Patents by Inventor Masanori Kurimoto

Masanori Kurimoto 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: 11390290
    Abstract: The vehicle electronic control apparatus includes two or more FPGAs that each receive information from the sensor, a nonvolatile memory that holds a bit stream for determining a configuration for the FPGA, an MCU that incorporates two or more nonvolatile memories, in each of which a program code for calculating the control command is installed, and an error control module that outputs an error signal to the outside at a time when an abnormality occurs in at least one of the FPGA and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU; the nonvolatile memory that holds the bit stream and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU can be accessed from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kurimoto
  • Publication number: 20200001885
    Abstract: The vehicle electronic control apparatus includes two or more FPGAs that each receive information from the sensor, a nonvolatile memory that holds a bit stream for determining a configuration for the FPGA, an MCU that incorporates two or more nonvolatile memories, in each of which a program code for calculating the control command is installed, and an error control module that outputs an error signal to the outside at a time when an abnormality occurs in at least one of the FPGA and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU; the nonvolatile memory that holds the bit stream and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU can be accessed from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10447223
    Abstract: Provided is a gain control amplification device having a wide range and high accuracy and configured to adapt measurement target current to the input range of an A/D converter. The gain control amplification device includes: a plurality of differential amplifiers having different gains with respect to measurement target current or voltage; a threshold control circuit for comparing output of the differential amplifier with threshold voltage; a switch for selecting output of one of the plurality of differential amplifiers on the basis of output of the threshold control circuit; and an offset control circuit OF and an addition circuit for adding offset voltage to output of one of the differential amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kurimoto, Yuki Iwagami, Masamitsu Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10416220
    Abstract: Even when parts having individual differences among identical parts or differences in deterioration speed between parts, or a part that does not have a non-volatile memory such as an EEPROM in a chip of the part itself, are mixed, there is no deterioration diagnosis device that can appropriately diagnose a state of deterioration due to temporal change or the like, because of which a mechanism (correction methodology) for evaluating and correcting deterioration in the precision or performance of an electronic part that has low precision or considerable temporal deterioration, and does not have a correction function, is incorporated in a deterioration diagnosis device, and a deterioration state is diagnosed using incorporated deterioration determination means when using a product after shipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kurimoto, Yuki Iwagami, Yoshitake Nishiuma, Takayuki Yanai
  • Publication number: 20180358944
    Abstract: Provided is a gain control amplification device having a wide range and high accuracy and configured to adapt measurement target current to the input range of an A/D converter. The gain control amplification device includes: a plurality of differential amplifiers having different gains with respect to measurement target current or voltage; a threshold control circuit for comparing output of the differential amplifier with threshold voltage ; a switch for selecting output of one of the plurality of differential amplifiers on the basis of output of the threshold control circuit ; and an offset control circuit OF and an addition circuit for adding offset voltage to output of one of the differential amplifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori KURIMOTO, Yuki IWAGAMI, Masamitsu UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170356947
    Abstract: Even when parts having individual differences among identical parts or differences in deterioration speed between parts, or a part that does not have a non-volatile memory such as an EEPROM in a chip of the part itself, are mixed, there is no deterioration diagnosis device that can appropriately diagnose a state of deterioration due to temporal change or the like, because of which a mechanism (correction methodology) for evaluating and correcting deterioration in the precision or performance of an electronic part that has low precision or considerable temporal deterioration, and does not have a correction function, is incorporated in a deterioration diagnosis device, and a deterioration state is diagnosed using incorporated deterioration determination means when using a product after shipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori KURIMOTO, Yuki IWAGAMI, Yoshitake NISHIUMA, Takayuki YANAI
  • Patent number: 9707908
    Abstract: A driving device 5 includes: a fault detection device 11 that determines a fault in an actuator 6; a serial interface 7 that communicates with an MCU 2; a memory device 10 that stores a program received from the MCU 2 and a fault determination result by the fault detection device 11; a CPU 9 that causes the fault detection device 11 to execute the fault determination according to a fault determination request from the MCU 2; a timer device 16 that measures a limit time over which fault determination is performed and a determination period of fault determination; and a counter device 17 that counts the number of repeats of fault determination and the number of fault occurrences in the actuator 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kurimoto, Yuki Iwagami
  • Publication number: 20170021782
    Abstract: A driving device 5 includes: a fault detection device 11 that determines a fault in an actuator 6; a serial interface 7 that communicates with an MCU 2; a memory device 10 that stores a program received from the MCU 2 and a fault determination result by the fault detection device 11; a CPU 9 that causes the fault detection device 11 to execute the fault determination according to a fault determination request from the MCU 2; a timer device 16 that measures a limit time over which fault determination is performed and a determination period of fault determination; and a counter device 17 that counts the number of repeats of fault determination and the number of fault occurrences in the actuator 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KURIMOTO, Yuki IWAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20120005641
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor designing apparatus realizing dispersed power consumption timings without causing a setup violation and a hold violation. An STA unit calculates a setup slack as a margin of setup time of a flip-flop on the basis of a present design value of a clock latency of the flip-flop. Based on the calculated setup slack, an HSLD unit adjusts the clock latency of the flip-flop so as to be advanced more than a present design value without causing a timing violation. When a peak equal to or larger than a threshold value remains in the number of synchs in a clock latency distribution as a result of the latency control of the HSLD unit, a PAS unit smoothes the clock latency of the flip-flop without causing a timing violation on the basis of the timing information recalculated by the HSLD unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Masanori KURIMOTO, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yoshio Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110296260
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8028210
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kurimoto
  • Publication number: 20110138217
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7913139
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kurimoto
  • Publication number: 20110029829
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Masanori KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7827454
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kurimoto
  • Publication number: 20090024888
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of recognizing circuit malfunction in an actual operation and of specifying a point of the circuit malfunction, and the semiconductor device, which does not induce the malfunction in the circuit of a subsequent stage when restoring the malfunction. The present invention is the semiconductor device provided with a plurality of logic circuits and a plurality of judging circuits for judging malfunction based on data from the logic circuits, wherein each of the judging circuits is provided with a first register, delay unit, a second register, a comparator and scanning unit, which makes the second register a shift register to allow to transmit an error signal held in the second register to the subsequent stage, while allowing the comparator to hold a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventor: Masanori KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 6978429
    Abstract: A logic simulation apparatus is provided with a circuit dividing unit (6) that selects and defines logic cones each of which carries out a logic operation in synchronization with one clock domain as target portions to be speeded up from logic cones extracted by a logic cone extracting unit (5), and that defines logic cones each of which carries out a logic operation based on a plurality of clock domains as nontarget portions not to be speeded up, and a logic compressing unit (7) that compresses the logic of each of the target portions, and performs a logic simulation on each of the target portions whose logic is compressed and also on performs a logic simulation on each of the nontarget portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Masanori Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 6789055
    Abstract: The outputting of an output pulse produced in response to the inputting of a data pulse and a clock pulse to a D type flip-flop circuit is repeatedly simulated in a simulation process to extract a pulse time difference between the data pulse and the clock pulse as a timing verification checking value in a checking value extracting process on condition that the level of the output pulse becomes higher than a reference voltage until a simulation completion time and the pulse time difference is within a prescribed range. After the first simulation, an optimum simulation completion time, at which the levels of the data pulse, the clock pulse and the output pulse are respectively set to a constant high value, is determined to be place the optimum simulation completion time between a simulation start time and the simulation completion time, and the level of the output pulse is checked at the optimum simulation completion time in simulations following the first simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kuriyama, Masahiko Oomura, Chie Hiramine, Hiromi Fujita, Masanori Kurimoto, Takeshi Shibagaki
  • Publication number: 20040107086
    Abstract: A logic simulation apparatus is provided with a circuit dividing unit (6) that selects and defines logic cones each of which carries out a logic operation in synchronization with one clock domain as target portions to be speeded up from logic cones extracted by a logic cone extracting unit (5), and that defines logic cons each of which carries out a logic operation based on a plurality of clock domains as nontarget portions not to be speeded up, and a logic compressing unit (7) that compresses the logic of each of the target portions, and performs a logic simulation on each of the target portions whose logic is compressed and also on performs a logic simulation on each of the nontarget portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Masanori Kurimoto