Patents by Inventor Keisuke Suzuki

Keisuke Suzuki 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: 10703417
    Abstract: A body frame structure forming a side part of an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel that forms a closed space elongated in a first direction between the inner panel and the outer panel, a metal outer R/F disposed within the closed space, a resin R/F disposed within the closed space, and a foam disposed within the closed space. The closed space includes a three-layer structure including the outer R/F, the resin R/F, and the foam filling a space between the outer R/F and the resin R/F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, IIDA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Yokoi, Shinichirou Murofushi, Keisuke Suzuki, Yasunori Yamada, Tetsuya Shinohara, Kenji Takada, Shigeaki Kitamura, Hironao Ito
  • Publication number: 20200198475
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes an addition portion that outputs a post-compensation driver request torque, which is acquired by adding a driving torque (a loss compensation driving torque) lost due to a braking torque provided to a wheel on a low-? road surface side according to a BLSD request hydraulic pressure calculated by a BLSD request hydraulic pressure calculation processing portion to a driver request torque calculated by a driver request torque calculation processing portion, to a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi KANEKO, Keisuke SUZUKI, Kazuya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200189398
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus for an electric vehicle capable of preventing the vehicle from being destabilized because a rear wheel is locked first or drivability from reducing because a front wheel is locked early. A control apparatus includes a regenerative braking force calculation portion configured to calculate a regenerative braking force to be generated on each of a front motor and a rear motor based on a request braking force requested to an electric vehicle, a power limit portion configured to reduce the regenerative braking force based on a power limit on a power source, and a frictional braking force output portion configured to output an instruction for generating a frictional braking force according to a regenerative braking force reduction amount, which is an amount of a reduction in the regenerative braking force by the power limit portion, to a brake apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Keisuke SUZUKI, Satoshi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 10647205
    Abstract: The present invention provides a braking control apparatus capable of preventing or reducing a change in a deceleration of a vehicle. The braking control apparatus is configured to change a braking force to be generated by a frictional braking device so as to achieve a calculated target braking force, and generate a braking force corresponding to a difference between the braking force to be generated by the frictional braking device and the target braking force with use of an electric braking device, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10635551
    Abstract: Virtual first logical volumes are provided to a host, a virtual second logical volume correlated with any one of the first logical volumes is created in a storage node in correlation with a storage control module disposed in the storage node, a correspondence relationship between the first and second logical volumes is managed as mapping information, a storage node which is an assigning distribution of an I/O request is specified on the basis of the mapping information in a case where the I/O request in which the first logical volume is designated as an I/O destination is given from the host, the I/O request is assigned to the storage control module of its own node in a case where the specified storage node is its own node, and the I/O request is assigned to another storage node in a case where the specified storage node is another storage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Iwamitsu, Takuya Ogusu, Keisuke Suzuki, Masayuki Gomyo, Shinri Inoue
  • Patent number: 10597041
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus for an electric vehicle that can prevent or reduce a shock when the vehicle starts running from a stopped state. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a first vibration damping control torque calculated by a first calculation method based on a signal of a wheel speed sensor, or a second vibration damping control torque calculated by a second calculation method based on a signal other than the signal of the wheel speed sensor is selectively output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Suzuki, Satoshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200071606
    Abstract: Provided are a ceramic complex having high light emission intensity and a method for producing the same. Proposed is a ceramic complex, including a rare earth aluminate fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following formula (I) and an aluminum oxide, wherein the content of the aluminum oxide is 70% by mass or more, the content of Na is 7 ppm by mass or less, the content of Si is 5 ppm by mass or less, the content of Fe is 3 ppm by mass or less, and the content of Ga is 5 pm by mass or less, relative to the total amount of the rare earth aluminate fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following formula (I) and the aluminum oxide. (Lni-aCea)3Al5O12 ??(I) wherein Ln represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Gd, Lu, and Tb; and a satisfies 0<a?0.022.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto FUJIOKA, Tadayoshi YANAGIHARA, Keisuke SUZUKI, Hiroshi OGASA
  • Publication number: 20200070836
    Abstract: Provided is control apparatus for an electric vehicle, which is capable of suppressing simultaneous slip of front and rear wheels. The control apparatus for an electric vehicle controls a front electric motor and a rear electric motor so that a difference between a torque command value of the front electric motor and a torque command value of the rear electric motor is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Keisuke SUZUKI, Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuya TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10486547
    Abstract: Provided are a device for controlling an electric vehicle and a method of controlling an electric vehicle that are capable of appropriately suppressing a vibration. In the device for controlling an electric vehicle according to the present invention, when a motor configured to generate a torque for braking or driving a drive wheel is controlled based on a torque command value based on an accelerator operation or a brake operation by a driver and a vibration suppression control torque command value for suppressing a vibration component caused by a resonance of the vehicle, the vibration suppression control torque command value is restricted based on a state of the drive wheel during a travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Suzuki, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Tatsuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10478936
    Abstract: A polishing pad surface property measuring method which can measure surface properties of a polishing pad that reflect CMP performance by applying a laser beam to the polishing pad at a plurality of incident angles is disclosed. The method includes applying a laser beam to a surface of the polishing pad, and receiving light reflected by the surface of the polishing pad and performing Fourier transform on the received light to determine surface properties of the polishing pad. The laser beam is applied to the polishing pad at a plurality of incident angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: EBARA CORPORATION, Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hisanori Matsuo, Yoshihiro Mochizuki, Keisuke Suzuki, Takahiro Tajiri, Panart Khajornrungruang
  • Publication number: 20190291591
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for an electric vehicle, which is capable of suppressing simultaneous slip of front and rear wheels. The control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a control portion configured to control a front electric motor and a rear electric motor so that an achievement rate of a torque command with respect to a target torque in one motor of the front and rear electric motors is lower than the achievement rate in the other motor of the front and rear electric motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke SUZUKI, Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuya TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10414946
