Patents Assigned to DENSO TEN LIMITED
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Publication number: 20230344216Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a first connection device provided in an inter-system line that connects a first system as defined herein and a second system as defined herein; a second connection device as defined herein; and a controller that brings the first connection device and the second connection device into a disconnected state and performs a first fail-safe control using the electric power of the first power supply when a ground fault of the second system is detected, and that brings the first connection device into a conductive state while keeping the second connection device in a disconnected state and performs a second fail-safe control using the electric power of the second power supply when a failure of the first power supply is detected during the first fail-safe control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Takeshi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230331178Abstract: An electric power supply device installed in a vehicle includes a relay provided between a high-voltage battery and one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment, and a processor. The processor is configured to, based on a state of a main switch configured to operate a traveling system of the vehicle, switch on or off of the relay, and is configured to control electric power supply from the high-voltage battery to the one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment. The processor is configured to supply electric power from the high-voltage battery to particular in-vehicle equipment during maintaining the relay on when the main switch is turned off during the relay being on and the one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment include the particular in-vehicle equipment. The particular in-vehicle equipment is configured to operate after the main switch is turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Akira UMEMOTO, Shinichi INOUE, Shoya SHIMOSAKA, Yukihiko MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20230331086Abstract: A display control device displays a result that is provided by evaluating driving of a vehicle that is executed by a driver for each evaluation item and includes a control unit that displays, on a display device, a radar chart where a display group that includes the evaluation item is provided as an item thereof and a score rate of the display group is provided as a value of the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Noriaki KUNIKANE
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Publication number: 20230336917Abstract: A panel-type speaker includes a panel and an actuator and is configured to vibrate the panel by the actuator so as to output sound waves from the panel, the actuator includes: a vibrating plate; and a piezoelectric element arranged on at least one surface of the vibrating plate, the piezoelectric element has, at a central portion of the piezoelectric element in a plan view, an opening from which the vibrating plate is exposed, and at a portion of the vibrating plate exposed from the opening, the vibrating plate is coupled to the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Shizuka ISHIGAKI, Hironori SHIROTO, Yutaka MATSUNAMI
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Patent number: 11789085Abstract: A battery diagnosis device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor that acquires information about a battery and executes diagnosis of the state of the battery. The processor is configured to determine whether there is abnormality about a first item based on a result of a determination of whether a first state is matched, and the determination of whether the first state is matched is based on the information about the battery. The processor is configured to end the diagnosis of the battery, when the processor determines that there is no abnormality about the first item. The processor is configured to continue the diagnosis of the battery and determine whether there is abnormality about the first item, as a second determination, when the processor determines that there is abnormality about the first item.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kohei Takahashi, Takayuki Akaishi, Sunao Horitake, Yuhki Shiozumi
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Publication number: 20230311809Abstract: A communication device according to one aspect of embodiments includes a controller. In a case where vibration of the communication device is detected, the controller allows execution of a communication process with a communication target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hiroyuki WATABE
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Publication number: 20230311990Abstract: A vehicle-mounted camera device mounted on a vehicle includes a main core that generates a guide line image including a guide line in accordance with the steering angle of the vehicle, a sub core that superposes a guide line image on a reference image based on the capturing result from a camera mounted on the vehicle, thereby to output the resulting reference image to a display device as a display image, and a memory that holds a plurality of guide line images generated in the main core with respect to a plurality of steering angle. The sub core reads from the memory, in accordance with steering angle information indicating the current steering angle of the vehicle, one of the plurality of guide line images to generate a display image using the read guide line image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Kenta HIRAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230305987Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a second controller. The communication apparatus includes a memory to store a program, a reception buffer to save reception data, a transfer destination buffer to receive transfer reception data and a first controller to erase the reception data when the reception data are transferred to the transfer destination buffer, and execute a hardware reset of erasing the program and executing an initialization process upon detecting abnormality. The second controller checks, after transmitting the data to the communication apparatus, whether the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer after an elapse of a predetermined period of time shorter than a period of time till the hardware reset upon occurrence of abnormality in transferring the data. The second controller causes the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kazuki FUJITA, Katsutomo SASAKURA
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Publication number: 20230301001Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a frame, and a bracket. The frame surrounds an outer circumference of the display panel in a planar view in which the display apparatus is viewed in a direction orthogonal to a plane of the display panel. The bracket holds the display panel from a back side of the display panel and extends outside the outer circumference of the display panel in the planar view. The bracket (i) has a bending portion that extends toward a front side of the display panel outside the outer circumference of the display panel in the planar view, (ii) supports the frame from a back side of the frame by the bending portion and (iii) has a projection in the bending portion that holds a lateral surface of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Yuta YAMAGAMI, Daisuke Onojima
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Publication number: 20230297380Abstract: The communication control apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a controller. The communication apparatus saves received data in a reception buffer, executes transfer of the received data to a transfer destination buffer from the reception buffer, erases the transferred data from the reception buffer, and interrupts the transfer upon detecting abnormality. The controller transmits data or a command to the communication apparatus. The controller checks whether the data are saved in the reception buffer after transmitting the data to the control apparatus, and transmits a command for causing the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the data are saved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki FUJITA, Katsutomo SASAKURA, Shumpei OMURA
