Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Sakamoto

Hideyuki Sakamoto 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: 12019465
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomi Kasahara, Yutaka Uematsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Hidetatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11987246
    Abstract: An electronic control unit that is installed on a vehicle connected to a trailer and capable of towing the trailer changes travel control of the vehicle according to a type of the trailer when the trailer is connected to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shimbo, Tadanobu Toba, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Taisuke Ueta
  • Patent number: 11962238
    Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable electronic control unit capable of improving responsiveness of an output current of a switching power supply to load current variation and suppressing power supply voltage variation accompanying the load current variation at low cost and with high power efficiency. Provided are: a calculation unit that performs signal processing; a first power supply circuit that supplies a first power supply voltage to the calculation unit; and a second power supply circuit that supplies a second power supply voltage to the first power supply circuit. The calculation unit has a function of outputting a control signal when a change in a consumed current of the calculation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, and changes any one or both of a control scheme of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply voltage according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Komatsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20240092287
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle control device capable of detecting overheating of a CPU or a heat dissipation failure of the cooling mechanism, while suppressing increases in the size, the number of components, and the cost. A vehicle control device according to the present embodiment includes a memory, a CPU, a temperature sensor that is provided internal of the CPU, and a cooling mechanism that cools the CPU. The memory stores therein a standard pattern SP1, a wait time tw, a standard temperature Ts, and a normal temperature difference. The CPU then stores the load of the CPU in the memory, and monitors the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Motomune SUZUKI, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11906428
    Abstract: Provided is a spectrofluorophotometer acquiring both a spectrum and a sample image in measurement of fluorescence of a liquid sample. A spectrofluorophotometer includes a light source, an excitation-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of light of the light source and generates excitation light, a fluorescence-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of fluorescence emitted from a sample irradiated with excitation light into monochromatic light, a sample container installation portion for holding a sample container which receives a liquid sample and is formed of a transparent material, a detector that detects fluorescence emitted from the liquid sample, and an image capturing device that captures a sample image of a sample emitting fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Maruyama, Jun Horigome, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11878704
    Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of hardware capable of operation, and comprises an information collection unit which collects external information of the vehicle, a storage unit which stores a plurality of processing specifications which prescribe processing to be executed by each of the plurality of hardware and the external information to be used by the plurality of hardware for performing operation, and an applied condition, which is a condition related to the external information and a status of the plurality of hardware for applying each of the plurality of processing specifications, and a processing control unit which determines one processing specification among the plurality of processing specifications from a correspondence to the condition based on the collected external information and the status of the plurality of hardware, and controls the plurality of hardware based on the determined processing specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ueta, Satoshi Tsutsumi, Yuta Muto, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11863245
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a communication unit that is connected to an electronic device by a signal wiring and performs communication with the electronic device via the signal wiring, a signal processing unit that performs signal processing related to the communication, a power supply unit that supplies direct current to the electronic device via the signal wiring, and a filter circuit connected between the signal wiring and the power supply unit. The filter circuit includes a plurality of filters having frequency characteristics different from each other, and the signal processing unit acquires communication quality information indicating quality of the communication in at least two or more frequency bands, and determines a state of the filter circuit based on the communication quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11845452
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a first processing control unit and a second processing control unit, wherein: the first processing control unit and the second processing control unit alternately start arithmetic processing with information of an external environment as an input; and second arithmetic processing of the second processing control unit is started after first arithmetic processing by the first processing control unit is started and before the first arithmetic processing is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ueta, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Kenichi Shimbo, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11789730
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a processing control unit and an information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ueta, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Kenichi Shimbo, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11787425
    Abstract: An autonomous drive ECU 1 includes: at least two microcomputers 10 and 30 capable of receiving sensing data from a plurality of sensors 61; failure detection units 11 and 31 that detect a failure of the plurality of sensors 61 or the microcomputers 10 and 30; a mode selection unit 33 that selects a normal operation mode and a fallback operation mode; and a sensor selection unit that selects the sensor 61 based on a failure part detected by the failure detection unit 31 or a surrounding situation of an own vehicle calculated from the sensing data. Any of the at least two microcomputers 10 and 30 generates a drive signal for operating an actuator using the sensing data received from the sensor 61 selected by the sensor selection unit in the case of the fallback operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shinoda, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11750424
    Abstract: An electronic control unit is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a reception unit that receives a data signal transmitted via a transmission path mounted on the vehicle; an environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines the state of the transmission path, in which the reception unit includes an equalizer that compensates for the data signal, the equalizer calculates a compensation parameter for compensating for the data signal, and the determination unit determines the state of the transmission path based on the compensation parameter and the environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Toba, Kenichi Shimbo, Nozomi Kasahara, Yutaka Uematsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230273251
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a transmitting circuit that repeatedly outputs a first prescribed signal to a transmission path at a prescribed cycle; a receiving circuit that receives a second prescribed signal repeatedly output at the prescribed cycle from another communication device via the transmission path; a waveform equivalence processing unit that performs waveform equivalence processing on the signal received by the receiving circuit; a holding unit that holds parameters of the waveform equivalence processing; a storage unit that stores information on a signal propagation speed in the transmission path, duration of a prescribed cycle, and a transmission rate; and an abnormality position determining unit that calculates a distance to a position of an abnormality in the transmission path using information on the parameter caused by the abnormality of the transmission path among the parameters and the information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Soshi SHIMOMURA, Yasuhiro IKEDA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230239182
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a receiving unit that receives a data signal from an external device via a transmission line, a determination criterion selection unit that determines a determination criterion based on transition information of a waveform in the data signal, and a condition determination unit that determines a condition of a communication system including the external device, the receiving unit, and the transmission line based on a transmission waveform characteristic in the data signal and the determination criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro IKEDA, Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • 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: 20230216540
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a communication unit that is connected to an electronic device by a signal wiring and performs communication with the electronic device via the signal wiring, a signal processing unit that performs signal processing related to the communication, a power supply unit that supplies direct current to the electronic device via the signal wiring, and a filter circuit connected between the signal wiring and the power supply unit. The filter circuit includes a plurality of filters having frequency characteristics different from each other, and the signal processing unit acquires communication quality information indicating quality of the communication in at least two or more frequency bands, and determines a state of the filter circuit based on the communication quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • 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: 20230069331
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes an enclosure including a first enclosure having an assembly opening and a second enclosure covering the entire assembly opening, the enclosure having a communication opening communicating with the assembly opening; a circuit board accommodated in the enclosure; an integrated circuit element mounted on the circuit board; and a heat dissipating shield member thermally coupled to the integrated circuit element and grounded, wherein the heat dissipating shield member includes an inner portion accommodated inside the enclosure and thermally coupled to the integrated circuit element and an outer portion extending to an outside of the enclosure via the communication opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minami TERANISHI, Shinya KAWAKITA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230031292
    Abstract: An electronic control device including a circuit substrate having a signal wiring and a ground wiring; at least one connector having a signal conductor and a ground conductor respectively connected to the signal wiring and the ground wiring of the circuit substrate on one end side and extending on the other end side; a housing including an accommodating portion that accommodates the circuit substrate and the at least one connector, in which a radio wave path through which a leakage electromagnetic wave propagates from one end on the circuit substrate side toward the other end on the side opposite to the circuit substrate side of the at least one connector is formed in an internal space at the periphery of the at least one connector; and a leakage electromagnetic wave attenuating structure provided between the housing and the at least one connector; where the leakage electromagnetic wave attenuating structure includes a plurality of conductors that are arrayed along a direction in which the leakage electromagn
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD
    Inventors: Yuki Nakamura, Masahiro TOYAMA, Hiroki FUNATO, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Shina KAWAKITA
  • 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