Patents by Inventor Susumu Iwamoto

Susumu Iwamoto 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: 20190286129
    Abstract: A vehicle use system includes an authentication information assignor that assigns authentication information for using a vehicle to a user, an authenticator (180) that acquires the authentication information to permit use of the vehicle, at least a part of the authenticator being mounted in the vehicle (100), and a driving controller (220, 260) that automatedly controls acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle, in which the authentication information assignor assigns the authentication information in which constraints are applied to both a time period and an area in which traveling is possible to the user, and the driving controller enables the user to use the vehicle in a range of the constraints applied to the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286135
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle and recognizes a state of a vehicle occupant having boarded the subject vehicle; and a driving control unit (140 or 160) that controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, wherein, in a case in which the subject vehicle is parked, the driving control unit sets a parking completion state in a case in which it is recognized by the recognition unit that no vehicle occupant has boarded the subject vehicle to be different from a parking completion state in a case in which it is recognized by the recognition unit that a vehicle occupant has boarded the subject vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286163
    Abstract: An automatic driving control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) which recognizes a peripheral situation of an automatic driving vehicle, and driving control units (120 and 160) which automatically control acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatic driving vehicle on the basis of the peripheral situation recognized by the recognition unit, performs control such that a host vehicle and the other vehicles perform platooning on the basis of a result of the communication with other vehicles, selects one or more vehicles satisfying a first condition as a preceding vehicle among platooning vehicles, and determines that the one or more vehicles separately travel as the preceding vehicle preceding the platooning vehicles by a distance larger than an inter-vehicle distance between the platooning vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286144
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a detection unit (132) configured to detect an abnormal factor occurring in an own vehicle capable of performing automatic driving, and a control unit (180, 190) configured to supply information for recovering the own vehicle from the abnormal factor to the outside of the own vehicle in a case that the own vehicle stops due to the abnormal factor detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190278278
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190279487
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of an automatically driven vehicle, and a driving controller (120, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer and also includes a situation information acquirer that acquires situation information indicating an in-vehicle situation of an automatically driven vehicle, a detector that detects a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of the situation information acquired by the situation information acquirer, and a controller that controls the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the detection of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190276031
    Abstract: Provided a vehicle management system including an information acquirer (182) that acquires information indicating a mode of use of a vehicle on the basis of information acquired by a vehicle device mounted in the vehicle or information received from an external device, a determiner (183) that determines whether an occupant of the vehicle is a restricted person who is subject to restriction of use of an object within the vehicle in accordance with the mode of use of the vehicle acquired by the information acquirer, and a restricting processor (184) that executes a restricting process related to use of the object in a case where the occupant is determined to be the restricted person by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190279119
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a generator (184) configured to generate a first travel plan of an automatic driving vehicle; a controller (120, 160, 180) configured to cause the automatic driving vehicle to travel based on the first travel plan generated by the generator; and an acquirer (182) configured to acquire a change request for changing the first travel plan generated by the generator. The generator generates a second travel plan satisfying the change request in accordance with a situation of the automatic driving vehicle when the acquirer acquires the change request in a situation in which an authorized person who has a predetermined authority to use the automatic driving vehicle does not board the automatic driving vehicle and the automatic driving vehicle starts traveling in accordance with the first travel plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180367957
    Abstract: A service assistance device includes an acquirer configured to acquire position information associated with each of a plurality of users and movement direction information associated with each of the plurality of users; a group former configured to group some or all of the plurality of users on the basis of the position information and the movement direction information; and a service specifier configured to specify a service for the users on the basis of attributes of the users included in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Naotoshi Fujimoto, Yo Ito, Seiichi Yamamoto, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180349825
    Abstract: A ridesharing managing device (300) includes: an acquisition unit (320) configured to acquire a riding request in which riding conditions including a riding place and an alighting place of a user are defined; and a management unit (330) configured to search for allocable vehicles on the basis of the riding conditions of the riding request, to determine an operation schedule satisfying the riding conditions, and to determine the operation schedule satisfying the riding conditions by transferring from a first vehicle to a second vehicle among the allocable vehicles in a case that an operation schedule satisfying the riding conditions is not determined with one vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Seiichi Yamamoto, Naotoshi Fujimoto, Yo Ito, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180309438
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention suppresses high frequency noise caused in a semiconductor device incorporating SiC elements. The semiconductor device includes semiconductor elements connected in series, a SiC diode element connected in parallel to the semiconductor element, and an oscillation suppressing circuit being connected in parallel to the semiconductor element and the SiC diode element and suppressing voltage fluctuation caused in the SiC diode element in response to turn-ons of the semiconductor element. The oscillation suppressing circuit suppresses voltage fluctuation caused in the SiC diode element in response to turn-ons of the semiconductor element thereby improving reliability of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Naotaka MATSUDA, Seiki IGARASHI, Hideaki KAKIKI, Susumu IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180286779
    Abstract: A space having a certain thickness is provided between a metal base and a heat-dissipation fin set or the like. A semiconductor device is provided, including: a package portion; a metal base which is housed in the package portion and is exposed at a lower surface of the package portion; a semiconductor chip which is housed in the package portion and is placed above the metal base; and a frame portion provided to surround a penetration space penetrating the package portion, wherein a lower end of the frame portion protrudes below the lower surface of the package portion and a lower surface of the metal base. It is preferable that the frame portion is inserted in the penetration space after the penetration space is formed in the package portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Susumu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 9260459
    Abstract: A 4,6-hexadecadiene-2,4-dicarboxylic acid derivative represented by the following general formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, each of which has an anti-tumor activity, and the like, are provided. [wherein, R1 represents hydroxy, —OR3 (wherein R3 represents optionally substituted lower alkyl or an optionally substituted aliphatic heterocyclic group), or —NR4R5 (wherein R4 and R5 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom or optionally substituted lower alkyl) and R2 represents hydroxy or —OR6 (wherein R6 represents optionally substituted lower alkyl or optionally substituted aralkyl)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimpei Yamaguchi, Yumiko Uochi, Tsutomu Agatsuma, Susumu Iwamoto, Hideyuki Onodera
  • Publication number: 20150183809
    Abstract: A 4,6-hexadecadiene-2,4-dicarboxylic acid derivative represented by the following general formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, each of which has an anti-tumor activity, and the like, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Shimpei Yamaguchi, Yumiko Uochi, Tsutomu Agatsuma, Susumu Iwamoto, Hideyuki Onodera
  • Patent number: 9068516
    Abstract: A reaction force control unit calculates a driver's requested output and then estimates a maximum output that can be generated by an engine in a current cylinder deactivation operation. Next, the reaction force control unit calculates a difference between the maximum output and the requested output as an output difference and then determines whether the output difference has reached a predetermined reaction force start threshold value, and if the determination result is Yes, the reaction force control unit estimates a number of to-be-reactivated cylinders on the basis of the output difference and the current cylinder deactivation operation state. Subsequently, the reaction force control unit sets a target reaction force on the basis of the output difference and the number of to-be-reactivated cylinders, and outputs drive current to a reaction force actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Maruyama, Toshihiko Sato, Takayuki Yoshimura, Hideto Nebuya, Naoto Sen, Susumu Iwamoto, Kenji Hattori
  • Patent number: 7888243
    Abstract: An active region in a semiconductor device is made up of a parallel p-n layer including a first p-semiconductor layer and a first n-semiconductor with the widths and total amounts of impurities being equal to each other to provide a structure in which charges are balanced. A section parallel to stripes in the parallel p-n layer in an inactive region is made up of a second parallel p-n layer including a second p-semiconductor layer, with its width larger than that of the first p-semiconductor layer, and a second n-semiconductor layer with its width smaller than that of the first n-semiconductor layer. The total amount of impurities in the second p-semiconductor layer is made larger than that in the second n-semiconductor layer to provide a structure in which charges are made unbalanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouta Takahashi, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20110020931
    Abstract: A proliferation promoting agent for neural stem cells, which comprises a compound produced by Penicillium sp. CND1007 (FERM BP-10917) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient; a novel compound produced by Penicillium sp. CND 1007 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a method for producing neural stem cells, which comprises culturing a neural stem cells to proliferate the neural stem cells in a presence of the compound produced by Penicillium sp. CND 1007 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and harvesting the neural stem cells from the culture; and the like are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Onodera, Michio Ichimura, Kouji Baba, Tsutomu Agatsuma, Setsuya Sasho, Makoto Suzuki, Susumu Iwamoto, Shingo Kakita
  • Patent number: 7872282
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes deep first field limiting rings, shallow second field limiting rings, insulation films covering each surface portion of each of the first and the second field limiting rings, and conductive field plates each in contact with a surface of each of the first and the second field limiting rings. Each of the field plates project over a surface of each of the insulation films between the first field limiting rings and the second field limiting rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Iwamoto, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100022075
    Abstract: An active region in a semiconductor device is made up of a parallel p-n layer including a first p-semiconductor layer and a first n-semiconductor with the widths and total amounts of impurities being equal to each other to provide a structure in which charges are balanced. A section parallel to stripes in the parallel p-n layer in an inactive region is made up of a second parallel p-n layer including a second p-semiconductor layer, with its width larger than that of the first p-semiconductor layer, and a second n-semiconductor layer with its width smaller than that of the first n-semiconductor layer. The total amount of impurities in the second p-semiconductor layer is made larger than that in the second n-semiconductor layer to provide a structure in which charges are made unbalanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouta TAKAHASHI, Susumu IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7605061
    Abstract: An active region in a semiconductor device is made up of a parallel p-n layer including a first p-semiconductor layer and a first n-semiconductor with the widths and total amounts of impurities being equal to each other to provide a structure in which charges are balanced. A section parallel to stripes in the parallel p-n layer in an inactive region is made up of a second parallel p-n layer including a second p-semiconductor layer, with its width larger than that of the first p-semiconductor layer, and a second n-semiconductor layer with its width smaller than that of the first n-semiconductor layer. The total amount of impurities in the second p-semiconductor layer is made larger than that in the second n-semiconductor layer to provide a structure in which charges are made unbalanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouta Takahashi, Susumu Iwamoto