Patents by Inventor Akihiro Natsume

Akihiro Natsume has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12119575
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector and a connector mounting body capable of ensuring good workability at the time of manufacturing and connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a connector housing and a flexible cable arranged in the connector housing and including conductive paths. The flexible cable includes terminal connecting portions to be connected to mating terminals on one end sides of the conductive paths and board connecting portions to be connected to a circuit board on the other end sides of the conductive paths. The connector includes a reinforcement plate for reinforcing a region of the flexible cable on the side of the terminal connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nishitani, Kenji Makino, Takashi Natsume, Shunya Takeuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190084580
    Abstract: In a communication system, an in-vehicle relay device relays data between ECUs, which are each connected to a communication line in a vehicle, by communicating with each of the ECUs. Data received by a communication device from a server outside the vehicle is input to an out-of-vehicle relay device. Data to be transmitted by the communication device to the server is output to the communication device by the out-of-vehicle relay device. The out-of-vehicle relay device relays data between the server and the ECUs by passing data to and from the in-vehicle relay device. The out-of-vehicle relay device outputs, to the in-vehicle relay device, data input to the out-of-vehicle relay device, or associated data that is associated with data that was output. The in-vehicle relay device determines whether the relaying performed by the out-of-vehicle relay device is to be suspended, based on associated data output by the out-of-vehicle relay device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichi Kodama, Takeshi Fujimoto, Satoshi Horihata, Hiroshi Ueda, Tomohiro Mizutani, Yoshiaki Matsutani, Masakatsu Moriguchi, Akihiro Natsume, Tomoyuki Mishima, Hideaki Tsuriya
  • Publication number: 20140108545
    Abstract: A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro NATSUME
  • Patent number: 8626833
    Abstract: A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Natsume
  • Patent number: 8350886
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted video communication system is equipped with first to fourth image pickup devices, mounted on a vehicle, for transmitting video data obtained by picking up an image; first to fourth video processing devices for processing the video data; and a vehicle-mounted video relay device having connection sections connected to the first to fourth image pickup devices and the first to fourth video processing devices via communication cables and configured to transmit the video data transmitted from the first to fourth image pickup devices selectively or in a multiplexed state to the first to fourth video processing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Horihata, Akihiro Natsume, Makoto Miyashita, Takeshi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8155825
    Abstract: A on-vehicle database system includes: a memory for recording an on-vehicle database connected to an on-vehicle LAN network and to an ECU for registering data inputted from respective ECU as attribute value data all at once; and data output means for registering data in the on-vehicle database when the data is inputted via I/O means and outputting the data to the ECU at the timing when the data is required by the ECU, by using the attribute value data in the on-vehicle database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Natsume
  • Publication number: 20100138493
    Abstract: A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicants: Autonetworks Technologies Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Natsume
  • Publication number: 20100039494
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle-mounted video communication system being characterized in that the wiring between a plurality of image pickup devices and a plurality of video processing devices can be simplified, the total length of cables can be reduced, and the respective devices can be reduced in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Horihata, Akihiro Natsume, Makoto Miyashita, Takeshi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20090138136
    Abstract: A on-vehicle database system includes: a memory for recording an on-vehicle database connected to an on-vehicle LAN network and to an ECU for registering data inputted from respective ECU as attribute value data all at once; and data output means for registering data in the on-vehicle database when the data is inputted via I/O means and outputting the data to the ECU at the timing when the data is required by the ECU, by using the attribute value data in the on-vehicle database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicants: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Natsume
  • Patent number: 5031174
    Abstract: This invention relates to a node device which, in the case of a plurality of different types of networks are connected to one another, is able to relay and transmit a packet from a conventional type (e.g., ethernet) LAN to a FDDI LAN. The node device has a MAC sublayer for supporting the conventional LAN and a FDDI MAC sublayer for supporting the FDDI LAN. The FDDI MAC sublayer has a queue provided by a FIFO memory, a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting, receiving and erasing a packet and a comparator. When a packet issued from a node of the conventional LAN is transmitted to the FDDI LAN via the node device, the queue stores the source address of the packet by a FIFO method. When the transmitting/receiving unit receives a packet, it compares in the comparator the source address of the received packet with the source address read from the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Natsume