Patents by Inventor Kenji Uchida
Kenji Uchida 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: 20200250867Abstract: A method for generating a visualization connection line is presented. The method may include displaying, by a processor, a plurality of nodes on a computer visualization, whereby each node within the displayed plurality of nodes includes a plurality of scoring targets. The method may also include calculating an importance score for each scoring target within the plurality of scoring targets. The method may further include determining a connection line path between at least two related nodes within the displayed plurality of nodes based on the calculated importance score. The method may also include displaying a visualization connection line on the computer visualization along the determined connection line path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10672161Abstract: A method for generating a visualization connection line is presented. The method may include displaying, by a processor, a plurality of nodes on a computer visualization, whereby each node within the displayed plurality of nodes includes a plurality of scoring targets. The method may also include calculating an importance score for each scoring target within the plurality of scoring targets. The method may further include determining a connection line path between at least two related nodes within the displayed plurality of nodes based on the calculated importance score. The method may also include displaying a visualization connection line on the computer visualization along the determined connection line path.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CoporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10659522Abstract: Cloning a local environment is described. Cloning a local environment can enable sharing the environment during pair programming. Cloning can have other uses as well. A server or other computer may maintain a clone environment of a first client apart from a second client such that the cloned computing environment, mimicking the environment of the first client, may be maintained on behalf of and used by a second client.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yoshio Horiuchi, Kenji Uchida, Masaki Wakao
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Patent number: 10626786Abstract: Provided is an in-combustion chamber flow control device used in an engine having an intake passage connected to an intake opening formed in a ceiling surface of a combustion chamber, at an angle inclined with respect to a direction of an axis of a cylinder. This in-combustion chamber flow control device comprises a plasma actuator (28) disposed inside the combustion chamber (16). The plasma actuator comprises: a dielectric body (38) disposed along the ceiling surface (16a) of the combustion chamber, at a position closer to a center of the ceiling surface than the intake opening (18a); an exposed electrode (40) disposed on one side of the dielectric body facing the combustion chamber; and an embedded electrode (42) disposed on a side opposite to the exposed electrode across the dielectric body. The embedded electrode is disposed at a position closer to the intake opening than the exposed electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Uchida, Takeshi Nagasawa, Ryohei Ono
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Patent number: 10580174Abstract: A method for generating a visualization connection line is presented. The method may include displaying, by a processor, a plurality of nodes on a computer visualization, whereby each node within the displayed plurality of nodes includes a plurality of scoring targets. The method may also include calculating an importance score for each scoring target within the plurality of scoring targets. The method may further include determining a connection line path between at least two related nodes within the displayed plurality of nodes based on the calculated importance score. The method may also include displaying a visualization connection line on the computer visualization along the determined connection line path.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10480438Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel injection control device for a direct injection engine including an engine body (engine 1) and a fuel injection control unit (engine controller 100). The fuel injection control unit injects a fuel in a predetermined injection mode into a combustion chamber (17) such that while the engine body is warm, an air-fuel mixture layer and a heat-insulating gas layer, surrounding the air-fuel mixture layer, are formed in the combustion chamber at a point in time when an air-fuel mixture ignites, and changes the injection mode of the fuel into the combustion chamber such that while the engine body is cold, the lower the temperature of the engine body is, the thinner the heat-insulating gas layer becomes.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Nagasawa, Keiji Araki, Noriyuki Ota, Kenji Uchida, Ryohei Ono, Kiyotaka Sato, Hidefumi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10449952Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is equipped with a drive unit, and an automatic transmission. The automatic transmission includes engagement elements that can transmit power between the drive unit and driving wheels. The drive unit includes an engine, a first motor generator, a second motor generator, and a planetary gear mechanism. The hybrid vehicle is further equipped with a mechanical oil pump and an electrical oil pump, and a controller. The controller continues operating the electrical oil pump while the internal combustion engine is not in operation after the internal combustion engine is stopped as a result of a system stop operation by a user while the vehicle is running at a vehicle speed equal to or higher than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Uchida, Yoshizo Akita, Tadaaki Watanabe, Mitsuru Maeda
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Patent number: 10340834Abstract: A drive system shifts an inverter from a gate blocking state to a three phase-on state. When it is determined that electric current flows in a diode of an upper arm of the inverter by referring to a phase current of each phase of a motor, the drive system turns on a switching element of the upper arm and thereby shifts the inverter to an upper arm three phase-on state. When it is determined that electric current flows in a diode of a lower arm of the inverter by referring to the phase current of each phase, the drive system turns on a switching element of the lower arm and thereby shifts the inverter to a lower arm three phase-on state.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10309338Abstract: A fuel injection valve (6) is configured such that the effective opening area of an injection port (61) increases as its lift amount increases. A fuel injection control unit (an engine control unit 100) injects fuel in a lift amount changing mode wherein, when fuel is injected into a combustion chamber (17) in the terminal period of the compression stroke, the lift amount of the fuel injection valve is set to a predetermined large lift amount in the earlier period of the injection period, and in the later period of the injection period following the earlier period of the injection period, the lift amount is set to a small lift amount smaller than the large lift amount and is in a range where the fuel injection speed increases.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Nagasawa, Noriyuki Ota, Kenji Uchida, Ryohei Ono, Kiyotaka Sato, Hidefumi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20190164321Abstract: A method for generating a visualization connection line is presented. The method may include displaying, by a processor, a plurality of nodes on a computer visualization, whereby each node within the displayed plurality of nodes includes a plurality of scoring targets. The method may also include calculating an importance score for each scoring target within the plurality of scoring targets. The method may further include determining a connection line path between at least two related nodes within the displayed plurality of nodes based on the calculated importance score. The method may also include displaying a visualization connection line on the computer visualization along the determined connection line path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kenji Uchida
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Publication number: 20190145307Abstract: Provided is an in-combustion chamber flow control device used in an engine having an intake passage connected to an intake opening formed in a ceiling surface of a combustion chamber, at an angle inclined with respect to a direction of an axis of a cylinder. This in-combustion chamber flow control device comprises a plasma actuator (28) disposed inside the combustion chamber (16). The plasma actuator comprises: a dielectric body (38) disposed along the ceiling surface (16a) of the combustion chamber, at a position closer to a center of the ceiling surface than the intake opening (18a); an exposed electrode (40) disposed on one side of the dielectric body facing the combustion chamber; and an embedded electrode (42) disposed on a side opposite to the exposed electrode across the dielectric body. The embedded electrode is disposed at a position closer to the intake opening than the exposed electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji UCHIDA, Takeshi NAGASAWA, Ryohei ONO
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Publication number: 20190100214Abstract: A power control ECU controls electric power and engine power of a hybrid vehicle. The power control ECU includes a request driving force calculating portion that calculates a request driving force calculated in accordance with an accelerator operation amount, a travel driving force calculating portion that calculates a travel driving force as a value that belatedly follows the request driving force, and a dashpot control processing portion. The dashpot control processing portion sets a value of the request driving force as a value of a final request driving force used to calculate request engine power when a difference of the request driving force with respect to the travel driving force is less than a predetermined positive value, and sets a value that belatedly follows the request driving force when the difference is greater than or equal to the predetermined positive value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunya KATO, Yasutaka TSUCHIDA, Kenji UCHIDA, Takuro KUMADA
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Patent number: 10235782Abstract: A method for generating a visualization connection line is presented. The method may include displaying, by a processor, a plurality of nodes on a computer visualization, whereby each node within the displayed plurality of nodes includes a plurality of scoring targets. The method may also include calculating an importance score for each scoring target within the plurality of scoring targets. The method may further include determining a connection line path between at least two related nodes within the displayed plurality of nodes based on the calculated importance score. The method may also include displaying a visualization connection line on the computer visualization along the determined connection line path.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10169393Abstract: In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a calculation section, an identification section, and a notification section. The calculation section is configured to calculate similarity among a plurality of documents. The identification section is configured to identify, in response to a change made to a first document, a second document having a similarity greater than or equal to a first criterion as compared to the first document before the change. The notification section is configured to notify a user of the identified second document that the first document has been changed, in response to the change to the first document.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Horiuchi, Kenji Uchida, Masaki Wakao
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Patent number: 10114635Abstract: Supporting communications between developers of interdependent tasks of software parallel development can include inserting metadata, which expresses the existence of dependent code on which a first source code depends, into the first source code, at a time a first owner creates the first source code. A task to create the dependent code is created in response to detection of the metadata. Metadata expressing a second owner who owns the task of creating the dependent code and a status of the task is inserted into the first source code.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Horiuchi, Kenji Uchida, Masaki Wakao
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Publication number: 20180298841Abstract: A vehicle includes two accelerator position sensors and an electronic control unit. The two accelerator position sensors are configured to detect accelerator operation amounts. The electronic control unit is configured to perform drive control based on the accelerator operation amounts from the two accelerator position sensors. The electronic control unit is configured to, when failure occurs in one accelerator position sensor out of the two accelerator position sensors, perform the drive control based on the accelerator operation amount from the other accelerator position sensor out of the two accelerator position sensors, the accelerator operation amount being restricted by an accelerator operation amount upper limit that has a tendency of becoming larger as the vehicle speed is larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji UCHIDA, Tadaaki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180262149Abstract: A drive system shifts an inverter from a gate blocking state to a three phase-on state. When it is determined that electric current flows in a diode of an upper arm of the inverter by referring to a phase current of each phase of a motor, the drive system turns on a switching element of the upper arm and thereby shifts the inverter to an upper arm three phase-on state. When it is determined that electric current flows in a diode of a lower arm of the inverter by referring to the phase current of each phase, the drive system turns on a switching element of the lower arm and thereby shifts the inverter to a lower arm three phase-on state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji UCHIDA
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Patent number: 10007665Abstract: The present invention provides a method of displaying nodes, including: displaying, in response to that one or more nodes are selected on a view screen on which nodes are displayed together with respective connection lines between the nodes, the selected one or more nodes on a pallet; drawing connection lines extending from the one or more nodes displayed on the pallet, on the view screen; and scrolling, in response to that one or more connection lines extending from the one or more nodes displayed on the pallet are selected or that one or more nodes on the pallet are selected, a display on the view screen such that one or more nodes at connection destinations of the selected connection lines or the selected nodes are displayed within the view screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Tadahiko Nakamura, Kenji Uchida
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Patent number: 10008969Abstract: When a voltage (auxiliary power supply voltage) on an auxiliary power supply line is instantaneously decreased to be smaller than a resetting voltage, a resetting operation is automatically started in each of the MG-ECU and the HV-ECU to perform an initialization process. After the resetting operation of the MG-ECU and/or the HV-ECU, the MG-ECU causes a converter to start a forced discharging operation when a DC voltage of a first smoothing capacitor is higher than a first reference voltage, and/or when a DC voltage of a second smoothing capacitor is higher than a second reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoko Oba, Kenji Uchida, Yasuhiro Terao
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Publication number: 20180170361Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is equipped with a drive unit, and an automatic transmission. The automatic transmission includes engagement elements that can transmit power between the drive unit and driving wheels. The drive unit includes an engine, a first motor generator, a second motor generator, and a planetary gear mechanism. The hybrid vehicle is further equipped with a mechanical oil pump and an electrical oil pump, and a controller. The controller continues operating the electrical oil pump while the internal combustion engine is not in operation after the internal combustion engine is stopped as a result of a system stop operation by a user while the vehicle is running at a vehicle speed equal to or higher than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Uchida, Yoshizo Akita, Tadaaki Watanabe, Mitsuru Maeda