Patents by Inventor HIDETATSU YAMAMOTO

HIDETATSU YAMAMOTO 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).

  • Publication number: 20230288954
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control device that performs distributed processing using a plurality of microcomputers and can perform highly accurate time synchronization between the microcomputers with less delay without hindering arithmetic processing of each microcomputer. The device includes a plurality of microcomputers, and a waveform generation circuit connected between a master microcomputer serving as a time synchronization source and a slave microcomputer that performs time synchronization, among the plurality of microcomputers, wherein the master microcomputer outputs a reset signal synchronized with time to the waveform generation circuit, the waveform generation circuit outputs a waveform signal corresponding to a change in time of the master microcomputer, to the slave microcomputer, and the slave microcomputer measures a voltage value of the waveform signal and detects time corresponding to the measured voltage value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke TANAKA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230232589
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a housing including a first region in which heat dissipation fins are formed on one side and an electronic component generating the largest amount of heat is in thermal contact with the other side, and a second region in which an electronic component is in thermal contact with the one side and the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryujo SUGAHARA, Eiji ICHIKAWA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Daisuke TANAKA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO, Michihito WATARAI, Minami TERANISHI
  • Publication number: 20230209738
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a first board on which a bus bridge and an external communication connector are mounted; a second board on which an accelerator SoC is mounted, the second board being electrically connected to the first board; and a B-to-B connector capable of performing signal transmission between the bus bridge and the accelerator SoC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryujo SUGAHARA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO, Daisuke TANAKA, Eiji ICHIKAWA, Michihito WATARAI, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11618462
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle control system capable of reducing an increase in cost accompanying advancement of a fallback operation. Therefore, the in-vehicle control system includes: a plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 respectively including control units that perform data communication with each other; an external environment recognition sensor a5; and a plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14 connecting the external environment recognition sensor a5 and the plurality of control circuits 3 and 4. The plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 include: a first power supply unit that supplies power to the external environment recognition sensor a5 via a corresponding wiring among the plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14; and a first detection unit that detects an abnormality related to the power supplied to the external environment recognition sensor a5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Komatsu, Hiroshi Shinoda, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Masaru Kokubo, Hidetatsu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230004184
    Abstract: An electronic control device is connected via a cable to each of a plurality of sensors which outputs a sensor output for each data acquisition cycle determined in advance in accordance with a clock signal. The electronic control device includes a power supply unit configured to supply power to the sensor via the cable, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a feature amount directly or indirectly indicating a magnitude of radiation noise from at least one sensor among the plurality of sensors, a phase difference decision unit configured to decide a phase difference of a data acquisition cycle for each of the plurality of sensors based on the feature amount, and a control unit configured to transmit the phase difference to each of the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomi KASAHARA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11444657
    Abstract: A signal transmission circuit that is connected to a communication unit by a signal wiring and performs signal transmission to/from the communication unit via the signal wiring includes: a direct-current supply unit that outputs a direct current with a variable output voltage, superimposes the direct current on the signal, and supplies the direct current to the communication unit via the signal wiring; a signal reception unit that receives the signal from the communication unit; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing based on the signal received by the signal reception unit, wherein the signal reception unit has an equalizer function that adjusts a waveform of the signal to compensate for attenuation due to the signal wiring, and the output voltage is controlled based on an equalizer setting value used for control of the equalizer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Masahiro Toyama, Hidetatsu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220190874
    Abstract: A signal transmission circuit that is connected to a communication unit by a signal wiring and performs signal transmission to/from the communication unit via the signal wiring includes: a direct-current supply unit that outputs a direct current with a variable output voltage, superimposes the direct current on the signal, and supplies the direct current to the communication unit via the signal wiring; a signal reception unit that receives the signal from the communication unit; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing based on the signal received by the signal reception unit, wherein the signal reception unit has an equalizer function that adjusts a waveform of the signal to compensate for attenuation due to the signal wiring, and the output voltage is controlled based on an equalizer setting value used for control of the equalizer function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Masahiro TOYAMA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220089179
    Abstract: There are realized a vehicle control device and an electronic control system with high reliability capable of safely shifting control even when an operation abnormality occurs in a sensor around a vehicle or an arithmetic block that processes sensor fusion. The vehicle control device includes a first arithmetic block which performs sensor fusion processing based on pieces of raw data output from a plurality of surrounding environment sensors, a second arithmetic block which performs sensor fusion processing based on pieces of object data generated by processing the pieces of raw data output from the plurality of surrounding environment sensors, and a third arithmetic block which diagnoses an output result of the first arithmetic block by using the output result of the first arithmetic block and an output result of the second arithmetic block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Teppei HIROTSU, Taisuke UETA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220017108
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle control system capable of reducing an increase in cost accompanying advancement of a fallback operation. Therefore, the in-vehicle control system includes: a plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 respectively including control units that perform data communication with each other; an external environment recognition sensor a5; and a plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14 connecting the external environment recognition sensor a5 and the plurality of control circuits 3 and 4. The plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 include: a first power supply unit that supplies power to the external environment recognition sensor a5 via a corresponding wiring among the plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14; and a first detection unit that detects an abnormality related to the power supplied to the external environment recognition sensor a5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenobu KOMATSU, Hiroshi SHINODA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Masaru KOKUBO, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210137078
    Abstract: Provided are a livestock sensor device, a livestock astasia inference method, a livestock astasia inference program, and a livestock management system that are capable of preventing damage to stockbreeders. According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided a livestock sensor device including a postural-state determination unit, a state inference unit, a transmission unit, and a casing. The postural-state determination unit determines in which of a prostrate state and a non-prostrate state a livestock animal has been on a basis of output values from an acceleration sensor. The state inference unit infers whether or not the livestock animal has developed astasia on a basis of a duration of the prostrate state. The transmission unit transmits, to a server, an astasia-notification data item indicating that an inference that the livestock animal has developed the astasia is made when the inference that the livestock animal has developed the astasia is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: HIDETATSU YAMAMOTO, SEIJI OHISHI, HIDETOSHI ISAWA, KAZUHIKO TSUJI, NAOKI TAMAI, HIDEAKI KAMEI, YOSHINORI USAMI, TAKESHI NEGORO, KOICHI YAMAGUCHI, KAZUYA TERASAKI, OSAMU MIKI, KENJI SASAKI, TOMOYA IMAMURA, MAMI MAMIYA