Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Homma

Kazuhiro Homma 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: 11989954
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Nakamura, Tsukasa Mikuni, Takuya Homma, Yutaka Ishii, Masatoshi Tsuge, Kazuhiro Hayakawa, Toru Kato
  • Publication number: 20240109396
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an information receiver, an estimator, and a processor. The information receiver is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal of an occupant of the vehicle, and acquire information related to an action performed by the occupant outside a vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The estimator is configured to estimate a fatigue state including a fatigue degree of the occupant, based on a place identified from the acquired information related to the action. The processor is configured to execute, based on a result of estimating the fatigue state, air conditioning control including setting of a temperature and setting of an air volume on an air conditioning device configured to air condition the vehicle compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240101140
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a fatigue state detector, an information provider, and a processor. The fatigue state detector is configured to detect a fatigue degree of an occupant of the vehicle. The information provider is configured to provide various pieces of information related to traveling of the vehicle to the occupant. The processor is configured to change a frequency of providing the various pieces of the information by the information provider, depending on the fatigue degree of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Yuta GOTO, Takuya KANETA
  • Publication number: 20240100908
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an estimator and a control processor. The estimator is configured to perform estimation of an emotion that an occupant has had since before boarding the vehicle. The control processor is configured to make a comprehensive evaluation of a result of the estimation performed by the estimator to determine the emotion, and perform control of an operation mode of an in-vehicle device based on the emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240101139
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a social media information acquisition unit, a collector, a browsing time acquisition unit, an extractor, and a control processor. The social media information acquisition unit communicates with portable devices of occupants in the vehicle to acquire social media information of the occupants from the portable devices. The collector collects search keywords from the social media information of the occupants. The browsing time acquisition unit acquires information on browsing time for each of the search keywords from the social media information. The extractor extracts a common subject based on the search keywords collected from all of the portable devices of the occupants in a communicable state, and the information on the browsing time. The control processor determines content of a proposal to be provided to the occupants in the vehicle based on the common subject, and notifies the occupants of the content of the proposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240105185
    Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone, a speaker, an interpretation unit, a memory, and a control processor. The microphone collects voices of occupants in the interior of a vehicle compartment of a vehicle. The speaker outputs a voice sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment. The interpretation unit acquires the voices of the occupants collected by the microphone and interprets contents of utterances of the occupants included in the voices acquired. The memory stores data on the utterances interpreted by the interpretation unit and data on the respective occupants who are utterers of the utterances associated with each other. The control processor designates an occupant who has uttered most frequently among the occupants as a listener based on the data stored in the memory, determines topics to be outputted to the listener, and performs control to output the topics as the voice sound via the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240089700
    Abstract: A server apparatus determines whether a vehicle without an emergency notification system is included in accident vehicles based on image data received from peripheral vehicles or peripheral portable devices. When the vehicle without the emergency notification system is included, the server acquires position data on a vehicle having issued an emergency notification. The server requests a base station covering the acquired position to send an information provision request to vehicles and portable devices present in a set target area. The server collects accident information from the peripheral vehicles and the peripheral portable devices, and collects information from the vehicles and the portable devices present in the set target area. The extractor extracts accident information from the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area based on the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240087449
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a collection unit, an identification unit, an ID information generation unit, a storage, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The collection unit performs, when an accident occurs, communication connection with a surrounding vehicle including an accident vehicle or a portable device and collect accident information therefrom. The identification unit identifies the accident vehicle based on the collected accident information. The ID information generation unit generates ID information for the accident associated with information regarding the identified accident vehicle. The storage holds a database in which the ID information and the accident information are associated with each other. The determination unit determines that the accident involves multiple vehicles when the database includes multiple pieces of the identical ID information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240089717
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a determination unit, an authentication unit, a collector, an information generator, and a control processor. The determination unit determines whether multiple persons have been involved in an accident. The authentication unit performs vehicle-side possessor authentication to authenticate whether a portable device authenticated by portable device-side possessor authentication as is portable device owned by a driver. When the multiple persons have been involved in the accident and the portable device authenticated by the portable device-side possessor authentication corresponds to a portable device that is to send accident information to an emergency notification center, the collector collects information relevant to the accident from other vehicles involved in the accident. The information generator sorts out the information relevant to the accident to generate the accident information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240089701
