Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Aso

Mitsuhiro Aso 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: 20250125672
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor with which it is possible to reduce the size of a motor and stabilize drive performance. This in-wheel motor is of outer-rotor type and comprises a stator having a coil, and a rotor that has a magnet opposite the coil and rotates around a motor axis with respect to the stator. The rotor is journaled to the stator at opposite ends in the wheel width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Hiroyuki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20250055348
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor that makes it possible to prevent magnet demagnetization due to the influence of heat from a friction brake. This in-wheel motor is an outer rotor-type in-wheel motor comprising: a stator which includes coils; and a rotor which includes magnets facing the coils and which rotates around a motor shaft with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a rotor case which holds the magnets, and further includes a brake disc which is connected to a wheel-width-direction inner end of the rotor case and which rotates together with the rotor case. The rotor case and the brake disc are connected to each other through a heat capacity member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Hiroyuki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20250050696
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle with a cargo room provided on a vehicle body frame, the vehicle comprising: drive motors respectively provided for each of a pair of first rear wheels 50 and a pair of second rear wheels 55 disposed at a predetermined interval in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, the drive motors rotating the first rear wheels 50 and second rear wheels 55 independently; and a pair of suspension mechanisms 100 supporting a first axle of the first rear wheels 50 and a second axle of the second rear wheels 55.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Kenichi HORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250055344
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor that can keep dust, water, etc. from infiltrating a motor. The present invention provides an outer-rotor in-wheel motor that comprises: a stator that has a coil; and a rotor that has a magnet that is opposite the coil. The rotor rotates around a motor axis relative to the stator. A seal member is interposed between the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Hiroyuki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20250042240
    Abstract: This in-wheel motor fixing structure comprises: an in-wheel motor 2 having a rotor 21 that is fixed to a wheel 1 of a vehicle S and that rotates together with the wheel 1, a stator 22 that is provided inside the rotor 21 and that causes the rotor 21 to rotate by generating a magnetic force while being fixed to the vehicle S, and a shaft 25 fixed to the stator 22 on the rotation axis of the rotor 21 in the stator 22; and a supporting component 3 of the vehicle S having a hole 31 into which the shaft 25 is inserted. A plurality of protrusions 251 formed in the circumferential direction of the shaft 25 are provided in at least a partial region of the shaft 25 in the longitudinal direction, and formed in the inner peripheral surface of the hole 31 are a plurality of recesses 311 into which the plurality of protrusions 251 are respectively inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Publication number: 20250023429
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor that can suppress an occurrence of a sensor malfunction. The in-wheel motor is of the outer rotor type comprising a stator and a rotor, and includes a sensor that detects the rotational state of the rotor and a detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the rotor and which is provided with the sensor on the surface that faces the inner circumferential surface of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Hiroyuki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20250015676
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor that can accurately transmit the torque of a rotor to a rotating member. The in-wheel motor is of the outer rotor type comprising a stator and a rotor, and includes a sensor that detects the rotational state of the rotor, a detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the rotor and which is provided with the sensor on the surface that faces the inner circumferential surface of the stator, and a friction member which is provided between the rotor and the detachable member and which is secured to the rotor together with the detachable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Publication number: 20250007376
    Abstract: Provided is an in-wheel motor with which phase matching of a sensor and a magnet can be easily carried out. This in-wheel motor is an outer rotor-type in-wheel motor comprising a stator and a rotor. The in-wheel motor comprises: a sensor that senses the rotation state of the rotor; an attachable/detachable member that can be attached to and detached from the rotor, and that has a surface which opposes the inner circumferential surface of the stator and on which the sensor is provided; and a positioning part that, when the attachable/detachable member has been attached to the rotor, defines a positional relationship between the sensor and a magnet of the rotor so that a phase difference between the sensor and the magnet reaches a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Publication number: 20240424849
    Abstract: A vehicle in which a load chamber is provided on a vehicle body frame includes: a driver motor that is provided for each of a pair of rear wheels, and rotates the rear wheels independently; a pair of suspension mechanisms that support an axle of the rear wheels. The suspension mechanism is connected to the axle of the rear wheels and includes an arm member whose longitudinal direction extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, a support shaft that pivotably supports one end of the arm member in the longitudinal direction with respect to the vehicle body frame, and a spring member provided between the other end of the arm member in the longitudinal direction and the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masaki ASANO, Kenichi HORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240239181
    Abstract: This vehicle has a plurality of in-wheel motors accommodated by a plurality of wheels. Each in-wheel motor has a rotor that rotated together with the wheel, and a stator that is provided to the inside of the rotor and that causes the rotor to rotate via magnetic force. Each stator has a coil and a connector. The vehicle has a plurality of front wheels that change the orientation of the vehicle in the left-right direction via the steering of the vehicle, and a plurality of rear wheels. The in-wheel motors are accommodated in the plurality of wheels such that the stator circumferential-direction positions of the connectors provided to the stators of the in-wheel motors accommodated in the front wheels and the stator circumferential-direction positions of the connectors provided to the stators of the in-wheel motors accommodated in the rear wheels differ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Publication number: 20230169118
    Abstract: An information presenting method includes an obtaining step, a meal recommendation determining step, a presenting step, and a rating accepting step. In the obtaining step, user information pertaining to a user is obtained. In the meal recommendation determining step, based on the user information obtained in the obtaining step, a meal recommendation corresponding to a priority status determined to have a high priority level for the user is determined from among a plurality of statuses related to the user. In the presenting step, the meal recommendation determined in the meal recommendation determining step is presented to the user. In the rating accepting step, a rating by the user of the meal recommendation presented in the presenting step is accepted. The rating indicates whether the user cooked a food in the meal recommendation or whether the user ate the food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Michiko SASAGAWA, Naohisa TANABE, Nobue NARITA
  • Publication number: 20230008912
    Abstract: A server as an example of a menu recommendation system includes an evaluator, a processing unit, and an actual usage record acquirer. The evaluator recommends menus for a target period. The processing unit presents the menus recommended by the evaluator to a user. The actual usage record acquirer acquires, from the user, an actual usage record of the menus recommended by the evaluator at an arbitrary timing in the target period. When a difference occurs between first information regarding content of the menus recommended by the evaluator and second information regarding the actual usage record during a period from a start of the target period to the timing, the evaluator performs reward processing of rewarding the user according to the difference or re-recommendation processing of re-recommending menus for a remaining period by changing the content of the recommended menus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Nobue NARITA, Yoshitsugu URIU
  • Publication number: 20220405335
    Abstract: An information presentation method is an information presentation method of presenting a user with a meal proposal selected from a plurality of meal proposals, and the information presentation method includes: obtaining user information associated with the user; determining condition information associated with the user based on the user information obtained and determining a plurality of intermediate words based on the condition information; presenting the user with the plurality of intermediate words; determining, of the plurality of meal proposals, a meal proposal corresponding to one or more intermediate words selected by the user; and presenting the user with the meal proposal determined. Each of the plurality of intermediate words is a word that corresponds to an attribute pertaining to one or more meal proposals among the plurality of meal proposals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Michiko SASAGAWA, Mitsuhiro ASO, Naohisa TANABE, Nobue NARITA
  • Patent number: 11328223
    Abstract: An information processing method includes the processes of: obtaining food and drink data and presenting the food and drink data via a presentation device; generating options for the food and drink data, and presenting the options via the presentation device; generating selection reasons according to an option selected from among the options, and presenting the selection reasons via the presentation device; and controlling training of a machine learning model, in which the food and drink data is used, according to a result of an input in response to the selection reasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Aso
  • Patent number: 11268702
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11017521
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Aso, Takayuki Hayami, Tomoko Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20210027198
    Abstract: An information processing method includes the processes of: obtaining food and drink data and presenting the food and drink data via a presentation device; generating options for the food and drink data, and presenting the options via the presentation device; generating selection reasons according to an option selected from among the options, and presenting the selection reasons via the presentation device; and controlling training of a machine learning model, in which the food and drink data is used, according to a result of an input in response to the selection reasons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Publication number: 20200400316
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20200366030
    Abstract: An interlock system 50, provided with: a set of interlock terminals 51a, 51b disposed on a first connector 20; an interlock terminal connection part 52; a DC power supply 53; an interlock wiring 54 routed so that a set of interlock terminals of a plurality of first connectors are serially connected with respect to the DC power supply, in a state in which electricity can be conducted between the set of interlock terminals; a current cutoff detection unit 57 for detecting an interruption to the flow of electricity from the DC power supply to the interlock wiring; and a current cutoff control unit 58 for cutting off the flow of electricity between a power supply 10 and connector terminals 22a, 22b when an interruption to the flow of electricity from the DC power supply to the interlock wiring is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Keihin GO, Mitsuhiro ASO
  • Patent number: 10801733
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka