Patents by Inventor Kiyohiko SAWADA
Kiyohiko SAWADA 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: 20240086615Abstract: An on-board device for a vehicle, includes a storage unit and a display processing unit. The storage unit is configured to store display information that is information for displaying certification information required to be displayed pursuant to laws and regulations on a display device. The display processing unit is configured to perform a process for displaying the certification information on an on-board display device that is the display device on-board the vehicle, using the display information stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Asahi KONDO, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Patent number: 10398368Abstract: An onboard system equipped to a vehicle includes a vehicle control device controlling a switching of a driving mode of the vehicle between a manual driving and a self-driving, and a brain activity sensor capable of detecting an activated portion of a brain of a driver of the vehicle. The vehicle control device determines whether a degree of uneasiness felt by the driver exceeds a threshold or not based on a detection result detected by the brain activity sensor before the switching of the driving mode. When determining that the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver does not exceed the threshold, the vehicle control device switches the driving mode. When determining that the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver exceeds the threshold, the vehicle control device performs a vehicle control corresponding to the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 10274178Abstract: A pedestrian safety system includes a power transmission unit provided to a vehicle and transmitting an electric power, a power reception unit provided to a wearable member being wearable by a pedestrian and receiving the electric power transmitted from the power transmission unit, a power storage unit provided to the wearable member and storing the electric power received by the power reception unit, and at least one light emitting unit provided to the wearable member. The at least one light emitting unit performs a flash or illumination operation with a supply of the electric power stored in the power storage unit as an operational power. With this pedestrian safety system, pedestrian's safety can be properly ensured without disposing an operational power source of the light emitting unit on the pedestrian side.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 10252713Abstract: A vehicular driving control system for performing vehicular driving control based on automated driving and/or driving assistance is provided. The vehicular driving control system includes a driver operation measuring instrument that measures driving operation of a driver, a user uneasiness degree measuring instrument that measures how large a degree of uneasiness of a user is, and a driving control apparatus. When it is determined that the user feels uneasy based on the user uneasiness degree, the driving control apparatus determines an uneasiness factor serving as a source of the uneasiness based on user property data in relation to a traveling situation of a vehicle. Based on the determined uneasiness factor, the driving control apparatus adjusts a control degree of the vehicular driving control, and changes the vehicular driving control so as to decrease the uneasiness of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 9958846Abstract: A data processing device includes: a first controller requiring a first activation time; a second controller requiring a second activation time, which is shorter than the first activation time; and a data processor for switching a mode, in which data is processed, between a first processing mode without collaboration with the first controller, and a second processing mode in collaboration with the first controller. The data processor processes data in the first processing mode after completing the activation of the second controller and before completing the activation of the first controller; processes data in the second processing mode after completing the activation of the first controller; and processes data in the first processing mode after a fault occurs in the first controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Takeda, Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada, Hidetaka Tanaka, Kiyohito Narita, Motoki Kanamori
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Patent number: 9868397Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display unit in a vehicle, including a dedicated middleware that executes a program on a vehicle side, a general purpose middleware that executes general purpose application programs from an external of the vehicle, and an interface that exchanges necessary information between the dedicate middleware and the general purpose middleware, includes: an acquisition device that acquires vehicle information on a dedicated middleware side; a notification device that notifies a general purpose middleware side through the interface of a vehicle status based on the vehicle information; and an activation device that activates, on the general purpose middleware side, a target application program for realizing the display corresponding to the vehicle status among the general purpose application programs based on the vehicle status.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito Maeda, Yasunori Suzuki, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Publication number: 20170303842Abstract: An onboard system equipped to a vehicle includes a vehicle control device controlling a switching of a driving mode of the vehicle between a manual driving and a self-driving, and a brain activity sensor capable of detecting an activated portion of a brain of a driver of the vehicle. The vehicle control device determines whether a degree of uneasiness felt by the driver exceeds a threshold or not based on a detection result detected by the brain activity sensor before the switching of the driving mode. When determining that the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver does not exceed the threshold, the vehicle control device switches the driving mode. When determining that the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver exceeds the threshold, the vehicle control device performs a vehicle control corresponding to the degree of uneasiness felt by the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 9800058Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power supply-side apparatus having a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power, a power reception-side apparatus having a power reception unit configured to receive the power from the power supply unit, a power supply area memory configured to store a power supply area where the power is supplied from the power supply unit to the power reception unit, an object position detector configured to detect a position of an object, a notifying unit configured to notify notification information, and a controller configured to cause the notifying unit to notify the information about the power supplied from the power supply unit to the power reception unit based on the power supply area stored in the power supply area memory and the position of the object detected by the object position detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 9753808Abstract: A data processing device includes a digital data processing unit and a control unit. The digital data processing unit includes a computing unit that computes digital data and a power source management unit that transceives commands with the computing unit and manages a power supply to the computing unit. The control unit controls a user interface unit that provides a user interface function. The control unit diagnoses an operation of the digital data processing unit by monitoring a transfer state of the commands between the computing unit and the power source management unit. When determining an abnormality occurrence in the operation of the digital data processing unit, the control unit resets all parts of the digital data processing unit or a part of the digital data processing unit without interrupting an operation of the user interface unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo Eiro, Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Publication number: 20170225677Abstract: A vehicular driving control system for performing vehicular driving control based on automated driving and/or driving assistance is provided. The vehicular driving control system includes a driver operation measuring instrument that measures driving operation of a driver, a user uneasiness degree measuring instrument that measures how large a degree of uneasiness of a user is, and a driving control apparatus. When it is determined that the user feels uneasy based on the user uneasiness degree, the driving control apparatus determines an uneasiness factor serving as a source of the uneasiness based on user property data in relation to a traveling situation of a vehicle. Based on the determined uneasiness factor, the driving control apparatus adjusts a control degree of the vehicular driving control, and changes the vehicular driving control so as to decrease the uneasiness of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro YOSHIDA, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Patent number: 9690592Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display unit in a vehicle, including a dedicated middleware that executes a dedicated application program on a vehicle side, a general purpose middleware that executes a general purpose application program from an external of the vehicle, and an interface that exchanges necessary information between the dedicate middleware and the general purpose middleware, includes: an activation device that activates the dedicated middleware first, and activates the general purpose middleware after the dedicated middleware; and a dedicated display control device that displays, before an activation of the general-purpose middleware is completed, a dedicated menu screen for activating the dedicated application program on the display unit via the dedicated middleware when the dedicated application program on the dedicated middleware is available.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo Matsuyama, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 9591786Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle includes: a digital substrate having a first semiconductor package with a CPU, a second semiconductor package with a volatile memory readable and writable from the CPU, a third semiconductor package with a flash memory storing a start-up program of the CPU, and a fourth semiconductor package with a power supply management integrated circuit; and a fan that takes in air along the surface of the digital substrate on which the first to fourth semiconductor packages are mounted. The third semiconductor package is disposed to distance from the first semiconductor package by at least a first predetermined distance and to distance from the fourth semiconductor package by at least a second predetermined distance exceeding the first predetermined distance, and is disposed in a passage of the air taken in by the fan.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Sueyoshi, Tsubasa Kawashita, Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Patent number: 9479228Abstract: In a unit device, a setup unit sets arrangement information, which indicates the position of each unit device in a state where a plurality of unit devices configure a unit device group, according to a sequence that conforms to the arrangement information of adjacent devices after the aforementioned group is configured. A storage unit stores the arrangement information configured by the setup unit. A provision control unit specifies the content of the information providing command, and by collating the content of the specified information providing command with the arrangement information stored in the storage unit, provides either of at least two or more states by means of a provision unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Publication number: 20160265762Abstract: A pedestrian safety system includes a power transmission unit provided to a vehicle and transmitting an electric power, a power reception unit provided to a wearable member being wearable by a pedestrian and receiving the electric power transmitted from the power transmission unit, a power storage unit provided to the wearable member and storing the electric power received by the power reception