Patents by Inventor Toshio Kawamura
Toshio Kawamura 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: 11936500Abstract: An in-vehicle network system deployed in a vehicle includes a plurality of first nodes configured to perform an operation relevant to a first function in the vehicle, a second node configured to perform an operation relevant to a second function different from the first function in the vehicle; and a relay device configured to relay communication between the first nodes and the second node. The relay device is configured to start relay of communication between the first nodes earlier than the relay of communication between the first node and the second node at a time of startup.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shu Ishizuka, Hiroya Ando, Taichi Matsumura, Masashi Amesara, Yutaka Ueda, Toshio Kawamura, Tomomi Kawamura, Yoshifumi Ohmori, Toshio Shimada, Yoshiro Hirata
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Patent number: 11374787Abstract: A switch device installed in a vehicle is provided with: a switch unit configured to relay communication data between a plurality of function units installed in the vehicle; a storage unit configured to hold the communication data to be relayed; and a control unit configured to determine a state of the storage unit, and adjust, for each of applications, a throughput of the communication data to be transmitted from the function units, based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetwork Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Iwata, Hideyuki Tanaka, Hideki Maeda, Tatsuya Izumi, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Hiroya Ando, Toshio Kawamura, Hirofumi Urayama
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Patent number: 11201803Abstract: An object of the present invention is to avoid the situation where data to be transmitted have to be discarded, even when a network to which the data is to be transmitted is unavailable. The electronic control unit has: a determination part that executes a first determination process for determining whether a network to which data is to be transmitted is available or not; and a transmission part that executes a first transmission process for transmitting the data to the network when it is determined that the network is available, and executes a storage process for storing the data in a storage medium when it is determined that the network is unavailable. The electronic control unit executes the same processes for another network as well.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Toshio Kawamura, Nobuyuki Nakagawa, Yoshitaka Kaseda
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Publication number: 20210344522Abstract: A switch device installed in a vehicle is provided with: a switch unit configured to relay communication data between a plurality of function units installed in the vehicle; a storage unit configured to hold the communication data to be relayed; and a control unit configured to determine a state of the storage unit, and adjust, for each of applications, a throughput of the communication data to be transmitted from the function units, based on a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito IWATA, Hideyuki TANAKA, Hideki MAEDA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Yasuhiro YABUUCHI, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Hiroya ANDO, Toshio KAWAMURA, Hirofumo URAYAMA
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Patent number: 11095542Abstract: An electronic control unit that monitors a subject electronic control unit that is different from the electronic control unit and is connected to a network includes a transmitting unit that transmits a monitoring packet to the subject electronic control unit, an estimating unit that estimates a state of the subject electronic control unit, based on a reply packet transmitted from the subject electronic control unit in response to the monitoring packet, and a monitoring unit that monitors the subject electronic control unit, based on a monitoring policy selected according to a combination of the state of the subject electronic control unit estimated by the estimating unit, and the state of the electronic control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shu Ishizuka, Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Toshio Kawamura, Masashi Amesara
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Patent number: 11063908Abstract: This on-vehicle communication device includes: a storage unit configured to store correspondence information indicating a correspondence relationship between an address and a port number; and a communication unit configured to perform, by using the correspondence information, filtering of a packet having been received. A target port number which is a port number of a target instrument is registered in advance in the correspondence information. In the filtering, the communication unit selectively allows a packet that includes the target port number, to pass. The communication unit performs an address registration process of acquiring an address from the packet that includes the target port number and registering, into the correspondence information, the acquired address in association with the target port number. In the filtering after the address registration process, the communication unit selectively allows a packet that includes the target port number and the corresponding address, to pass.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Darmawan Go, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Hiroya Ando, Toshio Kawamura, Hirofumi Urayama
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Patent number: 11038802Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain first transmission data with a first communication address as a destination and second transmission data with a second communication address as a destination from one or more applications, transmit the first transmission data to a relay unit at a first timing among a plurality of timings set at an interval of a predetermined cycle corresponding to a buffer size of the relay unit to which the in-vehicle apparatus is connected, and transmit the second transmission data to the relay unit at a second timing among the plurality of timings, the second timing being different from the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Toshio Kawamura
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Publication number: 20210119831Abstract: An in-vehicle network system deployed in a vehicle includes a plurality of first nodes configured to perform an operation relevant to a first function in the vehicle, a second node configured to perform an operation relevant to a second function different from the first function in the vehicle; and a relay device configured to relay communication between the first nodes and the second node. The relay device is configured to start relay of communication between the first nodes earlier than the relay of communication between the first node and the second node at a time of startup.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shu ISHIZUKA, Hiroya ANDO, Taichi MATSUMURA, Masashi AMESARA, Yutaka UEDA, Toshio KAWAMURA, Tomomi KAWAMURA, Yoshifumi OHMORI, Toshio SHIMADA, Yoshiro HIRATA
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Patent number: 10911264Abstract: An in-vehicle network system deployed in a vehicle includes a plurality of first nodes configured to perform an operation relevant to a first function in the vehicle, a second node configured to perform an operation relevant to a second function different from the first function in the vehicle; and a relay device configured to relay communication between the first nodes and the second node. The relay device is configured to start relay of communication between the first nodes earlier than the relay of communication between the first node and the second node at a time of startup.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shu Ishizuka, Yoshiro Hirata, Hiroya Ando, Taichi Matsumura, Masashi Amesara, Yutaka Ueda, Toshio Kawamura, Tomomi Kawamura, Yoshifumi Ohmori, Toshio Shimada
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Patent number: 10887128Abstract: An in-vehicle network system includes a plurality of relay devices that is connected to control devices of a vehicle, and communicates with each other and is configured such that each of a plurality of request devices that transmits a response request to the control device is connected to any one of the relay devices, a storage unit that stores a priority of the request devices, a master setter that sets, as the master, the relay device to which the request device having the highest priority has been connected among the relay devices to which any one of the request devices has been connected, and an arbitrator that performs arbitration to prioritize a response request from the request device having the highest priority when the response requests are transmitted from at least two of the request devices when the relay device in which the arbitrator is included is the master.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya Ando, Shu Ishizuka, Taichi Matsumura, Masashi Amesara, Yutaka Ueda, Yoshifumi Ohmori, Toshio Kawamura, Tomomi Kawamura, Toshio Shimada, Yoshiroh Hirata
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Publication number: 20200389436Abstract: This on-vehicle communication device includes: a storage unit configured to store correspondence information indicating a correspondence relationship between an address and a port number; and a communication unit configured to perform, by using the correspondence information, filtering of a packet having been received. A target port number which is a port number of a target instrument is registered in advance in the correspondence information. In the filtering, the communication unit selectively allows a packet that includes the target port number, to pass. The communication unit performs an address registration process of acquiring an address from the packet that includes the target port number and registering, into the correspondence information, the acquired address in association with the target port number. In the filtering after the address registration process, the communication unit selectively allows a packet that includes the target port number and the corresponding address, to pass.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Darmawan GO, Hideki MAEDA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Yasuhiro YABUUCHI, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Hiroya ANDO, Toshio KAWAMURA, Hirofumi URAYAMA
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Patent number: 10839619Abstract: An electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to: detect a connection request from an outside device; determine, in response to the connection request, whether or not a start condition for starting a connection authentication process is satisfied, the connection authentication process being a process for determining propriety of the connection request from the outside device; control a communication state between the outside device and the electronic control unit such that the communication state becomes a linkup state when the start condition is satisfied; and start the connection authentication process when the communication state is the linkup state.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shu Ishizuka, Masashi Amesara, Toshio Kawamura, Yasuhiro Yamasaki
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Patent number: 10668876Abstract: An in-vehicle network system includes a plurality of controllers; a plurality of communication lines connected to the controllers, respectively, a relay device connected to the controllers via the communication lines, and a retention determiner configured to determine whether retention of data occurs in the relay device. The relay device is configured to relay data between the communication lines, and configured to preferentially relay data having a priority equal to or higher than a predetermined priority such that the data reaches the controller that is a transmission destination among the controllers within a first predetermined time when the retention determiner determines that the retention occurs.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya Ando, Shu Ishizuka, Taichi Matsumura, Masashi Amesara, Yutaka Ueda, Yoshifumi Ohmori, Toshio Kawamura, Tomomi Kawamura, Toshio Shimada, Yoshiroh Hirata
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Patent number: 10601601Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first information processing device including a transmission unit, the transmission unit being configured to transmit a dummy segment including dummy data, after sequentially transmitting transmission segments into which transmission data is divided; and a second information processing device configured to communicate with the first information processing device using a transmission control protocol, the second information processing device including a removal unit configured to remove the dummy segment and to set data including the transmission segments as the transmission data when the transmission segments and the dummy segment are received.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Toshio Kawamura
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Patent number: 10523683Abstract: An in-vehicle network system includes a plurality of first controllers; a plurality of first communication lines, the first communication lines being respectively connected to the first controllers; a connector that connects an external device or a wireless communication device; a connection communication line that is connected to the connector; and a first relay device that relays between the first communication lines and the connection communication line. The first relay device is configured to determine whether a security level in data communication between the first controllers is increased according to a type of the external device or a communication state of the wireless communication device in a state in which the external device or the wireless communication device is connected to the connector, and the first relay device is configured to increase the security level when the first relay device determines that the security level is increased.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya Ando, Shu Ishizuka, Masashi Amesara, Yutaka Ueda, Toshio Kawamura
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Publication number: 20190245765Abstract: An object of the present invention is to avoid the situation where data to be transmitted have to be discarded, even when a network to which the data is to be transmitted is unavailable. The electronic control unit has: a determination part that executes a first determination process for determining whether a network to which data is to be transmitted is available or not; and a transmission part that executes a first transmission process for transmitting the data to the network when it is determined that the network is available, and executes a storage process for storing the data in a storage medium when it is determined that the network is unavailable. The electronic control unit executes the same processes for another network as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Toshio KAWAMURA, Nobuyuki NAKAGAWA, Yoshitaka KASEDA
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Publication number: 20190236856Abstract: An electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to: detect a connection request from an outside device; determine, in response to the connection request, whether or not a start condition for starting a connection authentication process is satisfied, the connection authentication process being a process for determining propriety of the connection request from the outside device; control a communication state between the outside device and the electronic control unit such that the communication state becomes a linkup state when the start condition is satisfied; and start the connection authentication process when the communication state is the linkup state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shu Ishizuka, Masashi Amesara, Toshio Kawamura, Yasuhiro Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20190230014Abstract: An electronic control unit that monitors a subject electronic control unit that is different from the electronic control unit and is connected to a network includes a transmitting unit that transmits a monitoring packet to the subject electronic control unit, an estimating unit that estimates a state of the subject electronic control unit, based on a reply packet transmitted from the subject electronic control unit in response to the monitoring packet, and a monitoring unit that monitors the subject electronic control unit, based on a monitoring policy selected according to a combination of the state of the subject electronic control unit estimated by the estimating unit, and the state of the electronic control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shu ISHIZUKA, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Toshio KAWAMURA, Masashi AMESARA
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Publication number: 20190089636Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain first transmission data with a first communication address as a destination and second transmission data with a second communication address as a destination from one or more applications, transmit the first transmission data to a relay unit at a first timing among a plurality of timings set at an interval of a predetermined cycle corresponding to a buffer size of the relay unit to which the in-vehicle apparatus is connected, and transmit the second transmission data to the relay unit at a second timing among the plurality of timings, the second timing being different from the first timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Toshio KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20190068391Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first information processing device including a transmission unit, the transmission unit being configured to transmit a dummy segment including dummy data, after sequentially transmitting transmission segments into which transmission data is divided; and a second information processing device configured to communicate with the first information processing device using a transmission control protocol, the second information processing device including a removal unit configured to remove the dummy segment and to set data including the transmission segments as the transmission data when the transmission segments and the dummy segment are received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Toshio KAWAMURA