Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Imai

Hiromichi Imai 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: 11870494
    Abstract: A device for communication including a gimbal and a communication unit being rotatably supported by the gimbal and having a communication port for optical wireless communication and an imaging unit for capturing an image in a direction in which the communication port executes optical wireless communication is provided. In addition, a communication device including the device for communication and a communication executing unit for executing optical wireless communication using the communication port is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Imai, Masaru Okada
  • Publication number: 20220185474
    Abstract: There is provided a moving body including: an optical wireless communication unit configured to execute an optical wireless communication with another moving body; an object detection unit configured to detect an object around an own moving body; an object information transmission unit configured to transmit, to the other moving body, first object information including location information of the object, by the optical wireless communication or a radio wave communication; an object information receiving unit configured to receive, from the other moving body, second object information including location information of an object around the other moving body, by the optical wireless communication or the radio wave communication; and a movement control unit configured to control, based on the first object information and the second object information, a movement of the own moving body such that an object is not located on an optical axis of the optical wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Hiromichi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220190934
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object including: a mobile object information transmitting unit configured to transmit, to another mobile object by optical wireless communication by a first optical wireless communication unit, first mobile object information including first inertial measurement information and first body control information; a mobile object information receiving unit configured to receive, from the another mobile object by optical wireless communication by the first optical wireless communication unit, second mobile object information including second inertial measurement information and second body control information; and an optical axis direction control unit configured to control a direction of an optical axis of the first optical wireless communication unit on a basis of the first mobile object information and the second mobile object information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Hiromichi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220014268
    Abstract: A device for communication including a gimbal and a communication unit being rotatably supported by the gimbal and having a communication port for optical wireless communication and an imaging unit for capturing an image in a direction in which the communication port executes optical wireless communication is provided. In addition, a communication device including the device for communication and a communication executing unit for executing optical wireless communication using the communication port is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromichi IMAI, Masaru OKADA
  • Patent number: 10507731
    Abstract: Provided is an electric power system capable of rapidly slowing an electric motor and quickly discharging a capacitor when an abnormality occurs. If an abnormality detection device detects an abnormality, a control device of an electric power system performs a switching control that alternately switches between an upper arm three-phase short-circuit control that sets all upper arms to a conductive state and sets all lower arms to a non-conductive state, and a lower arm three-phase short-circuit control that sets all upper arms to a non-conductive state and sets all lower arms to a conductive state. When switching between the two short-circuit controls, a conduction overlap period in which the conductive state of said upper arms and the conductive state of said lower arms overlap may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Tsukada, Hiromichi Imai, Shingo Soma, Hisaya Oiwa
  • Publication number: 20180236874
    Abstract: Provided is an electric power system capable of rapidly slowing an electric motor and quickly discharging a capacitor when an abnormality occurs. If an abnormality detection device detects an abnormality, a control device of an electric power system performs a switching control that alternately switches between an upper arm three-phase short-circuit control that sets all upper arms to a conductive state and sets all lower arms to a non-conductive state, and a lower arm three-phase short-circuit control that sets all upper arms to a non-conductive state and sets all lower arms to a conductive state. When switching between the two short-circuit controls, a conduction overlap period in which the conductive state of said upper arms and the conductive state of said lower arms overlap may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Tsukada, Hiromichi Imai, Shingo Soma, Hisaya Oiwa