASE COMPOSITION AND ROLLING BEARING

      
Application Number 17641372
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-15
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hagino, Yurie
  • Tsuda, Takeshi

Abstract

A grease composition contains a base oil, a thickener, and a conductive additive (A), the base oil is a trimellitic acid ester, the conductive additive (A) is a mixture containing sepiolite and bentonite and is an organically modified additive, and an amount of the conductive additive (A) with respect to a total amount of the base oil, the thickener, and the conductive additive (A) is 3 to 10 mass %.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C08L 91/00 - Compositions of oils, fats or waxes; Compositions of derivatives thereof
  • C08K 3/34 - Silicon-containing compounds
  • C08K 5/21 - Urea; Derivatives thereof, e.g. biuret

6.

ACTUATOR DRIVING DEVICE AND STEERING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME

      
Application Number 18511618
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-11-16
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Yoshimi, Tomoaki
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji

Abstract

When a DC power source fails, the following controls are performed. The normal control is resumed when an inverter input voltage recovers before a standby period elapses after a power failure time. A power source relay is turned off when the standby period elapses without recovery of the voltage. The power source relay is turned on again when a power source relay off period has elapsed from a turn-off time. The normal control is resumed when the inverter input voltage recovers at the turn-on time. The normal control is resumed when the inverter input voltage recovers before the power source relay on period elapses from the turn-on time. The power source relay is turned off, and driving of the actuator is stopped, when the power source relay on period passes without recovery of the voltage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 27/06 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage using dc to ac converters or inverters
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • H02J 9/06 - Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting in which the distribution system is disconnected from the normal source and connected to a standby source with automatic change-over

7.

BREEDING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18261759
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-04
First Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • Tokushima University (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miura, Nozomu
  • Murata, Yasuhiro
  • Kawai, Shigekazu
  • Watanabe, Takahito
  • Mito, Taro

Abstract

Provided is a breeding apparatus that can facilitate disposition and collection of a spawning bed. A breeding apparatus includes a breeding area forming member that forms breeding areas for organisms and is open at least at the bottoms of the breeding areas, and a spawning bed sheet that forms the bottom surfaces of the breeding areas, has a belt shape, and is provided so as to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the belt shape relative to the breeding area forming member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A01K 67/033 - Rearing or breeding invertebrates; New breeds of invertebrates

8.

MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18269995
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-02-19
First Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sato, Yuto

Abstract

A motor control device controls a motor including winding groups of two systems. The motor control device includes a board and sensors provided on the board and configured to generate electric signals based on rotation of the motor. The board includes a first area and a second area defined across a boundary line. The first area and the second area include power circuit areas, control circuit areas, signal paths through which the electric signals are transmitted to the control circuit areas, and power paths through which electric power supplied from a power supply is transmitted to the power circuit areas, respectively. The signal paths are provided not to cross the power paths and the power circuit areas when viewed in an axial direction of the motor, respectively.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics

9.

TURNING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18236980
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-08-23
First Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyake, Junya
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Yoshida, Shunsuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Toyama, Hidetsugu

Abstract

A turning control device includes a first processor, a second processor, a third processor, and a fourth processor. The first processor calculates a torque command value based on a difference between a target pinion angle and a pinion angle. The second processor calculates a compensation value compensating resistance of a turning mechanism based on a difference between a target pinion angular velocity and a pinion angular velocity. The third processor limits a variation range of the torque command value based on a limit value of the torque command value and limits a variation range of the compensation value based on a limit value of the compensation value. The fourth processor calculates a turning torque command value by subtracting the compensation value from the torque command value. The third processor changes the limit values based on a traveling state of a vehicle.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

10.

CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT

      
Application Number 18260149
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-02-18
First Publication Date 2024-02-22
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Onoda, Kaname
  • Watanabe, Koki

Abstract

An inner joint member has, on an opening portion side of an outer joint member, a holding portion that has a bottomed concave shape into which a sleeve for supporting a boot covering the opening portion is press-fitted, and a relief portion that is provided on part of a convex outer spherical surface at the opening portion side, and that has a smaller diameter than an outer diameter of the convex outer spherical surface corresponding to a press-fitting range of the holding portion into which the sleeve is press-fitted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16D 3/2245 - Universal joints in which flexibility is produced by means of pivots or sliding or rolling connecting parts one coupling part entering a sleeve of the other coupling part and connected thereto by sliding or rolling members the rolling members being balls, rollers, or the like, guided in grooves or sockets in both coupling parts the rolling members being guided in grooves in both coupling parts the groove centre-lines of each coupling part lying on a sphere where the groove centres are offset from the joint centre

11.

TURNING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18358079
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-25
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujii, Shunsuke
  • Lin, Yufeng
  • Itamoto, Hidenori
  • Tamaizumi, Terutaka

Abstract

A turning control device for controlling, as a controlled object, a turning apparatus including a steering wheel, an input shaft, an intermediate shaft, an output shaft, a first Cardan joint, a second Cardan joint, steered wheels, and an assist motor includes a control device. The control device configured to execute: a torque acquisition process of acquiring a detection value of a torque applied to a position closer to the steered wheels than the second Cardan joint; a steering angle variable acquisition process of acquiring a value of a steering angle variable indicative of a steering angle as an angle of the steering wheel; and an assist control process including a fluctuation torque control process of fluctuating the torque of the assist motor in accordance with the steering angle with the value of the steering angle variable being taken as an input.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

12.

AUDIO ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM AND USER TERMINAL

      
Application Number 18250595
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-10-26
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • CONNECTOME.DESIGN CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Umezawa, Hiroki
  • Sato, Akira

Abstract

The voice advertisement delivery system includes a user terminal, an advertiser terminal, and a voice advertisement delivery server. The voice advertisement delivery server receives designation of a preferred location to which voice advertisement is delivered from the advertiser terminal and acquires user location information indicating the location of a user and user direction information indicating the direction of the user. The user location information is transmitted to the voice advertisement delivery server. The advertisement location information and voice advertisement data are delivered to the user terminal when the user location information approaches the designated advertisement location information and satisfies a predetermined condition. The user terminal operates spatial sound and reproduces the voice advertisement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G09F 25/00 - Audible advertising
  • G10L 25/81 - Detection of presence or absence of voice signals for discriminating voice from music

13.

STEERING COMPUTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18358072
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-25
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujii, Shunsuke
  • Lin, Yufeng
  • Itamoto, Hidenori
  • Tamaizumi, Terutaka

Abstract

A steering computing device that calculates a value of a state variable about a steering apparatus includes a storage device and an execution device. The execution device is configured to execute a bending angle acquisition process and a tilt angle calculation process, and the bending angle acquisition process is a process of acquiring a first bending angle and a second bending angle. The tilt angle calculation process is a process of calculating a tilt angle. The first bending angle is an angle formed between an input shaft of the steering apparatus and an intermediate shaft of the steering apparatus. The second bending angle is an angle formed between an output shaft of the steering apparatus and the intermediate shaft, and the tilt angle is a variable indicative of an angle formed between an axial direction of the input shaft and a reference direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

14.

STEERING COMPUTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18358076
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-25
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujii, Shunsuke
  • Lin, Yufeng
  • Itamoto, Hidenori
  • Tamaizumi, Terutaka

Abstract

A steering computing device for calculating state quantity of a steering apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a steering angle variable acquisition process, an output shaft angle variable acquisition process, and a joint angle variable calculation process. The steering angle variable acquisition process is a process of acquiring a value of a steering angle variable. The output shaft angle variable acquisition process is a process of acquiring a value of an output shaft angle variable as a variable indicative of a rotation angle of an output shaft of the steering apparatus. The joint angle variable calculation process is a process of calculating a value of the joint angle variable. The joint angle variable is a variable defining an angle formed between an axial direction of an input shaft of the steering apparatus and an axial direction of the output shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

15.

STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 18222122
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-14
First Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iwana, Takeshi
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki

Abstract

A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained based on the correction element information into the storage unit. In the start-up state, the control unit is configured to execute an abnormal condition determination process of determining whether an abnormal condition indicating that the correction information is abnormal is met. The correction information storing process is re-executed when the abnormal condition is met. The abnormal condition determination process is executed at least either before or after the correction information storing process.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

16.

VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 18354743
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-19
First Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iwana, Takeshi
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A vehicle control unit includes a controller configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of a vehicle is started. The start-up state is a state where it is possible to execute a preparation process, required for making a state transition to the normal control state, by controlling an operation member so as to move automatically. The controller is configured to execute, in the start-up state: a forced-ending condition determination process of determining whether a forced-ending condition showing that the preparation process being executed is to be forcedly ended from start of execution of the preparation process is met; a forced-ending process of forcedly ending the preparation process being executed when the forced-ending condition is met; and a notification process of notifying the driver of forced ending of the preparation process.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

17.

PRESSURE REDUCTION VALVE

      
Application Number 18256244
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-06-22
First Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Numazaki, Kazushi
  • Kaneko, Tetsuya
  • Nakano, Akira
  • Takabayashi, Kazuhiro
  • Haneda, Kazuo
  • Kihara, Yuya

Abstract

A pressure reduction valve includes a body including a gas passage, a valve seat provided in the gas passage, and a valve member provided on a downstream side of the valve seat in the gas passage. The gas passage includes a primary-side passage section located on an upstream side of the valve member, and a secondary-side passage section located on a downstream side of the valve member. The primary-side passage section includes a pressure chamber, which is a space formed between the valve member and the valve seat. The valve member includes a valve member passage that connects the pressure chamber to the secondary-side passage section, and an auxiliary passage configured to assist gas that flows into the pressure chamber through a clearance between the valve member and the valve seat to flow out to the secondary-side passage section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 17/28 - Excess-flow valves actuated by the difference of pressure between two places in the flow line acting directly on the cutting-off member operating in one direction only

18.

THERMAL INSULATOR

      
Application Number 18251826
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-02
First Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Japan)
Inventor
  • Saito, Toshiyuki
  • Ryugo, Kenichi
  • Nakai, Motoo
  • Nakanishi, Kazuki

Abstract

The present invention relates to a thermal insulator containing a polymer sorbent that regenerates by desorbing adsorbed moisture, and a thermal insulation material. The thermal insulator of the present invention has the thermal insulation performance and prevents deterioration of the object by repeatedly absorbing liquid water between the object to be thermally insulated and the thermal insulator to reduce and prevent retention of water droplets between an object to be thermally insulated and a thermal insulator.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01J 20/26 - Synthetic macromolecular compounds
  • F16L 59/02 - Shape or form of insulating materials, with or without coverings integral with the insulating materials
  • B01J 20/28 - Solid sorbent compositions or filter aid compositions; Sorbents for chromatography; Processes for preparing, regenerating or reactivating thereof characterised by their form or physical properties
  • B01J 20/34 - Regenerating or reactivating

19.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18346639
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-03
First Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Monobe, Kaishi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Iwana, Takeshi

Abstract

A steering control device includes a first reaction force control circuit and a second reaction force control circuit. Each of the first reaction force control circuit and the second reaction force control circuit are configured to control a reaction force motor, to execute, at a starting time, a preparation process including a process that requires the steering wheel to automatically rotate through the reaction force motor, and to store, at a time of execution completion of the preparation process, information indicating whether the preparation process has been normally completed. In a case where the first reaction force control circuit has been reset, when the information indicates that the preparation process has been normally completed, the first reaction force control circuit that has been rest is configured to not execute the preparation process at a time of restarting after completion of the reset.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

20.

STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18348794
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-07
First Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Iwana, Takeshi

Abstract

A steering control system includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a reaction force motor and a turning motor in coordination with one another, the reaction force motor generating a steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel from which power transmission to turning wheels of a vehicle is cut off, the turning motor generating a turning force for turning the turning wheels. When at least one control circuit among the control circuits that are operating normally is reset, the reset control circuit is configured to execute a process for stopping travel of the vehicle upon restarting after completion of the reset.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

21.

REARING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18254484
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-02
First Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • Tokushima University (Japan)
Inventor
  • Murata, Yasuhiro
  • Takazato, Akihiro
  • Kawai, Shigekazu
  • Miura, Nozomu
  • Watanabe, Takahito
  • Mito, Taro

Abstract

There is provided a rearing apparatus including a hatching area that holds eggs of organisms to be reared and accommodates the organisms hatched from the eggs, and a rearing area that is defined in an area larger than the hatching area at a position different from the hatching area and in which the organisms are reared. The present disclosure provides a rearing apparatus that can implement high-density and large-scale rearing by effectively utilizing areas.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A01K 67/033 - Rearing or breeding invertebrates; New breeds of invertebrates

22.

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18215491
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-28
First Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Iwana, Takeshi

Abstract

A vehicle control device includes a driving control device configured to be supplied with electricity through a first power line and configured to execute a first process, and a steering control device configured to be supplied with electricity through a second power line and configured to execute a second process. The steering control device is configured such that, in a case where it is determined that power supply through the second power line has stopped during travel, when it is determined that the driving control device is not in a state of being able to execute the first process, the steering control device permits execution of the second process to stop, whereas when it is determined that the driving control device is in a state of being able to execute the first process, the steering control device does not permit execution of the second process to stop.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60W 50/12 - Limiting control by the driver depending on vehicle state, e.g. interlocking means for the control input for preventing unsafe operation
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

23.

ELECTRIC POWER SOURCE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18340330
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-23
First Publication Date 2023-12-28
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Inaba, Daiki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Iwana, Takeshi
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki

Abstract

An electric power source apparatus includes a drive control apparatus and an auxiliary control apparatus. The drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus are configured to communicate with each other. When one of the drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus is a first control apparatus and the other of the drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus is a second control apparatus, the first control apparatus is configured to continue a function to communicate with the second control apparatus even when the first control apparatus is not able to normally communicate with the second control apparatus, and configured to execute communication with the second control apparatus when the first control apparatus is put into a state where the first control apparatus is able to normally communicate with the second control apparatus.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60W 50/023 - Avoiding failures by using redundant parts
  • B60W 50/02 - Ensuring safety in case of control system failures, e.g. by diagnosing, circumventing or fixing failures
  • B60W 50/14 - Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention

24.

POWER SUPPLY DEVICE

      
Application Number 18339700
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-22
First Publication Date 2023-12-28
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Iwana, Takeshi
  • Tanabe, Hayaki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki

Abstract

A power supply device includes a driving control device and an auxiliary control device, the vehicle including a main power source, an auxiliary power source, and a supply path, the supply path being a path configured to be opened and closed according to a state of a start switch of the vehicle. The driving control device is a device that controls a state of equipment installed in the vehicle and the auxiliary control device is a device that controls a state of the auxiliary power source. The driving control device is configured to execute a storage process, a permission signal transmission process, and an initial value process, and the auxiliary control device is configured to execute a permission signal reception process and a stop process.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60L 50/61 - Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells using power supplied by batteries by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
  • B60W 10/08 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of propulsion units including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
  • B60W 10/26 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of energy storage means for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors

25.

MONITORING DEVICE, SOUND COLLECTING DEVICE, AND MONITORING METHOD

      
Application Number 18036717
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-10-13
First Publication Date 2023-12-21
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Stoimenov, Boyko
  • Nozaki, Mikio

Abstract

A monitoring device for monitoring an operation state of a device, the monitoring device includes a sound collecting device in which a plurality of microphones are arranged, the plurality of microphones being configured to convert a sound wave emitted from the device into a primary sound pressure signal, the sound wave including an audible sound and an ultrasonic wave, and an information processing device configured to perform a first processing of detecting presence or absence of an abnormality of the device, based on a signal, in an audible range, of the primary sound pressure signal, and a second processing of performing a beamforming processing on a signal, in an ultrasonic range, of the primary sound pressure signal to generate a secondary sound pressure signal, and detecting an abnormal portion of the device, based on the secondary sound pressure signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01H 17/00 - Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves, not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
  • H04R 1/40 - Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired directional characteristic only by combining a number of identical transducers

26.

PAINT COLOR MATERIAL, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR PAINT COLOR MATERIAL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR COATING MATERIAL

      
Application Number 18250630
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-10-20
First Publication Date 2023-12-14
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Japan)
Inventor
  • Saito, Toshiyuki
  • Yamaguchi, Shotaro
  • Takeoka, Yukikazu
  • Sakai, Miki

Abstract

A method for producing a paint color material developing a color by a pigmentary color and a structural color, the method including: obtaining a mixed liquid containing a color material particles by alternately adding and mixing a liquid obtained by suspending core particles each having a uniform particle diameter in a solution containing Fe and a liquid containing tannic acid into a liquid containing water as a main component, the color material particles each comprising a core portion formed by the core particle and a pigmentary layer that is formed around the core portion and contains an iron tannate, and each having a particle diameter corresponding to a wavelength of the structural color; and washing the color material particles, in which a pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 7.0 or more prior to the second step, and the pH is adjusted in order to obtain any color

IPC Classes  ?

  • C09C 3/08 - Treatment with low-molecular-weight organic compounds
  • C09C 3/00 - Treatment in general of inorganic materials, other than fibrous fillers, to enhance their pigmenting or filling properties
  • C09C 1/30 - Silicic acid
  • C09D 7/62 - Additives non-macromolecular inorganic modified by treatment with other compounds

27.

ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18133335
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-11
First Publication Date 2023-11-23
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagano, Yousuke
  • Kariya, Akihiro

Abstract

An ultrasonic inspection apparatus includes a transmitting and a receiving probe. The transmitting probe includes a first contact part having a first convex cylindrical surface in line contact with the curved surface, and a transmitting element configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to the first surface. The receiving probe includes a second contact part having a second convex cylindrical surface, and a receiving element configured to receive an ultrasonic wave incident from the second surface. The transmitting element is provided along a first attachment surface perpendicular to a first transmitting virtual line that passes a first contact position and is slanted away from the receiving probe with respect to the line. The receiving element is provided along a second attachment surface perpendicular to a second receiving virtual line that passes a second contact position and is slanted away from the transmitting probe with respect to the second line.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 29/22 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves; Visualisation of the interior of objects by transmitting ultrasonic or sonic waves through the object - Details
  • G01N 29/04 - Analysing solids

28.

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18142407
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-05-02
First Publication Date 2023-11-16
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A vehicle control device includes: dual-system control circuits that control power supply to dual-system winding sets of a motor; and dual-system rotation detection circuits. The control circuits calculate an absolute rotation angle of the motor, and, when a power source is turned off, store an absolute rotation angle of the motor at that time. The control circuits start when the power source is turned on and the absolute value of a difference between an absolute rotation angle that was stored when the power source was turned off last time and an absolute rotation angle that is calculated when the power source is turned on this time is equal to or smaller than a given threshold value, regardless of whether an abnormality has occurred in one of the dual-system rotation detection circuits or an abnormality of the dual-system rotation detection circuits is not determinable.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

29.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18304666
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-21
First Publication Date 2023-10-26
Owner
  • Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Nishimura, Koichi
  • Ishino, Takahito
  • Takashima, Toru
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Anraku, Koji
  • Abe, Kenichi

Abstract

A steering control device is configured to control a steering device that changes a transmission ratio between an operation angle of an operation member and a steering angle of a steerable wheel. The steering control device includes: communication lines for transmitting vehicle speed information; and calculators communicably connected to each other and individually connected to the communication lines. Each calculator calculates the transmission ratio based on the vehicle speed information received via a corresponding one of the communication lines and determines whether the received vehicle speed information is valid. When at least one of the calculators determines that the vehicle speed information is not valid, each calculator changes control for calculating the transmission ratio from a vehicle-speed responsive control in which the transmission ratio is calculated based on the vehicle speed information to a specific control in which the transmission ratio is calculated not based on the vehicle speed information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/02 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits responsive only to vehicle speed

30.

TAPERED ROLLER BEARING AND CAGE

      
Application Number 18028885
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-22
First Publication Date 2023-10-19
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Taniguchi, Youzou

Abstract

A tapered roller bearing includes: an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of tapered rollers in rolling contact with an inner and an outer ring raceway; and an annular cage that has a plurality of pockets for accommodating the tapered rollers. The cage has a plurality of first lateral faces respectively facing outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered rollers respectively accommodated in the plurality of pockets from a first side in a circumferential direction of the cage and a plurality of second lateral faces respectively facing the outer peripheral surfaces from a second side in the circumferential direction of the cage. The plurality of pockets includes a first pocket with a first angle as an angle formed by the first and second lateral faces, and a second pocket that has a second angle smaller than the first angle as the angle formed by the first and second lateral faces.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 19/36 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing rollers essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows, e.g. needle bearings for both radial and axial load with a single row of rollers
  • F16C 33/36 - Rollers; Needles with grooves in the bearing surfaces
  • F16C 33/46 - Cages for rollers or needles

31.

FUEL CELL

      
Application Number 17768387
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-10-14
First Publication Date 2023-10-12
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujiguchi, Takuya
  • Hayashi, Noriyasu
  • Saito, Toshiyuki
  • Nakai, Motoo
  • Kubo, Atsushi
  • Takazato, Akihiro

Abstract

A fuel flow groove formed in a fuel electrode current collector of a fuel electrode of a fuel cell includes a plurality of flow groove portions disposed in parallel, and a plurality of return groove portions connecting an end portion of one side edge portion or an end portion of the other side edge portion of the flow groove portions of two adjacent groups. Each of the return groove portions has an inner wall surface portion facing the end portion of the flow groove portions in the return groove portions. The inner wall surface portion has a curved surface shape in which a distance facing each other from the inner wall surface portion to the end portion of the flow groove portions, gradually decreases toward both end portions of the inner side wall surface portion in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the flow groove portions.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01M 8/026 - Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors characterised by the configuration of channels, e.g. by the flow field of the reactant or coolant characterised by grooves, e.g. their pitch or depth
  • H01M 8/04082 - Arrangements for control of reactant parameters, e.g. pressure or concentration
  • H01M 8/0265 - Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors characterised by the configuration of channels, e.g. by the flow field of the reactant or coolant the reactant or coolant channels having varying cross sections

32.

GREASE COMPOSITION, AND ROLLING BEARING

      
Application Number 18020743
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-08-10
First Publication Date 2023-10-12
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • ENEOS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuda, Takeshi
  • Hagino, Yurie
  • Sakai, Kazumi
  • Ayame, Yusuke
  • Tatsumi, Go
  • Sakamoto, Kiyomi

Abstract

A grease composition including: a base oil; a thickener; a zinc sulfonate; a polysulfide; an overbased calcium sulfonate; and triphenyl phosphite, in which a proportion of the zinc sulfonate with respect to a total mass of the base oil and the thickener is 0.030 mass% to 0.045 mass% in terms of a zinc content, a proportion of the polysulfide with respect to the total mass of the base oil and the thickener is 0.16 mass% to 0.24 mass% in terms of a sulfur content, a proportion of the overbased calcium sulfonate with respect to the total mass of the base oil and the thickener is 0.010 mass% to 0.015 mass% in terms of a calcium content, and a proportion of the triphenyl phosphite with respect to the total mass of the base oil and the thickener is 0.24 mass% to 0.36 mass%.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 105/18 - Ethers, e.g. epoxides
  • C10M 115/08 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the thickener being a non-macromolecular organic compound other than a carboxylic acid or salt thereof containing nitrogen
  • C10M 137/02 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the additive being an organic non-macromolecular compound containing phosphorus having no phosphorus-to-carbon bond
  • C10M 169/00 - Lubricating compositions characterised by containing as components a mixture of at least two types of ingredient selected from base-materials, thickeners or additives, covered by the preceding groups, each of these compounds being essential
  • C10M 135/20 - Thiols; Sulfides; Polysulfides
  • C10M 141/10 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the additive being a mixture of two or more compounds covered by more than one of the main groups , each of these compounds being essential at least one of them being an organic phosphorus-containing compound
  • C10M 135/10 - Sulfonic acids or derivatives thereof

33.

RAW MATERIAL OF GREASE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING RAW MATERIAL OF GREASE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING GREASE, AND GREASE

      
Application Number 18013485
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-07-14
First Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsuyama, Junya
  • Niiya, Kanako
  • Yamamoto, Takeshi

Abstract

A method for producing a raw material of grease, including: preparing first thickener raw material; second thickener raw material; first lubricating oil; second lubricating oil; first solvent with a boiling point lower than those of the oils, dissolves the first oil, and does not dissolve a produced thickener; and a second solvent with a boiling point lower than those of the oils, dissolves the second oil, and does not dissolve the produced thickener; dissolving the first lubricating oil in the first solvent, and dissolving or dispersing the first thickener raw material in the first solvent to obtain a first mixed solution; dissolving the second lubricating oil in the second solvent, and dissolving or dispersing the second thickener raw material in the second solvent to obtain a second mixed solution; and mixing the first and second mixed solutions, and reacting the first and second thickener raw materials producing a thickener.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 169/02 - Mixtures of base-materials and thickeners
  • C10M 105/36 - Esters of polycarboxylic acids
  • C10M 107/18 - Hydrocarbon polymers modified by oxidation
  • C10M 115/08 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the thickener being a non-macromolecular organic compound other than a carboxylic acid or salt thereof containing nitrogen
  • C10M 177/00 - Special methods of preparation of lubricating compositions; Chemical modification by after-treatment of components or of the whole of a lubricating composition, not covered by other classes

34.

INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

      
Application Number 18190220
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-27
First Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • connectome.design Inc. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Umezawa, Hiroki
  • Shibata, Yoshiyuki
  • Sato, Akira

Abstract

An information providing system includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information providing system to perform operations including: acquiring position information indicating a user position; acquiring at least one of pieces of data information, each including sound information representing a sound, range information associated with the sound information and representing a predetermined range on a map, and reproduction information associated with the sound information and indicating settings related to reproduction of the sound in the sound information; and reproducing a sound by referring to the at least one of pieces of data information based on the position information. In a case in which there are one or more pieces of range information representing ranges including the user position, the reproduction processing is executed for each of the one or more pieces of range information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04S 7/00 - Indicating arrangements; Control arrangements, e.g. balance control

35.

TURNING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18158591
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-01-24
First Publication Date 2023-09-28
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Takayama, Shintaro

Abstract

A turning control device includes a precursor detection circuit configured to detect a precursor of an abnormality by which a smooth operation of a turning device is impaired. The precursor detection circuit is configured to start measurement of a total running time of a vehicle when the precursor is detected, and is configured to execute a process of reporting the precursor, based on the measured total running time. The precursor detection circuit is configured to perform the measurement of the total running time regardless of whether the precursor is detected again, when a vehicle electric power source is switched off and then is switched on again after the precursor is detected once.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

36.

TRAVEL ROUTE GENERATION DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROLLER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING TRAVEL ROUTE GENERATION PROGRAM

      
Application Number 18160092
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-01-26
First Publication Date 2023-09-28
Owner
  • ADVICS CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC. (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • AISIN CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ohmori, Yosuke

Abstract

A controller computes availability of the vehicle that indicates a range reachable by the vehicle by actuation of the actuator and generates a first travel route within a range of the availability of the vehicle, as a travel route followed by the vehicle, when the vehicle travels along a road ahead of the vehicle from a present position. When the road includes a curve and the first travel route cannot be generated within the availability range, the controller sets a target position to a position in the road located before the curve and generates a second travel route within the availability range, as the travel route followed by the vehicle, to stop the vehicle at the target position.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01C 21/34 - Route searching; Route guidance
  • B60W 60/00 - Drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles
  • B60W 40/072 - Curvature of the road

37.

STEERING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18200140
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-05-22
First Publication Date 2023-09-21
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kakimoto, Yusuke
  • Uchino, Yoshiyuki
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Sato, Takafumi

Abstract

A steering device includes a steering shaft, a motor, a stopper mechanism, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a first process and a second process when a determined condition is established. The first process includes causing the steering wheel to operate to a first operation end through control of the motor and thereafter operate in reverse to a second operation end. The second process includes computing a neutral position of the steering wheel based on a rotational angle of the motor at a time when reverse operation of the steering wheel is started and at a time when the reverse operation of the steering wheel is ended.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

38.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18181102
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-09
First Publication Date 2023-09-14
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyake, Junya
  • Ishihara, Atsushi
  • Kakimoto, Yusuke
  • Toyama, Hidetsugu
  • Iida, Tomoyuki

Abstract

A steering control device calculates a target angle of a shaft that rotates in conjunction with a turning operation of a turning wheel that is isolated from dynamic power transmission with a steering wheel, depending on a steering state of the steering wheel, and executes a feedback control to cause an actual angle to follow the target angle, for controlling electricity supply to a turning motor to turn the turning wheel, the steering control device including: a first processing unit to execute a process to alter the target angle independently of the steering state of the steering wheel; and a second processing unit to calculate a turning state amount for a guide monitor function to assist traveling of a vehicle, by reducing or removing an influence of an alteration of the target angle on the actual angle of the shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

39.

MOTION CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THAT STORES MOTION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MOTION CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE

      
Application Number 18159854
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-01-26
First Publication Date 2023-09-07
Owner
  • ADVICS CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC. (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • AISIN CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ohmori, Yosuke

Abstract

A motion control device includes a request value acquisition unit that obtains a motion amount request value, a limit value setting unit that sets first to third motion amount limit values, a first command unit that sends a first motion amount command value based on the motion amount request value and a first motion amount limit value to a front wheel steering controller, a second command unit that sends a second motion amount command value based on a first remaining request value and a second motion amount limit value to a rear wheel steering controller, and a third command unit that sends a command corresponding to a third motion amount command value based on a second remaining request value and a third motion amount limit value to a driving controller and a braking controller.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 7/15 - Steering linkage; Stub axles or their mountings for individually-pivoted wheels, e.g. on king-pins the pivotal axes being situated in more than one plane transverse to the longitudinal centre line of the vehicle, e.g. all-wheel steering characterised by means varying the ratio between the steering angles of the steered wheels
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

40.

STEERING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18302658
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-18
First Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tachiiri, Motoki
  • Suzuki, Yuta
  • Suzuki, Takashi
  • Takashima, Toru
  • Kodera, Takashi

Abstract

A steering device turns a tire of a vehicle of a steer-by-wire system in which a steering mechanism and a turning mechanism are mechanically separated from each other and is provided with a turning device including a turning actuator and a turning angle control device. The turning actuator turns tires according to an instructed turning angle. The turning angle control device calculates a turning angle command value corresponding to an inputted steering angle signal and generates a signal driving the turning actuator based on that turning angle command value. The turning angle control device applies limit such that the absolute value of a turning angle velocity becomes equal to or below a turning angle velocity limit value set according to a predetermined parameter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

41.

FUEL CELL

      
Application Number 18005724
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-08-25
First Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujiguchi, Takuya
  • Takeda, Yasuhide
  • Nakai, Motoo
  • Saito, Toshiyuki
  • Kubo, Atsushi
  • Furuhashi, Mototake
  • Nakasone, Ayumi
  • Nakane, Atsushi
  • Achiwa, Fumitaka

Abstract

A fuel cell includes a discharge structure that discharges water generated in a cathode electrode in association with an electrode reaction in the MEA to the outside. The discharge structure includes a discharge path through which air that is an oxidant flows, a passage that communicably connects an oxidant supply flow path and the discharge path and that moves water generated in the cathode electrode to the discharge path, and a discharge portion that discharges the generated water moved to the discharge path to the outside.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01M 8/04291 - Arrangements for managing water in solid electrolyte fuel cell systems
  • H01M 8/0258 - Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors characterised by the configuration of channels, e.g. by the flow field of the reactant or coolant
  • H01M 8/04186 - Arrangements for control of reactant parameters, e.g. pressure or concentration of liquid-charged or electrolyte-charged reactants
  • H01M 8/1009 - Fuel cells with solid electrolytes with one of the reactants being liquid, solid or liquid-charged

42.

GREASE COMPOSITION AND ROLLING BEARING

      
Application Number 18014651
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-07-05
First Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Niiya, Kanako
  • Miyake, Kazunori
  • Murakami, Masayuki
  • Akimoto, Shota
  • Maeda, Takahiro
  • Nishi, Kaname
  • Yoshihara, Michitaka
  • Isa, Kazuki
  • Ando, Koki

Abstract

The present invention relates to a grease composition including: a base oil; a thickener; a rust inhibitor; and an extreme pressure agent, in which the rust inhibitor includes, with respect to a total mass of the grease composition: 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a calcium sulfonate; 0.20 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc sulfonate; and 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc carboxylate, and the extreme pressure agent includes, with respect to the total mass of the grease composition, 2.00 mass % to 14.00 mass % of a zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 137/10 - Thio derivatives
  • C10M 125/22 - Compounds containing sulfur, selenium or tellurium
  • C10M 129/26 - Carboxylic acids; Salts thereof
  • C10M 169/06 - Mixtures of thickeners and additives
  • C10M 133/12 - Amines, e.g. polyalkylene polyamines; Quaternary amines having amino groups bound to a carbon atom of a six-membered aromatic ring

43.

INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

      
Application Number 18169458
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-02-15
First Publication Date 2023-08-17
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • connectome.design Inc. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Umezawa, Hiroki
  • Shibata, Yoshiyuki
  • Matsumoto, Takashi
  • Sato, Akira

Abstract

An information provision system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information provision system to perform operations. The operations include: acquiring position information of a user and line-of-sight direction information of the user; estimating a target visually recognized by the user based on the position information, the line-of-sight direction information, and target position information for targets visually recognizable by the user; outputting, by sound, description information about the target in accordance with a setting; detecting a motion of a head of the user; estimating an intention of the user based on the motion during output of the description information; selecting the setting in accordance with the intention; and outputting, in response to change of the setting, the description information in accordance with the setting after the change.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/16 - Sound input; Sound output
  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer

44.

PULLEY WITH TWO FLANGES, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PULLEY WITH TWO FLANGES

      
Application Number 18105098
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-02-02
First Publication Date 2023-08-17
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NAKANISHI METAL WORKS CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamamori, Ayumi
  • Yamashita, Shuhei
  • Nakamura, Masayoshi
  • Taniguchi, Ryotaro

Abstract

A pulley body has a first flange and a fitting protrusion. The flange body has a second flange and a fitting recess fitted to the fitting protrusion. The fitting recess has an inner surface including, in a radially inward direction, a first inclined surface inclined so as to approach the first flange, as extending in the radially inward direction. The fitting protrusion has a distal end surface including, in the radially inward direction, a second inclined surface facing the first inclined surface. The flange body has an outer peripheral surface that faces an inner peripheral surface of the pulley body, and has a protrusion which continues in a circumferential direction with no end. A region including an annular-shaped area between the first and second inclined surfaces includes a joint portion of a molten resin.

IPC Classes  ?

45.

VEHICLE CONTROLLER, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 18159992
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-01-26
First Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner
  • ADVICS CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC. (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • AISIN CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Ohmori, Yosuke

Abstract

A vehicle includes a sideslip preventing function of preventing a sideslip of the vehicle by separately adjusting a longitudinal force applied to each of the wheels. A controller controls the vehicle based on requests input from a driver assistance device, thereby causing the vehicle to travel autonomously. The controller calculates wheel lateral force request values based on the requests input from the driver assistance device. The wheel lateral force request values are request values of lateral forces acting on the respective wheels. The controller, when a behavior of the vehicle is in an oversteer state in a case in which the sideslip preventing function is failing, limits the wheel lateral force request values for the front wheels to values less than or equal to a first lateral force limit value, which is a limit value of the lateral force that can act on the rear wheels.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60W 60/00 - Drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles
  • B60W 10/20 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of steering systems
  • B60W 10/18 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of braking systems

46.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STANDARD VALUE ADJUSTMENT METHOD

      
Application Number 18156826
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-01-19
First Publication Date 2023-07-27
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Yamashita, Masaharu

Abstract

A steering control device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute a control angle calculation process, an angle feedback process, and a standard value adjustment process. The control angle calculation process is a process of calculating a control angle as an absolute angle relative to a standard value, and the angle feedback process is a process of performing feedback control on the control angle, and the standard value adjustment process is a process of adjusting the stored standard value. The standard value adjustment process includes a process of, when, in a straight-ahead state, the control angle deviates from a value showing the straight-ahead state, adjusting the standard value such that the deviation of the control angle from the value showing the straight-ahead state decreases.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering

47.

STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18067487
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-12-16
First Publication Date 2023-07-13
Owner
  • Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishino, Takahito
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Yamazaki, Ryo
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Hayashi, Toyohiro
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Otake, Hiroyasu
  • Tazuke, Kurumi
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system including a steering device including a steering motor and a controller configured to supply a steering current to the steering motor based on a steering request. The controller includes a plurality of microcomputers, a plurality of drive circuits, and a plurality of temperature sensors. When a detection temperature difference that is a difference between detection temperatures of any two of the plurality of temperature sensors is greater than a predetermined threshold, each of the plurality of microcomputers executes an independent calculation control to independently calculate and set a current limit value, which is an upper limit value of the steering current, based on a detection temperature of one of the plurality of temperature sensors corresponding to itself, irrespective of detection temperatures of one or more of the plurality of temperature sensors other than the one of the plurality of temperature sensors corresponding to itself.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • H02P 29/68 - Controlling or determining the temperature of the motor or of the drive based on the temperature of a drive component or a semiconductor component
  • H02P 23/14 - Estimation or adaptation of motor parameters, e.g. rotor time constant, flux, speed, current or voltage

48.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18183761
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-14
First Publication Date 2023-07-13
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Uchida, Takayuki
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Nagashima, Yugo

Abstract

A steering control device is applied to a steer-by-wire system in which a steering mechanism and a turning mechanism are mechanically separated. The steering control device applied to the steer-by-wire system controls a drive of a steering motor that functions as a reaction motor that applies reaction torque to a steering wheel. A steering wheel lock calculating unit of the steering control device performs a steering wheel lock drive control for calculating a drive command so as to output a lock torque for maintaining a rotation stop state of the steering wheel by energizing the steering motor when a predetermined condition is satisfied while a vehicle is parked or stopped. A power converter converts power supply electric power according to the drive command calculated by the steering wheel lock calculating unit and supplies the electric power to the steering motor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

49.

GREASE COMPOSITION AND ROLLING BEARING

      
Application Number 17928054
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-07
First Publication Date 2023-07-06
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • ENEOS Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yoshizaki, Koji
  • Miyake, Kazunori
  • Sakai, Kazumi
  • Ayame, Yusuke
  • Sakamoto, Kiyomi

Abstract

There is provided a grease composition for improving the chemical stability of the grease composition and increasing the fatigue life of a member in which the grease composition is used. The problems can be solved by a grease composition including a poly-α-olefin; a urea-based thickener; molybdenum dithiophosphate; and barium sulfonate, wherein a difference between an SP value of the urea-based thickener and an SP value of the poly-α-olefin is 3.5 or less.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 107/02 - Hydrocarbon polymers; Hydrocarbon polymers modified by oxidation
  • C10M 115/08 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the thickener being a non-macromolecular organic compound other than a carboxylic acid or salt thereof containing nitrogen
  • C10M 135/10 - Sulfonic acids or derivatives thereof
  • C10M 137/10 - Thio derivatives
  • C10M 169/06 - Mixtures of thickeners and additives
  • F16C 19/38 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing rollers essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows, e.g. needle bearings for both radial and axial load with two or more rows of rollers
  • F16C 33/66 - Special parts or details in view of lubrication

50.

RUDDER SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18172995
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-02-22
First Publication Date 2023-06-29
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tazuke, Kurumi
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Kameya, Hisashi
  • Sakai, Toshimitsu
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Takahashi, Toshihiro
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Nagashima, Yugo

Abstract

A steer-by-wire rudder system includes a first system having a first motor unit that drives a rudder mechanism and a first control unit that controls the first motor unit, and a second system having a second motor unit that drives the rudder mechanism and a second control unit that controls the second motor unit. The first control unit and the second control unit perform cooperative control for controlling the first motor unit and the second control unit to cooperate with each other. When the cooperative control is not performed, one of the control of the first motor unit by the first control unit and the control of the second motor unit by the second control unit continues, and the other thereof stops.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

51.

CONSTANT-SPEED UNIVERSAL JOINT

      
Application Number 18063299
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-12-08
First Publication Date 2023-06-15
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kubo, Koji
  • Kudo, Yuya
  • Ikeo, Masahito
  • Shinoda, Yoshitaka
  • Abe, Susumu

Abstract

A constant-speed universal joint includes: an outer ring; an inner ring; a plurality of balls that engages with the outer-ring ball grooves and the inner-ring ball grooves; and a holder that is interposed between an inner spherical surface of the outer ring and an outer spherical surface of the inner ring and in which a holding window for holding the plurality of balls is formed. A chamfered portion is formed in the inner ring. The chamfered portion includes a linear section portion that is formed in a linear shape in a section perpendicular to a moving locus of the center of the corresponding ball and an arc section portion that is formed in a protruding arc shape in the section perpendicular to the moving locus of the center of the corresponding ball.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16D 3/2237 - Universal joints in which flexibility is produced by means of pivots or sliding or rolling connecting parts one coupling part entering a sleeve of the other coupling part and connected thereto by sliding or rolling members the rolling members being balls, rollers, or the like, guided in grooves or sockets in both coupling parts the rolling members being guided in grooves in both coupling parts where the grooves are composed of radii and adjoining straight lines, i.e. undercut free [UF] type joints

52.

SEAL RUBBER COMPOSITION AND SEALING MEMBER

      
Application Number 17948685
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-09-20
First Publication Date 2023-05-25
Owner
  • KOYO SEALING TECHNO CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kusunoki, Katsuhiko
  • Kasahara, Fumiaki

Abstract

A seal rubber composition contains a carboxyl group-containing acrylic rubber, silica, and two or more inorganic fibers, an amount of the silica per 100 parts by weight of the carboxyl group-containing acrylic rubber is 25 to 100 parts by weight, and a total amount of the inorganic fibers per 100 parts by weight of the carboxyl group-containing acrylic rubber is 35 to 100 parts by weight. A sealing member includes a sliding portion composed of a vulcanized product of the seal rubber composition.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C09K 3/10 - Materials not provided for elsewhere for sealing or packing joints or covers
  • C08F 220/06 - Acrylic acid; Methacrylic acid; Metal salts or ammonium salts thereof
  • C08F 220/18 - Esters of monohydric alcohols or phenols of phenols or of alcohols containing two or more carbon atoms with acrylic or methacrylic acids
  • C08K 3/36 - Silica
  • C08K 3/04 - Carbon
  • C08K 7/14 - Glass

53.

STEERING COLUMN DEVICE

      
Application Number 17906880
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-23
First Publication Date 2023-05-18
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujiwara, Kazuki
  • Adachi, Takuya
  • Sakuda, Masayoshi

Abstract

A steering shaft is rotatably provided inside an outer column and an inner column. A key lock collar is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the steering shaft, the outer peripheral surface facing the outer column. The key lock collar includes a key lock collar body and a cylindrical portion. Multiple concave parts and convex parts extending in the axial direction are provided on an outer peripheral part of the key lock collar body along the circumferential direction. A lock key is engaged with the concave parts from adjacent to the outer column, and thus the rotation of the steering shaft with respect to the outer column is restricted. An outer diameter of the cylindrical portion is smaller than an outer diameter of the convex parts and larger than an outer diameter of the concave parts.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60R 25/021 - Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors, seats or windscreens operating on the steering mechanism restraining movement of the steering column or steering wheel hub, e.g. restraining means controlled by ignition switch

54.

CARBURIZED BEARING

      
Application Number 17905886
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-31
First Publication Date 2023-05-18
Owner
  • NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Neishi, Yutaka
  • Chiba, Keisuke
  • Kanetani, Kohei
  • Sada, Takashi

Abstract

There is provided a carburized bearing that is excellent in rolling contact fatigue life with a change in structure under a hydrogen-generating environment. In the carburized bearing, a chemical composition of a core portion consists of, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 0.50 %, Mn: 0.40 to 0.70 %, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.80 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.17 to 0.30%, V: 0.24 to 0.40%. Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.0300% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfies Formula (1) to Formula (4) described in the present specification. A proportion of a total area of CaO—CaS—MgO—Al2O3 composite oxides with respect to a total area of oxides in the carburized leaping is 30.0% or more, and a number density of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 20.0 μm or more is 15.0 pieces/mm2or less.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 33/62 - Selection of substances
  • C22C 38/24 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with vanadium
  • C22C 38/22 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/06 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing aluminium
  • C22C 38/04 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing manganese
  • C22C 38/02 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing silicon
  • C23C 8/22 - Carburising of ferrous surfaces

55.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE POWER SOURCE SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE

      
Application Number 17969785
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-20
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro

Abstract

A steering control device includes a controller configured to control driving of a motor that generates a torque. The torque is a torque applied to a steering mechanism of a vehicle using electric power from at least any one of an in-vehicle main power source and an auxiliary power source that backs up the main power source. The controller is configured to wait for the auxiliary power source to be charged to an extent that the main power source is able to be backed up and to permit the vehicle to travel when the controller is activated with an activation operation for the vehicle as a trigger and transitions to a state where control of the motor is executable.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

56.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17970789
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-21
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A steering control device includes a controller including a drive circuit that performs action for supplying, to a motor, electric power supplied by being connected to at least one of a first and a second power supply. When a connection state of the drive circuit is a state in which electric power is supplied from the first power supply, the connection state is switched by a power supply device to transition to a second state in which electric power is supplied from the second power supply when an abnormality of the first power supply is detected. Moreover, the controller starts an output limiting process of limiting torque outputtable by the motor as compared with before the abnormality of the first power supply is detected, after the abnormality is detected and before switching of the connection state is completed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

57.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

      
Application Number 17972017
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-24
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kodera, Takashi
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Ishihara, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Goto, Yuko
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A control device includes control circuits of a plurality of systems. When a transition condition is established, the control circuits of the systems make transition of a driving mode from a first driving mode to a second driving mode, and when a return condition is established in a state in which the driving mode has transitioned to the second driving mode, the control circuits of the systems make transition of the driving mode from the second driving mode to the first driving mode while gradually changing the current command values of the control circuits’ own systems toward the current command values before the adjustment.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60W 30/182 - Selecting between different operative modes, e.g. comfort and performance modes
  • B60W 50/08 - Interaction between the driver and the control system
  • B60W 50/029 - Adapting to failures or work around with other constraints, e.g. circumvention by avoiding use of failed parts
  • B60W 50/02 - Ensuring safety in case of control system failures, e.g. by diagnosing, circumventing or fixing failures
  • B60W 10/20 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of steering systems

58.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17973737
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-26
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki

Abstract

A steering control device includes a control circuit configured to control driving of a reaction force motor that generates steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel in which power transmission with turning wheels of a vehicle is separated. When a vehicle power source is turned on, the control circuit requests a vehicle control device to stop traveling of the vehicle when information is exchanged with the vehicle control device in a manner that does not follow a predetermined pattern.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

59.

STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17969199
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-19
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner
  • Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Iida, Tomoyuki
  • Otsuka, Yuko
  • Ishihara, Atsushi
  • Miyake, Junya

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system includes a controller configured to execute a steering control process and a determining process of determining a converted operation amount by converting an actual wheel steering amount to an operation amount of an operation member based on an inverse of a steering gear ratio. In the determining process, when the steering gear ratio abruptly changes, the controller converts a gap of the converted operation amount generated at a time point of occurrence of the abrupt change to a gap of the wheel steering amount to grasp a converted steering amount offset value. While gradually decreasing the converted steering amount offset value, the controller thereafter re-converts the converted steering amount offset value to the gap of the converted operation amount based on the inverse of the steering gear ratio to determine a converted operation amount correction value and corrects the converted operation amount based on the value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

60.

STEEL

      
Application Number 17905883
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-31
First Publication Date 2023-04-20
Owner
  • NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Neishi, Yutaka
  • Chiba, Keisuke
  • Kanetani, Kohei
  • Sada, Takashi

Abstract

A steel consists of, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.40 to 0.70%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.80 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.17 to 0.30%, V: 0.24 to 0.40%, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.0300% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfies Formula (1) to Formula (4) described in the present specification, wherein: its microstructure is composed of ferrite and pearlite having a total area fraction of 5.0 to 100.0%, and a hard phase having a total area fraction of 0 to 95.0%; a proportion of a total area of CaO—CaS—MgO—Al2O3 composite oxides with respect to a total area of oxides in the steel is 30.0% or more; and a number density of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 20.0 μm or more is 15.0 pieces/mm2 or less.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C22C 38/46 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with vanadium
  • C22C 38/44 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/32 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with boron
  • C22C 38/28 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with titanium or zirconium
  • C22C 38/26 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with niobium or tantalum
  • C22C 38/24 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with vanadium
  • C22C 38/22 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/20 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with copper
  • C22C 38/06 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing aluminium
  • C22C 38/04 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing manganese
  • C22C 38/02 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing silicon
  • C22C 38/00 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys

61.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

      
Application Number 17966043
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-14
First Publication Date 2023-04-20
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object in cooperation or in combination by starting with powering-on of a vehicle as a trigger. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to perform a synchronization process and power latch control. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured to maintain the operation mode immediately before the vehicle has been powered off in a period in which the power latch control is being performed. Each of the plurality of control circuits is configured not to perform the synchronization process in a predetermined period when the vehicle has been powered on.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

62.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

      
Application Number 17966325
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-10-14
First Publication Date 2023-04-20
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Koudai, Takashi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Iida, Kazuaki
  • Katayama, Hiroyuki
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object by starting in response to powering-on of a vehicle and to perform power latch control for continuing to be supplied with electric power in a predetermined period in response to powering-off of the vehicle. Each of the control circuits is configured to perform starting after all of the control circuits have recognized the powering-on of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is powered on while the power latch control is being performed after the vehicle has been powered off.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B60R 16/03 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems
  • H02P 5/74 - Arrangements specially adapted for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of two or more electric motors controlling two or more ac dynamo-electric motors

63.

REARING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 17907228
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-02-26
First Publication Date 2023-03-30
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • Gryllus Inc. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kawai, Shigekazu
  • Murata, Yasuhiro
  • Matsumoto, Takashi
  • Watanabe, Takahito
  • Mito, Taro

Abstract

There is provided a rearing apparatus for rearing an organism includes: a box-shaped rearing case; at least one perching member that is held in the rearing case and that is capable of perching the organism; and a separating member that is provided in the rearing case and that is movable along the perching member. The separating member is configured to separate the organism perched at the perching member from the perching member by the separating member moving along the perching member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A01K 67/033 - Rearing or breeding invertebrates; New breeds of invertebrates

64.

STEER-BY WIRE STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17893249
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-08-23
First Publication Date 2023-03-02
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Ishino, Takahito
  • Yoshida, Kenji
  • Anraku, Koji

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, comprising: an operation member operable by a vehicle driver; an urging device configured to generate an urging force to urge the operation member; a steering device configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control the urging device and the steering device. In a normal operation, the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operation member and causes the urging force to function as an operation reaction force against the operation of the operation member. In an automatic steering operation in which the wheel is steered without depending on the operation of the operation member, the controller enables the operation member to be moved in accordance with steering of the wheel by the urging force and causes at least part of the urging force generated in the normal operation not to be generated.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators
  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering

65.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17872508
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-07-25
First Publication Date 2023-02-02
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsuda, Satoshi
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Anraku, Koji
  • Iida, Tomoyuki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji

Abstract

A steering control device includes a base axial force calculator, a limiting axial force calculator, and a final axial force calculator. The limiting axial force calculator includes a steering angle holder, a reference angle calculator, a final difference calculator, and an axial force calculator. The steering angle holder is configured to hold a steering angle at the time of limiting a turning operation of the turning wheels when the turning operation is limited. The reference angle calculator is configured to calculate a reference angle. The final difference calculator is configured to calculate a final difference which is a final difference between the reference angle and the current steering angle. The axial force calculator is configured to calculate a limiting axial force based on a value of the final difference.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

66.

STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17868529
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-07-19
First Publication Date 2023-01-26
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Takahashi, Toshihiro
  • Oya, Toshiaki
  • Shimizu, Yoshinobu
  • Sakamaki, Masahiko
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Yamashita, Masaharu

Abstract

A steering system is configured such that electric power is supplied to a steering actuator and a turning actuator from a first power supply when a power state of a vehicle is an on state and supply of the electric power from the first power supply is cut off when the power state is an off state. The steering system includes a rotation curbing unit configured to operate such that rotation of the steering wheel is curbed in at least a part of a first power-off period from when the power state becomes an off state until when the power state becomes the on state next, as an operating period, and a second power supply configured to supply, to the rotation curbing unit, the electric power required for operation of the rotation curbing unit in the operating period, the second power supply being different from the first power supply.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B60R 25/021 - Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors, seats or windscreens operating on the steering mechanism restraining movement of the steering column or steering wheel hub, e.g. restraining means controlled by ignition switch
  • B60R 25/0215 - Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors, seats or windscreens operating on the steering mechanism restraining movement of the steering column or steering wheel hub, e.g. restraining means controlled by ignition switch using electric means, e.g. electric motors or solenoids
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

67.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17861619
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-07-11
First Publication Date 2023-01-26
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kodera, Takashi
  • Kakimoto, Yusuke
  • Takashima, Toru
  • Toyama, Hidetsugu

Abstract

A steering control device includes a control unit configured to perform a calculation based on angle information and to control the operation of a turning section based on a turning control amount. The angle information is obtained by relating the turning control amount for operating the turning section to a steering angle that is an angle by which a steering wheel is steered. The control unit includes a speed increase ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a speed increase ratio based on state variables, and an angle information calculation unit configured to calculate the angle information by converting the steering angle using the speed increase ratio obtained by the speed increase ratio calculation unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

68.

STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17852665
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-29
First Publication Date 2023-01-05
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Takahashi, Toshihiro
  • Hibino, Tokuaki
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Hasegawa, Kazuma
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Abe, Kenichi

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system, including a steering device including a dual-system steering motor including a main system and a sub system, wherein a power supply to the main system is conducted selectively by a main power source and a backup power source, and a power supply to the sub system is conducted by only the main power source, wherein, in a normal power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system and to the sub system is conducted by the main power source, a controller controls the sub system to operate in accordance with the main system, and wherein, in a backup power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system is conducted by the backup power source, the controller controls the main system not to operate or to operate while limiting the power supply to the main system and controls the sub system independently.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B60R 16/033 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries

69.

STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17854834
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-30
First Publication Date 2023-01-05
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Okuda, Masataka
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Iwana, Takeshi

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a dual-system steering device including two systems each of which includes an electric motor as a drive source, the steering device being configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control a current to be supplied to each of the electric motors of the respective two systems so as to cause the steering device to steer the wheel in accordance with an operation of the operating member, wherein the controller is configured to prohibit the current greater than an upper limit value from being supplied to the electric motors of the respective two systems, and wherein, when the wheel is steered only by only one of the two systems, the controller raises the upper limit value of the current to be supplied to the electric motor of the one of the two systems.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

70.

VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 17732956
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-04-29
First Publication Date 2022-12-29
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Anraku, Koji

Abstract

A vehicle control system controls a vehicle of a steer-by-wire type. The vehicle control system is configured to execute: driving assist control that assists driving of the vehicle; and conjunction reaction force control that applies a steering reaction force component to a steering wheel in conjunction with turning of the vehicle caused by the driving assist control. A driving assist direction is a direction of the turning of the vehicle caused by the driving assist control. The conjunction reaction force control includes feedforward reaction force control that moves the steering wheel in a same direction as the driving assist direction without depending on a steering angle of the steering wheel.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

71.

VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 17735195
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-05-03
First Publication Date 2022-12-29
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Miyake, Junya

Abstract

A vehicle control system for a steer-by-wire vehicle executes: driving assist control that assists driving of the vehicle; and conjunction reaction force control that applies a steering reaction force component to a steering wheel in conjunction with vehicle turning caused by the driving assist control. A driver turn angle is a target turn angle corresponding to a steering angle of the steering wheel, and a first system turn angle is a target turn angle required by the driving assist control. In the conjunction reaction force control, a second system turn angle is acquired by adjusting the first system turn angle according to a driver's steering intention such that the difference between the system turn angle and the driver turn angle becomes smaller. Then, a steering reaction force component is applied in a direction of reducing a difference between the driver turn angle and the second system turn angle.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

72.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17829476
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-01
First Publication Date 2022-12-08
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Uchino, Yoshiyuki
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Sato, Takafumi

Abstract

A steering control device controls, as a target, a steering device including a steering actuator and a turning actuator that has a structure with a power transmission path cut off from the steering actuator. The steering control device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute; turning-side synchronization control when the absolute value of a deviation amount is a value within a first range; steering-side synchronization control when the absolute value of the deviation mount is a value within a second range that is a larger value than a value within the first range; and at least one of the turning-side synchronization control and the steering-side synchronization control when the absolute value of the deviation amount is a value within a third range that is a value between a value within the first range and a value within the second range.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

73.

Fuel cell system

      
Application Number 17772965
Grant Number 11804610
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-10-23
First Publication Date 2022-12-08
Grant Date 2023-10-31
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsujiguchi, Takuya
  • Takeda, Yasuhide
  • Kubo, Atsushi
  • Takazato, Akihiro
  • Saito, Toshiyuki
  • Nakai, Motoo
  • Ueda, Yusuke

Abstract

A fuel cell system having a direct liquid fuel cell that uses a liquid containing a formic acid or an alcohol as a fuel includes: a fuel tank that stores the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel in the fuel tank to the fuel cell; and a bubbling device that blows an inert gas into the fuel stored in the fuel tank.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01M 8/04 - Auxiliary arrangements, e.g. for control of pressure or for circulation of fluids
  • H01M 8/04186 - Arrangements for control of reactant parameters, e.g. pressure or concentration of liquid-charged or electrolyte-charged reactants
  • H01M 8/04746 - Pressure; Flow
  • H01M 8/0668 - Removal of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide
  • H01M 8/1011 - Direct alcohol fuel cells [DAFC], e.g. direct methanol fuel cells [DMFC]

74.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17729083
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-04-26
First Publication Date 2022-11-17
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki, Hiroto
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Suehiro, Yuki
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke

Abstract

A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate a target rotation angle of a shaft rotating with a turning operation of turning wheels based on a steering angle of a steering wheel acquired from a rotation angle of a reaction motor, to calculate a command value based on the target rotation angle and a steering torque acquired from a torsion angle of a torsion bar twisting with an operation of the steering wheel, and to compensate for the torsion angle by adding the torsion angle as a compensation value to the steering angle. The electronic control unit is configured to change a value of the torsion angle that is added to the steering angle according to a degree of change of a state variable used to calculate the command value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

75.

Angular contact ball bearing and bearing device for vehicle wheel

      
Application Number 17619269
Grant Number 11965551
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-06-15
First Publication Date 2022-11-10
Grant Date 2024-04-23
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kamamoto, Shigeo

Abstract

A cage of an angular ball bearing includes, with respect to a plurality of balls arranged between an outer member and an inner member, an annular portion positioned on one side in an axial direction of the angular ball bearing, and a plurality of pillar portions provided to extend from the annular portion to the other side in the axial direction. The pillar portions include a first flat surface portion contactable with the balls on one side in a circumferential direction of the angular ball bearing, and a second flat surface portion contactable with the balls on the other side in the circumferential direction and parallel to the first flat surface portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 33/41 - Ball cages comb-shaped
  • B60B 27/00 - Hubs
  • F16C 19/18 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing balls essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows for both radial and axial load with two or more rows of balls

76.

Grease composition and rolling bearing

      
Application Number 17763368
Grant Number 11952549
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-09-23
First Publication Date 2022-11-03
Grant Date 2024-04-09
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • ENEOS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyake, Kazunori
  • Sakamoto, Kiyomi
  • Ayame, Yusuke
  • Tatsumi, Go

Abstract

Examples of the ester oil include diester oils such as dibutyl sebacate, dioctyl sebacate, di-2-ethylhexyl sebacate, dioctyl adipate, diisodecyl adipate, ditridecyl adipate, ditridecyl phthalate, and methyl acetyl ricinolate; aromatic ester oils such as trioctyl trimellitate, tridecyl trimellitate, and tetraoctyl pyromellitate; polyol ester oils such as trimethylolpropane caprylate, trimethylolpropane pelargonate, pentaerythritol-2-ethylhexanoate, and pentaerythritol pelargonate; carbonate oil; complex ester oil which is an oligoester of polyhydric alcohol and mixed fatty acid including dibasic acid and monobasic acid; etc.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 169/02 - Mixtures of base-materials and thickeners
  • C10M 115/08 - Lubricating compositions characterised by the thickener being a non-macromolecular organic compound other than a carboxylic acid or salt thereof containing nitrogen
  • C10N 30/06 - Oiliness; Film-strength; Anti-wear; Resistance to extreme pressure
  • C10N 40/02 - Bearings
  • C10N 50/10 - Form in which the lubricant is applied to the material being lubricated greasy
  • F16C 33/66 - Special parts or details in view of lubrication

77.

