Patents Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11652433
    Abstract: A motor actuator of the present invention includes, between a battery and an inverter, a first solid state relay and a second solid state relay in which directions of parasitic diodes are opposite to each other. When supply of power from the battery to the inverter is to be interrupted, the first solid state relay is brought into an OFF state or all of a plurality of field effect transistors are brought into the OFF state, and then the second solid state relay is brought into the OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Gomi, Masaki Itabashi, Yawara Kato, Kazutoshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11650052
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device whereby enhanced sensing precision and reduced computational load can both be achieved at the same time even when a plurality of objects as sensing subjects are present. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention has: a first object detection processing unit having a plurality of imaging units, the first object detection processing unit performing first object detection processing for sensing, by stereo processing, a distance for each of a plurality of image elements in partial region of interest in an image acquired by the imaging units, then extracting a group of the image elements on the basis of the sensed distances and detecting an object; and a second object detection processing unit for performing second object detection processing for detecting the distance of the object by stereo processing for a partial region of another region of interest in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Sasamoto, Takeshi Shima, Shinichi Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20230141601
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of properly performing motor control during overmodulation. In a motor control device 1, a carrier wave frequency adjusting unit 16 adjusts a carrier wave frequency fc so as to change a voltage phase error ??v representing the phase difference between three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* and a triangular wave signal Tr. When a modulation factor H in accordance with the voltage amplitude ratio between the DC power supplied from a high voltage battery to an inverter and AC power output from the inverter to a motor exceeds a predetermined value, for example, 1.15, a current control unit 14 corrects the amplitudes and phases of a d-axis voltage command Vd* and a q-axis voltage command Vq* on the basis of a carrier wave phase difference ??carr representing the phase of the triangular wave signal Tr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi HARA, Toshiyuki AJIMA, Takaya TSUKAGOSHI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230147082
    Abstract: Provided are a control device and a program verification method capable of suppressing an operation load in a case where different keys are used for respective devices. The control device 1 stores a program to be verified, a plurality of verification expected values related to verification of the program to be verified, and registered verification expected value information 183 that identifies one of the verification expected values. The control device verifies whether the program to be verified is correct using the registered verification expected value information 183.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Yasuhiro FUJII, Mikio KATAOKA, Masashi YANO
  • Publication number: 20230142308
    Abstract: Adhesion between a temperature detection unit and a segment coil is improved to improve temperature following capability. A stator core, a stator winding wire configured with a plurality of connected segment coils attached to the stator core, and a temperature detection unit that is in contact with the segment coil to detect temperature are provided, and among the segment coils, a segment coil at which the temperature detection unit is disposed is disposed to protrude further than other segment coils disposed alongside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke TATENO, Yuichiro BABA, Yuki KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20230146620
    Abstract: An arithmetic device includes: an input unit to which information pertaining to a detection target that is a target recognized by a sensor is input from the sensor; a processing-unit allocation unit that is configured to allocate a plurality of the targets to any one of a plurality of groups; an association unit that is configured to retrieve a second one of the targets to be associated with a first one of the targets from a part of the plurality of groups included in the plurality of groups; and a state fusion unit that is configured to fuse the first target and the second target that have been associated with each other by the association unit to produce a tracking target that is a target being tracked. The first target is any one of the detection target and the tracking target. The second target is any one of the detection target and the tracking target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori HAYASE, Michihiko IKEDA, Tatsuhiko MONJI
  • Patent number: 11644001
    Abstract: A direct injection fuel injection valve includes a valve casing housing therein a valve member and fitted into an engine main body of an internal combustion engine. The casing includes: a tubular case member; and a valve seat member joined to one end part thereof and having a valve seat and a fuel injection hole. The valve member can be in contact with and detached from the valve seat. The injection hole is opened and closed by cooperation between the valve seat and the valve member. At least part of the valve seat member is exposed to a combustion chamber of the engine main body. Fuel can be injected into the combustion chamber via the injection hole. The valve seat member is formed from a martensitic stainless steel having a PI value of at least 19, containing at least N, and having a C content of no greater than 0.3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsunota, Kenichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 11646690
    Abstract: A random value integration unit 175 outputs a random value output from a random value generation unit 174 in a diffusion width Rand output from a diffusion width generation unit 173 by a product of an output of the random value generation unit 174 and an output of the diffusion width generation unit 173. A triangular wave signal generation unit 176 generates a triangular wave signal corresponding to a second carrier frequency fc2 which is obtained by adding the random value output from the random value integration unit 175 to a first carrier frequency fc1 which is an output of a carrier frequency setting unit 171. That is, a frequency obtained by increasing the diffusion width of the first carrier frequency fc1 is used as the second carrier frequency fc2, and the second carrier frequency is used as the carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hara, Midori Takaoka, Toshiyuki Ajima, Hirokazu Matsui, Akihiro Ashida
  • Patent number: 11643095
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a control command generation unit that generates and outputs a control command for controlling a first control object; a communication unit that performs communication with another electronic control device that controls a second control object; a communication abnormality determination unit that determines whether communication with the another electronic control device by the communication unit is abnormal; and a reset determination unit that determines whether the another electronic control device is reset based on a change in a sensor signal related to a state of the second control object when the communication abnormality determination unit determines that the communication with the another electronic control device is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nakao, Nobuki Sato, Mitsuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11647588
    Abstract: A circuit substrate (3) is provided with first and second rigid parts (11, 12) having six metal foil layers, and a thin flexible part (13) having two metal foil layers connecting the two rigid parts. A ground wiring (51) which is shaped like a wide strip is formed on the surface metal foil layer, and a plurality of inter-rigid-part wirings (55) are formed on the inner metal foil layer in parallel lines. Outer edges (51a) of the ground wiring (51) are positioned closer to side edges (13a) of the flexible part (13) than to the inter-rigid-part wirings (55). The ground wiring (51) protects the inter-rigid-part wirings (55) from cracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hara, Takuro Kanazawa, Narutoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11645916
    Abstract: The present invention improves the accuracy of predicting rarely occurring behavior of moving bodies, without reducing the accuracy of predicting commonly occurring behavior of moving bodies. A vehicle 101 is provided with a moving body behavior prediction device 10. The moving body behavior prediction device 10 is provided with a first behavior prediction unit 203 and a second behavior prediction unit 207. The first behavior prediction unit 203 learns first predicted behavior 204 so as to minimize the error between behavior prediction results for moving bodies and behavior recognition results for the moving bodies after a prediction time has elapsed. The second behavior prediction unit 207 learns future second predicted behavior 208 of the moving bodies around the vehicle 101 so that the vehicle 101 does not drive in an unsafe manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Ishikawa, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11645124
    Abstract: To be capable of concurrent execution of a function group not in data conflict by a plurality of cores and to execute a function pair in data conflict in a temporal separation manner. A process barrier 20 includes N?1 checker functions 22 and one limiter function 23, where the number of cores capable of concurrently executing the functions is N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the checker functions 22 determine whether the head entry of a lock-free function queue LFQ1 is either the checker function 22 or the limiter function 23, and repeats reading of the head entry of the lock-free function queue LFQ1 if either, and ends processing if neither, and the limiter function 23 is an empty function ending without performing any processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Nishi, Tomohito Ebina, Kazuyoshi Serizawa
  • Publication number: 20230137911
    Abstract: A vehicle motion control device generates a travel route where behavior of a vehicle traveling on a curve is small and comfortable ride is achieved even when the vehicle travels on a continuous curve. The control device includes a travel track generation unit that generates, based on information on a curvature of a first curve on a lane existing in a traveling direction of a vehicle and a curvature of a second curve connected to the first curve, a travel route by setting curvature of the travel route at a time of traveling on a curve having a smaller curvature between the first and second curves to be larger than the curvature of the curve and setting a curvature of the travel route at a time of traveling on a curve having a larger curvature between the first and second curves to be smaller than the curvature of the curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo NASU, Kentarou UENO, Ryusuke HIRAO, Masaru YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11635472
    Abstract: A load driving device includes a synchronous rectifier circuit having a driving-side switching element and a reflux-side switching element; a driver control circuit controls the synchronous rectifier circuit; and a voltage monitor circuit that monitors whether the voltage of an output terminal of the synchronous rectifier circuit is within a predetermined voltage range; where the driver control circuit, upon receiving a diagnosis command, performs control so that when the driving-side switching element is switched from ON to OFF, the reflux-Side switching element is also switched to OFF; and the voltage monitor circuit detects a normal state when the voltage to be monitored is within a normal level during a period in which both the driving-side switching element and the reflux-side switching element are turned OFF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuri Ohara, Yasushi Sugiyama, Takeo Yamashita, Masahiro Doi
  • Patent number: 11635036
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Akagi
  • Patent number: 11636691
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor recognition integration device capable of preventing a rapid change in coordinates of an integrated object and preventing, for example, an erroneous determination in an autonomous driving plan determination device, even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes. In the present invention, since an object position is estimated in a state where information of a position detected by a sensor that recognizes an object in an external field is corrected or changed, the rapid change of coordinates of an integrated object is prevented even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Aoki, Shigenori Hayase
  • Publication number: 20230119278
    Abstract: Provided is an electric circuit body including: a power semiconductor element; a first conductor plate configured to be connected to one surface of the power semiconductor element; a first sheet-shaped member having a first resin insulation layer and configured to at least cover a surface of the first conductor plate; a sealing material configured to seal each of the power semiconductor element, the first conductor plate, and an end of the first sheet-shaped member; and a first cooling member configured to be adhesively attached to the first sheet-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutake TSUYUNO, Yusuke TAKAGI, Yujiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11629988
    Abstract: A flow sensor includes a semiconductor, an electric control circuit, a lead frame, and a spacer. The spacer is disposed in a clearance between the lead frame and the semiconductor device on an opposite side from a joint portion of the semiconductor device with the lead frame on a side of the electric control circuit across the diaphragm disposed therebetween. A surface of the electric control circuit and a part of a surface of the semiconductor device is covered with resin while the air flow sensing unit is exposed. At the joint portion, the semiconductor device is attached to the lead frame via an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kono, Yuuki Okamoto, Takeshi Morino, Keiji Hanzawa
  • Patent number: 11629773
    Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber includes a piston, a damper tube, a suspension spring, a plunger, a jack chamber, a pump case, a pump piston, a screw shaft, and a drive unit. Both end surfaces of the pump piston in a reciprocating direction are a first end surface demarcating the pump chamber, and a second end surface demarcating the gas chamber, the second end surface having a screw hole into which the screw shaft is screwed. The pump piston includes a space portion between a bottom plate defining the first end surface and the screw hole. The screw shaft has a through-hole connecting the gas chamber with the space portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11628840
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus according to the present invention outputs a signal regarding a target braking/driving force for guiding a vehicle in a target traveling direction to a braking/driving controller. The signal regarding the target braking/driving force is acquired based on information regarding a running route of the vehicle and a physical amount regarding a motion state of the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus outputs a signal regarding a steering correction torque for correcting a steering torque according to a behavior of the vehicle to a steering force controller. The signal regarding the steering correction torque is acquired based on a vehicle-body slip angle of the vehicle and the target braking/driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Imamura, Satoshi Nakagawa