Patents by Inventor Kunio Endo

Kunio Endo 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: 11970207
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method capable of increasing the number of the position information of front object used for generation of the trajectory and improving the generation accuracy of the trajectory. A vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method that obtains positions of a target object, sets a trajectory generation range which is a continuous range including a position of the target object close to a position of the present own vehicle, selects positions of the target object included in the trajectory generation range among the plural positions of the target object, as target object positions for trajectory generation, and generates a trajectory of the target object based on the target object positions for trajectory generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Urabe, Masaya Endo, Yasuyoshi Hori, Kunio Ueda
  • Patent number: 4954889
    Abstract: A color masking circuit and a color printer incorporating the color masking circuit which performs color masking processing upon color density data to indicate the density of the color picture elements. The color masking circuit includes a matrix coefficient table for holding predetermined matrix coefficients which are used in the masking of the inputted color density data. A matrix coefficient selector selects predetermined matrix coefficients from the matrix coefficient table according to the color density data correction to be performed. Multiplication and adder circuits are also provided for calculating the corrected color density data in accordance with the selected matrix coefficients. However, the matrix coefficients may be taken directly from a look-up table by addressing the table with the color density data to be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: NEC Home Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Endo, Tadashi Katsukawa
  • Patent number: 4777875
    Abstract: A printer head bank in which an assembly of yoke, magnet, coils and printing board are encapsulated in a resin forming the head carriage to which the typing hammers are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: NEC Home Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Fujiwara, Kunio Endo
  • Patent number: 4246566
    Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a malfunction of an electronic control system including sensors for electrically sensing conditions of sensing points of a vehicle and an electronic calculation unit for determining an energizing condition of an actuator for controlling a vehicle operation in accordance with output signals from the sensors is disclosed. The malfunction diagnosing apparatus is inserted intermediate of wires which connect the sensors or the actuator and the electronic control system, and when a voltage or current level on any wire assumes a non-steady state, the malfunction diagnosing apparatus determines that a malfunction has occurred at a portion associated with that wire and memorizes and holds the occurrence of the malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunio Endo, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Haruo Watanabe, Mitsuo Kawai
  • Patent number: 4226215
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine having odd numbers of cylinders, in which the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine cylinders is regulated by the duration of pulses of a fuel injection pulse signal applied to solenoid-operated fuel injection valves, and two fuel injection pulses are generated in each operating cycle of the engine in synchronism with the revolution of the engine. In the system, the frequency of an ignition signal generated by an ignition unit in the engine is doubled to provide an output pulse signal, and the frequency of sucn an output pulse signal is then divided by the number of engine cylinders so as to generate the fuel injection pulse signal in synchronism with this frequency-divided output pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Kunio Endo, Norio Omori
  • Patent number: 4180023
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine having odd numbers of cylinders, in which the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine cylinders is regulated by the duration of pulses of a fuel injection pulse signal applied to solenoid-operated fuel injection valves, and two fuel injection pulses are generated in each operating cycle of the engine in synchronism with the revolution of the engine. In the system, the frequency of an ignition signal generated by an ignition unit for the engine is divided by the number of cylinders of the engine to provide a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal. The phase of each pulse of the second pulse signal lags behind that of the first pulse signal by n ignition pulse intervals where n is a multiple number of the half of the number obtained by subtracting unity from the number of cylinders of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Kunio Endo, Norio Omori
  • Patent number: 4148283
    Abstract: A rotational speed detecting apparatus for controlling the operation of an electronically controlled fuel injection system in accordance with the rotational speed of an engine. A reference pulse generator is connected to generate a reference pulse signal in synchronism with a pulse signal which is generated by the fuel injection system in substantial synchronism with the rotation of the engine. The reference pulse generator is further connected to change the time width of the reference pulse signal in response to the operation of a starter motor and a throttle valve so that it represents the predetermined rotational speeds of the engine. A comparison circuit is connected to compare the one cycle period of the pulse signal with the time width of the reference pulse signal. The output signal of the comparison circuit is applied to the fuel injection system so that it controls fuel enrichment and fuel cut-off operation of the fuel injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Harada, Kunio Endo
  • Patent number: 4127086
    Abstract: A fuel injection system in which the valve control pulses are generated on the basis of information regarding the engine rpm and the combustion air flow rate and in which the air flow rate is measured by a baffle plate and a position sensor. When the throttle is abruptly closed, the inertia of the air and of the baffle plate prevents a precise measurement and an overly lean fuel mixture may be admitted. Accordingly, the apparatus of the invention is sensitive to the rate of change of the signal from the baffle plate sensor and when that rate is too great, additional current is fed to a multiplying circuit, thereby extending the control pulse length and increasing the amount of fuel fed to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Harada, Kunio Endo
  • Patent number: 4126107
    Abstract: An electronic fuel injection system generates primary fuel control pulses in synchronism with the crankshaft rotation. The width of these control pulses is adjusted according to the indications of various engine transducers and determines the amount of fuel to be injected. The system also includes an air flow rate transducer whose output signal is monitored by a comparator. When the air flow rate signal undergoes very rapid changes, the comparator triggers a secondary pulse generator which supplies additional fuel injection control pulses to admit more fuel. The occurrence of the secondary pulses is temporally independent of the primary pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Harada, Kunio Endo
  • Patent number: 4073270
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled fuel injection system for internal combustion engines is disclosed. Pulse width of a reference pulse generated in accordance with principal engine operating parameters is converted into a binary code and memorized. Oscillation signal having a frequency responsive to other engine operating parameters is counted starting in synchronism with the engine rotation until the count value thereof coincides with the memorized value. During the oscillation signal counting electromagnetically-operable injectors are opened sequentially in the engine suction stroke. The resultant fuel injection amount is dependent on the principal and other engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1978
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunio Endo
  • Patent number: 3952710
    Abstract: There is provided an air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines wherein the direction of deviation of the actual air-fuel ratio from a preset air-fuel ratio is determined by an oxygen concentration detector for detecting the concentration of oxygen contained in the exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine and an air-fuel ratio discriminating circuit, whereby air is injected from an air injection valve when the air-fuel ratio is low i.e. the mixture is rich and fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve when the air-fuel ratio is high i.e. the mixture is lean, thereby controlling the air-fuel ratio to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1973
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Kawarada, Kunio Endo, Susumu Harada, Motoharu Sueishi