Patents by Inventor Hiroki Asano

Hiroki Asano 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: 10715049
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify, according to an input first signal, a control unit that a target voltage is switched from a first voltage to a second voltage higher than the first voltage; and a switching unit configured to switch the target voltage to the first voltage or the second voltage. The switching unit switches the target voltage from the first voltage to the second voltage after the notification unit notifies the control unit that the target voltage is switched from the first voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20200186044
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify, according to an input first signal, a control unit that a target voltage is switched from a first voltage to a second voltage higher than the first voltage; and a switching unit configured to switch the target voltage to the first voltage or the second voltage. The switching unit switches the target voltage from the first voltage to the second voltage after the notification unit notifies the control unit that the target voltage is switched from the first voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroki Asano
  • Patent number: 10630161
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a current detection unit configured to detect a current that flows through a first switching element of a transformer, and a control unit controls a turn-on time of the first switching element based on a feedback voltage from a secondary side of the transformer, controls a turn-on time of a second switching element based on a detection result of the current detection unit, and performs switching between a continuous control and an intermittent control based on the feedback voltage, the continuous control being a control to perform an operation of continuing a first period, the intermittent control being a control to perform an operation of alternately repeating the first period and a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20200041292
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute: accepting an alighting request to allow a first user to alight at a place other than a travel destination of the first user while a first vehicle allows the first user to ride and travels; performing determination of an alighting place where the first user is allowed to alight, and extraction of one or more candidate vehicles capable of allowing the first user to board at a boarding place that is a place identical to the alighting place or a place adjacent thereto, according to the alighting request; and notifying a request for the first user's reboarding at the boarding place, to a second vehicle that is one of the one or more candidate vehicles, based on an approval by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki SUGIYAMA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Hiroki ASANO, Harunobu SAITO, Yoshihiro TSUGE, Tae SUGIMURA, Kuniaki JINNAI
  • Patent number: 10547242
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a transformer, a switching unit provided on a primary side of the transformer and configured to perform switching operation for converting an input voltage resulting from rectification and smoothing of an AC voltage and outputting an output voltage from a secondary side of the transformer; a first detection unit configured to detect the output voltage, a feedback unit configured to generate a feedback voltage based on the voltage detected by the first detection unit; a control unit configured to control the switching operation of the switching unit based on the feedback voltage generated by the feedback unit; and a second detection unit configured to detect the AC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Publication number: 20200019906
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute: determining whether to change a scheduled riding vehicle for a first user or not based on predetermined position information related to a first user's riding a first vehicle, before a scheduled time on which the first user is to board the first vehicle which the first user is scheduled to board at a first boarding place; extracting one or more candidate vehicles serving as alternative candidates for the first vehicle, when it is determined to change the scheduled riding vehicle for the first user; and changing the scheduled riding vehicle for the first user from the first vehicle to a second vehicle that is one of the one or more candidate vehicles, based on an approval by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki SUGIYAMA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Hiroki ASANO, Harunobu SAITO, Yoshihiro TSUGE, Tae SUGIMURA, Kuniaki JINNAI
  • Publication number: 20200012996
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires information indicating a travel plan of a user and information indicating a driving schedule of a car available for the use of rideshare, and transmits information recommending the use of rideshare to a terminal of the user when determining that the travel plan of the user is executable by the use of rideshare using the car based on the information indicating the travel plan of the user and the information indicating the driving schedule of the car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki SUGIYAMA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Hiroki ASANO, Harunobu SAITO, Yoshihiro TSUGE, Tae SUGIMURA, Kuniaki JINNAI
  • Publication number: 20190394609
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal mounted in a vehicle includes a controller configured to: transmit a radio signal indicating that it is possible to share a ride in the vehicle; upon receipt of the radio signal from a user terminal that has received the radio signal, transmit information relating to the vehicle to the user terminal; and receive information indicating a result of determination of whether or not a user of the user terminal can join the ride in the vehicle, the determination being made using the information relating to the vehicle, from the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki SUGIYAMA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Hiroki ASANO, Harunobu SAITO, Yoshihiro TSUGE, Tae SUGIMURA, Kuniaki JINNAI
  • Patent number: 10498246
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a transformer, at least one switching element provided on a primary side of the transformer and configured to perform a switching operation to output an output voltage from a secondary side of the transformer, and a control unit configured to determine a turn-on time of a pulse signal for controlling the switching element for each of first cycles, and perform a predetermined control in which a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of second cycles each including the first cycles becomes smaller than a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of the first cycles, to change the second cycle depending on operation states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Patent number: 10432084
    Abstract: The switching power supply apparatus including a transformer includes a detection unit configured to detect that the power supply apparatus malfunctions and a first holding unit configured to turn off a first switching element and holds the first switching element at turn-off condition, and when the detection unit detects that malfunction occurs, the first holding unit releases the first switching element from the turn-off condition at a timing when the control unit turns on the second switching element by a second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Saito, Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Patent number: 10423488
    Abstract: An error detection device includes a generation unit and a detection-correction unit. When writing data into a storage unit, the generation unit generates error detection information for each piece of division-data into which write-data are divided. The error detection information is information which is available in determining whether a bit error includes in the division-data, and by which a position where the bit error is caused can be detected based on plural pieces of the error detection information of the plural division-data composing the write-data. Using the error detection information, the detection-correction unit can determine whether the bit error is caused in the division-data. Using plural pieces of the error detection information of the data including the division-data in which it is detected that the bit error is caused, the detection-correction unit can detect the position where the error is caused, and can correct the bit error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20190260295
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control of gradually changing a turn-on duty of a first switching element when a first voltage mode is switched to a second voltage mode or when the second voltage mode is switched to the first voltage mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Patent number: 10389259
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus switches the capacitance of a resonance capacitor to a first value at the time of a continuous operation, and switches the capacitance of the resonance capacitor to a second value smaller than the first value at the time of an intermittent operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Patent number: 10320299
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control of gradually changing a turn-on duty of a first switching element when a first voltage mode is switched to a second voltage mode or when the second voltage mode is switched to the first voltage mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20190149054
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a transformer, at least one switching element provided on a primary side of the transformer and configured to perform a switching operation to output an output voltage from a secondary side of the transformer, and a control unit configured to determine a turn-on time of a pulse signal for controlling the switching element for each of first cycles, and perform a predetermined control in which a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of second cycles each including the first cycles becomes smaller than a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of the first cycles, to change the second cycle depending on operation states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20190098159
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a transformer, a switching unit provided on a primary side of the transformer and configured to perform switching operation for converting an input voltage resulting from rectification and smoothing of an AC voltage and outputting an output voltage from a secondary side of the transformer; a first detection unit configured to detect the output voltage, a feedback unit configured to generate a feedback voltage based on the voltage detected by the first detection unit; a control unit configured to control the switching operation of the switching unit based on the feedback voltage generated by the feedback unit; and a second detection unit configured to detect the AC voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Publication number: 20190058387
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a current detection unit configured to detect a current that flows through a first switching element of a transformer, and a control unit controls a turn-on time of the first switching element based on a feedback voltage from a secondary side of the transformer, controls a turn-on time of a second switching element based on a detection result of the current detection unit, and performs switching between a continuous control and an intermittent control based on the feedback voltage, the continuous control being a control to perform an operation of continuing a first period, the intermittent control being a control to perform an operation of alternately repeating the first period and a second period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano
  • Publication number: 20190058406
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus switches the capacitance of a resonance capacitor to a first value at the time of a continuous operation, and switches the capacitance of the resonance capacitor to a second value smaller than the first value at the time of an intermittent operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Publication number: 20190020268
    Abstract: The switching power supply apparatus including a transformer includes a detection unit configured to detect that the power supply apparatus malfunctions and a first holding unit configured to turn off a first switching element and holds the first switching element at turn-off condition, and when the detection unit detects that malfunction occurs, the first holding unit releases the first switching element from the turn-off condition at a timing when the control unit turns on the second switching element by a second control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke Saito, Hiroki Asano, Yasuhiro Shimura
  • Patent number: 10139770
    Abstract: A power source device includes a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding; a switching element for enabling or disabling supply of electric power to the primary winding by a switching operation; a controller for controlling the switching operation, wherein the controller is capable of effecting continuous control in which the switching operation is continued and intermittent control in which a switching period in which the switching operation is performed and a rest period in which the switching operation is at rest are repeated, a calculating portion not operating in the rest period; and a measuring portion continuing operation even in the rest period. When a predetermined time has elapsed from a start of the rest period, the measuring portion causes the calculating portion to resume the operation thereof, and starts the switching period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Hiroki Asano