Patents Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11886874
    Abstract: An arithmetic operation device causes a convolution arithmetic unit to perform a convolution arithmetic operation between a filter and target data corresponding to a size of the filter in each of a plurality of convolution layers constituting a neural network. The arithmetic operation device includes: a bit reduction unit that reduces a bit string corresponding to a first bit number from a least significant bit of the target data and reduces a bit string corresponding to a second bit number from a least significant bit of a weight that is an element of the filter for each convolution layer; and a bit addition unit that adds a bit string corresponding to a third bit number obtained by adding the first bit number and the second bit number to a least significant bit of a convolution arithmetic operation result output from the convolution arithmetic unit by inputting the target data and the weight after being reduced by the bit reduction unit to the convolution arithmetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kishimoto, Goichi Ono, Akira Kitayama, Daichi Murata
  • Patent number: 11889657
    Abstract: An electronic control device for suppressing mixing of foreign substances includes a control board including a heat generation component, a housing, a support member that is provided in the housing and supports the board, a heat radiation fin on a surface opposite to a surface of the support member on which the control board is supported, an air cooling fan that intersects an extension direction of the heat radiation fin, and blows wind to the heat radiation fin, a wall portion between the control board and the air cooling fan, and extending from the support member toward the control board, a wiring passage at a top end of the wall portion, a wiring that is laid in the wiring passage, and electrically connects the air cooling fan and the control board, and a cover that covers the housing, and includes a protrusion fitted in the wiring passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Horie
  • Patent number: 11888645
    Abstract: An information processing device which transmits and receives a message to which a communication ID indicating a class has been assigned, includes: a storage unit which stores, for each of the communication IDs, a communication counter for verifying a recency of a communication; a recency information management unit which updates the communication counter based on a predetermined condition; an abnormality monitoring unit which identifies an influence range of an abnormality that occurred; and a message generation unit which generates a synchronization request message including the communication ID indicating that it is a message requesting a synchronization of the communication counter, and a synchronization target identifier indicating the influence range identified by the abnormality monitoring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Morita, Hiroki Yamazaki, Kota Ideguchi
  • Publication number: 20240027245
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection device for reducing an influence of a sound wave generated in a turbocharger and suppressing a decrease in detection accuracy of a physical quantity including a flow rate of gas. The device detects a physical quantity of air from an intake passage of an engine equipped with a turbocharger. The physical device includes a sub-passage that takes in part of air flowing from an upstream to a downstream side of the intake passage along a first direction, and a flow rate detection unit that detects a flow rate of the air taken in the sub-passage. The sub-passage includes an inlet that opens toward the upstream side in the first direction, an outlet that opens toward the downstream side in the first direction, and an attenuation chamber that attenuates a sound wave propagating from the turbocharger to an inside of the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yushi ARAKI, Akira UENODAN, Nobuaki GORAI
  • Publication number: 20240031204
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a circuit board configured to be provided in a frame and to have a communication circuit capable of receiving or transmitting differential signals via a pair of signal pins; a connector configured to be electrically connected to the circuit board and to input signals transmitted from an electronic device outside the frame by single-end transmission to the communication circuit; and a noise cancellation signal output circuit configured to output noise cancellation signals corresponding to noise superimposed on the signals in the connector, wherein one signal pin of the pair of signal pins of the communication circuit is connected to the connector, and the other signal pin is connected to the noise cancellation signal output circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro TOYAMA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Masayoshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240025475
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering apparatus according to the present invention includes: a reaction force actuator control section that controls an output amount of a reaction force actuator; a steering actuator control section that controls a steering actuator in response to a manipulation of a steering operation input member, the steering actuator steering steered wheels via a steering unit; a deviation recognition section that recognizes a deviation between a manipulation amount of the steering operation input member and a steering amount of the steering unit; and a reaction force actuator output boost section that, when the deviation increases, increases the output amount of the reaction force actuator. Thus, the steering reaction force can be appropriately controlled in correspondence with a response delay in the steering amount of the steering unit with respect to the manipulation amount of the steering operation input member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi HIRATA, Yasuhito NAKAKUKI, Tsukasa MIYAJIMA, Huajun LIU
  • Publication number: 20240030827
