Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Yoshikawa

Tetsuya Yoshikawa 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: 11964402
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11939504
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a scintillator which has a short fluorescence decay time, whose fluorescence intensity after a period of time following radiation irradiation is low, and which shows largely improved light-transmittance. A scintillator represented by the following General Formula (1), the scintillator including Zr, having a Zr content of not less than 1500 ppm by mass therein, and being a block of a sintered body. QxMyO3z:A . . . (1) (wherein in General Formula (1), Q includes at least one or more kinds of divalent metallic elements; M includes at least Hf; and x, y, and z independently satisfy 0.5?x?1.5, 0.5?y?1.5, and 0.7?z?1.5, respectively).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hazu, Kentaro Horibe, Tetsuya Kawano, Keiji Yamahara, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Akira Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20240097671
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a first drive circuit including a second transistor, and a second drive circuit including a third transistor. The second transistor and the third transistor are connected in series; and a connection node of the second and third transistors is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the third transistor are normally-off MOS HEMTs formed in a first substrate that includes GaN. The first drive circuit charges a parasitic capacitance of the first transistor. The second drive circuit discharges the parasitic capacitance of the first transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Toru SUGIYAMA, Noriaki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiko KURIYAMA, Akira YOSHIOKA, Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Hung HUNG, Yasuhiro ISOBE, Tetsuya OHNO, Hideki SEKIGUCHI, Masaaki ONOMURA
  • Patent number: 11926067
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20240075736
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a mounting unit, a tank, a pump, a detection unit, an obtainment unit, and a control unit. The mounting unit is configured so that a head that ejects ink can be mounted in a replaceable manner. The tank contains ink to be supplied to the head via a tube. The pump discharges ink to an outside of the head. The detection unit detects that the head mounted on the mounting unit has been replaced. The obtainment unit obtains information of a usage history which indicates whether or not the head mounted as a replacement has been used. The control unit controls a discharge operation, which is performed by the pump after head replacement, to be changed based on the information of the usage history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI TAKEI, TETSUYA NARAZAKI, TOSHIYUKI CHIKUMA, HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11919168
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
  • Patent number: 11914397
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11914363
    Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11915536
    Abstract: An anomaly determination apparatus for a vehicle that includes a transmission includes an execution device and a memory device. The memory device is configured to store map data that defines pre-trained map, which has been trained through machine learning. When a variable representing time-series data of a rotation speed of a gear is fed to the map as an input variable, the map outputs a state variable representing a state of the gear as an output variable. The execution device is configured to execute: an obtaining process that obtains the variable representing the time-series data as a value of the input variable; and a determination process that determines whether there is an anomaly in the transmission based on a value of the output variable that is output by the map when the value of the input variable is fed to the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Bunazawa, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Kei Yuasa, Kenichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11796054
    Abstract: A storage device stores a mapping data entry that specifies a mapping and includes data learned through machine learning. A detection value of an oil temperature sensor is an oil temperature detection value. When oil temperature relation data, which is data corresponding to time series data of the oil temperature detection value, is input to the mapping as an input variable, the mapping outputs an output variable that determines whether a frictional engagement element has an anomaly. Processing circuitry executes an obtainment process that obtains the input variable and an anomaly determination process that determines whether the frictional engagement element has an anomaly based on the output variable that is output from the mapping as a result of inputting the input variable obtained in the obtainment process into the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Bunazawa, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Kei Yuasa, Kenichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230229156
    Abstract: The technology disclosed in the present specification is embodied as a support device for supporting maintenance on an apparatus including an expendable component. The support device includes at least one computer. The at least one computer executes: a process of acquiring an index indicative of a consumption level of the expendable component; a process of, at a time point when the index indicative the consumption level reaches a predetermined threshold, specifying a necessary period of time required for replacement of the expendable component at the time point; and a process of restricting an operation of the apparatus when a remaining period of time of the expendable component, the remaining period of time being associated with the threshold, is shorter than the necessary period of time required for the replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori SHIMIZU, Hideto WATANABE, Tetsuo HORI, Hiroyuki TSUKAMOTO, Tetsuya YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220042842
    Abstract: A device for a vehicle including a power transfer device, the power transfer device having an input pulley, an output pulley, and an endless rotary member, the device including: a memory configured to store mapping data that include data that prescribe mapping that represents correspondence between an input variable and an output variable, the data being learned through machine learning, the input variable being at least one of input rotational speed-related data, and output rotational speed-related data, the output variable specifying whether an abnormality is caused in the endless rotary member; and a processor configured to acquire the input variable, acquire the output variable corresponding to the input variable using the mapping data, and determine, based on the output variable, whether an abnormality is caused in the endless rotary member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki BUNAZAWA, Tetsuya YOSHIKAWA, Kei YUASA, Kenichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220044502
    Abstract: An anomaly determination apparatus for a vehicle that includes a transmission includes an execution device and a memory device. The memory device is configured to store map data that defines pre-trained map, which has been trained through machine learning. When a variable representing time-series data of a rotation speed of a gear is fed to the map as an input variable, the map outputs a state variable representing a state of the gear as an output variable. The execution device is configured to execute: an obtaining process that obtains the variable representing the time-series data as a value of the input variable; and a determination process that determines whether there is an anomaly in the transmission based on a value of the output variable that is output by the map when the value of the input variable is fed to the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki BUNAZAWA, Tetsuya YOSHIKAWA, Kei YUASA, Kenichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220042596
    Abstract: A storage device stores a mapping data entry that specifies a mapping and includes data learned through machine learning. A detection value of an oil temperature sensor is an oil temperature detection value. When oil temperature relation data, which is data corresponding to time series data of the oil temperature detection value, is input to the mapping as an input variable, the mapping outputs an output variable that determines whether a frictional engagement element has an anomaly. Processing circuitry executes an obtainment process that obtains the input variable and an anomaly determination process that determines whether the frictional engagement element has an anomaly based on the output variable that is output from the mapping as a result of inputting the input variable obtained in the obtainment process into the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki BUNAZAWA, Tetsuya YOSHIKAWA, Kei YUASA, Kenichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220041174
    Abstract: An abnormality determination device is applied to a vehicle provided with a transmission configured to transmit power by rotation of a shaft. The abnormality determination device includes a processor and a memory. The memory configured to store mapping data that is data that defines mapping learned by machine learning. The processor is configured to execute an acquisition process and a determination process. The acquisition process is a process of acquiring a variable indicating a time-series data of a rotation speed of the shaft and using the variable as a value of an input variable of the mapping. The determination process is a process of determining whether an abnormality has occurred in the transmission based on a value of the output variable acquired using the value of the input variable and the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki BUNAZAWA, Tetsuya YOSHIKAWA, Kei YUASA, Kenichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9046444
    Abstract: To effectively suppress a shift of a rotating axis of an upper chuck with respect to a rotating axis of a lower chuck due to a separating force. A tire testing device (1) includes: vertical frames (30a, 30b) which are supported by a lower frame (20); a beam (40) which bridges between the vertical frames (30a, 30b) and is movable in the vertical direction; an upper chuck (45) which is attached to the center of the beam (40), the center corresponding to the center of the beam in the longitudinal direction; and a lower chuck (25) which is attached to the lower frame. When viewed from the vertical direction, a rotating axis of an upper rotating member (47) is positioned at the center of a straight line formed by connecting supporting points where each of the vertical frames (30a, 30b) support the beam (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Glen Thompson, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Shogo Sarumaru
  • Publication number: 20130233066
    Abstract: To effectively suppress a shift of a rotating axis of an upper chuck with respect to a rotating axis of a lower chuck due to a separating force. A tire testing device (1) includes: vertical frames (30a, 30b) which are supported by a lower frame (20); a beam (40) which bridges between the vertical frames (30a, 30b) and is movable in the vertical direction; an upper chuck (45) which is attached to the center of the beam (40), the center corresponding to the center of the beam in the longitudinal direction; and a lower chuck (25) which is attached to the lower frame. When viewed from the vertical direction, a rotating axis of an upper rotating member (47) is positioned at the center of a straight line formed by connecting supporting points where each of the vertical frames (30a, 30b) support the beam (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Glen Thompson, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Shogo Sarumaru
  • Patent number: 8342020
    Abstract: A tire testing machine according to the present invention, which can measure both uniformity and dynamic balance of a tire T, comprises a spindle for driving the tire T to rotate about a vertical axis, a spindle housing which supports the spindle rotatably, and a rotating drum rotatable about an axis parallel to an axis of the spindle and movable toward and away from the tire T. The spindle housing is fixed to a base through a piezoelectric sensor so that it can bear a pressing force provided from the rotating drum. The piezoelectric sensor is disposed within a plane including the axis of the spindle and perpendicular to the pressing force. With this structure, dynamic balance of the tire can be measured accurately and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Sumimoto, Koichi Honke, Masao Murakami, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Toshikatsu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 8136393
    Abstract: Provided is a tire testing machine capable of measuring a force generated in a tire with high precision. The tire testing machine includes a spindle shaft (20) for holding a tire (T), a housing (22) for rotatably supporting the spindle shaft (20) through a rolling bearing (25), a running device (10) having a surface rotated by rotational driving and imparting a rotational force to a tire contacting the surface, and a measurement device (4) which is provided in the housing (22) and measures a force and moment generated in the spindle shaft (20) when the tire (T) is running. Furthermore, the tire testing machine includes a torque canceller (5) for preventing the spindle shaft (20) from such an impact that rotational friction torque (My1) generated by rotational friction, which is received by the spindle shaft (20) in the housing when the spindle shaft (20) rotates, is imparted onto the shaft (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Yasuhiko Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20110000292
    Abstract: Provided is a tire testing machine capable of measuring a force generated in a tire with high precision. The tire testing machine includes a spindle shaft (20) for holding a tire (T), a housing (22) for rotatably supporting the spindle shaft (20) through a rolling bearing (25), a running device (10) having a surface rotated by rotational driving and imparting a rotational force to a tire contacting the surface, and a measurement device (4) which is provided in the housing (22) and measures a force and moment generated in the spindle shaft (20) when the tire (T) is running. Furthermore, the tire testing machine includes a torque canceller (5) for preventing the spindle shaft (20) from such an impact that rotational friction torque (My1) generated by rotational friction, which is received by the spindle shaft (20) in the housing when the spindle shaft (20) rotates, is imparted onto the shaft (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Yasuhiko Fujieda