Patents Assigned to Hitachi
  • Publication number: 20240152353
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to minimize a likelihood of the vehicle becoming in an inoperable state even in an event of a program update failure. An in-vehicle device 6 includes: a program storage unit 64 that stores a program; an activation processing unit 65 that activates the program; and an update processing unit 63 that receives an update program 21 and an update reason 22 of the program and updates the program with the update program 21. In a case where the update of the program has failed, the activation processing unit 65 activates the program in an activation mode corresponding to the update reason 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru IBA, Shuhei KANEKO, Mikio KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240153266
    Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method capable of appropriately handling a shielding region of a road are provided. The information processing device includes a first information conversion unit 15 that estimates a first road region from an image obtained by imaging the road, a second information conversion unit 17 that estimates a second road region from map information stored in a map information storage unit 11, and a difference extraction unit 16 that extracts difference information representing a difference between the first road region and the second road region. Further, in the information processing method, a computer estimates the first road region from the image obtained by imaging the road, estimates the second road region from the map information, and extracts the difference information indicating the difference between the first road region and the second road region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki KIDO, Naoki MORI, Takashi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20240151441
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes an outdoor unit and an indoor unit. The outdoor unit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a third expansion valve, and a subcooling heat exchanger. The indoor unit includes an indoor heat exchanger and a second expansion valve. In a cooling mode, the outdoor unit is configured to adjust an opening degree of the first expansion valve according to a relationship between a first difference and a first preset value; adjust an opening degree of the second expansion valve according to a relationship between a second difference and a second preset value; and adjust an opening degree of the third expansion valve according to a relationship between a third difference and a third preset value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: QINGDAO HISENSE HITACHI AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng YAN, Min ZHOU, Yang SUN, Fei HAN
  • Publication number: 20240153106
    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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: So SASATANI, Goshi SASAKI, Trongmun JIRALERSPONG
  • Publication number: 20240149942
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire type steering apparatus includes a steering input device; a steering device; and a control device. The steering input device includes a reaction force actuator configured to apply steering reaction force to a steering operation input member. The steering device includes a steering actuator configured to cause steered road wheels to be steered through a steering member. The control device includes a reaction force actuator output amount decrease unit configured to decrease an output amount of the reaction force actuator when a deviation between an operation amount of the steering operation input member and a steering amount of the steering member increases and vehicle speed of a vehicle increases. This can prevent the steering operation input member from being abruptly moved in spite of a collision of the steered road wheels with an obstacle or other factors at the time of high vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20240151273
    Abstract: As a stopper for restricting movement of a rotary shaft 31 of a transmission device 3 and a shaft part 41 of a first drive-side joint member J11 in a direction of approaching each other, a stopper part 5 is formed separately from the shaft part 41 and a yoke body part 42 of the first drive-side joint member so that the stopper function of the first drive-side joint member J11 is guaranteed by the separately-formed stopper part 5 in the present invention. With this configuration, a change in the gravity center position of the first drive-side joint member caused due to build-up processing on the shaft part or the yoke body part is suppressed. It is possible to restrict relative movement of the first drive-side joint member and the rotary shaft while ensuring adequate machining for formation of a shaft-part-side seal surface on the first drive-side joint member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi ICHIKAWA, Daiki TSUTSUMI, Toshiyuki MASUDA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA
  • Publication number: 20240154562
    Abstract: A motor drive device which drives a motor including a winding set and a winding set that are electrically separate from each other includes an inverter that outputs three-phase alternating currents to winding set, an inverter that outputs three-phase alternating currents to winding set, and controllers that output drive commands to inverter and inverter by generating PWM pulses. Controllers generate the PWM pulses such that the three-phase alternating currents that are output from inverter to winding set and the three-phase alternating currents that are output from inverter to winding set have reverse polarities in three respective phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio HATTORI, Hirohito IMAI
  • Patent number: 11975709
    Abstract: A vehicle parking control device has a processor and a memory to control the vehicle from a starting to a target parking position. The vehicle control device includes an obstacle detection unit detecting obstacles around the vehicle, a travelable area setting unit setting an area where the vehicle can travel based on a position of the obstacles, and sets the target parking position in the travelable area, a route generation unit calculating a travel route to the target parking position in the travelable area, and a parking execution unit that causes the vehicle to travel toward the target parking position on the basis of the travel route. The route generation unit generates a route from a parking start position to the target parking position, and corrects a distance of the section to a predetermined distance when the distance of the section is less than the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tashiro, Masashi Seimiya, Satoshi Matsuda, Masato Imai
  • Patent number: 11977866
    Abstract: There is provided an application screen display program implementation method for executing application software to display a screen using an information processing apparatus. Each record of a master table for controlling the display of each display element for display elements configuring a screen and transaction data input and output from the display element has a field for holding an index of an array, and association with an index of an array in a source code of an execution program is performed. Therefore, in application development, the required man-hours with respect to the change of the display screen are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyoko Koizumi
  • Patent number: 11976648
    Abstract: Even when abnormal heat generation occurs during operation in a state where the temperature of a compressor is not increased, abnormality cannot be detected. A fluid machine includes a fluid machine body; a motor that drives the fluid machine body; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the fluid machine body; and a control unit that controls the fluid machine body. The control unit changes a temperature threshold value based on at least one of a pressure of a fluid discharged by the fluid machine body and a frequency of a voltage input into the motor, and issues a notification when the temperature of the compressor body measured by the temperature sensor exceeds the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11977487
    Abstract: In a management node that manages a distributed file and object storage that accessibly manages a file used by an application, the distributed file and object storage is accessible to a file managed by a storage of another site, and a management node includes a processor, and the processor is configured to specify an access circumstance relating to a file by an application, and control caching by the distributed file and object storage of the own site with respect to the file managed by the storage of the other site used by the application, before the application is executed, based on the access circumstance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei Nomura, Mitsuo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11975775
    Abstract: A steering control device for reducing a steering load on the driver by adjusting a gain of a rear wheel steering angle with respect to a front wheel steering angle operated by the driver according to a relative relationship between the vehicle and the parking frame to enable fine steering of the own vehicle near the parking frame when the four-wheel steering vehicle is parked. The steering control device is configured to control a rear wheel steering angle by a rear wheel steering system based on a front wheel steering angle operated by a driver, and includes an arithmetic device configured to reduce an absolute value of a gain of the rear wheel steering angle with respect to the front wheel steering angle as a positional relationship between an own vehicle and a parking frame comes closer when an own vehicle shifts to a parking driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Go Sakayori, Hiroshi Nakano, Yoshiji Hasegawa, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Junya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11979066
    Abstract: A first circuit board 16 and a second circuit board 17, each of which have mounted thereon circuit components for controlling and driving an electric motor, are stacked with a space left therebetween such that one board surface of the first circuit board and one board surface of the second circuit board are opposed to and face each other in the direction of a rotation shaft 14 of the electric motor. In a state that the first circuit board 16 and the second circuit board 17 are attached to the motor housing, a receptacle connector 28 mounted on the first circuit board and a plug connector 34 mounted on the second circuit board form a “board-to-board connector” by which the circuit components of the first and second circuit boards are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakano, Takuro Kanazawa, Narutoshi Yamada, Tomohiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11978167
    Abstract: The head-mounted display includes: an image display unit that generates an image to be displayed; and a first light guide plate and a second light guide plate which duplicate image light from the image display unit. Each of the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate includes a set of parallel main surfaces confining the image light with internal reflection, the first light guide plate includes an incident plane that reflects the image light to an inner side, and two or more emission/reflection planes from which the image light is emitted to the second light guide plate, the second light guide plate includes an input part that couples the image light transmitted from the first light guide plate to the inner side, and an output part from which the image light is emitted to a user's pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Kuno, Toshiteru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11978345
    Abstract: A moving object behavior prediction device improves prediction accuracy and includes: an input map generation unit that generates a single input map in which a region capable of containing a plurality of the moving objects is divided into a plurality of cells, in which each of the cells stores related information of a static object and related information of the moving object; a movement amount estimation unit that estimates a movement amount as a feature amount of each cell from the input map, using a trained convolutional neural network; a movement amount acquisition unit that acquires a movement amount at a current position of the moving object from a movement amount stored in a peripheral cell the moving object; and a future position prediction unit that predicts a future position of the moving object based on a feature amount at a current position of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Ishikawa, Hideaki Suzuki, Hidehiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11977636
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein provide systems and methods for detecting damage to data by malware and involve generating log information at a storage device based on a write input/output (I/O) provided to the storage device by one or more servers, the log information comprising time information for storing the write I/O to the storage device, logical block information for the write I/O, and a compression ratio associated with storing the write I/O to the storage device; and, for a request by a management server to provide the log information for a specified time range for the storage device, returning, from the storage device, the logical block information and the compression ratio associated with the time information within the specified time range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11978612
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber in which a sample is subjected to plasma processing, a first radio frequency power supply that supplies radio frequency power for generating plasma, a sample stage on which the sample is mounted, and a second radio frequency power supply that supplies radio frequency power to the sample stage, the plasma processing apparatus further includes a DC power supply that applies a DC voltage, that is changed according to a periodically repeated waveform, to the sample stage, and the waveform of one cycle has a period in which amplitude changes by a predetermined amount or more during a predetermined time. Accordingly, charged particles on a wafer surface are removed, a trench shape with high verticality can be obtained, and damage to a film that is not to be etched inside a trench can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Mori, Masaru Izawa, Naoki Yasui, Norihiko Ikeda, Kazuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11979231
    Abstract: A conversion apparatus includes a storage unit storing definition information in which position information and a type of the signal are associated with each other; a decoder referring to, when first reception data is input, the definition information of the first control target to determine a type of a first signal at a first position in the first reception data, and output first input data in which the determined type of the first signal and a value of the first signal in the first reception data are associated with each other; and an encoder referring to the definition information of a second control target to output second input data in which identification information of second computing units that corresponds to the type of the first signal, position information indicating a second position of the first signal, and a value of the first signal are associated with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Shimozawa, Shin Saito
  • Patent number: 11977035
    Abstract: A surface shape detection device using differential interference optics achieves restoration error reduction of a surface shape while maintaining resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamada, Shinsuke Onoe, Makoto Hosaka
  • Patent number: 11978794
    Abstract: In a SiC power MISFET having a lateral surface of a trench formed in an upper surface of a SiC epitaxial substrate as a channel region, a silicon carbide semiconductor device having low resistance, high performance, and high reliability is realized. As a means therefor, a SiC power MISFET is formed as an island-shaped unit cell on an upper surface of an n-type SiC epitaxial substrate that is provided with a drain region on a bottom surface thereof, the SiC power MISFET including: an n-type current diffusion region that surrounds a p-type body layer contact region and an n-type source region in the indicated order in a plan view; a p-type body layer and an n-type JFET region; a trench that is formed on the body layer so as to span between the source region and the current diffusion region adjacent each other in a first direction and extends in the first direction; and a gate electrode embedded in the trench with a gate insulating film therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeru Suto, Naoki Tega, Naoki Watanabe, Yuki Mori, Digh Hisamoto