Patents by Inventor Katsutomo Sasakura

Katsutomo Sasakura 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: 12013805
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a second controller. The communication apparatus includes a memory to store a program, a reception buffer to save reception data, a transfer destination buffer to receive transfer reception data and a first controller to erase the reception data when the reception data are transferred to the transfer destination buffer, and execute a hardware reset of erasing the program and executing an initialization process upon detecting abnormality. The second controller checks, after transmitting the data to the communication apparatus, whether the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer after an elapse of a predetermined period of time shorter than a period of time till the hardware reset upon occurrence of abnormality in transferring the data. The second controller causes the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuki Fujita, Katsutomo Sasakura
  • Publication number: 20230305987
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a second controller. The communication apparatus includes a memory to store a program, a reception buffer to save reception data, a transfer destination buffer to receive transfer reception data and a first controller to erase the reception data when the reception data are transferred to the transfer destination buffer, and execute a hardware reset of erasing the program and executing an initialization process upon detecting abnormality. The second controller checks, after transmitting the data to the communication apparatus, whether the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer after an elapse of a predetermined period of time shorter than a period of time till the hardware reset upon occurrence of abnormality in transferring the data. The second controller causes the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuki FUJITA, Katsutomo SASAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230297380
    Abstract: The communication control apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a controller. The communication apparatus saves received data in a reception buffer, executes transfer of the received data to a transfer destination buffer from the reception buffer, erases the transferred data from the reception buffer, and interrupts the transfer upon detecting abnormality. The controller transmits data or a command to the communication apparatus. The controller checks whether the data are saved in the reception buffer after transmitting the data to the control apparatus, and transmits a command for causing the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the data are saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki FUJITA, Katsutomo SASAKURA, Shumpei OMURA
  • Publication number: 20200266654
    Abstract: A charge controller includes an estimation unit and a charge controlling unit. The estimation unit estimates a next charge to be performed on a high-voltage battery provided in a vehicle. The charge controlling unit executes, before the next charge of the high-voltage battery which is estimated by the estimation unit is started, charging from the high-voltage battery to a low-voltage battery provided in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Katsutomo Sasakura
  • Patent number: 8654797
    Abstract: To provide a data relay device which prevents a significant delay even when pieces of data are transmitted/received in protocols that are different from each other. Transmission timings at which pieces of data are transmitted/received in a network using an event trigger type communication protocol are estimated. Stay periods which occur when pieces of data are relayed and transmitted at predetermined transmission timings in a network using a time trigger type communication protocol are calculated while changing a reference time for the time trigger type communication protocol. Then, synchronization processing is performed in the network using the time trigger type communication protocol such that communication is performed using a reference time having a small stay period that has been calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroya Ando, Osamu Hirashima, Yusuke Satoh, Katsutomo Sasakura
  • Publication number: 20110235648
    Abstract: To provide a data relay device which prevents a significant delay even when pieces of data are transmitted/received in protocols that are different from each other. Transmission timings at which pieces of data are transmitted/received in a network using an event trigger type communication protocol are estimated. Stay periods which occur when pieces of data are relayed and transmitted at predetermined transmission timings in a network using a time trigger type communication protocol are calculated while changing a reference time for the time trigger type communication protocol. Then, synchronization processing is performed in the network using the time trigger type communication protocol such that communication is performed using a reference time having a small stay period that has been calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya Ando, Osamu Hirashima, Yusuke Satoh, Katsutomo Sasakura