Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Abe

Tomohiro Abe 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: 12630166
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories are communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire road condition information of a road where a vehicle is traveling, drive skill information of a driver who drives the vehicle, and drive assist necessity information of the vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to determine which of preset road condition categories applies based on the acquired road condition information. The one or more processors are configured to determine which of preset drive skill categories applies based on the acquired drive skill information. The one or more processors are configured to execute, based on the acquired drive assist necessity information, a drive assist process for the vehicle depending on the determined road condition category and the determined drive skill category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiya Sato, Tomohiro Abe, Mika Suzuki, Hiroki Marumo
  • Patent number: 12623665
    Abstract: A drive assist apparatus configured to set a drive condition of a vehicle based on a risk map generated by giving a risk potential to a risk object that is present around the vehicle, includes one or more processors and one or more memories connected to the one or more processors to be able to communicate with the one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to execute a process including: obtaining information on a surrounding environment of the vehicle; obtaining information on an external environmental factor that may cause deviation of a drive track of the vehicle; and expanding a setting range of the risk potential of the risk object which is positioned in a direction of the expected deviation based on the information on the external environmental factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Marumo, Fumiya Sato, Mika Suzuki, Tomohiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12553953
    Abstract: A state determination device for a fuel cell stack includes: a fuel cell stack including at least one cell; and a control device that performs a state determination of the fuel cell stack by applying a measurement load waveform to the cell. The control device: generates a learning waveform; generates a measurement load waveform to be used this time by using, as reference values, membrane resistance, charge transfer resistance, and diffusion resistance in a relationship between a measurement frequency and an impedance that are generated based on the learning waveform; applies, to the cell, a waveform with an amplitude and frequencies that are calculated based on the measurement load waveform; and performs the state determination by measuring an alternating-current impedance by discharging, from the cell, a current or a voltage corresponding to a frequency of the measurement load waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yushi Fukutomi, Tomohiro Abe, Pei Pei
  • Publication number: 20250308959
    Abstract: A system for processing a substrate using a plurality of vacuum processing chambers is provided. The system comprises: an atmospheric transfer chamber in an atmospheric atmosphere; a vacuum transfer chamber in a vacuum atmosphere; a plurality of processing modules configured by vertically arranging the vacuum processing chamber and a supplementary device; and a load lock chamber configured to switch an atmosphere therein between the atmospheric atmosphere and the vacuum atmosphere. The vacuum transfer chamber and the load lock chamber are arranged at a height position where a worker can enter thereunder, the load lock chamber and the plurality of vacuum processing chambers are connected to side surfaces of the vacuum transfer chamber, and a space below the vacuum transfer chamber is blocked from outside except for the side surface to which the load lock chamber is connected, and a space below the load lock chamber serves as a maintenance passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAGISHI, Tomohiro ABE
  • Patent number: 12387948
    Abstract: A system for processing a substrate using a plurality of vacuum processing chambers is provided. The system comprises: an atmospheric transfer chamber in an atmospheric atmosphere; a vacuum transfer chamber in a vacuum atmosphere; a plurality of processing modules configured by vertically arranging the vacuum processing chamber and a supplementary device; and a load lock chamber configured to switch an atmosphere therein between the atmospheric atmosphere and the vacuum atmosphere. The vacuum transfer chamber and the load lock chamber are arranged at a height position where a worker can enter thereunder, the load lock chamber and the plurality of vacuum processing chambers are connected to side surfaces of the vacuum transfer chamber, and a space below the vacuum transfer chamber is blocked from outside except for the side surface to which the load lock chamber is connected, and a space below the load lock chamber serves as a maintenance passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamagishi, Tomohiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12344282
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors execute determination as to whether a driving state of the vehicle involves difficulty in continuing the automatic driving. In a case where the driving state is determined as involving difficulty in continuing the automatic driving, the one or more processors execute determination on a difficulty level of operation authority transfer from the automatic driving to the manual driving on the basis of information regarding a surrounding environment of the vehicle, information regarding a driving skill of a driver, and information regarding an experience level of the driver of the operation authority transfer. The one or more processors execute setting of a driving-state condition for executing the operation authority transfer in accordance with the difficulty level. The one or more processors execute the operation authority transfer in a case where the driving-state condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Abe, Fumiya Sato, Mika Suzuki, Hiroki Marumo
  • Publication number: 20250102112
    Abstract: A hydrogen filling control method includes: acquiring first and second hydrogen tank data; acquiring third hydrogen tank data; and determining a hydrogen tank combination based on the first, second, and third hydrogen tank data. The first hydrogen tank data includes internal pressure of a first hydrogen tank provided in a first vehicle. The second hydrogen tank data includes internal pressure of a second hydrogen tank provided in the first vehicle. The third hydrogen tank data includes internal pressure of a third hydrogen tank provided in a second vehicle. The hydrogen tank combination indicates which hydrogen tanks to be involved in hydrogen filling, out of the first and second hydrogen tanks provided in the first vehicle, and the third hydrogen tank provided in the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventor: Tomohiro ABE
  • Patent number: 12248026
    Abstract: An impedance measurement system configured to measure impedance of a measurement target capable of supplying power to an electrical load device includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to perform a process including: acquiring data about output power from the measurement target when an alternating current signal of at least one frequency is superimposed on the output power; calculating impedance at the at least one frequency with data about an exclusion period when waveform distortion of the output power is detected being excluded; and in a case where how many times the data about the exclusion period is excluded at a certain frequency is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, changing of a setting of an operating condition of an electronic device coupled to the measurement target or the electrical load device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12198449
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Suzuki, Fumiya Sato, Tomohiro Abe, Hiroki Marumo
  • Publication number: 20240378903
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mika SUZUKI, Fumiya SATO, Tomohiro ABE, Hiroki MARUMO
  • Publication number: 20240373739
    Abstract: An iridium complex compound represented by formula (1?) below. R2 to R5 are each selected from a [substituent group W]; R1, R6 to R10, and R14 are a hydrogen atom, F, a methyl group, a trifluoromethyl group, an ethyl group, a vinyl group, or an ethynyl group; R15 and R16 are a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group having 5 to 60 carbon atoms, or a heteroaralkyl group having 5 to 60 carbon atoms; one of R11 to R13 has a structure represented by formula (2) below; and the remaining two are selected from a [substituent group Z].
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NAGAYAMA, Hideji KOMATSU, Akane KATO, Mayuko NARA, Tomohiro ABE, Kazuki OKABE
  • Publication number: 20240302442
    Abstract: A state determination device for a fuel cell stack includes: a fuel cell stack including at least one cell; and a control device that performs a state determination of the fuel cell stack by applying a measurement load waveform to the cell. The control device: generates a learning waveform; generates a measurement load waveform to be used this time by using, as reference values, membrane resistance, charge transfer resistance, and diffusion resistance in a relationship between a measurement frequency and an impedance that are generated based on the learning waveform; applies, to the cell, a waveform with an amplitude and frequencies that are calculated based on the measurement load waveform; and performs the state determination by measuring an alternating-current impedance by discharging, from the cell, a current or a voltage corresponding to a frequency of the measurement load waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yushi FUKUTOMI, Tomohiro ABE, Pei PEI
  • Publication number: 20240006638
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a control device, and a flow regulating mechanism. The fuel cell stack is divided into multiple sections. Each of the multiple sections is constituted by one or more cells. The control device is configured to manage a state of the one or more cells for each of the multiple sections. The flow regulating mechanism is configured to regulate a flow rate of a fluid circulating through each of the multiple sections, based on the state managed by the control device. The control device is configured to divide the fuel cell stack such that the number of cells in a first section of the multiple sections and the number of cells in a second section of the multiple sections other than the first section differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Tomohiro ABE
  • Patent number: 11793069
    Abstract: The present invention provides with an electron-accepting compound having a structure of the following formula (1):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Gorohmaru, Kazuki Okabe, Koichiro Iida, Tomokazu Umemoto, Yoshimasa Bando, Koichi Ishibashi, Yoshiko Kajiyama, Tomohiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20230294714