    Abstract: A power conversion device including: a semiconductor device; a first water channel and a second water channel stacked in a predetermined stacking direction and installed with the semiconductor device interposed therebetween; and a connecting water channel connecting the first water channel and the second water channel, in which the connecting water channel is formed by joining and fixing a joint member joined to the first water channel and the second water channel and a cover member separate from the joint member to each other, the first water channel and the second water channel are joined to the joint member by a joint formed in a plane parallel to the stacking direction, and the cover member covers the joint and is joined and fixed to the joint member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke TAKAGI, Yujiro KANEKO, Masanori MIYAGI, Xudong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240025408
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of improving robustness against an attitude change of an occupant during preceding vehicle follow-up control in a straddle type vehicle such as a motorcycle. A vehicle control device 100 for a straddle type vehicle that controls a driving force during preceding vehicle follow-up control for causing an own vehicle to follow a preceding vehicle, in which the driving force (which is a control amount of the preceding vehicle follow-up control) is corrected according to an attitude (attitude change) of a driver detected by an attitude detection device 800 during the preceding vehicle follow-up control. Further, the driving force is corrected on the basis of the attitude, the driving torque of the own vehicle, and the acceleration of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Satoshi MATSUDA, Yuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240030776
    Abstract: One first connector head 21A and one second connector head 22A face each other, in the plane view of a connector terminal assembly 19, with the axial line of an output shaft 12, which is the axial line of the motor rotation shaft of an electric motor, therebetween without being offset from each other. The other first connector head 21B and the other second connector head 22B face each other, in the plane view of the connector terminal assembly 19, with the axial line of the output shaft 12, which is the axial line of the motor rotation shaft of the electric motor, therebetween without being offset from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Narutoshi YAMADA, Takuro KANAZAWA, Kazuhiko NAKANO, Hideyuki HARA
  • Patent number: 11881798
    Abstract: A motor drive control apparatus includes energization systems for energizing a motor having a plurality of independent winding sets, with the energization systems corresponding one-to-one to the winding sets. A plurality of sensors is provided for each of the energization systems. A controller is provided for each of the energization systems and controls energization of the corresponding winding set based on output signals of the corresponding sensors. A plurality of sub power supply paths is provided for their respective energization systems. Each sub power supply path connects a power supply path for supplying power to the corresponding sensors and a power supply path in another energization system. A semiconductor switch is provided for each of the sub power supply paths, and, between two different energization systems, when one of the two energization systems exhibits a sensor power supply failure, electrically connects the power supply paths of these two energization systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomio Sakashita
  • Patent number: 11878704
    Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of hardware capable of operation, and comprises an information collection unit which collects external information of the vehicle, a storage unit which stores a plurality of processing specifications which prescribe processing to be executed by each of the plurality of hardware and the external information to be used by the plurality of hardware for performing operation, and an applied condition, which is a condition related to the external information and a status of the plurality of hardware for applying each of the plurality of processing specifications, and a processing control unit which determines one processing specification among the plurality of processing specifications from a correspondence to the condition based on the collected external information and the status of the plurality of hardware, and controls the plurality of hardware based on the determined processing specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ueta, Satoshi Tsutsumi, Yuta Muto, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11878733
    Abstract: A steering control device according to the present invention is configured to obtain information on a parking position of a vehicle obtained by an external world recognition unit, and to output, based on the obtained information on the parking position, an instruction for moving a rear portion of the vehicle to a set position in a parking width direction to a rear-wheel steering device configured to control a steered angle of rear wheels of the vehicle. With this configuration, even when a timing or an angle for operating a steering wheel by a driver is not appropriate, or even when a steered angle of front wheels is limited, parking of the vehicle at the predetermined position in the parking width direction is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakano, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Kazuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11881791
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of reducing an influence of electromagnetic noise propagating from a circuit body toward a drive circuit board. A power conversion device 100 of the present invention includes a circuit body 6 that converts a direct current into an alternating current, a drive circuit board 5 that drives the circuit body 6, a base member 4 provided between the circuit body 6 and the drive circuit board 5, and a case 1 that houses the circuit body 6 and the base member 4. The base member 4 includes a first flow channel forming portion 4A that forms a flow channel space 1C1 between the circuit body 6 and the base member 4, and a first extending portion 4B2 extending from the flow channel forming portion 4A and connected to an inner surface of the case 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taesung Kim, Hiroki Funato
  • Patent number: 11881846
    Abstract: To prevent deterioration of current detection accuracy due to a difference in deterioration between a main MOS and a sense MOS. The load drive device includes a main MOS (101) for supplying a load current to a load, a sense MOS (102) to be used for detection of the load current, and an equalizer circuit (110) and a switch (120) which are provided in parallel between the source terminal of the main MOS and the source terminal of the sense MOS. The drain terminal of the main MOS and the drain terminal of the sense MOS have a common connection, and when a current is detected, the terminal voltage of the main MOS and the terminal voltage of the sense MOS are equalized by the equalizer circuit, and the switch is opened. When a current is not detected, the equalizer circuit is stopped and the switch short-circuits the source terminal of the main MOS and the source terminal of the sense MOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keishi Komoriyama, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11878673
    Abstract: A cutoff valve comprises a coil wound around an outer periphery of a bobbin, a cylinder in contact with a protruding portion formed in an inner side of the bobbin, and an armature disposed inside the cylinder and moved in a winding axis direction of the coil by energization of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Yamasaki, Masaki Misuno, Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11881034
    Abstract: Erroneous detection due to erroneous parallax measurement is suppressed to accurately detect a step present on a road. An in-vehicle environment recognition device 1 includes a processing device that processes a pair of images acquired by a stereo camera unit 100 mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Takemura, Takeshi Shima, Haruki Matono
  • Patent number: 11878686
    Abstract: A driving assistance device controls the speed of an own vehicle based on a predicted traveling state of a preceding vehicle, and includes a traveling scene recognition unit that detects the distance until the preceding vehicle reaches an intersection, a determination unit that determines a traveling scene of the preceding vehicle at the intersection, and a calculation unit that selects the preceding vehicle prediction model according to the traveling scene determined by the determination unit from among a plurality of preceding vehicle prediction models recorded for each traveling scene in which the preceding vehicle travels, and inputs a distance until the preceding vehicle detected by the traveling scene recognition unit in the selected preceding vehicle prediction model reaches the intersection so as to calculate a predicted traveling state of the preceding vehicle after a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Iihoshi, Takashi Okada, Yuuki Okuda
  • Publication number: 20240020386
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to easily realize safe startup of a control apparatus including a plurality of arithmetic processing devices. A control apparatus 5 includes a first microcomputer 1 including a processor that executes a first program, a second microcomputer 2 including a processor that executes a second program, and a storage device 3 that stores the second program. The first microcomputer 1 includes a verification unit 1221 that verifies whether each of the first program and the second program has been falsified, a first acquisition unit 1126 that acquires the second program from the storage device 3 when the verification unit 1221 verifies that the first program is not falsified, and a startup permission notification unit 1124 that notifies the second microcomputer 2 of startup permission of the second program when the verification unit 1221 verifies that the second program is not falsified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Masashi YANO, Shuhei KANEKO, Yasuhiro FUJII, Mikio KATAOKA, Teruaki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20240017742
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic control device and a vehicle control system capable of coping with an increase in communication load, caused by an increase in the number of objects to be monitored, and an increase in processing load at the time of acquiring surrounding monitoring information. An electronic control device 110 according to the present disclosure is mounted on a vehicle V and includes a scene prediction unit 111 and a filtering unit 112. The scene prediction unit 111 predicts driving scenes to be encountered by the vehicle V based on position information of the vehicle V, map information around the vehicle V, and a travel route of the vehicle V. The filtering unit 112 derives a risk index for each of recognition results of a plurality of objects around the vehicle V based on the driving scenes, the recognition results of the objects, and risk information in which the risk index is defined for each of the driving scenes and each of types of the recognition results of the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu FUNAI
  • Publication number: 20240020245
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables second control software to continue processing using a peripheral circuit even in a situation where an abnormality related to first control software occurs. An electronic control device includes a memory (3) that stores the first control software and the second control software, a CPU (1) that executes the first control software and the second control software, and a peripheral circuit (200) used by the first control software and the second control software. The memory further includes a first buffer (313a) and a second buffer (323a). The CPU interrupts at least one of the processing of storing first peripheral transmission information in the first buffer and the processing of transmitting the first peripheral transmission information to the peripheral in a specific situation in which the abnormality related to the first control software occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi MIZOGUCHI, Tomohito EBINA, Tasuku ISHIGOOKA, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA, Kenichi OSADA