Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nagata

Hiroshi Nagata 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: 20240310088
    Abstract: A noise reducing unit includes a common mode choke coil and a first damping portion that is made of a nonmagnetic material. The common mode choke coil includes an annular core, a first winding wound around the core, and a second winding wound around the core and spaced apart from the first winding. The first damping portion surrounds the first winding and the second winding. The first damping portion is configured such that an induced current flows in the first damping portion to generate magnetic flux that resists changes in leakage flux leaking from the core. The noise reducing unit further includes a second damping portion that is made of a magnetic material. The second damping portion is disposed on an opposite side of the first damping portion from the common mode choke coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shun ITO, Yoshiki Nagata, Takashi Kawashima, Hiroshi Fukasaku, Shunsuke Ambo, Kazuhiro Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 12087490
    Abstract: An inductor includes a coil including a winding section and extended sections, a body containing the coil and having a bottom surface and end surfaces adjacent to the bottom surface and opposed to each other, and outer electrodes on at least the bottom surface and connected to the extended sections. The winding-axis direction of the coil intersects with the bottom surface. The conductor has a cross section with a rectangular shape defined by thickness and width and has first surfaces defined by its extending direction and the thickness direction and second surfaces defined by the extending direction and the width direction. The winding section is spirally wound such that the second surfaces are on an outer side and on an inner side, respectively, and is wound in two tiers connected in their innermost locations, and both ends are in outermost locations in the tiers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okuizumi, Yuuki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240264678
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a recording medium, and a signal processing system that enable proper recognition of an operation using a gesture. The signal processing device according to the present technology includes a setting unit configured to set a recognition method for recognizing an operation using a gesture on the basis of first vibration data indicating vibrations predicted to occur in the future, and an operation recognition unit configured to recognize the operation indicated by the gesture performed by a user in accordance with the recognition method set by the setting unit. The operation recognition unit recognizes the operation indicated by the gesture performed by the user in a vehicle equipped with the signal processing device. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a signal processing device that controls a display device provided in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: HIROSHI IMAMURA, TORU NAGARA, SEISHI TOMONAGA, TAKASHI TAKAMATSU, KOJI NAGATA, HIROSHI TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 12055210
    Abstract: In a catch tank, a partition wall is formed that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction and divides the catch tank in a vehicle width direction in a vehicle-mounted state, which helps prevent oil in the catch tank from flowing unevenly to one of a first space and a second space even when the oil surface of the oil tilts during turn of the vehicle, for example. As a result, an appropriate amount of oil required for lubrication is supplied through a second lubrication hole regardless of tilt of the vehicle or turn of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Marina Hirata, Akitaka Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kawanishi, Tsukasa Sakamaki, Shohei Nagata
  • Patent number: 12054111
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for analyzing a state of a vehicle occupant and performing illumination and image output control by a projector in units of a screen sectioned area of a vehicle ceiling, in accordance with an analysis result. There is provided a data processing unit configured to execute state analysis of an occupant of a vehicle and execute output control of a projector in accordance with an occupant analysis result. The data processing unit performs projector control of outputting illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with the occupant analysis result, in units of a sectioned area of a screen of a vehicle ceiling on which projector output light is outputted. The data processing unit analyzes a state of an occupant on the basis of a camera-captured image, and outputs illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with an occupant state, in units of a screen sectioned area above each occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imamura, Takashi Takamatsu, Seishi Tomonaga, Toru Nagara, Koji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240256042
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section and a stimulus controller. The acquisition section acquires visually-induced-motion-sickness information that includes at least one of information obtained by estimating a state of a visually induced motion sickness of a user who is viewing video content, or information obtained by predicting the state of the visually induced motion sickness. The stimulus controller controls provision of a stimulus to the user, on the basis of the visually-induced-motion-sickness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mari SAITO, Koji NAGATA, Kazuko YAMAGISHI, Hiroshi OYAMADA
  • Patent number: 12032098
    Abstract: An accuracy of detection of a road surface or the like is improved even in a state where a peak power of reflected light is low. A sensor control device is configured to be mounted in a vehicle capable of acquiring a current location and configured to control a LiDAR-having a light source which emits light to a predetermined region and a light receiving element which receives reflected light of the emitted light, and the sensor control device includes an adjustment unit which acquires map information and adjusts a light receiving level of a light receiving signal of the light receiving element. The adjustment unit determines, based on the map information, a region for which the light receiving level with respect to the light receiving signal is to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru Takemura, Makoto Matsumaru, Hiroshi Nagata, Yugo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12011898
    Abstract: At least one of a horn or an anvil includes protrusions that protrude from a facing surface thereof. Two panel parts and a gusset part folded and interposed between the panel parts are sandwiched and compressed by the horn and the anvil. Two portions of the gusset part are welded to each other by ultrasonic vibration of the horn during the sandwiching and compressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Totani Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Totani, Hiroshi Nagata, Tatsuo Odani
  • Publication number: 20240175991
    Abstract: A control unit determines whether or not a plurality of spots to be emitted by a scanning unit satisfy a predetermined condition. The control unit controls a density distribution of the plurality of spots to be emitted by the scanning unit until the plurality of spots to be emitted by the scanning unit satisfy the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Ryo IZUTA
  • Patent number: 11993836
    Abstract: Disclosed are an R—Fe—B-based sintered magnet with a low B content and a preparation method therefor. The sintered magnet comprises the following components: 28.5 wt %-31.5 wt % of R, 0.86 wt %-0.94 wt % of B, 0.2 wt %-1 wt % of Co, 0.2 wt %-0.45 wt % of Cu, 0.3 wt %-0.5 wt % of Ga, 0.02 wt %-0.2 wt % of Ti, and 61 wt %-69.5 wt % of Fe. The sintered magnet has an R6-T13??M1+? series phase accounting for 75% or more of the total volume of grain boundaries. The present invention selects optimal content ranges of R, B, Co, Cu, Ga, and Ti, and forms an R6-T13??M1+? series phase of a special composition and increases its volume fraction in grain boundary phases, so as to acquire higher Hcj and SQ values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIAN GOLDEN DRAGON RARE- EARTH Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qin Lan, Yan Zhou, Hiroshi Nagata, Yao Shi
  • Publication number: 20230256698
    Abstract: At least one of a horn or an anvil includes protrusions that protrude from a facing surface thereof. Two panel parts and a gusset part folded and interposed between the panel parts are sandwiched and compressed by the horn and the anvil. Two portions of the gusset part are welded to each other by ultrasonic vibration of the horn during the sandwiching and compressing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Totani Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio TOTANI, Hiroshi NAGATA, Tatsuo ODANI
  • Publication number: 20230246197
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cathode mixture that can be suitably used in a cathode mixture layer of an all-solid-state lithium-sulfur battery having an excellent charge/discharge capacity and a method of producing the cathode mixture, by maximally utilizing excellent physical properties of sulfur. The present invention relates to a positive electrode mixture for composite all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries, the positive electrode mixture containing sulfur or its discharge product (A); phosphorus pentasulfide (B); conductive carbon (C); and lithium halide (D) at a weight ratio of A:B:C:D of 40-60:15-35:5-20:16-30, wherein a peak at 50 ppm in 31P-MAS NMR has a relative intensity of 40% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Junji AKIMOTO, Takehiko HOSHI, Tadayuki YABE, Yasuo CHIKUSA, Tetsuya OTSUKI
  • Patent number: 11709492
    Abstract: An information processing device (20) includes a route acquisition unit (202) and an automatic driving section determination unit (204). The route acquisition unit (202) acquires route information indicating a moving route of a mobile body. The automatic driving section determination unit (204) acquires adaptation coefficients for a plurality of sections included in the moving route indicated by the route information, with reference to an adaptation coefficient storage unit (206) that stores automatic driving adaptation coefficients set for the respective sections. Further, the automatic driving section determination unit (204) determines the automatic driving sections of the mobile body in the moving route, based on the acquired adaptation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Makoto Kurahashi, Akira Gotoda
  • Publication number: 20230079730
    Abstract: A control device (100) can communicate with a first sensor (300) for detecting an object around a first vehicle and is equipped on the first vehicle (500). The control device (100) includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a sensing result being a result of detecting an object around the first vehicle (500) from the first sensor (300) equipped on the first vehicle (500). The second acquisition unit acquires positional information of a specified object being an object for performance measurement of the first sensor (300). The detection unit detects the specified object existing within a reference distance from the first vehicle (500), by use of positional information of the first vehicle (500) and positional information of the specified object. The determination unit determines performance of the first sensor (300), based on the sensing result of the specified object by the first sensor (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Akira GOTODA, Makoto KURAHASHI, Hiroshi NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11554774
    Abstract: The control apparatus (200) is an apparatus that controls the travel of a target vehicle (10). The control apparatus (200) detects a partial object (20) using a sensor. The partial object (20) is a part of an object riding on the target vehicle (10) and is jutting outside the target vehicle (10). Furthermore, the control apparatus (200) outputs information (travel information) relating to travel of the target vehicle (10) based on the detected partial object (20). For example, the travel information is control information for travel control of the target vehicle (10) and notification information indicating information relating to the partial object (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Gotoda, Makoto Kurahashi, Hiroshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11511747
    Abstract: A control device (100) can communicate with a first sensor (300) for detecting an object around a first vehicle and is equipped on the first vehicle (500). The control device (100) includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a sensing result being a result of detecting an object around the first vehicle (500) from the first sensor (300) equipped on the first vehicle (500). The second acquisition unit acquires positional information of a specified object being an object for performance measurement of the first sensor (300). The detection unit detects the specified object existing within a reference distance from the first vehicle (500), by use of positional information of the first vehicle (500) and positional information of the specified object. The determination unit determines performance of the first sensor (300), based on the sensing result of the specified object by the first sensor (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Gotoda, Makoto Kurahashi, Hiroshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11501914
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a grain boundary diffusion method of an R—Fe—B series rare earth sintered magnet, an HRE diffusion source, and a preparation method thereof, comprising the following steps: engineering A of forming a dry layer on a high-temperature-resistant carrier, the dry layer being adhered with HRE compound powder, the HRE being at least one of Dy, Tb, Gd, or Ho; and engineering B of performing heat treatment on the R—Fe—B series rare earth sintered magnet and the high-temperature-resistant carrier treated with the engineering A in a vacuum or inert atmosphere and supplying HRE to a surface of the R—Fe—B series rare earth sintered magnet. The method can reduce the consumption of heavy rare earth element and control the loss of residual magnetism Br while increasing the coercivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Fujian Changting Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yulin Lin, Hiroshi Nagata, Zongbo Liao, Juhua Xie, Hanshen Ye
  • Patent number: 11402836
    Abstract: A server device efficiently acquires information of a surrounding area of a movable body for updating map information while suppressing communication load. Condition information indicating a condition of autonomous driving is received from a first movable body capable of autonomous driving based on a state of a surrounding area of the first movable body and a map, and a request for state information is transmitted to a second movable body capable of transmitting the state information indicating a state of a place where the first movable body has moved, and when the received condition information indicates that the autonomous driving has been possible, transmission of the request is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru Takemura, Hiroshi Nagata, Makoto Matsumaru, Kyoichi Terao, Akira Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220206492
    Abstract: An information processing device (20) includes a route acquisition unit (202) and an automatic driving section determination unit (204). The route acquisition unit (202) acquires route information indicating a moving route of a mobile body. The automatic driving section determination unit (204) acquires adaptation coefficients for a plurality of sections included in the moving route indicated by the route information, with reference to an adaptation coefficient storage unit (206) that stores automatic driving adaptation coefficients set for the respective sections. Further, the automatic driving section determination unit (204) determines the automatic driving sections of the mobile body in the moving route, based on the acquired adaptation coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Makoto KURAHASHI, Akira GOTODA
  • Patent number: 11243534
    Abstract: An information processing device (20) includes a route acquisition unit (202) and an automatic driving section determination unit (204). The route acquisition unit (202) acquires route information indicating a moving route of a mobile body. The automatic driving section determination unit (204) acquires adaptation coefficients for a plurality of sections included in the moving route indicated by the route information, with reference to an adaptation coefficient storage unit (206) that stores automatic driving adaptation coefficients set for the respective sections. Further, the automatic driving section determination unit (204) determines the automatic driving sections of the mobile body in the moving route, based on the acquired adaptation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Makoto Kurahashi, Akira Gotoda