Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Inoue

Hiroshi Inoue 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: 12040972
    Abstract: A management device includes: a management table acquisition unit that acquires at least a first management table in which an MPLS tunnel and a first label for in-network delivery are associated with each other, and a second management table in which an MPLS tunnel, a second label for specifying a CE router that is an output destination from an egress PE router, and identification information of a VPN to which the CE router that is the output destination belongs are associated with each other, the first management table being included in a node that is a copy source in an MPLS network, the second management table being included in an egress PE router as an output destination of a packet; and a VPN identification unit that collates the first label of the copied packet with the first management table to identify an MPLS tunnel through which the packet passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Inoue, Hiroshi Osawa
  • Patent number: 12040165
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base in which a refrigerant flow channel is formed, and a metal bonding layer that bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base. The cooling base includes a ceiling base made of a metal matrix composite material or a low thermal expansion metal material and defining a ceiling of the refrigerant flow channel, a grooved base of which a main component is made of the same ceramic material as a main component of the ceramic base and on a top surface of which a flow channel groove defining a bottom and a side wall of the refrigerant flow channel is provided, and a metal ceiling bonding layer that bonds a bottom surface of the ceiling base with the top surface of the grooved base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kuno, Seiya Inoue, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 12040841
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for performing communication via an optical fiber includes a photoelectric converter configured to convert an optical signal input from the optical fiber into electricity through photoelectric conversion, and a functional unit configured to operate using the electricity converted from the optical signal by the photoelectric converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Takada, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240199186
    Abstract: A trailering support device able to facilitate loading of a hull onto a trailer includes one or more controllers configured or programmed to perform an automatic vessel steering control to move the hull toward the trailer; estimate, based on a content of the automatic vessel steering control, a position and an azimuth of the hull at a predetermined time after a start of the automatic vessel steering control; detect the position, a steering angle, and the azimuth of the hull; compare the estimated position and azimuth, respectively, with the position and the azimuth detected at the predetermined time; and determine, based on a comparison result, whether the loading of the hull onto the trailer able to be performed; and in a case where it is determined that the loading of the hull onto the trailer is not able to be performed, provide notification of the determination that the loading of the trailer is not able to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240199177
    Abstract: A trailering support device able to load a hull onto a trailer includes one or more controllers configured or programmed to acquire characteristic information indicating a relationship between a steering angle of the hull and a turning radius of the hull; acquire relative position information between the trailer and the hull; detect the steering angle of the hull; predict future movement of the hull based on the acquired characteristic information, the acquired relative position information, and the detected steering angle; generate a predicted trajectory; and provide notification of a positional relationship between the hull and the trailer and provide notification of the generated predicted trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240184096
    Abstract: A light reflective member has a mirror surface adapted to reflect light. A deflecting mechanism is configured to oscillate the light reflective member about an oscillation axis extending in a direction along the mirror surface. A first regulating member faces a portion of the light reflective member including the oscillation axis with a gap therebetween in a direction intersecting with the mirror surface, and is configured to regulate displacement of the oscillation axis in the direction intersecting with the mirror surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240176612
    Abstract: A vehicle including an ECU configured to execute software update by using software distributed from a server includes a start switch configured to stop a control system of the vehicle when the start switch is turned OFF, and a control device. The control device is configured to request acceptance to execute activation after the start switch is turned OFF. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a single-bank computer: download the software; and then instruct the ECU to install the downloaded software in the ECU and activate the installed software after a user accepts to execute the activation. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a dual-bank computer, instruct the ECU to activate the installed software after the user accepts to execute the activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240178776
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes: a first interface to obtain a value of a driving current for driving a motor; and a processor to access a database including calculation data to be used to calculate a degree of abnormality of the motor, wherein the processor extracts a feature quantity for calculating the degree of abnormality from a current waveform specified by a value of the driving current, and calculates the degree of abnormality of the motor based on the extracted feature quantity and the calculation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Bingnan WANG, Lei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11994263
    Abstract: A LiDAR sensor unit is configured to detect information of an outside area of a vehicle with sensing light. A cover covers the LiDAR sensor unit so as to allow passage of the sensing light while forming a part of an outer surface of the vehicle. A strain gage is disposed on the cover and configured to output a strain signal corresponding to strain generated in the cover. A processor is configured to detect a foreign substance adhered to the cover based on the strain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11995980
    Abstract: A communication device in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a storage, a first wireless communication circuit, an information obtaining circuit, and a storing processing circuit. The first wireless communication circuit receives first information through an antenna. The first information is wirelessly transmitted from a first transmission device. The first information corresponds to the first transmission device. The first transmission device is configured to be connected to an electric work machine or is connected to the electric work machine. The information obtaining circuit obtains the first information through the first wireless communication circuit in response to a first event being occurred or having occurred. The storing processing circuit stores the first information from the information obtaining circuit into a storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Fukumoto, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240170705
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin (thermosetting resin) for forming a microporous layer of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell has a melt viscosity at 350° C. of less than or equal to 200 Pa·s. In an instance where 2 g of the thermoplastic resin (thermosetting resin) is immersed in 100 ml of hot water having a temperature of 100° C. for 6 hours, an amount of metal ions dissolved from the thermoplastic resin (thermosetting resin) is less than or equal to 65 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi MIYAZAWA, Sou OZAKI, Eiichi TOGO, Hiroshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240168133
    Abstract: A sensor detects an object situating in a sensing direction. A deflecting device changes the sensing direction cyclically. A housing accommodates the sensor and the deflecting device. A vibration absorbing device is adapted to be disposed between the housing and a support. The vibration absorbing device includes a first vibration absorbing device, a second vibration absorbing device, and an intermediate member. The intermediate member has a first surface adapted to face the housing with a first gap therebetween and a second surface adapted to face the support with a second gap therebetween. The first vibration absorbing device is disposed between the housing and the first surface of the intermediate member. The second vibration absorbing device is adapted to be disposed between the support and the second surface of the intermediate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hiroshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11977426
    Abstract: A control device includes a determination means that determines, when a request is received in which a power amount that is requested to be supplied, and an energy source or a type of the energy source of the power amount are specified, whether or not a supply of electric power that satisfies the energy source or the type of the energy source and the power amount that are specified in the request is possible by referring to a table that manages a stored power amount stored in a storage battery for each energy source or for each type of the energy source, and a control means that causes the power amount specified in the request to be discharged from the storage battery when it is determined by the determination means that the supply of electric power is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Hidetoshi Takada
  • Publication number: 20240143311
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more processors configured to acquire vehicle configuration information including information on an electronic control unit (ECU) mounted on a vehicle and transmit the vehicle configuration information to a server; and acquire software distributed from the server; and a communication module configured to transmit the software acquired by the first acquisition unit to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240126535
    Abstract: A vehicle including an electronic control unit configured to update software, the vehicle includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with user equipment; and a control unit configured to request the user equipment to display on a display unit of the user equipment, a first operation unit that is used when a user accepts download of software distributed from a server in a case where the software is downloaded to the vehicle via the user equipment, and a charge level of a battery of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240118882
    Abstract: A server that distributes software, includes one or more processors configured to: classify a plurality of vehicles that is software distribution targets into a first vehicle and a second vehicle; and prioritize software distribution to the second vehicle over software distribution to the first vehicle. The first vehicle is configured to wirelessly communicate with the server, and receive the software distributed by the server directly from the server. The second vehicle is configured to communicate with mobile equipment that wirelessly communicates with the server, and receive the software distributed by the server via the mobile equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240118886
    Abstract: Mobile equipment includes one or more first processors and a communication module. The one or more first processors are configured to generate a package including update software and rollback data. The one or more first processors are configured to control the communication module to send the package to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240118885
    Abstract: User equipment includes one or more processors configured to: receive data on updating software on an in-vehicle electronic control unit (ECU); transmit the received data to a vehicle; and display progress of a first update process when the first update process is performed. The first update process is a process of updating the software on the in-vehicle ECU using the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240120870
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes: a feature quantity calculation unit which calculates a plurality of feature quantities from the time-series data of the current values; an operation mode determination unit which determines an operation mode of a compressor on the basis of the load torque and the drive frequency; a feature quantity distribution generation unit which generates a feature quantity distribution from values of the plurality of feature quantities; a reference region generation unit which generates a reference region on the basis of the feature quantity distribution that is obtained in a normal case; and a determination unit which compares the feature quantity distribution that is obtained during an abnormality diagnosis and the reference region corresponding to the operation mode that is applied during the abnormality diagnosis, to determine whether an abnormality is present or absent in either of the compressor and the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Ken HIRAKIDA, Makoto KANEMARU, Takaharu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240103839
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to receive, from a vehicle, pre-update software of a single-bank computer mounted on the vehicle; and transmit, to the vehicle, update software acquired from a server after the received pre-update software is stored in the one or more memories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE