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).

  • Patent number: 11983937
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Akamine, Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20240128808
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: 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
  • Publication number: 20240054172
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240047294
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya SHIRATSURU
  • Patent number: 11892536
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11885902
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230352354
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Taishi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11802952
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Publication number: 20230244850
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Publication number: 20230195930
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Publication number: 20230196006
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Publication number: 20230176186
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230170719
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Patent number: 11614536
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230008630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Yasunori NISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230008853
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220414780
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiko MATSUMURA, Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Publication number: 20220359325
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya SHIRATSURU, Shoji SAITO, Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Patent number: 11453390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20220228862
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA