Patents by Inventor Tomonori Kamiya
Tomonori Kamiya 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: 11958732Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication part that performs wireless communication; a remote operation device including a remote communication part that performs wireless communication with the vehicle communication part, wherein the remote operation device is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle; and a remote-operation stop control part that, based on a fact that a remote-operation stop operation has been performed on the remote operation device in a situation where operation of the industrial vehicle is being performed through a remote operation by the remote operation device, performs an operation stop control for stopping the operation of the industrial vehicle, and stops the remote operation by the remote operation device after the operation stop control is completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tomonori Kamiya
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Publication number: 20230322538Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication part that performs wireless communication; a remote operation device including a remote communication part that performs wireless communication with the vehicle communication part, wherein the remote operation device is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle; and a remote-operation stop control part that, based on a fact that a remote-operation stop operation has been performed on the remote operation device in a situation where operation of the industrial vehicle is being performed through a remote operation by the remote operation device, performs an operation stop control for stopping the operation of the industrial vehicle, and stops the remote operation by the remote operation device after the operation stop control is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tomonori KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20220363528Abstract: An operation assisting apparatus for a load handling vehicle conveying a load carried on a load handling apparatus includes a sensor, an object extraction unit configured to extract, as objects, a group of points representing parts of the objects from a result detected by the sensor in a coordinate system in a real space, a load handling space derivation unit configured to derive a load handling space occupied by the load during load handling work performed by the load handling apparatus in the coordinate system in the real space, a clearance derivation unit configured to derive a value of a clearance between the load handling space and an adjacent object adjacent to the load handling space, and an informing unit configured to inform an operator of the load handling vehicle of information about the value of the clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Hironobu OKAMOTO, Tomonori KAMIYA, Koji HIKA, Junji INOUE
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Patent number: 11454965Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote control system includes a forklift that has a vehicle communication unit and a remote control device that has a remote communication unit and is used to remotely control the forklift. A vehicle wireless CPU of the industrial vehicle remote control system acquires the received radio wave intensity of a remote control signal by which the two communication units wirelessly communicate, and, on the basis of the results thereof, determines whether the forklift is positioned in a permission range or in a prohibition range.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tomonori Kamiya, Koji Hika, Hironobu Okamoto, Nobutoshi Kajiya, Shinya Goto
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Patent number: 11415095Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a nozzle portion for injecting fuel, a fuel inlet port, a fuel supply main passage for supplying the fuel from the fuel inlet port to the nozzle portion, a pressure sensor for detecting fuel pressure in the fuel supply main passage, and a fuel introduce passage for supplying the fuel from the fuel supply main passage to the pressure sensor. The fuel supply main passage includes a first fuel supply passage extending in a first direction from the fuel inlet port to the pressure sensor and a second fuel supply passage extending in a second direction from the pressure sensor to the nozzle portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kondou, Tomonori Kamiya, Yoshinori Okuno
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Patent number: 11138144Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for an integrated circuit. The system may provide a plurality of integrated circuits (i.e., slave devices) connected to and configured to communicate with a host device. Each integrated circuit may comprise a register storing a common default address. Each integrated circuit may further comprise an interface circuit configured to overwrite the default address of one integrated circuit with a new address while preventing changes to the remaining integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yukihito Takeda, Tomonori Kamiya
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Publication number: 20210246004Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle and a remote operation device. The industrial vehicle includes a first vehicle communication unit and a second vehicle communication unit. The remote operation device includes a plurality of remote communication units that are arranged spaced apart from each other, and remotely operates the industrial vehicle by transmitting a remote instruction signal instructing a remote operation using at least one of the remote communication units. The first vehicle communication unit receives the remote instruction signal from a first target remote communication unit when in a first communication connection state, and the second vehicle communication unit receives the remote instruction signal from a second target remote communication unit when in a second communication connection state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tomonori KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20210040928Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a nozzle portion for injecting fuel, a fuel inlet port, a fuel supply main passage for supplying the fuel from the fuel inlet port to the nozzle portion, a pressure sensor for detecting fuel pressure in the fuel supply main passage, and a fuel introduce passage for supplying the fuel from the fuel supply main passage to the pressure sensor. The fuel supply main passage includes a first fuel supply passage extending in a first direction from the fuel inlet port to the pressure sensor and a second fuel supply passage extending in a second direction from the pressure sensor to the nozzle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Atsushi KONDOU, Tomonori KAMIYA, Yoshinori OKUNO
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Publication number: 20210009392Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication unit that performs wireless communication, a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit for exchanging signals with the vehicle communication unit through wireless communication by establishing a communication connection state with the vehicle communication unit, and that is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle, and a mode control unit that controls a control mode of the industrial vehicle. The control mode includes a remote mode, an abnormal stop mode, and a neutral mode. At least during the remote mode, the vehicle communication unit and the remote communication unit are in the communication connection state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tomonori KAMIYA, Hironobu OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200401552Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for an integrated circuit. The system may provide a plurality of integrated circuits (i.e., slave devices) connected to and configured to communicate with a host device. Each integrated circuit may comprise a register storing a common default address. Each integrated circuit may further comprise an interface circuit configured to overwrite the default address of one integrated circuit with a new address while preventing changes to the remaining integrated circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yukihito TAKEDA, Tomonori KAMIYA
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Patent number: 10817451Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for an integrated circuit. The system may provide, at most, two integrated circuits (i.e., slave devices) connected to and configured to communicate with a host device (i.e., a master device). At least one of integrated circuits may comprise a first interface and a second interface, wherein the second interface is connected to the host in a manner that is opposite that of the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihisa Tabuchi, Tomonori Kamiya
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Patent number: 10783101Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for communication between a host device and slave devices. The system may provide a plurality of integrated circuits (i.e., slave devices) connected to and configured to communicate with a host device (i.e., a master device). Each integrated circuit may provide a register to store a unique slave address, a global slave address, and an order number. The host device may communicate with each slave device individually using the unique slave address and communicate with all slave devices simultaneously using the global slave address and the order number.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Tomonori Kamiya, Yukihito Takeda
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Patent number: 10719477Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for an integrated circuit. The system may provide a plurality of integrated circuits (i.e., slave devices) connected to and configured to communicate with a host device. Each integrated circuit may comprise a register storing a common default address. Each integrated circuit may further comprise an interface circuit configured to overwrite the default address of one integrated circuit with a new address while preventing changes to the remaining integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yukihito Takeda, Tomonori Kamiya
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Publication number: 20200012274Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote control system includes a forklift that has a vehicle communication unit and a remote control device that has a remote communication unit and is used to remotely control the forklift. A vehicle wireless CPU of the industrial vehicle remote control system acquires the received radio wave intensity of a remote control signal by which the two communication units wirelessly communicate, and, on the basis of the results thereof, determines whether the forklift is positioned in a permission range or in a prohibition range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tomonori KAMIYA, Koji HIKA, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Nobutoshi KAJIYA, Shinya GOTO
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Patent number: 9520823Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an actuator control circuit includes a driver circuit connected to a ringing characteristic determination circuit. A signal generator that is configured to generate an output signal having first period that has first and second portions where the first portion longer than the second portion is connected to the ringing characteristic determination circuit. Another embodiment includes a method for controlling an actuator by determining a resonant frequency and a ringing amplitude of an actuator signal; generating a control signal in response to the resonant frequency and the ringing amplitude of the actuator signal; and causing the actuator to move in response to the second drive signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihisa Tabuchi, Tomonori Kamiya
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Publication number: 20160118921Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an actuator control circuit includes a driver circuit connected to a ringing characteristic determination circuit. A signal generator that is configured to generate an output signal having first period that has first and second portions where the first portion longer than the second portion is connected to the ringing characteristic determination circuit. Another embodiment includes a method for controlling an actuator by determining a resonant frequency and a ringing amplitude of an actuator signal; generating a control signal in response to the resonant frequency and the ringing amplitude of the actuator signal; and causing the actuator to move in response to the second drive signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Yoshihisa Tabuchi, Tomonori Kamiya
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Patent number: 8773122Abstract: A first terminal supplies the bias voltage to a high-potential-side input terminal of a hall element. A second terminal supplies the ground potential to a low-potential-side input terminal of the hall element. A P-channel type transistor is configured such that the source terminal is connected to the power supply potential and the drain terminal is connected to the first terminal. An operational amplifier differentially amplifies the voltage between a predetermined set voltage and the voltage at the first terminal so as to control the gate voltage of the P-channel type transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventors: Takeshi Kura, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Tomonori Kamiya, Hiroki Nagai
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Patent number: 8558901Abstract: The present invention comprises: an analog/digital conversion means for converting vibration detection signals output from a vibration detection element that detects vibrations of an imaging device into digital signals; a gyro filter that obtains the amount of movement of the imaging device based on the vibration detection signals digitalized by the analog/digital conversion means; a rotation control means for generating an amount of rotary drive in a stepping motor based on both the current position and amount of movement of an optical component or an imaging element; and a stepping control means for generating and outputting pulse signals that drive the rotation of the stepping motor in each phase according to the amount of rotary drive, wherein the stepping control means enables pulse-width modulation of the ratio between the periods in which high-level pulse signals and low-level pulse signals are respectively applied to the same phase of the stepping motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventors: Yoshihisa Yamada, Tomonori Kamiya
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Patent number: 8382007Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a needle for opening or closing an injection hole. The needle moves in response to a fuel pressure in a control chamber. The fuel injection valve includes an electromagnetic valve which opens or closes a discharge passage for changing pressure in the control chamber to actuate the needle. A narrow part is provided in the discharge passage. The narrow part is formed to shorten a length along a flow direction. The shortened narrow part can suppress pulsations. Therefore, it is possible to accurately control injection quantity, since a variation of closing speed of the armature caused by the pulsations can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Satoshi Sugiwara, Tomonori Kamiya
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Patent number: 8159540Abstract: A MCP semiconductor device with an “anti-shake” function includes a driver chip and a logic chip. The logic chip includes a correction signal processing unit which obtains a value for vibration of apparatus based on a vibration detection signal to generate a correction signal and a control signal output unit having a plurality of types of signal output sections which output a vibration control signal in accordance with the correction signal to a vibration correction control unit which executes vibration correction control for an optical component. The logic chip further includes a driver output terminal which outputs the vibration control signal to the driver chip, an external output terminal which outputs the control signal to an external circuit other than the driver chip, and also an output switch unit which connects one of the plurality of signal output sections with the driver output terminal or the external output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventors: Tomofumi Watanabe, Tomonori Kamiya, Yoshihisa Yamada