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).
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Patent number: 12630166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiya Sato, Tomohiro Abe, Mika Suzuki, Hiroki Marumo
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Patent number: 12623665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Marumo, Fumiya Sato, Mika Suzuki, Tomohiro Abe
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Patent number: 12553953Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2024Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yushi Fukutomi, Tomohiro Abe, Pei Pei
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Publication number: 20250308959Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2025Publication date: October 2, 2025Inventors: Takayuki YAMAGISHI, Tomohiro ABE
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Patent number: 12387948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takayuki Yamagishi, Tomohiro Abe
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Patent number: 12344282Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Abe, Fumiya Sato, Mika Suzuki, Hiroki Marumo
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Publication number: 20250102112Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventor: Tomohiro ABE
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Patent number: 12248026Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Abe
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Patent number: 12198449Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Suzuki, Fumiya Sato, Tomohiro Abe, Hiroki Marumo
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Publication number: 20240378903Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Mika SUZUKI, Fumiya SATO, Tomohiro ABE, Hiroki MARUMO
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Publication number: 20240373739Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro NAGAYAMA, Hideji KOMATSU, Akane KATO, Mayuko NARA, Tomohiro ABE, Kazuki OKABE
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Publication number: 20240302442Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Yushi FUKUTOMI, Tomohiro ABE, Pei PEI
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Publication number: 20240006638Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventor: Tomohiro ABE
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Patent number: 11793069Abstract: The present invention provides with an electron-accepting compound having a structure of the following formula (1):Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Hideki Gorohmaru, Kazuki Okabe, Koichiro Iida, Tomokazu Umemoto, Yoshimasa Bando, Koichi Ishibashi, Yoshiko Kajiyama, Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20230294714Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiya SATO, Tomohiro ABE, Mika SUZUKI, Hiroki MARUMO
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Publication number: 20230178395Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Takayuki YAMAGISHI, Tomohiro ABE
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Publication number: 20230075287Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventor: Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20230060112Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Hiroki MARUMO, Fumiya SATO, Mika SUZUKI, Tomohiro ABE
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Publication number: 20230034419Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Tomohiro ABE, Fumiya SATO, Mika SUZUKI, Hiroki MARUMO
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Publication number: 20230002428Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nagayama, Akane Kato, Mami Yamashita, Tomohiro Abe, Daisuke Hiro