Patents Assigned to Hitachi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11990897
    Abstract: Provided is a current control device capable of continuing feedback control for a solenoid in normal feedback control while preventing occurrence of an unintended valve operation due to flow of a reverse current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Shima, Keishi Komoriyama, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11989535
    Abstract: A method of simulating codes that form a program configured to control a control target includes causing a processor to execute the following: first-setting a first process of executing a simulation of an operation of a code group excluding a specific code among the codes; second-setting a second process of executing a simulation of an operation of a specific model obtained by modeling the specific code; first-simulating, in the first process, a first simulation of a code preceding the specific code in the code group; second-simulating, in the second process, a second simulation of the specific model through use of an execution result of the first simulation by inter-process communication between the first process and the second process; and third-simulating, in the first process, a third simulation of a code succeeding the specific code through use of an execution result of the second simulation by the inter-process communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Shimozawa, Shin Saito
  • 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: 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: 11989455
    Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes 4 each having one or more storage devices. The storage node includes a CPU. The CPU is configured to select a priority path to be notified as a usable path to a higher-level apparatus among paths which allows access of a predetermined logical unit to which a storage area of the storage device is provided from the higher-level apparatus. The CPU is configured to send the priority path as a reply to an inquiry about a path to the predetermined logical unit from the higher-level apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinri Inoue, Kouji Iwamitsu, Takao Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11989623
    Abstract: The present invention aims at enabling a gate-type quantum computer to deal with actual problems. There is provided a quantum computer including: a quantum register holding qubits, a control gate performing an operation on the quantum register, and a readout unit observing a state of the quantum register; and the quantum computer repeating longitudinal relaxation to the ground state by gradually changing Hamiltonian H(t) for a predetermined time, wherein the unitary operation determined by the Hamiltonian H(t) at each time is performed with the control gate for a time of about a longitudinal relaxation time, the quantum state is relaxed every time of about the longitudinal relaxation time, and the ground state prepared for an initial state is time-evolved to the ground state of the Hamiltonian which is defined as a problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Tomaru
  • Patent number: 11990268
    Abstract: A transformer comprising a core and winding wound around a winding axis extending along a limb of the core, said winding terminating in an axial end surface extending in a direction perpendicular to said winding axis, said transformer comprising a ring comprising magnetic material, said ring being located outside said winding and adjacent to said axial end surface. The ring comprises a set of magnetic metal components, such as magnetic metal sheets, said magnetic metal components being distributed about the winding axis and electrically insulated from each other. The core comprises a yoke, said yoke extending radially across the ring, at one or more crossing locations, from a radial inside of the ring to a radial outside of the ring. The cross-sectional height of the ring varies about the winding axis such that magnetic metal components at the crossing locations have lower height along the winding axis than magnetic metal components further away from the crossing locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Mousavi, Göran Eriksson, Manoj Pradhan, Anders Daneryd
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11982655
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to realize an analysis apparatus having a plurality of liquid chromatographs capable of judging separation performance and the like at the right timing and improving analysis performance early. Analysis starts and a mixed sample is prepared by adding a non-retaining ingredient to a measurement object sample and is introduced into an analysis flow path (S401 to S404). The mixed sample is separated into components by a separation column, the components are outputted as chromatogram data by a detector, and the analysis finishes (S404 to S406). Retention time and peak information are acquired from the chromatogram outputted from the detector, whether or not a measurement result is within an allowable range is judged, and the process shifts to next analysis when the measurement result is within the allowable range (S407 to S409).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Akieda, Makoto Nogami, Iwao Suzuki, Masako Kawarai, Izumi Ogata, Shinya Ito
  • 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: 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: 11983526
    Abstract: A software inquiry information management system stores a device request specification in association with a regulation ID that is information specifying a regulation that defines a requirement for receiving legal approval for a vehicle, acquires traceability information of a device that is associated with the device request specification, specifies a regulation ID corresponding to the device request specification that is associated with the acquired traceability information, generates approval software inquiry information that is information in which the specified regulation ID is associated with one or more software IDs included in the traceability information, and generates vehicle traceability information that is information in which the approval software inquiry information is associated with the traceability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Teraoka
  • 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