Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Maeda

Tomoyuki Maeda 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: 11615808
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first magnetic pole, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and first magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the third and second magnetic layers, and a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the third magnetic layer. A thickness of the first magnetic layer is thicker than a thickness of the second magnetic layer. A thickness of the third magnetic layer is thicker than the second layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nakagawa, Naoyuki Narita, Masayuki Takagishi, Tomoyuki Maeda, Tazumi Nagasawa, Hirofumi Suto
  • Patent number: 11613196
    Abstract: When it is confirmed that a user exists based on an image of the situation outside a vehicle which is captured using a camera and a proximity sensor detects a fact that the user is approaching based on, for example, a putting of a hand of the user over the proximity sensor, a control device causes a ramp to be extended. As such, a user sitting in a wheelchair can cause the ramp to be extended by approaching the proximity sensor, such as the putting of the user's hand over the proximity sensor such that the user sitting in the wheelchair does not have to press an extension/storage button provided on the vehicle to cause the ramp to be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Tomioka, Hideki Maeda, Koichi Hirota, Taiki Ishiguro, Tomoyuki Kato, Takeshi Nishikibe
  • Publication number: 20230074796
    Abstract: An active material is provided for use in a solid-state battery. The active material exhibits at least one peak in the range of 0.145 to 0.185 nm and at least one peak in the range of 0.280 to 0.310 nm in a radial distribution function obtained through measurement of an X-ray absorption fine structure thereof. In the particle size distribution, by volume, of the active material obtained through a particle size distribution measurement by laser diffraction scattering method, the ratio of the absolute value of the difference between the mode diameter of the active material and the D10 of the active material (referred to as the “mode diameter” and the “D10” respectively) to the mode diameter in percentage terms, (|mode diameter - D10 / mode diameter) x 100, satisfies 0% < (( | mode diameter - D10| / mode diameter) x 100) ? 58.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jun OMURA, Daisuke WASHIDA, Tetsuya MITSUMOTO, Hitohiko IDE, Yasuo KOMODA, Yasuhiro SHIBATA, Yasunori TABIRA, Tomoyuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11599349
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected via one or more networks to electronic controllers on-board a vehicle. The gateway device includes one or more memories, and circuitry that acquires firmware update information. The circuitry determines whether or not a first electronic controller satisfies a second condition based on second information about the first electronic controller, where the second information is whether the first electronic controller includes a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation. The circuitry also causes, when the second condition is not satisfied, the gateway device to execute a proxy process, where the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, creates updated boot ROM data with the updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Jun Anzai, Toshihisa Nakano, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230062839
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a magnetic pole, a shield, and a non-magnetic layer. The non-magnetic layer is provided between the magnetic pole and the shield. The non-magnetic layer is in contact with the magnetic pole and the shield. The non-magnetic layer includes a first element including at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Au, Cr, V, Al and Ag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Naoyuki NARITA, Tazumi NAGASAWA, Tomoyuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11595422
    Abstract: A method for use in a network communication system including a plurality of electronic controllers that communicate with each other via a bus in accordance with a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol determines whether or not content of a predetermined field in a frame which has started to be transmitted meets a predetermined condition indicating fraud. In a case where the content of the predetermined field meets the predetermined condition, a frame including predetermined consecutive dominant bits for notifying an anomaly is transmitted before an end of the frame is transmitted. A number of times the frame including the predetermined consecutive dominant bits is transmitted is recorded for each identifier (ID) represented by content of an ID field included in a plurality of frames which has been transmitted. A malicious electronic controller is determined in accordance with the number of times recorded for each ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230046928
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, a fourth magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the third magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first magnetic pole, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and first magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the third and second magnetic layers, a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the fourth magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer, and a fifth non-magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Naoyuki NARITA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Tomoyuki MAEDA, Tazumi NAGASAWA, Hirofumi SUTO
  • Publication number: 20230045730
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device includes a magnetic head and a controller. The magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a magnetic element including a first magnetic layer, and a coil. The controller is electrically connected to the magnetic element and the coil. The controller is configured to supply a recording current to the coil and supply an element current to the magnetic element. The recording current includes a first period of a first polarity, a second period of a second polarity, a third period that shifts from the first to second period, and a fourth period that shifts from the second to first period. The element current includes DC and AC components. The AC component in the first period is the same as the AC component in the second period, the AC component in the third period, and the AC component in the fourth period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Naoyuki NARITA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Tazumi NAGASAWA, Tomoyuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11575699
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Junichi Tsurumi, Jun Anzai
  • Publication number: 20230031273
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic pole, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic layer and the second magnetic pole, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and third magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, and a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the third magnetic layer and the second magnetic pole. A first magnetic pole length is shorter than a second magnetic pole length. A first magnetic layer length is longer than a second magnetic layer length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Naoyuki NARITA, Tazumi NAGASAWA, Tomoyuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11570184
    Abstract: In a fraud-detection method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) that exchange messages on a plurality of networks, a plurality of fraud-detection ECUs each connected to a different one of the networks, and a gateway device, a fraud-detection ECU determines whether a message transmitted on a network connected to the fraud-detection ECU is malicious by using rule information stored in a memory. The gateway device receives updated rule information transmitted to a first network among the networks, selects a second network different from the first network, and transfers the updated rule information only to the second network. A fraud-detection ECU connected to the second network acquires the updated rule information and updates the rule information stored therein by using the updated rule information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11568890
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device for utilizing assisted magnetic recording includes a magnetic head, a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, and a controller. The magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole, a magnetic element, and a coil. The magnetic element is located between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole. The magnetic element includes a first magnetic layer. The first circuit is configured to supply a coil current to the coil. The second circuit is configured to supply an element current to the magnetic element. The third circuit is configured to detect an electrical resistance of the magnetic element. The controller is configured to control the element current by controlling the second circuit based on the electrical resistance detected by the third circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Suto, Tazumi Nagasawa, Masayuki Takagishi, Naoyuki Narita, Tomoyuki Maeda, Hitoshi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11562944
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a plurality of semiconductor modules, a plurality of coolers, and a frame. The frame pressurizes and holds a stacked body in which the semiconductor modules and the coolers are alternately stacked. The frame includes a first frame and a second frame that sandwich the stacked body therebetween. The first frame is a plate material bent to surround the stacked body from three directions, and includes a pair of side walls extending in the stacking direction of the stacked body, and an abutting wall extending between the side walls and abutting the stacked body. The abutting wall is bent outward from the frame. Each of the side walls is bent inward from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230016161
    Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed. Moreover, in the second mode, a second type of detecting process having a different degree to which a fraudulent message is detectible than the first type of detecting process is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu MAEDA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11546298
    Abstract: An information processing method of processing data frames flowing over an onboard network includes a frame collecting step of obtaining, from each of received data frames, a payload included in the data frame and configured of at least one field, and recording in a reception log as one record, and a field extracting step of calculating, regarding each of a plurality of payload splitting pattern candidates indicating different regions within payloads of the plurality of data frames, one or more features relating to time-sequence change of values of the payload in the region, from the plurality of records, selecting a payload splitting pattern indicating a region of a field within the payload, based on the features, and outputting field extracting results indicating the region indicated by the selected payload splitting pattern candidate, and a category of the field based on the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Manabu Maeda, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Publication number: 20220399033
    Abstract: A magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole, a magnetic element, and a magnetic member. The magnetic element is provided between the first and second magnetic poles, and includes a first magnetic layer. The magnetic member includes a first magnetic part. A second direction from the first magnetic part to the magnetic element crosses a first direction from the first to second magnetic pole. The first magnetic part includes a magnetic material including at least one of first to third materials. The first material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn3Sn, Mn3Ge and Mn3Ga. The second material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a cubic or tetragonal compound including Mn and Ni, a cubic alloy including ?-phase Mn, and a cubic alloy including Fe. The third material includes an antiferromagnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Naoyuki NARITA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Tomoyuki MAEDA, Tazumi NAGASAWA, Kenichiro YAMADA, Akira KIKITSU
  • Publication number: 20220389118
    Abstract: The present inventors created antigen-binding molecules containing an antigen-binding domain and an Fc?-receptor-binding domain, wherein the molecules have human-FcRn-binding activity in an acidic pH range condition, the antigen-binding domain changes the antigen-binding activity of the antigen-binding molecules depending on the ion-concentration condition, and the Fc? receptor-binding domain has higher binding activity to the Fc? receptor in a neutral pH range condition than an Fc region of a native human IgG in which the sugar chain bound at position 297 (EU numbering) is a fucose-containing sugar chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Igawa, Atsuhiko Maeda, Kenta Haraya, Yuki Iwayanagi, Tatsuhiko Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11521644
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, a fourth magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the third magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first magnetic pole, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and first magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the third and second magnetic layers, a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the fourth magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer, and a fifth non-magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nakagawa, Naoyuki Narita, Masayuki Takagishi, Tomoyuki Maeda, Tazumi Nagasawa, Hirofumi Suto
  • Publication number: 20220383898
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic pole, a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, a second nonmagnetic layer provided between the second magnetic layer and the second magnetic pole, and a third nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes a first element including at least one of Fe, Co, or Ni. The second magnetic layer includes (Fe100-xCox)100-yEy. A second element E includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Cr, V, Mn, Yi, and Sc. The first magnetic layer does not include the second element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji NAKAGAWA, Naoyuki NARITA, Masayuki TAKAGISHI, Tomoyuki MAEDA, Tazumi NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 11496491
    Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC IN TEI IECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa