Patents Assigned to Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11163038
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna which includes a plurality of radiating portions which are formed on a substrate and a plurality of dielectric lenses for respectively converting a spherical wave radiated from each radiating portion into a plane wave, wherein the shape of a cross section of each dielectric lens perpendicular to a radiation direction of a beam is formed in a shape which radiates a beam which is narrower in a second direction than in a first direction orthogonal to the second direction, and the plurality of dielectric lenses are arranged side by side in the second direction so that beams radiated from the respective dielectric lenses are synthesized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kuriyama, Hideyuki Nagaishi, Akira Kitayama, Hiroshi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11166396
    Abstract: Provided is a box-type vehicle-mounted control device that effectively increases the amount of heat transfer from electronic components and a circuit board to a casing (base and cover) and that accordingly has achieved excellent heat dissipation property. The box-type vehicle-mounted control device includes a circuit board 12, a base 13, and a cover 14. In addition, a first heat radiating coating layer 31 is formed on at least one surface of the circuit board 12, and a second heat radiating coating layer 32 is formed on an inner surface of one or both of the base 13 and the cover 14 facing the first heat radiating coating layer 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Maki Ito, Toshiaki Ishii, Masaru Kamoshida, Hideto Yoshinari, Masato Saito, Akitoyo Konno
  • Publication number: 20210333764
    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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KITANI, Michimasa KITAHARA, Tsuneo SOBUE
  • Patent number: 11156642
    Abstract: A bus bar and a detection element uses resin to mold and integrate, leading to a disadvantage of complicating manufacturing. The bus bar is sandwiched and fixed between a second mold member and a first mold member. A sensor substrate on which a detection element is mounted is installed above the second mold member. The detection element is fixedly disposed at a position facing the bus bar, and detects a current flowing through the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kosuga, Takeshi Kato, Nobuaki Gorai
  • Patent number: 11159456
    Abstract: It is possible to perform transfer with low latency. The control apparatus includes a routing control unit, transmission queues, and a plurality of controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichi Osada, Shuhei Kaneko, Hitoshi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11155257
    Abstract: An automatic parking control device is capable of causing a vehicle to correctly reach the next frame without relying on normal parking route regeneration when a determination is made that the vehicle cannot reach the next frame under automatic parking vehicle control along a section route constituting a part of a parking route. When a determination is made whether the next frame is located on an extension of the current section route and the determination result shows that the next frame is located on the extension, the host vehicle travels further. When the determination is made whether the next frame is located on a remaining section of the current section route and the determination result shows that the next frame is located on the remaining section, the host vehicle decelerates earlier, thereby allowing the host vehicle to reach and come to a stop at the next frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Munetoshi Tsuge, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Masashi Seimiya, Keiichiro Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20210323538
    Abstract: In a method of detecting a parkable space using only a sonar installed on a side of a vehicle, automatic parking assistance cannot be implemented at an early stage, and an environment in which automatic parking assistance is possible is limited. In a parking assistance device including a parkable space setting unit that sets a parkable space existing ahead of the vehicle based on information from a front detector, the parkable space setting unit corrects the parkable space based on information on the parkable space acquired by a side detector when the vehicle passes by the parkable space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji TAKAHASHI, Sara SUDA
  • Publication number: 20210323600
    Abstract: On the opposite side to an output of a rotation shaft of an electric motor, a ventilation hole communicating between an electronic control unit (ECU) housing space and an electric motor housing space is formed to an end surface wall of a motor housing separating the respective housing spaces. The ventilation hole has a waterproof ventilation part that suppresses water passing but permits the passage of air and water vapor. This structure eliminated the influence of flying rocks and muddy water from the external environment, and suppresses for a long period of time the internal pressure fluctuation of the ECU housing space and the penetration of water into the housing space. Therefore, the internal pressure fluctuation of the housing space for the ECU and the penetration of water into the housing space for the ECU can be suppressed over a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko NAKANO, Takuro KANAZAWA, Hideyuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20210323553
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle system in which an own vehicle does not decelerate according to a preceding vehicle even if the preceding vehicle changes lanes to the right turn lane or the left turn lane and decelerates after own vehicle entering an intersection area. A CPU 107 (first control unit) controls the own vehicle to follow the preceding vehicle. An image processing circuit 106 (detection unit) detects a lane marking of the traveling lane. The CPU 107 (determination unit) determines whether an own vehicle 201 has entered the intersection area. When the detection of one of the right and left lane markings of the traveling lane is interrupted (S20: YES) after the own vehicle 201 has entered the intersection area (S15: YES), the CPU 107 (second control unit) releases ACC that causes the own vehicle 201 to follow the preceding vehicle 202.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11151729
    Abstract: Improvement in the accuracy of estimating the position of a mobile entity even while traveling or if there is an error in the calibration performed utilizing: a mobile entity; an imaging device provided in the mobile entity; and an information processing device for determining a first movement amount by which a detection point that is the same object has moved on the basis of a first image and a second image acquired by the imaging device and a second movement amount by which the mobile entity has moved while the first image and the second image were acquired, determining the accuracy of recognizing the detection point acquired by the imaging device on the basis of the first movement amount and the second movement amount, and estimating the position of the mobile entity on the basis of the accuracy of recognition and position information that pertains to the detection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo Kaneko, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Shinya Ootsuji, Shigenori Hayase
  • Patent number: 11148610
