Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida 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: 11915609
    Abstract: Provided is a hollow organ model unit. The hollow organ model unit includes a base that includes a recessed part, a hollow organ model that is placed in the recessed part, a filler that is filled in the recessed part, and a sensor that performs a measurement on the hollow organ model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoichi Haga, Makoto Ohta, Yasutomo Shimizu, Tadao Matsunaga, Noriko Tsuruoka, Soyoka Osaki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Simon Andre Tupin, Kaihong Yu
  • Publication number: 20240063281
    Abstract: A high-voltage MOS transistor includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of active regions, a gate insulation layer, and a gate electrode. The active regions are defined by an isolation structure, wherein the active regions include a channel portion and two side portions, the channel portion has first opposite sides and second opposite sides, and the two side portions are at the first opposite sides of the channel portion. The gate insulation layer is disposed on a surface of the channel portion. The gate electrode is disposed on the gate insulation layer and extending on a portion of the isolation structure, wherein the gate electrode includes a pair of channel edge openings and a plurality of slits. The pair of channel edge openings are at the second opposite sides of the channel portion to expose a portion of the gate insulation layer, and the slits are disposed over the channel portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240052603
    Abstract: In a related technique, a target point sequence is generated without considering the content of a work of a construction machine, which causes a problem that an actual trajectory of the construction machine is significantly deviated from the target point sequence depending on the content of the work of the construction machine. A work control method according to the present invention includes: a target point setting step (S1) of generating, based on work content information, a work target point sequence indicating a target trajectory on which target points a construction machine is to move to are plotted, and a construction machine control step (S2) of controlling the construction machine in accordance with the work target point sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11899097
    Abstract: A distance measurement device of an embodiment includes a first device including a first reference signal source and a first transmitter-receiver, a second device including a second reference signal source and a second transmitter-receiver, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the first device and the second device. One of a first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal is transmitted once or more, and another is transmitted twice or more. The calculation unit calculates the distance based on a total of three or more pieces of first phase information and second phase information acquired through transmission of the distance measurement signals three times or more in total, a first sampling period based on a first reference signal, and a second sampling period based on a second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Ootaka, Masaki Nishikawa, Katsuya Nonin, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masayoshi Oshiro
  • Publication number: 20240044108
    Abstract: A work control method according to the present invention includes: an initial motion input model generation step; and a feedback control step, in which the initial motion input model generation step includes: a first initial motion input value measurement step of measuring a first initial motion measurement value at which the movable part is caused to start to move in a first state of the movable part; a second initial motion input value measurement step of measuring a second initial motion measurement value at which the movable part is caused to start to move in a second state of the movable part; and a model generation step of generating an initial motion input model that complements between the first initial motion measurement value and the second initial motion measurement value and derives the initial motion input value with respect to a desired posture of the construction machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240046170
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second restriction conditions that are restriction conditions related to a plurality of tasks or a plurality of workers; an allocation execution unit configured to allocate the plurality of workers to the plurality of tasks based on a time index having a plurality of weights based on the first restriction condition and generate an allocation result; a determination unit configured to determine whether the allocation result satisfies a determination condition based on the second restriction condition; a correction unit configured to correct a weight related to a task which is a factor by which the allocation result is determined not to satisfy the determination condition among the plurality of weights when the allocation result does not satisfy the determination condition; and an output unit configured to output the allocation result when the allocation result satisfie
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11891159
    Abstract: The present invention provides an unmanned watercraft capable of sufficiently cooling equipment that generates a large amount of heat, capable of cooling such equipment without using energy in the watercraft, and capable of improving mean time between failures (MTBF) of a cooling device. An unmanned watercraft 1 has a cooling structure CS for cooling a central processing unit CPU1 for image recognition and a central processing unit CPU2 for control that constitute a central processing unit CPU as a heat-generating body. The cooling structure CS includes a waterproof container 7 that accommodates the heat-generating body (an insulating envelope that surrounds the heat-generating body in an electrically insulated state). The waterproof container 7 is arranged outside a submerged part 3 of the unmanned watercraft 1 so as to be in contact with water present outside the unmanned watercraft 1, the submerged part 3 being submerged in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Tadahiro Hyakudome, Ryotaro Suga, Takashi Yoshioka, Hisashi Sugiura, Hideki Endou, Yasuhiro Ueda, Yuichiro Dake, Tomoya Fukukawa, Ryuji Nakazono
  • Patent number: 11888388
    Abstract: To provide a high-voltage apparatus control device capable of judging the connection state of a connector and discharging residual charge in a short time. A control device 1 controls an electric compressor and is provided with an interlock loop 4 annexed to a connector 9 for connecting the electric compressor to an HV battery 17. The control device 1 detects connection/disconnection of the connector 9 on the basis of the state of the interlock loop 4 and forcibly discharges residual charge in an internal smoothing capacitor 14 when disconnection of the connector 9 is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yunhai Jin, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240027972
    Abstract: In a related method, there is a problem that an accuracy of control is not sufficiently high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11869781
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing tub configured to store therein a processing liquid in which a substrate is immersed to be processed, the processing liquid including a first component and a second component having a boiling point higher than that of the first component; an adjusting liquid supply configured to supply an adjusting liquid configured to adjust a concentration of the second component into the processing tub, the adjusting liquid including the first component; and a controller configured to control the adjusting liquid supply. When changing the concentration, the controller calculates a liquid surface height in the processing tub corresponding to the concentration after being changed based on a concentration difference between the concentration after being changed and the concentration before being changed, and the controller controls a supply of the adjusting liquid into the processing tub based on the calculated liquid surface height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Hideaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240003984
    Abstract: A method for inspecting an energy storage device, the method includes: estimating a degree of degradation of the energy storage device; determining, based on the estimated degree of degradation, a measurement condition such that time required to measure a full charge capacity of the energy storage device decreases or increases; and measuring the full charge capacity according to the determined measurement condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TANAKA, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Kenta ONISHI, Yuki SUGO, Kenta FUJIMOTO, Atsushi KATO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11860264
    Abstract: A ranging apparatus of an embodiment is a ranging apparatus adopting communication type ranging by a phase detection scheme. The ranging apparatus including: a transmitting circuit configured to be able to transmit by a plurality of channels used for data communication and configured to transmit a transmission signal obtained by modulating transmission data; and a control circuit configured to control the transmission circuit to cause a plurality of continuous waves having mutually different frequencies to be generated in a same channel as continuous waves used for ranging by the phase detection scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka, Katsuya Nonin, Masayoshi Oshiro
  • Patent number: 11856345
    Abstract: A remote control apparatus measures a communication delay in a communication network, generates a probability distribution of the communication delay, generates, based on the probability distribution of the communication delay, a plurality of arrival patterns, including an arrival time of a control input at a control target, predicts a state of the control target at a time of arrival of the control input, calculates a control input set by calculating a plurality of control inputs corresponding respectively to the plurality of states predicted, determines a control input to be outputted to the control target, based on a result of statistical processing applied on the control input set calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230409843
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device capable of reducing energy consumption. Provided is a semiconductor device including: an input unit that inputs a charge; a computing unit that accumulates a charge from the input unit and performs an arithmetic operation; and an output unit that detects and outputs the charge accumulated in the computing unit, in which the computing unit includes an accumulation unit to which a plurality of pair units, each of which is a pair of the input unit and a gate unit, is connected, each of the plurality of pair units makes a charge input from the input unit to the accumulation unit variable, and the accumulation unit accumulates a charge input from each of the connected plurality of pair units. The present disclosure is, for example, applicable to an analog computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Jun Okuno, Hiroki Koga, Yusuke Shuto, Takeo Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20230410647
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, HIroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230402119
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device enabling to suppress waste of energy consumption. There is provided a semiconductor device including: an input unit configured to input a charge; a memory unit configured to collect and accumulate a charge from the input unit; and an output unit configured to detect and output a charge accumulated in the memory unit. The memory unit includes a transfer unit to which a plurality of pairs of a gate unit and an accumulation unit is connected, the gate unit selects the accumulation unit that accumulates a charge, the transfer unit transfers a charge from the input unit to the accumulation unit selected by the gate unit, the accumulation unit accumulates a charge transferred from the transfer unit, and the transfer unit transfers a charge accumulated in the accumulation unit selected by the gate unit, to the output unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an analog memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: HIROSHI YOSHIDA, JUN OKUNO, HIROKI KOGA, YUSUKE SHUTO, TAKEO TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11842904
    Abstract: A control device for a substrate processing apparatus stores a plurality of records each including a recipe for a substrate etching processing and a control value for a control target, the control value being an actual output value for the control target in the substrate etching processing; acquires a recipe at a start of the substrate etching processing when an abnormality occurs in the temperature sensor or in the concentration sensor; reads a record from among the plurality of records having a recipe identical to the recipe acquired at the start of the substrate etching processing; and executes the substrate etching processing based on the control value of the record read by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Takahiro Kawazu
  • Publication number: 20230392345
    Abstract: Realized is a loading action which is carried out by a work machine while taking into consideration an upper limit load. A control apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition section (11) of acquiring weight information on a weight of a target object which has been excavated by a work machine; and an action control section (12) of controlling an action of the work machine such that a load of the target object to be loaded into a loading destination is adjusted based on the weight information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Yosuke KAKUNO, Masafumi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11836461
    Abstract: An arithmetic apparatus includes input lines and multiply-accumulate devices. An electrical signal for an input value is input into each of the input lines within a predetermined input period. Multiplication units include a positive weight multiplication unit that generates a positive weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a positive weight value and/or a negative weight multiplication unit that generates a negative weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a negative weight value. They are configured such that a positive weight ratio that is a ratio of a sum total of the positive weight values to a sum total of absolute values of the weight values is any ratio of 0% to 100%. An output unit of the multiply-accumulate device accumulates the generated weight charges to output a multiply-accumulate signal representing a sum of the product values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230387321
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first electrode layer on a substrate, and then forming a stack structure on the first electrode layer, wherein the stack structure comprises a first insulating layer, a gate electrode layer, and a second insulating layer. An opening is formed in the stack structure. A gate dielectric layer is formed on a sidewall of the opening of the stack structure, and an oxide semiconductor layer is formed in the opening, wherein the gate dielectric layer is sandwiched between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode layer. A second electrode layer is then formed on the stack structure to be in direct contact with the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida