Aoki, Toyota-Shi
Kazuhiro Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20120028494 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has a parallelogram-shaped opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes a pair of first opening edges that are parallel to each other and a pair of second opening edges that are parallel to each other and different from the first opening edges. The recesses are spaced in the extending direction of the first opening edges and are spaced in the extending direction of the second opening edges. | 02-02-2012 |
20130062117 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062118 | Terminal Connector and Electric Wire with Terminal Connector - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the first opening edge is set narrower than the space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the electric wire. | 03-14-2013 |
Kazuma Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20140288740 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine for traveling, a motor for traveling, and a battery exchanging electric power with the motor. the control apparatus including: a heater is configured to perform heating inside a cabin of the hybrid vehicle by using the engine or an electric heat source as a heat source; and a controller is configured to operate the engine intermittently, the controller is configured to select the heat source for the heater, the controller is configured to determine whether or not a fuel for the engine is degraded when the engine is stopped, and the controller is configured to start the engine and select the engine as the heat source when the controller determines that the fuel is degraded. | 09-25-2014 |
20140288741 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine configured to output power for traveling; a motor configured to output power for traveling; a switch configured to set a fuel economy priority mode, in which priority is given to fuel economy, and to cancel the fuel economy priority mode; and a controller configured (a) to operate the engine and the motor based on the switch setting; (b) to determine the presence/absence of degradation of fuel supplied to the engine; and (c) to prohibit setting of the fuel economy priority mode by the switch subsequently when determination is made that the fuel has degraded when the hybrid vehicle travels using power of the motor in a state in which the drive of the engine is stopped. | 09-25-2014 |
20140303818 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HYBRID VEHICLE - Provided are a hybrid vehicle and control method thereof. The hybrid vehicle has a power storage device, an internal combustion engine, a power generation device, an input device and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control charging of the power storage device by the power generation device in such a manner that charging of the power storage device is promoted when an increase of the power storage amount is requested through the input device, and in a state where an increase of the power storage amount has been requested through the input device, to suppress charging of the power storage device when a travel load is small, as compared to when the travel load is large, and to mitigate suppression of charging of the power storage device when a predefined condition is met during suppression of charging of the power storage device. | 10-09-2014 |
20140303819 | HYBRID VEHICLE - A hybrid vehicle includes a power storage device, an engine, a power generation apparatus, an input apparatus, and an ECU. The power generation apparatus is configured to generate charging power of the power storage device by using output of the engine. The input apparatus is configured to request, by a user input, an increase in a power storage amount of the power storage device. The ECU is configured to: (a) control charging of the power storage device by the power generation apparatus and accelerate the charging of the power storage device, when the increase in the power storage amount is requested, and (b) suppress charging of the power storage device at the time when a travel load is small in comparison with charging of the power storage device at the time when the travel load is large, when the increase in the power storage amount is requested. | 10-09-2014 |
20140303820 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a motor configured to generate electricity using a power from the engine, a battery configured to exchange an electric power with the motor, a switch configured to set a charging acceleration mode and to cancel the charging acceleration mode, a reporting device configured to report information, and an electronic control unit configured to (a) increase the electric power generated by the motor higher when the charging acceleration mode is set than that when the charging acceleration mode is not set, and (b) control the reporting device to notify that the charging acceleration mode is set. | 10-09-2014 |
20160031430 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A hybrid vehicle includes an input device that is used by a user to request an increase in the amount of charge of the power storage device. When a request for increasing the amount of charge is made using the input device, a control device controls charging of a power storage device by a generating device so that charging of the power storage device is promoted, warms a catalyst device by operating an internal combustion engine while limiting the output of the internal combustion engine, and when the warming of the catalyst device and the request for increasing the amount of charge that is made using the input device overlap each other, the control device eases the output limitation of the internal combustion engine. | 02-04-2016 |
Kazutaka Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20160082841 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A control device for a vehicle capable of transmitting power of a rotating electrical machine to a driving wheel by a shift of a transmission, includes: an electronic control unit configured to (i) select, as an operation mode of the rotating electrical machine, a normal mode and a power mode in which the rotating electrical machine is operated such that a vehicle drive force is increased more than the normal mode, (ii) execute insulation protection control of the rotating electrical machine when the electronic control unit determines that dielectric breakdown of the rotating electrical machine occurs, and (iii) set a priority of the insulation protection control in an order of a change in a transmission gear ratio of the transmission, a decrease in an application voltage to the rotating electrical machine, and torque limitation of the rotating electrical machine in a state where the power mode is selected. | 03-24-2016 |
Norihisa Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20150266448 | VEHICLE SEAT - There is provided a vehicle seat including: a seat main body including a seating portion, a seat back that supports an upper body of the vehicle occupant seated on the seating portion, and a headrest that is provided at an upper side of the seat back and supports a head portion of the vehicle occupant; a seatbelt that restrains the upper body of the vehicle occupant with respect to the seat back; a belt guide portion that is provided at an upper portion of the seat back or at the headrest, and through which the seatbelt is inserted, and that guides the seatbelt; and a rotating portion that, following movement of a shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant, changes a direction of guiding the seatbelt by rotating the belt guide portion by external force applied due to tension of the seatbelt. | 09-24-2015 |
Yuki Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20130143732 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST - The object of the invention is to provide an exhaust gas purifying catalyst having a high oxygen storage capacity without changing the usage amount of the oxygen storage component. According to the present invention, the exhaust gas purifying catalyst containing (a) a ceria-zirconia composite oxide containing ceria in a higher amount than zirconia, (b) a ceria-zirconia composite oxide containing zirconia in a higher amount than ceria, and (c) a ceria-zirconia composite oxide having a pyrochlore-type regular array structure is provided. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst of the present invention has a higher oxygen storage capacity than conventional catalysts and is effective in reducing the amount of NOx emission. | 06-06-2013 |
20150252744 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - The exhaust gas purification apparatus | 09-10-2015 |
Yuya Aoki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20140155214 | LUBRICATING OIL SUPPLY APPARATUS - A lubricating oil supply apparatus arranged in a transaxle case includes a differential ring gear, a catch tank that stores lubricating oil picked up by the differential ring gear, a first flow path arranged higher than a highest position of an outer diameter of the differential ring gear, a gear with a higher center position than the differential ring gear, and a second flow path that guides the lubricating oil picked up by the gear to the catch tank. The first flow path guides the lubricating oil picked up by the differential ring gear to the catch tank. The gear is in mesh with the differential ring gear, and picks up the lubricating oil picked up by the differential ring gear. The second flow path is arranged lower than a highest position of an outer diameter of the gear. | 06-05-2014 |