Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Hakukawa

Hiroaki Hakukawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240104980
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes plural electronic control devices each of which controls an operation of a vehicle and which is mounted in the vehicle, a monitoring control device monitoring an operation of each electronic control device, and an electric connector which selectively sets an electronic connection of a power source line constantly performing a supply of power to a connection state or a non-connection state and which is provided between the power source line and each electronic control device, the monitoring control device includes a recording unit which performs a fault diagnosis of one electronic control device being a monitoring target and which executes a recording operation to store a diagnosis result in a storage device, and a mode setting unit setting the recording unit to a first operation mode executing the recording operation or a second operation mode not executing the recording operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Noboru Ujigawa, Tomoya Nishino
  • Publication number: 20230318873
    Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a plurality of ECUs connected by the communication network including a plurality of communication transmission lines. Each of the ECUs includes an identification unit that identifies a target ECU to be a communication partner, and a relay transmission line and a relay ECU through which communication with the target ECU is routed, a standby time determination unit that determines a transmission standby time based on information on the relay ECU, the transmission standby time being a time from transmission of an activation instruction to another one of the ECUs closest to the ECU along the relay transmission line to transmission of a control signal toward the target ECU, and a communication unit that transmits the control signal after an elapse of the transmission standby time after transmitting the activation instruction to the relay transmission line closest to the ECU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuroh Saitoh, Tomoya Nishino, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Sora Nishigaki
  • Publication number: 20230256983
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a vehicle control unit configured to control a vehicle by executing a vehicle starting program for starting the vehicle; a storage unit including a rewrite limited area where the vehicle starting program is stored and rewrite is limited and a rewrite possible area where the vehicle starting program is rewritably stored; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device; and a program update unit configured to execute update processing of storing a vehicle starting update program received by the communication unit and utilized for updating the vehicle starting program in the rewrite possible area, in which the vehicle control unit executes the vehicle starting program stored in the rewrite possible area and executes the vehicle starting program stored in the rewrite limited area when the update processing by the program update unit is not normally completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Satoshi Aiyoshizawa, Takayuki Inomata, Seiju Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20230251901
    Abstract: A control system includes a first electronic device that processes execution requests from a plurality of devices in an order according to a first priority rank that is assigned to each execution request, and a second electronic device that receives execution requests from some of the plurality of devices and transmits the execution requests to the first electronic device in an order according to a second priority rank that is assigned to each execution request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa
  • Publication number: 20230252155
    Abstract: An electronic device monitoring apparatus includes: a control unit that periodically shifts from a sleep state to an active state and executes predetermined standby processing while an electronic device is not in use; a storage unit that stores specific data to be subjected to alteration verification processing for verifying whether there is any alteration. The control unit executes sub data verification processing, the sub data verification processing performing the alteration verification processing for at least one piece of sub data out of a plurality of pieces of sub data at every shift to the active state in a preset order, the plurality of pieces of sub data being obtained by subdividing the specific data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Tomoya Nishino, Noboru Ujigawa
  • Publication number: 20230249647
    Abstract: A moving body control device includes a first ECU and a second ECU. The first ECU has a power switch connected thereto and when user authentication using identification information stored in a storage unit has succeeded in a power-off state of a moving body, sets the moving body to a power-on state in response to operation of the power switch. The second ECU has a terminal device connected thereto and communicates with the first ECU. When recognizing a predetermined operation of the power switch in a state where the identification information is not stored in the storage unit in a power-off state of the moving body, the first ECU establishes communication with the second ECU, thereby allowing the terminal device to operate the first ECU via the second ECU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Takayuki Inomata
  • Patent number: 10974648
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist system includes: an operation part that is operable from a neutral position to a first position at one side or a second position at another side; a switch part that outputs an ON signal or an OFF signal in accordance with a position of the operation part; a control part that generates a turn signal in response to an output of the switch part; a detection part that detects a rear side situation of a vehicle; and an alert part that performs an alert based on an output of the ON signal of the switch part and a detection result of the detection part, wherein in a case where an operation to the second position is performed when the turn signal in accordance with an operation to the first position is generated or in a case where an operation to the second position is performed after the turn signal in accordance with an operation to the first position is generated, a control that performs only a visual alert is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Shimada, Toshinori Saiki, Hiroaki Hakukawa
  • Publication number: 20190389377
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist system includes: an operation part that is operable from a neutral position to a first position at one side or a second position at another side; a switch part that outputs an ON signal or an OFF signal in accordance with a position of the operation part; a control part that generates a turn signal in response to an output of the switch part; a detection part that detects a rear side situation of a vehicle; and an alert part that performs an alert based on an output of the ON signal of the switch part and a detection result of the detection part, wherein in a case where an operation to the second position is performed when the turn signal in accordance with an operation to the first position is generated or in a case where an operation to the second position is performed after the turn signal in accordance with an operation to the first position is generated, a control that performs only a visual alert is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiko Shimada, Toshinori Saiki, Hiroaki Hakukawa