Patents by Inventor Kenji Kato

Kenji Kato 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: 20230032445
    Abstract: An object is to improve estimation accuracy of the internal distribution state of a rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator; a rotor rotatably provided on a radially inner side of the stator; a shaft provided as a rotary shaft of the rotor; a bracket supporting the shaft rotatably relative to the stator via a bearing; and a sensor provided to the shaft between the rotor and the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Taiga KOMATSU, Yuki HIDAKA, Hideaki ARITA, Kenji KATO
  • Patent number: 11524688
    Abstract: In an apparatus for assisting a turn of a vehicle at an intersection, a turn-signal state detection unit is configured to detect an operating state of a turn signal of the vehicle. A road information detection unit is configured to detect road information that is information regarding a road on which the vehicle is traveling. A determination unit is configured to, using at least one of the detected operating state of the turn signal and the detected road information, determine whether or not the vehicle will make a turn at the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kato, Yohei Masui, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Yuta Komoguchi
  • Patent number: 11391354
    Abstract: A differential gear accommodated in a differential case, includes: an axial cylinder having a cylindrical shape fitted onto a shaft; an annular wall having an annular shape protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the axial cylinder; a gear protruding from the annular wall on one side with respect to an axial direction of the shaft; a reinforcing rib protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the annular wall; and a first recess formed by boring the annular wall and opening the other side with respect to the axial direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Fukasawa, Kenji Kato
  • Patent number: 11386727
    Abstract: A transmission control device is used in an authentication system. The authentication system enables control of an authentication target based on authentication established by verification via wireless communication between the authentication target and a portable device carried by a user. The transmission control device outputs a drive current to a transmission antenna to cause the transmission antenna to transmit a signal having a predetermined frequency band. The transmission control device adjusts the output drive current. The transmission control device detects a current flowing through the transmission antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20220173689
    Abstract: This motor device includes: a motor having components including a stator and a rotor; and a controlling circuitry to control the motor. The motor is provided with temperature sensors to detect a heat transfer amount and a transfer direction about the components. The controlling circuitry includes a temperature calculator to calculate a component temperature based on a thermal circuit network from thermal resistances and heat capacities given for the components. On the basis of actual measured values of the heat transfer amount and the transfer direction obtained by the temperature sensors, the temperature calculator corrects thermal resistances and heat capacities about the components obtained on the basis of the thermal circuit network, and estimates the temperature of each component during driving of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji KATO, Hideaki ARITA, Taiga KOMATSU, Yuki HIDAKA, Shohei FUJIKURA, Hiroyuki HIGASHINO
  • Patent number: 11338773
    Abstract: A transmission control device that drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges controls a genuine transmission antenna among the multiple antennas to transmit, with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device and a noise determination purpose burst signal for determining a noise in the portable device after the transmission of the genuine code, and controls each antenna of a remaining antenna group, which includes remaining antennas except the genuine transmission antenna, to transmit the noise determination purpose burst signal at a transmission time point, which is set different from one another and shifted from a transmission time point of the noise determination purpose burst signal from the genuine transmission antenna. The transmission ranges of the multiple antennas including the genuine transmission antenna are set to not have a common area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20220089874
    Abstract: A curable water-swelling water stop material including: 100 parts by mass of a resin component which includes 40 to 100 parts by mass of a curable resin having a hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group and 0 to 60 parts by mass of a polyether polyol; 0.3 to 25 parts by mass of an aminosilane coupling agent; 20 to 250 parts by mass of a water-absorbent resin; and 0 to 160 parts by mass of an extender pigment, in which the hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group having a structure represented by Formula (1) —X—CH2—SiR1Y(OR2)3-Y, in which X is a bonding functional group having a heteroatom with an unshared electron pair and bonding to a methylene group bonding to a silicon atom of a hydrolysable silicon group, R1 and R2 are C1-C3 alkyl groups respectively, and Y is 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki Higashino, Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20220030841
    Abstract: A fishing rod includes a hollow rod extending along a central axis; and a shaft member with an outer peripheral surface inclined relative to the central axis inserted into the rod from the one end, and that is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the rod at a support position on another end side of the one end in an axial direction along the central axis, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the rod has at least one convex portion protruding toward the central axis from a virtual curve between the support position and the one end position axially when drawing a virtual curve that is convex toward the central axis through the support position and the one end position at the end of the end side of the inner peripheral surface in an area radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, Atsushi Saito, Masayoshi Nakao, Kenji Kato, Isao Oota
  • Patent number: 11140005
    Abstract: A communication system includes a master node and a slave node connected to the master node via a bus. The master node transmits a header including identification information assigned to a designated function in accordance with a schedule preset individually for the designated function. The slave node has a plurality of functions for each of which a response different from each other is transmitted. The slave node returns the response related to the designated function upon receipt of the header when the designated function assigned with the identification information included in the header is one of the plurality of functions of the slave node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20210268992
    Abstract: A transmission control device that drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges controls a genuine transmission antenna among the multiple antennas to transmit, with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device and a noise determination purpose burst signal for determining a noise in the portable device after the transmission of the genuine code, and controls each antenna of a remaining antenna group, which includes remaining antennas except the genuine transmission antenna, to transmit the noise determination purpose burst signal at a transmission time point, which is set different from one another and shifted from a transmission time point of the noise determination purpose burst signal from the genuine transmission antenna. The transmission ranges of the multiple antennas including the genuine transmission antenna are set to not have a common area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji KATO
  • Patent number: 11108233
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a manufacturing method of a solar house capable of taking in a moderate amount of sunlight while obtaining a large amount of electric power generation. [Solution] A manufacturing method of a solar house 1 includes a step for contact-arranging the first house set 81, the second house set 82, and the intermediate house member 83 so that the intermediate house member 83 is positioned between the first house set 81 and the second house set 82 in the second direction Y; a step for contact-arranging the intermediate house member 83 and the other second house set 82 or the other first house set 81 in the second direction Y by a necessary number with respect to the arranged first house set 81 or the arranged second house set 82; and a step for supporting the first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 with respect to the first house set 81 and the second house set 82 with the first support column 71.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KATO HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20210263141
    Abstract: A transmission control device, which drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges, includes: a genuine transmission control unit that transmits, from a genuine transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device; and an inversion transmission control unit that transmits, from an inversion transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, an inversion code including at least partial inverted genuine code concurrently with a transmission of the genuine code from the genuine transmission antenna. The inversion transmission antenna has a transmission range which does not overlap with a transmission range of the genuine transmission antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji KATO
  • Publication number: 20210249859
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a manufacturing method of a solar house capable of taking in a moderate amount of sunlight while obtaining a large amount of electric power generation. [Solution] A manufacturing method of a solar house 1 includes a step for contact-arranging the first house set 81, the second house set 82, and the intermediate house member 83 so that the intermediate house member 83 is positioned between the first house set 81 and the second house set 82 in the second direction Y; a step for contact-arranging the intermediate house member 83 and the other second house set 82 or the other first house set 81 in the second direction Y by a necessary number with respect to the arranged first house set 81 or the arranged second house set 82; and a step for supporting the first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 with respect to the first house set 81 and the second house set 82 with the first support column 71.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji KATO
  • Publication number: 20210249989
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a solar house capable of taking in a moderate amount of sunlight while obtaining a large amount of electric power generation. [Solution] A solar house 1 is provided with a first panel set 2 having a plurality of first solar panels 21, a second panel set 3 having a plurality of second solar panels 31, and a driving mechanism 6 for driving the first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 to track sunlight. The first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 are arranged so that a space S is opened therebetween when the first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 are placed on a straight line. The space S is set to a substantially exact distance such that the first panel set 2 does not block reception of sunlight by the second panel set 3 and the second panel set 3 does not block reception of sunlight by the first panel set 2 even when the first panel set 2 and the second panel set 3 are tilted to a maximum to track sunlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji KATO
  • Patent number: 11084371
    Abstract: A motor drive device includes: a trailing arm that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and includes a vehicle body-side attachment portion and wheel-side support portion, the vehicle body-side attachment portion formed on a forward portion side of the trailing arm and coupled to a vehicle body via a rubber bush, the wheel-side support portion formed on a rear side of the trailing arm and supporting a rear wheel; and a motor that is supported by the trailing arm and drives the rear wheel. The motor and the rubber bush are disposed in such a way that motor and the rubber bush are seen as being substantially aligned in a vehicle up-down direction when viewed in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: SHOWA CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., F-TECH INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Fukasawa, Kenji Kato, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yutaka Hozumi, Sumitaka Ito, Junichi Midorikawa, Masayuki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210180672
    Abstract: A differential gear accommodated in a differential case, includes: an axial cylinder having a cylindrical shape fitted onto a shaft; an annular wall having an annular shape protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the axial cylinder; a gear protruding from the annular wall on one side with respect to an axial direction of the shaft; a reinforcing rib protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the annular wall; and a first recess formed by boring the annular wall and opening the other side with respect to the axial direction of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Fukasawa, Kenji Kato
  • Publication number: 20210129867
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a vehicle and controls the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus detects an obstacle that is present inside a grade crossing that intersects a traveling course of the vehicle, using a detection result of a sensor that is mounted in the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus identifies a position and size of the obstacle using a detection result of the vehicle control apparatus, and calculates a clearance in a direction that intersects the traveling course when the vehicle crosses the grade crossing, using the identified position and size of the obstacle. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether the vehicle is able to pass through the grade crossing based on the calculated clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Ryotaro ARAKI, Kenji KATO, Yohei MASUI, Yuta KOMOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10961888
    Abstract: A NOx sensor control device is connected to a NOx sensor mounted in an internal combustion engine. The NOx sensor has a detection cell configured to detect a NOx concentration and having a solid electrolyte body and a pair of electrodes provided on a surface of the solid electrolyte body and a heater heating the detection cell. The NOx sensor control device has a heater control unit. The heater control unit is configured to, at a time when an operation of the internal combustion engine stops, perform a recovery control of the NOx sensor which is an electric current control of the heater for removing SOx adsorbed to the NOx sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kato, Yuuya Nakayama, Hirotaka Onogi, Masao Tsuzuki, Takumi Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20210086768
    Abstract: A driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle includes an acquiring unit and a control unit. The acquiring unit acquires a detected traveling environment of the vehicle. Using the acquired traveling environment, and in response to a preceding vehicle being present near a road edge and no obstacle being present between the road edge and the preceding vehicle, the control unit causes a driving assisting unit to perform driving assistance in which the preceding vehicle is tracked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yuta KOMOGUCHI, Yohei MASUI, Kenji KATO
  • Patent number: 10921783
    Abstract: A numerical control device includes a first control unit to write a control right request for a second system axis to a shared area in a case where a machining program contains an axis exchange command designating a second system axis that is driven by a second control unit, and determines acquisition of a control right for the second system axis based on a response from the second control unit written to the shared area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kato, Masakazu Sagasaki