Patents by Inventor Yuki Kono

Yuki Kono 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: 12259248
    Abstract: An information processing device that determines a route by which a circuit of a plurality of points is made includes an acquisition unit that acquires point information regarding the points, a determination unit that determines a circuit route that satisfies a first condition for the points based on the point information acquired by the acquisition unit and traffic information, and a transmission unit that transmits the circuit route determined by the determination unit to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi Kono, Yuuichi Kohara, Yuki Hirooka, Osamu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12248083
    Abstract: A communication unit includes: a plurality of wireless communication units configured to perform wireless communication with another communication device; and a control unit configured to estimate a relative position of the other communication device relative to the communication unit, wherein the control unit estimates the relative position of the other communication device on the basis of a plurality of distance measurement values indicating a distance between each of the plurality of wireless communication units and the other communication device obtained by each of the plurality of wireless communication units performing wireless communication with the other communication device, and a position characteristic including a position of each of the plurality of wireless communication units in the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Publication number: 20250076083
    Abstract: Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUMOTO, Tsukasa KONO, Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Tetsuya OHMI, Michihiro MAKITA, Naoki WATANABE, Sukhwa JUNG
  • Patent number: 12240438
    Abstract: To provide a contactor failure determination apparatus capable of appropriately determining failure of a contactor provided in a vehicle, a voltage sensor capable of detecting rising or dropping of a voltage of a second circuit including an external charger is provided. When an external charging request is made, a first control for closing each external charging contactor is executed, a second control for closing a pre-charge contactor is executed after execution of the first control, a third control for closing a second main contactor is executed after execution of the second control, and response to the voltage sensor detecting that the voltage of the second circuit has not risen after execution of the third control, it is determined that at least one of the external charging contactors has failed in an open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Fujioka, Haruki Yamane, Junya Kono, Yuki Ida, Yuta Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12207088
    Abstract: A control device comprising, a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device, wherein the control section performs control in such a manner that a signal including authentication information that is information to be used for the authentication process is transmitted to the communication device through the wireless communication, the authentication information varying depending on signal types, which are types of roles of signals to be transmitted to the communication device in the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Patent number: 12185105
    Abstract: A control device controls an authentication process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device. The control device performs the control in such a manner that authentication information is changed for each process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once. Signals transmitted or received in the authentication process include a trigger signal, a request signal, and a response signal. The control device executes the process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once for the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal, and changes the authentication information to be used for each of the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal each time the process group is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Patent number: 12074286
    Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, including a compound represented by Formula (1a) or (1b). In Formulae (1a) and (1b), Z represents a monovalent group represented by Formula (2a), (2b), or (2c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kono, Yasuyuki Takai, Koji Fujita
  • Publication number: 20240259802
    Abstract: A control device controls an authentication process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device. The control device performs the control in such a manner that authentication information is changed for each process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once. Signals transmitted or received in the authentication process include a trigger signal, a request signal, and a response signal. The control device executes the process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once for the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal, and changes the authentication information to be used for each of the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal each time the process group is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Masateru FURUTA, Yuki KONO, Shigenori NITTA
  • Patent number: 12035215
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device comprising: a BLE communication section configured to perform BLE communication with another communication device different from the communication device, the BLE communication being wireless communication conforming to BLE communication standards; a UWB communication section configured to perform UWB communication with the another communication device, the UWB communication being wireless communication conforming to UWB communication standards; and a control section configured to control the BLE communication of the BLE communication section and the UWB communication of the UWB communication section, wherein the control section performs control to start the UWB communication based on a response signal transmitted by one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device as a response to a request signal transmitted by other one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device during the BLE communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yutaka Kubo, Tadashi Fukagai, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono
  • Patent number: 12024125
    Abstract: A control device including a control section configured to cause a ranging process of measuring a distance between communication devices to be executed a designated number of times, and control a subsequent process that is a process of using a ranging value that satisfies a designated allowable value, on a basis of whether or not at least any of a plurality of ranging values that have been acquired satisfies the designated allowable value. The control section controls start of the subsequent process when the ranging value that satisfies the designated allowable value is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta, Masateru Furuta, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240214806
    Abstract: A control device comprising, a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device, wherein the control section performs control in such a manner that a signal including authentication information that is information to be used for the authentication process is transmitted to the communication device through the wireless communication, the authentication information varying depending on signal types, which are types of roles of signals to be transmitted to the communication device in the authentication process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Masateru FURUTA, Yuki KONO, Shigenori NITTA
  • Patent number: 12021191
    Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, including a compound represented by the following formula (1): in formula (1), X represents a sulfonyl group or a carbonyl group, R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, which may be substituted with a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or the like, and R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, which may be substituted with a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kono, Yasuyuki Takai, Noriko Yamamoto, Koji Fujita
  • Publication number: 20240167112
    Abstract: When supplying oxygen source to molten pig iron inside a converter-type refining furnace and performing desiliconization, dephosphorization, and decarburization refining, one or more of slag removal flow shape, slag removal flow velocity, and slag surface shape while discharging slag through a throat is measured to estimate one or both of a slag removal amount and physical properties of removed slag. When sequentially performing one or both of desiliconization and dephosphorization, an intermediate step of discharging part or all of generated slag through the throat, and the remaining other refining step, in the intermediate step, the method measures one or two of slag removal flow shape, slag removal flow velocity, and slag surface shape, estimates one or both of amount and physical properties of slag removed, estimates remaining slag amount, or remaining slag amount and composition, and determines an auxiliary raw material amount to be fed in the other refining step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota AMANO, Yuki KONO
  • Patent number: 11978906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a binder for a secondary battery having excellent binding force. A binder for a secondary battery comprising a polymer compound, wherein the polymer compound contains an acrylic repeating unit, and a 3% by mass aqueous solution of the polymer compound has a yellowness index of 14 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Kono, Moe Inui, Shun Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11974125
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device and control method that make it possible to perform an inter-device authentication process more certainly and improve security. Provided is a control device including: a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device. The control section performs control in such a manner that authentication information is changed for each process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once, the authentication information being information to be used for the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Patent number: 11956630
    Abstract: A control device comprising, a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device, wherein the control section performs control in such a manner that a signal including authentication information that is information to be used for the authentication process is transmitted to the communication device through the wireless communication, the authentication information varying depending on signal types, which are types of roles of signals to be transmitted to the communication device in the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Publication number: 20240006750
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna device comprising: a pattern antenna formed on a substrate; and a metal element arranged on the same substrate as the pattern antenna, wherein the metal element is arranged such that a longitudinal direction of the metal element is vertical with respect to the substrate near an area surface in which a current flows in the pattern antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masateru FURUTA, Tadashi FUKAGAI, Yuki KONO, Yutaka KUBO, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Junzou OHE
  • Publication number: 20240006754
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna device comprising: a chip antenna that is disposed on a substrate; and a metal element that is disposed above or below the chip antenna in a direction orthogonal to a plane of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yuki KONO, Tadashi FUKAGAI, Masateru FURUTA, Yutaka KUBO
  • Publication number: 20240006751
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna device comprising: a chip antenna arranged on a substrate; and a metal element arranged on the same substrate as the chip antenna, wherein the metal element is arranged such that a longitudinal direction of the metal element is vertical with respect to the substrate in a direction in which a current flows in the chip antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TAIWAN INPAQ ELECTRONIC CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masateru FURUTA, Tadashi FUKAGAI, Yuki KONO, Yutaka KUBO, Taiichi YAMAGUCHI, Ta-Fu CHENG, Chih-Ming SU, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Junzou OHE
  • Patent number: 11853410
    Abstract: A control device and control method prevent an unnecessary authentication process from being executed. The control device includes a control section configured to perform an authentication process of authenticating another device by using information obtained through communication with the other device. In the case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control section performs control in such a manner that the authentication process is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta