Patents by Inventor Koichi Ando

Koichi Ando 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: 12618686
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress deterioration of comfort of autonomous driving due to on-road parking on a general road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Ando, Keisuke Ampo
  • Patent number: 12605945
    Abstract: A cutting device includes: a cutter positioned on a conveyance path for conveying a fabric medium and configured to cut the fabric medium into a predetermined length; a placement surface defining a part of the conveyance path receiving the cut fabric medium; a rotation shaft positioned above the conveyance path and configured to rotate in a conveyance direction of the fabric medium; a paddle portion attached to the rotation shaft and configured to scrape the fabric medium placed on the placement surface in the conveyance direction by moving in the conveyance direction while in contact with the placement surface in accordance with a rotation operation of the rotation shaft; and a driver configured to transmit a driving force to the cutter and the rotation shaft, and such that a cutting operation of the cutter and the rotation operation of the rotation shaft are performed in conjunction with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20260101796
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of suppressing a bonding defect between a bump of a semiconductor chip and a land of a wiring substrate is provided. The semiconductor device includes the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor substrate, a wiring layer, a protective film, a first bump and a second bump. The wiring layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate and has a first bonding pad and a second bonding pad. The first bonding pad has a first upper surface. The second bonding pad has a second upper surface. The protective film is formed on the wiring layer so as to cover the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad. The protective film has a first opening portion overlapping the first bonding pad and penetrating through the protective film, and a second opening portion overlapping the second bonding pad and penetrating through the protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Inventor: Koichi ANDO
  • Patent number: 12431021
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic control device and a vehicle control system capable of reducing a calculation amount and improving reliability of a travel route of a vehicle as compared with a conventional course setting device. An electronic control device 200 is mounted on a vehicle 100. The electronic control device 200 includes a map processing device 210 connected to an external sensor 110 that recognizes an obstacle around the vehicle 100 and a position sensor 120 that acquires position information of the vehicle 100 in a manner capable of information communication. The map processing device 210 includes a storage device 212 that stores map information including travel route information of the vehicle 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20250153493
    Abstract: A cutting device for cutting a cloth medium includes a cutter including a fixed blade above a conveyance path along which the cloth medium is conveyed and a movable blade below the conveyance path, the movable blade being movable upward to cut the cloth medium between the fixed blade and the movable blade, and a guide disposed above the conveyance path and downstream of the cutter in a conveyance direction in which the cloth medium is conveyed along the conveyance path, the guide guiding the cloth medium having passed between the fixed blade and the movable blade in the conveyance direction. The guide is movable in a vertical direction in conjunction with the movable blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventor: Koichi ANDO
  • Patent number: 12247627
    Abstract: A power transmission system is provided, which includes a biasing member configured to bias a second power-transmission member in a rotational direction with respect to a first power-transmission member by a spline part of the biasing member being engaged with a spline part of the second power-transmission member while the biasing member is locked by the first power-transmission member and a spring part thereof is in a first elastically displaced state, and a temporarily fixing member having a temporarily fixing part which temporarily fixes the biasing member to the first power-transmission member in a second elastically displaced state with greater elastic displacement than in the first state. The second power-transmission member is provided, on a first axial side of the spline part, with a canceling part configured to cancel the temporary fixing of the biasing member to the first power-transmission member by the temporarily fixing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Suzuki, Koichi Ando, Nobuyuki Matsubara, Yuji Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20250050661
    Abstract: A cutting device includes: a cutter positioned on a conveyance path for conveying a fabric medium and configured to cut the fabric medium into a predetermined length; a placement surface defining a part of the conveyance path receiving the cut fabric medium; a rotation shaft positioned above the conveyance path and configured to rotate in a conveyance direction of the fabric medium; a paddle portion attached to the rotation shaft and configured to scrape the fabric medium placed on the placement surface in the conveyance direction by moving in the conveyance direction while in contact with the placement surface in accordance with a rotation operation of the rotation shaft; and a driver configured to transmit a driving force to the cutter and the rotation shaft, and such that a cutting operation of the cutter and the rotation operation of the rotation shaft are performed in conjunction with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi ANDO
  • Patent number: 12194760
    Abstract: A printer includes a housing, a shaft connected to an inner surface of the housing at a first end thereof, extending along a first direction to a second end, and by which an ink ribbon is held, a print head connected to the surface at a first end thereof, extending along the direction to a second end, and transferring ink from the ribbon to a sheet, a roller connected to the surface at a first end thereof, extending along the direction to a second end, and conveying the sheet, and a holding plate connected to the second end of the roller and rotatable around a first hinge and by which the second ends of the shaft and the head are held when the plate is rotated about the first hinge to be parallel to the surface. The plate includes a second hinge about which the holding plate is foldable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20240316814
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a cutting device including a cutting section configured to cut a conveyed long cloth medium into a predetermined length, a placement surface for placing the cloth medium cut by the cutting section, and a paddle section attached to a rotation shaft that is rotatable in a conveyance direction of the cloth medium, configured to come into contact with the placement surface by rotating around the rotation shaft, and configured to scrape out the cloth medium in the conveyance direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Shuji Yokoyama, Toshiya Inomata, Koichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20240295409
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress deterioration of comfort of autonomous driving due to on-road parking on a general road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi ANDO, Keisuke AMPO
  • Publication number: 20240063059
    Abstract: In a case where a crack occurs in a dicing step, the crack can be suppressed from proceeding toward an element region. A first scribe region and a second scribe region that both define an element region are formed in a main surface of a semiconductor wafer. In the first scribe region, an evaluation-deep-trench group including an evaluation-deep-trench-first portion and an evaluation-deep-trench-second portion is formed. The evaluation-deep-trench-first portion is formed in a first region. The evaluation-deep-trench-second portion has a width in an X-axis direction, and is formed in a bar shape extending in a Y-axis direction, in a second region located between the first region and the element region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Koichi ANDO, Toshiyuki HATA, Kosuke KITAICHI, Hiroi OKA
  • Patent number: 11862012
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a control unit for vehicle control and a server which distributes map information to the control unit. The map information includes information on a first type of road whereby full or partial driving assistance of the vehicle is possible, and information on a second type whereby full or partial driving assistance of the vehicle are not possible. The server includes an output unit which transmits information on a second type of road existing in a predetermined range from a first type of road on which the vehicle is traveling, and such that the first and second types of road form a predetermined angle or less. The control unit includes a map management unit including information on the first and second types of road, and a vehicle control unit controlling the vehicle by using the information on the first and second types of road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Ando, Keisuke Ampo, Tao Lin
  • Publication number: 20230398787
    Abstract: A printer includes a housing, a shaft connected to an inner surface of the housing at a first end thereof, extending along a first direction to a second end, and by which an ink ribbon is held, a print head connected to the surface at a first end thereof, extending along the direction to a second end, and transferring ink from the ribbon to a sheet, a roller connected to the surface at a first end thereof, extending along the direction to a second end, and conveying the sheet, and a holding plate connected to the second end of the roller and rotatable around a first hinge and by which the second ends of the shaft and the head are held when the plate is rotated about the first hinge to be parallel to the surface. The plate includes a second hinge about which the holding plate is foldable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Koichi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20230055023
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic control device and a vehicle control system capable of reducing a calculation amount and improving reliability of a travel route of a vehicle as compared with a conventional course setting device. An electronic control device 200 is mounted on a vehicle 100. The electronic control device 200 includes a map processing device 210 connected to an external sensor 110 that recognizes an obstacle around the vehicle 100 and a position sensor 120 that acquires position information of the vehicle 100 in a manner capable of information communication. The map processing device 210 includes a storage device 212 that stores map information including travel route information of the vehicle 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO. LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220316534
    Abstract: A power transmission system is provided, which includes a biasing member configured to bias a second power-transmission member in a rotational direction with respect to a first power-transmission member by a spline part of the biasing member being engaged with a spline part of the second power-transmission member while the biasing member is locked by the first power-transmission member and a spring part thereof is in a first elastically displaced state, and a temporarily fixing member having a temporarily fixing part which temporarily fixes the biasing member to the first power-transmission member in a second elastically displaced state with greater elastic displacement than in the first state. The second power-transmission member is provided, on a first axial side of the spline part, with a canceling part configured to cancel the temporary fixing of the biasing member to the first power-transmission member by the temporarily fixing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kotaro Suzuki, Koichi Ando, Nobuyuki Matsubara, Yuji Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11354603
    Abstract: A carsharing system includes circuitry configured to: receive, from a user, a usage request for requesting a reservation for use of a vehicle which is supplied for a vehicle rental service; permit the reservation for use of the vehicle when the reception unit receives the usage request and no reservation for use of the vehicle has been made at time of receiving the usage request; and give, when the reservation for use of the vehicle is determined, a permission for locking or unlocking by using electronic information to the user at a date and a time on which the vehicle is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Koichi Ando, Mutsumi Matsuura, Masato Endo, Koki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11330125
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a scanner unit, an image forming unit, a frame, a first adjustment mechanism, and a second adjustment mechanism. The scanner unit has an image reading section. The image forming unit forms an image read by the scanner unit on a sheet. The frame includes a first support section and a second support section. The first support section supports the image forming unit. The second support section is positioned below the scanner unit. The first adjustment mechanism steplessly adjusts a distance in an up-down direction between the scanner unit and the second support section. The second adjustment mechanism gradually adjusts the distance in the up-down direction between the scanner unit and the second support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Ando
  • Patent number: 11315048
    Abstract: A carsharing system includes circuitry configured to: receive, from a user, a usage request for requesting a reservation for use of a vehicle which is supplied for a vehicle rental service; permit the reservation for use of the vehicle when the reception unit receives the usage request and no reservation for use of the vehicle has been made at time of receiving the usage request; and give, when the reservation for use of the vehicle is determined, a permission for locking or unlocking by using electronic information to the user at a date and a time on which the vehicle is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Koichi Ando, Mutsumi Matsuura, Masato Endo, Koki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20220118945
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an object information acquiring unit, a receiver information acquiring unit, and an authentication information issuing unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires delivery object information of an object from a deliverer of the object. The object is stored in an interior space of a vehicle and of which delivery is desired. The receiver information acquiring unit acquires receiver information on a receiver of the object. The authentication information issuing unit issues authentication information for locking and unlocking a door of the vehicle based on the delivery object information and the receiver information and transmits the authentication information to a terminal of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Koichi ANDO, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Masato ENDO, Koki FUJITA, Ryuichi, Yuki ITO, Hiroyasu SHIOKAWA, Yasumasa KOBAYASHI, Naoki YAMAMURO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Patent number: 11270535
    Abstract: A trunk-sharing system that controls an user's authority to use a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing a predetermined authentication information to a user terminal, the trunk-sharing system including a server configured to: acquire a first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle; provide the first information such that the first information acquired from the first user of each of a plurality of vehicles is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user; acquire a second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is an information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information; and issue an authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Koichi Ando, Mutsumi Matsuura, Masato Endo, Koki Fujita