Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sakai

Hiroshi Sakai 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: 11966716
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an annealing control unit, a spin interaction memory, a random number generation unit, and a spin state update unit and obtains a solution by using an Ising model. The annealing control unit controls an annealing step and a parameter of a temperature and a parameter of a self-action. The spin interaction memory stores the interaction coefficient of a spin. The random number generation unit generates a predetermined random number. The spin state update unit includes a spin buffer that stores values of a plurality of spins, an instantaneous magnetic field calculation unit that calculates instantaneous magnetic fields of the plurality of spins, a probability calculation unit that calculates update probabilities of the plurality of spins, and a spin state determination unit that updates the values of the spins based on the update probabilities and a random number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Normann Mertig, Takashi Takemoto, Shinya Takamaeda, Kasho Yamamoto, Masato Motomura, Akira Sakai, Hiroshi Teramoto
  • Publication number: 20240119357
    Abstract: Provided are an analysis device, an analysis method, and a program capable of easily identifying a factor of a prediction error in prediction using a prediction model on the basis of various viewpoints. An analysis device (1) includes: a metric evaluation unit (2) that calculates and evaluates a plurality of types of metrics with respect to a prediction model, data of explanatory variables used in the prediction model, or data of target variables used in the prediction model; and a factor identification unit (3) that identifies a factor of an error in prediction by the prediction model according to a combination of evaluation results of the plurality of types of metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Keita SAKUMA, Tomoya SAKAI, Yoshio KAMEDA, Hiroshi TAMANO
  • Patent number: 11953526
    Abstract: A current sensor includes a wiring board, a shield, an insulating sensor housing, and a shield adhesive. The wiring board and the shield are accommodated in the sensor housing. The sensor housing has a shield support part to support the shield, and a shield adhesion part. An application surface of the shield adhesion part is further from the shield than a contact surface of the shield support part. The shield is mounted on the contact surface of the shield support part, and the shield adhesive is disposed between the application surface of the shield adhesion part and the shield. The shield and the wiring board are aligned with and spaced from each other in the sensor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Sasaki, Ryosuke Sakai, Hiroaki Miwa, Takeshi Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Nomura, Takuma Esaka, Tatsuaki Sugito
  • Publication number: 20240111195
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Koji MURATA, Akira HIRAI, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Takashi SATOH, Akira SAKAI, Shinji SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240101155
    Abstract: A route planner detects a pedestrian from surrounding data representing a situation of surroundings of a vehicle, identifies a position of a pause-by object in the surroundings of the vehicle prompting the pedestrian to pause, creating a travel route over which the vehicle will travel when the pedestrian is detected, assuming the pedestrian will enter a road on which the vehicle will travel when the identified position of the pause-by object is not in the vicinity of the pedestrian, and assuming the pedestrian will not enter the road when the identified position of the pause-by object is in the vicinity of the pedestrian.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Katsuhiro Sakai, Taisuke Sugaiwa, Naoki Nagasaka, Ray Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20240092399
    Abstract: A motion prediction device detecting, from surrounding data representing a situation in a predetermined range of surroundings of a vehicle, a traffic participant existing in the predetermined range, determining whether there is a blind area not represented in the surrounding data in the predetermined range, when it is determined that there is a blind area presuming that there is a virtual traffic participant in the blind area, and predicting motion of the traffic participant caused by the presence of the virtual traffic participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ray KAWANISHI, Katsuhiro SAKAI, Taisuke SUGAIWA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Naoki NAGASAKA
  • Patent number: 11933543
    Abstract: A heat sink includes: a container having a cavity inside and a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a working fluid encapsulated in the cavity; and a steam flow path in the cavity where the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the first surface having a flat part and a protruding part projecting from the flat part in an external direction, causing the container to have a flat portion and a protruding portion projecting from the flat portion in the external direction, an inner space of the protruding portion of the container being in communication with an inner space of the flat portion, causing the cavity to be formed, and a first heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the flat part of the first surface and a second heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenya Kawabata, Masahiro Meguro, Ryo Tsubata, Hirofumi Aoki, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hiroshi Sakai, Hideaki Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20240081745
    Abstract: A driver support system includes a processor that acquires a heart rate of a target person; evaluates a health condition of the target person based on the heart rate of the target person; and performs an operation setting of a moving object into which the target person gets as a driver. The processor evaluates the health condition of the target person based on an ordinary heart rate, which is a heart rate of the target person during an ordinary period, and a pre-driving heart rate which is a heart rate of the target person when the target person arrives at the moving object, performs the operation setting of the moving object based on a result of the health condition of the target person evaluated when the target person gets into the moving object as a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki Sakai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Keisuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240081749
    Abstract: A health assessment system includes a processor that acquires biometric measurement data measured by a wearable terminal worn by a target person, the biometric measurement data being biometric data of the target person; generates complementary biometric data for complementing the biometric measurement data in a missing period in which the acquisition unit is not able to acquire the biometric measurement data from the wearable terminal; and assesses a health condition of the target person based on the biometric measurement data and the complementary biometric data, the processor acquires exercise information, which is information about exercise of the target person, from a mobile terminal carried by the target person, generates the complementary biometric data in the missing period, based on the exercise information of the target person which is obtained from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240081661
    Abstract: Provided is a health evaluation system that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a blood pressure value of a target person; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the target person based on the acquired blood pressure value. The evaluation unit evaluates the health condition of the target person based on: a standing-state blood pressure value that is a blood pressure value measured when the target person is heading toward a moving body in a standing state; and a seated-state blood pressure value that is a blood pressure value of the target person measured after boarding the moving body and seated on a seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki Sakai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Keisuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240085198
    Abstract: A navigation system includes an evaluation unit for evaluating a degree of a health state quality for a driver of a moving body, and a route guidance unit for searching a route from a current position of the moving body to a destination, and for performing guidance of the searched route, the route guidance unit determines a search condition of a route to the destination based on an evaluation result of a health state of the driver in the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240083245
    Abstract: A driver support system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires biometric data of a driver of a moving object; an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the driver; and an interactive response unit that executes an interaction operation for interactive response with the driver using an HMI device mounted on the moving object, the evaluation unit being configured to; when estimating based on the biometric data for the driver that the health condition of the driver is poor, instruct the interactive response unit to execute the interaction operation, thereby acquiring a response input, which is a response of the driver to a response facilitating output that facilitates the driver to respond in the interaction operation; and determine the health condition of the driver based on a degree of suitability of the response input to the response facilitating output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11919541
    Abstract: Automated drive system comprises a control device. The control device executes run control processing of the automated drive vehicle provided to a driverless transportation service. The run control processing includes carriage porch control processing. The carriage porch control processing is performed when a PUDO position of a user corresponds to a carriage porch of a facility including a zone for run and a zone for PUDO. In the carriage porch control processing, it is judged whether or not there is an empty space in the zone for PUDO. If it is judged that there is no empty space, it is judged whether or not a quick PUDO of the user in the carriage porch is expected. If it is judged that the quick PUDO is expected, a target PUDO position to perform a PUDO action of the automated drive vehicle is set to any position in the zone for run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa
  • Publication number: 20230264489
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head including a nozzle row configured to discharge ink droplets that are to be cured when irradiated with light onto a recording medium, a drive unit configured to cause the recording head and the recording medium to move relative to each other, a plurality of irradiation parts configured to irradiate the recording medium with the light, a reception unit configured to receive an input of irradiation range data indicating an irradiation range of the light, and a control unit configured to control turning ON and OFF of the plurality of irradiation parts, to irradiate the recording medium with the light in accordance with the irradiation range, based on the irradiation range data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAI, Kazuya TOSHIMA, Masakazu OKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11725883
    Abstract: Provided herein is an example heat sink including a heat dissipation unit including a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure and a plurality of heat pipes, one end portions of which are thermally connected to a heating element and other end portions of which are inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tochigi, Masahiro Meguro, Hiroshi Sakai, Kenya Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20230236148
    Abstract: To accurately detect the moving state of secondary atomic ions at the time of targeted voltage application and the moving state of secondary atomic ions due to diffusion. An ion movement measuring device includes a test specimen and a detector. The test specimen has a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrolyte disposed between them. The first electrode and the second electrode each have a layer of an identical element, and have the identical potential in a state where no voltage is applied from outside the test specimen. At least the first electrode contains second atoms being isotopes of first atoms at an abundance ratio higher than a natural abundance ratio of the second atoms, the first atoms being present at a highest natural abundance ratio in the element. The detector detects some of ions of the first atoms and the second atoms, which are discharged from the electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya HATTORI, Yuji ISOGAI, Hideki SAKAI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Atsushi SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20230106794
    Abstract: A heat sink includes: a container having a cavity inside and a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a working fluid encapsulated in the cavity; and a steam flow path in the cavity where the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the first surface having a flat part and a protruding part projecting from the flat part in an external direction, causing the container to have a flat portion and a protruding portion projecting from the flat portion in the external direction, an inner space of the protruding portion of the container being in communication with an inner space of the flat portion, causing the cavity to be formed, and a first heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the flat part of the first surface and a second heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenya Kawabata, Masahiro Meguro, Ryo Tsubata, Hirofumi Aoki, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hiroshi Sakai, Hideaki Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20230102800
    Abstract: Provided herein is an example heat sink including a heat dissipation unit including a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure and a plurality of heat pipes, one end portions of which are thermally connected to a heating element and other end portions of which are inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TOCHIGI, Masahiro MEGURO, Hiroshi SAKAI, Kenya KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 11567139
    Abstract: A diagnostic device for a secondary battery which is an all-solid-state battery containing a solid electrolyte transporting lithium ions, in which the diagnostic device includes: an interruption means configured to interrupt a charging current or a discharging current of the secondary battery connected to a circuit; a measuring means configured to measure over time a variation characteristic of a terminal voltage of the secondary battery after the current is interrupted by the interruption means; and a diagnostic means configured to diagnose the cause of the degradation of the secondary battery by comparing a change rate or a change amount in voltage between a charging characteristic specified from measured values of a terminal voltage of the secondary battery measured by the measuring means, a charging/discharging characteristic specified from the measured values of the terminal voltage measured by the measuring means, and a reference characteristic of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakai, Pu Qian
  • Patent number: 11543189
    Abstract: Provided herein is an example heat sink including a heat dissipation unit including a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure and a plurality of heat pipes, one end portions of which are thermally connected to a heating element and other end portions of which are inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tochigi, Masahiro Meguro, Hiroshi Sakai, Kenya Kawabata