Patents by Inventor Makoto Yamada
Makoto Yamada 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: 12291127Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes regeneration control and gear-shifting control during deceleration of the vehicle with a braking force to front and rear wheels. The controller increases an input torque of an input shaft according to a downshift so that an accompanying acceleration fluctuation equals a target acceleration fluctuation. When the controller determines an oversteered state during the regeneration control and during a downshift, the controller increases the input torque so that a regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining a regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, the controller causes the automatic transmission to perform the downshift in a state where an amount of increase of the input torque in accordance with the downshift has been increased compared to during a non-determination of the oversteered state.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20250119140Abstract: An input device includes: a light-emitting diode; a switching element connected in series with the light-emitting diode, the switching element switching the light-emitting diode between the on and off states; an electrostatic sensor having a detection electrode capacitively coupled to a circuit portion disposed between the light-emitting diode and the switching element; and a capacitor having a first terminal connected to the circuit portion and a second terminal connected to a fixed potential point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Tomoki YAMADA, Makoto ABE, Toshiki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 12263781Abstract: The vehicle includes a light-emitting part installed in the rear windshield wiper, a front camera that captures an image of the front of the own vehicle, a control unit that causes the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with the operation of the rear windshield wiper to display the pattern, and a processing unit that acquires the pattern displayed by the blink of the light-emitting part of the preceding vehicle based on the image shot by the front camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hayato Mizuma, Makoto Matsushita, Yuko Mizuno, Kohei Miwa, Naoki Yamada
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Publication number: 20250105834Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a well, formed in the semiconductor substrate; an output terminal, electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate; a ground terminal, configured to receive a ground voltage; a detection signal generating circuit, configured to generate a negative current detection signal when an output voltage present at the output terminal is detected to be less than the ground voltage; and a control circuit, configured to apply the ground voltage or the output voltage to the well in response to the negative current detection signal. The detection signal generating circuit includes: a comparator, configured to generate the negative current detection signal by comparing an output detection voltage with the ground voltage or the threshold voltage; a bias circuit, configured to switch between applying the output voltage or a bias voltage as the output detection voltage; and a clamp circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Makoto SADA, Katsuaki YAMADA, Shuntaro TAKAHASHI, Toru TAKUMA, Naoki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20250098938Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus includes a processor including at least one piece of hardware. The processor identifies, based on physical information including one or more kinds of information capable of estimating a state of a diagnosis target organ of a subject, one abnormal symptom appearing in the diagnosis target organ, performs, as lesion extraction processing for extracting a lesion candidate region from an endoscopic image, different processing specialized for each abnormal symptom that appears in the diagnosis target organ, and performs the lesion extraction processing corresponding to the identified one abnormal symptom.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki YAMADA, Akihiro KUBOTA, Yamato KANDA, Mitsutaka KIMURA, Makoto KITAMURA
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Patent number: 12201260Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus includes a processor including at least one piece of hardware. The processor identifies, based on physical information including one or more kinds of information capable of estimating a state of a diagnosis target organ of a subject, one abnormal symptom appearing in the diagnosis target organ, performs, as lesion extraction processing for extracting a lesion candidate region from an endoscopic image, different processing specialized for each abnormal symptom that appears in the diagnosis target organ, and performs the lesion extraction processing corresponding to the identified one abnormal symptom.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki Yamada, Akihiro Kubota, Yamato Kanda, Mitsutaka Kimura, Makoto Kitamura
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Publication number: 20250021713Abstract: The server generates background data based on the captured data of the drive recorder provided by the user of the vehicle, and generates data including the background data as course data of the travel simulator executed by the user terminal, and distributes the data to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuko MIZUNO, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Hayato MIZUMA, Kohei MIWA, Naoki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240384787Abstract: An automatic transmission control system includes an automatic transmission provided with a first friction engagement element including friction plates, a piston movable between engaged and disengaged positions for engaging and disengaging, respectively, the friction plates, and engaging and disengaging hydraulic pressure chambers applying engaging and disengaging hydraulic pressure for setting the piston at the engaged and disengaged positions, respectively, first and second hydraulic pressure control valves which adjust the engaging and disengaging hydraulic pressure, respectively, and a controller which controls the first and second hydraulic pressure control valves.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: Yuki Tsuchitori, Manabu Sasahara, Makoto Yamada, Masato Ohtani, Shigeru Nagayama
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Patent number: 12084250Abstract: In a generator including a fuel tank that stores liquid fuel, the fuel tank includes a fuel inlet and a breather passage formed by a pipe member through which an inside and outside of the fuel tank communicate with each other, and the pipe member is provided with a valve that blocks the breather passage at normal time and opens the breather passage by a pressure of a predetermined value or higher.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Kawano, Makoto Yamada, Hiroki Iikura, Keita Inamura, Yoshihiro Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20240194093Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can provide a better user experience. Provided is the information processing device including a control unit configured to identify, with at least one target, a content for each of the targets, and a reproduction range of the content set in advance, a relative position between the target and a device and compare the reproduction range with the relative position, and a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the content on the basis of a result of the comparison between the reproduction range and the relative position. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a device that uses a service for providing spatial contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: TAKASHI KINOSHITA, MAKOTO YAMADA
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Patent number: 11943243Abstract: In an anomaly detection method that determines whether each frame in observation data constituted by a collection of frames sent and received over a communication network system is anomalous, a difference between a data distribution of a feature amount extracted from the frame in the observation data and a data distribution for a collection of frames sent and received over the communication network system, obtained at a different timing from the observation data, is calculated. A frame having a feature amount for which the difference is predetermined value or higher is determined to be an anomalous frame. An anomaly contribution level of feature amounts extracted from the frame determined to be an anomalous frame is calculated, and an anomalous payload part, which is at least one part of the payload corresponding to the feature amount for which the anomaly contribution level is at least the predetermined value, is output.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Daiki Tanaka, Makoto Yamada, Hisashi Kashima, Takeshi Kishikawa
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Patent number: 11891065Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration of a vehicle during which the friction brake system is distributing a braking force to front and rear wheels, a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to the rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation and a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. When the controller determines an oversteered state of the vehicle during the regeneration control, the controller increases an input torque of the input shaft so that the regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining the regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, limits the gear-shifting control.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 11892077Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, an automatic transmission, and a controller which changes a shift stage by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. The controller executes a torque-regulating control of temporarily increasing or decreasing an input torque input to the input shaft during a shift-change, and when executing the control, determines whether or not a target increase/decrease amount of the input torque can be realized based on calculation results of a target output torque and a target gear-shifting time, executes the control to realize the target amount when it is determined that the target amount can be realized, and executes the control based on an allowable gear-shifting time set in advance to be longer than the target gear-shifting time when it is determined that the target amount cannot be realized.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Yasunari Nakayama, Yusuke Moriyama, Wataru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11834028Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration during which the friction brake system is distributing a braking force to front and rear wheels, a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to the rear wheels and a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the transmission. When the controller determines an oversteered state of the vehicle during the regeneration control, the controller increases an input torque of the input shaft so that the regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining the regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, interrupts motive power transmission between the input shaft and an output shaft of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 11827205Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration of an automobile, a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft and a regeneration control of performing regeneration by at least one of distributing a braking force by the friction brake system and imparting a regenerative braking torque to rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation. The controller executes a first coordinated gear-shifting control of reducing hydraulic pressure in the friction brake system and, at the same time, changing the shift stage while continuing the regeneration operation during brake regeneration and executes a second coordinated gear-shifting control of changing the shift stage after increasing an input torque during non-brake regeneration.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20230347749Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes regeneration control and gear-shifting control during deceleration of the vehicle with a braking force to front and rear wheels. The controller increases an input torque of an input shaft according to a downshift so that an accompanying acceleration fluctuation equals a target acceleration fluctuation. When the controller determines an oversteered state during the regeneration control and during a downshift, the controller increases the input torque so that a regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining a regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, the controller causes the automatic transmission to perform the downshift in a state where an amount of increase of the input torque in accordance with the downshift has been increased compared to during a non-determination of the oversteered state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20230347896Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration of a vehicle during which the friction brake system is distributing a braking force to front and rear wheels, a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to the rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation and a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. When the controller determines an oversteered state of the vehicle during the regeneration control, the controller increases an input torque of the input shaft so that the regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining the regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, limits the gear-shifting control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20230311883Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation and a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft. The controller starts the gear-shifting control, triggered by the rotation speed decreasing to a predetermined downshift point during a downshift of the shift stage, and during deceleration of the vehicle when a coefficient of friction of a road surface is lower than a predetermined threshold in the regeneration control, the controller sets the downshift point lower than when the coefficient of friction is equal to or higher than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki, Taiki Kado, Keita Ejiri, Kiminori Higo
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Publication number: 20230313883Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, an automatic transmission, and a controller which changes a shift stage by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. The controller executes a torque-regulating control of temporarily increasing or decreasing an input torque input to the input shaft during a shift-change, and when executing the control, determines whether or not a target increase/decrease amount of the input torque can be realized based on calculation results of a target output torque and a target gear-shifting time, executes the control to realize the target amount when it is determined that the target amount can be realized, and executes the control based on an allowable gear-shifting time set in advance to be longer than the target gear-shifting time when it is determined that the target amount cannot be realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Yasunari Nakayama, Yusuke Moriyama, Wataru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20230311841Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration of an automobile, a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft and a regeneration control of performing regeneration by at least one of distributing a braking force by the friction brake system and imparting a regenerative braking torque to rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation. The controller executes a first coordinated gear-shifting control of reducing hydraulic pressure in the friction brake system and, at the same time, changing the shift stage while continuing the regeneration operation during brake regeneration and executes a second coordinated gear-shifting control of changing the shift stage after increasing an input torque during non-brake regeneration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki