Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies
  • Patent number: 12176809
    Abstract: A drain and a source of an N-channel type FET included in a power feeding control apparatus are provided on an electric current path along which an electric current flows from a DC power supply to a load, the drain being a part of the FET into which the electric current is input and the source being a part of the FET from which the electric current is output. A driving circuit switches the FET off when a first determination circuit determines that a control voltage between a gate and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and a second determination circuit determines that a drain-source voltage between the drain and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayaki Murata, Shunichi Sawano
  • Publication number: 20240421647
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a coil. The coil includes at least a first winding wire and a second winding wire, and connection states of the first winding wire and the second winding wire are switched. The first winding wire includes a first insertion portion that passes through a slot. The second winding wire includes a second insertion portion that passes through the slot through which the first insertion portion passes. Both the first insertion portion and the second insertion portion are disposed in the same slot. The first insertion portion includes a first core wire and a first coating portion that covers the first core wire. The second insertion portion includes a second core wire and a second coating portion that covers the second core wire. A thickness of the second coating portion is smaller than a thickness of the first coating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kanzo ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 12166342
    Abstract: A power supply control device controls a supply of power by switching a FET on or off. A current that rises when a current flowing through the FET rises flows through a resistor circuit. A drive circuit makes a notification when a voltage across both ends of the resistor circuit reaches a voltage greater than or equal to a reference voltage. A microcomputer instructs an application circuit to apply a voltage to the resistor circuit. As a result, the application circuit applies a voltage greater than or equal to the reference voltage to the resistor circuit. After instructing the application circuit to stop applying the voltage to the resistor circuit, the microcomputer determines whether or not the drive circuit is making the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunichi Sawano
  • Patent number: 12166339
    Abstract: A circuit structure includes a first busbar constituted by a cladding material, a second busbar, an insulating member including an insulating portion located between the first busbar and the second busbar, and an electronic component provided on the first busbar and the second busbar so as to straddle the insulating portion. The electronic component has a connection terminal bonded to the first busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 12164629
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted communication system in which a plurality of communication devices and a determination device for determining an abnormality regarding the communication devices are connected to each other via a bus, wherein the determination device includes: a transmitting unit that transmits a determination signal at a predetermined voltage to each of the communication devices; and a determination unit that determines the abnormality based on a response signal transmitted from each of the communication devices in response to the determination signal, each of the communication devices includes: a signal output unit that outputs a first logical value signal based on a unique voltage threshold, in response to a determination signal that is received; and a generating unit that generates a second logical value signal based on the first logical value signal, and the signal output unit outputs the response signal to the bus based on the second logical value signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240400044
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device installed in a vehicle having an automated driving function, includes: an allowable delay estimation unit that estimates, as an allowable delay, a time until the vehicle reaches a dynamic object; a transfer delay estimation unit that estimates, as a transfer delay, a time from when the in-vehicle device receives data from outside of the vehicle to when the in-vehicle device transfers the data to an execution unit for executing the automated driving function, based on load states of information processing and information transfer in the vehicle; a determination unit that selects a specific analysis process from among a plurality of analysis processes for analyzing the data received from the outside, based on a difference between the allowable delay and the transfer delay; and a driving support information generation unit configured to generate driving support information by executing the specific analysis process selected by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240403027
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle device obtains an update program transmitted from an external server outside a vehicle and performs processing for updating a program of an in-vehicle ECU mounted in the vehicle. The in-vehicle device includes a control unit configured to perform processing related to the update program, wherein the control unit obtains, from the external server, an operation check scenario for performing operation check of an in-vehicle ECU to be updated when obtaining the update program, outputs, to the in-vehicle ECU to be updated, the obtained update program and operation check scenario, and performs processing related to the operation check of the in-vehicle ECU to be updated, based on the operation check scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki SHIOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240404726
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a first wiring member including a first sheet, and a plurality of first wire-like transmission members fixed onto the first sheet. The plurality of first wire-like transmission members include a second wire-like transmission member, and a third wire-like transmission member extending over the second wire-like transmission member and crossing the second wire-like transmission member. The wiring member further includes a holding member configured to hold a positional relationship between the second and third wire-like transmission members at a crossing part of the second and third wire-like transmission members. The holding member includes a second sheet fixed to the first sheet so as to cover the crossing part. The second sheet includes a fixed region fixed to the first sheet located around the crossing part, and the second sheet includes a non-fixed region that is not fixed to the first sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Daisuke EBATA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Ryusuke KUDO, Shintaro SUMIDA, Hidetoshi ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 12159131
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information processing apparatus includes a client processing unit configured to be provided with a service and perform processing, the client processing unit receives, from a server processing unit configured to provide a service, a service providing message that includes identification information and version information of a service to be provided, determines whether or not the version information included in the received service providing message and version information of a service that the client processing unit desires to be provided match, and, if it is determined that the two types of version information do not match, the client processing unit examines whether or not it is possible to receive the service with different version information, and, if it is possible to receive the service with different version information based on an examination result, the client processing unit receives the service and performs processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda
  • Publication number: 20240388552
    Abstract: A detection apparatus detects an improper message on a vehicle-mounted network mounted in a vehicle. The detection apparatus includes: a message acquisition unit that acquires a transmission message on the vehicle-mounted network; and a determination unit that performs a determination relating to improper messages on the vehicle-mounted network by performing a determination on the transmission message acquired by the message acquisition unit. The determination unit is capable of outputting a second determination result relating to the transmission message in addition to a first determination result indicating whether or not the transmission message acquired by the message acquisition unit is an improper message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumiya ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240388467
    Abstract: An onboard device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with an onboard device included in an onboard network; a detection unit configured to detect a new onboard device that is an onboard device newly added to the onboard network; and a sleep processing unit configured to, in a detected state where the new onboard device has been detected by the detection unit, transmit a sleep request for transitioning to a sleep state in synchronization with an onboard device included in the onboard network, to the new onboard device via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Shimizu, Kentaro Ashibe, Takeshi Hagihara, Daiki Nakayama, Tatsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 12145515
    Abstract: A heat dissipation structure for a wire harness is configured to provide heat dissipation while achieving versatility using a simple structure. The heat dissipation structure for a wire harness includes wire harnesses, heat dissipation bodies with which the wire harnesses are in contact in a heat conductive manner, and a heat conductive member whose heat conductivity is improved in a specific direction. The wire harnesses and the heat dissipation bodies are pressed against each other with the heat conductive member sandwiched in between in the specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Fumihiro Kuzuhara, Takahiro Nishiyama, Kei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 12149166
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor provided between one of a first conductive path and a second conductive path and a reference conductive path, a first switch and a second switch interposed between a first external power source and the first capacitor and between a second external power source and the second capacitor, and a control unit configured to switch the first switch and the second switch between an ON state and an OFF state, whereby the control unit, in the case of switching from shut-off control in which the first switch and the second switch are kept in the OFF state to energization control in which the first switch and the second switch are kept in the ON state, performs intermittent control in which the first switch and the second switch are intermittently switched to the ON state prior to the energization control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Arata Nakashima, Takeshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12145516
    Abstract: An onboard ECU communicatively connected to an onboard apparatus installed in a vehicle and a vehicle control apparatus that executes processing relating to driving an onboard apparatus includes a control unit that executes processing relating to control of the onboard apparatus, wherein the control unit acquires an input signal relating to control of the onboard apparatus, derives a count value on the basis of changes in the acquired input signal, outputs a first signal for transitioning the vehicle control apparatus to an activated state in a case where the derived count value reaches a first threshold, and outputs a second signal for requesting the onboard apparatus to be driven in a case where the derived count value reaches a second threshold; and the second threshold is a value greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Tani
  • Publication number: 20240375599
    Abstract: In a relay apparatus, if partial data that is a portion of update data that is used to update a control program is input to a second input/output unit, a control unit stores the partial data in a storage unit. If partial data is input to a first input/output unit while partial data is being repeatedly input to the second input/output unit, the control unit stops storing the partial data input to the second input/output unit and stores the partial data input to the first input/output unit in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya NODA
  • Publication number: 20240380133
    Abstract: A terminal is constructed to be connected to an attachment target by a bolt, and includes a first surface, a through hole, and an asperity portion. A material for the terminal is aluminum, etc. The terminal has a Vickers hardness equal to or higher than 80 HV. A ratio S1/S2 between a first area S1 and a second area S2 while the first surface and the attachment target are connected to each other by tightening of the bolt is equal to or lower than 0.8. The first area S1 is an area of a region where the first surface is in contact with the attachment target at a pressure equal to or higher than 25 MPa. The second area S2 is an area of an annular region around the bolt. The first area S1 is equal to or larger than 5 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei KOBAYASHI, Toru MAEDA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Masashi FUJIKI, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12143241
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a first processing unit that is connected to each of the plurality of vehicle-mounted ECUs and performs relay processing on the messages; a second processing unit that is connected to each of the plurality of vehicle-mounted ECUs and performs relay processing on the messages; a first routing table including a relay destination of each message to be processed at the first processing unit; and a second routing table including a relay destination of each message to be processed at the second processing unit. Each of the first processing unit and the second processing unit includes a connection unit to which wiring connected to the plurality of vehicle-mounted ECUs is connected, the first processing unit performs the relay processing based on the first routing table, and the second processing unit performs the relay processing based on the second routing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240373455
    Abstract: A management device includes: a detection unit configured to detect addition of a function unit to a network including one or a plurality of on-vehicle function units; a generation unit configured to acquire function unit information of a new function unit that is detected, and function unit information of the on-vehicle function unit, and configured to generate configuration information of a new network that is the network in which the new function unit is further included; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire feasibility information indicating feasibility of the new network and corresponding to the configuration information generated by the generation unit. When the feasibility information corresponding to the configuration information generated by the generation unit is not present in a database, the acquisition unit transmits the configuration information generated by the generation unit in order to verify the feasibility of the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Izumi, Junji Yano, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Tadashi Matsumoto, Takeshi Hagihara
  • Patent number: 12135972
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle information processing apparatus capable of continuously executing an application program run on an OS even while that OS is restarting, a control method, and a computer program. An in-vehicle information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is installed in a vehicle and includes a control unit that controls a plurality of operating systems (OSs) running on common hardware, wherein the control unit determines whether or not the plurality of OSs need to be restarted, in a case in which the control unit determines that one OS needs to be restarted, runs an application program running on the one OS on another OS different from the one OS, restarts the one OS, and after restart is complete, runs the application program running on the other OS on the one OS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Shiozawa
  • Patent number: 12137547
    Abstract: A wiring module includes: a functional sheet disposed between a panel and an interior member in a vehicle; a transmission member disposed on one surface side of the functional sheet; and a conductive sheet covering a part of the transmission member. The functional sheet includes a conductive layer and a layer having a function of at least one of a thermal adjustment function or a sound insulation function, and the conductive sheet is electrically connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuriya Kato, Kosuke Sone, Ai Takehisa, Takuya Taniguchi