Patents Assigned to Hitachi
  • Patent number: 11987263
    Abstract: Autonomous driving is possible even in a no-lane section. Probe information to be transmitted from a plurality of vehicles is stored. Vehicle travel trajectory information in a no-lane section is extracted from the stored probe information, the vehicle travel trajectory information is extracted per combination of an entry point and an exit point for the no-lane section, the extracted vehicle travel trajectory information per combination of the entry point and exit point for the no-lane section is sorted into a plurality of categories according to a predetermined criterion, and statistical trajectory information is calculated by statistical processing of the travel trajectory information for each of the plurality of categories. The calculated statistical trajectory information is transmitted to the plurality of vehicles as vehicle route information in the no-lane section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Kei Kudo
  • Patent number: 11987955
    Abstract: It is made possible to prevent damage to hydraulic parts of a work machine due to a decrease in performance of a hydraulic fluid even when the hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic system is changed and the hydraulic fluid becomes a mixed oil in which a mineral oil and a biodegradable oil are mixed with each other. For this purpose, a storage device stores, in advance, oil change history information of the hydraulic fluid, oil kind determination values for determining whether the hydraulic fluid is either the mineral oil or the biodegradable oil or the mixed oil of the mineral oil and the biodegradable oil, and abnormality determination values for respective kinds of the hydraulic fluid. A controller checks whether the oil change history information includes oil change information for which oil kind determination has not been made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kurasako, Hideki Akita, Hidekazu Motoki
  • Patent number: 11987880
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of an interior member of a plasma processing apparatus, which improves processing yield. The interior member is disposed inside a processing chamber of the plasma processing apparatus and includes, on a surface thereof, a film of a material having resistance to plasma. The manufacturing method includes: a step of moving a gun by a predetermined distance along the surface of the interior member to spray the material to form the film, and disposing a test piece having a surface having a shape simulating a surface shape of the interior member within a range of the distance within which the gun is moved and forming the film of the material on the surface of the test piece; and a step of adjusting, based on a result of detecting a crystal size of the film on the surface of the test piece and presence or absence of a residual stress or inclusion of a contaminant element, a condition of forming the film on the surface of the interior member by the gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ueda, Masaru Kurihara, Kazuyuki Ikenaga, Tomoyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11988217
    Abstract: Provided is an oil feed type air compressor which can increase the determination accuracy regarding a deterioration state of oil. An oil feed type air compressor 1 includes a compressor main body 3, a separator 6 that separates oil from compressed air discharged from the compressor main body 3, and an oil feeding system 8 that feeds the oil separated by the separator 6 into a compression chamber of the compressor main body 3. The oil feeding system 8 includes a temperature control valve 20 that adjusts a diversion ratio for an oil cooler 18 and a diversion ratio for a bypass pipe 19 according to a temperature of the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita, Yuta Kajie
  • Patent number: 11988265
    Abstract: This shock absorber includes: a friction member including an annular elastic rubber portion and an annular base portion (to which the elastic rubber portion is fixed; and a communication path that decreases a pressure difference between both sides of the friction member. The base portion includes an annular disk portion. The elastic rubber portion includes a minimum inner diameter portion on an inner peripheral side and includes an inner peripheral connection portion connected to an inner peripheral portion of the annular disk portion. A protrusion suppression structure portion that suppresses protruding of an inner peripheral surface formed from the minimum inner diameter portion toward the inner peripheral connection portion is provided at least partially in a circumferential direction between the inner peripheral connection portion and the minimum inner diameter portion of the elastic rubber portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Reiji Nakagawa, Mikio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11989079
    Abstract: A system management device manages a monitored system. When a performance failure occurs in the monitored system, the system management device creates a plurality of countermeasures for the performance failure. The system management device evaluates, for each of the plurality of countermeasures, the influence of the countermeasure on the execution of a job having an execution deadline associated with the countermeasure. The system management device selects the countermeasure to be executed on the monitored system from out of the plurality of countermeasures based on the evaluation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Aiko Tanaka, Kazuki Ootsubo, Yasuaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11988257
    Abstract: The present disk brake includes a carrier fixed to a non-rotatable portion of a vehicle, a caliper attached to this carrier and including a piston configured to press an inner brake pad, a slide pin fixed to any of the carrier and the caliper and configured to allow the caliper to slidably move relative to the carrier in an axial direction of a wheel, and a driving mechanism including an electric motor and a speed reduction mechanism and configured to transmit a driving force of the electric motor to the piston via the speed reduction mechanism. At least a part of the driving mechanism is disposed on an extension of an axis of the slide pin. This configuration can prevent an increase in the size of the present disk brake, thereby improving the mountability thereof onto a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Yu, Atsushi Odaira, Koichi Sakimoto
  • Patent number: 11989105
    Abstract: In a storage system, a failover time is shortened while avoiding erroneous detection of a node failure according to network quality. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes having processors; a data storage device; the plurality of storage nodes having the processors for processing data to be input to and output from the storage device; and a network for connecting the plurality of storage nodes, wherein the plurality of storage nodes monitors the operation status of each other to perform node failure detection for determining the occurrence of a failure of the storage node on the basis of a time-out value, performs a failover process in which one of the other storage nodes takes over the process of the storage node when the failure occurs in the storage node, and adjusts the time-out value on the basis of the status of the network between the storage nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Misato Yoshida, Takaki Nakamura, Takahiro Yamamoto, Masakuni Agetsuma
  • Patent number: 11989412
    Abstract: A storage system includes a CPU, a first memory module, a second memory module, and a storage device. The processor and the first memory module are installed in the same node. The second memory module are replaceable without shutting down power supply of the node. The first memory module stores an operating system and a program for managing user data to be stored in the storage device. The second memory module stores cache data of the user data to be stored in the storage device. The processor is configured to store a copy of data to be stored in the second memory module in the third memory module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Norio Chujo
  • Publication number: 20240159895
    Abstract: Reliability of a target is appropriately determined. A target detection device detects a target around a vehicle based on sensor information measured by a plurality of sensors. The device includes: a first sensor; a second sensor; an integration processing unit that integrates detection information of the target of the first sensor and detection information of the target of the second sensor for each cycle; an integration history management unit that manages an integration result of the integration processing unit as an integration history in time series; and a reliability determination unit that determines reliability of a type of the target based on the integration history and the pieces of detection information of the target of the first sensor and the second sensor. The detection information of the target of the first sensor includes type information of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke MATSUO, Kota IRIE
  • Publication number: 20240161610
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology for estimating a traveling direction of a lane by using accuracy of external environment information. An information processing device (100) of the present invention includes at least one memory (102 and 103) including a program code and at least one processor (101) configured to execute the program code. The processor is configured to acquire external environment information including at least information regarding a peripheral region of a vehicle, and determine a traveling direction of at least one lane by using a first accuracy (A1) indicating the level of precision of the external environment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta MUTO, Takashi NOMURA, Naoki MORI
  • Publication number: 20240159789
    Abstract: The present invention enables automatic detection of failure in a plunger in a syringe pump unit by an automated analysis device, which includes a sample dispensing mechanism; a reagent dispensing mechanism; and a control unit for controlling operation of the sample dispensing mechanism and the reagent dispensing mechanism and analyzing the sample. The sample dispensing mechanism and the reagent dispensing mechanism each have a plunger for suctioning in and expelling liquid, and a plunger drive unit for driving the plunger. The control unit controls operation with the plunger drive unit of the reagent dispensing mechanism so that the plunger moves reciprocally by a backlash distance a predetermined number of times. Failure of the plunger is detected by detecting, using the liquid level sensing function, the amount of liquid discharged into the liquid storage container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Takushi Miyakawa, Shunsuke Miyamoto, Masafumi Miyake
  • Publication number: 20240160433
    Abstract: An object is to shorten a time required for reprogramming of a control device including a single-bank microcomputer. An ECU 901 is a control device including a first microcomputer 1 and a second microcomputer 2 that execute a program stored in a rewriting area 13 in which a memory bank is configured as a single bank. The second microcomputer 2 includes a preprocessing unit 214 that performs preprocessing on a rewriting program 5 in reprogramming processing of rewriting the program stored in the rewriting area 13 into the rewriting program 5, and a transmission unit 213 that transmits the preprocessed rewriting program 5 to the first microcomputer 1. The first microcomputer 1 includes a reception unit 121 that receives the rewriting program 5 transmitted from the second microcomputer 2, and a writing unit 122 that writes the received rewriting program 5 in the rewriting area 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Teruaki NOMURA, Nobuyoshi MORITA, Masashi YANO, Mikio KATAOKA, Yasuhiro FUJII, Shuhei KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240162297
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a trench formed on an upper surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode in the trench; an n-type drift layer, a p-type guard region, an n-type semiconductor region to which a source potential is applied, a p-type body layer and an n-type current diffusion region that have a lower impurity concentration than that of the guard region, the n-type drift layer, the p-type guard region, the n-type semiconductor region, the p-type body layer, and the n-type current diffusion region being formed in the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate; and an n-type JFET region that is formed in the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate so as to be separated from the trench and that connects the current diffusion region and the drift layer. The semiconductor region is separated from the drift layer, the current diffusion region, and the JFET region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru SUTO, Keisuke KOBAYASHI, Tomoka SUEMATSU, Haruka SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240164066
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a circuit board on which a heat generating component (electronic component) is mounted, a first housing (base member) that faces the heat generating component, and a thermal conductive material that fills a space between the heat generating component and the first housing. The first housing includes a first surrounding portion and a second surrounding portion. The first surrounding portion is formed inside a region of the first housing that overlaps with the heat generating component while having the thermal conductive material interposed therebetween, and surrounds a point in the region of the first housing that faces the center of the heat generating component. The second surrounding portion is formed outside the region of the first housing, and surrounds the first surrounding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimihito WATANABE, Naoki HOSHIYA
  • Patent number: 11982745
    Abstract: Noise in measurement results of a laser distance measurement sensor is smoothed, and erroneous recognition of a position and a size of an object based on the measurement result is suppressed. An object recognition device according to the present invention recognizes the object by grouping the measurement results of the laser distance measurement sensor, calculates reliability of the recognition result thereof, and changes a time for continuously retaining the measurement result according to the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakata, Masayoshi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11982681
    Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte analyzing device in which contamination caused by contacting different reagents with a suction nozzle is prevented when reagent replacement is performed by a user. The electrolyte analyzing device includes a reagent container setting unit 502 that sets a dilute solution bottle 101-1 which houses a dilute solution, an internal standard solution bottle 101-2 which houses an internal standard solution, and a reference electrode solution bottle 101-3 which houses a reference electrode solution. The reagent container setting unit includes a partition wall between the dilute solution bottle 101-1 and the internal standard solution bottle 101-2, and the reference electrode solution bottle 101-3 when the dilute solution bottle 101-1, the internal standard solution bottle 101-2, and the reference electrode solution bottle 101-3 are set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takushi Miyakawa, Masaki Hara, Tetsuji Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11982456
    Abstract: A position information antenna 22b receives a position signal including position information about a sending source (satellite, base station, or the like) of a positioning radio wave. A communication antenna 22a transmits position information about a compressor 100 (air compressor) that compresses the air and receives meteorological information corresponding to the position of the compressor 100 from a server on a cloud. A controller 13 specifies the position of the compressor 100 from the position signal received by the position information antenna 22b and controls the compressor 100 on the basis of the meteorological information corresponding to the position of the compressor 100 received by the communication antenna 22a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Morita, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Masahiko Takano
  • Patent number: 11983002
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to establish how to more accurately estimate the failure probabilities of the components of a machine system that has a small number of failure records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Amakawa, Yosuke Ueki, Takahide Shinge
  • Patent number: 11984711
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical power device from subsequently manufactured parts by an additive manufacturing technique includes determining a target spatial distribution of a physical property of the electrical power device, the physical property being an electrical property and/or a mechanical property; forming a part of the electrical power device; selecting a physical property of a subsequent part of the electrical power device corresponding to the determined spatial distribution of the physical property such as to be different from a corresponding physical property of the part; and by means of the additive manufacturing technique, forming the subsequent part such that it is at least partially in contact with the part. An electrical power device is obtainable by the method, and the electrical power device may be used as an AC or DC insulator in an HVAC or HVDC apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Pierre Elser, Lukasz Matysiak, Robert Sekula, Francesco Agostini