Patents by Inventor Hatsuhiko Kato

Hatsuhiko Kato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5084878
    Abstract: Input signals supplied to a plurality redundant subsystems are input to an output selecting circuit after an output of a subsystem is changed from an output signal of a subsystem having a most reliable output signal to another output signal of another subsystem having a lower reliable output signal in turn using self-diagnoses and cross-diagnoses in each subsystem according to an algorithm as follows:if any subsystem has Syndrome 1 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome 1,else if any subsystem has Syndrome 2 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome 2;else if any subsystem has Syndrome L-1 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome L-1;else output fail safe signal.The output selecting circuit outputs a selected signal by a method of majority voting based on the output signals from the subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hirokazu Ihara, Hatsuhiko Kato