Patents by Inventor Masato Yano

Masato Yano 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).

  • Publication number: 20240160767
    Abstract: An information processing device including a conversion section that converts plural data related to plural materials into vectors in a latent space, and a reception section that displays a graph plotted with the plural data according to the vectors in the latent space, that receives a specification of at least one of the data on the graph, and that also receives a change to a secrecy level or authorized disclosure parties of the data specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato HOZUMI, Masao YANO, Ryo AOKI, Tetsuya SHOJI
  • Publication number: 20240160697
    Abstract: An information processing device, that acquires, from a plurality of user terminals, measurement data measured by a plurality of analytical method; quantifies the acquired measurement data using a predetermined statistical method; and displays, on a display of at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, a necessary analytical method among the plurality of analytical method based on results of the quantification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato HOZUMI, Masao YANO, Tetsuya SHOJI
  • Patent number: 11920240
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate includes a functional component constituting a part of the substrate processing apparatus; a nozzle, provided on a surface of the functional component, allowing a gas to pass therethrough; a nozzle flow path which is connected to the nozzle of the functional component and through which the gas flows; a flow rate sensor configured to measure a flow rate of the gas flowing through the nozzle flow path; and a controller configured to make a determination upon a state of a distance between an interfering object and the functional component based on a measurement result obtained by the flow rate sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryo Araki, Junnosuke Maki, Mitsuteru Yano, Masato Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230011204
    Abstract: A display control system includes a vehicle navigation apparatus and a display control apparatus. The display control apparatus includes at least one processor. The at least one processor determines a driving entity of a vehicle. If the driving entity of the vehicle is determined as being the vehicle itself, the at least one processor calculates or evaluates at least reliability of the route information included in the first map information, and sends a display control unit display control information to change a form of displaying route information on a display in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Masato YANO, Naoto KURIYAMA, Chihiro SUGANO, Shuntaro NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230009755
    Abstract: A vehicle navigation apparatus includes a storage, a second map information acquisition unit, a display, and a display control unit. The storage stores first map information. The second map information acquisition unit acquires second map information. The display displays map data on the basis of at least one of the first map information or the second map information. The display control unit controls the form of displaying the map data on the display in accordance with a predetermined condition. The display control unit causes the map data to be displayed at a greater scale in a case where the map data is displayed on the basis of the second map information than in a case where the map data is displayed on the basis of only the first map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro SUGANO, Masato YANO, Shuntaro NOGUCHI, Naoto KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230011080
    Abstract: A vehicle navigation apparatus includes a vehicle navigation unit and a route guidance control unit. The vehicle navigation unit includes a route setting unit and a navigation control unit. The route setting unit sets a route to a destination point on the basis of information on a position of a vehicle, information on a destination point, and first map information stored in a storage. The navigation control unit performs guidance on the route and controls the form of displaying the route on a display. The route guidance control unit includes at least one processor determining the driving entity of a vehicle. In a case where the at least one processor determines that the driving entity of the vehicle is the vehicle itself and the vehicle deviates from the route, the at least one processor stops the guidance until the vehicle reaches a next waypoint of the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuntaro NOGUCHI, Chihiro SUGANO, Masato YANO, Naoto KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220305987
    Abstract: A vehicle cabin lighting system includes a lighting device, a lighting control device, and a wireless charger. The lighting device is configured to illuminate a placement area in which an article is to be placed. The lighting control device is configured to control brightness of the lighting device. The wireless charger is configured to charge, in a non-contact manner, a mobile terminal placed in the placement area. The lighting control device is configured to execute, in response to detecting that the mobile terminal is placed in the placement area based on an operation of the wireless charger, a control by which the lighting device is turned off or dimmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Masato YANO
  • Publication number: 20200176748
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a battery and a battery module having excellent reliability. There is provided a battery including a battery element, an exterior body that covers the battery element, and a conductor, in which the conductor is disposed outside the battery element, and the conductor has a cut portion, and there is further provided a battery module including a plurality of batteries and a conductor, in which each of the batteries includes a battery element and an exterior body that covers the battery element, the conductor is disposed outside the battery element, and the conductor has a cut portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Natsuko KATASE, Nobuyuki IWANE, Yoshinori WAKUI, Takahisa ISHIMATSU, Masato YANO
  • Patent number: 10403936
    Abstract: A storage cell control system configured to perform charge/discharge control for a plurality of storage cells under control based on a power adjustment request from a power system includes: a power storage capacity calculating means configured to calculate a current power storage capacity of the storage cell based on storage cell information of the storage cell; a target power storage capacity setting means configured to set a target power storage capacity in stopping an operation of the storage cell; a capacity degradation speed calculating means configured to calculate a current capacity degradation speed and a target capacity degradation speed with respect to each power storage capacity by applying the current power storage capacity and the target power storage capacity to capacity degradation speed correlation information set in advance; and a power distributing means configured to distribute power to the plurality of storage cells in such a manner that when it is assumed that t is an elapsed time from st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Masato Yano, Suguru Watanabe, Hisato Sakuma, Koji Kudo
  • Publication number: 20190145667
    Abstract: Since improving heat exchange between a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant in a refrigeration system could instead result in a reduction in the efficiency of the whole refrigeration system, a heat exchange device (201) of the present invention includes: a refrigerant supply means (210) for supplying a first-temperature liquid-phase refrigerant (R11) and a second-temperature gas-phase refrigerant (R12) in one circulation system; a plurality of heat exchange means (220A, 220B) which are each configured so as to perform heat exchange between the liquid-phase refrigerant and the gas-phase refrigerant; and refrigerant circulation means (231, 232, 242) for circulating the gas-phase refrigerant (R12) in such a manner that the gas-phase refrigerant (R12) flows in parallel in the plurality of heat exchange means, and circulating the liquid-phase refrigerant (R11) in such a manner that the liquid-phase refrigerant (R11) flows in series in the plurality of heat exchange means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arihiro MATSUNAGA, Minoru YOSHIKAWA, Hisato SAKUMA, Masato YANO, Asuka MATSUBA, Takafumi NATSUMEDA
  • Publication number: 20180269541
    Abstract: A storage cell control system configured to perform charge/discharge control for a plurality of storage cells under control based on a power adjustment request from a power system includes: a power storage capacity calculating means configured to calculate a current power storage capacity of the storage cell based on storage cell information of the storage cell; a target power storage capacity setting means configured to set a target power storage capacity in stopping an operation of the storage cell; a capacity degradation speed calculating means configured to calculate a current capacity degradation speed and a target capacity degradation speed with respect to each power storage capacity by applying the current power storage capacity and the target power storage capacity to capacity degradation speed correlation information set in advance; and a power distributing means configured to distribute power to the plurality of storage cells in such a manner that when it is assumed that t is an elapsed time from st
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji KOBAYASHI, Masato YANO, Suguru WATANABE, Hisato SAKUMA, Koji KUDO
  • Publication number: 20180259232
    Abstract: A cooling system which combines a plurality of refrigeration cycles has a fluctuating cooling capacity. Therefore, a cooling system according to the present invention includes: a first cooling means including a first refrigerant transportation means for circulating a refrigerant that receives heat from an object to be cooled; a second refrigerant transportation means connected to the first refrigerant transportation means, for circulating a diverted refrigerant being a part of the refrigerant; a second cooling means for receiving heat from the refrigerant circulating through the first refrigerant transportation means, and cooling the diverted refrigerant; and a flowrate control means for controlling a flowrate of the diverted refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAKUMA, Masato YANO, Minoru YOSHIKAWA, Masaki CHIBA
  • Patent number: 7612464
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus for a vehicle consists of a microcomputer and a monitor module. The microcomputer includes a vehicle-mounted actuator controller and a controller monitor. The controller monitor works to monitor the validity of a monitor subject associated with an operation of the actuator controller based on a value computed by the microcomputer and associated with the validity of the monitor subject and its expected value. The controller monitor monitors the malfunction of the actuator controller based on the validity of the monitor subject. The microcomputer outputs the computed value and the expected value to the monitor module. The monitor module monitors the malfunction of the controller monitor based on comparison between the computed value and the expected value. Specifically, the monitoring of the actuator controller and the monitoring of the controller monitor are performed simultaneously, thus resulting in greatly improved reliability in controlling a vehicle mounted actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Yano
  • Publication number: 20060293831
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus for a vehicle consists of a microcomputer and a monitor module. The microcomputer includes a vehicle-mounted actuator controller and a controller monitor. The controller monitor works to monitor the validity of a monitor subject associated with an operation of the actuator controller based on a value computed by the microcomputer and associated with the validity of the monitor subject and its expected value. The controller monitor monitors the malfunction of the actuator controller based on the validity of the monitor subject. The microcomputer outputs the computed value and the expected value to the monitor module. The monitor module monitors the malfunction of the controller monitor based on comparison between the computed value and the expected value. Specifically, the monitoring of the actuator controller and the monitoring of the controller monitor are performed simultaneously, thus resulting in greatly improved reliability in controlling a vehicle mounted actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Yano
  • Patent number: 6904543
    Abstract: An engine control ECU includes a microcomputer, which includes CPU, RAM, ROM, FPU and I/O. The FPU performs floating-point calculations and the CPU carries out operations other than the floating-point calculations. The CPU checks whether non-numeric exists, and performs backup processing when the non-numeric is found. In the backup processing, the RAM data is initialized by writing default values harmless to control as the RAM data. In addition to or alternative to the initialization, the CPU disables a floating-point calculation of the FPU. Without using the FPU, the CPU performs engine control operations by using integer data instead of floating-point data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kawai, Masato Yano, Takatoshi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 6326705
    Abstract: A vehicle anti-theft system, which can prevent a vehicle from being unjustly moved and can prevent a password code for anti-theft from being stolen. This system includes: detecting whether a main relay has been turned on for a predetermined time after an ignition switch if turned off; increasing a number in a counter to detect that the main relay has not been operating for the predetermined time and cutting off engine fuel injection and ignition control to prohibit the engine from operating when the counter contents is equal to or more than a predetermined number. Therefore, the operation of the engine and potential password code theft by communication can be prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Yano
  • Patent number: 6297567
    Abstract: A vehicular anti-theft device having a high security performance against the theft of the vehicle without adding additional components is disclosed. The vehicular anti-theft device mainly includes a code collator and an engine ECU connected to the code collator so as to communicate each other. The code collator detects whether a password code of an ignition key inserted into the ignition key cylinder accords with a password code of a vehicle. The engine ECU detects whether an engine should be started up or not by communicating with the code collator when an ignition key is detected to be turned on. Here, the engine ECU generates a digital data by A/D converting analog signals to be used for engine controlling, generates a transmission data by serially combining lower 2-bits of each A/D converted data, and then sends the transmission data to the code collator. Therefore, the communication data between the engine ECU and the code collator can be changed at random without adding additional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Yano
  • Publication number: 20010005808
    Abstract: An engine control ECU includes a microcomputer, which includes CPU, RAM, ROM, FPU and I/O. The FPU performs floating-point calculations and the CPU carries out operations other than the floating-point calculations. The CPU checks whether non-numeric exists, and performs backup processing when the non-numeric is found. In the backup processing, the RAM data is initialized by writing default values harmless to control as the RAM data. In addition to or alternative to the initialization, the CPU disables a floating-point calculation of the FPU. Without using the FPU, the CPU performs engine control operations by using integer data instead of floating-point data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kawai, Masato Yano, Takatoshi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 5668726
    Abstract: A backup RAM for storing pieces of diagnosis data regardless of the cut-off of an electric power is provided in a portion of a RAM. In cases where the detection of an unusual condition by a throttle sensor or a water temperature sensor is judged by a CPU in a current processing routine, a first checking value indicating that the backup RAM is in a renewing period is stored in a checking region of the backup RAM, and pieces of previous diagnosis data stored in a data access region of the backup RAM in a previous processing routine are copied to a temporary refuge region of the backup RAM. Thereafter, pieces of updated diagnosis data obtained in the current processing routine are stored one by one in the data access region in place of the previous diagnosis data, and a second checking value indicating that the backup RAM is in a renewal finishing period is stored in the checking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kondo, Takamasa Oguri, Masato Yano, Kazuyuki Okuda, Yoshihiro Kitagawa