Patents by Inventor Yutaka Sonoda
Yutaka Sonoda 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: 20240038726Abstract: An AI module includes a first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a plurality of operation blocks each of which performs a predetermined operation and a plurality of memory blocks each including memory. The plurality of operation blocks and the plurality of memory blocks are arranged in a checkered pattern or in a striped pattern in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Koji OBATA, Masaru SASAGO, Masamichi NAKAGAWA, Tatsuya KABE, Hiroyuki GOMYO, Masatomo MITSUHASHI, Yutaka SONODA
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Publication number: 20230401816Abstract: A detection system includes: an obtainer that obtains image data generated based on an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from a detection target and event data generated based on a change in an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from the detection target; a processor that extracts, from the event data as auxiliary information, information to be used to assist in detecting the detection target from the image data; and a detector that detects the detection target or a state of the detection target based on at least the image data and the auxiliary information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Manabu YUMINE, Shoji SO, Shigeru FURUMIYA, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Yutaka SONODA, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomokuni IIJIMA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI, Makoto YARINO, Yusuke NIHEI
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Patent number: 11408910Abstract: An accelerator position detection device includes a handlebar grip that is turnable in a normal rotation direction and in a reverse rotation direction from a neutral position and is energized to the neutral position when no operation is applied; accelerator position sensors that output voltage according to an angle of the handlebar grip and that include a first sensor and a second sensor; and a detector that detects an angle for control for controlling a vehicle on the basis of the angle of the handlebar grip according to output from the accelerator position sensors. The detector detects an angle as a positive value on the basis of a first voltage when the first voltage in a rising range is output, and the detector detects an angle as a negative value on the basis of a second voltage when a first initial value not located in the rising range is output.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Akiyoshi, Yutaka Sonoda, Takashi Tetsuka, Yutaka Kikuchi, Takuya Osanai, Shinji Misawa, Kazuhiko Ono
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Publication number: 20200110113Abstract: An accelerator position detection device facilitates detection of a neutral position of a handlebar grip turnable in not only a positive direction but in a negative direction from the neutral position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki AKIYOSHI, Yutaka SONODA, Takashi TETSUKA, Yutaka KIKUCHI, Takuya OSANAI, Shinji MISAWA, Kazuhiko ONO
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Patent number: 9709015Abstract: A power generation unit includes a motor generator having a rotor with magnet, and a stator with coils driven in a plurality of phases, the coils of the respective phases not being connected to each other; and a driving control part that performs control so that a coil of each phase of the stator is brought into any one of a first state in which torque is generated by the rotor, a second state in which both ends of the coil are electrically released, and a third state in which both ends of the coil are short-circuited.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Ouchi, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Yutaka Sonoda, Tatsuya Shiozawa, Atsushi Katayama, Hitoshi Kurosaka
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Patent number: 9637008Abstract: A generator motor unit includes a generator motor including a rotor equipped with magnets, and magnetic bodies that protrude from a wall surface, a first stator that makes magnetic flux act on the magnets, thereby generating torque in the rotor, and a second stator that makes magnetic flux act on the magnetic bodies, thereby generating torque in the rotor; and a controller that controls energization of coils of the first stator and the second stator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Tatsuya Shiozawa, Katsuhiro Ouchi, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Ryota Takagi, Atsushi Katayama, Hitoshi Kurosaka
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Patent number: 9614397Abstract: A battery charging apparatus for a vehicle includes a driver, a position detector, and a controller. The driver includes switching elements to convert three-phase AC power outputted from a winding of each phase of a stator of a three-phase AC generator into DC power to supply the DC power to a battery. The position detector is configured to output a position detection signal indicating a position of a rotor of the three-phase AC generator. The controller is configured to control the switching elements to be switched between an energized state and non-energized state. The controller is configured to have a maintenance period during a period until next input of the position detection signal if the period exceeds an energization period. The switching elements are to be maintained in the maintenance period in the energized state or non-energized state immediately before the period exceeding the energization period.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Katsuhiro Ouchi, Kazuhiko Ono, Keishi Takayama
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Patent number: 9356462Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a plurality of input terminals which are connected to respective phases of a three-phase AC dynamo, and a rectifying circuit including a plurality of rectifying elements and a plurality of switching elements. A switching element control unit and pulse generation unit are provided, for controlling the turning on/off of the switching elements, and for generating a pulse signal, respectively. The switching element control unit is configured to control the plurality of switching elements, and includes a potential difference detection unit configured to detect potential differences between potentials of input terminals, and a specifying unit configured to determine a phase order of AC outputs which are input to the input terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Katsuhiro Ouchi, Kazuhiko Ono, Takeaki Sugimoto, Yuta Inoguchi
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Publication number: 20160102644Abstract: A power generation unit includes a motor generator having a rotor with magnet, and a stator with coils driven in a plurality of phases, the coils of the respective phases not being connected to each other; and a driving control part that performs control so that a coil of each phase of the stator is brought into any one of a first state in which torque is generated by the rotor, a second state in which both ends of the coil are electrically released, and a third state in which both ends of the coil are short-circuited.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Katsuhiro Ouchi, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Yutaka Sonoda, Tatsuya Shiozawa, Atsushi Katayama, Hitoshi Kurosaka
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Patent number: 9290099Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a position sensor for outputting a position detection signal, a sensor for detecting an output current or voltage of a predetermined phase, a regulator for supplying DC power obtained by rectifying three-phase AC from the generator to a battery, and an inverter control section for executing energization control of the respective switching elements of the regulator based on a phase of an induced voltage of the generator calculated on the basis of the position detection signal. The inverter control section inputs a revolution speed signal Ne of the generator, the position detection signal Tp, and either output signal out of a current signal or a voltage signal detected by the sensor, and estimates an error of an attaching position of the position sensor with respect to the induced voltage of the predetermined phase based on the position detection signal and the output signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Katsuhiro Ouchi, Kazuhiko Ono
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Publication number: 20160009185Abstract: A generator motor unit includes a generator motor including a rotor equipped with magnets, and magnetic bodies that protrude from a wall surface, a first stator that makes magnetic flux act on the magnets, thereby generating torque in the rotor, and a second stator that makes magnetic flux act on the magnetic bodies, thereby generating torque in the rotor; and a controller that controls energization of coils of the first stator and the second stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Tatsuya Shiozawa, Katsuhiro Ouchi, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Ryota Takagi, Atsushi Katayama, Hitoshi Kurosaka
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Publication number: 20150229159Abstract: A battery charging apparatus for a vehicle includes a driver, a position detector, and a controller. The driver includes switching elements to convert three-phase AC power outputted from a winding of each phase of a stator of a three-phase AC generator into DC power to supply the DC power to a battery. The position detector is configured to output a position detection signal indicating a position of a rotor of the three-phase AC generator. The controller is configured to control the switching elements to be switched between an energized state and non-energized state. The controller is configured to have a maintenance period during a period until next input of the position detection signal if the period exceeds an energization period. The switching elements are to be maintained in the maintenance period in the energized state or non-energized state immediately before the period exceeding the energization period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka SONODA, Katsuhiro OUCHI, Kazuhiko ONO, Keishi TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20140300318Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a position sensor for outputting a position detection signal, a sensor for detecting an output current or voltage of a predetermined phase, a regulator for supplying DC power obtained by rectifying three-phase AC from the generator to a battery, and an inverter control section for executing energization control of the respective switching elements of the regulator based on a phase of an induced voltage of the generator calculated on the basis of the position detection signal. The inverter control section inputs a revolution speed signal Ne of the generator, the position detection signal Tp, and either output signal out of a current signal or a voltage signal detected by the sensor, and estimates an error of an attaching position of the position sensor with respect to the induced voltage of the predetermined phase based on the position detection signal and the output signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka SONODA, Katsuhiro OUCHI, Kazuhiko ONO
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Patent number: 8851915Abstract: One object of the invention is to provide a plug cap that more reliably prevents the leakage of current by suppressing the ingress of water from a gap between a terminal body and a rubber member. A plug cap 1 includes an electrical connection portion 5 that electrically connects a spark plug to a plug cord, a terminal body 2 that is provided on the outer periphery of the electrical connection portion 5, and a cylindrical rubber member 3 which is mounted on at least one of one end portion and the other end portion of the terminal body 2 and into which the spark plug or the like is inserted. The terminal body 2 includes a one end-side insertion portion 41 which is formed at one end of the terminal body and into which the spark plug is inserted and the other end-side insertion portion 42 which is formed at the other end of the terminal body and into which the plug cord is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Fuma, Junpei Ohta, Ryohei Kitamura, Takao Yamamoto, Yutaka Sonoda
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Publication number: 20130257353Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a plurality of input terminals which are connected to respective phases of a three-phase AC dynamo, and a rectifying circuit including a plurality of rectifying elements and a plurality of switching elements. A switching element control unit and pulse generation unit are provided, for controlling the turning on/off of the switching elements, and for generating a pulse signal, respectively. The switching element control unit is configured to control the plurality of switching elements, and includes a potential difference detection unit configured to detect potential differences between potentials of input terminals, and a specifying unit configured to determine a phase order of AC outputs which are input to the input terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicants: Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka SONODA, Katsuhiro OUCHI, Kazuhiko ONO, Takeaki SUGIMOTO, Yuta INOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20130003831Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit, a buffer, an I picture detection unit, and a decoding control unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a digital broadcasting signal including AV streams of a plurality of channels. The buffer is configured to store video stream signals acquired from the received digital broadcasting signal. The I picture detection unit is configured to detect I pictures contained in the stored video stream signals. The decoding control unit is configured to control decoding of the video stream signals in such a manner as to be successively performed in an order of time positions from the video stream signal containing the I picture located in a front position as a relative time position among the I pictures detected for the respective channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: HIROSHI ADACHI, YUTAKA SONODA
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Publication number: 20120322280Abstract: One object of the invention is to provide a plug cap that more reliably prevents the leakage of current by suppressing the ingress of water from a gap between a terminal body and a rubber member. A plug cap 1 includes an electrical connection portion 5 that electrically connects a spark plug to a plug cord, a terminal body 2 that is provided on the outer periphery of the electrical connection portion 5, and a cylindrical rubber member 3 which is mounted on at least one of one end portion and the other end portion of the terminal body 2 and into which the spark plug or the like is inserted. The terminal body 2 includes a one end-side insertion portion 41 which is formed at one end of the terminal body and into which the spark plug is inserted and the other end-side insertion portion 42 which is formed at the other end of the terminal body and into which the plug cord is inserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Fuma, Junpei Ohta, Ryohei Kitamura, Takao Yamamoto, Yutaka Sonoda
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Patent number: 4862269Abstract: In a memory control apparatus for providing various video display functions by means of a video memory into which video data constituting successive units, such as, frames or fields, or video information are written at repeatedly changing write addresses while concurrently reading out the data from repeatedly changing read-out addresses; the video memory is provided with at least four memory areas each having a capacity to store one of the units of video information, impending overtaking of the write and read-out addresses relative to each other is detected, and, in response to such detection, the one of the memory areas in which the data is being written or read-out is changed so as to maintain a separation of the write and read-out addresses sufficient to ensure avoidance of overtaking and consequent disturbance of the displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1988Date of Patent: August 29, 1989Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yutaka Sonoda, Hirofumi Yuchi, Kyoichi Murakami, Masaharu Tokuhara