    Abstract: A vehicle serving as a first vehicle includes a communicator, an identification unit, a collector, and a notification unit. The communicator communicates with one or more second vehicles upon occurrence of a multiple-vehicle accident involving multiple vehicles. The one or more second vehicles include the vehicles involved in the multiple-vehicle accident. The identification unit uniquely identifies a vehicle that is to issue an emergency notification by communicating with the one or more second vehicles. The collector collects accident information from the one or more second vehicles when the first vehicle corresponds to the vehicle that is to issue the emergency notification. The notification unit notifies an emergency notification center of the accident information collected by the collector as notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Patent number: 11929332
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first face and a second face on an opposite side to the first face, and including semiconductor elements arranged on the first face. Columnar electrodes are arranged above the first face, and electrically connected to any of the semiconductor elements. A first member is located around the columnar electrodes above the first face. An insulant covers the columnar electrodes and the first member. The first member is harder than the columnar electrodes and the insulant. The first member and the columnar electrodes are exposed from a surface of the insulant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Soichi Homma, Tatsuo Migita, Masayuki Miura, Takeori Maeda, Kazuhiro Kato, Susumu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11245302
    Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Homma, Tomohiro Sakata, Susumu Maeda, Masato Aono, Takashi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20210277894
    Abstract: A pump device includes a shaft , a motor unit that rotates the shaft, and a pump driven by the motor via the shaft and discharges oil. The pump device includes a first flow path for the oil that connects the inside of the pump and the inside of a housing, a second flow path for the oil provided between a stator and a rotor, and a third flow path for the oil that is connected to a suction port of a pump through the outside of the stator and the rotor in a radial direction from the second flow path. One or a plurality of grooves are provided on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor or the inner peripheral surface of the stator, and the groove is inclined with respect to an oil flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HOMMA, Yosuke ITO
  • Patent number: 11018544
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction, a stator which is disposed to face the rotor and includes a plurality of coils, a housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a bus bar assembly that is disposed on one side of the shaft in the axial direction, wherein the bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars that are electrically connected to the plurality of coils of the stator and a bus bar holder that holds the plurality of bus bars, and wherein at least one bus bar among the plurality of bus bars is placed on a disposition surface part provided on the bus bar holder and extends in a direction crossing the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Kazuhiro Homma, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Uchise, Masato Aono, Akihiro Okita
  • Publication number: 20200153368
    Abstract: Provided is an electric oil pump that does not degrade assembly operability and does not require a complicated configuration. The electric oil pump includes a motor portion that has a motor shaft disposed along a center axis extending in an axial direction; a pump portion that is disposed on one side of the motor portion in the axial direction, is driven by the motor portion via the motor shaft, and suctions and ejects an oil, and an inverter portion that is disposed on one side of the pump portion in the axial direction and drives the motor portion, the motor shaft penetrates through the pump portion, and the electric oil pump further includes a rotation angle sensor that is disposed at the inverter portion and detects a rotation angle of the motor shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro HOMMA, Koji HIGUCHI, Yutaka HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200106321
    Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HOMMA, Tomohiro SAKATA, Susumu MAEDA, Masato AONO, Takashi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20200018309
    Abstract: A pump apparatus includes a motor that rotates a shaft, and a pump that is driven by the shaft, suctions an oil, and delivers the oil to the motor. The pump apparatus includes a first flow channel to suction an oil into the pump through a suction port provided in a pump cover using a negative pressure in the pump, a second flow channel to deliver an oil to the inside of the motor through a delivery port provided in a pump body using pressurization of the pump, a third flow channel provided between a stator and a rotor, a fourth flow channel provided between the stator and a housing, and a fifth flow channel to discharge an oil inside the motor through a discharge port provided in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro HOMMA, Koji HIGUCHI, Yosuke ITO
  • Publication number: 20190383291
    Abstract: A pump apparatus includes a motor including a shaft rotatable around a central axis, and a pump that is positioned on one side in an axial direction thereof, is driven via the shaft, and discharges an oil. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, a housing accommodating the rotor and the stator, a wall partitioning the stator and the rotor, and a motor side discharge port to discharge an oil. The pump includes a pump rotor, a pump case accommodating the pump rotor, a pump side suction port to suction an oil, and a pump side delivery port to deliver an oil to the inside of the motor. A pump apparatus includes a first flow channel to cause an oil to flow into the pump through a pump side suction port, a second flow channel to cause an oil to flow to a stator region through the pump side delivery port, and a third flow channel to cause an oil to flow into the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro HOMMA, Koji HIGUCHI, Yosuke ITO
  • Publication number: 20190376512
    Abstract: A pump apparatus includes a motor including a shaft disposed along a central axis extending in an axial direction a pump that is located on one side of the motor in the axial direction, is driven by the motor via the shaft, and discharges an oil and an inverter circuit that is positioned on an outer side of the motor in a radial direction. The motor includes a rotor rotatable around the shaft, a stator facing the rotor, and a housing accommodating the rotor and the stator. The housing includes a heat sink that is located on an outer surface and includes a first flow channel to cause the oil delivered from the pump to flow. The inverter circuit comes into thermal contact with the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro HOMMA, Koji HIGUCHI, Yosuke ITO
  • Publication number: 20190234404
    Abstract: A pump device includes a shaft, a motor that rotates the shaft, and a pump that is driven by the motor via the shaft and discharges oil. The pump device includes a first flow path for the oil that connects an interior of the pump and an interior of a housing, a second flow path for the oil provided between a stator and a rotor of the motor, and a third flow path for the oil that is connected to a suction port of a pump through an outside of the stator and the rotor in a radial direction from the second flow path. In the first flow path, oil passes through at least one of a space between the shaft and a bearing, a space between the bearing and a pump case, and an interior of the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HOMMA, Yosuke ITO