Patents by Inventor Yusuke Kikuchi
Yusuke Kikuchi 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: 11400954Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling driving of a vehicle reflecting an environment and a characteristic of a user, while suppressing increase in learning time, is provided. The vehicle control system includes classification means for classifying, by using one or more attributes selected from accumulation means for accumulating data including attributes relating to driving of a vehicle, driving properties included in the data, learning means for learning a model representing the driving property, for each of types that are a result of classification by the classification means, and control information determination means for determining, by using the model learned for the type associated with a value of the attribute at time of driving of a control target vehicle, control information for the driving.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Kameda, Riki Eto, Wemer Wee, Yusuke Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20220209309Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery apparatus including a wireless module transmitting and receiving a radio wave having a polarization plane in any one of first to third directions orthogonal to one another; and a battery management unit including a first wireless module transmitting and receiving a radio wave having the polarization plane in the first direction, and a second wireless module transmitting and receiving a radio wave having the polarization plane in the second direction, wherein the polarization plane in the first direction is less likely to have reception power of lowest receiving sensitivity than the polarization planes in other directions, and a number of the first wireless modules is larger than a number of the second wireless modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazuto KURODA, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Kota ASAMI
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Publication number: 20220200316Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery apparatus includes: a plurality of storage battery modules each including a battery module, which includes a plurality of battery cells, and a cell monitoring unit measuring voltages of the battery cells and a temperature of the battery module; and a battery management unit periodically receiving measurement values of the voltages of the battery cells and the temperature of the battery module. When there is interference in communication with the plurality of cell monitoring units, the battery management unit extends a communication cycle with the cell monitoring units, sets a value of a chargeable current and a value of a dischargeable current of the battery module, which correspond to at least the communication cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazuto KURODA, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Ryo NOZAWA, Kota ASAMI, Tomohide YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220200069Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery apparatus comprising: a plurality of storage battery modules, each of which includes a battery module and a first wireless communication module transmitting and receiving a radio wave based on a BLE standard; and a battery management unit which includes a plurality of second wireless communication modules transmitting and receiving a radio wave based on the BLE standard, and an arithmetic processing apparatus controlling operation of the second wireless communication modules, wherein the arithmetic processing apparatus establishes communication between the battery management unit and the storage battery modules in unit of groups each including at least one of the storage battery modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kota ASAMI, Kazuto KURODA, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Ryo NOZAWA
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Publication number: 20220185212Abstract: In order to absorb collision energy so as to prevent an increase in reaction force against a pedestrian to a level higher than or equal to a certain level during collision, a bumper absorber of the present invention includes: a trunk part that extends in an X direction and that is simply compressed in the X direction in response to an impact; and a branch part that branches off from the trunk part toward a rear of a vehicle body, the branch part having a branching part in which the branch part branches off from the trunk part and which is provided with a breakage inducing part that causes breakage between the trunk part and the branch part in response to the impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, CHUGAI CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Tamura, Seiji Sawai, Yusuke Kikuchi, Yuuki Nakamura, Shota Kotake, Yoshikazu Yukimoto
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Patent number: 11336103Abstract: A storage battery system includes a cell module including storage battery cells, a battery management unit configured to maintain a contactor having a normally open contact in a closed state, while being supplied with power, and a power supply control circuit that DC to DC converts the power of the cell module for supply to the battery management unit. The power supply control circuit includes an SOC estimator that determines from a voltage of the cell module whether or not the cell module is in an overdischarge state, and after determining that the cell module is not in the overdischarge state, outputs a status signal to the power supply control circuit. In response to no receipt of the status signal from the SOC estimator, the power supply control circuit interrupts the power supply to the battery management unit from the cell module.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yusuke Kikuchi, Kota Asami, Motohiro Itou, Minoru Gyoda, Shinya Sato, Kazuto Kuroda
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Publication number: 20220108880Abstract: A magnetron sputtering apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a vacuum chamber storing a substrate; a plurality of sputtering mechanisms, each including a target having one surface facing the inside of the vacuum chamber, a magnet array, and a moving mechanism for reciprocating the magnet array between a first position and a second position on the other surface of the target; a power supply for forming plasma by supplying power to targets of selected sputtering mechanisms for film formation; a gas supplier for supplying a gas for plasma formation into the vacuum chamber; and a controller for outputting a control signal, in performing the film formation, such that magnet arrays of selected and unselected sputtering mechanisms, extension lines of moving paths of the magnet arrays thereof intersecting each other in plan view, move synchronously or are located at certain positions so as to be distinct from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Tetsuya MIYASHITA, Kanto NAKAMURA, Yusuke KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 11289743Abstract: A battery module includes: a battery cell unit including a plurality of battery cells connected together in series or series-parallel; a cell monitoring unit configured to monitor temperatures and voltages of the battery cells; and a plurality of overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of n systems (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2). The overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of the n systems are configured to independently detect an overtemperature or an overvoltage of the battery cells as an abnormal state, and to mutually notify one another of results of the detection. Each of the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units is configured to, upon being notified that the abnormal state is detected from another overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit of another system in the battery module, operate on the assumption that the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit detects the abnormal state.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Norihiro Kaneko, Ryo Okabe, Yusuke Kikuchi, Yosuke Saeki, Makoto Noguchi
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Publication number: 20220037383Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging element and an electronic apparatus capable of expanding a saturation signal electric charge amount. A first P-type impurity region, a capacitance expanding portion that forms a PN junction surface with a second P-type impurity region and a first N-type impurity region, and the first N-type impurity region are sequentially provided in a depth direction from a surface side where a wiring layer of a semiconductor substrate is laminated. The second P-type impurity region is formed in a stripe on a plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction. The stripe is formed, on the plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction, in a direction perpendicular to a side where an electrode that reads accumulated electric charge is formed. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: HIROAKI MURAKAMI, BO MA, YUSUKE KIKUCHI, YUTAKA TSUKANO
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Patent number: 11188062Abstract: A work management device manages a board work line having multiple board work machines for performing work on a board. The work management device includes a problem detection section configured to detect that a problem has occurred in any of the multiple board work machines; a handling method database configured to accumulate handling methods for problems; an updating section configured to update handling methods for problems at any time; and a work instruction section configured to extract and indicate to an operator a handling method for a problem from the handling method database when the problem detection section detects that the problem has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Kobayashi, Junichi Kako, Shinichi Naka, Yusuke Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11114877Abstract: A device according to an embodiment includes at least one assembled battery; first switches that switch an electrical connection state of main circuits connected between the assembled battery and the load; second switches that switch an electrical connection state of second main circuits branched from the main circuits and are connected between the assembled battery and the load; a BMU that controls operations of the first switches based on an operation command supplied from the load; and a power supply circuit that supplies power to the BMU and second switches when a start command supplied from the outside is ON.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yusuke Kikuchi, Hidenori Suzuki, Kazuto Kuroda, Atsushi Inamura, Masahiro Sekino
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Publication number: 20210250471Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information input device in a miniaturized size allowing both rotation operation and tilt operation. In the information input device, viewed from the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of a rotation operation member, the rotation operation member includes a second sloping surface extending from the end of a first sloping surface nearer a rotation detection unit and approaching the rotation axis of the rotation operation member as the second sloping surface extends from the rotation detection unit in the rotation axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventor: Yusuke Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20210224720Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) acquires state information representing states of persons, for a first person and a second person associated with the first person. The information processing apparatus (2000) determines whether a predetermined condition regarding states of the first person and the second person is satisfied, by using state information of the first person and state information of the second person. The information processing apparatus (2000) sends a notification of recommending at least the first person to take a break when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kengo MAKINO, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Yukiko TANAKA, Taichi TANAKA, Daichi HASUMI, Eiji YUMOTO
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Publication number: 20210027397Abstract: A cultivation-target crop selection assisting apparatus 10 includes: an information collection unit 11 configured to collect information regarding a specific cultivated land; a prediction value calculation unit 12 configured to calculate a prediction value of actual performance of cultivation of one or a plurality of varieties of crops in the specific cultivated land by applying the information collected by the information collection unit 11 to a prediction model 14 created by performing machine learning on a relationship between information regarding a sample cultivated land and actual performance information regarding a crop produced in the sample cultivated land; and a crop selection unit 13 configured to select a crop that is suitable for being cultivated in the specific cultivated land based on the prediction value calculated for the one or plurality of varieties of crops.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Yusuke KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20210006084Abstract: A device according to an embodiment includes at least one assembled battery; first switches that switch an electrical connection state of main circuits connected between the assembled battery and the load; second switches that switch an electrical connection state of second main circuits branched from the main circuits and are connected between the assembled battery and the load; a BMU that controls operations of the first switches based on an operation command supplied from the load; and a power supply circuit that supplies power to the BMU and second switches when a start command supplied from the outside is ON.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yusuke KIKUCHI, Hidenori SUZUKI, Kazuto KURODA, Atsushi INAMURA, Masahiro SEKINO
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Publication number: 20200317220Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling driving of a vehicle reflecting an environment and a characteristic of a user, while suppressing increase in learning time, is provided. The vehicle control system includes classification means for classifying, by using one or more attributes selected from accumulation means for accumulating data including attributes relating to driving of a vehicle, driving properties included in the data, learning means for learning a model representing the driving property, for each of types that are a result of classification by the classification means, and control information determination means for determining, by using the model learned for the type associated with a value of the attribute at time of driving of a control target vehicle, control information for the driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yoshio KAMEDA, Riki ETO, Wemer WEE, Yusuke KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 10790553Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wiring diagnostic apparatus of embodiments includes a counter, an acquirer, and an abnormality determiner. The counter counts the number of battery modules connected to a plurality of first communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form a communication channel for each of the first communication lines. The acquirer acquires identification information for identifying a battery module connected to a corresponding second communication line among battery modules connected to a plurality of second communication lines each forming a communication channel with a first communication line via the second communication line. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality in a wiring relationship of the first communication line or the second communication line on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter and identification information acquired by the acquirer.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Ryo Okabe, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Norihiro Kaneko, Yusuke Kikuchi, Kazuto Kuroda, Makoto Noguchi
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Publication number: 20200292514Abstract: A plant monitoring apparatus 100 includes: a soil state estimation unit 200 that estimates a state of soil by, with use of frequency association information calculated based on vibration measured via the soil, referencing soil state estimation information in which the frequency association information and information indicating states of the soil are associated with soil states; and a plant state estimation unit 300 that estimates a state of a plant by, with use of growth association information that was calculated based on vibration of the plant and indicates growth of the plant, referencing plant state estimation information in which the growth association information and information indicating states of the plant above a plant soil surface are associated with plant states above the plant soil surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tan Azuma, Yusuke Kikuchi, Kousuke Ishida, Shunsuke Akimoto, Kenichiro Fujiyama, Shinji Oominato
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Publication number: 20200292517Abstract: A soil condition estimation apparatus 1 includes a selection unit 2 that, by using a propagation time that vibrations take to propagate through a soil, selects vibrations measured from the soil, according the depth of the soil; an extraction unit 3 that extracts a feature of the selected vibrations; and an estimation unit 4 that estimates conditions of the soil by referencing soil estimation information in which the feature and conditions of the soil are associated with each other, using the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tan AZUMA, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Kousuke ISHIDA, Shunsuke AKIMOTO, Kenichiro FUJIYAMA, Shinji OOMINATO
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Publication number: 20200292502Abstract: A plant monitoring apparatus 1 includes: an extraction unit 2 that extracts a feature amount in a frequency response of vibration of a target plant with use of the vibration; a calculation unit 3 that calculates a change that indicates growth of the plant, based on the extracted feature amount and a reference feature amount that corresponds to a reference state of the plant; and an estimation unit 4 that estimates a state of the plant by, with use of the calculated change, referencing state information in which changes of the feature amount from the reference feature amount corresponding to growth of the plant are associated with states of the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tan AZUMA, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Kousuke ISHIDA, Shunsuke AKIMOTO, Kenichiro FUJIYAMA, Shinji OOMINATO