Patents by Inventor Takashi Ogawa

Takashi Ogawa 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: 20230075000
    Abstract: An object recognition device includes a detection point acquisition unit that acquires detection points in a plurality of orientations by using a sensor and an object recognition unit that recognizes an object by using at least some of the detection points. The object recognition device includes an exclusion unit. The exclusion unit excludes the detection point that does not satisfy a stereoscopic point condition, the detection point the detection point number of which is a threshold value or smaller, and the detection point the discontinuity index of which is a threshold value or higher, from the detection points acquired by the detection point acquisition unit. The object recognition unit recognizes the object by using the detection point that is acquired by the detection point number calculation unit and has not been excluded by the exclusion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Takashi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11580583
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique that enables customization of a vehicle. In an information processing apparatus, a controller presents vehicle units extracted from among a plurality of types of under units each of which is provided with a driving mechanism configured to cause wheels to rotate and a plurality of types of upper units to be loaded on any of the under units to a user, the vehicle units being combinable as a vehicle. Furthermore, the controller executes: accepting selection by a user from among the presented vehicle units; and calculating a fee in the case of providing the selected vehicle units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama, Yasushi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11552640
    Abstract: The redundancy control device includes three controllers that output status signals, a majority voting circuit to which a first voltage or a second voltage is supplied as an output signal through an output line of each controller, a switch provided in each output line, a voltage supply unit provided for each output line to supply the second voltage to the output line when the first voltage is lost, a latch circuit provided for each output line to latch the second voltage when the second voltage is supplied thereto and continue to output the second voltage, a comparison circuit provided for each controller to output a comparison signal based on a comparison of the status signals, and a switch control unit provided for each switch to outputs a switch signal to the switch in response to the comparison signal from the comparison circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Jinno, Takashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11479228
    Abstract: The invention has a purpose of obtaining a brake hydraulic pressure controller capable of securing durability with a simple configuration and a motorcycle brake system. The brake hydraulic pressure controller is a hydraulic pressure controller for a vehicle brake system and includes: a base body that is formed with a channel filled with a brake fluid therein; a hydraulic pressure regulation valve that has a plunger and opens/closes the channel by translatory movement of said plunger; a drive coil that has a hollow section, is vertically provided in the base body in a state where one end of the plunger is inserted in said hollow section, and causes the translatory movement of the plunger to drive the hydraulic pressure regulation valve; and a coil casing that accommodates the drive coil. The coil casing includes a wall that covers at least a part of an apex of the vertically-provided drive coil, and the drive coil is pressed toward the base body by a projection formed in the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kosaku Sagayama, Takashi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220297646
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control unit capable of suppressing application of an external force thereto in comparison with the related art at the time when mounted to a straddle-type vehicle is obtained. A hydraulic pressure control unit (1) includes: a base body (10) formed with an internal channel through which a brake fluid flows; and a housing (40) that is connected to the base body (10) and accommodates a circuit board. A dimension in a width direction (Y) of the housing (40) is greater than a dimension in the width direction (Y) of the base body (10). In a state where the hydraulic pressure control unit (1) is seen in a connection direction (X), a center in the width direction (Y) of the base body (10) is located on a first side surface (45) side from a center in the width direction (Y) of the housing (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Kazuki Chiba, Ryoji Nakano, Takashi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220289154
    Abstract: To obtain a hydraulic pressure control unit that can be downsized. A hydraulic pressure control unit (1) for a brake system mounted to a straddle-type vehicle includes: a coil unit (60) used to open/close a channel of a brake fluid; a housing (40) that accommodates the coil unit (60); a placement table (90) held by the housing (40); and a base body (10) having an upper surface (18) to which the coil unit (60) and the housing (40) are connected. The placement table (90) is configured that at least a part thereof is arranged below a portion of a coil housing (65) of the coil unit (60) and that, in a state before the coil unit (60) and the housing (40) are connected to the base body (10), a support section (91) supports the portion of the coil housing (65) from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ryoji Nakano, Takashi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220293992
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a reformer, fuel cell stacks, and an exhaust-gas combustor. The reformer has a tubular shape extending in an axial direction and reforms raw fuel into combustion gas. The fuel cell stacks generate electric power from the fuel gas and oxidant gas. The fuel cell stacks are arranged radially outward of the reformer in a circumferential direction to face the reformer in a radial direction. The exhaust-gas combustor burns fuel gas that is not used and included in exhaust gas from the fuel cell stacks. The exhaust-gas combustor is arranged radially inward of the reformer to face the reformer in the radial direction. Each fuel cell stack includes flat plate type cells stacked in the radial direction. This achieves downsizing of the fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhide OKAZAKI, Yoshinobu TAKAKI, Kotaro YAGI, Masato KAWAMI, Takashi OGAWA, Naohiro NAKATAYA, Masao OKU
  • Publication number: 20220281047
    Abstract: A method is provided with a step of converting shape data (51) into a plurality of voxels (55) for each of a plurality of known objects being processed, a step of setting, for each of the known objects being processed, a processing condition for a voxel (55) constituting a processing surface, a step of using the voxel (55) of the plurality of known objects being processed and the processing condition to perform machine learning in which an input is the voxel (55) and an output is a processing condition, a step of converting shape data (52) of a candidate object being processed into a plurality of voxels (56), a step of setting, on the basis of results of machine learning, a processing condition for a voxel (56) constituting a processing surface of the candidate object being processed, and a step of determining a processing condition for each processing surface of the candidate object being processed, a processing condition that is set for the largest number of voxels (56) in one processing surface being deter
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi NAKAMOTO, Mayu HASHIMOTO, Takashi OGAWA, Shinji IGARI
  • Patent number: 11358436
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted temperature controller includes a low temperature circuit and a refrigeration circuit. The low temperature circuit has a heat generating equipment heat exchanger exchanging heat with heat generating equipment, a radiator, a first heat exchanger, and a three-way valve. The refrigeration circuit has a second heat exchanger discharging heat from the refrigerant to a high temperature circuit to make the refrigerant condense, and the first heat exchanger making the refrigerant absorb heat from the cooling water to make the refrigerant evaporate. The low temperature circuit includes a first partial circuit through which the cooling water flows through the radiator and the first heat exchanger, and a second partial circuit through which the cooling water flows through the heat generating equipment heat exchanger without passing through the radiator and the first heat exchanger. The cooling water circulates simultaneously and separately at these first partial circuit and second partial circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Aikawa, Manabu Orihashi, Yoshio Hasegawa, Takashi Ogawa, Yuji Miyoshi, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11349412
    Abstract: A three-phase AC control apparatus includes: an equal duty sensing circuit; and a PWM signal control circuit. The equal duty sensing circuit senses whether any two of a U-phase, a V-phase, and a W-phase of a three-phase AC current have an equal duty value. The PWM signal control circuit outputs, when it is sensed that any two of the U-phase, the V-phase, and the W-phase of the three-phase AC current have the equal duty value, a control signal that shifts a timing of start and a timing of stop of one of the two phases having the equal duty value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Takayuki Jinno, Yoshiaki Okuno
  • Patent number: 11331993
    Abstract: A temperature conditioning unit includes a first temperature conditioning unit part, a second temperature conditioning unit part, and a blower (centrifugal blower). The first temperature conditioning unit part includes a first housing, a first air hole part, a first air chamber, a first object to be temperature-conditioned, and a second air chamber. The second temperature conditioning unit part includes a second housing, a second object to be temperature-conditioned, a second air hole part, and a third air chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shizuka Yokote, Taku Uno, Takashi Ogawa, Sho Koyama, Michihiro Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11267377
    Abstract: An auxiliary member attachment structure for a vehicle seat. The auxiliary member attachment structure includes an auxiliary member at an outer side of the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat has a seat cushion that is capable of transitioning from a seating position to a storage position aligned with a seat back. The auxiliary member being rotatable, about a shaft in the vehicle seat extending along the seat width direction, between a reference position at which the auxiliary member is upright and a holding position at which the auxiliary member is rotated closer to a front side of a vehicle. The auxiliary member attachment structure further includes a rotation restriction unit configured to restrict rotation of the auxiliary member at the reference position when the seat cushion is at the seating position, and cease the restriction of rotation of the auxiliary member when the seat cushion is at the storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Satoshi Nonoyama
  • Publication number: 20210397159
    Abstract: To provide processing information to a CAM that generates an NC program of a processing machine for processing an object to be processed with a tool, a processing support system comprises, in a cloud storage device installed on a processing tool manufacturer side, a user knowledge database of a storage unit that stores processing information so as to be unshareble with other users and a sharing knowledge database of the storage unit that stores processing information so as to be sharable with other user, wherein a user side transmits and receives, by a transmitting/receiving unit, extended STEP-NC data of processing information via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro TSUCHIYA, Katsuhiko TAKEI, Takashi OGAWA, Koichi WAKATSUCHI
  • Patent number: 11180000
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted temperature controller includes a first heat circuit having a battery heat exchange part exchanging heat with a battery and a first heat exchange part, with a first heat medium circulating therethrough; and a refrigeration circuit having a compression part compressing a refrigerant, a second heat exchange part radiating heat from the refrigerant, an expansion part expanding the refrigerant, and the first heat exchange part evaporating the refrigerant by making the refrigerant absorb heat from the first heat medium, realizing a refrigeration cycle by the refrigerant circulating therethrough. The first heat circuit includes a bypass flow path bypassing the battery heat exchange part, and an adjusting device adjusting a flow rate of the first heat medium flowing through the bypass flow path based on the temperature of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Aikawa, Manabu Orihashi, Yoshio Hasegawa, Takashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11152887
    Abstract: A temperature abnormality of the power module is accurately detected. A power conversion device including a power semiconductor module with a switching element, includes: a gate driver circuit configured to drive a switching element and transmitting a response signal upon a switching operation of the switching element; a control unit device configured to output to a gate driver circuit an instruction signal for switching; a temperature detection unit configured to calculate a bonding temperature of the switching element based on a response signal to the instruction signal; and a calculation unit configured to determine a state of a power semiconductor module according to a bonding temperature calculated by the temperature detection unit and the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kimura, Kazuki Tani, Takashi Ogawa, Hiroshi Suzuki, Junichi Sakano
  • Publication number: 20210284325
    Abstract: If irregular movement is detected in a given one of left and right spoilers, a spoiler control device outputs a retracting signal for the given one of the spoilers and refrains from outputting the retracting signal for the other of the left and right spoilers, and if the difference between the angles of the left and right spoilers becomes equal to or less than a specified value, the spoiler control device outputs the retracting signal for the other of the left and right spoilers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210281265
    Abstract: The redundancy control device includes three controllers that output status signals, a majority voting circuit to which a first voltage or a second voltage is supplied as an output signal through an output line of each controller, a switch provided in each output line, a voltage supply unit provided for each output line to supply the second voltage to the output line when the first voltage is lost, a latch circuit provided for each output line to latch the second voltage when the second voltage is supplied thereto and continue to output the second voltage, a comparison circuit provided for each controller to output a comparison signal based on a comparison of the status signals, and a switch control unit provided for each switch to outputs a switch signal to the switch in response to the comparison signal from the comparison circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki JINNO, Takashi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210269171
    Abstract: An aircraft vibration detecting device applicable to an aircraft having a moving surface to be driven by an actuator includes a difference calculating unit for calculating a difference between a target value of an angle of the moving surface and an actual measured value of the angle of the moving surface, a threshold value determining unit for determining whether an absolute value of the difference is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and a vibration determining unit for determining that the moving surface is vibrating if the absolute value of the difference is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi OGAWA, Takashi TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210247765
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller equipped with at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute the processing of; when a vehicle body unit on which a cultivation field for cultivating a crop is mounted is laid at a first place, determining a time to remove defined as a time to remove the vehicle body unit from the first place to a second place other than the first place; and sending a transportation command to a chassis unit configured to be capable of travelling autonomously and being coupled to and decoupled from any vehicle body unit in accordance with the time to remove, the transportation command being a command to transport the vehicle body unit from the first place to the second place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhisa YOSHIKAWA, Yuji SUZUKI, Keita YAMAZAKI, Kei MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Takashi OGAWA, Yukiya SUGIYAMA, Masaru ANDO, Tae SUGIMURA, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Daiki KUBO, Yosuke NOZAKI, Tsukasa NAKANISHI, Hironori AOYAMA, Seiji YOGO, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Ryo SATO, Sayaka NINOYUU, Yasushi FUJIWARA, Azusa NAKAGAME, Takeshi YAMADA, Erina TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210247766
    Abstract: There is provided a technology that can improve the convenience of users of vehicles. When receiving a vehicle dispatch request containing information designating kitchen equipment and food materials, an information processing apparatus disclosed determines a first unit provided with the kitchen equipment designated by the vehicle dispatch request and a second unit capable of storing the food materials designated by the vehicle dispatch request. The information processing apparatus sends a composition command to a specific composition site. The composition command is a command to compose a vehicle body unit including the first unit and the second unit. Moreover, the information processing apparatus sends an operation command to a chassis unit. The operation command is a command to cause the chassis unit to travel with the vehicle body unit composed at the specific composition site mounted thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhisa YOSHIKAWA, Yuji SUZUKI, Keita YAMAZAKI, Kei MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Takashi OGAWA, Yukiya SUGIYAMA, Masaru ANDO, Yasushi FUJIWARA, Azusa NAKAGAME, Erina TOYAMA