Patents by Inventor Kotaro Yasui

Kotaro Yasui 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: 20240101152
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object; set, based on the recognized surrounding situation, a risk area in which positions of the surrounding situation are associated with risk values that are indicator values indicating degrees to which the mobile object is to avoid traveling; generate a target trajectory indicating a route along which the mobile object is to travel in future; cause the mobile object to travel along the generated target trajectory; and set at least one observation point in each of three or more provisional trajectories branching at a specific location ahead of the mobile object, and generate the target trajectory based on the risk area and the at least one observation point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kotaro Fujimura, Atsushi Kato, Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20240083417
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device including: a storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored therein; and a processor connected to the storage medium, wherein the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to recognize an object which is located near a mobile object, set a risk which is an index value indicating a degree to which the mobile object should avoid entry on the basis of a position of the object, and generate a target trajectory for the mobile object to travel along so as to pass through a point at which the risk is low, and generating the target trajectory includes setting a plurality of first observation points at intervals in a traveling direction of the mobile object, setting one or more second observation points in each of a left direction and a right direction as seen from the mobile object for each of the plurality of first observation points, and searching for a point at which the risk is low on the basis of the risk at an observation point group including
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi Kato, Kotaro Fujimura, Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11527378
    Abstract: It is a CNT device (1) (carbon-metal structure) equipped with a carbon nanotube layer (2) (CNT layer 2; same hereafter) on a metal pedestal (4). The metal pedestal (4) is brazed to the CNT layer (2) with a brazing material layer (3) interposed therebetween. When manufacturing the CNT device (1), firstly, the CNT layer (2) is formed on a heat-resistant textured substrate (6). Next, the metal pedestal (4) is brazed to the CNT layer (2) that is on the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) with the brazing material layer (3) interposed therebetween. Then, the metal pedestal (4) (and the CNT layer 2) is peeled off the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) to transfer the CNT layer (2) from the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) to the metal pedestal (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Sae Kitagawa, Kotaro Yasui, Hisashi Sugime, Daizo Takahashi, Yuichi Nishikiori, Hayato Ochi, Rena Takahashi, Toshimasa Fukai
  • Publication number: 20210375572
    Abstract: It is a CNT device (1) (carbon-metal structure) equipped with a carbon nanotube layer (2) (CNT layer 2; same hereafter) on a metal pedestal (4). The metal pedestal (4) is brazed to the CNT layer (2) with a brazing material layer (3) interposed therebetween. When manufacturing the CNT device (1), firstly, the CNT layer (2) is formed on a heat-resistant textured substrate (6). Next, the metal pedestal (4) is brazed to the CNT layer (2) that is on the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) with the brazing material layer (3) interposed therebetween. Then, the metal pedestal (4) (and the CNT layer 2) is peeled off the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) to transfer the CNT layer (2) from the heat-resistant textured substrate (6) to the metal pedestal (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru NODA, Sae KITAGAWA, Kotaro YASUI, Hisashi SUGIME, Daizo TAKAHASHI, Yuichi NISHIKIORI, Hayato OCHI, Rena TAKAHASHI, Toshimasa FUKAI
  • Patent number: 11180157
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus used in a vehicle is provided to communicate with an electronic control apparatus that controls a driving force of the vehicle by executing any one of a plurality of predetermined different controls. The monitoring apparatus receives a vehicle specification from the electronic control apparatus, and determines whether the received vehicle specification is appropriate, to provide a determination result. The monitoring apparatus further sets whether at least one of the predetermined different controls is permitted or not permitted to be executed by the electronic control apparatus in response to the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Takinai, Yutaka Koyama, Yu Kimoto, Kotaro Yasui
  • Publication number: 20200262443
    Abstract: a monitoring apparatus used in a vehicle is provided to communicate with an electronic control apparatus that controls a driving force of the vehicle by executing any one of a plurality of predetermined different controls. The monitoring apparatus receives a vehicle specification from the electronic control apparatus, and determines whether the received vehicle specification is appropriate, to provide a determination result. The monitoring apparatus further sets whether at least one of the predetermined different controls is permitted or not permitted to be executed by the electronic control apparatus in response to the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Shingo TAKINAI, Yutaka KOYAMA, Yu KIMOTO, Kotaro YASUI
  • Patent number: 5229293
    Abstract: Recombinant Baculovirus in which the cDNA encoding E protein derived from Japanese encephalitis virus is integrated into the genome region non-essential to proliferation of Baculovirus under control of the promoter is infected to insect cells such as Sf9 cells, derived from Spodoptera frugiperda and the infected cells are cultured to express E protein of Japanese encephalitis. This E protein is useful as vaccines or diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignees: Nippon Zeon Co Ltd., Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neurosciences, Yoshiharu Matsuura
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Matsuura, Kotaro Yasui, Takanori Sato
  • Patent number: 5021347
    Abstract: There is provided a recombinant vaccinia virus having inserted cDNA coding for E-protein of Japanese encephalitis virus into a genome region non-essential to growth of a vaccinia virus, in the form of capable expression. The recombinant vaccinia virus is useful as a live vaccine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignees: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd., Director-General of National Institute of Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience
    Inventors: Kotaro Yasui, Asato Kojima, Atsushi Yasuda, Takanori Sato