Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yoshida
Hiroshi Yoshida 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).
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Publication number: 20240027972Abstract: In a related method, there is a problem that an accuracy of control is not sufficiently high.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11869781Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing tub configured to store therein a processing liquid in which a substrate is immersed to be processed, the processing liquid including a first component and a second component having a boiling point higher than that of the first component; an adjusting liquid supply configured to supply an adjusting liquid configured to adjust a concentration of the second component into the processing tub, the adjusting liquid including the first component; and a controller configured to control the adjusting liquid supply. When changing the concentration, the controller calculates a liquid surface height in the processing tub corresponding to the concentration after being changed based on a concentration difference between the concentration after being changed and the concentration before being changed, and the controller controls a supply of the adjusting liquid into the processing tub based on the calculated liquid surface height.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Hideaki Sato
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Publication number: 20240003984Abstract: A method for inspecting an energy storage device, the method includes: estimating a degree of degradation of the energy storage device; determining, based on the estimated degree of degradation, a measurement condition such that time required to measure a full charge capacity of the energy storage device decreases or increases; and measuring the full charge capacity according to the determined measurement condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Nobuyuki TANAKA, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Kenta ONISHI, Yuki SUGO, Kenta FUJIMOTO, Atsushi KATO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKIZAWA
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Patent number: 11860264Abstract: A ranging apparatus of an embodiment is a ranging apparatus adopting communication type ranging by a phase detection scheme. The ranging apparatus including: a transmitting circuit configured to be able to transmit by a plurality of channels used for data communication and configured to transmit a transmission signal obtained by modulating transmission data; and a control circuit configured to control the transmission circuit to cause a plurality of continuous waves having mutually different frequencies to be generated in a same channel as continuous waves used for ranging by the phase detection scheme.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka, Katsuya Nonin, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11856345Abstract: A remote control apparatus measures a communication delay in a communication network, generates a probability distribution of the communication delay, generates, based on the probability distribution of the communication delay, a plurality of arrival patterns, including an arrival time of a control input at a control target, predicts a state of the control target at a time of arrival of the control input, calculates a control input set by calculating a plurality of control inputs corresponding respectively to the plurality of states predicted, determines a control input to be outputted to the control target, based on a result of statistical processing applied on the control input set calculated.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230409843Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device capable of reducing energy consumption. Provided is a semiconductor device including: an input unit that inputs a charge; a computing unit that accumulates a charge from the input unit and performs an arithmetic operation; and an output unit that detects and outputs the charge accumulated in the computing unit, in which the computing unit includes an accumulation unit to which a plurality of pair units, each of which is a pair of the input unit and a gate unit, is connected, each of the plurality of pair units makes a charge input from the input unit to the accumulation unit variable, and the accumulation unit accumulates a charge input from each of the connected plurality of pair units. The present disclosure is, for example, applicable to an analog computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Jun Okuno, Hiroki Koga, Yusuke Shuto, Takeo Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20230410647Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, HIroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230402119Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device enabling to suppress waste of energy consumption. There is provided a semiconductor device including: an input unit configured to input a charge; a memory unit configured to collect and accumulate a charge from the input unit; and an output unit configured to detect and output a charge accumulated in the memory unit. The memory unit includes a transfer unit to which a plurality of pairs of a gate unit and an accumulation unit is connected, the gate unit selects the accumulation unit that accumulates a charge, the transfer unit transfers a charge from the input unit to the accumulation unit selected by the gate unit, the accumulation unit accumulates a charge transferred from the transfer unit, and the transfer unit transfers a charge accumulated in the accumulation unit selected by the gate unit, to the output unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an analog memory device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: HIROSHI YOSHIDA, JUN OKUNO, HIROKI KOGA, YUSUKE SHUTO, TAKEO TSUKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11842904Abstract: A control device for a substrate processing apparatus stores a plurality of records each including a recipe for a substrate etching processing and a control value for a control target, the control value being an actual output value for the control target in the substrate etching processing; acquires a recipe at a start of the substrate etching processing when an abnormality occurs in the temperature sensor or in the concentration sensor; reads a record from among the plurality of records having a recipe identical to the recipe acquired at the start of the substrate etching processing; and executes the substrate etching processing based on the control value of the record read by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Takahiro Kawazu
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Publication number: 20230392345Abstract: Realized is a loading action which is carried out by a work machine while taking into consideration an upper limit load. A control apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition section (11) of acquiring weight information on a weight of a target object which has been excavated by a work machine; and an action control section (12) of controlling an action of the work machine such that a load of the target object to be loaded into a loading destination is adjusted based on the weight information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Yosuke KAKUNO, Masafumi NOMURA
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Patent number: 11836461Abstract: An arithmetic apparatus includes input lines and multiply-accumulate devices. An electrical signal for an input value is input into each of the input lines within a predetermined input period. Multiplication units include a positive weight multiplication unit that generates a positive weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a positive weight value and/or a negative weight multiplication unit that generates a negative weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a negative weight value. They are configured such that a positive weight ratio that is a ratio of a sum total of the positive weight values to a sum total of absolute values of the weight values is any ratio of 0% to 100%. An output unit of the multiply-accumulate device accumulates the generated weight charges to output a multiply-accumulate signal representing a sum of the product values.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230387321Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first electrode layer on a substrate, and then forming a stack structure on the first electrode layer, wherein the stack structure comprises a first insulating layer, a gate electrode layer, and a second insulating layer. An opening is formed in the stack structure. A gate dielectric layer is formed on a sidewall of the opening of the stack structure, and an oxide semiconductor layer is formed in the opening, wherein the gate dielectric layer is sandwiched between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode layer. A second electrode layer is then formed on the stack structure to be in direct contact with the oxide semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230350692Abstract: An arithmetic device includes a communication unit that communicates with another instrument, a first activation unit to which a first address is set, and a second activation unit to which a second address is set and at which a computer program can be updated by the first activation unit. When having determined that information of update that can be performed by the first activation unit is included in information acquired by the communication unit, the second activation unit transmits the second address to the first activation unit. When having received the second address from the second activation unit, the first activation unit changes the first address to the second address, establishes communication with the other instrument based on the second address, and performs update at the second activation unit based on update information transmitted from the other instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Kazunori KENJO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230351538Abstract: The falling risk determination device includes the acquisition unit, the calculation unit, the measurement unit, and the determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires time-series data related to gravity center oscillation of the worker from a sensor unit provided at a leg portion of a high-place work tool on which the worker rides. The calculation unit calculates an evaluation value related to the gravity center oscillation from the time-series data. The measurement unit carries out a Stroop test on the worker in parallel with processing of acquiring time-series data, and measures the fatigue level of the worker using the result of the Stroop test. The determination unit determines that the falling risk is high in a case where the evaluation value is larger than an average value of past evaluation values corresponding to the fatigue level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Rie SAKAI, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Tomoko SHIBATA
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Patent number: 11800721Abstract: A ferroelectric memory structure including a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a memory cell is provided. The second conductive line is disposed on the first conductive line. The memory cell is disposed between the first and second conductive lines. The memory cell includes a switch device and a ferroelectric capacitor structure. The switch device is disposed between the first and second conductive lines. The ferroelectric capacitor structure is disposed between the first conductive line and the switch device. The ferroelectric capacitor structure includes ferroelectric capacitors electrically connected. Each of the ferroelectric capacitors includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a ferroelectric material layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The ferroelectric material layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Shou-Zen Chang, Ming-Han Liao, Min-Cheng Chen, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230334397Abstract: In one embodiment, a work assignment support device is configured to: classify past assignment table data indicating assignment of work to workers into data at normal time and data at time of saturation by comparison between a workable amount determined from a number of the workers and an actual amount of work; set a threshold to each of a plurality of items on the basis of information on the plurality of items relating to an attribute of a worker, an attribute of work, or an attribute of a combination of a worker and work related to the data at normal time; and determine whether or not information on each of the plurality of items related to the data at time of saturation satisfies the threshold, and determine priority order of the plurality of items on the basis of a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11783701Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230315113Abstract: In order to provide a moving body control system, a control apparatus, and a moving body control method that can control travel distance in returning to a target path, the moving body control system includes a moving body and a control apparatus configured to control the moving body to follow a target path, wherein the control apparatus is configured to: calculate distance until shifting the moving body to an asymptotic-orbit for the target path by turning the moving body, at each of one or more candidate center-of-gravity velocities of the moving body, based on a position of the moving body and an angle between a moving direction of the moving body and the target path; and determine a target center-of-gravity velocity of the moving body from the one or more candidate center-of-gravity velocities based on the calculated distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Taichi KUMAGAI, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230311993Abstract: A subframe (100) includes a base member (110) and a first member (121). The base member (110) is a channel-shaped member that includes a base surface portion. (111) and two wall portions (112) on both sides of the base surface portion (111) in a vehicle length direction and is open on its lower side in a vehicle height direction. The first member (121) includes a bottom wall portion (121g), a top wall portion (121t), and a side wall portion (121s). The bottom wall portion (121g) and the top wall portion (121t) are disposed in the same direction as the base surface portion (111). The top wall portion (121t) is overlapped on and joined to the base surface portion (111). The wall portions (112) and the bottom wall portion (121g) form the channel shape. The side wall portion (121s) is a wall that blocks a vehicle width direction between the bottom wall portion (121g) and the top wall portion (121t).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Junichiro SUZUKI, Yohei KATO, Susumu YUASA, Yui TAKAHASHI, Daisuke YASUFUKU, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11777494Abstract: A level shift transistor of a first conductivity type configured to level shift a signal from a primary side circuit to a secondary side circuit between the primary side circuit having a primary side reference potential as reference and the secondary side circuit having a secondary side reference potential independent from the primary side reference potential as reference, a diode connected in a forward direction between a first main electrode of the level shift transistor and the secondary side circuit, a capacitor connected in parallel to the diode, and an inverter configured to invert the signal are provided. A control electrode of the level shift transistor is connected to a primary side power supply of the primary side circuit, and a second main electrode thereof is connected to an output of the inverter. The inverter operates between the primary side reference potential and the primary side power supply.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuta Tsukuma, Hiroshi Yoshida