Patents by Inventor Daichi Kato

Daichi 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).

  • Patent number: 11491986
    Abstract: A moving body control apparatus includes a lane change control section that performs lane change control causing a moving body to perform a lane change from a first lane, in which the moving body is travelling, to a second lane that is adjacent to the first lane, a judging section that judges whether another moving body travelling in the second lane will perform a lane change from the second lane to the first lane, based on vicinity information, and a restriction control section that restricts the lane change of the moving body from the first lane to the second lane when it is judged by the judging section that the other moving body will perform the lane change from the second lane to the first lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Chihiro Oguro, Daichi Kato, Toru Kokaki
  • Publication number: 20220349442
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid dynamic bearing device, including: a shaft member; a bearing sleeve (18) having the shaft member inserted along an inner periphery thereof; and dynamic pressure generating grooves (26) configured to support the shaft member in a relatively rotatable and non-contact manner with pressure of an oil film formed in a radial bearing gap defined between an outer peripheral surface of the shaft member and an inner peripheral surface (24) of the bearing sleeve (18). The dynamic pressure generating grooves (26) include: the large number of polygonal hill portions (27) arranged in a pattern on the inner peripheral surface (24) of the bearing sleeve (18) ; and polygonal groove portions (28) formed in such a manner as to surround the polygonal hill portions (27).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Daichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20220315001
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a driving assistance device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized, a receiver configured to receive an operation of an occupant of the vehicle, and an output controller configured to cause an output to output a traveling state of the vehicle. The driving controller causes a lane change of the vehicle to be made when a receiver receives an instruction for allowing the vehicle to make the lane change and a condition in which the lane change is made is satisfied. The output controller causes the output to output information about the lane change when the lane change has not been started even though a first prescribed time period has elapsed after the receiver received the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Daichi Kato, Masashi Kanesaka, Tomotaka Teramachi
  • Publication number: 20220297727
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control the vehicle, and a first receiver configured to receive a switching operation on a driving mode. The driving controller causes the vehicle to travel in any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first mode and a second mode that a task imposed on an occupant is milder than that in the first mode, and performs acceleration/deceleration control so that a vehicle speed becomes a target speed in a state that the first mode is being executed and the second mode is executable and switches the driving mode from the first mode to the second mode when the first receiver has received an operation for switching the driving mode to the second mode in a state that the speed has become the target speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Imanishi, Katsuya Yashiro, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20220297692
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surroundings situation of a vehicle, a driving controller that controls one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, and a first receiver that receives an operation of switching between driving modes, the driving controller causes the vehicle to travel in any of a plurality of driving modes including a first mode and a second mode in which a task imposed on an occupant of the vehicle is lighter than that in the first mode, and the driving controller switches the driving mode from the first mode to the second mode after a speed of the vehicle reaches a target speed when a traveling environment is such that the first mode is being executed and the second mode is able to be executed and when an operation of switching to the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Imanishi, Daichi Kato, Katsuya Yashiro
  • Patent number: 11440550
    Abstract: On a road on which a first lane, a second lane, and a third lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, a vehicle control device executes an automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane. In the case that a traffic regulating object that regulates passage of traffic in the third lane or on the road shoulder is placed in the third lane or on the road shoulder, and an external environment recognition unit recognizes the traffic regulating object, a lane change control unit restricts the automatic lane change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Mo Zhang, Chihiro Oguro, Nozomu Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 11414080
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a display configured to display information, an inputter to which a user's operation is input, a driving controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of a vehicle, a determiner configured to determine a lane in which the vehicle is present when a first operation that allows a lane change by the vehicle is input to the inputter as a reference lane, and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display a first image depicting a road on which the vehicle is present and a second image depicting the reference lane which are superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Nozomu Hirosawa, Yuma Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220234586
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an environment in a vicinity of a vehicle; and a traveling control unit configured to execute a lane change of the vehicle based on a recognition result 1w the recognition unit. The traveling control unit selectively executes a lane change of the vehicle based on proposal information of a lane change output to a driver of the vehicle by the traveling control unit and a lane change of the vehicle not based on the proposal information in response to a first operation of the same content by the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ONIWA, Daichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20220227393
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1, 101, 201) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit executes a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop area when it is detected that the control unit or a driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and a stop maintaining process for keeping the vehicle parked following the vehicle coming to a stop in the stop process. The control unit keeps the brake lamp turned on while the stop maintaining process is being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kanta TSUJI, Tadashi NARUSE, Daichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11383716
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle based on peripheral information of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a control unit configured to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle in a first state in which holding of a steering apparatus of the vehicle by a driver is required or a second state in which holding of the steering apparatus is not required, wherein the control unit transitions a state of the vehicle from the second state to the first state, if input of an intervention operation for acceleration/deceleration by the driver is detected in a case of executing course change of the vehicle, when the vehicle is traveling in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Daichi Kato, Takuma Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11383734
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, comprising, a setting unit that accepts setting of a destination; an acquisition unit that acquires peripheral information of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the vehicle based on the peripheral information, wherein the control unit executes, if the destination has been set, first control in which first assist for a course change is performed in accordance with a case in which the vehicle has entered a course change area from a first road existing on a traveling route to the destination to a second road connected to the first road, and executes, if the destination has not been set, second control in which second assist with an assist level lower than in the first assist is performed on a road existing on a current traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Nozomu Hirosawa, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11387656
    Abstract: To calculate the prediction of the power generation amount with high accuracy even when the amount of the track record data of the Generator power generation amount is insufficient or the amount of the weather track record data similar to the weather prediction result is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Nao Saito, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Patent number: 11383714
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller configured to control a speed and steering of a vehicle to perform an automatic lane change, in which the driving controller limits the automatic lane change when it is detected that the vehicle is in a first area having a length of a first distance in a longitudinal direction of a road with a starting point of a specific road structure set as a reference or in a second area having a length of a second distance in the longitudinal direction of the road with an end point of the specific road structure set as a reference on the basis of information of at least one of an external recognition result and map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Katsuya Yashiro, Chihiro Oguro, Nozomu Hirosawa, Toru Kokaki, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11386720
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20220212669
    Abstract: A device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires surrounding information of a self-vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the self-vehicle based on the surrounding information, wherein the control unit estimates whether a traveling speed of the self-vehicle will be equal to or less than a predetermined speed based on a relative speed between a traveling speed of the self-vehicle and a traveling speed of another vehicle traveling in a merging lane merging into a traveling lane in which the self-vehicle is traveling and based on a relative distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle, and when estimating that the traveling speed of the self-vehicle will be equal to or less than the predetermined speed, disables an automatic lane change operation of the self-vehicle to an adjacent lane adjacent to the traveling lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Nozomu HIROSAWA, Daichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11377126
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit (15) invokes an autonomous stopping mode when an intervention detection unit (10, 11, 13, 33) has failed to detect an acceptance of a driving intervention request by the driver when the driving intervention request is notified by a notification interface (31, 32), and the control unit restricts a functionality of the autonomous driving after the autonomous stopping mode has been invoked due to a driver's failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kanta Tsuji, Tadashi Naruse, Tadahiko Kanoh
  • Publication number: 20220203987
    Abstract: A vehicle control device recognizing a runway area in which a vehicle is to travel, generating a target trajectory such that the target trajectory follows a center of the recognized runway area in a lateral direction, causing the vehicle to travel along the target trajectory, and changing a drive mode of the vehicle from a second drive mode to a first drive mode in a case in which a distance between the center and a reference point of the vehicle is equal to or longer than a reference distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20220205403
    Abstract: Provided is a diesel engine capable of regenerating a DPF even during no-load and/or light-load operation. In a DPF regeneration process, opening-degree reduction control S2 for an exhaust-air throttle valve is performed after a start condition S1 of the regeneration process of the DPF in which PM is deposited is satisfied. When exhaust air reaches a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined after-injection permissible temperature TA, after-injection control is subsequently started S5. Post-injection control is started S7 after the exhaust air reaches a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined post-injection permissible temperature TP by combustion of after-injection fuel. The PM deposited in the DPF is incinerated by the exhaust air increased in temperature by catalytic combustion of post-injection fuel in a valve downstream-side DOC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Daichi KATO, Yuki ISHII, Hiroaki IMAHARA, Hiroaki OKANO
  • Publication number: 20220203991
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition part, a driving control part, and an output control part. When determining there is a section where a current driving mode cannot be continued in a first lane and the vehicle changes to a second lane, the output control part outputs predetermined information, including first and second information, before reaching the section. When detecting an intention to change lanes after outputting the first information, and a lane change to the second lane is completed before outputting the second information, the driving control part continues a first driving mode executed during traveling in the first lane even after the lane change is completed, and when detecting the intention to change lanes after outputting the first information, and the lane change to the second lane is completed after outputting the second information, the driving control part changes to a driving mode imposing a larger task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki YAMABE, Nozomu HIROSAWA, Daichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20220187889
    Abstract: A power system can be controlled appropriately even when an amount of calculation increases. A system control signal determination problem data storage unit stores problem data indicative of a system control signal determination problem determining a plurality of control signals used for control of a device to be controlled included in the power system. A non-von Neumann calculation unit generates a non-von Neumann calculation result obtained by using a non-von Neumann computer to solve the system control signal determination problem on the basis of the problem data. An assessment criterion data storage unit stores assessment criterion data for assessing the non-von Neumann calculation result. A non-von Neumann calculation result assessment unit assesses an assessment item related to the non-von Neumann calculation result on the basis of the assessment criterion data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta KIRIHARA, Daichi KATO, Takuya OKUYAMA