Patents Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 11979012
    Abstract: There are provided an electric connection box and a wire harness including: a body including an accommodating portion inside the body, the accommodating portion being configured to accommodate an electronic component. The body includes an electric wire holding portion inside the body, the electric wire holding portion having a slit-shaped groove configured to radially sandwich and hold an electric wire extending from a connector to be connected to the electronic component. The groove of the electric wire holding portion includes: a groove inlet portion; a groove deepest portion; and a narrow portion between the groove inlet portion and the groove deepest portion. A groove width in the narrow portion is narrower than a groove width in the groove inlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Nakashima, Keita Miyahara, Kazuya Kushibiki
  • Patent number: 11975717
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a detector and a processor. The detector is configured to detect a first stop line on the basis of map data stored in a road map database, and detect a second stop line on the basis of traveling environment data acquired by a camera unit. In a case where the detector detects the first stop line, the processor is configured to control a vehicle to decelerate at a first deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the first stop line. In a case where the detector detects the second stop line after detecting the first stop line, the processor is configured to control the vehicle to decelerate at a second deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the second stop line and stop at the second stop line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Innami, Masatoshi Minakawa, Daiki Koike, Toshihiro Hayashi, Ryo Fukuhara
  • Publication number: 20240140054
    Abstract: A fiber width adjustment device is for adjusting a width of a tape made of fibers before or after being impregnated with resin. The tape is a material for a fiber reinforced plastic. The fiber width adjustment device includes a pair of wall surfaces, a moving mechanism and rollers. The pair of the wall surfaces form a path for passing the tape. The path has a gradually decreasing width. The moving mechanism is configured to move the path relatively to the tape so that a position at which the tape leaves the path changes. The rollers are for feeding the tape in the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi KUNIYA
  • Publication number: 20240140193
    Abstract: A capless filler includes a housing, a flap, and a biasing spring. The housing has a fuel hole. The flap includes a supported part, a base, and a protrusion. The supported part is provided at an end part and is supported by the housing. The base extends to the supported part. The protrusion protrudes from the base. The flap is turned on a fulcrum at the supported part between open and closed positions. The biasing spring biases the flap in a direction from the open position to the closed position. The biasing spring pushes the base against an opening rim of the fuel hole at the closed position. The flap is turned in a direction from the closed position to the open position in response to the protrusion being pushed. At least a part of the protrusion is provided as a nozzle guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki ONUMA, Yukiko NARIMATSU, Hideaki HATAKENAKA, Tsukasa SATO, Kazuyuki SAIKI
  • Patent number: 11973922
    Abstract: A travel-environment display apparatus includes a generating unit that repeatedly generates a travel-environment image of a vehicle, and a display device that updates display in accordance with the travel-environment images. The generating unit generates an image including a vehicle object corresponding to the vehicle as viewed from a rear viewpoint and a linear road-surface object extending distantly from the vehicle object to correspond to a road, lane, or lane boundary line along which the vehicle is traveling. The generating unit also moves the vehicle object between two lanes expressed by the linear road-surface object between the travel-environment images, and changes an orientation of the linear road-surface object such that a far area thereof from the viewpoint significantly moves toward an opposite side from a lane-changing direction of the vehicle, as compared with a near area, and then moves back, when the vehicle performs a lane change between the two lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kakimaru
  • Patent number: 11973921
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a corresponding point calculator and a determination unit. The corresponding point calculator identifies corresponding points relating to an object based on left and right images in each stereo image. The corresponding points include a right image point in the right image and a left image point in the left image. The determination unit predicts a first position of the left image point in a second stereo image, and a second position of the right image point in a second stereo image, based on a position of the left image point in a first stereo image and a position of the right image point in the first stereo image, and determines whether the object is a mobile body based on a difference between the first position predicted and the first position identified, and a difference between the second position predicted and the second position identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akitaka Oko
  • Patent number: 11969803
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges by being inserted into the prepared hole. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Ryohei Ono, Tatsuo Nakahata, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Shinya Matsuo, Hideharu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11970088
    Abstract: A seat control system for a vehicle includes a seat, a seat position changer, a door sensor, and a controller. When an occupant performs registration operation after an ignition switch is turned on, the controller is configured to: if the door sensor senses a closed state, store a current seat position of the seat as a driving position, in association with the information of the occupant; and, if the door sensor senses an open state, store the current seat position as a get-out position at a time when the occupant gets off the vehicle, in association with the information. After the registration operation is performed, the controller is configured to: change the seat position to the driving position by controlling the seat position changer before the vehicle travels; and change the seat position to the get-out position by controlling the seat position changer when the occupant gets off the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Otsuka, Osamu Okada
  • Patent number: 11973239
    Abstract: A protection structure for an on-board battery. The on-board battery includes a battery stack and is configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The protection structure includes a first frame, a second frame, and a fixing member. The first frame is to be coupled to an upper portion of a battery case that contains the battery stack, so as to fix the battery case to a vehicle body of the vehicle. The second frame is to be disposed above the battery case and to be coupled to the first frame. The fixing member is to be fixed to the second frame so as to suspend and support the battery stack. The second frame is to be disposed in a direction crossing a longer direction of the battery stack and at least at an approximate center in the longer direction of the battery stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Yokoyama, Toshiyuki Hara, Shinichi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240132032
    Abstract: A vehicle travel control device includes a surrounding environment recognition device that acquires surrounding environment information on a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a vehicle state recognition device that acquires state information on a state of the vehicle; and a travel control unit that performs travel control of the vehicle, based on the surrounding environment information or the state information. When the vehicle state recognition device detects a slip of at least one drive wheel of the vehicle, the vehicle travel control device executes brake LSD control for braking the at least one drive wheel. When the surrounding environment recognition device recognizes snow on a traveling road of the vehicle and a snow melting area and a snow non-melting area ahead, the travel control unit switches an operation mode of the brake LSD control from a first mode to a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240132052
    Abstract: A vehicle travel control device includes a surrounding environment recognition device and a travel control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device is configured to acquire surrounding environment information of a vehicle. The travel control unit is configured to perform travel control of the vehicle, based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment recognition device. The travel control unit is configured to, when the surrounding environment recognition device detects that a road surface state of a road surface in a traveling direction of the vehicle is likely to be a frozen road surface, automatically switch a traveling mode of the vehicle to a rough road traveling mode. The travel control unit is configured to, when the surrounding environment recognition device detects that the road surface state being in the frozen road surface is eliminated, automatically cancel the rough road traveling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11964572
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an electric power acquirer, a power supply unit, and a controller. The electric power acquirer is able to acquire, from outside the vehicle, electric power to be charged to the battery. The power supply unit is able to receive electric power from a power line and supply a power supply voltage to a device other than a traveling motor. The controller is able to execute electric power adjustment processing on the condition that electric power is acquired from the electric power acquirer and the power supply unit is in operation. The electric power adjustment processing includes reducing a difference between electric power to be acquired from the electric power acquirer and electric power to be inputted to the power supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Kazuya Fuke
  • Patent number: 11964620
    Abstract: A vehicular power supply device to be equipped in a vehicle includes an electric storage unit group, an inverter, a driving motor, a converter, an electric device group, a first switch, and a second switch. The electric storage unit group includes first and second electric storage units. The driving motor is to be coupled to the electric storage unit group via the inverter. The electric device group is to be coupled to the electric storage unit group via the converter. The first switch is to be controlled between a state where the first electric storage unit is coupled to the inverter and a state where the first electric storage unit is coupled to the converter. The second switch is to be controlled between a state where the second electric storage unit is coupled to the inverter and a state where the second electric storage unit is coupled to the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru Seta, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yosuke Ohtomo, Masaki Komuro, Takashi Kono, Shinya Sagawa, Kazuki Makino
  • Patent number: 11964533
    Abstract: In a fastener structure for a vehicle, a height adjustment spacer is interposed between first and second vehicle body frames fixed with a bolt and a nut. The nut has a first insertion hole through which a bolt is screwed, and is fixed to a surface of the first vehicle body frame. The height adjustment spacer has a second insertion hole through which the bolt is inserted, and is disposed in contact with another surface of the first vehicle body frame. The bolt is inserted through an attachment hole of the second vehicle body frame, the second insertion hole, an attachment hole of the first vehicle body frame, and the first insertion hole. On a contact surface between the height adjustment spacer and the first vehicle body frame, a protrusion and a recess are provided to surround an entirety of the second insertion hole, the second insertion hole respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Takahashi, Tsuguo Nakazawa, Satoshi Ueda, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11964651
    Abstract: A traveling control apparatus for a vehicle includes a steering angle detector, a vehicle speed detector, and a cruise control unit. The cruise control unit includes a steering angle speed detector, a steering angle correction value setting unit, and a target acceleration rate setting unit. The steering angle correction value setting unit sets a steering angle correction value, on the basis of a speed of the vehicle detected by the vehicle speed detector and a steering angle speed calculated by the steering angle speed detector. The target acceleration rate setting unit sets a target acceleration rate of a cruise control, on the basis of a steering angle and the speed of the vehicle. The steering angle is based on an addition of the steering angle correction value set by the steering angle correction value setting unit to the steering angle absolute value detected by the steering angle detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Kadoya
  • Publication number: 20240123820
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes a front pillar, a charging inlet, and a guide member. The front pillar extends in the vehicle up-down direction in a vehicle front. The charging inlet is disposed in front of the front pillar in the vehicle front-rear direction. An outlet cable is connectable to the charging inlet from the lateral side of a vehicle. The guide member is mounted to the front pillar and disposed between the front pillar and the charging inlet. The guide member includes an inclined surface that is inclined outward in the vehicle width direction from the vehicle front side toward the vehicle rear side, in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki RYUNO
  • Publication number: 20240123922
    Abstract: A grommet includes: a pair of clamping bodies that clamp a wire harness; a hinge portion that openably and closably couples the pair of clamping bodies; and an engagement portion that is provided at the pair of clamping bodies and that engages with an attachment hole formed in an attachment panel in a state in which the wire harness and the hinge portion clamped by the pair of clamping bodies are inserted into the attachment hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Nifco Inc., Subaru Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei TAKAHASHI, Satoshi KANOU
  • Publication number: 20240128536
    Abstract: A battery temperature adjustment device includes batteries and a controller. The batteries are configured to supply power to one or more motors of a vehicle and are different from each other in temperature characteristics. The controller is configured to adjust temperature of one or more batteries determined from the batteries depending on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki NARUKE
  • Patent number: 11958458
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a collision detector, a braking controller, a motional state detector, and a minor collision determiner. The collision detector is configured to detect a collision between a vehicle and another object. The braking controller is configured to cause a braking device of the vehicle to generate a braking force in accordance with the detecting of the collision by the collision detector. The motional state detector is configured to detect a motional state of the vehicle. The minor collision determiner is configured to determine, based on an output from the motional state detector, that a minor collision occurs that is a collision not detected by the collision detector. The braking controller is configured to cause the braking device to generate the braking force if the collision detector does not detect the collision and the minor collision determiner determines that the minor collision occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Shiraishi, Takashi Takeda, Shintaro Ikeda, Satoru Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11961284
    Abstract: A task appropriateness determination apparatus includes a first learning unit causing artificial intelligence (AI) to learn image information of an index indicating a target object in a task appropriately completed state, an appropriate image provider providing an image possibly including the target object in the appropriately completed state and the index, a second learning unit causing the AI to detect an image where the index is present from the provided image after learning of the index, and learn image information of the target object in the image where the index is present, an image capturing unit capturing an image of a region including the target object and the index at least after the task, and a task appropriateness determiner determining that the task has been appropriately performed in response to detection by the AI of the target object roughly identical to the learned target object in the appropriately completed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichirou Okino, Tomoki Hosotani, Tomohiro Kira