Patents by Inventor Hideki Osaka

Hideki Osaka 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: 10952311
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic control unit, which includes a printed wiring board on which a semiconductor element is mounted, including a power supply pattern and a ground pattern which are formed on the printed wiring board and connected to the semiconductor element, at least one capacitance adjustment pattern which is formed on the printed wiring board, and a connection portion which is provided for each capacitance adjustment pattern and able to switch electrical connection between either the power supply pattern or the ground pattern and the capacitance adjustment pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyama, Yutaka Uematsu, Hiroki Funato, Hideki Osaka, Mitsuhiro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20190342989
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic control unit, which includes a printed wiring board on which a semiconductor element is mounted, including a power supply pattern and a ground pattern which are formed on the printed wiring board and connected to the semiconductor element, at least one capacitance adjustment pattern which is formed on the printed wiring board, and a connection portion which is provided for each capacitance adjustment pattern and able to switch electrical connection between either the power supply pattern or the ground pattern and the capacitance adjustment pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro TOYAMA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Hiroki FUNATO, Hideki OSAKA, Mitsuhiro MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9933475
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor inspection circuit which is capable of inspecting connection states of power supply, ground, and signal bumps in a semiconductor package or a printed circuit board equipped with a semiconductor LSI mounted in a product operation state. As a means to solve the problem, a circuit capable of switching a path is provided at an input portion of a driver/receiver, a mechanism capable of transferring an output of a path switching circuit near a receiver circuit to a voltage waveform circuit with an internal variable terminal is provided, and a breakage state of a bump can be observed in the product operation state by observing a DC level at a terminal having a certain DC resistance when a signal bump connection state is observed and receiving a step wave and observing a response waveform thereof when an IO power supply bump connection state is observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Hideki Osaka, Tadanobu Toba, Kenichi Shimbo
  • Patent number: 9858181
    Abstract: A memory module having different types of memory mounted together on a double-sided substrate has a first edge and opposite second edge and includes a plurality of memory controllers, a plurality of flash memories, and a plurality of second memories having a higher signal transmission rate than the flash memories. A socket terminal for connecting the double-sided substrate to a motherboard is formed on the front surface and the back surface of the double-sided substrate on the first edge side; the memory controllers are disposed on the second edge side; the second memories are disposed on the second edge side at positions opposite the positions at which the memory controllers are disposed; and the flash memories are disposed on at least the back surface thereof at positions that are closer to the first edge than are the positions at which the memory controllers and the second memories are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Satoshi Muraoka, Hiroshi Kakita, Akio Idei, Yusuke Fukumura, Satoru Watanabe, Takayuki Ono, Taishi Sumikura, Yuichi Fukuda, Takashi Miyagawa, Michinori Naito, Hideki Osaka, Masabumi Shibata, Hitoshi Ueno, Kazunori Nakajima, Yoshihiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20170350933
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor inspection circuit which is capable of inspecting connection states of power supply, ground, and signal bumps in a semiconductor package or a printed circuit board equipped with a semiconductor LSI mounted in a product operation state. As a means to solve the problem, a circuit capable of switching a path is provided at an input portion of a driver/receiver, a mechanism capable of transferring an output of a path switching circuit near a receiver circuit to a voltage waveform circuit with an internal variable terminal is provided, and a breakage state of a bump can be observed in the product operation state by observing a DC level at a terminal having a certain DC resistance when a signal bump connection state is observed and receiving a step wave and observing a response waveform thereof when an IO power supply bump connection state is observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideki OSAKA, Tadanobu TOBA, Kenichi SHIMBO
  • Patent number: 9658783
    Abstract: In methods connecting a memory module configured from DRAM, which is high-speed memory, and a memory module configured from flash memory which is slower than DRAM but is high-capacity memory, to a CPU memory bus, in the case of sequential reading, the busy rate of the CPU memory bus increases, and performance degradation occurs easily. In the present invention, an information processing device has a CPU, a CPU memory bus, and a primary storage device. The primary storage device has a first memory module and a second memory module. The first memory module has high-speed memory. The second memory module has memory having the same memory interface as that of the high-speed memory, high-capacity memory having a different memory interface from that of the high-speed memory, and a controller that controls same. The first memory module and second memory module are caused to be accessed by the memory interface of the high-speed memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Muraoka, Yutaka Uematsu, Hideki Osaka, Yuusuke Fukumura, Satoru Watanabe, Masabumi Shibata, Hiroshi Kakita, Yuichi Fukuda, Takashi Miyagawa, Michinori Naito, Hitoshi Ueno, Akio Idei, Takayuki Ono, Taishi Sumikura
  • Patent number: 9569144
    Abstract: When DRAMs that are high-speed memories and flash memories that are lower in speed but can be larger in capacity than the DRAM are to be mounted on a DIMM, what matters in maximizing CPU memory bus throughput is the arrangement of the mounted components. The present disclosure provides a memory module (DIMM) that includes memory controllers arranged on the module surface closer to a socket terminal and DRAMs serving as high-speed memories arranged on the back surface. Nonvolatile memories as large-capacity memories are arranged on the side farther from the socket terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Satoshi Muraoka, Hideki Osaka, Masabumi Shibata, Yuusuke Fukumura, Satoru Watanabe, Hiroshi Kakita, Akio Idei, Hitoshi Ueno, Takayuki Ono, Takashi Miyagawa, Michinori Naito, Taishi Sumikura, Yuichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9507895
    Abstract: A simulation apparatus includes a discrete events simulation section to perform a discrete type simulation of components of a configured model as defined based on attribute information that is information on parts of the components of the defined configured model and connection information showing a connectional relationship among the components of the defined configured model; and a soft error rate computation processing section to compute a soft error rate of the defined configured model based on the simulation result of the discrete events simulation section and data on soft error rates in the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Toba, Kenichi Shimbo, Hidefumi Ibe, Hideki Osaka
  • Patent number: 9500689
    Abstract: Provided is a noise equivalent circuit for completing an EMC analysis in a practical time and through a low-cost calculation process at an upstream stage of system design. The noise equivalent circuit includes one or more energy sources; a propagation path for propagation of energy from the energy source including a conductive path such as a cable and an electromagnetic field coupling path due to the coupling of an electric field and a magnetic field with another electronic device or cable; and a GND port connected to a system, and each port is represented by the noise voltage source or the noise current source and the internal impedance. This noise equivalent circuit can determine an external impedance that is varied depending on a load connected externally or the distance from an external device or a cable, whereby the noise of the system as a whole can be analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Torigoe, Hiroki Funato, Takashi Suga, Hideki Osaka, Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Keisuke Fukumasu, Hitoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 9489324
    Abstract: Provided is a data processing device with which, when a temporary network congestion occurs, it is possible to avoid a buffer overflow and sustain a process. When a request for retransmission of the same data with respect to a processor element from a buffer occurs continuously a prescribed number of iterations, a data processing device according to the present invention determines that it is possible that a buffer overflow occurs, and suppresses an increase in the volume of data which is accumulated in the buffer (see FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurai, Tadanobu Toba, Ken Iizumi, Katsunori Hirano, Hideki Osaka
  • Publication number: 20160092351
    Abstract: A memory module having different types of memory mounted together on a double-sided substrate has a first edge and opposite second edge and includes a plurality of memory controllers, a plurality of flash memories, and a plurality of second memories having a higher signal transmission rate than the flash memories. A socket terminal for connecting the double-sided substrate to a motherboard is formed on the front surface and the back surface of the double-sided substrate on the first edge side; the memory controllers are disposed on the second edge side; the second memories are disposed on the second edge side at positions opposite the positions at which the memory controllers are disposed; and the flash memories are disposed on at least the back surface thereof at positions that are closer to the first edge than are the positions at which the memory controllers and the second memories are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Satoshi MURAOKA, Hiroshi KAKITA, Akio IDEI, Yusuke FUKUMURA, Satoru WATANABE, Takayuki ONO, Taishi SUMIKURA, Yuichi FUKUDA, Takashi MIYAGAWA, Michinori NAITO, Hideki OSAKA, Masabumi SHIBATA, Hitoshi UENO, Kazunori NAKAJIMA, Yoshihiro KONDO
  • Publication number: 20150355846
    Abstract: When DRAMs that are high-speed memories and flash memories that are lower in speed but can be larger in capacity than the DRAM are to be mounted on a DIMM, what matters in maximizing CPU memory bus throughput is the arrangement of the mounted components. The present disclosure provides a memory module (DIMM) that includes memory controllers arranged on the module surface closer to a socket terminal and DRAMs serving as high-speed memories arranged on the back surface. Nonvolatile memories as large-capacity memories are arranged on the side farther from the socket terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Satoshi MURAOKA, Hideki OSAKA, Masabumi SHIBATA, Yuusuke FUKUMURA, Satoru WATANABE, Hiroshi KAKITA, Akio IDEI, Hitoshi UENO, Takayuki ONO, Takashi MIYAGAWA, Michinori NAITO, Taishi SUMIKURA, Yuichi FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20150347032
    Abstract: In methods connecting a memory module configured from DRAM, which is high-speed memory, and a memory module configured from flash memory which is slower than DRAM but is high-capacity memory, to a CPU memory bus, in the case of sequential reading, the busy rate of the CPU memory bus increases, and performance degradation occurs easily. In the present invention, an information processing device has a CPU, a CPU memory bus, and a primary storage device. The primary storage device has a first memory module and a second memory module. The first memory module has high-speed memory. The second memory module has memory having the same memory interface as that of the high-speed memory, high-capacity memory having a different memory interface from that of the high-speed memory, and a controller that controls same. The first memory module and second memory module are caused to be accessed by the memory interface of the high-speed memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAOKA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideki OSAKA, Yuusuke FUKUMURA, Satoru WATANABE, Masabumi SHIBATA, Hiroshi KAKITA, Yuichi FUKUDA, Takashi MIYAGAWA, Michinori NAITO, Hitoshi UENO, Akio IDEI, Takayuki ONO, Taishi SUMIKURA
  • Publication number: 20140368217
    Abstract: Provided is a noise equivalent circuit required for completing an EMC analysis in a practical time and through a low-cost calculation process at an upstream stage of system design. According to the present invention, the noise equivalent circuit comprises: one or more energy sources; a propagation path for propagation of energy from the energy source including a conductive path such as a cable and an electromagnetic field coupling path due to the coupling of an electric field and a magnetic field with another electronic device or cable; and a GND port connected to a system, and is characterized in that each port is represented by the noise voltage source or the noise current source and the internal impedance. This noise equivalent circuit can be used to determine an external impedance that is varied depending on a load connected externally or the distance from an external device or a cable, whereby the noise of the system as a whole can be analyzed (see FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Torigoe, Hiroki Funato, Takashi Suga, Hideki Osaka, Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Keisuke Fukumasu, Hitoshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20140372656
    Abstract: Provided is a data processing device with which, when a temporary network congestion occurs, it is possible to avoid a buffer overflow and sustain a process. When a request for retransmission of the same data with respect to a processor element from a buffer occurs continuously a prescribed number of iterations, a data processing device according to the present invention determines that it is possible that a buffer overflow occurs, and suppresses an increase in the volume of data which is accumulated in the buffer (see FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurai, Tadanobu Toba, Ken Iizumi, Katsunori Hirano, Hideki Osaka
  • Patent number: 8878351
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a chip-on-chip structure is constituted of a first semiconductor chip and even-numbered pairs of second semiconductor chips, all of which are laminated together on the surface of an interposer. The first semiconductor chip controls each pair of the second semiconductor chips so as to activate one second semiconductor chip while inactivating another second semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chips are paired together in such a way that through-vias and electrodes thereof are positioned opposite to each other via bumps. Since drive voltage electrodes supplied with a drive voltage (VDD) and reference potential electrodes supplied with a reference potential (VSS) are mutually connected together between the paired second semiconductor chips, it is possible to increase the overall electrostatic capacitance of each second semiconductor chip so as to substantially reduce feed noise without increasing the overall layout area of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: PS4 Luxco S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Eiichi Suzuki, Hideki Osaka, Yutaka Uematsu, Yoji Nishio
  • Patent number: 8680881
    Abstract: An interposer to be mounted with an integrated circuit to be a test object is provided with a switch and a probe to detect an electric current corresponding to individual terminals of the integrated circuit. A test pattern signal is then inputted to the integrated circuit through a test substrate as a switch that is connected to a power supply terminal of the integrated circuit and that is turned off. If the integrated circuit normally operates and the current values of all the terminals of the integrated circuit are within a tolerance, the power supply terminal connected to the turned-off switch is identified as a terminal that may be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Hideki Osaka, Satoshi Nakamura, Satoshi Muraoka, Mitsuaki Katagiri, Ken Iwakura, Yukitoshi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20130275111
    Abstract: To provide a simulation technology of ending multiphysics analysis on heat, vibration, and EMC within a practical time and with a low-price computation process at an early stage of product designing, in a noise analysis designing method for an electric device, such as an inverter for automobile, this electric device includes one or more energy sources, a propagation path through which energy from the energy source propagates, and a noise occurring part where an electromagnetic radiated noise occurs due to the energy coming from the propagation path, the method has a step of estimating the occurring noise, such as a occurring radiated noise, by analyzing a path specified by a user by using a calculator, and the path specified by the user is a path of the energy flowing through the propagation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Hideki OSAKA, Takashi SUGA, Makoto TORIGOE
  • Patent number: 8484598
    Abstract: To provide a simulation technology of ending multiphysics analysis on heat, vibration, and EMC within a practical time and with a low-price computation process at an early stage of product designing, in a noise analysis designing method for an electric device, such as an inverter for automobile, this electric device includes one or more energy sources, a propagation path through which energy from the energy source propagates, and a noise occurring part where an electromagnetic radiated noise occurs due to the energy coming from the propagation path, the method has a step of estimating the occurring noise, such as a occurring radiated noise, by analyzing a path specified by a user by using a calculator, and the path specified by the user is a path of the energy flowing through the propagation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Osaka, Takashi Suga, Makoto Torigoe
  • Publication number: 20130132056
    Abstract: A simulation apparatus includes a discrete events simulation section to perform a discrete type simulation of components of a configured model as defined based on attribute information that is information on parts of the components of the defined configured model and connection information showing a connectional relationship among the components of the defined configured model; and a soft error rate computation processing section to compute a soft error rate of the defined configured model based on the simulation result of the discrete events simulation section and data on soft error rates in the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Tadanobu Toba, Kenichi Shimbo, Hidefumi Ibe, Hideki Osaka