unit, and at least one light emitting unit provided to the wearable member. The at least one light emitting unit performs a flash or illumination operation with a supply of the electric power stored in the power storage unit as an operational power. With this pedestrian safety system, pedestrian's safety can be properly ensured without disposing an operational power source of the light emitting unit on the pedestrian side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Ichiro YOSHIDA, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160144726Abstract: A vehicular wireless power feeding system includes a portable apparatus, a vehicle-side wireless power feeding system and a notifier. The portable apparatus operates using power, which is stored in an attached battery. The vehicle-side wireless power feeding system has a wireless power feeder arranged in the vehicle and for wirelessly feeding power to a wireless power receiver of the portable apparatus. The notifier notifies of, as wireless power feeding information, information related to wireless power feeding from the wireless power feeder to the wireless power receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Ichiro YOSHIDA, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160103687Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display unit in a vehicle, including a dedicated middleware that executes a dedicated application program on a vehicle side, a general purpose middleware that executes a general purpose application program from an external of the vehicle, and an interface that exchanges necessary information between the dedicate middleware and the general purpose middleware, includes: an activation device that activates the dedicated middleware first, and activates the general purpose middleware after the dedicated middleware; and a dedicated display control device that displays, before an activation of the general-purpose middleware is completed, a dedicated menu screen for activating the dedicated application program on the display unit via the dedicated middleware when the dedicated application program on the dedicated middleware is available.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo MATSUYAMA, Hiroshi ISHIGURO, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160090042Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display unit in a vehicle, including a dedicated middleware that executes a program on a vehicle side, a general purpose middleware that executes general purpose application programs from an external of the vehicle, and an interface that exchanges necessary information between the dedicate middleware and the general purpose middleware, includes: an acquisition device that acquires vehicle information on a dedicated middleware side; a notification device that notifies a general purpose middleware side through the interface of a vehicle status based on the vehicle information; and an activation device that activates, on the general purpose middleware side, a target application program for realizing the display corresponding to the vehicle status among the general purpose application programs based on the vehicle status.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito MAEDA, Yasunori SUZUKI, Kiyohiko SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160011576Abstract: A data processing device includes: a first controller requiring a first activation time; a second controller requiring a second activation time, which is shorter than the first activation time; and a data processor for switching a mode, in which data is processed, between a first processing mode without collaboration with the first controller, and a second processing mode in collaboration with the first controller. The data processor processes data in the first processing mode after completing the activation of the second controller and before completing the activation of the first controller; processes data in the second processing mode after completing the activation of the first controller; and processes data in the first processing mode after a fault occurs in the first controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TAKEDA, Ichiro YOSHIDA, Kiyohiko SAWADA, Hidetaka TANAKA, Kiyohito NARITA, Motoki KANAMORI
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Publication number: 20160004600Abstract: A data processing device includes a digital data processing unit and a control unit. The digital data processing unit includes a computing unit that computes digital data and a power source management unit that transceives commands with the computing unit and manages a power supply to the computing unit. The control unit controls a user interface unit that provides a user interface function. The control unit diagnoses an operation of the digital data processing unit by monitoring a transfer state of the commands between the computing unit and the power source management unit. When determining an abnormality occurrence in the operation of the digital data processing unit, the control unit resets all parts of the digital data processing unit or a part of the digital data processing unit without interrupting an operation of the user interface unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Takeo Eiro, Ichiro Yoshida, Kiyohiko Sawada
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Publication number: 20150382502Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle includes: a digital substrate having a first semiconductor package with a CPU, a second semiconductor package with a volatile memory readable and writable from the CPU, a third semiconductor package with a flash memory storing a start-up program of the CPU, and a fourth semiconductor package with a power supply management integrated circuit; and a fan that takes in air along the surface of the digital substrate on which the first to fourth semiconductor packages are mounted. The third semiconductor package is disposed to distance from the first semiconductor package by at least a first predetermined distance and to distance from the fourth semiconductor package by at least a second predetermined distance exceeding the first predetermined distance, and is disposed in a passage of the air taken in by the fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Tetsuya SUEYOSHI, Tsubasa KAWASHITA, Ichiro YOSHIDA, Kiyohiko SAWADA