Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Ishida
Hiroyuki Ishida 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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Publication number: 20170227970Abstract: An autonomous driving system includes a positioning unit that measures a position of a vehicle; a database that stores map information; an actuator that controls traveling of the vehicle; and an electronic controller configured to process: a detection of a first vehicle position and the map information; an identification of a traveling scene based on the first vehicle position and the map information; a detection of a second vehicle position by preforming position detection processing; and a control of the actuator based on the second vehicle position if a distance between the first vehicle position and the second vehicle position is equal to or smaller than a threshold or a control of the actuator based on the first vehicle position if the distance is not equal to or smaller than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Koji Taguchi, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shuichi Yokokawa
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Publication number: 20170227184Abstract: A vehicle lamp forms an additional high-beam light distribution pattern with light emitted though a projection lens from a plurality of light emitting elements. The plurality of light emitting elements are disposed to be aligned in a transverse direction below a rear focal point of the projection lens and can be lit individually. The vehicle lamp forms an additional light distribution pattern by lighting the plurality of light emitting elements at the same time to form a high-beam light distribution pattern. In addition, the vehicle lamp forms another additional light distribution pattern where a part of the additional light distribution pattern is omitted by selectively lighting a part of the plurality of light emitting elements so as to form an intermediate light distribution pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Tatsuma KITAZAWA, Takahiko HONDA, Takayoshi ISHIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170169654Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of extending the range of its application by enhancing the designability and the diversity of the display manner and by improving visual effects. The display device includes: a projector configured to project light to display information in the form of a projection image; a screen having a display surface through which light projected by the projector passes to form a projection image thereon; and a controller configured to control the projector. The display surface has a non-planar shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Hiroaki SUE, Koichi MORI, Yuuichirou SUZUKI, Shinji MAKISAKO, Hiroyuki ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20170153000Abstract: An ADB lamp unit (10) of a vehicle headlamp includes a light source constituted by a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements that can be turned on/off individually, and a reflector 16 having a reflective surface that is based on a paraboloid of revolution. The reflector (16) is constituted by a perpendicularly split plurality of partial reflectors (16a) through (16e), with the reflective surface of each partial reflector being configured such that the horizontal spread of reflected light reflected by each partial reflectors is approximately equal in a predetermined projection plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriko SATO, Hiroyuki ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20170130924Abstract: A lamp unit includes a light-emitting element array composed by a plurality of light-emitting elements, having respective individual irradiation regions constituting a high-beam light-distribution pattern and configured to be capable of being turned on individually, mounted in array on a substrate, a projection lens disposed in front of the light-emitting element array, and a reflector disposed below the light-emitting element array. Inter-light-emitting-element spacing within the light-emitting element array widens the more separated the elements are from the projection lens' optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki KAWAI, Kenta OISHI, Naoki UCHIDA, Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Hidetada TANAKA, Noriko SATO, Ryuho SATO, Takatomo FUJIYOSHI
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Patent number: 9607227Abstract: A boundary detection apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit and a detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires a disparity image based on information obtained by capturing an image of a peripheral environment of a vehicle. The extraction unit extracts predetermined pixel regions from first and second pixel regions of the disparity image based on a disparity gradient direction of the first pixel region and a disparity gradient direction of the second pixel region. The detection unit detects a boundary of a step surface existing alongside a road by joining together at least some of the predetermined pixel regions extracted by the extraction unit. The first and second pixel regions sandwich the predetermined pixel region. An angle formed by the disparity gradient direction of the first pixel region and the disparity gradient direction of the second pixel region is within a predetermined angular range of a right angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinao Takemae, Kiyosumi Kidono, Hiroyuki Ishida
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Patent number: 9434245Abstract: A wheel loader includes: a driver's cab; an engine; a chassis, at sides of which tires are provided; an engine room in which the engine is mounted on the chassis, the engine room being provided behind the driver's cab; front portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being located at the driver's cab side; rear portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being opposite to the surface located at the driver's cab side; and a coupling structure that couples upper portions of the front portion structures to upper portions of the rear portion structures and forms a peripheral device installation space at an upper portion of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM, HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Mori, Takatomo Ohno, Toru Sonobe, Hiroyuki Ishida, Keisuke Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20160252011Abstract: A two-cycle gas engine includes a cylinder, a cylinder head, a piston that defines a combustion chamber with a surrounding wall of the cylinder and the cylinder head, a fuel gas injector, an ignition unit, a scavenging port configured to supply air into the combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in vicinity of a bottom dead center, a fuel gas injection timing control unit configured to cause the fuel gas injector to inject the fuel gas upon the piston being positioned at 10° to 100° before top dead center in an ascending stroke and to cause the fuel gas injector to inject the fuel gas upon the piston being positioned in vicinity of the top dead center, and an ignition timing control unit configured to ignite the fuel gas inside the combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in the vicinity of the top dead center.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Akihiro YUUKI, Akihiro MIYANAGI, Naohiro HIRAOKA, Yasuyuki KOMADA
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Publication number: 20160153633Abstract: Vehicular lamp furnished with: a first light source emitting blue laser light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength region of 450 nm to 470 nm; a second light source emitting green laser light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength region of 510 nm to 550 nm; a third light source emitting red laser light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength region of 630 nm to 650 nm; a phosphor that by being excited by a portion of the blue laser light emitted by the first light source or of the green laser light emitted by the second light source emits excitation light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength region of 580 nm to 600 nm; and a light condensing unit for collecting the blue, green, and red laser light, and the excitation light, to generate white light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2016Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Yuichi SHIBATA, Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Takeshi MASUDA
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Publication number: 20160140718Abstract: Sensor information acquisition section acquires surrounding information including three dimensional information of respective surrounding positions of subject vehicle, and positional information of subject vehicle. Road surface information extraction section generates road surface image in which acquired surrounding information is projected onto road surface on which subject vehicle is travelling. Environment image generation section generates environment image in which three dimensional information of respective surrounding positions included in surrounding information has been appended to positions corresponding to surrounding positions in generated road surface image. Based on acquired positional information of subject vehicle, stored image acquisition section acquires stored image corresponding to positional information of subject vehicle from database. Image matching section matches generated environment image against acquired stored image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventor: Hiroyuki ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20160082831Abstract: A wheel loader includes: a driver's cab; an engine; a chassis, at sides of which tires are provided; an engine room in which the engine is mounted on the chassis, the engine room being provided behind the driver's cab; front portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being located at the driver's cab side; rear portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being opposite to the surface located at the driver's cab side; and a coupling structure that couples upper portions of the front portion structures to upper portions of the rear portion structures and forms a peripheral device installation space at an upper portion of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM, HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo MORI, Takatomo OHNO, Toru SONOBE, Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Keisuke KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9225271Abstract: A motor driving apparatus according to an embodiment includes a brushless motor. The motor driving apparatus includes a position sensor that outputs a position detection signal in synchronization with a phase of an induced voltage of a coil of the brushless motor. The motor driving apparatus includes a semiconductor integrated circuit that controls driving of the brushless motor by supplying a pseudo sine-wave driving voltage from an energization terminal to the coil of the brushless motor based on the position detection signal and a command signal that prescribes driving of the brushless motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Toshimitsu Aizawa, Sadao Ikeda, Jun Sodesawa, Hiroyuki Ishida
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Publication number: 20150300284Abstract: An object is to, in a low-load operating range of a dual-fuel diesel engine or a dual-fuel diesel engine unit including a plurality of the dual-fuel diesel engines, reduce the amount of injection of oil fuel so as to make it possible to make exhaust gas less harmful and to reduce fuel cost. On a cylinder head, a plurality of dual-fuel injectors are disposed, each of which having a gas fuel injector that injects a gas fuel being a main fuel and a pilot fuel injector that injects an oil fuel. In a low-load operating range where it is not necessary for the dual-fuel injectors to inject fuel at the same time for ignition, fuel is injected alternately from the dual-fuel injectors and combusted in every single combustion cycle. As a result, it is possible to halve the amount of injection of oil fuel in the low-load operating range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIDA, Akihiro YUUKI, Akihiro MIYANAGI, Naohiro HIRAOKA, Yasuyuki KOMADA
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Publication number: 20150269446Abstract: A boundary detection apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit and a detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires a disparity image based on information obtained by capturing an image of a peripheral environment of a vehicle. The extraction unit extracts predetermined pixel regions from first and second pixel regions of the disparity image based on a disparity gradient direction of the first pixel region and a disparity gradient direction of the second pixel region. The detection unit detects a boundary of a step surface existing alongside a road by joining together at least some of the predetermined pixel regions extracted by the extraction unit. The first and second pixel regions sandwich the predetermined pixel region. An angle formed by the disparity gradient direction of the first pixel region and the disparity gradient direction of the second pixel region is within a predetermined angular range of a right angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinao TAKEMAE, Kiyosumi KIDONO, Hiroyuki ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20150211464Abstract: A fuel gas injection valve according to the present invention includes: a holder including a first injection hole through which fuel gas is injected to produce premixed fuel, and a second injection hole through which fuel gas is injected to produce diffusion fuel; a first needle valve that slidably reciprocates in the holder along an axial direction to open and close the first injection hole and the second injection hole; and a second needle valve having a sealing face on the top thereof and a through-hole provided along the axial direction at the central portion in a radial direction of the second needle valve, the sealing face being brought into contact with a needle valve seat provided in the holder, the first needle valve being slidably inserted into the through-hole, and the second needle valve reciprocating in the holder along the axial direction to prevent fuel gas from circulating to the first injection hole and the second injection hole when the sealing face is in contact with the needle valve seat,Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Akihiro Miyanagi, Naohiro Hiraoka, Shigeki Tanaka, Sota Watanabe, Yasuyuki Komada
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Patent number: 9080738Abstract: A vehicular lamp comprising includes a light-emitting diode that is used as a light source and that emits light; and a light transmitting member that is arranged in a path of the emitted light and through which the light is passed. The light transmitting member shields the light-emitting diode from infrared rays that travel in an opposite direction to a traveling direction of the light.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Motohiro Komatsu, Hiroyuki Serizawa, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Kiyoshi Sazuka
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Publication number: 20150075506Abstract: A two-cycle gas engine includes a piston that defines a main combustion chamber with a surrounding wall of a cylinder and a cylinder head, a fuel gas injector configured to inject fuel gas, a scavenging port that supplies air into the main combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in vicinity of a bottom dead center, a precombustion chamber cap that defines a precombustion chamber inside thereof, a fuel injection timing control unit configured to inject the fuel gas into the main combustion chamber and to inject the fuel gas into the main combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in the vicinity of the top dead center, and an ignition timing control unit configured to ignite a mixed air of the fuel gas and the air inside the precombustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in the vicinity of the top dead center.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Akihiro Yuuki, Akihiro Miyanagi, Naohiro Hiraoka, Yasuyuki Komada
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Publication number: 20150054437Abstract: A motor driving apparatus according to an embodiment includes a brushless motor. The motor driving apparatus includes a position sensor that outputs a position detection signal in synchronization with a phase of an induced voltage of a coil of the brushless motor. The motor driving apparatus includes a semiconductor integrated circuit that controls driving of the brushless motor by supplying a pseudo sine-wave driving voltage from an energization terminal to the coil of the brushless motor based on the position detection signal and a command signal that prescribes driving of the brushless motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Toshimitsu Aizawa, Sadao Ikeda, Jun Sodesawa, Hiroyuki Ishida
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Publication number: 20150047620Abstract: A two-cycle gas engine includes a cylinder, a cylinder head, a piston that defines a combustion chamber with a surrounding wall of the cylinder and the cylinder head, a fuel gas injector, an ignition unit, a scavenging port configured to supply air into the combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in vicinity of a bottom dead center, a fuel gas injection timing control unit configured to cause the fuel gas injector to inject the fuel gas upon the piston being positioned at 10° to 100° before top dead center in an ascending stroke and to cause the fuel gas injector to inject the fuel gas upon the piston being positioned in vicinity of the top dead center, and an ignition timing control unit configured to ignite the fuel gas inside the combustion chamber upon the piston being positioned in the vicinity of the top dead center.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Akihiro Yuuki, Akihiro Miyanagi, Naohiro Hiraoka, Yasuyuki Komada
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Patent number: 8956027Abstract: A projector lens of a vehicular headlamp has a shape of a convex lens in which the upper and lower portions are cut by a predetermined amount. A light source is disposed above optical axis Ax of the projector lens while a light emission surface is inclined downwardly. A first reflecting mirror has an elliptical reflective surface, and is adjusted in size such that almost all the light reflected from the reflective surface is incident on the projector lens. A shield plate is disposed in the vicinity of the focus of the first reflecting mirror to form a horizontal cutoff line. A second reflecting mirror is disposed to reflect light that is not incident on the first reflecting mirror. The third reflecting mirror is disposed above the upper end of the shield plate at a position that does not interfere with the light reflected from the first reflecting mirror.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Ishida