Patents Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20240153266
    Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method capable of appropriately handling a shielding region of a road are provided. The information processing device includes a first information conversion unit 15 that estimates a first road region from an image obtained by imaging the road, a second information conversion unit 17 that estimates a second road region from map information stored in a map information storage unit 11, and a difference extraction unit 16 that extracts difference information representing a difference between the first road region and the second road region. Further, in the information processing method, a computer estimates the first road region from the image obtained by imaging the road, estimates the second road region from the map information, and extracts the difference information indicating the difference between the first road region and the second road region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki KIDO, Naoki MORI, Takashi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20240154562
    Abstract: A motor drive device which drives a motor including a winding set and a winding set that are electrically separate from each other includes an inverter that outputs three-phase alternating currents to winding set, an inverter that outputs three-phase alternating currents to winding set, and controllers that output drive commands to inverter and inverter by generating PWM pulses. Controllers generate the PWM pulses such that the three-phase alternating currents that are output from inverter to winding set and the three-phase alternating currents that are output from inverter to winding set have reverse polarities in three respective phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio HATTORI, Hirohito IMAI
  • Publication number: 20240153106
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to generate a highly accurate trail by correcting detection box information of an object in an object tracking apparatus that generates a trail of an object within a measurement range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: So SASATANI, Goshi SASAKI, Trongmun JIRALERSPONG
  • Publication number: 20240151273
    Abstract: As a stopper for restricting movement of a rotary shaft 31 of a transmission device 3 and a shaft part 41 of a first drive-side joint member J11 in a direction of approaching each other, a stopper part 5 is formed separately from the shaft part 41 and a yoke body part 42 of the first drive-side joint member so that the stopper function of the first drive-side joint member J11 is guaranteed by the separately-formed stopper part 5 in the present invention. With this configuration, a change in the gravity center position of the first drive-side joint member caused due to build-up processing on the shaft part or the yoke body part is suppressed. It is possible to restrict relative movement of the first drive-side joint member and the rotary shaft while ensuring adequate machining for formation of a shaft-part-side seal surface on the first drive-side joint member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi ICHIKAWA, Daiki TSUTSUMI, Toshiyuki MASUDA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA
  • Publication number: 20240149942
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire type steering apparatus includes a steering input device; a steering device; and a control device. The steering input device includes a reaction force actuator configured to apply steering reaction force to a steering operation input member. The steering device includes a steering actuator configured to cause steered road wheels to be steered through a steering member. The control device includes a reaction force actuator output amount decrease unit configured to decrease an output amount of the reaction force actuator when a deviation between an operation amount of the steering operation input member and a steering amount of the steering member increases and vehicle speed of a vehicle increases. This can prevent the steering operation input member from being abruptly moved in spite of a collision of the steered road wheels with an obstacle or other factors at the time of high vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20240152353
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to minimize a likelihood of the vehicle becoming in an inoperable state even in an event of a program update failure. An in-vehicle device 6 includes: a program storage unit 64 that stores a program; an activation processing unit 65 that activates the program; and an update processing unit 63 that receives an update program 21 and an update reason 22 of the program and updates the program with the update program 21. In a case where the update of the program has failed, the activation processing unit 65 activates the program in an activation mode corresponding to the update reason 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru IBA, Shuhei KANEKO, Mikio KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240152441
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that allows a plurality of systems to efficiently share information regarding an alert. An information processing apparatus includes an ID assigning computer that assigns a log ID to collected log data of a device, a first processing computer that stores the log data and the log ID and detects an abnormality based on the log data, and a second processing computer that stores the log data and the log ID, detects an abnormality based on the log data, and transmits the log ID of the log data in which the abnormality is detected and a detection result of the abnormality to the first processing computer. The first processing computer stores the log data stored in the first processing computer and the received detection result in association with each other based on the log ID received from the second processing computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota IDEGUCHI, Takashi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11979066
