Patents by Inventor Masashi Yano

Masashi Yano 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: 20240134628
    Abstract: A software update device (gateway) 10 includes a first update control unit 140 that performs software update for a first software unit (for example, an ECU_A 13 and an ECU_B 16) and a second update control unit 150 that performs software update for a second software unit (for example, an ECU_C 17 and an ECU_D 19). Also, the first update control unit 140 includes a first sequence control unit 141 that transmits a control command directed to a first platform, and the second update control unit 150 includes a pseudo update execution unit 151 that simulates the second software unit as a software unit on the first platform and performs the software update for the second software unit on the basis of reception of a control command for the second software unit simulated on the first platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hidetoshi TERAOKA, Masashi YANO
  • Patent number: 11928900
    Abstract: There is provided an arithmetic operation device which is connected to a plurality of electronic control units. One or more electronic control units of the plurality of electronic control units constitute each of functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Teraoka, Masashi Yano
  • Publication number: 20240045970
    Abstract: Provided is an analysis device that reduces false detection of an attack event to appropriately output an anomaly notification. The analysis device configured to be communicable with a plurality of monitoring-target devices collects monitoring results of each of the monitoring-target devices, determines whether an anomaly has occurred in each of the monitoring-target devices, based on the monitoring results, and determines whether to output an anomaly notification indicating the anomaly, based on a result of the determination and code verification results of each of the monitoring-target devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Yasuhiro FUJII, Masashi YANO, Mikio KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240020386
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to easily realize safe startup of a control apparatus including a plurality of arithmetic processing devices. A control apparatus 5 includes a first microcomputer 1 including a processor that executes a first program, a second microcomputer 2 including a processor that executes a second program, and a storage device 3 that stores the second program. The first microcomputer 1 includes a verification unit 1221 that verifies whether each of the first program and the second program has been falsified, a first acquisition unit 1126 that acquires the second program from the storage device 3 when the verification unit 1221 verifies that the first program is not falsified, and a startup permission notification unit 1124 that notifies the second microcomputer 2 of startup permission of the second program when the verification unit 1221 verifies that the second program is not falsified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Masashi YANO, Shuhei KANEKO, Yasuhiro FUJII, Mikio KATAOKA, Teruaki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230147082
    Abstract: Provided are a control device and a program verification method capable of suppressing an operation load in a case where different keys are used for respective devices. The control device 1 stores a program to be verified, a plurality of verification expected values related to verification of the program to be verified, and registered verification expected value information 183 that identifies one of the verification expected values. The control device verifies whether the program to be verified is correct using the registered verification expected value information 183.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Yasuhiro FUJII, Mikio KATAOKA, Masashi YANO
  • Publication number: 20230070879
    Abstract: An information processing device that executes a program includes: a storage unit that includes a plurality of regions for storing a rewritable program; a calculation unit that executes a program stored in the storage unit; a start region specification unit that specifies, from the plurality of regions, a start region in which the calculation unit is executing a program; a rule update unit that specifies a rewrite target region in which a program can be rewritten based on information on the specified start region; and a reception selection unit that selectively receives a rewrite program stored in the rewrite target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MORITA, Masashi YANO, Mikio KATAOKA, Shuhei KANEKO, Teruaki NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11360762
    Abstract: An information update apparatus that updates first information stored in a vehicle control apparatus to second information. The information update apparatus includes: a download control unit that receives an update package including an update body that is a difference between the first information and the second information or the second information, procedure information including a procedure of updating the first information to the second information using the update body, and an activation condition that is a condition of starting updating the first information to the second information; and an event management unit that acquires a state of a vehicle on which the vehicle control apparatus and the information update apparatus are mounted, and causes an update execution unit to execute the update based on the procedure information when the state of the vehicle matches the activation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Teraoka, Hiroki Yamazaki, Masashi Yano
  • Publication number: 20220169836
    Abstract: A rubber composition which contains (A) an organosilicon compound represented by formula (1) and gives a cured object satisfying desired fuel (or power)-saving tire properties. (R1 represents an alkyl or aryl group, R2 represents an alkyl or aryl group, e, f, and g each indicate a number larger than 0 and satisfy g/(e+f+g)<0.05, and m is an integer of 1-3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munenao HIROKAMI, Tsuneo KIMURA, Masahiko MINEMURA, Tsutomu NAKAMURA, Masaki TANAKA, Satoru UNO, Masashi YANO
  • Publication number: 20220148344
    Abstract: There is provided an arithmetic operation device which is connected to a plurality of electronic control units. One or more electronic control units of the plurality of electronic control units constitute each of functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi TERAOKA, Masashi YANO
  • Publication number: 20200249937
    Abstract: An information update apparatus that updates first information stored in a vehicle control apparatus to second information. The information update apparatus includes: a download control unit that receives an update package including an update body that is a difference between the first information and the second information or the second information, procedure information including a procedure of updating the first information to the second information using the update body, and an activation condition that is a condition of starting updating the first information to the second information; and an event management unit that acquires a state of a vehicle on which the vehicle control apparatus and the information update apparatus are mounted, and causes an update execution unit to execute the update based on the procedure information when the state of the vehicle matches the activation condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi TERAOKA, Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Masashi YANO
  • Patent number: 9949371
    Abstract: The problem of the invention is to provide a resin composite electrolytic copper foil having further improved heat resistance and improved plate adhesion strength when plated after desmear treatment in the work process of an additive method. The solution is to form a roughened surface having a plurality of minute projections, a surface roughness (Rz) within a range of 1.0 pm to 3.0 pm and a lightness value of not more than 30 on one surface of an electrolytic copper foil (A), and form a layer of a resin composition (B) containing a block copolymerized polyimide resin (a) having a structure that imide oligomers of a first structural unit and a second structural unit are bonded alternately and repeatedly on the roughened surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., PI R&D CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Nozaki, Akihiro Nomoto, Norikatsu Akiyama, Eiji Nagata, Masashi Yano
  • Patent number: 9769265
    Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Tsutomu Hirao, Michitaka Okuno, Nodoka Mimura, Daisuke Ishii, Yuta Muto
  • Publication number: 20170257259
    Abstract: To reduce a load of an inspection process on a server apparatus . A computer system includes a server apparatus, a gateway apparatus, and a plurality of devices coupled to the gateway apparatus. The gateway apparatus retains a range of a normal value of a device, calculated based on device information, for the plurality of devices, and when device information related to a certain device is not included in a range of a normal value of the device, notifies the server apparatus of the fact that an anomaly with respect to the device has been detected. When the server apparatus receives from the gateway apparatus a notification of the fact that an anomaly has been detected, the server apparatus inspects device information related to the device in which the anomaly had been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Nodoka MIMURA, Masashi YANO, Masayuki TAKASE, Taisuke UETA
  • Publication number: 20160360615
    Abstract: The problem of the invention is to provide a resin composite electrolytic copper foil having further improved heat resistance and improved plate adhesion strength when plated after desmear treatment in the work process of an additive method. The solution is to form a roughened surface having a plurality of minute projections, a surface roughness (Rz) within a range of 1.0 ?m to 3.0 ?m and a lightness value of not more than 30 on one surface of an electrolytic copper foil (A), and form a layer of a resin composition (B) containing a block copolymerized polyimide resin (a) having a structure that imide oligomers of a first structural unit and a second structural unit are bonded alternately and repeatedly on the roughened surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., PI R&D CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru NOZAKI, Akihiro NOMOTO, Norikatsu AKIYAMA, Eiji NAGATA, Masashi YANO
  • Patent number: 9420590
    Abstract: Appropriate bandwidths are allocated to base stations in response to variations in the arrangement of mobile terminals and according to the type of mobile terminals. Mobile gateways disposed between a plurality of base stations connecting a plurality of mobile terminals and a service network include a base station information acquiring unit that acquires communication capacities of the base stations; a mobile terminal information acquiring unit that acquires a communication capacity of each type of the mobile terminals; a communication bandwidth estimating unit that estimates the communication bandwidths of the base stations on the basis of the acquired communication capacities of the base stations and the acquired communication capacities of mobile terminals; and a communication bandwidth control unit that controls communication bandwidths corresponding to the base stations on the basis of the estimated communication bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Nodoka Mimura, Naruhito Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20160065678
    Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi YANO, Tsutomu HIRAO, Michitaka OKUNO, Nodoka MIMURA, Daisuke ISHII, Yuta MUTO
  • Publication number: 20150302008
    Abstract: It is provided a control apparatus being configured to: calculate a number of groups to which plurality of data processing apparatus are to belong; determine an associated group of each of the plurality of data processing apparatus; determine an operational data item to be assigned to the associated group; determine as an assignment destination of the operational data item assigned to the associated group, any one of the data processing apparatus belonging to the associated group whose number is the minimum count or larger, and determine as an assignment destination of a redundant data item, the data processing apparatus that is different front the data processing apparatus corresponding to an assignment destination of the operational data item; and assign based on determination results, the group of operational data items and a group of the redundant data items to the plurality of data processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHII, Masashi YANO, Michitaka OKUNO, Nodoka MIMURA, Yuta MUTO
  • Publication number: 20150222515
    Abstract: A management and orchestration server which manages a plurality of types of virtualized nodes included in server group includes a scaling executing unit configured to command the server group to scale virtual machines included in each of the plurality of types of virtualized nodes, a traffic load measuring unit configured to manage a traffic load of each of the virtual machines, and a scaling amount determining unit configured to determine a number of the virtual machines to be scaled. In this case, the traffic load measuring unit acquires a traffic load for each of the traffic types to be processed by each of the plurality of types of virtualized nodes, and the scaling amount determining unit determines the type of virtualized node for which virtual machines are to be scaled and a number of machines to be scaled based on the traffic loads of the traffic types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Nodoka MIMURA, Masashi YANO, Michitaka OKUNO, Yuta MUTO, Daisuke ISHII
  • Publication number: 20150222561
    Abstract: A scale-out of a gateway server is realized according to a rapid increase in communication volume, without incurring system down. A high-quality communication is provided to priority users even during scaling out the gateway server. A high-quality communication is continuously provided to priority users without incurring the system down even if the scale-out/in of the gateway server is repeated. A bandwidth control apparatus transmits packets to plural virtual nodes equipped in a server device, reads the packets from any high priority queue and any low priority queue which are associated with the subject apparatus, and limits the packets to an upper limit bandwidth determined for each of the virtual nodes, and changes association of the high priority queues and the low priority queues with the virtual node bandwidth limiters according to an instruction from the control server for determining the scale-out/in of the virtual node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Michitaka OKUNO, Masashi YANO, Nodoka MIMURA, Yuta MUTO, Daisuke ISHII
  • Patent number: 9068053
    Abstract: A fluoro rubber composition which is able to make both a high tensile strength and a high elongation at break after vulcanization compatible with each other and from which favorable mechanical characteristics are obtained even in a high-temperature environment; and a bladder for tire fabrication, which is manufactured using the same are provided. The fluoro rubber composition includes a rubber component containing a fluoro rubber and carbon black, wherein in a dynamic viscoelasticity test of an unvulcanized rubber by a rubber process analyzer (RPA) (measurement temperature: 100° C., measurement frequency: 1 Hz), a difference ?GA? (G?(1%)?G?(100%)) between a shear modulus G? (1%) at the time of a dynamic strain of 1% and a shear modulus G? (100%) at the time of a dynamic strain of 100% is 120 kPa or more and not more than 3,000 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Daisuke Ota, Shuichi Okutsu