Patents by Inventor Atsushi Satou
Atsushi Satou 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).
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Publication number: 20240143958Abstract: The present invention includes: an identification code generation unit that generates, from information of a company code including a first code that uniquely identifies a management target in a part of a company in the part of the company and a second code that identifies the part of the company, an identification code including a history of the management target; a hash processing unit that hashes the identification code generated by the identification code generation unit according to a hash function and converts the hashed identification code into a meaningless code; and a reference code generation unit that generates a reference code unified for the entire company based on the meaningless code converted by the hash processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Tomohisa KOHIYAMA, Sadao SATOU, Atsushi SAGARA, Yoshiyasu WATANABE, Hideaki YOKOTA, Kazuaki IKARASHI, Hiroyuki KAWASAKI, Katsunori MAEDA, Keigo FUJIWARA, Kazunobu HISATSUNE
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Patent number: 11919579Abstract: A power supply system includes a system control unit, an auxiliary power supply, and an auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit are configured such that information of at least one control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit is able to be output to another control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The at least one control unit is configured to output information indicating that an operation of the at least one control unit is stopped to the other control unit when the at least one control unit stops the operation of the at least one control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuma Hasegawa, Toshihiro Takahashi, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Yugo Nagashima, Yuuta Kajisawa, Takashi Koudai, Hiroaki Hanzawa, Atsushi Satou, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Tokuaki Hibino
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Publication number: 20240025473Abstract: A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained based on the correction element information into the storage unit. In the start-up state, the control unit is configured to execute an abnormal condition determination process of determining whether an abnormal condition indicating that the correction information is abnormal is met. The correction information storing process is re-executed when the abnormal condition is met. The abnormal condition determination process is executed at least either before or after the correction information storing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KOUDAI, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Takeshi IWANA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hayaki TANABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20240010269Abstract: A steering control system includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a reaction force motor and a turning motor in coordination with one another, the reaction force motor generating a steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel from which power transmission to turning wheels of a vehicle is cut off, the turning motor generating a turning force for turning the turning wheels. When at least one control circuit among the control circuits that are operating normally is reset, the reset control circuit is configured to execute a process for stopping travel of the vehicle upon restarting after completion of the reset.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Takeshi IWANA
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Publication number: 20240010267Abstract: A steering control device includes a first reaction force control circuit and a second reaction force control circuit. Each of the first reaction force control circuit and the second reaction force control circuit are configured to control a reaction force motor, to execute, at a starting time, a preparation process including a process that requires the steering wheel to automatically rotate through the reaction force motor, and to store, at a time of execution completion of the preparation process, information indicating whether the preparation process has been normally completed. In a case where the first reaction force control circuit has been reset, when the information indicates that the preparation process has been normally completed, the first reaction force control circuit that has been rest is configured to not execute the preparation process at a time of restarting after completion of the reset.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kaishi MONOBE, Yuji FUJITA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Takashi KOUDAI, Kenichi ABE, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Takeshi IWANA
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Publication number: 20240001949Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving control device configured to be supplied with electricity through a first power line and configured to execute a first process, and a steering control device configured to be supplied with electricity through a second power line and configured to execute a second process. The steering control device is configured such that, in a case where it is determined that power supply through the second power line has stopped during travel, when it is determined that the driving control device is not in a state of being able to execute the first process, the steering control device permits execution of the second process to stop, whereas when it is determined that the driving control device is in a state of being able to execute the first process, the steering control device does not permit execution of the second process to stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Takeshi IWANA
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Publication number: 20230415758Abstract: An electric power source apparatus includes a drive control apparatus and an auxiliary control apparatus. The drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus are configured to communicate with each other. When one of the drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus is a first control apparatus and the other of the drive control apparatus and the auxiliary control apparatus is a second control apparatus, the first control apparatus is configured to continue a function to communicate with the second control apparatus even when the first control apparatus is not able to normally communicate with the second control apparatus, and configured to execute communication with the second control apparatus when the first control apparatus is put into a state where the first control apparatus is able to normally communicate with the second control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Takashi KOUDAI, Daiki INABA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi IWANA, Hayaki TANABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230415586Abstract: A power supply device includes a driving control device and an auxiliary control device, the vehicle including a main power source, an auxiliary power source, and a supply path, the supply path being a path configured to be opened and closed according to a state of a start switch of the vehicle. The driving control device is a device that controls a state of equipment installed in the vehicle and the auxiliary control device is a device that controls a state of the auxiliary power source. The driving control device is configured to execute a storage process, a permission signal transmission process, and an initial value process, and the auxiliary control device is configured to execute a permission signal reception process and a stop process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi IWANA, Hayaki TANABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230365187Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: dual-system control circuits that control power supply to dual-system winding sets of a motor; and dual-system rotation detection circuits. The control circuits calculate an absolute rotation angle of the motor, and, when a power source is turned off, store an absolute rotation angle of the motor at that time. The control circuits start when the power source is turned on and the absolute value of a difference between an absolute rotation angle that was stored when the power source was turned off last time and an absolute rotation angle that is calculated when the power source is turned on this time is equal to or smaller than a given threshold value, regardless of whether an abnormality has occurred in one of the dual-system rotation detection circuits or an abnormality of the dual-system rotation detection circuits is not determinable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Takashi KOUDAI, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Kazuaki IIDA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20230029564Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system includes: a steering device including a steering motor powered by a main power source and/or a backup power source; and a controller configured to control the steering device based on a steering request. When the backup power source is normal, the controller executes an abnormal-situation control based on electric power supplied to the steering motor by the main power source and/or the backup power source when the controller determines that the voltage of the main power source is less than a first threshold. When the backup power source is abnormal, the controller executes the abnormal-situation control based on electric power supplied to the steering motor by the main power source when the controller determines that the voltage of the main power source is less than a second threshold that is greater than the first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroaki HANZAWA, Kazuaki IIDA, Tokuaki HIBINO
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Publication number: 20230001978Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system, including a steering device including a dual-system steering motor including a main system and a sub system, wherein a power supply to the main system is conducted selectively by a main power source and a backup power source, and a power supply to the sub system is conducted by only the main power source, wherein, in a normal power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system and to the sub system is conducted by the main power source, a controller controls the sub system to operate in accordance with the main system, and wherein, in a backup power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system is conducted by the backup power source, the controller controls the main system not to operate or to operate while limiting the power supply to the main system and controls the sub system independently.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CorporationInventors: Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Tokuaki HIBINO, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kenichi ABE
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Publication number: 20220315099Abstract: A main power supply having a large capacity and a backup power supply having a small capacity are switchable by a power supply switching determination unit in a system. A motor control device drives a motor by the main power supply or the backup power supply. A drive control unit outputs a drive signal, calculated by feedback control of the current detection value with respect to the current command value, to an inverter circuit. When the power supply switching determination unit switches from the main power supply to the backup power supply, the drive control unit moves from a normal control using the main power supply to a backup control that restricts an electric power consumption and prevents the backup power supply from stopping.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: TAKUYA MAEGAWA, HIROKI TOMIZAWA, HIROYASU OTAKE, YUUTA KAJISAWA, YUJI FUJITA, TOKUAKI HIBINO, YOSUKE YAMASHITA, ATSUSHI SATOU, MASAHARU YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20220169304Abstract: A power supply system includes a system control unit, an auxiliary power supply, and an auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit are configured such that information of at least one control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit is able to be output to another control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The at least one control unit is configured to output information indicating that an operation of the at least one control unit is stopped to the other control unit when the at least one control unit stops the operation of the at least one control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuma HASEGAWA, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Yuji FUJITA, Kenichi ABE, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Hiroaki HANZAWA, Atsushi SATOU, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Tokuaki HIBINO
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Publication number: 20220063712Abstract: An electric power source device includes an auxiliary electric power source for a main electric power source that supplies electric power to electric power supply targets, including an electric circuit of a control system for controlling a specific control target and an electric circuit of a power system that requires larger electric power than the electric circuit of the control system; and a selection circuit configured to supply the electric power from one electric power source having a higher voltage, out of the main electric power source and the auxiliary electric power source, to at least the electric circuit of the control system among the electric power supply targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Fumihiko SATO, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Masataka OKUDA, Toshiyuki MIKIDA, Hiroaki HANZAWA
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Patent number: 11025028Abstract: Provided is a carbon isotope analysis device including a carbon dioxide isotope generator provided with a combustion unit that generates gas containing carbon dioxide isotope from carbon isotope, and a carbon dioxide isotope purifying unit; a spectrometer including optical resonators having a pair of mirrors, and a photodetector that determines intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonators; and a light generator including a single light source, a first optical fiber that transmits first light from the light source, a second optical fiber that generates second light of a longer wavelength than the first light, the second optical fiber splitting from the first optical fiber and coupling therewith downstream, a first amplifier on the first optical fiber, a second amplifier on the second optical fiber, different in band from the first amplifier, and a nonlinear optical crystal.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuo Iguchi, Hideki Tomita, Norihiko Nishizawa, Volker Sonnenschein, Ryohei Terabayashi, Atsushi Satou
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Publication number: 20200348227Abstract: Provided are a carbon isotope analysis device high in partial pressure of carbon dioxide isotope in gas sent into as optical resonator, and high in sensitivity performance and analytical accuracy, and an analysis method by use of the carbon isotope analysis device. A carbon isotope analysis device including a carbon dioxide isotope generator provided with a combustion unit that generates gas containing carbon dioxide isotope from carbon isotope, and a carbon dioxide isotope purifying unit; a spectrometer including an optical resonator having a pair of mirrors, and a photodetector that determines intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonator; a carbon dioxide trap including a cooler for freezing the carbon dioxide isotope, the carbon dioxide trap being disposed between the carbon dioxide isotope generator and the spectrometer; and a light generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicants: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEMInventors: Atsushi SATOU, Tetsuo IGUCHI, Hideki TOMITA, Norihiko NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200203916Abstract: Provided is a carbon isotope analysis device including a carbon dioxide isotope generator provided with a combustion unit that generates gas containing carbon dioxide isotope from carbon isotope, and a carbon dioxide isotope purifying unit; a spectrometer including optical resonators having a pair of mirrors, and a photodetector that determines intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonators; and a light generator including a single light source, a first optical fiber that transmits first light from the light source, a second optical fiber that generates second light of a longer wavelength than the first light, the second optical fiber splitting from the first optical fiber and coupling therewith downstream, a first amplifier on the first optical fiber, a second amplifier on the second optical fiber, different in band from the first amplifier, and a nonlinear optical crystal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuo IGUCHI, Hideki TOMITA, Norihiko NISHIZAWA, Volker SONNENSCHEIN, Ryohei TERABAYASHI, Atsushi SATOU
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Patent number: D934781Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Satou
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Patent number: D936547Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Schlapp, Atsushi Satou
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Patent number: D993867Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Satou, Takuya Yamashita