Patents by Inventor Yuji Fujita
Yuji Fujita 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: 11208143Abstract: In a control device for a steering mechanism, the steering mechanism includes a motor that includes a plurality of coils. The plurality of coils include a first coil and a second coil. The control device includes a first control system and a second control system configured to compute a command value for torque of the motor to be applied to the steering mechanism. The first control system and the second control system are each configured to control power supply to the plurality of coils of the motor based on the command value. The first control system includes a first microcomputer that has first characteristics, and the second control system includes a second microcomputer that has second characteristics that are different from the first characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kawamura, Yuji Fujita
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Publication number: 20210389596Abstract: A head-up display system mounted on a vehicle, the system including: a head-up display device that displays an image in front of the vehicle; and a forward sensing device that detects a forward object of the vehicle, the head-up display device including an image data generation unit, and an image display unit, the image data generated by the image data generation unit including a constantly displayed object, and a real scene overlaid object, a gyro sensor being installed in the vehicle, the image data generation unit performing pitching correction on a display position of an object to be displayed, based on angular velocity information for two axial directions, and in a case where the vehicle travels on a curve in an inclined state, the pitching correction being suppressed or stopped, and a brightness of display of the real scene overlaid object being reduced or stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji FUJITA, Nozomu SHIMODA
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Patent number: 11199700Abstract: The head-up display device includes a display element that emits image light and a virtual image optical system. The virtual image optical system includes a lens unit and a free curved surface mirror disposed along the emission direction of the image light in this order from a position close to the display element. The display element is disposed with a tilting attitude with respect to the optical axis of the lens unit with an end on the housing aperture side in an emission surface being close to an incidence surface in the lens unit and with an end on the opposite side of the housing aperture in an emission surface being apart from an incidence surface in the lens unit. The lens unit has an optical characteristic of optically enlarging an optical path length difference according to a virtual image distance difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Akio Misawa, Nozomu Shimoda, Yuji Fujita, Shigeki Hoshino
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Patent number: 11196364Abstract: A motor control device is configured to control a motor as a dynamic force source depending on a position of a rotation detection object that rotates while interlocking with the motor, the motor and the rotation detection object being included in a mechanical apparatus including a plurality of constituent elements that interlock with each other. The motor control device includes a computation circuit configured to compute an absolute rotation angle of the rotation detection object, using a relative rotation angle of a first constituent element of the mechanical apparatus that is detected through a relative angle sensor provided in the mechanical apparatus, and a rotation number conversion value resulting from converting an absolute rotation angle of a second constituent element of the mechanical apparatus that is detected through an absolute angle sensor provided in the mechanical apparatus, into a rotation number of the first constituent element.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shouta Zouza, Yuuki Nakashima, Yuji Fujita, Toshihiro Takahashi, Xavier Palandre
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Publication number: 20210338845Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a labeled fatty acid derivative for diagnostic imaging that enables quantification of fatty acid metabolic activity in the heart muscle. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have conducted intensive investigations on a method that enables quantification of fatty acid metabolic activity and thus have found that a labeled fatty acid derivative typified by 3-{[(5Z)-3-[18F]fluorotetradeca-5-en-1-yl]sulfanyl}propanoic acid or a salt thereof has excellent accumulation to the heart muscle and thus enables imaging of fatty acid metabolic activity by positron emission tomography (PET). Therefore, the labeled fatty acid derivative of the present invention can be used as a radiolabeled tracer for rapid and non-invasive quantification of fatty acid metabolic activity in the heart muscle, diagnostic imaging of heart disease typified by an ischemic heart disease, diagnostic imaging of the therapeutic effect of a therapeutic drug for heart disease, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Yoshihiro Murakami, Hiroshi Fushiki, Yuji Fujita
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Patent number: 11027772Abstract: A motor controller is configured to control a motor including a plurality of winding groups. The motor controller includes a plurality of processors. Each of the processors is configured to independently control supply of driving electric power to each of the winding groups. When an abnormality occurs in which a torque to be generated in one of the winding groups is smaller than an individual rated torque and when a target overall torque is larger than a total of the individual rated torque for the winding group in which the abnormality does not occur, the processor, controlling supply of driving electric power to the winding group in which the abnormality does not occur, out of the plurality of processors controls supply of the driving electric power such that the winding group generate a torque larger than the individual rated torque.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kawamura, Yuji Fujita
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Publication number: 20210041707Abstract: A head up display apparatus includes: an image display apparatus having a light source and a display element and forming an image; an image-light projecting means displaying a virtual image onto a forward part of a vehicle by projecting the image light emitted from the image display apparatus to be reflected on a windshield 3; and a point-of-view detecting system 6 sensing a point of view of the driver. In the head up display apparatus, the image-light projecting means includes a means generating illumination light entirely made of single-color visible light emitted to a face of the driver in a predetermined state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Akio MISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Eiji TAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 10871655Abstract: An image display apparatus 100 for a vehicle is provided with: an image display unit 2 that has a light source and a display element and outputs image light; a mirror 3 that reflects the image light output by the image display unit 2 toward a windshield 7; a mirror drive unit 4 that changes the angle and position of the mirror 3; and a control unit 10 that determines amounts of change in the angle and position of the mirror and controls the mirror drive unit 4. The control unit 10 makes determinations of the amount of change for the angle and position of the mirror in association with each other such that the image is visible even if the position of the driver's eyes 8 changes and the display state of the image with respect to the driver does not change.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Yuki Nagano, Souta Sato, Yuji Fujita, Takumi Nakada, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Publication number: 20200363237Abstract: A rotation angle detection apparatus includes a driving gear, two driven gears, two sensors, and an arithmetic circuit. The two driven gears have different numbers of teeth and each are in mesh with the driving gear. The arithmetic circuit is configured to compute a rotation angle of the driving gear based on the rotation angles of the two driven gears, detected through the two sensors. The arithmetic circuit is configured to, when a relationship between the rotation angles of the two driven gears, detected through the two sensors, is different from the relationship when the rotation angle of the driving gear, computed by the arithmetic circuit, is normal, detect an abnormality in the rotation angle of the driving gear, computed by the arithmetic circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shouta ZOUZA, Yuuki NAKASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Xavier PALANDRE
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Publication number: 20200361524Abstract: A motor control device is configured to control a motor as a dynamic force source depending on a position of a rotation detection object that rotates while interlocking with the motor, the motor and the rotation detection object being included in a mechanical apparatus including a plurality of constituent elements that interlock with each other. The motor control device includes a computation circuit configured to compute an absolute rotation angle of the rotation detection object, using a relative rotation angle of a first constituent element of the mechanical apparatus that is detected through a relative angle sensor provided in the mechanical apparatus, and a rotation number conversion value resulting from converting an absolute rotation angle of a second constituent element of the mechanical apparatus that is detected through an absolute angle sensor provided in the mechanical apparatus, into a rotation number of the first constituent element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shouta ZOUZA, Yuuki NAKASHIMA, Yuji FUJITA, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Xavier PALANDRE
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Publication number: 20200330933Abstract: An aerator includes an air supply chamber into which air is supplied by an air supply pump, a water flow channel connected to a water feed pipe, and a gas-permeable porous body having multiple gas discharge pores and separating the air supply chamber and the water flow channel. Air in the air supply chamber is pushed into water in the water flow channel through the gas discharge pores of the porous body due to discharge pressure of the air supply pump. In the porous body, inner surfaces of the gas discharge pores are coated with a coating film made of a water repellent having such a wettability that a water droplet contact angle is 80 degrees or more and preferably 90 degrees or more, on a smooth flat film surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: NANO-SCIENCE LABORATORY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji FUJITA, Masafumi KOBAYASHI, Masayuki SHIMADA, Tsuyoshi KIRIISHI
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Publication number: 20200331522Abstract: An actuator that applies force to a member associated with steering, and a control device that controls the actuator, have duplex configuration. First and second control devices compute the same controlled variable as first and second controlled variables, respectively. In a normal mode, the control device controls the actuator according to the first controlled variable. The first and second control devices send and receive respectively computed controlled variables to and from each other via communications. When a discrepancy arises between the first and second controlled variables, or an abnormality occurs in communications between the first and second control devices, the operating mode is switched from the normal mode to an independent mode. In the independent mode, the first and second control devices control the first and second actuators, according to the first and second controlled variables, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, JTEKT Corporation, Denso CorporationInventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Sato, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Shunsuke Hiromasa, Toshiyuki Mikida, Shoji Kubota, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Toshimitsu Sakai
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Patent number: 10800448Abstract: Provided is a steering control apparatus configured to suppress the occurrence of abnormalities in components in respective systems at the same timing. A first assist torque calculation circuit calculates a first command value and a second command value based on a steering torque. A first current feedback control circuit calculates a control signal by using the first command value. A second current feedback control circuit calculates a control signal by using the second command value. When the steering torque is equal to or smaller than a steering torque threshold, the first assist torque calculation circuit executes calculation so that the first command value is larger than the second command value. After the steering torque exceeds the steering torque threshold, the first assist torque calculation circuit executes calculation so that the first command value is equal to the second command value.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Fujita, Hiroshi Kawamura, Xavier Joseph Palandre
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Patent number: 10769831Abstract: A head up display superimposes a virtual image on an actual view in accordance with a traveling status of a vehicle. Vehicle information containing a lean of the vehicle in a pitch direction is detected by a first posture sensor, and a lean in a roll direction is detected by a second posture sensor. A controller controls display of video on the basis of the vehicle information. A mirror reflects the video to project the video to a windshield or combiner. A mirror driver changes an angle and/or a position of the mirror. At least one of a display state of the virtual image in a display area for the video or the angle and/or the position of the mirror via the mirror driver is adjusted by the controller on the basis of the lean in the pitch direction and/or the lean in the roll direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Nozomu Shimoda, Yuji Fujita, Takeshi Arakawa, Akio Misawa
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Publication number: 20200238230Abstract: A fine bubble generating apparatus has a storage tank, a liquid feeding unit suctioning and feeding liquid stored in the storage tank, a gas discharge unit discharging gas into the liquid which is being fed by the liquid feeding unit, and a storage tank. The gas discharge unit includes a gas discharge member with pores having pore diameters of 1.5 ?m or less, and a base member having a groove formed in a surface contacting the gas discharge surface of the gas discharge member. The liquid feeding unit moves the liquid along the gas discharge surface of the gas discharge member by causing the liquid to flow in a flow channel enclosed by the gas discharge surface of the gas discharge member and the groove of the base member such that a velocity relative to the gas discharge member is not less than 1 msec.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: NANO-SCIENCE LABORATORY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji FUJITA, Masafumi KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi KIRIISHI
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Publication number: 20200198696Abstract: In a control device for a steering mechanism, the steering mechanism includes a motor that includes a plurality of coils. The plurality of coils include a first coil and a second coil. The control device includes a first control system and a second control system configured to compute a command value for torque of the motor to be applied to the steering mechanism. The first control system and the second control system are each configured to control power supply to the plurality of coils of the motor based on the command value. The first control system includes a first microcomputer that has first characteristics, and the second control system includes a second microcomputer that has second characteristics that are different from the first characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KAWAMURA, Yuji FUJITA
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Publication number: 20200198695Abstract: A motor controller is configured to control a motor including a plurality of winding groups. The motor controller includes a plurality of processors. Each of the processors is configured to independently control supply of driving electric power to each of the winding groups. When an abnormality occurs in which a torque to be generated in one of the winding groups is smaller than an individual rated torque and when a target overall torque is larger than a total of the individual rated torque for the winding group in which the abnormality does not occur, the processor, controlling supply of driving electric power to the winding group in which the abnormality does not occur, out of the plurality of processors controls supply of the driving electric power such that the winding group generate a torque larger than the individual rated torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KAWAMURA, Yuji FUJITA
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Publication number: 20200198694Abstract: A steering system includes a prioritized torque sensor, a redundant torque sensor, a controller, a first signal line, a second signal line, and a common signal line. Each of the first signal line and the second signal line connects the prioritized torque sensor and the controller. The common signal line connects the redundant torque sensor and the controller. The prioritized torque sensor is configured to transmit, via the first signal line, a first prioritized detection signal. The prioritized torque sensor is configured to transmit, via the second signal line, a second prioritized detection signal. The redundant torque sensor is configured to transmit, via the common signal line, a first redundant detection signal and a second redundant detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KAWAMURA, Yuji FUJITA
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Publication number: 20200172153Abstract: A steering control device includes a first control system and a second control system. The first control system includes and a first microcomputer. The first microcomputer is configured to compute a first command value for controlling power supply to a first coil and a second command value for controlling power supply to a second coil. The second control system includes and a second microcomputer. The second microcomputer is configured to compute the first command value and the second command value. The first microcomputer and the second microcomputer are configured to communicate the first command value and the second command value with each other. The cycle of communication between the first microcomputer and the second microcomputer is set to be equal to or shorter than each of the cycles of computations of the first command value and the second command value by the first microcomputer and the second microcomputer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KAWAMURA, Yuji FUJITA
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Publication number: 20200136543Abstract: A motor control device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate a current command value corresponding to torque that should be generated by a motor, divide the calculated current command value into individual current command values for coil groups, control power feeding to the coil groups independently for each of the coil groups based on a corresponding one of the individual current command values, set, for each one of the coil groups, an upper limit value of a corresponding one of the individual current command values and, when the individual current command value for any one of the coil groups is limited to a value that is smaller than a corresponding one of the upper limit values, supplement an amount limited in the individual current command value by increasing the individual current command value for at least a remaining one of the coil groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, JTEKT EUROPE S.A.S.Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAMURA, Yuji FUJITA, Xavier PALANDRE, Tahar SLAMA