Patents by Inventor Yuichi Kato

Yuichi Kato 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: 20240085278
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an anomaly detection apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: acquire measured values from sensors installed in a system, a first function, a first threshold, and a second function to output a second threshold; generate the predicted values based on the measured value and the first function; detect that a deviation between the measured values and the predicted values exceeds the first threshold; calculate the feature quantities based on the measured values; and determine whether a number of consecutive times is equal to or larger than the second threshold to detect an anomaly or a sign of the anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori TAGUCHI, Kouta NAKATA, Susumu NAITO, Yuichi KATO, Shinya TOMINAGA, Naoyuki TAKADO, Ryota MIYAKE, Yusuke TERAKADO, Toshio AOKI
  • Patent number: 11926230
    Abstract: Ease of connecting to a robot in a charging station is increased. A charging station includes a base having an upper face up on which a wheel rides, and a power supply terminal to be connected to a charging terminal of a robot. The upper face of the base is such that a target position is set in a far side region, while a reference entrance line that connects an entrance side specific position and the target position is set, and the upper face of the base includes an inverted face of a three-dimensional curved form that provides an entering wheel with a gravitational component that acts toward the reference entrance line side. The power supply terminal is connected to the charging terminal in a state wherein the wheel has arrived at the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventors: Kaname Hayashi, Daijiro Kato, Tomoaki Yokoyama, Yuichi Onda, Naoshi Hatori
  • Publication number: 20240078570
    Abstract: A reward providing device comprises an acquiring section that acquires, when charging of the battery by a charging device is completed, battery state-of-charge information concerning a battery state of charge that is a state of charge of a battery provided to a moving body, and a reward providing section that provides a reward to the user of the moving body when the battery state of charge is less than or equal to a recommended upper limit state of charge that is an upper limit of a recommended charge rate set to be lower than a full charge, serving as a state of charge that is recommended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kei HIROHATA, Shinji YASUHARA, Yuichi NAKAMURA, Seiichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11892829
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a monitoring apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to generate second data including a prediction value of a second sensor correlated with a first sensor from first data including a measurement value of the first sensor of which a measurement value changes suddenly in a case where the control signal changes, detect an anomaly of the system or an anomaly of at least one sensor, and make it difficult to detect the anomaly in a case where the determination signal indicates that there is a change in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOULTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Taguchi, Kouta Nakata, Susumu Naito, Yuichi Kato, Eiichi Ookuma, Toshio Aoki, Chikashi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240040222
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle camera shield state determination device which determines a shield state of an external camera of a vehicle, the device determines whether or not shield is detected by image processing of a captured image, determines whether or not an object is close to the vehicle in an imaging direction of the external camera, based on a detection result of an external sensor of the vehicle, determines whether or not the external camera is in the shield state, based on a detection result of a shield detection unit and a determination result of a proximity determination unit, and even if shield is detected by image processing of the captured image, when it is determined that the object is close to the vehicle in the imaging direction of the external camera, it is not determined that the external camera is in the shield state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA Toyota-shi, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka TOKUNAGA, Yusuke TATESUMI, Yuichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11867842
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a pulse generator that is used in a ToF camera system especially adopting the indirect system and can be ready for various settings of a frequency or a phase with a simple configuration. [Solving means] There is provided a pulse generator that includes a first counter that determines a phase of a pulse to be outputted and used for distance measurement to a distance measurement target using an input signal, and a second counter that determines a frequency of the pulse using the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yohtaro Yasu, Yuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11868885
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a learning device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: generate a transformation matrix from learning data in which feature quantities and target values are held in a corresponding manner; and learn about parameters of a neural network which includes nodes equal in number to the number of rows of the transformation matrix, a first output layer representing first estimation distribution according to the values of the nodes, and a second output layer representing second estimation distribution decided according to the product of the transformation matrix and the first estimation distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Kouta Nakata, Susumu Naito, Yasunori Taguchi, Kentaro Takagi
  • Patent number: 11860716
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit calculates a first input/output error related to normal data and a second input/output error related to pseudo abnormal data different from the normal data, for each of a plurality of autoencoders having different network structures. The processing circuit outputs relational data indicating a relation between the network structure and the first input/output error and the second input/output error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Kentaro Takagi, Kouta Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230413862
    Abstract: A beer-taste beverage, in which a bitterness value is 18 BUs or less, the total nitrogen amount is 5 to 140 mg/100 mL, the total polyphenol amount is 3 to 200 ppm by mass, and the content of 2,3-diethyl-5-methylpyrazine is 0.02 ppb by mass or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Anna Ishizuka, Yuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230404111
    Abstract: A non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage comprising 2,3-diethyl-5-methylpyrazine, in which the content of 2,3-diethyl-5-methylpyrazine (Y) is 80 ppb by mass or less, based on the total amount of the non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Anna Ishizuka, Yuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11835286
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a pair of movable frames provided to be movable relative to each other so as to clamp a tank; multiple contact members provided on each of the pair of movable frames and each having a contact surface configured to contact an outer surface of the tank; a cooling liquid supply passage provided with multiple cooling liquid supply ports that respectively open in the contact surfaces of the contact members to supply a cooling liquid toward the outer surface of the tank; and a cooling liquid supply device that supplies the cooling liquid to the cooling liquid supply passage. Each of the contact surfaces is provided with grooves extending from a corresponding one of the cooling liquid supply ports to an outer edge of the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masateru Takayanagi, Ryotaro Toyofuku, Fumihiro Tokumitsu, Takuya Masada, Tetsuya Nagashita, Yuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230371554
    Abstract: A container-packed carbonated beverage, in which the content of ethanol is less than 1.0 (v/v) %, the content of carbon dioxide gas is 0.10 to 5.0 kg/cm2, and the content of 2-methyl-2-pentenoic acid is 30 to 10500 ppb by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Anna Shimmura, Yuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230367307
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an abnormality sign detection system comprising one or more computers configured to perform machine learning of an abnormality-sign detection-model that detects at least one of an abnormality in a target facility to be monitored and a sign of the abnormality, wherein the one or more computers are configured to: acquire a plurality of process amounts generated at the target facility; classify each of the plurality of process amounts into either correlation data for which correlation between the plurality of process amounts is learned or decorrelation data for which correlation between the plurality of process amounts is not learned; generate learning input data depending on classification, the learning input data being data in which each of the plurality of process amounts is associated with the correlation data or the decorrelation data; and perform the machine learning by inputting the learning input data to the abnormality-sign detection-model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TERAKADO, Shinya TOMINAGA, Naoyuki TAKADO, Ryota MIYAKE, Toshio AOKI, Chikashi MIYAMOTO, Kouta NAKATA, Susumu NAITO, Yasunori TAGUCHI, Yuichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11814048
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle travel control apparatus configured to set an operation mode of automatic start control to any one of a first mode, in which the automatic start control is executed, and a second mode, in which the automatic start control is not executed, the vehicle travel control apparatus being further configured to: issue to a driver a notification for inquiring whether the driver desires the automatic start control to be executed when the current travel state of an own vehicle is a specific state; and set the operation mode of the automatic start control to the first mode when the driver has performed a predetermined response operation in response to the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Yuko Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20230340383
    Abstract: Provided is a beer-taste beverage comprising 1000 ppb by mass or less of 4-vinylguaiacol, having an ethyl hexanoate content of 120 ppb by mass or more, and comprising at least one aroma component (X) selected from ?-decanolactone and ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, wherein a ratio of the content (unit: ppb by mass) of ethyl hexanoate to the total content (unit: ppb by mass) of the aroma component (X) [ethyl hexanoate/aroma component (X)] is 1100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takaho Okajima, Taichi Maruhashi, Takako Inui, Takeshi Kumagai, Yuichi Kato, Takamasa Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230313087
    Abstract: Provided is a beer-taste beverage comprising 1000 ppb by mass or less of 4-vinylguaiacol, having an ethyl n-butyrate content of 140 ppb by mass or more, and comprising at least one lactone selected from ?-decanolactone and ?-undecalactone, wherein a ratio of the content (unit:ppb by mass) of ethyl n-butyrate to the total content (unit:ppb by mass) of the lactone [ethyl n-butyrate/lactone] is 1100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takaho Okajima, Taichi Maruhashi, Takako Inui, Takeshi Kumagai, Yuichi Kato, Takamasa Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230292794
    Abstract: Provided is a beer-taste beverage, comprising less than 0.07 ppm by mass of diacetyl, and 0.4 (v/v) % or more and less than 1.5 (v/v) % of ethanol, having an H2S content of less than 5 ppb by mass, and comprising 50 to 1000 ppm by mass of lactic acid, or 50 to 1000 ppm by mass of phosphoric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Yugo Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20230287314
    Abstract: Provided is a beer-taste beverage comprising 1000 ppb by mass or less of 4-vinylguaiacol, and having an ethyl n-butyrate content of 140 ppb by mass or more, a ratio of the content (unit: ppb by mass) of ethyl n-butyrate to the content (unit: ppb by mass) of ?-nonalactone [ethyl n-butyrate/?-nonalactone] is 23 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takaho Okajima, Taichi Maruhashi, Takako Inui, Takeshi Kumagai, Yuichi Kato, Takamasa Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230284658
    Abstract: A non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage comprising 1,4-cineole, in which the content of 1,4-cineole (Y) is 1400 ppb by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Anna Shimmura, Yuichi Kato
  • Patent number: D1021832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Akazawa, Osamu Nabeya, Shingo Togashi, Satoru Yamaki, Tomoko Owada, Cheng Cheng, Yuichi Kato