    Abstract: A golf ball paint composition includes primarily a urethane paint made of a polyol and a polyisocyanate. The polyol is an acrylic polyol, and the composition has an elastic work recovery of at least 70%. The paint composition has a high self-repairing ability and is of high quality as a golf ball paint. Golf balls coated with this composition are able to maintain a good durability, in addition to which they have an excellent abrasion resistance and an excellent ball appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd., Asia Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Suzuki, Takashi Ohira, Akihiro Moriyama, Satoshi Ueno, Haruka Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190271074
    Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a predetermined film by alternately supplying a film-forming raw material gas and a reaction gas onto a workpiece by an atomic layer deposition (ALD), the method including: beginning an ALD-based film formation at a first temperature at which an adsorption of the film-forming raw material gas occurs; continuing the ALD-based film formation while increasing the first temperature; and completing the ALD-based film formation at a second temperature at which a decomposition of the film-forming raw material gas occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kyungseok KO, Hiromi SHIMA, Eiji KIKAMA, Keisuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10401285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad which measures surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad includes a laser beam source configured to emit a laser beam, and a photodetector configured to detect scattered light that is reflected and scattered by the polishing pad, an optical Fourier transform being performed on the detected scattered light to produce an intensity distribution corresponding to a spatial wavelength spectrum based on surface topography of the polishing pad. The laser beam is applied to the polishing pad at such an incident angle that the laser beam does not reach a bottom portion of a pore formed in the surface of the polishing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: EBARA CORPORATION, Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hisanori Matsuo, Keiichi Kimura, Keisuke Suzuki, Panart Khajornrungruang, Takashi Kushida
  • Patent number: 10390287
    Abstract: A restriction control apparatus configured to perform restriction control of communication of a user apparatus in a mobile communication system includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a user information management apparatus in the mobile communication system, group identification information indicating a group to which the user apparatus belongs, and a restriction determination unit configured, when receiving a communication request from the user apparatus, to determine whether the group to which the user apparatus belongs is a control target or not based on the group identification information and group identification information of a control target determined by the restriction control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Nishimura, Keisuke Suzuki, Reika Higa, Keisuke Sasada, Dirk Staehle, Srisakul Thakolsri
  • Patent number: 10336195
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control apparatus capable of stabilizing a behavior of a vehicle when a regenerative braking force is generated. To achieve this object, a vehicle control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an electric motor configured to provide a regenerative braking force to left and right drive wheels that are one of front wheels and rear wheels, a friction braking device configured to provide a friction braking force to left and right trailer wheels that are the other of the front wheels and the rear wheels, and a behavior estimation unit configured to estimate a behavior of a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus reduces the regenerative braking force and increases the friction braking force provided by the friction braking device, if the behavior estimation unit estimates a preset behavior when the regenerative braking force is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Suzuki, Satoshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20190193577
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus, a control method, and a control system for an electric vehicle that can prevent or reduce an unnecessary torque fluctuation on a wheel not targeted for slip control. A control apparatus for an electric vehicle limits a torque to be output to a non-target wheel according to a torque output to a target wheel after target wheel slip control is started, and updates a limit value of the torque to be output to the non-target wheel when a fluctuation range of the torque output to the target wheel falls within a predetermined range during the limitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi KANEKO, Keisuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190188096
    Abstract: Virtual first logical volumes are provided to a host, a virtual second logical volume correlated with any one of the first logical volumes is created in a storage node in correlation with a storage control module disposed in the storage node, a correspondence relationship between the first and second logical volumes is managed as mapping information, a storage node which is an assigning distribution of an I/O request is specified on the basis of the mapping information in a case where the I/O request in which the first logical volume is designated as an I/O destination is given from the host, the I/O request is assigned to the storage control module of its own node in a case where the specified storage node is its own node, and the I/O request is assigned to another storage node in a case where the specified storage node is another storage node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kouji IWAMITSU, Takuya OGUSU, Keisuke SUZUKI, Masayuki GOMYO, Shinri INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190186014
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical heat treatment apparatus for forming a film by supplying a precursor gas to a plurality of substrates that are held in a substantially horizontal posture on a substrate holder with a predetermined interval in a vertical direction. The apparatus includes a processing container including an inner tube accommodating the substrate holder and an outer tube that is disposed outside the inner tube; and a gas nozzle that extends vertically along an inner peripheral surface of the inner tube and has a distal end that penetrates from an inside of the inner tube to an outside of the inner tube. A first gas hole for supplying the precursor gas to the inside of the inner tube and a second gas hole for supplying the precursor gas to the outside of the inner tube are formed on the gas nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Eiji Kikama, Hiromi Shima, Kyungseok Ko, Shingo Hishiya, Keisuke Suzuki, Tosihiko Jo, Ken Itabashi, Satoru Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10286478
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrated member and an integrated member manufactured by the method which can improve the joining strength and reduce the manufacturing cost. A method for manufacturing an integrated member by welding a first member formed of aluminum alloy material and a second member formed of ferrous-based material characterized in that the first member contains a predetermined amount of silicon and has a thickness larger than that of the second member. The second member can be pressed against the first member along the thickness direction, and by electrically energizing the pressed-in portion during the pressing period, electric resistance welding can be used. The pressing-in amount is set to a value larger than the thickness of the second member and less than that of the first member. The overlapping margin of the first and second members is set to a value of 0.5 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Doi, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Keisuke Suzuki