Patents by Inventor Tomohiro OTSU

Tomohiro OTSU 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: 20240364674
    Abstract: An in-vehicle relay device to be connected to a plurality of in-vehicle devices mounted on a vehicle and an authentication device performing authentication of the in-vehicle device, to relay communication between the plurality of in-vehicle devices, the device including a control unit controlling the relay of the communication, in which the control unit relays authentication communication data for the authentication between the in-vehicle device and the authentication device before the authentication of the in-vehicle device connected to the in-vehicle relay device is completed, transmits and receives setting data for setting an in-vehicle network with the authentication device and the in-vehicle device, in parallel with the relay of the authentication communication data, acquires setting information of the in-vehicle network according to the transmitted setting data, from the authentication device, and starts relay based on the acquired setting information after the authentication is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hideki MAEDA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240351520
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus according to the present disclosure is an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted in a vehicle and connected to another in-vehicle apparatus to be capable of communicating with the other in-vehicle apparatus via an in-vehicle network, the in-vehicle apparatus including: a control unit that controls communication with the other in-vehicle apparatus. When the control unit causes the in-vehicle apparatus to transition from a normal state to a sleep state, the control unit generates a notification message that is defined by AUTOSAR by including, in the notification message, a deactivation flag for causing the other in-vehicle apparatus to deactivate disconnection detection, and outputs the generated notification message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTSU, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Hideki MAEDA, Darmawan GO, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240333597
    Abstract: A management device includes: a specification information acquisition unit configured to acquire specification information indicating a specification of a configuration of an in-vehicle network; a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire state information indicating an assembly state, in the in-vehicle network, of a plurality of in-vehicle devices forming the in-vehicle network; and a comparison unit configured to compare the specification indicated by the specification information acquired by the specification information acquisition unit with the assembly state indicated by the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Kenta OGATA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Hideki GOTO, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Takashi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20240283676
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted relay device for relaying Ethernet frames includes a plurality of PHY units corresponding to a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices, a switch unit to which the plurality of PHY units are connected, and a control unit configured to monitor operating states of the plurality of PHY units. The plurality of PHY units include a predetermined PHY unit whose operating state switches between a sleep state and an active state in response to reception of a predetermined control signal that differs from the Ethernet frames. When an Ethernet frame to be transmitted from the predetermined PHY unit has been detected during a period where the predetermined PHY unit is in the sleep state, the control unit executes switching control to switch the predetermined PHY unit to the active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Hideki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240250845
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted control device to be mounted in a vehicle, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire calculation information to be used to calculate a setting change timing of a vehicle-mounted network from an electronic device in the vehicle-mounted network; a calculation unit configured to calculate the setting change timing based on the calculation information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit configured to perform processing for executing a setting change of the vehicle-mounted network at the setting change timing calculated by the calculation unit, wherein the calculation information includes at least one of a topology of the vehicle-mounted network, a service of a system to which the electronic device belongs, a travel state of the vehicle, and a power supply state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240223404
    Abstract: An on-board relay apparatus includes: a relaying unit configured to relay information between a plurality of on-board apparatuses belonging to mutually different virtual local area networks (VLANs); a detecting unit configured to detect that the on-board apparatuses have transitioned to a sleep state; and a notifying unit configured to, if it is detected by the detecting unit that a first on-board apparatus among the plurality of on-board apparatuses has transitioned to the sleep state, provide a second on-board apparatus among the plurality of on-board apparatuses with a sleep notification indicating that the first on-board apparatus has transitioned to the sleep state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Hideki MAEDA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU
  • Publication number: 20240223400
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted communication system includes: a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices; and a relay device, wherein a first vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle-mounted devices transmits a frame addressed to a second vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle-mounted devices to the relay device, the frame being a frame for transmission and reception of information between the first vehicle-mounted device and the second vehicle-mounted device, and the relay device determines whether or not relay of the frame to the second vehicle-mounted device is permissible based on a result of comparison between a required safety level and a system safety level, the required safety level being a level of safety required for communication between the first vehicle-mounted device and the second vehicle-mounted device, the system safety level being at least based on function safety levels of the first vehicle-mounted device and the second vehicle-mounted device regarding safety of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTSU, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240187503
    Abstract: The vehicle-mounted relay device in a vehicle-mounted communication system provided with a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices, the vehicle-mounted relay device includes: a relay unit configured to relay communication data between the plurality of vehicle-mounted devices; and a processing unit configured to, before communication is started between the vehicle-mounted devices, notify the vehicle-mounted devices of a common protocol that is a common communication protocol to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Darmawan GO, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Tatsuya IZUMI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240166148
    Abstract: The in-vehicle management device includes: a detection unit configured to detect the presence of a target device that is an in-vehicle device that does not support a predetermined message among in-vehicle devices included in an in-vehicle network; and a control unit configured to perform control for causing the target device detected by the detection unit to transition to a sleep state when a state where the predetermined message from the in-vehicle devices does not arrive at the in-vehicle management device has continued for a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTSU, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Hideki MAEDA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO