Patents by Inventor Kiyomi Hirasago

Kiyomi Hirasago 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: 6665603
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control system is comprised of a following controller and a lane-keeping controller. The following controller controls an inter-vehicle distance between a host vehicle and a following object ahead of the host vehicle by controlling a vehicle speed on the basis of a detected inter-vehicle distance. The lane-keeping controller controls a steering control of the host vehicle so as to locate the host vehicle within a lane traveled by the host vehicle. A control condition of one of the following control and the steering control is changed according to the control condition of the other of the following control and the steering control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomio Jindo, Youji Shimizu, Kiyomi Hirasago
  • Patent number: 6658344
    Abstract: A traveling control system with a state display apparatus is comprised of a speed range display disposed along a scale of a speedometer and a controller coupled with the speed range display. The controller commands the speed range display to display a set-condition speed range indicative that it is possible to set a vehicle traveling control, when the vehicle traveling control by the vehicle traveling control system is not set. The controller commands the speed range display to display a control-condition speed range indicative that it is possible to continue the vehicle traveling control, when the vehicle traveling control is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyomi Hirasago
  • Publication number: 20020133285
    Abstract: A traveling control system with a state display apparatus is comprised of a speed range display disposed along a scale of a speedometer and a controller coupled with the speed range display. The controller commands the speed range display to display a set-condition speed range indicative that it is possible to set a vehicle traveling control, when the vehicle traveling control by the vehicle traveling control system is not set. The controller commands the speed range display to display a control-condition speed range indicative that it is possible to continue the vehicle traveling control, when the vehicle traveling control is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyomi Hirasago
  • Publication number: 20020087255
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control system is comprised of a following controller and a lane-keeping controller. The following controller controls an inter-vehicle distance between a host vehicle and a following object ahead of the host vehicle by controlling a vehicle speed on the basis of a detected inter-vehicle distance. The lane-keeping controller controls a steering control of the host vehicle so as to locate the host vehicle within a lane traveled by the host vehicle. A control condition of one of the following control and the steering control is changed according to the control condition of the other of the following control and the steering control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomio Jindo, Youji Shimizu, Kiyomi Hirasago
  • Patent number: 6332108
    Abstract: In a vehicular run controlling apparatus and method, a vehicular run controller is provided to perform a vehicular run control on the basis of a vehicular velocity of the vehicle and a vehicular running environment surrounding the vehicle, the vehicular run controller having at least two control modes of a control wait mode and a vehicular run mode, falling in a state of the vehicular run control when a start of the vehicular run control by means of the vehicular run controller is set through a vehicular run control setter, falling in a halt state of the vehicular run control when a release of the vehicular run control is set through the vehicular run control setter, carrying out a mode transition from one control mode to the other control mode when the mode transition from the one control mode to the other control mode is instructed through a mode transition instructor according to a vehicular driver's will and when a predetermined condition is established during the vehicular run control irrespective o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyomi Hirasago
  • Patent number: 5267146
    Abstract: A system for designing a configuration capable of accounting for subtle variations of each design element involved. In this system, evaluation terms which expresses impressions associated with the design elements of the configuration is entered; a fuzzy knowledge data-base for memorizing relationships between the evaluation terms and the design elements in terms of fuzzy sets represented by membership functions is prepared; a pattern of each design element appropriate for the evaluation terms entered at the entering step is inferred according to the fuzzy knowledge data-base, and the configuration is constructed from the inferred pattern of each design element; and the constructed configuration is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Shimizu, Tomio Jindo, Shizu Ohshima, Kiyomi Hirasago