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories are communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire road condition information of a road where a vehicle is traveling, drive skill information of a driver who drives the vehicle, and drive assist necessity information of the vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to determine which of preset road condition categories applies based on the acquired road condition information. The one or more processors are configured to determine which of preset drive skill categories applies based on the acquired drive skill information. The one or more processors are configured to execute, based on the acquired drive assist necessity information, a drive assist process for the vehicle depending on the determined road condition category and the determined drive skill category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiya SATO, Tomohiro ABE, Mika SUZUKI, Hiroki MARUMO
  • Publication number: 20230178395
    Abstract: A system for processing a substrate using a plurality of vacuum processing chambers is provided. The system comprises: an atmospheric transfer chamber in an atmospheric atmosphere; a vacuum transfer chamber in a vacuum atmosphere; a plurality of processing modules configured by vertically arranging the vacuum processing chamber and a supplementary device; and a load lock chamber configured to switch an atmosphere therein between the atmospheric atmosphere and the vacuum atmosphere. The vacuum transfer chamber and the load lock chamber are arranged at a height position where a worker can enter thereunder, the load lock chamber and the plurality of vacuum processing chambers are connected to side surfaces of the vacuum transfer chamber, and a space below the vacuum transfer chamber is blocked from outside except for the side surface to which the load lock chamber is connected, and a space below the load lock chamber serves as a maintenance passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAGISHI, Tomohiro ABE
  • Publication number: 20230075287
    Abstract: An impedance measurement system configured to measure impedance of a measurement target capable of supplying power to an electrical load device includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to perform a process including: acquiring data about output power from the measurement target when an alternating current signal of at least one frequency is superimposed on the output power; calculating impedance at the at least one frequency with data about an exclusion period when waveform distortion of the output power is detected being excluded; and in a case where how many times the data about the exclusion period is excluded at a certain frequency is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, changing of a setting of an operating condition of an electronic device coupled to the measurement target or the electrical load device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20230060112
    Abstract: A drive assist apparatus configured to set a drive condition of a vehicle based on a risk map generated by giving a risk potential to a risk object that is present around the vehicle, includes one or more processors and one or more memories connected to the one or more processors to be able to communicate with the one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to execute a process including: obtaining information on a surrounding environment of the vehicle; obtaining information on an external environmental factor that may cause deviation of a drive track of the vehicle; and expanding a setting range of the risk potential of the risk object which is positioned in a direction of the expected deviation based on the information on the external environmental factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki MARUMO, Fumiya SATO, Mika SUZUKI, Tomohiro ABE
  • Publication number: 20230034419
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors execute determination as to whether a driving state of the vehicle involves difficulty in continuing the automatic driving. In a case where the driving state is determined as involving difficulty in continuing the automatic driving, the one or more processors execute determination on a difficulty level of operation authority transfer from the automatic driving to the manual driving on the basis of information regarding a surrounding environment of the vehicle, information regarding a driving skill of a driver, and information regarding an experience level of the driver of the operation authority transfer. The one or more processors execute setting of a driving-state condition for executing the operation authority transfer in accordance with the difficulty level. The one or more processors execute the operation authority transfer in a case where the driving-state condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro ABE, Fumiya SATO, Mika SUZUKI, Hiroki MARUMO
  • Publication number: 20230002428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an iridium complex compound represented by the following formula (1): in the formula (1), Ir represents an iridium atom, R5 to R14, R21, and R22 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, D, F, Cl, Br, I, or a substituent group, the groups adjacent to each other may be further bonded to each other to form a ring, and any one of R12 and R13 is a substituent group represented by the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nagayama, Akane Kato, Mami Yamashita, Tomohiro Abe, Daisuke Hiro