    Abstract: A first circuit board 16 and a second circuit board 17, each of which have mounted thereon circuit components for controlling and driving an electric motor, are stacked with a space left therebetween such that one board surface of the first circuit board and one board surface of the second circuit board are opposed to and face each other in the direction of a rotation shaft 14 of the electric motor. In a state that the first circuit board 16 and the second circuit board 17 are attached to the motor housing, a receptacle connector 28 mounted on the first circuit board and a plug connector 34 mounted on the second circuit board form a “board-to-board connector” by which the circuit components of the first and second circuit boards are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakano, Takuro Kanazawa, Narutoshi Yamada, Tomohiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11978345
    Abstract: A moving object behavior prediction device improves prediction accuracy and includes: an input map generation unit that generates a single input map in which a region capable of containing a plurality of the moving objects is divided into a plurality of cells, in which each of the cells stores related information of a static object and related information of the moving object; a movement amount estimation unit that estimates a movement amount as a feature amount of each cell from the input map, using a trained convolutional neural network; a movement amount acquisition unit that acquires a movement amount at a current position of the moving object from a movement amount stored in a peripheral cell the moving object; and a future position prediction unit that predicts a future position of the moving object based on a feature amount at a current position of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Ishikawa, Hideaki Suzuki, Hidehiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11975775
    Abstract: A steering control device for reducing a steering load on the driver by adjusting a gain of a rear wheel steering angle with respect to a front wheel steering angle operated by the driver according to a relative relationship between the vehicle and the parking frame to enable fine steering of the own vehicle near the parking frame when the four-wheel steering vehicle is parked. The steering control device is configured to control a rear wheel steering angle by a rear wheel steering system based on a front wheel steering angle operated by a driver, and includes an arithmetic device configured to reduce an absolute value of a gain of the rear wheel steering angle with respect to the front wheel steering angle as a positional relationship between an own vehicle and a parking frame comes closer when an own vehicle shifts to a parking driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Go Sakayori, Hiroshi Nakano, Yoshiji Hasegawa, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Junya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11975709
    Abstract: A vehicle parking control device has a processor and a memory to control the vehicle from a starting to a target parking position. The vehicle control device includes an obstacle detection unit detecting obstacles around the vehicle, a travelable area setting unit setting an area where the vehicle can travel based on a position of the obstacles, and sets the target parking position in the travelable area, a route generation unit calculating a travel route to the target parking position in the travelable area, and a parking execution unit that causes the vehicle to travel toward the target parking position on the basis of the travel route. The route generation unit generates a route from a parking start position to the target parking position, and corrects a distance of the section to a predetermined distance when the distance of the section is less than the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tashiro, Masashi Seimiya, Satoshi Matsuda, Masato Imai
  • Patent number: 11976704
    Abstract: A propeller shaft (1) that is a power transmission shaft has a shaft member (2) as a tubular body made of iron-based metal and a balance weight (3) made of iron-based metal and welded to an outer peripheral surface of this shaft member (2). At least a part of the balance weight (3) of the propeller shaft (1) is covered with a sacrificial metal coating (4) made of sacrificial corrosion prevention material that contains metal whose ionization tendency is higher than that of metal forming the shaft member (2). With this, it is possible to suppress local progression of corrosion at a periphery of the balance weight (3) and improve durability of the propeller shaft (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutomo Mabe, Kiyokazu Nakane, Hiromichi Komai, Xiaojin Zhu, Toshiyuki Masuda, Kenichiro Ishikura
  • Patent number: 11977467
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a simulation device having a function of adding delay processing for making an execution timing of a personal computer (PC) simulation environment close to that of an actual electronic control unit (ECU). There is provided a simulation device for converting application software into an execution code, verifying the execution code, and porting the verified execution code to another computer device, wherein the simulation device adjusts an execution timing in the other computer device by performing time adjustment processing at the time of starting or ending a function in function units of a source code of an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Murashima, Yuji Fukushima, Fumio Narisawa
  • Patent number: 11979095
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of specifying a failure location of an inverter in detail when an attempt of active discharge fails. There are provided an arithmetic operation circuit 102 that outputs a discharge instruction to control a discharge operation based on a voltage between both ends of a discharge circuit, and an output circuit 203 that outputs a drive signal based on the control signal. The arithmetic operation circuit 102 monitors an amount of the decreased voltage between both the ends of the discharge circuit, an LV read back signal being an output of the arithmetic operation circuit 102, and an HV read back signal being an output of the output circuit 203, and specifies a failure location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Murayama, Takeshi Yoshida, Takahiro Nishida, Itsuro Nomura
  • Patent number: 11979017
    Abstract: Provided is a novel power conversion device that enables estimation of a temperature of a power device without using a temperature sensing diode and can accurately estimate a temperature and a current of a current sensing element that observes a main current. A measurement voltage (Vref) is applied between source terminals (31s and 49s) of a main control element 31 and a current sensing element 49 in a state in which the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 are turned off, and a temperature of a power device 30 is estimated from a current (Ib) flowing between the source terminals (31s and 49s) of the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 at the time of the application by using the fact that a resistance value of a semiconductor substrate between the source terminals of the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 has temperature dependency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Yano, Shinichirou Wada, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11979058
    Abstract: An object is to assemble a housing to a mating bracket with high accuracy and to improve the reliability of a rotating electrical machine. A housing of a rotating electrical machine according to the present invention is a housing of a rotating electrical machine that accommodates a stator of the rotating electrical machine and is supported by a support member, the housing including: a first tab that forms a first through-hole through which a first screw passes; and a second tab that forms a second through-hole through which a second screw passes and forms a fitting portion that fits with a position adjustment member, wherein the first tab is formed such that a first facing surface facing the support member of the first tab is farther from the support member than a second facing surface facing the support member of the second tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjirou Watari, Shinji Yamazaki, Tomohiro Fukuda, Mohdbasir Zulaika
  • Publication number: 20240147621
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a circuit board including an annular land portion around a through hole through which a terminal that is an object of a soldering penetrates, and that is soldered on the land portion by a soldering process with a solder supply, the manufacturing method includes: previously forming a preliminary solder at a position opposite to a supply position of the solder in the land portion with respect to the through hole before the soldering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Narutoshi YAMADA, Yuuichi YANAGISAWA, Takahiro MAKIKO
  • Publication number: 20240139798
    Abstract: A rolling machine has a rolling die 4 that forms a male screw by pressing a steering shaft 14 which is an object to be rolled and plastically deforming an outer peripheral surface of the steering shaft 14 while rotating in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the steering shaft 14, a main spindle 3 inserted into a penetration hole 10 of the rolling die 4 and transmitting a rotation force to the rolling die 4, a key groove and a key which restrict a relative rotation between the rolling die 4 and the main spindle 3, a spiral oil groove 16 provided on an inner peripheral surface of the penetration hole 10 or an outer peripheral surface of the main spindle and extending from one end portion 10b side in an axial direction of the penetration hole in an inner axial direction of the penetration hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kinichi HASHIMOTO, Keisuke KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240145985
    Abstract: A power source connector (15) includes an outer peripheral wall (22) on the outer peripheral side, two power source terminals (21), a sealing part (25) made of a potting agent which seals the peripheries of the root sides of the power source terminals (21), and a recessed part (26) located between the two power source terminals (21). A bottom surface (26a) of the recessed part (26) is located more on the root sides of the power source terminals (21) than a top portion (25a) of the sealing part (25). The power source connector (15) is provided with an airtight structure (liquid-tight structure) which prevents water from entering from the root sides of the power source terminals (21) by the sealing part (25). Therefore, the power source connector (15) can suppress the occurrence of a short circuit on a circuit board due to water which has entered inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki HARA
  • Patent number: 11970152
    Abstract: A vehicle pedal stroke detection apparatus acquires a first value based on a physical amount regarding a magnetic flux of a magnet that is output from a stroke sensor. The first value is a physical amount regarding a magnitude of a magnetic flux density of the magnet with respect to a displacement of a push rod. Then, the vehicle pedal stroke detection apparatus compares the first value and a second value. The second value is a preset physical amount regarding the magnitude of the magnetic flux density of the magnet with respect to the displacement of the push rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Takimoto, Shu Kato