Patents by Inventor Kentarou YAMASAKI
Kentarou YAMASAKI 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: 11987169Abstract: Provided is an optical axis adjustment device for a vehicle headlamp. The optical axis adjustment device adjusts an optical axis of a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle, and the optical axis adjustment device includes: an engine temperature acquirer; a displacement amount calculator; a speed information acquirer; and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature acquirer acquires a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator calculates a displacement amount of the optical axis based on the acquired temperature. The speed information acquirer acquires speed information including a travel speed and a travel time of the vehicle. The optical axis adjuster adjusts the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the calculated displacement amount and the acquired speed information.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Noriaki Asano
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Patent number: 11890983Abstract: An optical axis adjustment device for a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle is configured to adjust an optical axis of the headlamp unit. The optical axis adjustment device includes an engine temperature acquirer, a displacement amount calculator, and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature acquirer is configured to acquire a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator is configured to calculate a displacement amount of the optical axis on a basis of the acquired temperature. The optical axis adjuster is configured to adjust the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the calculated displacement amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Noriaki Asano
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Patent number: 11634157Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20230095564Abstract: An optical axis adjustment device for a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle is configured to adjust an optical axis of the headlamp unit. the optical axis adjustment device includes an engine temperature acquirer, a displacement amount calculator, an operation information acquirer, and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature is configured to acquirer acquire a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator is configured to calculate a displacement amount of the optical axis on a basis of the temperature. The operation information acquirer is configured to acquire operation information indicating an operation status of a cooling device for the engine. The optical axis adjuster is configured to adjust the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the displacement amount and the operation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Noriaki ASANO
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Publication number: 20230098061Abstract: An optical axis adjustment device for a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle is configured to adjust an optical axis of the headlamp unit. and the optical axis adjustment device includes a load information acquirer, a displacement amount calculator, and an optical axis adjuster. The load information acquirer is configured to acquire load information indicating a load on an engine of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator is configured to calculate a displacement amount of the optical axis on a basis of the load information. The optical axis adjuster is configured to adjust the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the displacement amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Noriaki ASANO
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Publication number: 20230102156Abstract: Provided is an optical axis adjustment device for a vehicle headlamp. The optical axis adjustment device adjusts an optical axis of a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle, and the optical axis adjustment device includes: an engine temperature acquirer; a displacement amount calculator; a speed information acquirer; and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature acquirer acquires a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator calculates a displacement amount of the optical axis based on the acquired temperature. The speed information acquirer acquires speed information including a travel speed and a travel time of the vehicle. The optical axis adjuster adjusts the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the calculated displacement amount and the acquired speed information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Noriaki ASANO
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Publication number: 20230103077Abstract: An optical axis adjustment device for a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle is configured to adjust an optical axis of the headlamp unit. The optical axis adjustment device includes an engine temperature acquirer, a displacement amount calculator, and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature acquirer is configured to acquire a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator is configured to calculate a displacement amount of the optical axis on a basis of the acquired temperature. The optical axis adjuster is configured to adjust the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the calculated displacement amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Noriaki ASANO
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Patent number: 11603039Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. On the occasion of switching of a driving state of the vehicle from the automated driving to manual driving, the lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp after changing a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp from a first lighting state during the execution of the automated driving to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20230065315Abstract: A vehicle posture calculation device includes an electronic control unit for a vehicle. The electronic control unit acquires a position and orientation of the vehicle from information of a global positioning system receiver. The electronic control unit extracts, as at least one feature point, a position of a landmark in an image acquired with a camera. The electronic control unit acquires at least one calculated reference point and calculate an inclination angle of the vehicle. The at least one calculated reference point is acquired by calculating a position of the landmark to be captured in the image with the camera. The position of the landmark is calculated from a three-dimensional map and the position and the orientation of the vehicle that are acquired. The inclination angle is calculated from displacement between the at least one feature point and the at least one calculated reference point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventor: Kentarou YAMASAKI
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Patent number: 11524708Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11485282Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11465556Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes an automated driving indicator lamp, one or more lamps, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving of the vehicle. The one or more lamps are provided on the vehicle separately from the automated driving indicator lamp. The lamp controller is configured to start to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before starting to switch on the one or more lamps, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make a departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp and the one or more lamps off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11338828Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11208036Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20210094584Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094465Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094466Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094585Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, information regarding a surrounding moving body present around the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in response to presence of any surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094467Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. On the occasion of switching of a driving state of the vehicle from the automated driving to manual driving, the lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp after changing a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp from a first lighting state during the execution of the automated driving to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094573Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU