Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Sasaki

Hirotaka Sasaki 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: 20240151420
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning device includes a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature of air taken in and a control unit configured to control the temperature adjustment unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a medium reference temperature of the temperature adjustment unit, set a difference between the medium reference temperature and a correction value as a set temperature of the temperature adjustment unit and increase the correction value as the temperature of air taken in increases, and decrease the correction value as the temperature of air taken in decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240106952
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. A first power-off state, which accompanies a restart of a program, and a second power-off state, which does not accompany the restart of the program, are defined as states of a power supply of the information processing apparatus. The processor is configured to change, if an operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed, a state of the power supply to the first power-off state or the second power-off state in accordance with a use condition of the information processing apparatus before the operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11932281
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for configuring and controlling an automated vehicle to perform user specified operations. User vehicle control programs are loaded in an unmanned vehicle to control the unmanned vehicle to perform a user specified operation. The loading the user vehicle control programs replaces base vehicle control programs in the unmanned vehicle. There is communication with the unmanned vehicle to execute the user vehicle control programs to control the unmanned vehicle to perform the user specified operation. The base vehicle control programs are loaded into the unmanned vehicle to replace the user vehicle control programs to return control of the unmanned vehicle to a vehicle provider after performing the user specified operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Akira Saito, Yohkichi Sasatani, Kenichi Takasaki, Taku Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230393189
    Abstract: A heater drive controlling apparatus for an electronic component testing apparatus includes a breaker disposed between a power source and heaters, and a controller that controls electric currents supplied from the power source to the heaters in order according to a first priority set for the heaters such that a sum of the supplied electric currents is within a rated current of the breaker. The electronic component testing apparatus includes a test chamber, a thermal-stress applying chamber, and a thermal-stress removing chamber each of which includes the heaters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: ADVANTEST Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Ashizawa, Hirotaka Sasaki, Keisuke Nitta
  • Publication number: 20230382415
    Abstract: A control device is provided to make recognize an occupant that an operation by the occupant may affect an anti-fog performance of an air conditioner unit, and to control the anti-fog performance of the occupant's own will. When the occupant operates an air conditioner operation panel during self-driving in LV3 and when the operation possibly lowers the anti-fog performance of the air conditioner unit, the occupant is notified of; information that the operation possibly lowers the anti-fog performance; and information to preannounce lowering of the self-driving level to LV2 after elapse of a predetermined time. When the operation is cancelled before elapse of the predetermined time, the notification is terminated and the self-driving in LV3 is maintained. When the operation is not cancelled before elapse of the predetermined time, the self-driving level is switched to LV2 and an air-conditioning state is switched according to the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11731608
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a prediction unit that acquires position information on a parking place where parking time is predicted to exceed a prescribed threshold value in a travel route of the hybrid vehicle; and a target setting unit that sets a target state of charge of the battery and to change setting of the target state of charge from a first state of charge to a second state of charge that is lower than the first state of charge when the hybrid vehicle satisfies an approach condition to the parking place. A charge and discharge amount of the battery when the state of charge of the battery becomes equal to or less than the second state of charge is controlled to be smaller than the charge and discharge amount of the battery when the state of charge of the battery is larger than the second state of charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sasaki, Kunihiko Jinno
  • Publication number: 20230258139
    Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided, in which an engine ECU starts fuel cut control when deceleration is requested, and an air conditioner ECU operates a compressor to accumulate the cold while the fuel cut control operation is performed by an engine controller, and deactivates the compressor in a case where an evaporator temperature matches or falls below a compressor deactivatable temperature when a condition for terminating the fuel cut control is satisfied. The engine ECU extends the fuel cut control in a case where the compressor is deactivated when the condition for terminating the fuel cut control is satisfied. The air conditioner ECU includes an airflow volume decreasing unit configured to decrease an airflow volume from a blower, which blows air into a vehicle interior, when an estimated air conditioning load is low during the operation to accumulate the cold, for rapidly decreasing the evaporator temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka SASAKI, Takahisa KANEKO, Masahiro NISHIYAMA, Kenji TSUKAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20230219397
    Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided, in which an engine ECU starts fuel cut control when deceleration is requested, and an air conditioner ECU operates a compressor to accumulate the cold during operation when the fuel cut control is performed by an engine controller, and deactivates the compressor in a case where an evaporator temperature matches or falls below a predetermined value of a compressor deactivation permissible temperature when a condition of terminating the fuel cut control is satisfied. The engine ECU extends the fuel cut control in a case where the compressor is deactivated when the condition of terminating the fuel cut control is satisfied. The air conditioner ECU includes a compressor deactivation permissible temperature changing unit configured to raise the compressor deactivation permissible temperature from the predetermined value when an estimated air conditioning load is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka SASAKI, Takahisa KANEKO, Masahiro NISHIYAMA, Kenji TSUKAGISHI
  • Patent number: 11616890
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to control an operation of an apparatus by executing a control program, in a case where an instruction to shift to a power-off state is received, perform shift from a normal operation state to any one of a first power-off state or a second power-off state, the first power-off state being a state where the operation is stopped without restarting the control program, the second power-off state being a state where the control program is restarted and then the operation is stopped, and in a case where the shift to the first power-off state is made, set at least a part of information regarding an operation of the information processing apparatus to a value that is set in a case where the control program is restarted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230062344
    Abstract: Provided is a frequency determination unit that determines whether a prohibition frequency at which a drive source control unit prohibits a vehicle from being put in an EV priority mode is equal to or higher than a second threshold value when the vehicle has traveled between a predetermined location and a destination in the past in a state in which a specific target SOC is set to a value lower than a EV-SW permission SOC. When the frequency determination unit determines that the prohibition frequency is equal to or higher than the second threshold value and when the vehicle travels between the predetermined location and the destination, a low SOC control unit adjusts at least one of the specific target SOC and the EV-SW permission SOC such that the specific target SOC becomes a value that is equal to or higher than the EV-SW permission SOC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220294923
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to control an operation of an apparatus by executing a control program, in a case where an instruction to shift to a power-off state is received, perform shift from a normal operation state to any one of a first power-off state or a second power-off state, the first power-off state being a state where the operation is stopped without restarting the control program, the second power-off state being a state where the control program is restarted and then the operation is stopped, and in a case where the shift to the first power-off state is made, set at least a part of information regarding an operation of the information processing apparatus to a value that is set in a case where the control program is restarted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220219672
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a prediction unit that acquires position information on a parking place where parking time is predicted to exceed a prescribed threshold value in a travel route of the hybrid vehicle; and a target setting unit that sets a target state of charge of the battery and to change setting of the target state of charge from a first state of charge to a second state of charge that is lower than the first state of charge when the hybrid vehicle satisfies an approach condition to the parking place. A charge and discharge amount of the battery when the state of charge of the battery becomes equal to or less than the second state of charge is controlled to be smaller than the charge and discharge amount of the battery when the state of charge of the battery is larger than the second state of charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hirotaka SASAKI, Kunihiko JINNO
  • Publication number: 20220219668
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes: a prediction unit that acquires position information of a parking point where parking time of the hybrid vehicle on a travel route is predicted to exceed a threshold value; and a target setting unit that sets a target charge rate of the battery and changes the target chare rate to a second charge rate that is lower than a first charge rate in a normal state when the hybrid vehicle satisfies an approach condition of approaching the parking point. A charge and discharge amount is controlled such that a charge and discharge amount of the battery corresponding to the second charge rate when the target setting unit sets the target charge rate to the second charge rate is larger to a discharge side than a charge and discharge amount of the battery corresponding to the second charge rate in the normal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hirotaka SASAKI, Kunihiko JINNO
  • Publication number: 20220162206
    Abstract: To provide a novel compound or a salt thereof or a solvate thereof, having a CSF-1R inhibitory activity and exhibiting antitumor effect. An azaindole derivative of formula (I): wherein A represents a C6-10 aryl ring, an aromatic heterocycle, or an unsaturated heterocycle, and A optionally has one substituent or more same or different substituents; and R represents a C1-3 alkyl group or a saturated heterocyclic group, or a salt thereof or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Gen WATANABE, Toshiharu MORIMOTO, Akira IWATA, Hirotaka SASAKI, Takahisa OGAMINO, Kosuke USUDA, Ayumu OKUDA, Hiroyuki ISHIWATA, Yuichiro TABUNOKI, Keigo NISHII
  • Patent number: 11340638
    Abstract: An electronic component handling apparatus for handling a DUT and pressing the DUT against a socket electrically connected to a tester, including: a temperature adjuster adjusting a temperature of the DUT; a first calculator calculating the temperature of the DUT on the basis of a detection result of a temperature detection circuit disposed in the DUT; a temperature controller controlling the temperature adjuster; and a first controller outputting a first signal to the temperature controller. A temperature control includes a first temperature control based on the temperature of the DUT calculated by the first calculator and a second temperature control, and when the first signal is input from the first controller to the temperature controller after the temperature controller starts the first temperature control, the temperature controller switches the temperature control from the first temperature control to the second temperature control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANTEST Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sasaki, Hideki Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200241582
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is an electronic component handling apparatus capable of controlling a DUT temperature within an appropriate range even in a DUT in which an abrupt temperature change occurs under test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: ADVANTEST Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sasaki, Hideki Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200038827
    Abstract: The present invention provides a foaming agent composition for civil engineering-construction materials containing an anionic surfactant (A), a surfactant aid (B) and a water-insoluble or slightly water-soluble nonionic surfactant (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KOYANAGI, Hirotaka SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9535112
    Abstract: Increase in number of valves complicates the configuration and control. A temperature control apparatus for controlling a temperature of a device, includes; a heat exchange section exchanging heat with the device; a main flow path causing a fluid to flow; a sub flow path causing, to flow, a fluid having a temperature different from a temperature of the fluid flowing through the main flow path; a mixture flow path merging the fluids from the main flow path and the sub flow path and causing the merged fluids to flow to the heat exchange section; and a flow rate adjusting section adjusting an amount of a fluid flowing from the sub flow path to the mixture flow path, in relation to the fluid flowing through the main flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Yamashita, Noboru Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160188271
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires face information, the face information indicating a face of a user captured by an image capturing unit, a memory that stores an identifier of a user permitted to log in to the information processing apparatus, in association with first face information indicating a face of the user, a writing unit that, if a predetermined condition is satisfied during a period from login to logout of a user on the information processing apparatus, writes the face information acquired by the acquiring unit into the memory as second face information in association with an identifier of the user, and a restricting unit that, if the second face information satisfies a predetermined condition with respect to the face information acquired by the acquiring unit, restricts login as the user of the identifier associated with the first face information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka SASAKI, Masayoshi MIKI, Akio OKUIE
  • Publication number: 20160188856
    Abstract: An authentication device includes a face image extracting unit that extracts a face image of an operator, a footwear image extracting unit that extracts a footwear image, the footwear image being an image of footwear of the operator, a face authentication unit that performs face authentication based on the face image and a registered face image that is registered in advance, and a footwear authentication unit that performs footwear authentication based on the footwear image and a registered footwear image that is registered in advance. The operator is authenticated based on the result of the face authentication performed by the face authentication unit, and the result of the footwear authentication performed by the footwear authentication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi MIKI, Akio OKUIE, Hirotaka SASAKI