Patents by Inventor Kenta MAEDA

Kenta MAEDA 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: 20240367640
    Abstract: A vehicle integrated control device improves ride comfort and prevents the onset of motion sickness. The vehicle integrated control device acquires a target momentum of a control axis related to a driving task of the vehicle and generates a first motion parameter and a second motion parameter different from the first motion parameter that is based on the first motion parameter to optimize a sensitivity index. A limit generation unit generates a motion limit amount of the second motion parameter based on the first motion parameter and an operation range of an actuator, a final target generation unit that corrects the second motion parameter based on the motion limit amount, and an operation amount assignment unit that determines an operation amount of an actuator based on the first motion parameter and the second motion parameter corrected by the final target generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kenta MAEDA, Masaru YAMASAKI, Kentarou UENO, Shuji OHSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240337919
    Abstract: Provided are a mask blank, a phase shift mask, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. A mask blank comprises a light-shielding film on a transparent substrate. The light-shielding film is made of a material comprising silicon and nitrogen. An internal region of the light-shielding film has a maximum peak at a binding energy in a range in which a Si2p narrow spectrum obtained by analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is more than 100 eV and 101.5 eV or less. The internal region of the light-shielding film is a region obtained by excluding a back surface side region on the transparent substrate side and a front surface side region opposite to the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta TSUKAGOSHI, Osamu NOZAWA, Ryo OHKUBO, Hitoshi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 12110072
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a steering control device capable of transmitting an appropriate reaction force by a driver via a steering wheel and improving the stability of a vehicle. Provided is a steering control device 100 for controlling a reaction force actuator 16 that generates a reaction force against an operation of a driver in a steering wheel 13 of a vehicle 10. The steering control device 100 increases the reaction force in a nonlinear region where a cornering force characteristic that is the relationship between the slip angle and the lateral force of tires 11 of the vehicle 10 becomes nonlinear, more than the reaction force in a linear region where the cornering force characteristic becomes linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go Sakayori, Kenta Maeda, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Hiroki Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20240308579
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire control device according to the present invention includes a control device that controls a first motor that operates a steering wheel of a vehicle and a second motor that controls steering operation of a wheel. Before making a transition to an automatic driving mode of the vehicle, the control device applies input torque to the steering wheel by the first motor in a forward rotation direction and a backward rotation direction of rotation directions of the first motor, acquires behavior information of the steering wheel obtained by application of the input torque, and determines whether or not to estimate a control parameter of the steering wheel based on the behavior information. The behavior information includes at least one of a value of a rotation angle of a steering wheel and a value obtained by time-differentiating a rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Tadaharu YOKOTA, Yasuhito NAKAKUKI, Atsushi HIRATA, Takahiro ITO, Kenta MAEDA
  • Patent number: 12077184
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control system that can achieve highly comfortable autonomous driving according to the behavior of an occupant by changing a control mode of the autonomous driving according to the behavior of the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go Sakayori, Junya Takahashi, Kenta Maeda, Shinya Kasai
  • Patent number: 12072392
    Abstract: Provided is a short-circuit detection device including: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a magnetic flux detector configured to detect a magnetic flux generated in an air gap between a rotor and a stator of a rotating electric machine, a detection signal corresponding to the magnetic flux; a signal processing unit configured to subject the detection signal acquired by the signal acquisition unit to filtering of removing at least one component of odd-order components included in the detection signal, to thereby generate a filtered signal being the detection signal subjected to the filtering; and a short-circuit detection unit configured to detect a short circuit of a field winding through use of the filtered signal generated by the signal processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Takizawa, Haruyuki Kometani, Kenta Motoyoshi, Atsushi Yamamoto, Susumu Maeda, Nobuaki Muroki
  • Publication number: 20240278772
    Abstract: A vehicle motion control device includes: an actuator characteristic change estimation unit configured to estimate a characteristic change of an actuator at a future time from a current time; a controllable range estimation unit configured to calculate a controllable range of a vehicle motion from a characteristic change calculated by the actuator characteristic change estimation unit, a target track of a vehicle, and a current vehicle state; a vehicle motion planning unit configured to create a motion plan within a controllable range calculated by the controllable range estimation unit; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value based on a motion plan created by the vehicle motion planning unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit is minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru YAMASAKI, Kenta MAEDA, Shuji OHSHITA, Kentarou UENO
  • Publication number: 20240275218
    Abstract: Provided are a stator capable of substantially preventing a decrease in torque and a rotary electric machine including the stator. A stator includes a stator core, an insulator, and a coil. The stator core includes: a yoke having an annular shape; and teeth protruding from the yoke to the inside of the yoke. The insulator covers at least a part of the stator core. The insulator includes: a first face facing the coil wound around the teeth; and a second face facing the yoke. The first face is perpendicular to the protrusion direction of the teeth. The second face includes: a first perpendicular face perpendicular to the protrusion direction of the teeth; and a first inclined face inclined toward the first face with respect to the first perpendicular face. The yoke includes an inner circumferential face facing the second face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: KENTA SUZUKI, NORITAKA ASO, TOSHIYUKI TAMAMURA, YUYA MAEDA
  • Patent number: 12060696
    Abstract: A management system includes a course data generation unit that generates course data for each of a plurality of unmanned vehicles such that loading work for the plurality of unmanned vehicles by a loader is sequentially performed on a work site where a plurality of the loaders operates; and a priority determination unit that determine a passage order at an intersection on the work site of the plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling according to the course data so as to reduce a total loading loss indicating a total of loss amounts in operation of each of the plurality of the loaders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Maeda, Yudai Ogawa, Kenta Osagawa, Atsushi Sakai, Yasuchika Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240262417
    Abstract: A control device method for steer by wire, the control device including a first motor controlling steering via an FBA and a second motor controlling a steering angle of a wheel via an RWA and being capable of bidirectionally controlling the first motor and the second motor includes a base SAT that obtains a reference torque based on an angle of the first motor and a vehicle speed, and a rack force estimation portion that estimates rack force as a reaction force based on a steering angle of a wheel and an RWA. A first control mode controls a reference torque of the first motor and a second control mode controls the first motor based on a reaction force estimation by the rack force estimation portion, the first and second control modes are switched based on output of the base SAT and output of the rack force estimation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Kim TANG, Kenta MAEDA, Huajun LIU, Atsushi HIRATA, Yasuhito NAKAKUKI
  • Publication number: 20240237996
    Abstract: This guide wire includes a core shaft. A main body part of the core shaft, which is a portion 350 mm or more and 750 mm or less from a distal end of the core shaft, is made of a nickel-titanium alloy. An outer diameter of the main body part is 0.58 mm or more and 0.73 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aoi MAEDA, Kenta TSUGE, Reo YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240097653
    Abstract: In a composite filter device, a first acoustic wave resonator includes a functional electrode on a first main surface of a first piezoelectric substrate, and a wiring electrode is on the first main surface and is not connected to a signal potential. A support is on the first main surface and surrounds the first acoustic wave resonator. A second piezoelectric substrate is on the support and includes a third main surface closer to the support than a fourth main surface. A second acoustic wave resonator includes a functional electrode on the third main surface. The second acoustic wave resonator is a parallel-arm resonator higher in resonant frequency than any other parallel-arm resonator or a series-arm resonator lower in resonant frequency than any other series-arm resonator. The second acoustic wave resonator and the wiring electrode overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SHIMIZU, Sunao YAMAZAKI, Kenta MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240072763
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and a longitudinally coupled resonator on a main surface of the piezoelectric substrate and including an even number of four or more IDT electrodes. Of the even number of IDT electrodes, in a pair of outermost IDT electrodes, a number of electrode fingers of one IDT electrode is two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Kenta MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240072759
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a first acoustic wave filter including a first piezoelectric substrate and first resonators on the first piezoelectric substrate, and a second acoustic wave filter including a second piezoelectric substrate and second resonators on the second piezoelectric substrate. The first and second resonators are opposed to each other with a gap therebetween. The first and second resonators each include a heat-generation resonator in which a heat generation range has a highest temperature at a time of signal application. The heat generation ranges of the heat-generation resonators do not overlap each other in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Kenta MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240001910
    Abstract: A vehicle movement control device generates a target motion vector that falls within a desired controllable range in a motion space, and integrally controls a plurality of actuators to realize a vehicle movement defined by the target motion vector, thereby improving ride comfort and operation feeling. The vehicle movement control device that controls the plurality of actuators in accordance with a travel state, the vehicle movement control device including: a vehicle movement planning unit configured to generate a target motion vector based on input travel state information; an operation amount arbitration unit configured to calculate an operation amount of each actuator based on the target motion vector; and an actuator control unit configured to control each actuator based on the operation amount, in which the vehicle movement planning unit generates the target motion vector within a controllable range in a motion space acquired from the operation amount arbitration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru YAMASAKI, Takahiro ITO, Kenta MAEDA, Shuji OHSHITA, Kentarou UENO
  • Publication number: 20230415775
    Abstract: A vehicle integrated-control device generates internal commands that supplement insufficient external commands in an environment where external commands are insufficient and that integrally controls each actuator to improve the operational feeling of the driver and occupant ride comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta MAEDA, Masaru YAMASAKI, Takahiro ITO, Kentarou UENO, Shuji OHSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230347972
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a steering control device capable of transmitting an appropriate reaction force by a driver via a steering wheel and improving the stability of a vehicle. Provided is a steering control device 100 for controlling a reaction force actuator 16 that generates a reaction force against an operation of a driver in a steering wheel 13 of a vehicle 10. The steering control device 100 increases the reaction force in a nonlinear region where a cornering force characteristic that is the relationship between the slip angle and the lateral force of tires 11 of the vehicle 10 becomes nonlinear, more than the reaction force in a linear region where the cornering force characteristic becomes linear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Go SAKAYORI, Kenta MAEDA, Tomoaki FUJIBAYASHI, Hiroki SONODA
  • Patent number: 11731631
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle motion control device, a method thereof, a program thereof, a system thereof in which it is adapted for traveling situation while an occurrence of an unstable behavior of a vehicle at the time of automatic lane change is suppressed, and a target trajectory generation device, a method thereof, a method thereof, a program thereof, and a system thereof. In a vehicle that can automatically control a lateral acceleration generated in the vehicle at the time of lane change, the lateral acceleration at the time of lane change is controlled such that an absolute value of a maximum lateral acceleration generated on a lateral acceleration generation phase (the secondary steering side) in a lateral direction opposite to the moving direction at the time of lane change is equal or more than an absolute value of a maximum lateral acceleration generated on a lateral acceleration generation phase (primary steering side) in the same direction as a lateral moving direction at the time of lane change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya Takahashi, Kenta Maeda, Masamichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11444598
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes series arm resonators each including an IDT electrode on a piezoelectric substrate. Resonant frequencies of the series arm resonators are positioned within the pass band of the acoustic wave filter. The IDT electrode includes a pair of comb-shaped electrodes. Each of the comb-shaped electrodes includes electrode fingers and a busbar electrode. The electrode fingers extend in a direction intersecting a propagation direction of acoustic waves and are parallel with each other. One end of an electrode finger and one end of another electrode finger are connected with each other by the busbar electrode. The IDT electrode of the series arm resonator with the lowest anti-resonant frequency includes two or more withdrawal-weighted floating electrodes without any of the electrode fingers of one of the comb-shaped electrodes interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220242449
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control system that can achieve highly comfortable autonomous driving according to the behavior of an occupant by changing a control mode of the autonomous driving according to the behavior of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Go SAKAYORI, Junya TAKAHASHI, Kenta MAEDA, Shinya KASAI