Patents by Inventor Yasuo Yamada

Yasuo Yamada 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: 11490057
    Abstract: A recording device according to an embodiment includes an imaging data acquisition unit configured to acquire imaging data including video data and audio data, an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of an event; and a recording control unit configured to record first imaging data including the video data and the audio data in a recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is caused by the event detected by the event detection unit, and record second imaging data including the video data and not including the audio data in the recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is not caused by the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Yasuo Yamada, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220302737
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: a first power circuit having a first battery and a first power line; a second power circuit having a second battery and a second power line; a voltage converter; a power converter; a first voltage acquisition unit which acquires a first closed circuit voltage lower limit CCVmin1 of the first battery; a second voltage acquisition unit which acquires a second closed circuit voltage lower limit CCVmin2 of the second battery; and a power control unit which operates the second power circuit based on a requested power, in which the power control unit isolates the second battery from the second power lines, in a case of a voltage difference between the first closed circuit voltage lower limit CCVmin1 and the second closed circuit voltage lower limit CCVmin2 becoming less than a first voltage threshold value A while output limitation of the second battery is being requested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Arata OHISHI, Hirokazu OGUMA, Yasuo YAMADA, Minoru NAGASAWA, Yoshihiro KANAMARU
  • Publication number: 20220297571
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to acquiring a state of a first battery and a state of a second battery, acquiring at least first actual output power of the first battery, calculating a first upper power limit value based on the state of the first battery, calculating a second upper power limit value based on the state of the second battery, and controlling a power conversion process of a power convertor based on the calculated upper power limit values, requested power from a vehicle to be output to a motor, and the first actual output power. The controlling of the power conversion process includes, when output instruction content for iteratively issuing an instruction is determined, calculating the second requested power obtained by correcting currently requested power based on a difference between previously requested power and the first actual output power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu Oguma, Yasuo Yamada, Arata Ohishi, Minoru Nagasawa, Yoshihiro Kanamaru
  • Publication number: 20220302736
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: a first power circuit having a first battery, a second power circuit having a second battery, a voltage converter which converts voltage between the first power circuit and the second power circuit, a power converter which converts power between the first power circuit and the drive motor, a power control unit which controls charge/discharge of the first and second batteries by operating the voltage converter and the power converter, a first voltage parameter acquisition unit which calculates an effective value for the closed circuit voltage of the first battery as a first voltage parameter, a second voltage parameter acquisition unit which calculates the static voltage of the second battery as a second voltage parameter, in which the power control unit causes power to discharge from the second battery so that the second voltage parameter becomes no more than the first voltage parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru NAGASAWA, Hirokazu OGUMA, Arata OHISHI, Yasuo YAMADA, Yoshihiro KANAMARU
  • Publication number: 20220297573
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to acquiring a state of a first battery and a state of a second battery having lower capacity and higher power than the first battery, calculating a first upper power limit value based on the state of the first battery, calculating a second upper power limit value based on the state of the second battery, and calculating a power output ratio between amounts of electric power to be supplied from the first battery and the second battery to a motor that outputs motive power for traveling based on the first upper power limit value and the second upper power limit value, and controlling electric power to be output to the motor based on a traveling mode of a vehicle, a maximum driving force in the motor, and the power output ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu Oguma, Yoshihiro Kanamaru, Yasuo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220285808
    Abstract: A distributed constant filter includes a resonator that is not grounded and a first ground electrode. The first ground electrode faces the resonator in a first direction (Z). The resonator is a distributed constant line resonator. The resonator includes a plurality of distributed constant lines and a via conductor. The plurality of distributed constant lines are arranged in layers in the first direction (Z). The via conductor extends in the first direction (Z). Each of the plurality of distributed constant lines is connected to the via conductor only at one end portion of both end portions of the distributed constant line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori TAGUCHI, Kengo ONAKA, Hitoshi TADA, Yasuo YAMADA, Muneyoshi YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro NAGAI, Keiichi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220231395
    Abstract: A dielectric resonator includes a dielectric substrate, a distributed element, and a shield conductor portion. The distributed element extends in the X-axis direction inside the dielectric substrate. The shield conductor portion is on a surface of the dielectric substrate and winds around the distributed element when the distributed element is viewed from the X-axis direction in plan view. One end of the distributed element is not connected to the shield conductor portion. The distributed element includes a plurality of conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi TADA, Yasuo YAMADA, Muneyoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220185116
    Abstract: A power supply system includes power circuit which connects first and second batteries with a drive motor, and a management ECU which controls transfer of power between the batteries and the drive motor. The management ECU limits the output power of the second battery to no more than a second output upper limit, during combined output travel which drives the drive motor by way of the combined output of the first and second batteries. In addition, the management ECU sets the second output upper limit to a second maximum output of the second battery in the case of the first SOC of the first batter being greater than a remaining amount warning threshold, and sets the second output upper limit to a range extending upper limit which is smaller than the second maximum output, in the case of the first SOC being less than the remaining amount warning threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu OGUMA, Yasuo YAMADA, Arata OHISHI, Minoru NAGASAWA, Yoshihiro KANAMARU, Yoshihisa KATO
  • Publication number: 20220092894
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of appropriately recording desired information in a recording unit of a straddle-type vehicle. [Means for Resolution] In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, recording of information by a recording processor is controlled, the recording processor continuously acquires target information as a recording target and can execute event data recording for recording partial information, which is information acquired in a period including a shock application time at which the straddle-type vehicle receives a shock, of the target information as event data. In addition, selection of whether to prohibit or permit the event data recording is made in the case where it is determined that the straddle-type vehicle is brought into an off-ground state where a wheel of the straddle-type vehicle comes off the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Takayuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11273779
    Abstract: There is provided an abnormality detection device includes a detector configured to detect a shake of a vehicle, a threshold setting unit configured to set at least one threshold for determining whether the detected shake of the vehicle is abnormal, a vehicle peripheral information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of a video around the vehicle, illuminance information around the vehicle, and sound information around the vehicle, and a vehicle information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a driving state of the vehicle, wherein the threshold setting unit is further configured to control the at least one threshold based on the information acquired by the vehicle peripheral information acquisition unit, when the vehicle is determined to be being parked based on the information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Keita Hayashi, Yasuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 11172170
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus according to the present invention includes an image-data acquiring unit that sequentially acquires image data obtained by imaging a periphery of a vehicle, an event-signal acquiring unit that acquires an event signal indicating occurrence of a predetermined event to the vehicle, a condition detecting unit that detects, when the event-signal acquiring unit acquires the event signal, whether a positional relation of another vehicle with the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, and a writing controller that writes the image data in a memory in a ring buffer format, or writes, when the event-signal acquiring unit acquires the event signal, the image data including a period from when the event signal has been acquired until the condition detecting unit has detected that the condition is satisfied in the memory so that the image data is not overwritten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210274136
    Abstract: A recording device according to an embodiment includes an imaging data acquisition unit configured to acquire imaging data including video data and audio data, an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of an event; and a recording control unit configured to record first imaging data including the video data and the audio data in a recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is caused by the event detected by the event detection unit, and record second imaging data including the video data and not including the audio data in the recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is not caused by the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Toshitaka MURATA, Yasuo YAMADA, Keita HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11050980
    Abstract: A recording device according to an embodiment includes an imaging data acquisition unit configured to acquire imaging data including video data and audio data, an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of an event; and a recording control unit configured to record first imaging data including the video data and the audio data in a recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is caused by the event detected by the event detection unit, and record second imaging data including the video data and not including the audio data in the recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is not caused by the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Yasuo Yamada, Keita Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10964348
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data obtained by shooting an area around a vehicle, an event detection unit configured to detect an occurrence of a predetermined event in the vehicle, a changing-point determination unit configured to determine whether or not the vehicle has passed a changing point on a traveling road based on a current position information of the vehicle, and a recording control unit configured to, when the event detection unit detects the occurrence of the event, record the video data including a first period as an event recording file in a recording unit, the first period being from a passing time point of the changing point to a detecting time point of the event, the changing point being a point that the vehicle has passed at least a first time earlier than the detecting time point of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata
  • Publication number: 20200313473
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor; a first stator provided with a plurality of teeth, and a second stator stacked in an axial direction of the first stator, the teeth of the second rotor being disposed and aligned with the corresponding plurality of teeth of the first stator in the axial direction. The first and the second stator are formed of a plurality of split cores being split along a plurality of split surfaces. A position of each of the split surfaces of the second stator is displaced from a position of the corresponding one of the split surfaces of the first stator in the circumferential direction by an angle ? (?=(2?/N)/2+nĂ—(2?/N), where N is a least common multiple of the number of magnetic poles of the rotor and the number of split cores, and n is an integer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200303983
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a stator includes a substantially cylindrical iron core including a winding attached inside, and a stator frame joined to the iron core via a first weld portion. In the stator, the iron core includes a groove portion extending along an axial direction and recessed from an outer circumferential surface of the iron core inward in a radial direction, and the first weld portion is formed at, on at least one edge in the axial direction of the iron core, mutually facing portions of an edge portion of the iron core and an inner circumferential surface of the stator frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10691099
    Abstract: A motor selection apparatus includes: a mechanical condition obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to a distance between a center of mass of a workpiece and a rotation center of a motor; an operating pattern obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to an operating pattern; a motor information obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to instantaneous torque; an eccentric load torque calculation unit that calculates eccentric load torque, which is load torque acting on the motor in accordance with the rotation phase of the motor; an acceleration/deceleration torque calculation unit that calculates acceleration/deceleration torque; a required torque calculation unit that calculates a required torque from a sum of the eccentric load torque and the acceleration/deceleration torque; and a motor selection unit that determines whether a motor can be selected, based on whether the required torque is less than or equal to the instantaneous torque of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 10694156
    Abstract: A recording apparatus for a vehicle capable of recording a video image with reduced reflected glare is provided. A recording apparatus for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a main body part comprising at least a camera, a mounting part configured to mount the main body part so that the camera is oriented to photograph outside of a vehicle through a windshield provided in the vehicle, and a display unit configured to display information. The display unit is rotatably mounted at a lower part of the main body part and is positioned to block light from below the camera when the display unit rotates in a direction in which the camera photographs a video image and a display surface of the display unit faces downward, which is referred to as a first arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Yasuo Yamada, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20200176029
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data obtained by shooting an area around a vehicle, an event detection unit configured to detect an occurrence of a predetermined event in the vehicle, a changing-point determination unit configured to determine whether or not the vehicle has passed a changing point on a traveling road based on a current position information of the vehicle, and a recording control unit configured to, when the event detection unit detects the occurrence of the event, record the video data including a first period as an event recording file in a recording unit, the first period being from a passing time point of the changing point to a detecting time point of the event, the changing point being a point that the vehicle has passed at least a first time earlier than the detecting time point of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMADA, Toshitaka MURATA
  • Patent number: 10644568
    Abstract: The stator frame includes: a spiral groove which is provided as a flow path of a coolant from one end side to the other end side in an axis direction spirally along the circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface; and annular grooves which individually communicate with the end portions of the spiral groove on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and which are provided annularly along the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface. The spiral groove is formed such that a groove depth is shallow in regions on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and the groove depth is deep in a region around a center in the axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamada