Patents by Inventor Yuji Oda
Yuji Oda 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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Patent number: 11964402Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Publication number: 20240117081Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes a water-soluble monofunctional acrylamide compound, a water-soluble photoradical initiator, a water-soluble photosensitizer, and an aqueous solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji HARA, Kazuteru NAGASAKA, Masatomi IRISAWA, Yuji ODA
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Patent number: 11926067Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11919168Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
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Patent number: 11914397Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11914363Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Publication number: 20220306787Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes an amide compound represented by Formula (1) and a polymerization initiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji HARA, Kazuteru NAGASAKA, Masatomi IRISAWA, Yuji ODA
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Patent number: 10408174Abstract: There is provided an internal combustion engine in which respective combustion states of cylinders can be uniformized with a simple configuration. A central axis (CL1) of a connecting part (7) of one of air supply ports (5) inclines with a predetermined inclination angle in a direction away from an air supply inlet (3) with respect to a y direction orthogonal to an x direction in which an air supply manifold 1 extends, and an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of the one of the air supply ports (5) is larger than an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of other air supply ports (5) located on a side closer to the air supply inlet (3) than the one of the air supply ports (5).Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Koshiba, Yuji Oda, Satoshi Yamada, Hiromi Komatsu
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Patent number: 10218086Abstract: An array antenna device includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged to include a first antenna element arrangement in which antenna elements are arranged at element intervals having predetermined periodicity and a second antenna element arrangement in which antenna elements are arranged at element intervals having predetermined periodicity different from the periodicity in the first antenna element arrangement. The array antenna device includes a control unit configured to remove erroneous detection caused by a grating lobe based on a comparison of a detection result by an array antenna of the first antenna element arrangement and a detection result by an array antenna of the second antenna element arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Minami, Yuji Oda
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Patent number: 10202891Abstract: An object is to provide a precombustion-chamber gas engine in which occurrence of knocking is restricted. The precombustion-chamber gas engine includes: a cylinder; a cylinder head; a piston delimiting a main combustion chamber with the cylinder head; a precombustion-chamber cap delimiting a precombustion chamber inside thereof and including a plurality of nozzle holes through which the precombustion chamber is in communication with the main combustion chamber; an intake valve for opening and closing an intake port that opens on the cylinder head; and an exhaust valve for opening and closing an exhaust port that opens on the cylinder head. In a planar view where the cylinder head is seen from below, there are at least one intake-side nozzle hole and at least one exhaust-side nozzle hole, and a total nozzle-hole area of the at least one intake-side nozzle hole is larger than that of the at least one exhaust-side nozzle hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Oda, Kengo Tanaka, Akihiro Yuuki
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Patent number: 10031219Abstract: A DS-SS radar 10 detects an object in such a way that a code generator 21, an oscillator 32, and an antenna 24 repeatedly send a sending signal modulated with a predetermined-frequency code generated by the code generator 21, an A/D converter 45 samples the code, included in the reflected wave of the sending signal reflected by an object, with a sampling period lower than the period of the code, and a correlator 46 calculates the correlation between the reference code, generated by re-arranging the code from the code generator 21 at an interval of Nsp, and the sampling data converted by the A/D converter 45.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Minami, Yuji Oda
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Patent number: 9696415Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a change amount calculation section for obtaining, for each of a plurality of peaks of a first spectrum belonging to the same group, a peak value at the present point in time and calculating the difference between the peak value and a peak value obtained before the present point in time; a ratio calculation section for comparing the obtained difference with a predetermined difference threshold and calculating a ratio of the number of peaks whose differences are greater than the difference threshold to the number of all the peaks belonging to the same group; and a pedestrian determination section for determining that the object is a pedestrian when the calculated ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio threshold and at least one of peaks belonging to the same group differs from the remaining peaks in terms of the sign of the difference.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Nakai, Shin-ichiro Matsuzawa, Yoshiaki Minami, Yuji Oda
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Publication number: 20170149147Abstract: An array antenna device includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged to include a first antenna element arrangement in which antenna elements are arranged at element intervals having predetermined periodicity and a second antenna element arrangement in which antenna elements are arranged at element intervals having predetermined periodicity different from the periodicity in the first antenna element arrangement. The array antenna device includes a control unit configured to remove erroneous detection caused by a grating lobe based on a comparison of a detection result by an array antenna of the first antenna element arrangement and a detection result by an array antenna of the second antenna element arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki MINAMI, Yuji ODA
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Publication number: 20170129404Abstract: An on-vehicle imaging device includes an imaging element that captures image data of objects outside the vehicle through a front window of the vehicle. A housing of the on-vehicle imaging device accommodates a circuit substrate on which electronic components for processing the image data captured by the imaging element are mounted. A top plate of the housing located above the circuit substrate includes vent holes through which heat generated in the housing is released in a direction toward a window area included in an imaging range of the imaging element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuji ODA
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Publication number: 20160377036Abstract: There is provided an internal combustion engine in which respective combustion states of cylinders can be uniformized with a simple configuration. A central axis (CL1) of a connecting part (7) of one of air supply ports (5) inclines with a predetermined inclination angle in a direction away from an air supply inlet (3) with respect to a y direction orthogonal to an x direction in which an air supply manifold 1 extends, and an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of the one of the air supply ports (5) is larger than an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of other air supply ports (5) located on a side closer to the air supply inlet (3) than the one of the air supply ports (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Yuki Koshiba, Yuji Oda, Satoshi Yamada, Hiromi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20160011308Abstract: A DS-SS radar 10 detects an object in such a way that a code generator 21, an oscillator 32, and an antenna 24 repeatedly send a sending signal modulated with a predetermined-frequency code generated by the code generator 21, an A/D converter 45 samples the code, included in the reflected wave of the sending signal reflected by an object, with a sampling period lower than the period of the code, and a correlator 46 calculates the correlation between the reference code, generated by re-arranging the code from the code generator 21 at an interval of Nsp, and the sampling data converted by the A/D converter 45.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki MINAMI, Yuji ODA
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Patent number: 9214587Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module in which an output voltage defect is suppressed is obtained by forming in parallel over a substrate n number (n is a natural number) of integrated photoelectric conversion devices each including a plurality of cells that are connected in series, and electrically connecting in parallel n?1 number or less of integrated photoelectric conversion devices with normal electrical characteristics and excluding an integrated photoelectric conversion device with a characteristic defect such as a short-circuit between top and bottom electrodes or a leak current due to a structural defect or the like formed in a semiconductor layer or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Nishi, Yasushi Maeda, Ryosuke Motoyoshi, Yuji Oda, Kei Takahashi, Yoshiaki Ito, Tatsuji Nishijima
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Publication number: 20150184578Abstract: An object is to provide a precombustion-chamber gas engine in which occurrence of knocking is restricted. The precombustion-chamber gas engine includes: a cylinder; a cylinder head; a piston delimiting a main combustion chamber with the cylinder head; a precombustion-chamber cap delimiting a precombustion chamber inside thereof and including a plurality of nozzle holes through which the precombustion chamber is in communication with the main combustion chamber; an intake valve for opening and closing an intake port that opens on the cylinder head; and an exhaust valve for opening and closing an exhaust port that opens on the cylinder head. In a planar view where the cylinder head is seen from below, there are at least one intake-side nozzle hole and at least one exhaust-side nozzle hole, and a total nozzle-hole area of the at least one intake-side nozzle hole is larger than that of the at least one exhaust-side nozzle hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Yuji Oda, Kengo Tanaka, Akihiro Yuuki
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Publication number: 20150097713Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a change amount calculation section for obtaining, for each of a plurality of peaks of a first spectrum belonging to the same group, a peak value at the present point in time and calculating the difference between the peak value and a peak value obtained before the present point in time; a ratio calculation section for comparing the obtained difference with a predetermined difference threshold and calculating a ratio of the number of peaks whose differences are greater than the difference threshold to the number of all the peaks belonging to the same group; and a pedestrian determination section for determining that the object is a pedestrian when the calculated ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio threshold and at least one of peaks belonging to the same group differs from the remaining peaks in terms of the sign of the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto NAKAI, Shin-ichiro MATSUZAWA, Yoshiaki MINAMI, Yuji ODA
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Patent number: 8755185Abstract: A semiconductor module includes an upper arm and a lower arm of an inverter circuit. The upper arm has a switching element and a rectifying device and the lower arm has a switching element and a rectifying device. The upper arm and the lower arm are laminated such that the switching elements overlap each other and the rectifying devices overlap each other. Refrigerant flow paths constituting cooling sections respectively extend along both sides in the lamination direction of the switching elements and the rectifying devices and are folded back at the rectifying device lamination section side.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Chung-chih Chou, Takeshi Fukami, Yuji Oda