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle image capturing device which can be mounted on window glass of a vehicle without involving deterioration in precision of installation. The in-vehicle imaging device is characterized by comprising an image capturing unit which captures an image, and a holding part which includes a shielding section for partially shielding the imaging unit and which holds the image capturing unit, wherein: the holding part is bonded to window glass in advance; the image capturing unit includes a supported section which is supported by the holding part; and the holding part includes a guiding section for guiding the supported section toward a first direction in which the image capturing unit approaches the shielding section, and a supporting section for supporting the supported section and for restricting movement, in the first direction, of the supported section that has been guided by the guiding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Ohsumi, Hidenori Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11151076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for comprehensive verification of the safety of the design of functions, on the basis of a safety analysis result. The disclosed vehicle control system verification device is equipped with a storage device that stores programs for verifying the safety of the logical architecture of a vehicle control system, and a processor that reads the programs from the storage device and verifies the safety of the logical architecture. On the basis of safety analysis result information that is supplied, the processor executes a process for verifying whether the logical architecture has logical functions corresponding to the safety analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Kohei Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11148684
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of performing automatic driving in accordance with driving characteristics of a driver while considering a vehicle peripheral state, even in the case where the vehicle peripheral state during manual driving is different from the vehicle peripheral state during the automatic driving. The present invention is a vehicle control device 120 that can switch between manual driving in which a vehicle is caused to travel by the operation of a driver and automatic driving in which the vehicle is caused to travel automatically in accordance with a traveling plan. The vehicle control device 120 is provided with a vehicle control planning unit 123 that devises the traveling plan, and a verification unit 124 that verifies a vehicle traveling state on the basis of the traveling plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Itou, Shigenori Hayase
  • Patent number: 11148665
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicular motion control device and method such that, even when a vehicle is turning, the target trajectory can be followed while maintaining traveling stability, with a reduced sense of incongruity felt by the driver. This vehicular motion control device is equipped with: a target trajectory acquisition unit that acquires a target trajectory for a vehicle to travel; and a speed control unit that increases or decreases the longitudinal acceleration generated in the vehicle, the longitudinal acceleration being positive in the vehicle travel direction. If the vehicle deviates from the target trajectory during turning, the speed control unit performs longitudinal acceleration control to increase or decrease the longitudinal acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Takahashi, Atsushi Yokoyama, Masamichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20210317811
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic control unit capable of performing a high-accurate failure diagnosis in a short time as an electronic control unit having a failure diagnosis function. A load drive circuit that drives a load, a control circuit that controls the load drive circuit, and a diagnosis circuit that diagnoses an output state of the load drive circuit and outputs a diagnostic result to the control circuit are provided. The diagnosis circuit outputs a diagnosis completion flag indicating whether or not there is a diagnosis opportunity to the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuri OHARA, Yasuo SHIMA, Masahiro DOI, Takeo YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20210317773
    Abstract: A control valve for use in a heat exchange circuit of an engine of an automobile includes a housing and a connection pipe. The housing includes a communication port structured for introduction or discharge of fluid. The connection pipe is fastened to the communication port of the housing with a fastening member. The housing is made of resin. Each of the connection pipe and the fastening member is made of material, such as metal, less in linear expansion coefficient than the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11143563
    Abstract: A noise resistance of a pressure sensor is improved while avoiding a hetero metal bonding. A pressure detection device includes a metal case having the diaphragm which is deformed due to a pressure received from a pressure medium, a sensor element which detects a pressure by detecting the deformation of the diaphragm, a lead frame which is electrically connected to the sensor element, and a connection member which holds the lead frame. A first surface of the lead frame, that is, the surface on a side near the metal case in the parallel plate region, and a second surface of the metal case, that is, the upper surface of the base member interpose at least one of the resin of the connection member being an insulator and the insulating adhesive and are disposed to face each other with a predetermined gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Terada, Hiroshi Onuki, Takuya Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 11143535
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal-type flowmeter which can prevent a reduction of flow rate accuracy and reliability, and an increase of cost of the thermal-type flowmeter compared to the related art, and can add a function of an electrostatic scattering mechanism. The thermal-type flowmeter of the present invention includes a sub-passage into which part of a measurement target gas flowing in a main passage is taken, a flow rate detection element of a flow measurement unit which is disposed in the sub-passage, a circuit package which supports the flow rate detection element, and a substrate to which the circuit package is fixed. The flow rate detection element includes a detection surface to detect a flow rate of the measurement target gas. The detection surface is disposed to face the circuit substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Uenodan, Takayuki Yogo, Tsubasa Watanabe, Takahiro Miki, Shinobu Tashiro, Hiroaki Hoshika
  • Patent number: 11143122
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for avoiding knocking in an internal combustions engine, preferably in a gasoline engine with a high compression ratio and a variable valve train which is able to perform EIVC, by injecting a non-combustible fluid into the intake port and/or in the cylinder during a transient operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Takashi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11143131
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device of an injector capable of suppressing the influence of pressure reduction boiling even if pressure in a combustion chamber is low. In a case where the temperature of fuel injected from a fuel injection valve is within a set high temperature region and the pressure of the combustion chamber is within a set low pressure region, the control device of an in-cylinder direct injection-type injector according to the present invention controls to increase a lift amount of the injector as compared to the case of a low temperature region or a high pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hosaka, Taisuke Sugii, Eiji Ishii, Kazuki Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari