Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Maeda

Hiroshi Maeda 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: 12291122
    Abstract: A charging assistance system includes a processor configured to execute a generation process of generating charging plan data for a vehicle on the basis of: predicted power consumption of the vehicle calculated on the basis of a future traveling schedule of the vehicle; and a charging condition at each predicted stop place based on the traveling schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuda, Hiroshi Maeda, Tomoyuki Kitada, Nana Aitani, Shinichi Okano
  • Publication number: 20250136952
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to engineered prephenate dehydrogenases and arogenate dehydrogenases and methods of using the same. More specifically, the invention relates in part to compositions including engineered prephenate dehydrogenases (PDH) polypeptides and engineered arogenate dehydrogenase (ADH) polypeptides with altered substrate preferences and tyrosine sensitivities and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi A. Maeda, Craig Albert Schenck
  • Publication number: 20250115926
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered cells and plants that express deregulated aromatic amino acid synthesis pathway enzymes from grasses. Methods for increasing the production of aromatic amino acids and their derivatives in cells and plants by engineering them to express these enzymes and methods for producing aromatic amino acids or derivatives thereof and/or sequestering carbon dioxide by growing the plants are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maeda, Jorge El Azaz
  • Patent number: 12263779
    Abstract: A vehicle including a lamp body that irradiates surroundings of the vehicle, comprising a control unit configured to control an irradiation range of the lamp body according to a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control unit controls the irradiation range according to the speed to be different when the speed increases and when the speed decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250074530
    Abstract: There is provided a saddle-ride vehicle in which an attitude of the vehicle is less likely to become unstable when a rider shifts a main stand from an upright state to a retracted state to cause a wheel to touch a road surface. A saddle-ride vehicle according to the present disclosure includes: a main stand (35) that is turnably provided on a vehicle body (5) and holds the vehicle body (5) so that the vehicle body (5) does not topple over; a first detection unit (36) that detects a turning state of the main stand (35); a steering actuator (30) that applies torque in a steering direction to a suspension apparatus (31) supporting a steering wheel (13); and a control apparatus (34) that controls the steering actuator (30) to apply the torque to the suspension apparatus (31), in which the control apparatus (34) performs control to apply the torque so that the steering wheel (31) is directed toward a front (FR), depending on the turning state of the main stand (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Atsushi Ogahara, Tsubasa Nose, Chikashi Iizuka, Masaki Nakagawara, Masaki Naito, Kiyotaka Sakai, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250043299
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase (DHS) polypeptides comprising mutations that deregulate the shikimate pathway, resulting in increased production of aromatic amino acids and enhanced carbon assimilation in plants. Also provided are polynucleotides, constructs, and vectors that encode the engineered polypeptides; cells, seeds, and plants that express the engineered polypeptides; and methods for generating and using plants that express the engineered polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAEDA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Marcos Vinicius Viana DE OLIVEIRA
  • Patent number: 12163314
    Abstract: Provide a hydraulic circuit that can prevent damage to the oil cooler while suppressing excessive rise in the temperature of the operating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Isao Konishi, Hiroshi Maeda, Hirotaka Minamiura, Kazuya Miyamori, Yoshitaka Kato
  • Patent number: 12157293
    Abstract: A separating method includes holding a combined substrate and separating a first substrate. In the holding of the combined substrate, the combined substrate in which the first substrate and a second substrate are bonded is held. In the separating of the first substrate, the first substrate is separated from the combined substrate, starting from a side surface of the combined substrate. The separating of the first substrate includes brining a fluid containing water into contact with the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Terada, Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Kazutaka Noda, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto, Yutaka Yamasaki, Tatsuya Kitayama, Akira Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20240375740
    Abstract: A vehicle that reduces troublesomeness and appropriately notify vehicle peripheral information. The vehicle includes a vehicle periphery detection sensor that detects a periphery environment of the vehicle; a speed sensor that detects a speed of the vehicle; and a plurality of vehicle periphery information display regions that display vehicle periphery information detected by the vehicle periphery detection sensor, and the vehicle periphery information display regions to be displayed are changed in accordance with the speed detected by the speed sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda, Yoshiyuki Kuroba
  • Patent number: 12134788
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to engineered prephenate dehydrogenases and arogenate dehydrogenases and methods of using the same. More specifically, the invention relates in part to compositions including engineered prephenate dehydrogenases (PDH) polypeptides and engineered arogenate dehydrogenase (ADH) polypeptides with altered substrate preferences and tyrosine sensitivities and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hiroshi A. Maeda, Craig Albert Schenck
  • Publication number: 20240318160
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) enzymes comprising one or more mutations that increase the enzymes' tyrosine ammonia-lyase (TAL) activity. Also provided are plants comprising the engineered PAL enzymes and methods of using these plants to sequester CO2 or produce phenylpropanoid-derived products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maeda, Yuri Takeda-Kimura, Bethany Moore
  • Publication number: 20240246476
    Abstract: A vehicle including a lamp body that irradiates surroundings of the vehicle, comprising a control unit configured to control an irradiation range of the lamp body according to a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control unit controls the irradiation range according to the speed to be different when the speed increases and when the speed decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 12027301
    Abstract: A composite coil device includes a winding shaft portion, a first conductor portion, and a second conductor portion. The winding shaft portion at least partly includes a magnetic body and axially includes a first section and a second section. The first conductor portion is wound continuously in the first section and the second section. The second conductor portion is wound in the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: TDK CORPORATION, TDK XIAMEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Yasuda, Hiroshi Maeda, Atsushi Shoji, Shoichi Tani
  • Patent number: 11975796
    Abstract: A driving support system (1) for motorcycles including: an external sensor unit (2) which recognizes a road state ahead of one's own vehicle; a collision risk determination unit (62) which determines a level of collision risk between one's own vehicle and an object ahead of one's own vehicle based on a recognition result of the external sensor unit 2; an automatic braking control unit (61) which executes automatic braking to automatically operate a brake device (83) in response to the determination result by the collision risk determination unit (62); and a departure risk determination unit (64) which determines a level of departure risk of one's own vehicle to outside of one's own vehicle travel lane in a case of executing the automatic braking. The automatic braking control unit (61) ends execution of the automatic braking in a case of being determined that the departure risk is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Katayama, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240128017
    Abstract: A coil device includes a first coil a first coil formed by a first wire wound in a coil shape and a second coil formed by a second wire wound in a coil shape. The first coil includes a first portion provided inside the second coil and a second portion next to the first portion and the second coil along a winding axis of the first portion. A layer number of the first portion in its radial direction is one. A layer number of the second portion in its radial direction is plural.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK XIAMEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAEDA, XiaoBo ZHOU, ZhenSheng LIU, XueSong GUO
  • Patent number: 11952070
    Abstract: A straddle type vehicle includes a front cowl configured to cover a front part of the vehicle, a shield arranged above the front cowl, and a detecting unit configured to detect a situation in front of the vehicle. The detecting unit includes at least an image capturing unit that is positioned above a lower end of the front cowl and in a central portion of the straddle type vehicle in a vehicle width direction, and is arranged in a position where the shield does not interfere with an image capturing range. The image capturing unit is arranged behind an upper portion of the front cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Hiroshi Maeda, Masashi Hagimoto
  • Patent number: 11935308
    Abstract: An object recognition apparatus mounted in a vehicle including a sensor is provided. The apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object present in a same lane as that of the vehicle by using information from the sensor, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information concerning lights which the object turns on by using the information from the sensor, and a determining unit configured to determine a type of the object based on the information concerning the lights. A condition in which the determination unit determines that the type of the object is a two-wheeled vehicle includes a case in which the object includes not less than two lights arrayed in a vertical direction with respect to the ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Go Nakamoto, Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Hiroshi Maeda, Masashi Hagimoto
  • Patent number: 11926386
    Abstract: A straddle type vehicle comprising: a first display unit configured to display speed information of the straddle type vehicle; and a second display unit configured to display information concerning automatic traveling control of the straddle type vehicle, wherein the first display unit and the second display unit are arranged on a front side of the vehicle with respect to a head pipe of the straddle type vehicle, in the first display unit, a display position of the vehicle speed information changes linearly or in a curve in accordance with a change in a speed of the straddle type vehicle, and the second display unit is arranged to be adjacent in an upward direction or a left-and-right direction of the display position of the speed information on a high speed range side of the first display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Hagimoto, Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240079214
    Abstract: A surface modifying method of modifying a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas includes an adjusting process and a modifying process. In the adjusting process, an amount of moisture in a processing vessel is adjusted by supplying a humidified gas into the processing vessel allowed to accommodate the substrate therein. In the modifying process, the bonding surface of the substrate is modified by forming the plasma of the processing gas in the processing vessel in a state that the amount of moisture in the processing vessel is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Takashi Terada, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto, Takashi Fuse, Yusuke Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240079222
    Abstract: A surface modifying apparatus is configured to modify a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas. The surface modifying apparatus includes a processing vessel; a measuring unit; and a controller. The processing vessel is configured to accommodate the substrate therein. The measuring unit is configured to measure a value indicating an amount of moisture in the processing vessel. The controller is configured to determine whether or not bonding strength between the substrate and the another substrate, when it is assumed that the substrate modified in the processing vessel is bonded to the another substrate, is good based on the value indicating the amount of moisture in the processing vessel measured by the measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi Terada, Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto