Patents by Inventor Yoshinari Hori

Yoshinari Hori 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).

  • Publication number: 20240128241
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an insulated circuit substrate including a conductive plate on a top surface side; a semiconductor chip mounted on the conductive plate; and an external connection terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and including an inner-side conductor layer, an outer-side conductor layer provided at a circumference of the inner-side conductor layer, and an insulating layer interposed between the inner-side conductor layer and the outer-side conductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira HIRAO, Yoshinari IKEDA, Motohito HORI
  • Publication number: 20240103505
    Abstract: A calculation system that, in an environment based on a digital twin to which the assets are hierarchically connected, executes a simulation regarding the assets on the basis of an output specification regarding a sampling rate and target accuracy that is target accuracy of calculation processing, the calculation system includes a requirement condition calculation unit configured to calculate an output specification to be required for a downstream hierarchy, and a requirement adjustment unit configured to adjust the output specification of a hierarchy that receives a requirement on the basis of the requirement received from the downstream hierarchy, and the requirement condition calculation unit calculates an output specification to be required for an upstream hierarchy on the basis of the output specification adjusted by the requirement adjustment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiro Muro, Yoshinari Hori
  • Patent number: 11619923
    Abstract: A digital twin management system manages a virtual model that represents an actual physical system in a virtual space on a real-time basis. To generate an integrated virtual model by adding a second virtual model to a first virtual model, a processor of the digital twin system extracts multiple parts that can be used in common in the first virtual model and the second virtual model, generates multiple integrated virtual models that are candidates of an integrated virtual model by changing the extracted parts that can be used in common, calculates an evaluation of each of the generated integrated virtual models, and outputs configuration information regarding each of the integrated virtual model candidates and an evaluation of the integrated virtual model candidate in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakata, Yoshinari Hori, Daisuke Ito, Toshihiko Kashiyama, Taisuke Ueta, Masaaki Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11580272
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to efficiently create a 3D model of a plant with attributes from a 3D model of a plant with no attributes. In order to solve the above problems, in the invention, a connection information conversion part 5 converts a connection relationship of parts extracted from a 3D model with no attributes 2 into connection information of a system diagram, an extraction information comparing part 6 compares the connection information with the connection relationship extracted from an attribute system diagram to create an conversion correspondence DB 7, and a 3D model with attributes 9 is created based on the conversion correspondence DB from the 3D model with no attributes 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Tomotoshi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20220326680
    Abstract: A digital twin management system manages a virtual model that represents an actual physical system in a virtual space on a real-time basis. To generate an integrated virtual model by adding a second virtual model to a first virtual model, a processor of the digital twin system extracts multiple parts that can be used in common in the first virtual model and the second virtual model, generates multiple integrated virtual models that are candidates of an integrated virtual model by changing the extracted parts that can be used in common, calculates an evaluation of each of the generated integrated virtual models, and outputs configuration information regarding each of the integrated virtual model candidates and an evaluation of the integrated virtual model candidate in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKATA, Yoshinari HORI, Daisuke ITO, Toshihiko KASHIYAMA, Taisuke UETA, Masaaki IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220262249
    Abstract: A rescheduling system performs rescheduling of passenger transports, some of which should be operated with priority and some of which should be operated ordinarily and includes a schedule prediction simulator unit adapted to create a forecast schedule in which a delay of a passenger transport has been incorporated into the planned schedule and create a modified schedule in which rescheduled objects in a timetable have been incorporated into the forecast schedule; and a rescheduling decision unit adapted to select passenger transports to be rescheduled using the planned schedule and the forecast schedule, determine the rescheduled objects in timetable with respect to the passenger transports to be rescheduled using a relationship between relative traveling positions of respective passenger transports, information relevant to advancing routes of the passenger transports, and other rescheduling history information, and give the determined rescheduled objects in the timetable to the schedule prediction simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HAYASHI, Yoshinari HORI, Takaaki SEKIAI, Yasuharu NAMBA
  • Patent number: 11334058
    Abstract: A plant data classification device according to one aspect of the invention includes: a data classification unit that classifies multidimensional operation data into categories; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; a classification result evaluation unit that calculates a variation in the evaluation index for each category and determines whether the variation in the evaluation index is less than or equal to a reference value; and a parameter changing unit that changes, when it is determined that the variation in the evaluation index exceeds the reference value, a value of a parameter that defines a size of a category of the data classification unit in a direction of decreasing the size of the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Hiroki Yamamoto, Masaaki Mukaide
  • Patent number: 11320808
    Abstract: Provided is a plant data display processing device including: a data classification unit that classifies operation data into categories according to similarity; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; and a classification result display processing unit that calculates a representative value of the operation data for each of the categories from the operation data contained in each of the categories, maps identification information of each of the categories to two-dimensional space in accordance with similarity of a representative value of the operation data, and generates three-dimensional image data in which the identification information of each of the categories is shown on a plane formed of a first axis and a second axis, and the evaluation index of the category is shown on a third axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Kouji Kageyama, Hiroki Yamamoto, Masaaki Mukaide
  • Publication number: 20210397977
    Abstract: The knowledge model construction system includes: a CAD data which stores a design information including information on configurations of the parts; an input unit which inputs an element knowledge model which includes a plurality of combinations, each of the combinations being a combination of an element knowledge and an establishment condition thereof, the element knowledge representing a causal relationship with respect to an asset; a knowledge model construction unit which extracts a combination of an element knowledge applicable to an object asset and an establishment condition thereof by comparing the CAD data of the object asset with the establishment conditions of the element knowledge model; and an object asset knowledge model which records the extracted combination of the element knowledge and the establishment condition thereof as a knowledge model. Thus, the knowledge model construction system is able to construct a knowledge model of a new asset with less man-hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshinari HORI, Toshiaki KONO, Takayuki UCHIDA, Yasuharu NAMBA
  • Publication number: 20200410142
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to efficiently create a 3D model of a plant with attributes from a 3D model of a plant with no attributes. In order to solve the above problems, in the invention, a connection information conversion part 5 converts a connection relationship of parts extracted from a 3D model with no attributes 2 into connection information of a system diagram, an extraction information comparing part 6 compares the connection information with the connection relationship extracted from an attribute system diagram to create an conversion correspondence DB 7, and a 3D model with attributes 9 is created based on the conversion correspondence DB from the 3D model with no attributes 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshinari HORI, Tomotoshi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200371513
    Abstract: A maintenance process flow for a plant is automatically generated based on a prediction result of a life of a pipe. A maintenance process flow generation device configured to generate a maintenance process flow for a plant including a plurality of pipes and a plurality of machines as elements, specifies a target pipe, extracts a maintenance range that is a combination of the elements as maintenance targets, determines necessity of a process required for maintenance on the plurality of elements that can be collectively maintained, generates a process flow defining an order relationship of processes executed in the maintenance of the target plant based on a result of the process necessity determination and master process flow information, evaluates workability of the process included in the process flow, calculates work time of the process flow based on a result of the workability evaluation, and outputs information presenting the maintenance range, the process flow and the work time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Toshihiro MORISAWA, Yoshinari HORI, Yasuharu NAMBA, Toshiyuki UKAI
  • Patent number: 10816965
    Abstract: This manufacturing facility management optimization device: on the basis of an operation condition of a manufacturing facility, creates, in a simulated manner in time series, an operation state which includes a measurement value, product yield, and quantities of raw materials consumed, of the manufacturing facility; detects an anomaly from the created operation state; identifies maintenance which corresponds to the detected anomaly, corrects the operation condition on the basis of the identified maintenance, and creates a plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; creates, in a simulated manner in time series, a plurality of post-correction operation state candidates on the basis of the plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; on the basis of the product yield and the quantities of raw materials consumed in the plurality of pre- and post-correction operation state candidates, and a unit price, creates a management index for the operation state and each of the plurality of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masaaki Mukaide, Yoshinari Hori, Takeshi Terasaki
  • Publication number: 20200012269
    Abstract: A plant data classification device according to one aspect of the invention includes: a data classification unit that classifies multidimensional operation data into categories; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; a classification result evaluation unit that calculates a variation in the evaluation index for each category and determines whether the variation in the evaluation index is less than or equal to a reference value; and a parameter changing unit that changes, when it is determined that the variation in the evaluation index exceeds the reference value, a value of a parameter that defines a size of a category of the data classification unit in a direction of decreasing the size of the category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari HORI, Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Masaaki MUKAIDE
  • Publication number: 20190227531
    Abstract: Provided is a plant data display processing device including: a data classification unit that classifies operation data into categories according to similarity; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; and a classification result display processing unit that calculates a representative value of the operation data for each of the categories from the operation data contained in each of the categories, maps identification information of each of the categories to two-dimensional space in accordance with similarity of a representative value of the operation data, and generates three-dimensional image data in which the identification information of each of the categories is shown on a plane formed of a first axis and a second axis, and the evaluation index of the category is shown on a third axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinari HORI, Kouji KAGEYAMA, Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Masaaki MUKAIDE, I
  • Publication number: 20190064790
    Abstract: This manufacturing facility management optimization device: on the basis of an operation condition of a manufacturing facility, creates, in a simulated manner in time series, an operation state which includes a measurement value, product yield, and quantities of raw materials consumed, of the manufacturing facility; detects an anomaly from the created operation state; identifies maintenance which corresponds to the detected anomaly, corrects the operation condition on the basis of the identified maintenance, and creates a plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; creates, in a simulated manner in time series, a plurality of post-correction operation state candidates on the basis of the plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; on the basis of the product yield and the quantities of raw materials consumed in the plurality of pre- and post-correction operation state candidates, and a unit price, creates a management index for the operation state and each of the plurality of
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Masaaki MUKAIDE, Yoshinari HORI, Takeshi TERASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170323035
    Abstract: A 3D model creation support system which supports creation of a 3D model with attribute of an object configured with a plurality of configuration elements connected to each other, and a method thereof is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari HORI, Tomotoshi ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 8484139
    Abstract: A data classification apparatus for classifying plural input data into plural categories, in which the apparatus includes a prototype select unit for selecting the prototype of the category nearest to the input data that has been read, a prototype evaluation unit for evaluating whether the selected prototype is proper, a prototype addition unit for adding a prototype in the case where the selected prototype is not proper and an internal data correcting unit for correcting at least one of the prototype and an area determining parameter specifying the size of the category area for each category in the case where the selected prototype is proper. The size of the category area can be set for each category, and therefore, the data can be properly classified and the judgment accuracy is improved in an application to fault detection and fault diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Akihiro Yamada, Takuya Yoshida, Jinichiro Goto
  • Patent number: 7695838
    Abstract: A part of cell stack portions constituting a part of a fuel cell stack is used as a voltage detection portion, the size of a frequency component belonging to a predetermined specific frequency range is extracted from a voltage signal detected and the existence/absence of abnormality of a fuel cell system is diagnosed on the basis of the frequency component extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Komachiya, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Katsunori Nishimura, Kou Takahashi, Yoshinari Hori, Yoshihide Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090043716
    Abstract: A data classification apparatus for classifying plural input data into plural categories, in which the apparatus includes a prototype select unit for selecting the prototype of the category nearest to the input data that has been read, a prototype evaluation unit for evaluating whether the selected prototype is proper, a prototype addition unit for adding a prototype in the case where the selected prototype is not proper and an internal data correcting unit for correcting at least one of the prototype and an area determining parameter specifying the size of the category area for each category in the case where the selected prototype is proper. The size of the category area can be set for each category, and therefore, the data can be properly classified and the judgment accuracy is improved in an application to fault detection and fault diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Akihiro Yamada, Takuya Yoshida, Jinichiro Goto
  • Publication number: 20070196707
    Abstract: A part of cell stack portions constituting a part of a fuel cell stack is used as a voltage detection portion, the size of a frequency component belonging to a predetermined specific frequency range is extracted from a voltage signal detected and the existence/absence of abnormality of a fuel cell system is diagnosed on the basis of the frequency component extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Masahiro Komachiya, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Katsunori Nishimura, Kou Takahashi, Yoshinari Hori, Yoshihide Kondo