Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Kondo
Katsuhiko Kondo 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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Patent number: 11983937Abstract: An intersecting road estimation device includes an object detection unit that detects an object existing around an own vehicle and a position of the object, an object extraction unit that extracts a stationary object and a position of the stationary object from an object detection result, a first estimation unit that estimates a road edge of a traveling road on which the own vehicle is traveling based on the position of the stationary object, a candidate extraction unit that extracts a stationary object existing outside the road edge of the traveling road estimated by the first estimation unit as a candidate for an outside stationary object representing a road edge of an intersecting road intersecting the traveling road, and a second estimation unit that estimates the road edge of the intersecting road based on a position of the outside stationary object extracted by the candidate extraction unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Akamine, Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20240128808Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO PRESSTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji KONDO, Yuichi KUDOSE, Hirotaka KUROZAKI, Masaki OHIRA, Ryosuke MATSUMOTO, Shinji TAKESHITA, Takashi KURAMITSU, Tomohiro HASHIMOTO, Koji YOSHIDA, Katsuhiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20240054172Abstract: A server obtains a partial ID assigned to a partial region selected by a user on a web page including a plurality of partial regions, updates user characteristic information indicating interests of the user on the basis of the partial ID, changes a structure of a web page on the basis of the user characteristic information of the user to which the web page is to be provided, and transmits the web page to a user terminal of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
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Publication number: 20240047294Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device capable of reducing damage on a resin case by heating during manufacture and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of reducing damage on a resin case by heating during manufacture. A semiconductor device includes a base plate, an insulating substrate, a semiconductor element, and a resin case. The base plate includes first and second regions whose positions differ from each other in a plan view. The insulating substrate is bonded on an upper surface of the second region. The insulating substrate includes a circuit pattern on an upper surface. The semiconductor element is bonded on the circuit pattern. The resin case is bonded on an upper surface of the first region. Thermal resistance between the upper surface and a lower surface of the first region is higher than thermal resistance between the upper surface and a lower surface of the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya SHIRATSURU
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Patent number: 11892536Abstract: An object-detecting device includes a first detector, an object tracker, a second detector, and an axial misalignment determiner. The first detector detects a distance between a moving body and an object and an orientation of the object relative to the moving body based on detection information acquired from detection sensors including a search wave sensor that searches a detection region with a search wave. The object tracker tracks the same object passing through a different detection region based on the detection information. The second detector detects at least either one of a height of the object or a lateral distance of the object as object information based on the detection information.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 11885902Abstract: A vehicle radar system includes at least one radar, a detection section, an extraction section, a pair determination section, and a target position determination section. The extraction section extracts at least one observation point pair from a plurality of detected observation points. The observation point pair is a pair of the observation points located in the same direction. The target position determination section calculates a surface direction of a reflection surface from a reflection surface observation point of the observation point pair and observation points around the reflection surface observation point, and determines a position of the target from the calculated surface direction and the at least one observation point pair.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20230352354Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the first disclosure includes a base plate that has an upper surface and a back surface on a side opposite the upper surface and at the back surface of which an annular groove is formed, a substrate provided on the upper surface of the base plate and a semiconductor chip provided on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the base plate has a convex warping part that warps in a convex shape toward the upper surface side, and a part of the groove, which is formed at the convex warping part is deeper at a position farther away from a maximum warping part having a largest warp in the convex warping part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Taishi SASAKI
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Patent number: 11802952Abstract: The position detecting apparatus repeatedly acquires, from a radar apparatus, object information including at least an object distance as a distance between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object and a relative speed between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object. The position detecting apparatus calculates a speed ratio as a ratio between the relative speed and the travelling speed. The position detecting apparatus calculates, based on the speed ratio, a projection distance between a projected position of the reflecting object projected onto a projection plane and a position of the radar apparatus on the projection plane, the projection plane having a predetermined angle with respect to a center axis indicating a direction along which the radar waves are transmitted by the radar apparatus and including the radar apparatus. The position detection apparatus calculates the position of the reflecting object based on the calculated projection distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
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Publication number: 20230244850Abstract: A program is added to a browser for displaying a web page, and when an attached URL is included in an image file included in the web page, the program causes a computer to perform a function to access the attached URL.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
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Publication number: 20230195930Abstract: A user terminal 100a stores therein user's personal information I1. The user terminal 100a limits the range of information that can be provided to a user terminal 100b in the personal information I1 to personal information I1b and limits the range of information that can be provided to a user terminal 100c in the personal information I1 to personal information I1c. Similarly, each of the user terminals 100b and 100c also limits the range of information that can be provided in accordance with a partner. Each user terminal 100 may limit the range of information that can be transmitted or received by an output filter or an input filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
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Publication number: 20230196006Abstract: A document generation device includes a receiving unit that receives data assigned a tag from a user terminal, a checking unit that refers to a first filter indicating tags necessary for a document in a predetermined format to determine whether or not the tag assigned to the received data meets the first filter, and a document generating unit that generates a document on the basis of data that meet the first filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
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Publication number: 20230176186Abstract: An axial misalignment estimation apparatus calculates a first estimated speed ratio that is an estimated speed ratio calculated using an orientation angle that is corrected based on an axial misalignment angle estimated in measurement cycles up to a previous measurement cycle, and calculates at least one second estimated speed ratio that is the first estimated speed ratio presuming aliasing is present at the orientation angle. The axial misalignment estimation apparatus determines, for each stationary reflection point, whether aliasing is present at the orientation angle of the stationary reflection point based on the first estimated speed ratio and the at least one second estimated speed ratio, and corrects the orientation angle of the stationary reflection point in which aliasing is determined to be present, and estimates the axial misalignment angle based on the corrected orientation angle for the stationary reflection point of which the orientation angle is corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230170719Abstract: A battery unit includes a power storage unit for supplying power to an external device, a communication unit for performing communication with the external device, and a processor for performing a control process on the external device on the basis of a power storage status of the power storage unit or information obtained from the external device. For example, when the state of charge (SOC) of the power storage unit has lowered, the processor limits the operation of a household electric appliance with a low priority level in the control process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
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Patent number: 11614536Abstract: An object detection apparatus detects a target object present in a periphery of a moving body. The object detection apparatus derives recognition information indicating a state of a target object, and predicts a state of the target object at a next second observation timing, based on the recognition information derived at a first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a score based on a degree of difference between a state of the target object observed at the second observation timing and a next state of the target object predicted at the first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a reliability level by statistically processing scores related to the target object derived at a plurality of observation timings from past to present. In response to the reliability level satisfying a predetermined reference, the object detection apparatus determines that the target object related to the reliability level is actually present.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20230008630Abstract: An object information acquisition unit acquires object information including an object distance between a radar device and a reflection object and an object azimuth angle at which the reflection object is located. A roadside object extraction unit extracts roadside object information on a roadside object from the object information. An axis deviation angle estimation unit estimates a vertical axis deviation angle from the roadside object information. The vertical axis deviation angle is an angle of deviation of an actual mounting direction from a reference mounting direction in a vertical direction. The actual mounting direction is an actual direction of the radar device, and the reference mounting direction is a direction of the radar device when the radar device is mounted in a reference state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Yasunori NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20230008853Abstract: An axis deviation angle estimation device estimates a vertical axis deviation angle of a radar device based on roadside object information including information on a plurality of reflection points on a roadside object and road surface information including information on a plurality of reflection points on a road surface. The vertical axis deviation angle is an angle of deviation of an actual mounting direction from a reference mounting direction in a vertical direction. The actual mounting direction is an actual direction of the radar device, and the reference mounting direction is a direction of the radar device when the radar device is mounted in a reference state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20220414780Abstract: A secondary battery management system associates a secondary battery with one or more securities, associates a security with an investor, associates a secondary battery with a user, and collects a use fee of a secondary battery from a user being a lessee of the secondary battery. The secondary battery management system transfers dividends based on the use fee of a secondary battery to investors that have bought securities of the secondary battery. When the lessee of a secondary battery has changed from a first user to a second user, the secondary battery management system collects the use fee of the secondary battery from the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Akihiko MATSUMURA, Katsuhiko KONDO
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Publication number: 20220359325Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a frame includes a first frame portion extending in a direction parallel to a connection surface to be connected to the connection surface and a second frame portion connecting a case and the first frame portion. The first frame portions are divided into a plurality of divided portions. At least one divided portion in the plurality of divided portions in the first frame portions is an elastic portion which can be elastically deformed from a first state where a tip end portion is inclined to be located on a lower side of the connection surface to a second state where the tip end portion extends in a direction parallel to the connection surface. The divided portion as the elastic portion is connected to the connection surface while being elastically deformed from the first state to the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuya SHIRATSURU, Shoji SAITO, Katsuhiko KONDO
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Patent number: 11453390Abstract: A driving support apparatus supports driving of the vehicle. The driving support apparatus includes a brake pedal detection unit, a retraction speed calculation unit and a driving operation device setting unit. The brake pedal detection unit detects an operation amount of the brake pedal. The retraction speed calculation unit calculates a retraction speed of the brake pedal, based on the operation amount of the brake pedal detected by the brake pedal detection unit. The driving operation device setting unit sets a reaction force exerted by a driving operation device to a larger value as the retraction speed calculated by the retraction speed calculation unit becomes higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20220228862Abstract: This axial deviation estimating device estimates an axial deviation angle of a radar device mounted on a mobile body, and includes an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, a device-system coordinates unit, and an estimating unit. The estimating unit estimates an axial deviation angle using a relational expression. The relational expression is an expression that holds between at least one unknown parameter, which includes an axial deviation angle of a coordinate axis of the radar device about a target axis which is at least one of a horizontal axis and a traveling direction axis constituting the coordinate axes of the mobile body, and at least one element included in the device-system coordinates of a road surface reflection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA