Patents by Inventor Noboru Kitahara

Noboru Kitahara 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: 11585286
    Abstract: A data processing method of variable measurement data in an electronic control unit (ECU) is provided. The ECU that processes the data processing method calculates a filtering frequency based on a delay time frequency based on a transmission timing cycle of the measurement data and a processing timing cycle of the measurement data in the ECU, and also based on a pulsation frequency of the measurement data, and removes, from the measurement data, a component of the filtering frequency calculated in the calculation of the filtering frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Yamada, Hiroyuki Akuzawa, Noboru Kitahara, Takashi Ooga, Taichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11555723
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device that measures a physical quantity of a fluid has an inflow port and an outflow port, and includes a passage flow channel, a branch flow channel, and a physical quantity detector. An inner peripheral surface of the passage flow channel extends over a pair of facing surfaces, which face each other across the flow passage boundary portion and the inflow port on an upstream side of the flow channel boundary portion. The inner peripheral surface further includes an inflow step surface which forms a step facing the inflow port side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220349736
    Abstract: An air flow rate measuring device is configured to measure a flow rate of air flowing through a main flow path. The air flow rate measuring device includes a housing, a board, a land portion, and an insulating portion. The housing is provided in the main flow path. The board is provided in the housing. The land portion includes multiple lands via which the board is configured to be mounted with a physical quantity sensor that is configured to detect a physical quantity of air. The insulating portion electrically insulates between the multiple lands against foreign matter or water flowing with the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hajime MASHITA, Noboru KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11480455
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device includes a housing forming a measurement flow path through which the fluid flows and a container space that houses a part of a detection unit. An inner surface of the housing includes a housing intersecting surface that intersects an arrangement direction in which the measurement flow path and the container space are arranged, a housing flow path surface extending from the housing intersecting surface toward the measurement flow path, and a housing container surface extending from the housing intersecting surface toward the container space. The housing includes a housing partition that protrudes from the inner surface toward the detection unit and contacts the detection unit between the housing and the detection unit such that the housing partition separates the measurement flow path and the container space from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tagawa, Hiroyuki Akuzawa, Teruaki Kaifu, Kengo Ito, Noboru Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220333547
    Abstract: A data processing method of variable measurement data in an electronic control unit (ECU) is provided. The ECU that processes the data processing method calculates a filtering frequency based on a delay time frequency based on a transmission timing cycle of the measurement data and a processing timing cycle of the measurement data in the ECU, and also based on a pulsation frequency of the measurement data, and removes, from the measurement data, a component of the filtering frequency calculated in the calculation of the filtering frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YAMADA, Hiroyuki AKUZAWA, Noboru KITAHARA, Takashi OOGA, Taichi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220309129
    Abstract: A data processing method is a data processing method in which variable measurement data transmitted from a sensor at a first cycle is computationally processed at a second cycle that is longer than the first cycle. The measurement data is acquired in a third cycle that is longer than the first cycle and shorter than the second cycle, an average value of the acquired measurement data is calculated at the second cycle, and computation processing thereof is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YAMADA, Hiroyuki AKUZAWA, Noboru KITAHARA, Taichi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11448543
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device measures a physical quantity of a fluid. A detection unit has a physical quantity detector that detects a physical quantity of the fluid in a measurement flow channel. A housing accommodates at least a part of the detection unit and forms the measurement flow channel. The housing includes a housing attachment that is attached to a predetermined attaching target, and a position holder holding a position of the detection unit by contacting the detection unit. The housing includes an inward part positioned inward of the attaching target and an outward part positioned outward of the attaching target. The position holder is provided inward of the housing attachment in an alignment direction along which the inward part and the outward part are aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junzo Yamaguchi, Noboru Kitahara, Hiroshi Tagawa, Masaki Inoue, Hiroyuki Akuzawa
  • Patent number: 11371870
    Abstract: An air flow rate measurement device includes a flow rate detection unit, a detected flow rate response compensation unit, a pulsation amplitude calculation unit, a correction value calculation unit, and an error correction unit. The flow rate detection unit detects a detected flow rate. The detected flow rate response compensation unit advances a response time of the detected flow rate and calculating a compensation flow rate which is an output obtained by compensating for a response delay of the detected flow rate. The pulsation amplitude calculation unit calculates a pulsation amplitude correlated with a pulsation amplitude in the detected flow rate. The correction value calculation unit calculates a pulsation correction value which is a value for correcting the compensation flow rate based on the pulsation amplitude. The error correction unit corrects the compensation flow rate based on the pulsation correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Kitahara, Teruaki Kaifu, Tomoaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11365996
    Abstract: In a measurement control device that measures an airflow, an amplitude calculator calculates, by use of an output value of a sensor, a pulsation amplitude that is a difference between a pulsation maximum and an average airflow or a difference between the pulsation maximum and a pulsation minimum. The pulsation maximum is a maximum value of pulsation generated in the airflow, the average airflow is an average value of the pulsation, and the pulsation minimum is a minimum value of the pulsation. A correction parameter acquirer acquires a correction parameter corresponding to the calculated pulsation amplitude by use of a correction characteristic. An airflow corrector corrects the airflow by use of the acquired correction parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220170772
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor detects a physical quantity of a fluid and a sealing resin. The physical quantity sensor is mounted on a circuit board and includes an electrode part electrically connected to the circuit board. The sealing resin is provided on a physical quantity sensor mounting surface, which is formed on the circuit board and equipped with the physical quantity sensor, and covers the electrode part. The physical quantity sensor mounting surface includes a mounting region surface including a place where the physical quantity sensor is provided and a place where the sealing resin is provided and a peripheral region surface extending around the mounting region surface. A wettability of the mounting region surface for the sealing resin in a liquid form is higher than a wettability of the peripheral region surface for the sealing resin in the liquid form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Noboru KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11313709
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device includes a housing forming a measurement flow path in which a sensor support supports a physical quantity sensor. The measurement flow path includes a sensor path in which the physical quantity sensor is disposed, an upstream curved path between the sensor path and an inlet, and a downstream curved path between the sensor path and an outlet. The housing includes a measurement narrowed portion that gradually narrows the measurement flow path in a direction from the inlet toward the physical quantity sensor. An upstream end of the sensor support is provided upstream of the measurement narrowed portion in an arrangement cross section along an imaginary straight line passing through the physical quantity sensor and extending in an arrangement direction in which the upstream curved path and the downstream curved path are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Akuzawa, Kengo Ito, Hiroshi Tagawa, Teruaki Kaifu, Noboru Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11300434
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device includes a housing forming a measurement flow path including a measurement inlet and a measurement outlet. The measurement flow path includes a sensor path in which a physical quantity sensor is disposed, an upstream curved path curved to extend from the sensor path toward the measurement inlet, and a downstream curved path curved to extend from the sensor path toward the measurement outlet. An inner surface of the housing includes an upstream outer curved surface that defines an outer outline of a curved part of the upstream curved path, and a downstream outer curved surface that defines an outer outline of a curve part of the downstream curved path. A degree of recess of the downstream outer curved surface is larger than a degree of recess of the upstream outer curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Ito, Hiroyuki Akuzawa, Hiroshi Tagawa, Teruaki Kaifu, Noboru Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11255709
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device includes a housing forming a through flow path, and a measurement flow path branching from the through flow path. A physical quantity sensor is provided in the measurement flow path. An inner surface of the housing includes an inlet ceiling surface and an inlet floor surface which face each other and define an inlet through path that is between and connects an inlet of the through flow path and an inlet of the measurement flow path, The inlet ceiling surface includes a ceiling inclined surface that extends from the inlet of the through flow path and is inclined with respect to the inlet floor surface. A distance between the ceiling inclined surface and the inlet floor surface gradually decreases in a direction from the inlet of the through flow path toward an outlet of the through flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Kitahara, Teruaki Kaifu, Kengo Ito, Hiroyuki Akuzawa, Hiroshi Tagawa
  • Patent number: 11221246
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensing device is installed to a circuit board and is configured to output a signal, which corresponds to a physical quantity of air flowing through a physical quantity measurement passage. A physical quantity measurement passage inlet, which is communicated with the physical quantity measurement passage, includes a first inner surface and a second inner surface. A second distance, which is measured from the physical quantity sensing device to the second inner surface in a plate thickness direction of the circuit board, is larger than a first distance, which is measured from the circuit board to the first inner surface in the plate thickness direction of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Tsuchiya, Kengo Itou, Noboru Kitahara, Yasushi Goka
  • Patent number: 11181411
    Abstract: A flow rate measurement system outputs a measurement value which represents a magnitude of a flow rate and a flow direction of a fluid that flows through a particular main passage. The system includes a bypass passage disposed in the main passage, a detection unit disposed in the bypass passage that outputs a detection value corresponding to a magnitude of a flow rate and a flow direction of the fluid flowing through the bypass passage, and a calculation unit that, by using the detection value, calculates the measurement value by compensating as needed for a delay in the change in flow rate in the bypass passage with respect to the change in flow rate in the main passage. The compensation is based on whether a change of flow direction has occurred in the main passage or the bypass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Kitahara, Hisato Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 11125193
    Abstract: A temperature sensor and a relative humidity sensor are placed in an environment allowing air to flow and are displaced in an upstream-downstream direction of the airflow. An absolute humidity acquisition unit acquires absolute humidity of air from outputs from the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor. A delay adjustment unit delays an output from one of the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor placed upstream and to reconcile change-behaviors of outputs from the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor in response to a state change in air. The absolute humidity acquisition unit acquires the absolute humidity based on the output from the other of the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor placed downstream and an output acquired from the one sensor placed upstream and delayed in the delay adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Kitahara, Hajime Mashita, Takashi Ooga, Teruaki Kaifu
  • Patent number: 11111887
    Abstract: A temperature sensor differs from a relative humidity sensor in responsiveness when the temperature of air changes. An absolute humidity acquisition unit acquires absolute humidity of air from outputs from the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor. A delay adjustment unit is to delay an output from one of the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor, which is a high response sensor having a higher responsiveness, and to reconcile change-behaviors of the output from the temperature sensor and the output from the relative humidity sensor in response to a temperature change in air. The absolute humidity acquisition unit acquires the absolute humidity based on the output from the other of the temperature sensor and the relative humidity sensor, which is a low response sensor having a lower responsiveness, and the sensor signal, which is from the high response sensor and delayed in the delay adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Kitahara, Hajime Mashita, Takashi Ooga, Teruaki Kaifu
  • Patent number: 11085392
    Abstract: An intake air amount measuring device includes a by-pass-type air flowmeter and a processor that calculates an intake air amount of an engine based on the measurement result of the air flowmeter. When calculating the intake air amount, the processor performs lag or lead compensation for a response delay of a change in an intake flow rate in the bypass passage in relation to a change in an intake flow rate in the main passage based on loss coefficients of the main passage and the bypass passage. The processor causes values of the loss coefficients of the main passage and the bypass passage, which are used in the compensation, to be different between a forward flow state, in which the intake air flows through the main passage in a forward direction, and a backflow state, in which the intake air flows through the main passage in a reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Kuramoto, Noboru Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20210223117
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device that measures a physical quantity of a fluid has an inflow port and an outflow port, and includes a passage flow channel, a branch flow channel, and a physical quantity detector. An inner peripheral surface of the passage flow channel extends over a pair of facing surfaces, which face each other across the flow passage boundary portion and the inflow port on an upstream side of the flow channel boundary portion. The inner peripheral surface further includes an inflow step surface which forms a step facing the inflow port side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Noboru KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11067421
    Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device measures a physical quantity of a fluid. The device includes a passage flow channel, a branch flow channel, a flow channel partition portion that separates the passage flow channel and the branch flow channel to have the branch flow channel branch off from the passage flow channel, and a physical quantity detector. The flow channel partition portion has a partition top portion as an upstream-side end that is not exposed through the inflow port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Kitahara