Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Kawano

Toshihiro Kawano 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: 11526137
    Abstract: In the conventional semiconductor device, it is impossible for two CPUs to operate memories to be debugged at synchronous timings. According to one embodiment, the operation verifying program analyzes the operation verifying command received by the first semiconductor device 10 from the external device 31 by its own device (S32), transfers the operation verifying command to the second semiconductor device 20 (S31, S41), also analyzes the operation verifying command in the second semiconductor device 20 (S42), outputs the trigger signal (S34, S44) to the first semiconductor device 10 from the second semiconductor device 20 based on the result of the analysis, writes the memory setting values included in the operation verifying command to the memories in the respective semiconductor device (S35, S45) based on the trigger signal, and restarts the device operation based on the written memory setting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Suzaki, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Patent number: 11459733
    Abstract: A control system for a work includes an operating device and a controller. The operating device outputs an operation signal indicative of an operation by an operator. The controller is in communication with the operating device. The controller determines a target profile of a terrain to be worked on. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the target profile. The controller receives the operation signal from the operating device. The controller determines an operation of the work implement based on the operation signal. The controller corrects the target profile according to the operation by the operator when the operation of the work implement by the operator is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada, Toshihiro Kawano, Yosuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11449361
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device according to the related art, unfortunately, a non-safety unit mounted on the same device as a safety unit is modified with low flexibility. According to one embodiment, a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip each have space domain separation hardware for limiting access to hardware resources in a functional safety system. Safety unit software and space domain and time domain separation software are executed in a time sharing manner. Based on a timer installed on the semiconductor chip, the space domain and time domain separation software performs separation for intermittently executing the safety unit software in a predetermined cycle, self-diagnosis for examining an operation of the safety unit software, and mutual diagnosis made between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip to mutually diagnose the operation of the space domain and time domain separation software for performing the separation and the self-diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Yamahira, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Patent number: 11371218
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move a work implement of the work vehicle along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. Upon determining that slip has occurred, the controller changes the design surface to a position equal to or higher than a blade tip position of the work implement when the slip occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Ishibashi, Takahiro Shimojo, Akifumi Inamaru, Toshihiro Kawano, Yasuhito Yonezawa, Yosuke Kogawa
  • Patent number: 11268264
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. The controller raises the design surface when the blade tip of the work implement is positioned below an initial target surface when the slip occurs. The initial target surface is the design surface before the occurrence of the slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Ishibashi, Takahiro Shimojo, Akifumi Inamaru, Toshihiro Kawano, Yasuhito Yonezawa, Yosuke Kogawa
  • Patent number: 11243246
    Abstract: A functional safety system with high reliability is provided. The functional safety system includes power source apparatuses VS1 and VS2, voltage monitoring apparatuses VM1 and VM2, semiconductor devices SC1 and SC2, interruption circuits IN1 and IN2, and a motor MT. A the voltage converting circuit DA1 of the voltage monitoring apparatus VM1 generates a detected voltage VA1 from a power source voltage VDD1 on the basis of a switching signal VC1, and a voltage converting circuit DA2 of the voltage monitoring apparatus VM1 generates a detected voltage VA2 from the power source voltage VDD1 on the basis of a switching signal VC1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Yamahira, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Publication number: 20210285186
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move a work implement of the work vehicle along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. Upon determining that slip has occurred, the controller changes the design surface to a position equal to or higher than a blade tip position of the work implement when the slip occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Eiji ISHIBASHI, Takahiro SHIMOJO, Akifumi INAMARU, Toshihiro KAWANO, Yasuhito YONEZAWA, Yosuke KOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210148966
    Abstract: A functional safety system with high reliability is provided. The functional safety system includes power source apparatuses VS1 and VS2, voltage monitoring apparatuses VM1 and VM2, semiconductor devices SC1 and SC2, interruption circuits IN1 and IN2, and a motor MT. A the voltage converting circuit DA1 of the voltage monitoring apparatus VM1 generates a detected voltage VA1 from a power source voltage VDD1 on the basis of a switching signal VC1, and a voltage converting circuit DA2 of the voltage monitoring apparatus VM1 generates a detected voltage VA2 from the power source voltage VDD1 on the basis of a switching signal VC1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiki YAMAHIRA, Toshihiro KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210079629
    Abstract: A control system for a work includes an operating device and a controller. The operating device outputs an operation signal indicative of an operation by an operator. The controller is in communication with the operating device. The controller determines a target profile of a terrain to be worked on. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the target profile. The controller receives the operation signal from the operating device. The controller determines an operation of the work implement based on the operation signal. The controller corrects the target profile according to the operation by the operator when the operation of the work implement by the operator is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Toshihiro KAWANO, Yosuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200218206
    Abstract: In the conventional semiconductor device, it is impossible for two CPUs to operate memories to be debugged at synchronous timings. According to one embodiment, the operation verifying program analyzes the operation verifying command received by the first semiconductor device 10 from the external device 31 by its own device (S32), transfers the operation verifying command to the second semiconductor device 20 (S31, S41), also analyzes the operation verifying command in the second semiconductor device 20 (S42), outputs the trigger signal (S34, S44) to the first semiconductor device 10 from the second semiconductor device 20 based on the result of the analysis, writes the memory setting values included in the operation verifying command to the memories in the respective semiconductor device (S35, S45) based on the trigger signal, and restarts the device operation based on the written memory setting values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Shinichi SUZAKI, Toshihiro KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20190286091
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device according to the related art, unfortunately, a non-safety unit mounted on the same device as a safety unit is modified with low flexibility. According to one embodiment, a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip each have space domain separation hardware for limiting access to hardware resources in a functional safety system. Safety unit software and space domain and time domain separation software are executed in a time sharing manner. Based on a timer installed on the semiconductor chip, the space domain and time domain separation software performs separation for intermittently executing the safety unit software in a predetermined cycle, self-diagnosis for examining an operation of the safety unit software, and mutual diagnosis made between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip to mutually diagnose the operation of the space domain and time domain separation software for performing the separation and the self-diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiki YAMAHIRA, Toshihiro KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20190194912
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. The controller raises the design surface when the blade tip of the work implement is positioned below an initial target surface when the slip occurs. The initial target surface is the design surface before the occurrence of the slip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Eiji ISHIBASHI, Takahiro SHIMOJO, Akifumi INAMARU, Toshihiro KAWANO, Yasuhito YONEZAWA, Yosuke KOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20120313108
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor diode with a part of a semiconductor lamination portion having a mesa structure portion, which is the part where a pn-junction is formed by lamination of an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer on a substrate, comprising: a protective insulating film formed by coating a main surface of the mesa structure portion, a side face of the mesa structure portion in which an interface of the pn-junction is exposed, and an etched and exposed surface of the n-type semiconductor layer; and an anode electrode formed in ohmic-contact with the p-type semiconductor layer exposed from an opening formed on a part of the main surface of the mesa structure portion of the protective insulating film, extending from the main surface, through the side face of the mesa structure portion, to the surface of the n-type semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi TSUCHIYA, Naoki KANEDA, Tomoyoshi MISHIMA, Toshihiro KAWANO, Toru NAKAMURA, Kazuki NOMOTO
  • Patent number: 7890275
    Abstract: A planar elongational viscosity measuring method and apparatus which can advance analysis of planar elongational viscosities for high-viscosity and low-viscosity fluids. As a bomb-shell like bob 2 is pushed into a container 6, a non-Newtonian fluid 9 reaches a planar elongation state in a side space G, counterforce F applied to the bomb-shell like bob 2 at this time is measured, planar elongation stress ? is calculated using the counterforce F and conditions input by a user based on push-up force, the counterforce F, and the horizontal cross-sectional area of the side space G, and the planar elongation stress is divided by a planar elongation speed ??, thereby acquiring a planar elongational viscosity ?PE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takahashi, Masataka Shirakashi, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Publication number: 20100274504
    Abstract: There is provided a fluid analysis method and its device which are capable of easily analyzing a normal stress difference of a low-viscosity fluid in addition to that of a high-viscosity fluid. A shearing fluidity is applied to a non-Newtonian fluid within a lateral-side gap by pushing a cylindrical bob into a container. At that time, reactive force applied to the cylindrical bob is measured. Then, by practicing an arithmetic process in a given form using the reactive force and each of conditions input by a user, the normal stress difference of the low-viscosity non-Newtonian fluid which is hard to form in a solid state can be certainly determined. Thus, with respect to the low-viscosity non-Newtonian fluid in addition to the high-viscosity non-Newtonian fluid, the normal stress difference can be easily analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takahashi, Masataka Shirakashi, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Publication number: 20100228504
    Abstract: A planar elongational viscosity measuring method and apparatus which can advance analysis of planar elongational viscosities for high-viscosity and low-viscosity fluids. As a bomb-shell like bob 2 is pushed into a container 6, a non-Newtonian fluid 9 reaches a planar elongation state in a side space G, counterforce F applied to the bomb-shell like bob 2 at this time is measured, planar elongation stress ? is calculated using the counterforce F and conditions input by a user based on push-up force, the counterforce F, and the horizontal cross-sectional area of the side space G, and the planar elongation stress is divided by a planar elongation speed ??, thereby acquiring a planar elongational viscosity ?PE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takahashi, Masataka Shirakashi, Toshihiro Kawano
  • Patent number: 7610508
    Abstract: Pairs are formed from a plurality of dispersed volumes and copying between the volumes is conducted by a series of remote operations from a management server. A management server 10 instructs the generation of configuration setting files 23, 30 to host computers 20, 30 selected so as to form copy pairs. If the configuration setting files are generated by host agents 21, 31, the management server 10 instructs copy start to a host computer 20 having a primary volume. The host agent 21 generates a prescribed command via a copy pair control module 22 and causes a storage subsystem 40 to execute copying between the volumes. When copying is completed, the management server 10 acquires the newest storage configuration information from the storage subsystem 40 and updates configuration information DB12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Ohno, Toshihiro Kawano, Takashi Kitayama, Toshiyuki Haruma, Akinori Ono, Yuichiro Nagashima
  • Patent number: 7370229
    Abstract: Pairs are formed from a plurality of dispersed volumes and copying between the volumes is conducted by a series of remote operations from a management server. A management server 10 instructs the generation of configuration setting files 23, 30 to host computers 20, 30 selected so as to form copy pairs. If the configuration setting files are generated by host agents 21, 31, the management server 10 instructs copy start to a host computer 20 having a primary volume. The host agent 21 generates a prescribed command via a copy pair control module 22 and causes a storage subsystem 40 to execute copying between the volumes. When copying is completed, the management server 10 acquires the newest storage configuration information from the storage subsystem 40 and updates configuration information DB12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Ohno, Toshihiro Kawano, Takashi Kitayama, Toshiyuki Haruma, Akinori Ono, Yuichiro Nagashima
  • Patent number: 6631652
    Abstract: A monolever operation apparatus for a working vehicle, which improves operability with excellent fine operability of a monolever. For this purpose, the monolever operation apparatus for the working vehicle includes an arm rest provided at a console placed on at least either one of the left and right sides of an operator's seat, and a monolever which is placed in front of the arm rest and is rotatively operated in a fore-and-aft direction and in a left and right direction. When operated in the left and right direction, the monolever is allowed to be operated with a distance, from a fulcrum of operation below the operator's elbow placed on the arm rest up to a grip of the monolever, remaining almost constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Okazawa, Harushige Nishida, Akifumi Inamaru, Toshihiro Kawano, Rikio Fuse
  • Patent number: D441701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Okazawa, Akifumi Inamaru, Toshihiro Kawano, Sigeyuki Satou