Patents Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
  • Patent number: 12658755
    Abstract: Provided are a stator for a rotary electric machine and the rotary electric machine. The stator includes a stator core, and a stator winding formed in a plurality of phases, the stator winding including a slot conductor and a crossover conductor configured to connect ends of a pair of the slot conductors, the ends placed at a same side of the pair of slot conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Miku Takahashi, Yuji Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Saito, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Yamazaki, Takuya Miyagi, Keisuke Tateno
  • Patent number: 12657692
    Abstract: Provided is a visual inspection device including: an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of a surface of an object to be inspected; a posture control unit configured to change a posture of the object to be inspected with respect to the image pickup unit; a storage unit having stored therein a learning result obtained by machine learning using a defective product sample image, the defective product sample image being generated by combining a defect portion image prepared in advance with a non-defective product image of the object to be inspected at a combination position obtained by referring to three-dimensional data corresponding to the object to be inspected tilted so as to form a posture angle set in advance; and an inspection unit configured to inspect the surface of the object to be inspected based on a picked-up image picked up at the posture angle by the image pickup unit and on the learning result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Onozuka, Shinichi Inoue, Takamasa Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12654721
    Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of adding a new function by updating a program of an in-vehicle computer system. An in-vehicle computer system includes a plurality of ECUs. Each ECU is able to communicate with at least one other ECU via a communication bus. An in-vehicle computer system includes a measurement means that measures an ECU state for the ECUs, an estimation means that estimates a vehicle state based on the ECU state and a connection configuration of a communication bus, and a management means that acquires an update program and execution conditions of the update program. The management means selects a first ECU that is to execute the update program based on the vehicle state and the execution conditions. The first ECU executes the update program. The management means determines whether or not an output delay constraint of the update program is satisfied. The management means terminates execution of a redundancy program redundant to the update program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Swarn Singh Rathour, Tasuku Ishigooka, Satoshi Otsuka, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12655885
    Abstract: In an insulator inserted in an insulator accommodation hole of a bracket body portion, an inclined portion is formed in an inner periphery of a first cylindrical body portion of a first core metal, the inclined portion being provided anterior to an internal thread portion in an inserting direction of a bolt and reduced in diameter toward the rear side in the inserting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 12658751
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rotary electric machine in which damage of a magnet is suppressed and cooling performance of the magnet is improved. The present invention includes a rotation shaft 21, a rotor 20, and core end members 204 and 205 connected to end portions of the rotor 20. The rotor 20 includes a magnet 201, a rotor core 200, and interposed members 301a and 301b interposed between the magnet 201 and the rotor core 200. In the rotor core 200, a magnet insertion hole 202 for disposing the magnet 201 and flux barriers 203a and 203b are formed. The rotation shaft 21 is provided with a first flow path 21a through which a refrigerant flows. The core end members 204 and 205 are provided with a second flow path 504a joining the first flow path 21a and the flux barrier 203a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Sawahata, Masahiro Hori, Hideaki Goto, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 12654770
    Abstract: A steering operation control apparatus includes a steering control unit configured to control a steering electric motor configured to operate a steering mechanism configured to drive a steering target wheel, and a reaction force control unit coupled with a steering wheel and configured to control a reaction force electric motor configured to provide a reaction force. The reaction force control unit has a position control function of outputting a stop position maintaining signal required for the reaction force electric motor. The position control function is configured to adjust a control amount of the stop position maintaining signal to provide to the reaction force electric motor based on a strength of a rotational torque applied to the steering wheel by a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Ueda, Kazuya Terashima
  • Patent number: 12657145
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a first processing unit; a second processing unit; and a transfer control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Momoka Kasuya, Hiroki Yamazaki, Nobuyoshi Morita, Shuhei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12660617
    Abstract: A first power semiconductor element and a second power semiconductor element of a power semiconductor device are such that, when heat generated by the first power semiconductor element is larger than heat generated by the second power semiconductor element, a first distance from an end of the first power semiconductor element to an end of the conductor plate is larger than a second distance from an end of the second power semiconductor element to an end, connected to the second power semiconductor element, of a second conductor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Shimazu, Yujiro Kaneko, Yusuke Takagi
  • Patent number: 12654760
    Abstract: A steering device and a steering control device are capable of continuing steering control of steered wheels when a microprocessor on a steering control unit side operates normally at a time of occurrence of a double failure. A first steering angle sensor is configured to output a first operation amount signal to a first steering actuator control unit of a steering control unit, and a second steering angle sensor is configured to a second operation amount signal to a second steering actuator control unit of the steering control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Kimura
  • Patent number: 12658815
    Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal being terminals of a capacitor element; a positive electrode conductor plate connected to the positive electrode terminal; a negative electrode conductor plate connected to the negative electrode terminal; and a power conversion module connected to the two conductor plates. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are formed along an arrangement direction of the capacitor element. The positive electrode conductor plate and the negative electrode conductor plate form a laminated conductor portion in which the positive electrode conductor plate and the negative electrode conductor plate have respective main surfaces disposed, to face the main surface of the capacitor element, and are laminated to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Mima, Takeshi Tokuyama, Junpei Kusukawa, Takashi Hirao
  • Patent number: 12658833
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: an inverter that supplies an alternating current to a motor mounted on a vehicle; a current detection unit that detects the alternating current; a position detection unit that detects a rotor phase angle of the motor; and an inverter control unit that controls the inverter based on a current value detected by the current detection unit and the rotor phase angle detected by the position detection unit, wherein the inverter control unit, in response to a timing at which vibration of the vehicle is generated, changes a current phase angle of the motor, and makes a cycle of a waveform of a resultant current of the alternating current irregular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Sato, Keisuke Suzuki, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Hideki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 12654683
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle integrated control device capable of controlling a posture of a vehicle so as to prevent in advance an occupant who has high sensitivity to motion sickness from suffering from the motion sickness. The vehicle integrated control device includes a target value generation unit that generates or acquires a control target value of a movement of a vehicle; a motion sickness sensitivity acquisition unit that acquires a motion sickness sensitivity index that is a quantitative value that is likeliness of incidence of motion sickness that differs depending on an occupant characteristic with respect to at least one occupant riding on the vehicle; and a target value correction unit that corrects the control target value based on the control target value and the motion sickness sensitivity index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Maeda, Takahiro Ito, Kentarou Ueno, Shuji Ohshita
  • Patent number: 12658052
    Abstract: A traveling support system detects a drop in a driver's performance and issues an alarm to the driver. The traveling support system includes: a trailing operation normality learning unit that learns a tendency of fluctuation in a trailing operation by a driver of the host vehicle of trailing a preceding vehicle is included in a normal range, from at least one feature of a change in a state of the host vehicle and a change in a state between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, the feature being calculated based on given data detected in time series; a trailing operation abnormality determining unit that determines that the current trailing operation is abnormal when fluctuation has a difference of a given size or more with the normal range; and an alarm control unit that issues an alarm when the current trailing operation is determined to be abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuda, Keisuke Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12660124
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a supply refrigerant pipe that is connected to an opening end. The supply refrigerant pipe has a connection opening end that is directly connected to the opening end, a refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the connection opening end, and a small diameter flow path connected to an end portion of the refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the connection opening end A main body case has, as parts of the refrigerant flow path, a case-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the opening end, and a flat flow path formed in a shape flatter than the small diameter flow path and connected to an end portion of the case-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the opening end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignees: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Kudo, Yoshiharu Tanabe, Kohei Nakano, Hiroyuki Nakade, Kenichi Sasaki, Takahiro Uneme, Ryuta Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20260159062
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electric brake device that is able to calculate the conversion ratio of thrust to current regardless of a mechanical configuration, without prior measurement, and in response to changes over time. The present invention includes an electric motor 8, a piston 6, brake pads 5a, 5b, and a motor control device 11. The piston 6 moves due to the rotation of the electric motor 8. The brake pads 5a, 5b press a disc rotor 2 through the use of a thrust generated by the movement of the piston 6. The motor control device 11 controls the rotation of the electric motor 8. The motor control device 11 includes an efficiency estimation section 35 that estimates the relationship between a current supplied to the electric motor 8 and the thrust in accordance with the relationship between an increase in the current value of the electric motor 8 with respect to an increase in the position of the piston 6 and the current value of the electric motor 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji SETO, Daisuke GOTO
  • Publication number: 20260164626
    Abstract: This semiconductor device comprises: a plurality of power modules, each having a semiconductor element; a plurality of heat dissipation bases that are disposed via heat dissipation members on a heat dissipation surface side of the plurality of power modules, and that each have a heat dissipation fin; a frame having a plurality of openings; and a cover that covers the heat dissipation bases and the frame so as to form a refrigerant flow passage. The plurality of heat dissipation bases respectively close the plurality of openings. The cover has an elastic biasing part on a surface which contacts the heat dissipation fins. The heat dissipation bases are biased, by pressurization, toward the power modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Ti CHEN, Takeshi TOKUYAMA, Takahiro ARAKI, Junpei KUSUKAWA, Hiromi SHIMAZU, Akihiro NAMBA
  • Patent number: 12651353
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to generate a highly accurate trail by correcting detection box information of an object in an object tracking apparatus that generates a trail of an object within a measurement range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: So Sasatani, Goshi Sasaki, Trongmun Jiralerspong
  • Patent number: 12649345
    Abstract: A longitudinal acceleration calculation unit includes a low-pass filter (LPF), a high-pass filter (HPF), and an addition unit. The LPF is configured to acquire a first longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle detected by a longitudinal acceleration sensor, and remove a high-frequency component of the first longitudinal acceleration. The HPF is configured to acquire a second longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle estimated based on an engine torque of the vehicle and a brake hydraulic pressure of the vehicle, and remove a low-frequency component of the second longitudinal acceleration. The addition unit is configured to obtain a composed longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle based on a post-high-frequency-component-removal longitudinal acceleration obtained by removing the high-frequency component by the LPF and a post-low-frequency-component-removal longitudinal acceleration obtained by removing the low-frequency component by the HPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ogawa, Ryusuke Hirao, Hiroki Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 12649514
    Abstract: In a vehicular steering control device, a steer-by-wire system, and a method for controlling a steer-by-wire system according to the present invention, if an abnormality of a rotation angle sensor of a turning motor is detected, open-loop control is performed on the turning motor based on a rotation angle of a motor shaft before the abnormality of the rotation angle sensor is detected and information concerning a reaction generation device that applies reaction torque to steering wheel. Consequently, it is possible to continue control of a turning angle even if the rotation angle sensor of the turning motor fails, while suppressing an increase in system cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Kimura
  • Patent number: 12649458
    Abstract: A vehicle motion control device includes: an actuator characteristic change estimation unit configured to estimate a characteristic change of an actuator at a future time from a current time; a controllable range estimation unit configured to calculate a controllable range of a vehicle motion from a characteristic change calculated by the actuator characteristic change estimation unit, a target track of a vehicle, and a current vehicle state; a vehicle motion planning unit configured to create a motion plan within a controllable range calculated by the controllable range estimation unit; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value based on a motion plan created by the vehicle motion planning unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit is minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Yamasaki, Kenta Maeda, Shuji Ohshita, Kentarou Ueno