Patents Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20240246565
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device 100, a rough-road travel unit 1008 determines whether or not there is a rough road within a predetermined range in front of a vehicle based on a position of the vehicle estimated by a position estimation unit 1001 and a position of a rough road acquired by a map information acquisition unit 1011, and determines whether or not the rough road has been detected based on road surface information acquired by an outside environment information acquisition unit 1002.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Qixian QUAN
  • Publication number: 20240250571
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core provided with slots arranged in a circumferential direction such that the slots are formed in two or more layers in a radial direction; and coils each having an inserted portion positioned inside the slots, and terminal end portions protruding from one end side and another end side of the stator core in an axial direction; wherein the coils include first coils formed to have a straight-line shape at their terminal end portions, second coils inclined in the circumferential direction at a predetermined angle with respect to an end face of the stator core at the one end side or the other end side of the terminal end portions, and third coils inclined in the circumferential direction at a predetermined angle with respect to the end face of the stator core at the one end side and the other end side of the terminal end portions, and the first coils, the second coils, and the third coils are connected to each other at their respective end portions to f
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KUMADA, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Satoshi YAMAMURA, Zhi JING, Mohdbasir ZULAIKA, Akihito TOYA, Akira TOBA
  • Publication number: 20240246562
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle motion control device configured to set speed of an own vehicle in consideration of not only nearby information of the own vehicle but also long-distance information of the own vehicle, so as to reduce an unexpected behavior of the vehicle occurring during travel. The vehicle motion control device includes: a nearby information acquisition unit configured to acquire nearby information of a vehicle; a long-distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire long-distance information of the vehicle; and a speed planning unit configured to generate a speed command value as a travel target of the vehicle, based on the nearby information and the long-distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo NASU, Kentarou UENO, Masaru YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240251532
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a plurality of circuit bodies each including a semiconductor element, and a printed circuit board having the plurality of circuit bodies mounted thereon and having a relay wiring connecting the plurality of circuit bodies to each other, a DC wiring, and an AC wiring, wherein at least one of the AC wiring and the DC wiring is connected to a conductor member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi TOKUYAMA, Takahiro ARAKI, Shigehisa AOYAGI, Noriyuki MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240246516
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system, a vehicle control device, and a vehicle control method that are highly safe and prevent an own vehicle from suddenly starting during a two-stage stop. A vehicle control system 1 includes an external environment recognition unit 120 that recognizes external environment information that is information on the surroundings of the vehicle; a driver monitoring unit 130 that detects the direction of the line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a brake holding unit 150 that maintains the state of operation of brakes of the vehicle; a brake holding control unit 144 that controls the turning ON or OFF of the brake holding unit 150; and a driver monitoring condition generation unit 143 that generates, on the basis of the external environment information detected by the external environment recognition unit, a line-of-sight condition of the driver's line of sight to be detected by the driver monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato KASAI, Keiichiro NAGATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20240249528
    Abstract: An external environment recognition device 101 estimates a blind spot region around a host vehicle based on information detected by a sensor that detects a target around the host vehicle. The external environment recognition device 101 includes a visibility index determination unit 121 that calculates a visibility index of the target based on a coordinate point and a reflection intensity of the target detected by the sensor, and assigns the visibility index to a region from the host vehicle 200 to the coordinate point of the target, a visibility map storage unit 124 that stores the visibility index as a visibility map in association with the region, and a blind spot region estimation unit 127 that estimates the blind spot region based on the visibility map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke KATOH, Yuki HORITA, Gabriel DANIEL, Hidehiro TOYODA
  • Patent number: 12045082
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control device that performs distributed processing using a plurality of microcomputers and can perform highly accurate time synchronization between the microcomputers with less delay without hindering arithmetic processing of each microcomputer. The device includes a plurality of microcomputers, and a waveform generation circuit connected between a master microcomputer serving as a time synchronization source and a slave microcomputer that performs time synchronization, among the plurality of microcomputers, wherein the master microcomputer outputs a reset signal synchronized with time to the waveform generation circuit, the waveform generation circuit outputs a waveform signal corresponding to a change in time of the master microcomputer, to the slave microcomputer, and the slave microcomputer measures a voltage value of the waveform signal and detects time corresponding to the measured voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Hidetatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12045023
    Abstract: An electronic control device is an electronic control device that stores a neural network including plural neurons and a connection information group including plural pieces of connection information that associate the neurons with each other. The neural network is a neural network including a third connection information group created through deletion, by a pruning section, of at least one piece of connection information from a first connection information group for deciding an output value when an input value is given on the basis of the first connection information group and a second connection information group that is plural pieces of connection information having the degree of influence on predetermined data given as the input value, the degree of influence exceeding a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kitani, Michimasa Kitahara, Tsuneo Sobue
  • Patent number: 12047062
    Abstract: An electronic circuit that recognizes a disconnected state from an outside during disconnection of a power supply line is provided. For this purpose, an electronic circuit includes: a load provided between a power supply line and an output terminal in the electronic circuit; a transistor provided between the load and the output terminal; a current generation circuit that generates current using a power supply voltage at a power supply line in the electronic circuit; and a control circuit that controls the transistor using a control voltage that changes according to the current generated by the current generation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakagawa, Akeo Satoh, Akira Kotabe
  • Patent number: 12045352
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a tamper storage unit that stores a secure boot key and a control key, and has tamper resistance, a processor that is able to execute a program, a verification unit that verifies a program by using the secure boot key, performs secure boot causing the processor to execute the program based on a result of the verification, and has tamper resistance, a calculation unit that performs calculation related to encryption using the control key, and has tamper resistance, and a general storage unit that stores a first program that implements a delegated verification unit to which authority of the secure boot is delegated from the verification unit and a second program that implements a control unit that uses the calculation unit, and does not have tamper resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamazaki, Momoka Kasuya, Nobuyoshi Morita, Yasuhiro Fujii, Mikio Kataoka, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240241720
    Abstract: An improvement system includes: a first correlation calculation unit which reads parameter information, which is information regarding a plurality of evaluation indexes in a business process, and calculates a first correlation in which a correlation between the evaluation indexes is expressed by a correlation coefficient; a graph generation unit which creates a causal relationship graph, in which the evaluation indexes are set as nodes and the correlation between the evaluation indexes is represented by a link, on the basis of the first correlation and order information which is information regarding priorities of the plurality of evaluation indexes; an interface unit which presents the causal relationship graph to a user and receives a change to the causal relationship graph by the user; and an order calculation unit which updates the order information on the basis of the change to the causal relationship graph by the user, and enables the graph generation unit to generate the causal relationship graph after
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro HORI, Masumi KAWAKAMI, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Tomomi OKAMOTO, Hajime SAITO, Takayuki KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240239312
    Abstract: Provided is a high-performance brake control device capable of effectively suppressing a vehicle body vibration generated during traveling on a road with a step or roughness. The brake control device includes a traveling environment estimation unit that estimates a traveling environment from a behavior of a first wheel that is any one of a plurality of wheels provided in a vehicle, and a timing calculation unit that calculates a timing at which a second wheel different from the first wheel is affected by the traveling environment, based on a vehicle speed. The plurality of wheels includes any one wheel that is controlled as for braking based on an estimation result of the traveling environment estimation unit and a calculation result of the timing calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro ITO, Takuya USUI, Daisuke GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240241209
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is provided which has enhanced robustness against a shielding object, further, which does not measure a received radio wave from a radio transmitter and which can continue, for example, automatic driving control by comparing two types of vehicle positions calculated using the radio transmitter installed outside a vehicle and a sensor mounted on the vehicle and detecting an error in order to reduce a detection error of the radio transmitter due to a failure in communication of the radio transmitter. Two types of vehicle positions calculated using the sensor mounted on the vehicle and the radio transmitter are compared, and it is determined that the radio transmitter is affected by a shielding object in a case where a temporal change of a vehicle position deviation and/or a behavior change of a vehicle position (first own vehicle position) based on the radio transmitter is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta TSURUMOTO, Keisuke TAKEUCHI, Seiya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240244807
    Abstract: An electric power converter includes: an inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in parallel with the inverter circuit; a control circuit unit that controls the inverter circuit; and a connection conductor portion that connects the first capacitor and the second capacitor, wherein a conductive member is disposed between the control circuit unit and the connection conductor portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro ARAKI, Takeshi TOKUYAMA, Masahiro SEO, Noriyuki MAEKAWA, Shigehisa AOYAGI
  • Publication number: 20240241747
    Abstract: An electronic controller includes: a virtual machine that accesses a first virtual driver to execute a process; a hypervisor that calls a first real driver of a first peripheral, based on a peripheral access request received from the first virtual driver; an access recording unit that calls the first virtual driver to record a peripheral access request transmitted to the hypervisor; a state recording unit that calls the first real driver to record a state of a register of the first peripheral; and a monitoring unit that monitors an operation of the hypervisor. The monitoring unit determines an abnormality of the hypervisor, based on a record by the access recording unit and on a record by the state recording unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi MIZOGUCHI, Tomohito EBINA, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA, Kenichi OSADA, Tasuku ISHIGOOKA, Takeshi FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240244780
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a circuit board having a plurality of connectors for connection to an external apparatus, and a housing made of a conductive material and adapted to accommodate the circuit board therein. The housing has an opening corresponding to the connectors, and at least one of a first housing component and a second housing component which constitute the housing has a comb-blade-shaped portion for partitioning the opening for each of the connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki NAKAMURA, Isao HODA, Masahiro TOYAMA, Eiji ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240240965
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to determine a difference on a map by using an exterior environment recognition sensor of a traveling vehicle and host vehicle position estimation information on the basis of existing map information and to enable the difference to be transmitted to a map server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi OGATA
  • Patent number: 12036989
    Abstract: The vehicle control device, independently of acceleration and deceleration operation by a vehicle driver, adjusts a vehicle speed to a predetermined target vehicle speed or adjusts an inter-vehicle interval between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle which travels ahead of the vehicle, to a predetermined target inter-vehicle interval. The vehicle control device obtains information concerning the inter-vehicle interval between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle and information concerning acceleration and deceleration operations by the driver, to update settings of the target vehicle speed and the target inter-vehicle interval according to the obtained information concerning the inter-vehicle interval and the acceleration and deceleration operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taku Takahama
  • Patent number: 12038063
    Abstract: A valve seat member is provided in a cap member. A first sub valve is provided in another side chamber. A second sub valve is provided in a cap chamber formed between a bottom portion of the cap member and the valve seat member. In a second passage, an orifice is disposed on an upstream side or a downstream side from the first sub valve in flow by which the first sub valve is opened. In a region in which a piston speed is low, a valve of a second damping force generating mechanism is opened in a state in which a valve of a first damping force generating mechanism is closed. In a speed region in which the piston speed is higher than in another region, the valve of the first damping force generating mechanism and the valve of the second damping force generating mechanism are both opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Mikio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12036993
    Abstract: There is provided a control device for vehicles which can improve quietness and fuel economy, while maintaining high responsiveness to acceleration of a vehicle. Therefore, the control device 100 for vehicles includes a gear ratio control unit 10 that controls a gear ratio of a vehicle V, and a determination unit 20 that determines whether or not there is an acceleration limit of the vehicle V. The gear ratio control unit 10 is configured to limit an increase in gear ratio Rt, when the determination unit 20 determines that there is an acceleration limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Sato, Hiroyuki Ooiwa, Hideki Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Shogo Miyamoto