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Patent number: 11764605Abstract: A power supply control device includes: a first system configured to supply electric power from a first power supply to a first load group; a second system configured to supply electric power from a second power supply to a second load group; a plurality of load switches configured to switch an electric power supply to each load of the first load group and the second load group; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of load switches such that electric power is supplied from the second power supply to a backup load included in at least one of the first load group and the second load group in a predetermined backup state, wherein the control unit detects a state of charge of the second power supply, and increases, in the predetermined backup state, number of the load switches to be connected as the state of charge is higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Shunsuke Kobayashi, Takeshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11762029Abstract: An insulation resistance detection apparatus includes: a first switch connected to a high potential side of a battery assembly including plural battery cells connected in series; a second switch connected to a low potential side of the battery assembly; a detection resistor; a controller configured to turn on one of the first switch and the second switch and turn off the other of the first switch and the second switch to form a series connection circuit including the battery assembly, an insulation resistor of the battery assembly, and the detection resistor, and calculate insulation resistance based on a voltage applied to the detection resistor, in which the first switch is connected between two battery cells on the high potential side among the plural battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Atsushi Izutani, Yoshihiro Nakao
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Publication number: 20230290368Abstract: A call processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller. The controller is configured to (i) perform a removal process of removing driving sounds of a vehicle other than a specific driving sound from sounds collected by a microphone in a cabin of the vehicle while an occupant of the vehicle is talking on a phone, and (ii) transmit an adjusted sound generated by performing the removal process to a call opposite party who is talking with the occupant of the vehicle via the phone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Katsuaki HIKIMA, Soju Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20230284420Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first electric part, a second electric part, a chassis, and heat radiating fins. The first electric part is mounted on the substrate. The second electric part is mounted on the substrate, the second electric part having a height that is smaller than a height of the first electric part. The chassis houses therein the substrate, the first electric part, and the second electric part. Heat radiating fins protruding from an outer surface of the chassis. The heat radiating fins continuously extend from a side of the second electric part to a side of the first electric part. A portion of the outer surface of the chassis between the first electric part and the second electric part is formed in a slope.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Naoki MIYAZAKI, Satoshi FUKAMACHI
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Patent number: 11747278Abstract: A deposit detection device according to an embodiment includes a calculation module, a detection module, an interpolation module, and a state management module. The calculation module calculates a region feature amount based on an edge vector of each pixel, for each unit region composed of a predetermined number of pixels included in a captured image. The detection module detects the unit region corresponding to a partial covering location and the unit region corresponding to a diffuse reflection location based on a detection condition and a second detection condition, respectively, the first detection condition and the second detection condition being based on the region feature amount. The interpolation module interpolates the area ratio of the partial covering location reduced due to the diffuse reflection location. The state management module controls state transitions of states related to interpolation of the area ratio, based on increase and decrease of the diffuse reflection location.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Tomokazu Oki, Nobunori Asayama, Takashi Kono, Yasushi Tani, Daisuke Yamamoto, Nobuhisa Ikeda, Teruhiko Kamibayashi
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Publication number: 20230274585Abstract: An on-vehicle device uploads vehicle information that includes running information concerning a running state of a vehicle and image information that is captured by the vehicle to an external device, and includes a processor that uploads the vehicle information to an external device at a timing when a running distance of the vehicle reaches a threshold distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hideaki MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230274586Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes a processor that acquires vehicle information that includes running information concerning a running state of a vehicle and image information that is captured by the vehicle, creates light information with a less amount of data from the acquired vehicle information and uploads it to an external device with a predetermined period, and uploads the requested vehicle information to the external device in a case where a request is provided from the external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hideaki Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20230276059Abstract: An on-vehicle device uploads information concerning a vehicle to an external device with a predetermined period, and includes a processor that uploads, to an external device, trimming information where a target area is trimmed from image information that is captured by the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hideaki MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 11743624Abstract: A panel speaker includes: a panel; a vibration actuator having first and second oppositely-facing surfaces, the first surface facing the panel; a screw that fastens the vibration actuator to the panel, the screw having a head that protrudes beyond the second surface of the vibration actuator; and a back chassis that faces the second surface of the vibration actuator. The back chassis has a protrusion protruding toward the vibration actuator in a portion of the back chassis that faces the head of the screw.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Shinichi Ikeda
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Publication number: 20230268659Abstract: A slot antenna includes: power-supply points; and a slot, wherein in the slot antenna, the power-supply points are arranged while interposing the slot therebetween in a shorter direction of the slot, the slot being an opening that is provided in a metal sheet constituting an outer panel of a vehicle, and a width along the shorter direction of the slot is larger in each of both end parts of the slot than in an intermediate part of the slot in a longitudinal direction of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kenji KAWAI, Kazushige OGINO, Tetsuro OKANO, Kakeru YAMASHITA