Patents by Inventor Miwa HINOSHITA

Miwa HINOSHITA 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).

  • Controller and control method for vehicle
    Patent number: 11174804
    Abstract: A controller includes a soak timer, a nonvolatile memory, and a determining section. The determining section is configured to perform a rationality check on a condition that a performance condition is met. The determining section is also configured to make the performance condition strict when an obtained index value of a vehicle outside temperature, that is obtained when an elapsed amount of time reaches a specified amount of time, and the determining section is activated, is higher than a stored index value of the vehicle outside temperature stored in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Miwa Hinoshita, Junji Hyodoh
  • CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210215112
    Abstract: A controller includes a soak timer, a nonvolatile memory, and a determining section. The determining section is configured to perform a rationality check on a condition that a performance condition is met. The determining section is also configured to make the performance condition strict when an obtained index value of a vehicle outside temperature, that is obtained when an elapsed amount of time reaches a specified amount of time, and the determining section is activated, is higher than a stored index value of the vehicle outside temperature stored in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Miwa HINOSHITA, Junji HYODOH