Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Sugiura

Tetsuro Sugiura 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: 11960527
    Abstract: A buried object information management unit manages information about a buried object included in a search image showing the presence or absence of the buried object in a wall surface generated by a buried object scanning device that is scanned along a wall surface, and comprises a data receiving unit, an input unit, and a collation unit. The data receiving unit acquires search information including the search image generated by the buried object scanning device. To the input unit is inputted construction information including position information about the buried object in the wall surface. The collation unit collates the search information acquired by the data receiving unit with the construction information inputted to the input unit, and determines whether or not there is a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Tsurusu, Shingo Kawamoto, Mitsunori Sugiura, Takahide Yagi
  • Patent number: 11946470
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Katsuaki Usui, Masahiro Hatakeyama, Chikako Honma, Toru Osuga, Koichi Iwasaki, Jie Yuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20240077079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Keiji MAISHIGI, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Katsuaki USUI, Masahiro HATAKEYAMA, Chikako HONMA, Toru OSUGA, Koichi IWASAKI, Jie Yuan LIN
  • Publication number: 20240067171
    Abstract: A brake light activation determining device has a processor configured to detect decrease in the speed of a vehicle ahead, which is located ahead of one's own vehicle, based on output information from a sensor that acquires information relating to the vehicle ahead, to discriminate whether the brake light of the vehicle ahead is activated based on an image representing the vehicle ahead, and to determine that the vehicle ahead is braking, when it has been discriminated that the brake light of the vehicle ahead has been activated, when the speed decrease timing at which reduction in the speed of the vehicle ahead has been detected and the activation timing at which brake light activation by the vehicle ahead was discriminated are synchronized for the vehicle ahead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Hitoshi KAMADA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Daisuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240067231
    Abstract: A travel controller of a vehicle that can travel on a road under autonomous driving control detecting two-wheelers, including bicycles, located in surroundings of the vehicle from surrounding data representing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a surrounding sensor mounted on the vehicle, determining whether a target road on which the vehicle was traveling when the surrounding data in which a two-wheeler was detected was generated is a shared road on which travel by bicycles is permitted, when it is determined that the target road is a shared road, notifying a driver of the vehicle of a transition demand demanding transition in control of the vehicle from autonomous driving control to manual driving control requiring driving operations by the driver of the vehicle, and when it is determined that the target road is not a shared road, not notifying the driver of the transition demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kuroda, Kenichiro Aoki, Tadashi Okubo, Takuya Fujiki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20240071097
    Abstract: An apparatus for object detection detects a number of lanes included in a road on which a vehicle is traveling, detects one or more surrounding vehicles positioned in surroundings of the vehicle from a surrounding image showing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a camera mounted in the vehicle, and determines, when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes detected in a predetermined range at the back of the vehicle are detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle, that a possibility that any one of the surrounding vehicles being an emergency vehicle which is allowed to travel without obeying the traveling rule of the road is higher than when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes are not detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya Fujiki, Ryusuke Kuroda, Tadashi Okubo, Kenichiro Aoki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Wataru Kawashima, Hitoshi Kamada
  • Publication number: 20240067168
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle ahead of a host vehicle from time-series sensor signals obtained by a sensor provided on the host vehicle for sensing objects around the host vehicle, track the vehicle ahead detected from the time-series sensor signals, determine whether the vehicle ahead has performed an avoidance action, based on the result of tracking, detect, when the vehicle ahead has performed an avoidance action, a trajectory of an edge of the vehicle ahead opposite a direction of avoidance in the avoidance action, and control travel of the host vehicle so that an edge of the host vehicle opposite the direction of avoidance moves along the detected trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Kenichiro Aoki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Takuya Fujiki, Hitoshi Kamada, Wataru Kawashima, Tadashi Okubo
  • Patent number: 11685405
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect an object region including another vehicle near a vehicle from each of time series images obtained by a camera mounted on the vehicle; detect a predetermined action taken by the other vehicle, based on a trajectory of the other vehicle estimated from the object region of each image; identify the state of a signal light of the other vehicle, based on characteristics obtained from pixel values of the object region of each image; extract information indicating characteristics of an action of the other vehicle or the state of a signal light at the predetermined action taken by the other vehicle, based on the predetermined action detected in a tracking period and the state of the signal light related to the predetermined action; and predict behavior of the other vehicle, using the extracted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hashimoto, Ryusuke Kuroda, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hitoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 11396876
    Abstract: A control device that controls a target vacuum pump including a motor, including: a decision unit that decides, using at least one of target state quantities at a time of a past stop process of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump wherein the target state quantities are state quantities which fluctuate in accordance with a load at a time of a process of stopping a vacuum pump, a normal fluctuation range or a normal time fluctuation behavior of the target state quantity at the time of the stop process; and a control unit that controls the motor, wherein the control unit compares the target state quantity at the time of the process of stopping the target vacuum pump with the normal fluctuation range or the normal time fluctuation behavior, and changes a method of controlling the motor during the stop process depending on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Atsushi Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 11198160
    Abstract: A detoxifying device 100 having an inner wall 104 that forms a flow passage 103 through which treatment gas flows includes a first piping 130 that forms a part of the flow passage 103, a replaceable piping section 170 that forms a part of the flow passage 103 at the position downstream of the first piping 130, and is connected thereto for sprinkling the cleaning water to remove the solid product adhering to the inner wall 104, and a second piping 150 that forms a part of the flow passage 103 at the position downstream of the piping section 170, and is connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Inada, Tetsuo Komai, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20210309214
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect an object region including another vehicle near a vehicle from each of time series images obtained by a camera mounted on the vehicle; detect a predetermined action taken by the other vehicle, based on a trajectory of the other vehicle estimated from the object region of each image; identify the state of a signal light of the other vehicle, based on characteristics obtained from pixel values of the object region of each image; extract information indicating characteristics of an action of the other vehicle or the state of a signal light at the predetermined action taken by the other vehicle, based on the predetermined action detected in a tracking period and the state of the signal light related to the predetermined action; and predict behavior of the other vehicle, using the extracted information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Ryusuke KURODA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Hitoshi KAMADA
  • Patent number: 10978315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum evacuation system used to evacuate a processing gas from one or more process chambers for use in, for example, a semiconductor-device manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum evacuation system is a vacuum apparatus for evacuating a gas from a plurality of process chambers (1). The vacuum evacuation system includes a plurality of first vacuum pumps (5) coupled to the plurality of process chambers (1) respectively, a collecting pipe (7) coupled to the plurality of first vacuum pumps (5), and a second vacuum pump (8) coupled to the collecting pipe (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shiokawa, Tetsuro Sugiura, Shinichi Sekiguchi, Takashi Kyotani, Tetsuo Komai, Norio Kimura, Keiichi Ishikawa, Toru Osuga
  • Patent number: 10632419
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which one or more abatement parts for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless are attached. The one or more abatement parts are selected, depending on the amount and kind of the exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump, from plural kinds of abatement parts which have different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazawa, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Takashi Kyotani, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Hideo Arai
  • Publication number: 20200114402
    Abstract: A detoxifying device 100 having an inner wall 104 that forms a flow passage 103 through which treatment gas flows includes a first piping 130 that forms a part of the flow passage 103, a replaceable piping section 170 that forms a part of the flow passage 103 at the position downstream of the first piping 130, and is connected thereto for sprinkling the cleaning water to remove the solid product adhering to the inner wall 104, and a second piping 150 that forms a part of the flow passage 103 at the position downstream of the piping section 170, and is connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Takanori INADA, Tetsuo KOMAI, Tetsuro SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20200109712
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Katsuaki Usui, Masahiro Hatakeyama, Chikako Honma, Toru Osuga, Koichi Iwasaki, Jie Yuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20190368490
    Abstract: A control device that controls a target vacuum pump including a motor, including: a decision unit that decides, using at least one of target state quantities at a time of a past stop process of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump wherein the target state quantities are state quantities which fluctuate in accordance with a load at a time of a process of stopping a vacuum pump, a normal fluctuation range or a normal time fluctuation behavior of the target state quantity at the time of the stop process; and a control unit that controls the motor, wherein the control unit compares the target state quantity at the time of the process of stopping the target vacuum pump with the normal fluctuation range or the normal time fluctuation behavior, and changes a method of controlling the motor during the stop process depending on the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Atsushi Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 10143964
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The abatement part is selected from a plurality of abatement parts having different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas and/or different treatment performances of exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hideo Arai, Takashi Kyotani, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10040026
    Abstract: The fan scrubber is provided with a casing having a gas draw-in port and a gas ejection port, a fan disposed in the casing, a nozzle from which a liquid is jetted into the casing, and a canned motor connected to the fan. The canned motor has a main shaft connected to the fan, a rotor which rotates integrally with the main shaft, a stator disposed on the periphery of the rotor, a motor casing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a can which partitions the interior of the motor casing into a rotor chamber in which the rotor is disposed and a stator chamber in which the stator is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Furuta, Tetsuro Sugiura, Tetsuo Komai, Atsushi Oyama, Takashi Kyotani, Shinichi Sekiguchi, Takanori Inada
  • Publication number: 20180207580
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which one or more abatement parts for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless are attached. The one or more abatement parts are selected, depending on the amount and kind of the exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump, from plural kinds of abatement parts which have different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Takashi KYOTANI, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI, Hideo ARAI
  • Patent number: 9956524
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which one or more abatement parts for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless are attached. The one or more abatement parts are selected, depending on the amount and kind of the exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump, from plural kinds of abatement parts which have different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazawa, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Takashi Kyotani, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Hideo Arai