Patents by Inventor Ichiro Kanda

Ichiro Kanda 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: 20230195445
    Abstract: An on-board device includes a processing unit, and a storage unit storing a plurality of programs that are executable by the processing unit, in which the processing unit acquires information relevant to the presence or absence of update that is provided from a server outside a vehicle, stores the acquired information relevant to the presence or absence of the update in a sharing area by executing an input/output function that is different from an input/output function included in a basic program, and selectively executes the basic program or an update processing program after starting execution of a boot program, on the basis of the stored information relevant to the presence or absence of the update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro ASHIBE, Tatsuya IZUMI, Ichiro KANDA
  • Publication number: 20230095760
    Abstract: An on-vehicle relay device comprises a control unit selectively executing a control program stored in a storage or an update processing program, and the control unit specifies, in executing the control program, a first communication unit to which any one of the on-vehicle ECUs as a relay destination is connected with reference to network configuration information stored in a storage, specifying, in executing the update processing program, a second communication unit for communicating with an external device that performs update-related processing of the control program with reference to network configuration information stored in the storage; and prohibiting communication through a communication unit other than the specified communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Darmawan GO, Hideki MAEDA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Ichiro KANDA
  • Patent number: 11342960
    Abstract: In a relay device, a communication unit receives a data frame transmitted cyclically through a communication line. A control unit stores, in a temporary storage unit, the data frame received by the communication unit. When the data frame stored in the temporary storage unit is transmitted, the control unit deletes the transmitted data frame from the temporary storage unit. When the control unit determines that, for the data frame received through the communication line, the amount of data relevant to the data frames stored in the temporary storage unit is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the communication unit transmits, through the communication line, a cycle change frame which gives an instruction to change a transmission cycle for transmitting the data frame to a longer cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanjun Xian, Makoto Mashita, Takeshi Hagihara, Akihito Iwata, Takehiro Kawauchi, Ichiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 11343347
    Abstract: In a relay device, a control unit stores, in a temporary storage unit data which is received by an Ethernet communication unit through a communication line. When the data stored in the temporary storage unit is transmitted, the control unit deletes the transmitted data from the temporary storage unit. When the control unit determines that, for the data received by the Ethernet communication unit, the amount of data stored in the temporary storage unit is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the Ethernet communication unit transmits instruction data giving an instruction to stop transmission through a communication line and to perform transmission through a communication bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanjun Xian, Makoto Mashita, Takeshi Hagihara, Ichiro Kanda, Akihito Iwata, Takehiro Kawauchi
  • Publication number: 20210344773
    Abstract: In a relay device, a control unit stores, in a temporary storage unit data which is received by an Ethernet communication unit through a communication line. When the data stored in the temporary storage unit is transmitted, the control unit deletes the transmitted data from the temporary storage unit. When the control unit determines that, for the data received by the Ethernet communication unit, the amount of data stored in the temporary storage unit is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the Ethernet communication unit transmits instruction data giving an instruction to stop transmission through a communication line and to perform transmission through a communication bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yuanjun Xian, Makoto Mashita, Takeshi Hagihara, Ichiro Kanda, Akihito Iwata, Takehiro Kawauchi
  • Publication number: 20210328624
    Abstract: In a relay device, a communication unit receives a data frame transmitted cyclically through a communication line. A control unit stores, in a temporary storage unit, the data frame received by the communication unit. When the data frame stored in the temporary storage unit is transmitted, the control unit deletes the transmitted data frame from the temporary storage unit. When the control unit determines that, for the data frame received through the communication line, the amount of data relevant to the data frames stored in the temporary storage unit is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the communication unit transmits, through the communication line, a cycle change frame which gives an instruction to change a transmission cycle for transmitting the data frame to a longer cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yuanjun Xian, Makoto Mashita, Takeshi Hagihara, Akihito Iwata, Takehiro Kawauchi, Ichiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20210328931
    Abstract: In a relay device, a control unit detects simultaneous transmission of a plurality of data through a first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within a predetermined time by the control unit is less than the predetermined number of times, a CAN communication unit starts transmission of data through the first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within the predetermined time by the control unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of times, an Ethernet communication unit transmits data through a first communication line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yuanjun Xian, Takeshi Hagihara, Makoto Mashita, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Tadashi Matsumoto, Ichiro Kanda, Akihito Iwata, Takehiro Kawauchi