Patents by Inventor Takahiro Hirano

Takahiro Hirano 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: 20240167835
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of power transmission coils, a display layer, and a controller. The power transmission coils are arranged in a predetermined direction on a road and configured to transmit electric power in a non-contact manner to a power receiving coil mounted on a vehicle. The display layer is provided above the power transmission coils. The controller controls a display mode of the display layer so as to guide the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Takahiro HIRANO, Ryunosuke YAMASHITA, Daiki TAJIMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240145349
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first element for one of upper and lower arm circuits; a second element for the other of the upper and lower arm circuits; a first wiring having a first mounting portion on which the first element is disposed and a first power supply terminal portion connected with the first mounting portion; a second wiring having a second mounting portion on which the second element is disposed and an output terminal portion connected with the second mounting portion; a clip configured to electrically connect a main electrode of the first element and the second mounting portion; and a third wiring having a connection portion to which a main electrode of the second element is connected and a second power supply terminal portion connected with the connection portion. The third wiring is extended parallel to the first wiring and the clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO HIRANO, MASAYOSHI NISHIHATA, CHIHIRO KATO
  • Patent number: 11971674
    Abstract: A heating device includes a rotator, a heater, a heater holder, and a first high thermal conduction member. The heater includes a base and a plurality of heat generators being arranged on the base and including neighboring heat generators. The heater has a gap area between the neighboring heat generators. The first high thermal conduction member has a higher thermal conductivity than the base and faces the gap area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Nanno, Yasunori Ishigaya, Takahiro Imada, Takumi Waida, Daisuke Hirano
  • Publication number: 20240131766
    Abstract: A display unit displays a display screen including information on injection molding, and the display screen displays an actual result information display field that displays actual result information on power consumption measured at a time of performing the injection molding and a comparative information display field that displays comparative information on power consumption of the injection molding to be compared with the actual result information on the power consumption in the same display form as a display form of the actual result information display field together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro NAMIKI, Daigo HOTTA, Takuya MATSUNAGA, Tomohiro HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240133078
    Abstract: The resin composition for melt spinning of the present invention is a filament having a melt viscosity of 250 Pa·s or less at 200° C. and a shear rate of 0.1 s?1 and a tensile strength of 10 MPa or more. The filament can be produced by forming a molten liquid of a resin composition having a melt viscosity of 250 Pa·s or less at 200° C. and a shear rate of 0.1 s?1 into a filament shape to provide a formed material, and conveying and concurrently cooling the formed material. The present invention also provides a resin composition for melt spinning being a filament, and a method for producing fiber using a melt spinning apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro HIRANO, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Takehiko UEMATSU, Shohei NATSUI
  • Publication number: 20240131759
    Abstract: A display unit displays a display screen including information on injection molding, and the display screen displays a setting screen portion that displays setting contents of the injection molding and a power screen portion that displays information on power consumption of the injection molding based on the setting contents together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro NAMIKI, Daigo HOTTA, Takuya MATSUNAGA, Tomohiro HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240106226
    Abstract: A control device includes a first circuitry that executes a predetermined process, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the first circuitry, and a second circuitry that controls activation and deactivation of the first circuitry based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. The second circuitry has a first threshold and a second threshold larger than the first threshold as thresholds related to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. The second circuitry activates the first circuitry on condition that a temperature detection value that is a value of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor does not exceed the first threshold. The second circuitry deactivates the first circuitry after activation of the first circuitry on condition that the temperature detection value exceeds the second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO HIRANO, SHIGEKI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240106677
    Abstract: A control device includes a first circuitry that executes a process for communicating with another device, and a second circuitry that executes a reset of the first circuitry. The first circuitry executes an initial diagnosis which is a self-diagnosis immediately after activation of the first circuitry, and outputs a predetermined signal to the second circuitry when the first circuitry is determined to be normal in the initial diagnosis. The second circuitry prohibits a communication output caused by an operation of the first circuitry to the other device in at least a time period from a start of the reset of the first circuitry to a timing at which the predetermined signal is output from the first circuitry for the first time after the start of the reset. The second circuitry permits the communication output when confirming that the predetermined signal is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Takahiro HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240105465
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: (a) supplying a first gas containing a Group 14 element to a substrate including a recess; (b) supplying a second gas containing a Group 15 or Group 13 element to the substrate; (c) forming a first film containing the Group 14 element in the recess by performing (a) and (b) with the second gas at a first concentration, and stopping film formation before the recess is filled up with the first film; and (d) after (c), performing (b) with the second gas at a second concentration and heat-treating the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Kokusai Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro MIYAKURA, Akito Hirano, Yasunobu Koshi, Yasuhiro Megawa
  • Publication number: 20240077817
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device which includes a fixing unit including an endless fixing belt, a heating portion, and a temperature detecting portion and which includes a nip forming member; a first storing portion; and a controller. In a case that a predetermined part of a plurality of parts is exchanged, the controller succeeds information other than information on the predetermined part of information on the fixing device stored in the first storing portion, and determines a target temperature in temperature adjustment control by using the succeeded information and information on the predetermined part used after being exchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: SHIGERU HIRANO, TAKAHIRO OHNISHI, KIYONORI SOTOME, HIROTO ITO
  • Patent number: 11901740
    Abstract: A management system is configured to manage a power feed mat that wirelessly feeds power to a movable body. The power feed mat is configured to communicate while it is placed at a prescribed location. This management system includes a monitoring apparatus that monitors communication by the power feed mat and a processing apparatus that performs prescribed processing when the monitoring apparatus senses loss of the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11831181
    Abstract: A power feed system includes a computer that evaluates benefit obtained when a power feed mat is placed, for each of a plurality of locations within a subject region where the power feed mat can be placed, the power feed mat being configured to wirelessly feed power to a movable body. In a power feed method using such a computer, a display shows a result of evaluation of the benefit for each location within the subject region evaluated by the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11742256
    Abstract: A semiconductor device incudes: a semiconductor chip that includes an active area and an outer peripheral area surrounding the active area; a metal member that includes one face including a mounting portion on which the semiconductor chip is mounted and a peripheral member surrounding the mounting portion; a joining member that connects the semiconductor chip and the metal member; and a sealing resin body. The metal member includes, as the peripheral portion, an adhesive portion that surrounds the mounting portion and adheres to the sealing resin body, and a non-adhesive portion that is placed between the mounting portion and the adhesive portion. An entire width is placed in an area overlapping the semiconductor chip in a projection view in a thickness direction of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Ooshima, Tomomi Okumura, Takahiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 11722012
    Abstract: A power feed system includes a power feed mat and a computer. The power feed mat includes a plurality of power transmission coils. The power feed mat is configured to feed power to at least one movable body on the power feed mat by using at least one of the plurality of power transmission coils. The computer is configured to determine whether or not to permit power feed to a movable body that requests power feed. In the power feed system, when the computer determines not to permit power feed, the power feed mat does not feed power to the movable body that requests power feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20230245423
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable recognition accuracy to be improved while suppressing an increase in load in object recognition using a CNN. An information processing apparatus: performs, a plurality of times, convolution of an image feature map representing a feature amount of an image of a first frame and generates a convolutional feature map of a plurality of layers; performs deconvolution of a feature map based on the convolutional feature map based on an image of a second frame preceding the first frame and generates a deconvolutional feature map; and performs object recognition based on the convolutional feature map based on an image of the first frame and on the deconvolutional feature map based on an image of the second frame. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a system which performs object recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: TAKAHIRO HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11671284
    Abstract: A central control device and a plurality of relay devices constitute a backbone network. Each of the relay device includes: a backbone-side communication port connected to a backbone network; a plurality of device-side communication ports configured to input and output a signal to/from an onboard device; and a first interface conversion device configured to perform interface conversion between the backbone-side communication port and the device-side communication ports. The device-side communication ports include a plurality of general-purpose communication ports to which a common input circuit and/or output circuit is connected. A predetermined first onboard device is directly connected to the general-purpose communication ports, whereas a predetermined second onboard device is connected to the general-purpose communication ports via a predetermined first onboard device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kurokawa, Tetsuhiro Yamashita, Takahiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20230158899
    Abstract: The first charging equipment is configured to charge the electric power storage device via contact charging using a charging cable. The second charging equipment is configured to charge the electric power storage device via non-contact charging. The server includes: a determination section that determines a non-contact charging recommendation degree representing a degree of recommendation of the non-contact charging method to the user, based on a characteristic of the user; and a setting section that sets suggested equipment that is charging equipment to be suggested to the user, of the first charging equipment and the second charging equipment. When the non-contact charging recommendation degree is high, the setting section is more likely to set the second charging equipment as the suggested equipment than when the non-contact charging recommendation degree is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Takahiro HIRANO, Ryunosuke YAMASHITA, Daiki TAJIMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230145205
    Abstract: A management server performs processing including updating map information with change of a placement location of a power feed mat corresponding to a power feed control device being determined as not being required (S204) when the management server determines that it has received power feed information from the power feed control device (YES in S200) and when the management server determines an integrated value of an amount of power feed as being equal to or larger than a threshold value (YES in S202), updating the map information with change of the placement location of the power feed mat corresponding to the power feed control device being determined as being required (S206) when the management server determines the integrated value of the amount of power feed as being smaller than the threshold value (NO in S202), and notifying a terminal (S208).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Takahiro HIRANO, Midori SUGIYAMA, Ryunosuke YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11639144
    Abstract: An in-vehicle network system includes a power supply, an upper electronic control unit (ECU), an intermediate ECU configured to communicate with the upper ECU, and a plurality of lower ECUs configured to communicate with the intermediate ECU. The intermediate ECU is configured to receive power supplied from the power supply and supply the power supplied from the power supply to the lower ECUs. The lower ECUs are configured to transition, when the power is supplied from the intermediate ECU, from a power-off state to a standby state to wait for an instruction. The power supply is connected to the intermediate ECU via a power line and is not connected via the same power line to the upper ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 11622250
    Abstract: An in-vehicle network system includes an upper device, a first intermediate device, and a first lower device. The first intermediate device includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit that are arranged redundantly and that have a communication function. The first intermediate device is configured to communicate with the upper device via a plurality of communication paths. The first lower device is connected to the first communication unit and the second communication unit of the first intermediate device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirano, Tetsuhiro Yamashita, Yoshimasa Kurokawa