Orthosis

      
Application Number 29759476
Grant Number D0968623
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-23
First Publication Date 2022-11-01
Grant Date 2022-11-01
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Arai, Tomoki
  • Ozaki, Mitsuharu
  • Ohta, Hiromichi
  • Ohtsubo, Kazuyoshi

78.

Ball bearing

      
Application Number 17684209
Grant Number 11585377
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-01
First Publication Date 2022-10-20
Grant Date 2023-02-21
Owner
  • KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tohyama, Mamoru
  • Ohmiya, Yasuhiro
  • Sato, Norikazu
  • Hirose, Michiru
  • Onizuka, Takaaki
  • Tateishi, Yoshio
  • Hasegawa, Kenichi
  • Toda, Takuya
  • Nishimura, Komatsugu
  • Yamamoto, Yuya

Abstract

A holder has a protrusion which protrudes from a side surface at a side opposite in an axial direction with respect to a rolling element held in a pocket toward the side opposite in the axial direction. An oil supply hole which penetrates through the holder from the side surface to a surface at a side of the rolling element in the axial direction is formed in the holder. When the holder rotates, the protrusion guides oil into the oil supply hole, and the oil is introduced from the side surface of the holder to the surface on the side of the rolling element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 33/41 - Ball cages comb-shaped
  • F16C 33/66 - Special parts or details in view of lubrication
  • F16C 19/06 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing balls essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows for radial load mainly with a single row of balls
  • F16C 33/44 - Selection of substances

79.

STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17713403
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-04-05
First Publication Date 2022-10-20
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Okuda, Masataka
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Nakajima, Nobuyori

Abstract

A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a steering device including an electric motor and configured to steer a wheel by a force generated by the electric motor; a controller configured to control the steering device, wherein the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operating member while imposing limitation on a supply current to the electric motor, and wherein the limitation imposed on the supply current is made smaller when a running speed of the vehicle is lower than a set speed and a steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to decrease a steering amount than i) when the running speed of the vehicle is not lower than the set speed and ii) when the steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to increase the steering amount.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/02 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits responsive only to vehicle speed
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

80.

STEERING DEVICE AND STEERING METHOD

      
Application Number 17695017
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-03-15
First Publication Date 2022-10-20
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yajima, Amane
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Anraku, Koji
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Yoshida, Kenji

Abstract

In a reaction torque calculation process, an electronic control unit included in a steer-by-wire steering device is configured to calculate a distributed axial force obtained by distributing an angle axial force and an electric current axial force based on a final distribution ratio. The reaction torque calculation process includes at least one of a first abnormal-time process and a second abnormal-time process. The first abnormal-time process is executed to hold, for calculation of the angle axial force, a vehicle speed signal value immediately before the vehicle speed signal becomes abnormal. The second abnormal-time process is executed to hold, for calculation of a normal-time distribution ratio, a vehicle speed signal value immediately before the vehicle speed signal becomes abnormal or hold a value of the normal-time distribution ratio immediately before the vehicle speed signal becomes abnormal, and then gradually change the final distribution ratio to an abnormal-time distribution ratio.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering

81.

VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number 17709558
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-03-31
First Publication Date 2022-10-20
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Kodera, Takashi
  • Anraku, Koji
  • Miyake, Junya

Abstract

A vehicle control system controls a steer-by-wire type vehicle. The vehicle control system executes: reaction force control that applies a steering reaction force to a steering wheel; and driving assist control that assists driving of the vehicle. The reaction force control includes road information transmission control that applies a steering reaction force component corresponding to an oscillation caused by road surface unevenness to the steering wheel. The vehicle control system deactivates the road information transmission control when a deactivation condition is satisfied. The deactivation condition is that the driving assist control is in operation and a steering parameter reflecting a driver's steering intention is less than a threshold. As another example, the deactivation condition is that the driving assist control that vibrates the steering wheel for notifying the driver of a possibility of a lane departure is in operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B60Q 9/00 - Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups

82.

Steering control device

      
Application Number 17707175
Grant Number 11702132
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-29
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Grant Date 2023-07-18
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Inden, Yuki
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Suehiro, Yuki
  • Kudo, Yoshio

Abstract

A steering control device includes a torque command value calculating unit configured to calculate a torque command value which is a target value of a motor torque when operation of a motor is controlled such that the motor torque is generated. The torque command value calculating unit includes a first component calculating unit configured to calculate a first component, a second component calculating unit configured to calculate a second component, and a torque component calculating unit configured to calculate a torque component. The first component calculating unit is configured to add a calculational hysteresis component to the first component such that hysteresis characteristics with respect to change of a specific state variable are provided. The torque component calculating unit is configured to perform calculation in a first calculation situation and calculation in a second calculation situation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

83.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17710469
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-03-31
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yoshida, Kenji
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Tamaizumi, Terutaka
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio

Abstract

In a steering control device configured to control a steering system where a steering torque required for steering a steering wheel is changed using a motor torque, a processing circuit includes a first calculation situation where a calculational hysteresis component for adding a first hysteresis characteristic to a torque component is calculated and a second calculation situation where the calculational hysteresis component for adding a second hysteresis characteristic to the torque component is calculated. In the second calculation situation after change from the first calculation situation, the processing circuit calculates a value corresponding to an origin in the second hysteresis characteristic at a time when the calculational hysteresis component enabling a value of the calculational hysteresis component at a timing of the change from the first calculation situation to be maintained is calculated, and calculates the calculational hysteresis component using the calculated value as the origin.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

84.

MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME

      
Application Number 17657666
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-04-01
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Maegawa, Takuya
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Otake, Hiroyasu
  • Kajisawa, Yuuta
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Hibino, Tokuaki
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Satou, Atsushi
  • Yamashita, Masaharu

Abstract

A main power supply having a large capacity and a backup power supply having a small capacity are switchable by a power supply switching determination unit in a system. A motor control device drives a motor by the main power supply or the backup power supply. A drive control unit outputs a drive signal, calculated by feedback control of the current detection value with respect to the current command value, to an inverter circuit. When the power supply switching determination unit switches from the main power supply to the backup power supply, the drive control unit moves from a normal control using the main power supply to a backup control that restricts an electric power consumption and prevents the backup power supply from stopping.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • H02K 7/00 - Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with dynamo-electric machines, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motors or auxiliary dynamo-electric machines
  • H02P 27/12 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage using dc to ac converters or inverters with pulse width modulation pulsing by guiding the flux vector, current vector or voltage vector on a circle or a closed curve, e.g. for direct torque control
  • H02P 29/032 - Preventing damage to the motor, e.g. setting individual current limits for different drive conditions

85.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17691310
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-03-10
First Publication Date 2022-09-22
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugiyama, Satoshi
  • Nakamura, Koichi

Abstract

In a steering control device, a plurality of control systems is configured to switch a drive mode to a cooperative drive mode when command values calculated by control units of the control systems are not different from each other and to switch the drive mode to an independent drive mode when the command values calculated by the control units of the control systems are different from each other. The control systems are configured to gradually limit the command values respectively calculated by the control units of the control systems when a start switch of a vehicle has been turned off. The control systems are configured to switch the drive mode to the independent drive mode regardless of whether the command values calculated by the control units of the control systems are different from each other when the start switch has been turned off while the vehicle is traveling.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

86.

Vehicle speed calculating device and control device for vehicle

      
Application Number 17683610
Grant Number 11964665
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-01
First Publication Date 2022-09-15
Grant Date 2024-04-23
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kodera, Takashi
  • Takashima, Toru
  • Nishimura, Koichi
  • Ishino, Takahito

Abstract

A vehicle speed calculating device includes a vehicle speed calculating unit configured to calculate a control vehicle speed that is acquired by estimating a vehicle body speed that is a speed at which a vehicle is actually traveling, as a state variable used to control an onboard device configured to operate to realize various functions provided in the vehicle. The vehicle speed calculating unit is configured to include an extraction function of extracting at least one wheel speed acquired from at least one wheel that is assumed to be rotating in a state in which an influence causing a difference from the vehicle body speed is likely to be small, out of wheel speeds of a plurality of wheels, and a calculation function of calculating the control vehicle speed based on the at least one wheel speed extracted by the extraction function.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60W 10/20 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of steering systems
  • B60W 40/105 - Speed

87.

Magnetic shield, sensor device, and method for attaching magnetic shield

      
Application Number 17592014
Grant Number 11808649
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-02-03
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Grant Date 2023-11-07
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kuwahara, Yuya

Abstract

A magnetic shield includes a divided portion divided into a plurality of parts before attachment to a sensor device. The divided portion is integrated by bringing the plurality of parts close to or in contact with each other during the attachment to the sensor device. The divided portion in an integrated state includes a first shield portion that surrounds a body of a magnetic flux collecting ring from an outer side in a radial direction, and a second shield portion that surrounds a magnetic flux collecting portion of the magnetic flux collecting ring together with a magnetic sensor to extend outward in the radial direction from the first shield portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01L 3/10 - Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating
  • G01L 5/22 - Apparatus for, or methods of, measuring force, work, mechanical power, or torque, specially adapted for specific purposes for measuring the force applied to control members, e.g. control members of vehicles, triggers
  • H01F 27/36 - Electric or magnetic shields or screens

88.

MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 17665746
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-02-07
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sato, Yuto
  • Natsume, Yusuke

Abstract

A motor control device includes a board that is provided at an end of a motor including winding groups of two systems and controls supply of electric power to the winding group independently for each system. The board includes two areas that are partitioned by a boundary line passing through the center of the motor when viewed in an axial direction of the motor. A power supply terminal connector, an inverter circuit, and a motor terminal connector are sequentially arranged along the boundary line when viewed in the axial direction of the motor. The motor terminal connector is provided such that a straight line perpendicular to a direction in which motor terminals are arranged and the boundary line form an acute angle.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H02K 11/40 - Structural association with grounding devices
  • H05K 5/00 - Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus

89.

MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17662118
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-05-05
First Publication Date 2022-08-18
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takesaki, Akira
  • Kameya, Hisashi
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Takayama, Shintaro
  • Takahashi, Toshihiro
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi
  • Nagashima, Yugo

Abstract

Control calculation units of a back system in each actuator operate by a collaborative drive mode in which a torque is output to a motor drive unit by using an information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between the systems in common. Cooperative control calculation units in a reaction force actuator and a turning actuator can operate in cooperation with each other based on the information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between actuators. A communication between adjacent systems and a communication between adjacent actuators are restored, when a focus control calculation unit is restored, after the focus control calculation unit is stopped during operation and at least one of the communication between adjacent systems or the communication between adjacent actuators is interrupted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

90.

MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17660817
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-04-26
First Publication Date 2022-08-11
Owner
  • DENSO CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomizawa, Hiroki
  • Yamashita, Masaharu
  • Shibata, Kenji
  • Yamashita, Yosuke
  • Kubota, Shoji
  • Nagashima, Yugo
  • Fujita, Yuji
  • Abe, Kenichi

Abstract

A first actuator and a second actuator each have a plurality of control calculation units provided redundantly and a plurality of motor drive units provided redundantly. In the first and the second actuators, the control calculation units of the systems paired with each other transmit and receive information to and from each other by a communication between the actuators. When a failure occurs in any system in either of the two actuators, or when a failure occurs in a communication between actuators in either system, the control calculation unit of each actuator of the system in which the failure occurred stops the motor drive control. Then, the motor drive control is continued by the control calculation unit of the normal system in both actuators.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 5/50 - Arrangements specially adapted for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of two or more electric motors for speed regulation of two or more dynamo-electric motors in relation to one another by comparing electrical values representing the speeds
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear

91.

Orthosis

      
Application Number 29762555
Grant Number D0960381
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-17
First Publication Date 2022-08-09
Grant Date 2022-08-09
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yuki
  • Katoh, Yoshinobu
  • Ohta, Hiromichi
  • Umetani, Akihisa
  • Koyama, Takeshi
  • Wada, Yoshinori
  • Nagayama, Riku
  • Hattori, Madoka
  • Kikuchi, Katsuhide
  • Yoshida, Shintaro
  • Shinohara, Mikio

92.

Fusible plug

      
Application Number 17586900
Grant Number 11859766
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-28
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Grant Date 2024-01-02
Owner
  • NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takiguchi, Hiroshi
  • Aoki, Atsuya
  • Numazaki, Kazushi
  • Takahashi, Takeshi
  • Iwamoto, Natsuki
  • Watanabe, Yudai

Abstract

A fusible plug for a high pressure gas cylinder includes a communication hole filled with a low melting point alloy, a porous metal sintered body is press-fitted in at least a part of the communication hole in a length direction, all or a part of the porous metal sintered body is impregnated with the low melting point alloy to solidify and composite the low melting point alloy. It is preferable that: the low melting point alloy has a melting point of 110° C.; the porous metal sintered body to be press-fitted is a porous metal sintered body having pores with an area ratio of 30% or more and 50% or less and having pores with a diameter exceeding 5 μm among the pores of 80% or more in terms of area ratio to all the pores; and the porous metal sintered body is a porous austenitic stainless steel sintered body.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F17C 13/00 - VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES - Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels

93.

ROTARY TABLE DEVICE

      
Application Number 17646730
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-01-03
First Publication Date 2022-07-21
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ootsuka, Yoshio

Abstract

There is provided a rotary table device including: a rotary table; a center shaft erected toward the rotary table; a housing including an inner peripheral surface having a circular cross section over a predetermined range along a rotation axis; a center sleeve including an outer peripheral surface having a circular cross section corresponding to the inner peripheral surface, and the outer peripheral surface being concentric with the inner peripheral surface; a plurality of recesses formed in at least one of the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface; a plurality of O-rings disposed to be sandwiched between the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface; an in-housing fluid flow path formed inside the housing; and a plurality of in-sleeve fluid flow paths formed inside the center sleeve.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 1/52 - Movable or adjustable work or tool supports using particular mechanisms with rotating pairs only a single rotating pair

94.

TOOTHED PULLEY

      
Application Number 17647873
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-01-13
First Publication Date 2022-07-21
Owner
  • JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NAKANISHI METAL WORKS CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamamori, Ayumi
  • Nakamura, Masayoshi
  • Saitoh, Mitsuru
  • Oka, Nobumasa

Abstract

A toothed pulley includes a cylindrical metallic core and a resin portion including teeth. The metallic core has, at one end thereof in the axial direction, an outward flange projecting outward in the radial direction. The outward flange has a radially outer peripheral surface that is a rotation prevention shape having a plurality of parts displaced inward in the radial direction from a cylindrical surface of the radially outer peripheral surface. The radially outer peripheral surface of the outward flange is covered by the resin portion.

IPC Classes  ?

95.

STEERING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STEERING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17538072
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-30
First Publication Date 2022-07-21
Owner
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • JTEKT Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Akatsuka, Kosuke
  • Kudo, Yoshio
  • Suda, Rio
  • Namikawa, Isao
  • Kodera, Takashi

Abstract

In a steering system including a steering operation mechanism, a second actuator, a steering angle sensor, a steering torque sensor, and a steering operation control device and a control method for the steering system, only a drive assist target steered angle (first target steered angle) is reflected in a final target steered angle when a torque sensor value (actual steering torque) detected by the steering torque sensor is equal to or less than an intervention threshold. When the magnitude of the torque sensor value is more than the intervention threshold, the rate of reflection (distribution ratio) of a driver target steered angle (second target steered angle) in the final target steered angle is raised as the torque sensor value is increased, and the rate of reflection of the driver target steered angle in the final target steered angle is lowered as the magnitude of the torque sensor value is decreased.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/00 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits

96.

Motion assisting device

      
Application Number 29726505
Grant Number D0958374
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-03-03
First Publication Date 2022-07-19
Grant Date 2022-07-19
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Katoh, Yoshinobu
  • Umetani, Akihisa
  • Koyama, Takeshi
  • Kogushi, Kensaku
  • Kobayashi, Yuki
  • Nagayama, Riku
  • Nagura, Tomoko
  • Kikuchi, Katsuhide
  • Yoshida, Shintaro
  • Shinohara, Mikio

97.

Lubricant supply device, method for manufacturing the same, and rolling sliding device

      
Application Number 17565855
Grant Number 11674551
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-12-30
First Publication Date 2022-07-14
Grant Date 2023-06-13
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kamiya, Toru

Abstract

A lubricant supply device includes a porous body including a first porous portion and a second porous portion in contact with the first porous portion, the porous body being impregnated with a lubricant. A penetration depth of the lubricant in the second porous portion is larger than a penetration depth of the lubricant in the first porous portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 19/06 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing balls essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows for radial load mainly with a single row of balls
  • F16C 33/66 - Special parts or details in view of lubrication

98.

Sensor device

      
Application Number 17558225
Grant Number 11747230
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-12-21
First Publication Date 2022-06-30
Grant Date 2023-09-05
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Toyama, Yuichi
  • Murakami, Toshiaki

Abstract

A sensor device includes a main driving gear, driven gears, an biasing member configured to bias the driven gears toward the main driving gear, a support member configured to support the biasing member, and a sensor configured to generate an electrical signal based on rotation of the driven gears. In a force applied when the biasing member biases the driven gears, assuming that a direction orthogonal to a tangent line at a point of action of the force is set as a first direction, the first direction is different from a second direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01L 5/22 - Apparatus for, or methods of, measuring force, work, mechanical power, or torque, specially adapted for specific purposes for measuring the force applied to control members, e.g. control members of vehicles, triggers
  • B62D 15/02 - Steering position indicators

99.

CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TYPE MACHINING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17605416
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-04-20
First Publication Date 2022-06-23
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Wakazono, Yoshio
  • Murakami, Shinji

Abstract

A cyber-physical system type machining system includes: a machine tool disposed in a real world and including a machine body and a control device; and a computer device connected to communicate with the control device and including a processor and a memory storing a program for generating, in a virtual world, a virtual machining phenomenon corresponding to an actual machining phenomenon with regard to a workpiece and the machine body. The program, when executed by the processor, causes the computer device to perform: acquiring a command value in synchronization with the control device, the command value for controlling the machine body by the control device; generating a future virtual machining phenomenon, which is the virtual machining phenomenon in a future, based on the command value; and outputting, to the control device, an optimal command value for correcting the command value based on the future virtual machining phenomenon.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 19/4069 - Simulating machining process on screen
  • G05B 19/4155 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by programme execution, i.e. part programme or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a programme

100.

Pressure reducing valve

      
Application Number 17456709
Grant Number 11698141
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-11-29
First Publication Date 2022-06-16
Grant Date 2023-07-11
Owner JTEKT CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Numazaki, Kazushi
  • Kaneko, Tetsuya
  • Nakano, Akira
  • Takabayashi, Kazuhiro
  • Haneda, Kazuo
  • Kihara, Yuya

Abstract

A pressure reducing valve includes: a body, a valve seat, and a valve element opening and closing the valve seat according to a difference between a pressure on the inlet side and a pressure on the outlet side. A pressure chamber, which is a space part between the valve element and the valve seat, is provided on the inlet side of the valve element. The valve element includes a plurality of horizontal holes each opening to the pressure chamber, and a vertical hole bringing the horizontal holes and the outlet side of the valve element into communication with each other. The horizontal holes and the vertical hole are provided in such a manner that a value of a ratio of a flow channel area of the vertical hole to a total area that is a total of flow channel areas of the horizontal holes exceeds 1.16.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 15/02 - Check valves with guided rigid valve members
  • F16K 15/06 - Check valves with guided rigid valve members with guided stems
  • F16K 17/08 - Safety valves; Equalising valves closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded with special arrangements for providing a large discharge passage
  • F16K 17/04 - Safety valves; Equalising valves closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded
  • F16K 27/12 - Covers for housings
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