Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Hara
Yoshitaka Hara 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: 9182235Abstract: Calculating a highly accurate locus is a goal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 9062980Abstract: An autonomous mobile system for a mobile body which moves while localizing itself in a space includes a shape detector and travel distance detector for measuring whether objects are present in set regions determined by dividing a three-dimensional space into a plurality of segments, a storage device into which map data is stored that indicates a region of the set regions that has been set as having a stationary object in the region, a determining section that determines, from frequency of the object detection by the shape detector during a predetermined time for each of the set regions, whether the object that has been detected in each set region is a stationary object or a moving object, and a localizer that localizes a vehicle by matching the region that the determining section has determined to have a stationary object in the region, and the map data.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Ryoko Ichinose, Kenjiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8957789Abstract: A vehicle support information system mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle support system including: a man-detecting unit; a vehicle-position detecting unit; a communication unit; a man-position/waiting-score calculating unit; a stopping-vehicle determining unit determining whether or not the vehicle should be stopped, based on a man position and a waiting score of an at least one potential-crossing-man; a travelling controller for stopping the vehicle when the stopping-vehicle determining unit determines that the vehicle should be stopped; and a man-crossing-signal display unit displaying information to inform the at least one potential-crossing-man whether or not the at least one potential-crossing-man can safely cross the road, based on an instruction of the stopping-vehicle determining unit, wherein the man-position/waiting-score calculating unit outputs the man-position/waiting-score to the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Takuya Naka, Saku Egawa, Masashi Koga
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Patent number: 8940365Abstract: A device to form a coating film which can quickly coat a substrate of a follow-up lot after coating a preceding lot. The device is configured such that nozzles for a preceding lot and a following lot are integrated into a common movement mechanism and moved between an upper side of a liquid processing unit and a standby area. A coating method includes sucking air into the nozzle for the preceding lot to form an upper gas layer, sucking a solvent for the preceding lot in the standby area to form a thinner layer, and sucking air into the nozzle for the preceding lot to form a lower gas layer within the nozzle, and thus forming a state that a solvent layer is interposed between the upper gas layer and the lower gas layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Akira Miyata, Yoshitaka Hara, Kouji Fujimura
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Publication number: 20140334332Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a device for obtaining, by a first telecommunication device and from a second telecommunication device, information representative of the channel quality indication on at least one frequency subband, the first and the second telecommunication devices being linked through a wireless telecommunication network using a plurality of frequency subbands. The frequency subbands are grouped into groups of at least one frequency subband, and the first telecommunication device transfers a message to the second telecommunication device, the message comprising information identifying a first group of at least one frequency subband, receives, from the second telecommunication device, for each frequency subband comprised in the first group, an information representative of the channel quality indication determined by the second telecommunication device for the frequency subband comprised in the first group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka HARA, Damien CASTELAIN, Noriyuki FUKUI
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Publication number: 20140334428Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a device for obtaining, by a first telecommunication device and from a second telecommunication device, information representative of the channel quality indication on at least one frequency subband, the first and the second telecommunication devices being linked through a wireless telecommunication network using a plurality of frequency subbands. The frequency subbands are grouped into groups of at least one frequency subband, and the first telecommunication device transfers a message to the second telecommunication device, the message comprising information identifying a first group of at least one frequency subband, receives, from the second telecommunication device, for each frequency subband comprised in the first group, an information representative of the channel quality indication determined by the second telecommunication device for the frequency subband comprised in the first group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka HARA, Damien CASTELAIN, Noriyuki FUKUI
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Patent number: 8885140Abstract: The present invention is a substrate treatment apparatus for performing solution treatment on a substrate, performing post-treatment in a treatment module subsequent to the solution treatment, including: a solution treatment section including a plurality of nozzles prepared for respective kinds of treatment solutions corresponding to lots of substrates; a transfer mechanism for transferring the substrate; a monitoring section monitoring whether there is a failure in discharge of the treatment solution in the nozzle; and a control unit outputting a control signal to prohibit the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle determined to have a failure by the monitoring section and to perform the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle other than the nozzle determined to have a failure.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Tomohiro Nakashima, Shin Inoue, Yoshitaka Hara, Izumi Hasegawa, Kunie Ogata, Takuya Mori
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Patent number: 8863373Abstract: An application and development apparatus has a plurality of vertically stacked blocks directed to coating film formation on a substrate. This plurality of blocks includes first processing units, a first substrate transportation region, and a first transportation unit for transporting substrates between the first processing units within the first transportation region. A development process block also is vertically stacked with the blocks directed to coating film formation to constitute a layered block as the process block. The development process block also includes second processing units and a second transportation unit for transporting substrates between the second processing units within the second transportation region. The application and development apparatus further has a shelf-type delivery stage group, a vertical transportation unit and a substrate inspection unit such that a substrate input into the inspection unit passes through the delivery stage group from the vertical transportation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Nobuaki Matsuoka, Shinichi Hayashi, Yasushi Hayashida, Yoshitaka Hara
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Publication number: 20140309841Abstract: The invention includes a shape detector and travel distance detector for measuring whether objects are present in set regions determined by dividing a three-dimensional space into a plurality of segments, a storage device into which map data is stored that indicates a region of the set regions that has been set as having a stationary object in the region, a determining section that determines, from frequency of the object detection by the shape detector during a predetermined time for each of the set regions, whether the object that has been detected in each set region is a stationary object or a moving object, and a localizer that localizes a vehicle āvā by matching the region that the determining section has determined to have a stationary object in the region, and the map data. Thus, highly accurate detection of positions can be realized, even in an environment with moving objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Ryoko Ichinose, Kenjiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8825067Abstract: The present invention concerns a method, a device and a system for scheduling transfer of data from a mobile terminal to a base station in a telecommunication system. The method is executed by the mobile terminal. It comprises the steps of determining whether a resource of the telecommunication system needs to be allocated to the mobile terminal to enable transferring data from the mobile terminal to the base station, and transferring, from the mobile terminal to the base station, a pilot symbol before data transmission and before the resource of the telecommunication system is allocated to the mobile terminal, when the resource of the telecommunication system needs to be allocated to the mobile terminal, the pilot symbol having information for allocation of the resource of the telecommunication system by the base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Hara, David Mottier, Loic Brunel, Noriyuki Fukui
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Publication number: 20140232567Abstract: A vehicle support information system mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle support system including: a man-detecting unit; a vehicle-position detecting unit; a communication unit; a man-position/waiting-score calculating unit; a stopping-vehicle determining unit determining whether or not the vehicle should be stopped, based on a man position and a waiting score of an at least one potential-crossing-man; a travelling controller for stopping the vehicle when the stopping-vehicle determining unit determines that the vehicle should be stopped; and a man-crossing-signal display unit displaying information to inform the at least one potential-crossing-man whether or not the at least one potential-crossing-man can safely cross the road, based on an instruction of the stopping-vehicle determining unit, wherein the man-position/waiting-score calculating unit outputs the man-position/waiting-score to the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka HARA, Takuya NAKA, Saku EGAWA, Masashi KOGA
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Patent number: 8749401Abstract: A vehicle support system for supporting a man in safely crossing a road without crosswalks installed is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hitcha, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Takuya Naka, Saku Egawa, Masashi Koga
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Patent number: 8722152Abstract: A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Naofumi Kishita, Kouji Fujimura, Yoshitaka Hara
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Patent number: 8712687Abstract: A determining system for localization methods combination which determines a combination of a plurality of localization methods used in a vehicle includes: a unit that stores therein a localization accuracy influence parameter which is determined for each position in a travel environment; a unit that stores therein a relation between the localization accuracy influence parameter and a localization accuracy of each of a plurality of the localization methods; a unit that stores therein correspondence information between the localization accuracy influence parameter and each of the localization methods; a unit that acquires the localization accuracy influence parameter in the travel environment; and a unit that acquires the correspondence information on the localization accuracy influence parameter, references the relation based on the correspondence information, and thereby predicts a localization accuracy of each of the localization methods at each position in the travel environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Hara
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Publication number: 20140095009Abstract: A route decision system is provided to avoid an obstacle existing in a traceably moving direction for tracing a reference route from a current location of an autonomous movable body. The system computes traffic distance and a traffic width as a traffic region having a given traffic width and does not allow an obstacle to intrude in each of a plurality of moving The moving direction of the autonomous movable body is decided on the basis of the traceably moving direction and the traffic region. A speed decision device decides a moving speed allowing the autonomous movable body to stop before it collides with the obstacle in response to the braking condition of the autonomous movable body and the location and the speed of the obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Akira Oshima, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yukihiko Ono, Yoshitaka Hara
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Publication number: 20140088863Abstract: Calculating a highly accurate locus is a goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 8576055Abstract: A collision avoidance assisting system for a vehicle, for expecting a risk of colliding upon a moving object (or a moving obstacle), including a pedestrian, more correctly, but without annoying a driver, excessively, by estimating the risk to be excessively high, comprises a moving object detecting means for detecting a moving object existing on periphery of the vehicle; a footway boundary detecting means for detecting a position and a configuration of a footway boundary object on periphery of the vehicle; a risk estimation means for estimating a risk that the moving object detected by said moving object detecting means collides on the vehicle; and an alarm means for calling an attention to a driver of the vehicle, upon basis of the risk of collision estimated by the risk estimation means, wherein the risk of collision between the moving object, which is detected by the moving object detecting means, and that vehicle is estimated by taking at least the position information of the moving object, the position iType: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Yuji Hosoda, Masashi Koga
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Publication number: 20130273256Abstract: A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Naofumi KISHITA, Kouji FUJIMURA, Yoshitaka HARA
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Publication number: 20130258108Abstract: Disclosed is a road surface shape recognition system adapted to recognize a shape of a road surface and obstacles present thereupon, even when the road surface is illuminated with extraneous light of a plurality of wavelengths from illumination lamps, street lamps, electric signboards, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiko Ono, Ryoko Ichinose, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima
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Patent number: 8522714Abstract: A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Naofumi Kishita, Kouji Fujimura, Yoshitaka Hara