Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Fukano

Yoshinobu Fukano 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: 10997344
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the time required to create fault injection test data when performing an ECU simulation test. An ECU simulation device according to the present invention is provided with a database in which fault modes are defined for each type of circuit element, reads out, from the database, fault modes for each circuit element provided in an ECU, and generates a test pattern for each of the fault modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Fukano
  • Publication number: 20210056838
    Abstract: A traffic-flow control device includes: a benchmark-vehicle operation input section that receives an input of a traveling state of a benchmark vehicle; a scenario input section that reads in a traveling scenario including definitions of target traveling states of a plurality of controlled vehicles using the traveling state of the benchmark vehicle; and a target setting section that computes the target traveling states of the controlled vehicles on the basis of the traveling state and the traveling scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko HYODO, Yasuo SUGURE, Yoshinobu FUKANO
  • Patent number: 10467363
    Abstract: A fault simulation system that has a simulation unit comprising an ECU model including an element fault model made to have a fault by a time setting or external command and all or a portion of a sensor model, actuator model, vehicle model, and driver model and can evaluate vehicle behavior at the time of an element fault according to driving operation based on a set travel scenario, wherein the passage time, vehicle behavior, driving operation, and the like, at each point on a course are determined through non-fault simulation and on the basis of that information, an element fault is inserted according to a fault time setting or fault command for the element fault model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Hyodo, Yasuo Sugure, Shogo Nakao, Yoshinobu Fukano
  • Publication number: 20190147131
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the time required to create fault injection test data when performing an ECU simulation test. An ECU simulation device according to the present invention is provided with a database in which fault modes are defined for each type of circuit element, reads out, from the database, fault modes for each circuit element provided in an ECU, and generates a test pattern for each of the fault modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu FUKANO
  • Publication number: 20170316134
    Abstract: A fault simulation system that has a simulation unit comprising an ECU model including an element fault model made to have a fault by a time setting or external command and all or a portion of a sensor model, actuator model, vehicle model, and driver model and can evaluate vehicle behavior at the time of an element fault according to driving operation based on a set travel scenario, wherein the passage time, vehicle behavior, driving operation, and the like, at each point on a course are determined through non-fault simulation and on the basis of that information, an element fault is inserted according to a fault time setting or fault command for the element fault model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko HYODO, Yasuo SUGURE, Shogo NAKAO, Yoshinobu FUKANO
  • Patent number: 6849128
    Abstract: A device for producing a color filter includes a part for storing a solution in which a light transmitting material is dissolved, a part for feeding the solution to a tip of a flying electrode, a part for applying a voltage between the tip of the flying electrode and an electro-conductive material of a color filter substrate so as to form an electrostatic field, and a part for relatively shifting the tip of the flying electrode and the color filter substrate with respect to one another in at least one of a perpendicular direction and to a horizontal direction. The solution is formed into a stringy beam which is let to fly onto the color filter substrate so that the solution is injected into a concavity formed and surrounded by a black matrix on the color filter substrate, arid forms red, green and blue light emitting layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Mamoru Okano, Yasuo Imanishi, Sukekazu Aratani, Yoshiharu Nagae
  • Patent number: 6776844
    Abstract: A production device to produce an organic EL display includes a solution in which a light emitting material is dissolved, and a flying electrode to receive solution from the container. A voltage is applied between the tip of the flying electrode and an electrically conductive material of an organic EL substrate to form an electrostatic field, and the tip of the flying electrode and the organic EL substrate are shifted relative to one another in at least one of a perpendicular direction and a horizontal direction. With this arrangement, the solution is formed into a stringy beam from the tip of the flying electrode to it fly onto the organic EL, substrate, thereby injecting the solution into a concavity formed and surrounded by banks on the organic EL substrate, and forming red, green and blue light emitting layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Mamoru Okano, Yasuo Imanishi, Sukekazu Aratani, Yoshiharu Nagae
  • Publication number: 20030201550
    Abstract: A device for producing a color filter includes a part for storing a solution in which a light transmitting material is dissolved, a part for feeding the solution to a tip of a flying electrode, a part for applying a voltage between the tip of the flying electrode and an electro-conductive material of a color filter substrate so as to form an electrostatic field, and a part for relatively shifting the tip of the flying electrode and the color filter substrate to a perpendicular direction and to a horizontal direction. The solution is formed into a stringy beam which is let to fly onto the color filter substrate so that the solution is injected into a concavity formed and surrounded by a black matrix on the color filter substrate, and forms red, green and blue light emitting layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Mamoru Okano, Yasuo Imanishi, Sukekazu Aratani, Yoshiharu Nagae
  • Patent number: 6604816
    Abstract: The recording electrodes and the control electrodes of an ink jet recording head are alternately arranged on a substrate. Ink in which coloring material is distributed in a solvent is supplied to the recording electrode so that the ink can flow in the direction of the length of the recording electrode. An ink circulation part is provided for collecting surplus ink from the point of the recording electrode from which ink is discharged. As a result, an ink jet recorder, which can produce a high definition image without shifting the ink impact position on the recording medium, can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Mamoru Okano, Tatsuo Igawa, Kazuhito Masuda
  • Patent number: 6557981
    Abstract: An ink jet recording head has a plurality of ink-discharge electrodes and control electrodes and an opposed electrode arranged at a fixed spacing and grounded. A pulse voltage with a reversed polarity is applied to the control electrodes in synchronization with the superimposition of the pulse voltage on a bias voltage applied to the ink-discharge electrode when the ink is discharged. As a result, an ink jet recording apparatus, which can decrease the pulse voltage needed to discharge the ink, is provided with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Fukano, Seiji Yonekura, Mamoru Okano, Tatsuo Igawa, Kazuhito Masuda
  • Publication number: 20020149313
    Abstract: This invention provides a production device of organic EL display which can form uniform organic light emitting layer for red-, green- and blue-colored light evenly and in a high reliability for every pixel and can make a full color display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Mamoru Okano, Yasuo Imanishi, Sukekazu Aratani, Yoshiharu Nagae
  • Patent number: 6443560
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus capable of obtaining a highly precise image for stabilizing an amount of ink to be flied onto a recording medium by supplying and recovering the ink, in an ink discharge unit within the recording head, due to a difference in height of positions where two ink chambers within the ink discharge unit are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Okano, Yoshinobu Fukano, Seiji Yonekura, Tatsuo Igawa, Kazuhito Masuda
  • Patent number: 6412916
    Abstract: An ink jet printer is of a small size and is capable of printing high-quality images, wherein an ink with a colorant dispersed in a solvent is ejected in a direction lower than a horizontal level and is adhered to a surface of a recording medium. The recording medium is conveyed while being spaced a constant distance from ink ejecting electrodes, thereby stabilizing an electric field induced between the ink ejecting electrodes and the recording medium and stabilizing the amount of the ink ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Okano, Atsushi Onose, Shigetaka Fujiwara, Yoshinobu Fukano, Seiji Yonekura, Yoshiharu Nagae
  • Patent number: 6286938
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus has a head substrate, a jetting member disposed on the substrate, a recording electrode disposed so as to sandwich the jetting member and for making ink jet from the jetting member, and a separating wall for covering the recording electrode, wherein the ink is supplied from the proximal end of the jetting member and recovered in an upward direction from near the tip end of the jetting member. According to such an arrangement, it becomes possible to prevent the recording electrode from being clogged with ink adhering at the tip end thereof, and thus, the locus of the ink drop jetted from the head can be prevented from being deviated due to deviation of the jetting point on the jetting member. Accordingly, it becomes possible to provide an ink jet recording apparatus which is capable of printing an image with a high definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Okano, Seiji Yonekura, Yoshinobu Fukano, Shigetaka Fujiwara, Atsushi Onose