Patents by Inventor Kentaro Yoshimura
Kentaro Yoshimura 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).
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Patent number: 8452742Abstract: It is possible to surely commit a revision made on a software component in a software component database and a software product group and to create a new software product from the same database. Provided is a software configuration management system which includes a software component database and a software product management unit and accepts data transmission/reception from a software component database management client and a software product operation client. The software configuration management system further includes: a component-product correspondence table, component-file correspondence information, a synchronization unit for mutually committing a modification of the software component database and a modification of a software product; update information; and a correspondence table update unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hashimoto, Fumio Narisawa, Kentaro Yoshimura, Tomohito Ebina, Junji Miyake
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Publication number: 20130125091Abstract: A device and method automatically generate a program for buffering differences based on characteristics of a component. A buffer program for buffering differences of the way to use a component during different software environments is automatically generated. The device includes a controller for executing automatic generation of the buffer program, a memory including control information and a processing program, an input device for inputting the processing content of the component, and an output device for outputting the automatically generated buffer program. The memory records a plurality of forms for buffering the component as the control information and the controller extracts characteristic information based on the processing content of the component and records the extracted characteristic information as control information in the memory, selects a specified form based on the characteristic information, and generates the buffer program based on the selected form and the characteristic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Hashimoto, Ryota Mibe, Shuhei Nojiri, Sadahiro Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Kentaro Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20130111438Abstract: The invention relates to a software maintenance supporting device which analyzes and displays the structure of software, and its object is to divide software into clusters including plural variables and illustrate the result of the division. A software maintenance supporting device according to the invention includes variable dependence relation analysis means for extracting variable dependence relation data from a source code, and variable cluster analysis means for dividing software into clusters including plural variables, using a variable dependence relation. Also, an inter-variable dependence relation is illustrated as a directed graph in which a variable is expressed as a node and a dependence relation is expressed as a link, and variables belonging to the same cluster are highlighted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Takeshi Fukuda, Yoshitaka Atarashi
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Publication number: 20130066507Abstract: When predetermined conditions in a vehicle are met, the control means of the disclosed vehicle control device prohibits control of the state of power-source supply to vehicle-mounted equipment or the operating state of a drive source resulting from a pressing operation of a push switch. When it is detected that an abnormal state has arisen in the vehicle, the control means allows control by the pressing operation of the push switch even if the aforementioned predetermined conditions are met.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Kentaro Yoshimura, Suguru Asakura
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Patent number: 8389164Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a chain compound having a hydroxyl group and a carbon-carbon double bond, a light metal alkoxide thereof and a derivative thereof obtained by substituting the hydroxyl group with a protective group.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Tadahiko Kubota
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Patent number: 8387010Abstract: An automatic software configuring system includes a database storage section for storing therein a plurality of soft components. In the event that soft components are extracted from the database storage section and are combined together to thereby generate a file, a comment indicative of a storage location in the database storage section for storing a respective soft component extracted from the database storage section is added to the respective soft component. The automatic software configuring system further includes a device for identifying the respective soft component combined into the file and a storage location of the respective soft component by reading the comment; a device for identifying a comparison-target soft component stored in the database storage section; a device for identifying a soft component having a different content; and a device for replacing specified soft component in the database storage section with the soft component combined into the file.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Hashimoto, Fumio Narisawa, Kentaro Yoshimura, Yuichiro Morita, Nobuhisa Motoyama, Junji Miyake
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Patent number: 8347282Abstract: An embedded controller development tool which generates an interface means for preserving and outputting a control data calculated by the control operation means based on a specific computational procedure, and providing said control data to a plurality of control operation means including said control operation means; wherein the control operation means is described as a function in the source code of the program, the reference data used for calculation by said control operation is an argument of the function, said control data calculated by said control operation means is the argument of the function which points the return value or the address of said function.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Taizo Miyazaki, Takanori Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20120317119Abstract: Product line type development is supported by analyzing inter-feature dependency relations based on the use state of feature in existing products and uses the analysis result. Inter-feature linking means 15 analyses the inter-feature dependency relations in the existing products based on a product-feature related information database 14. A related information management unit 16 compares the analysis result of the inter-feature dependency relations to existing information stored in an inter-feature related information database 17, and outputs the result to an interface unit 18 and the inter-feature related information database. A developer can easily consult the analysis result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Kentaro Yoshimura, Yoshitaka Atarashi
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Publication number: 20120303216Abstract: There is provided an embedded control device having high real time performance and capable of securing data concurrency. The embedded control device according to the present invention includes disclosure data and stored data as control data to be disclosed to a data reference component. The embedded control device changes over a reference destination for the data reference component either to the disclosure data or to the stored data, depending on which of the execution priority of the data disclosing source component and the execution priority of the data reference component is higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Takeshi Fukuda, Fumio Narisawa
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Publication number: 20120295148Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution containing a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound, wherein the nitrogen-containing compound contains an aromatic skeleton containing one or two or more aromatic rings and one or two or more nitrogen-containing functional groups bonded to the one or two or more aromatic rings and represented by the following formula (1) (Y?X?N—??(1) wherein X represents C or P; Y represents a group constituted of one kind or two or more kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of H, C, N, O, S, F, Cl, Br, and I, provided that arbitrary two or more of X and Y may be bonded to each other to form a ring structure; and z is 2 or 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Tadahiko Kubota
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Publication number: 20120265476Abstract: Disclosed is a system test specification generation device for generating a system test specification to be applied to software comprising a plurality of software components in a state in which the software components have been combined. The system test specification generation device comprises software 1, a specification analysis unit 2, a system test specification database 3, a system test specification setting unit 4, and a system test specification output unit 5. The software 1 comprises software components 11, 12, and 13. The specification analysis unit 2 comprises software component specification extraction units 21, 22, and 23 corresponding to each software component and a system specification integration unit for integrating software component specifications to generate a system specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Fumio Narisawa, Yuichiro Morita
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Patent number: 8255068Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of configuring a control algorithm being executable by a controller, a controller for controlling a plant in real-time, and a control algorithm generator. An important aspect of the invention is that the control algorithm is subdivided into at least one task and task activation time periods are assigned to each task of the at least one task based on data about the control algorithm and data about the plant to be controlled, wherein the execution of the tasks of the control algorithm is scheduled in accordance with the assigned task activation time periods.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Kentaro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8160781Abstract: A vehicular control system which includes a user parameter input module, an external parameter input module, a plurality of objective functions, a policy setting module, and a policy node. The user parameter input module Inputs a user parameter. The external parameter input module inputs an external parameter resulting from an outside environment. The objective functions are set for each control characteristic, respectively, so as to calculate an internal parameter of each control target from the user parameter and the external parameter. The policy setting module sets policies indicating a control index of the user for the objective functions respectively. The policy node weights the objective functions on the basis of the policies, adjusts the internal parameter in accordance with the policy so that the internal parameter is optimized among the objective functions, and issues a command to a control node corresponding to the internal parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Naono, Masaaki Shimizu, Fumio Arakawa, Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Kohei Sakurai, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kentaro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8138885Abstract: A vehicle antenna device includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna surrounds an ignition key cylinder having a key insertion hole and is configured to receive a first signal transmitted from a first transmitter in a key insertion state where a key is inserted into the key insertion hole. The second antenna is configured to receive a second signal transmitted from a second transmitter. The first antenna is positioned between the first transmitter and the second antenna in the key insertion state.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Naoto Yamamoto, Hideaki Arai
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Publication number: 20120065810Abstract: There is provided means enabling effective selection of a method of combining software assets in the development of software that is hierarchized and segmented into components. Control software 101 created with a control software development tool 102 includes an application 103 which executes a control calculation process, a connection layer 104 which connects software components with each other, and basic software 114. In conventional software configurations, combination of software components hierarchized in the basic software is described by a standard I/F 108, and thus it has been difficult to flexibly change the method of combining software components adapting to the design change of the software. In the present invention, flexible selection of the method of combining software components is made possible by using template description for the method of combining software components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2010Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Narisawa, Kentaro Yoshimura, Junji Miyake, Tasuku Ishigooka
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Publication number: 20110250507Abstract: A positive electrode includes: a positive electrode collector; and a positive electrode active material layer provided on the positive electrode collector and containing a positive electrode active material and an alkaline earth metal carbonate having a fixed form.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Toru Odani, Tadahiko Kubota
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Publication number: 20110066814Abstract: The control software which can improve the development efficiency of a control system using a plurality of processing units by absorbing the difference due to the data exchange through a shared storage area is provided. The control software includes the same interface as the software part for network communication, and by making, as a part, the processing software for reading and writing the data from and into the storage area shared by said plurality of the processing units, the data exchange by the shared storage area is handled as one of communication physical layers thereby to construct a control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Fumio Narisawa, Koji Hashimoto, Kentaro Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20110055153Abstract: It is possible to surely commit a revision made on a software component in a software component database and a software product group and to create a new software product from the same database. Provided is a software configuration management system which includes a software component database and a software product management unit and accepts data transmission/reception from a software component database management client and a software product operation client. The software configuration management system further includes: a component-product correspondence table, component-file correspondence information, a synchronization unit for mutually committing a modification of the software component database and a modification of a software product; update information; and a correspondence table update unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Koji Hashimoto, Fumio Narisawa, Kentaro Yoshimura, Tomohito Ebina, Junji Miyake
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Patent number: 7894947Abstract: A radio control system for controlling a vehicle includes a transmission node for transmitting vehicle control data, the vehicle control data including at least one of a measured value of a vehicle state or a driver's manipulated variable and a control target value of a control actuator in the vehicle, a reception node for receiving the vehicle control data, and a plurality of radio communication routes between the transmission node and the reception node. A radio communication route that satisfies communication limit time of transmission data including the vehicle control data and satisfies lowest required reliability of the transmission data is selected from among the radio communication routes.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Yuichiro Morita, Takanori Shimura, Masayuki Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20100316908Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a nonaqueous electrolyte containing an electrolyte salt; and a separator, wherein in the electrolyte salt, a molar fraction x of at least one member selected among electrolyte salts represented by the following formulae (1) and (2) occupying in the whole electrolyte salt satisfies a relationship of (0.5<x?1) LiPFaAc ??(1) LiBFbB?d ??(2) wherein a represents an integer of from 0 to 5; b represents an integer of from 0 to 3; each of A and B? independently represents CnF2n+1; n represents an integer of from 1 to 6; c represents an integer of 1 or more and satisfies a relationship of (a+c=6); and d represents a an integer of 1 or more and satisfies a relationship of (b+d=4).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota