Patents by Inventor Shogo Ito
Shogo Ito 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: 11985907Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a magnetoresistance effect element including first and second magnetic layers each having a fixed magnetization direction, a third magnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, and having a variable magnetization direction, a first nonmagnetic layer between the first and third magnetic layers, and a second nonmagnetic layer between the second and third magnetic layers, and a switching element connected in series to the magnetoresistance effect element, changing from an electrically nonconductive state to an electrically conductive state when a voltage applied between two terminals is higher than or equal to a threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Shogo Itai, Tadaomi Daibou, Yuichi Ito, Katsuyoshi Komatsu
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Patent number: 11975715Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes an estimator and a controller. The estimator estimates a first estimated vehicle speed and a second estimated vehicle speed when there are a first deceleration target and a second deceleration target in a course ahead of a vehicle, and when a driver of the vehicle releases an accelerator pedal. Wherein the first estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a first target position corresponding to the first deceleration target, and the second estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a second target position corresponding to the second deceleration target. The controller controls the vehicle to automatically decelerate toward the second target position when the first estimated vehicle speed is greater than a first predetermined value, and when the second estimated vehicle speed is less than a second predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Kumiko Kondo
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Publication number: 20240132074Abstract: The driving support apparatus performs deceleration control of the vehicle. The driving support apparatus includes: a sensitivity setting unit configured to set an actuation sensitivity of a deceleration control; a deceleration execution unit configured to execute the deceleration control based on the actuation sensitivity; and a brake operation detection unit configured to detect a brake operation by a driver. The sensitivity setting unit changes the actuation sensitivity based on a control execution count which is the number of executions of the deceleration control and a driver operation count which is the number of operations of the brake operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kumiko KONDO, Shinya Kawamata, Shogo Ito
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Publication number: 20240083407Abstract: An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is configured to inhibit oil dilution caused by mixture of fuel into engine oil. The oil dilution inhibiting apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate friction of an engine and determine that the oil dilution occurs when the friction of the engine is decreased to a value lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to perform control so that the engine is operated at a higher speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Naonori HAGIWARA, Yuuki ITO, Kenu TAKAHASHI, Yuki SUGIE, Kosuke YOSHIDA, Yuuma SUZUKI, Shogo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240077515Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a speed measurement device with which it is possible to accurately identify the highest travel speed of a work machine using the result of measurement by an acceleration sensor. The speed measurement device according to the present invention: detects, from within a record of the travel acceleration of a work machine, a change point at which the work machine transitions from an accelerating state to a steady travel state; and identifies the highest travel speed from a record of the travel speed in a period later than the change point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Hiroki ITO, Tien Trien LE, Shogo KUNIOKA, Tomoaki SHINPO, Hiroshi TSUKUI
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Publication number: 20240071149Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a performance diagnostic device capable of diagnosing deterioration in performance of a work machine while taking into account the effects of the amount of load and the characteristics of the site where the work machine operates. A performance diagnostic device according to the present invention uses a reference performance model generated for each combination of the type of operation performed by a work machine, the amount of load, operation details, and site characteristics to diagnose the deterioration in performance of the work machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Tien Trien LE, Shogo KUNIOKA, Hiroshi TSUKUI, Hiroki ITO
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Publication number: 20240067167Abstract: Provided is a driving support device (1) including: an operation sensor configured to acquire operation information that is information on an operation on a driving operation device included in an own vehicle; a periphery sensor configured to acquire peripheral information that is information on a target object existing in a periphery of the own vehicle; and a control device configured to execute deceleration support control of supporting a driving operation executed by a driver to decelerate the own vehicle when existence of a target object in front of the own vehicle is detected based on the peripheral information and a predetermined precondition relating to the target object and the own vehicle is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi TOYODA, Shogo Ito, Kumiko Kondo
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Patent number: 11752986Abstract: There is provided a driving assistance device that executes deceleration assistance of a host vehicle when a relative situation between a deceleration object in front of the host vehicle and the host vehicle satisfies a preset deceleration assistance precondition and a driver of the host vehicle does not operate an accelerator and a brake, the driving assistance device including a first deceleration assistance execution unit configured to execute a first deceleration assistance when the deceleration assistance precondition is satisfied in a state in which the driver of the host vehicle does not operate the accelerator and the brake, and a second deceleration assistance execution unit configured to execute a second deceleration assistance when the driver releases the accelerator or the brake in a state in which the deceleration assistance precondition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Kumiko Kondo
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Publication number: 20230279863Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a high-speed shaft, an impeller, a housing having a partition wall and a discharge passage, and a sealing member. The centrifugal compressor includes a bypass that is formed in the partition wall and has an inlet connected to the discharge passage and an outlet connected to a space between a back surface of the impeller and the partition wall. The inlet is located outward of the outlet and the outlet is located outward of the sealing member in a radial direction of the high-speed shaft. The bypass includes an outlet passage that extends to the outlet outwardly in the radial direction of the high-speed shaft. Air introduced from the inlet flows out of the outlet through the outlet passage so as to form a flow of air flowing away from the sealing member in the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Shogo ITO, Daisuke WATANABE, Kaho TAKEUCHI, Yohei TAKASE
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Publication number: 20230256964Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to determine whether a preset deceleration assistance start condition is satisfied, start deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle against a first deceleration-triggering object, determine whether a preset deceleration assistance termination condition is satisfied, issue a deceleration assistance termination notification to a driver of the driver's vehicle, determine whether a second deceleration-triggering object is detected ahead of the driver's vehicle, and determine whether a preset quick resumption condition is satisfied. The driving assistance apparatus is configured not to issue the deceleration assistance termination notification when the driving assistance apparatus determines that the quick resumption condition is satisfied, even in a case where the driving assistance apparatus determines that the deceleration assistance termination condition for the first deceleration-triggering object is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Ikezawa, Kohei Tochigi, Shogo Ito
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Publication number: 20230219571Abstract: A deceleration assistance device including: a target information acquisition unit for acquiring information of a target located in front of a vehicle; a position estimation unit for estimating an estimated position of a deceleration object; a position recognition unit for recognizing a position of the deceleration object; and a control unit for executing, based on the estimated position, first deceleration control of decelerating a vehicle at a first deceleration and executing, based on the recognized position, second deceleration control of decelerating the vehicle at a second deceleration. The control unit executes processing of gradually changing a deceleration of the vehicle from the first deceleration toward the second deceleration when the deceleration control is caused to transition from the first to the second deceleration control, and when a difference exists between the first and second deceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo ITO, Yuta IKEZAWA
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Patent number: 11667279Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to determine whether a preset deceleration assistance start condition is satisfied, start deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle against a first deceleration-triggering object, determine whether a preset deceleration assistance termination condition is satisfied, issue a deceleration assistance termination notification to a driver of the driver's vehicle, determine whether a second deceleration-triggering object is detected ahead of the driver's vehicle, and determine whether a preset quick resumption condition is satisfied. The driving assistance apparatus is configured not to issue the deceleration assistance termination notification when the driving assistance apparatus determines that the quick resumption condition is satisfied, even in a case where the driving assistance apparatus determines that the deceleration assistance termination condition for the first deceleration-triggering object is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Ikezawa, Kohei Tochigi, Shogo Ito
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Patent number: 11648937Abstract: A driver assistance device is configured to determine whether a type of a deceleration target is included in a category of a position-fixed object or a moving object, and determine whether the deceleration target is lost, and to continue the deceleration assistance on assumption that the lost deceleration target exists when the deceleration target is determined to be lost. The driver assistance device is configured to notify a driver of a host vehicle that the deceleration target is lost when the deceleration target is determined to be lost and the type of the deceleration target is included in the category of the moving object, and not to notify the driver that the deceleration target is lost when the deceleration target is determined to be lost and the type of the deceleration target is included in the category of the position-fixed object.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Ikezawa, Kohei Tochigi, Shogo Ito
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Publication number: 20230001946Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to perform an assistance control of assisting in driving a vehicle, when a first condition and a second condition are satisfied, in a situation in which a target is recognized. The driving assistance apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine a state of the assistance control. The determinator is configured (i) to determine that the state of the assistance control is a standby state if a standby condition is satisfied, wherein the standby condition requires that the first condition is satisfied, but the second condition is not satisfied, in the situation in which the target is recognized, and (ii) to determine that the state of the assistance control is an interruption state if an interruption condition is satisfied, wherein the interruption condition requires that the first condition is no longer satisfied while the satisfaction of the standby condition is continued.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei TOCHIGI, Shogo ITO, Yuta IKEZAWA
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Patent number: 11518397Abstract: When a driver is not in pedal erroneous operation inducing situation and a rate of change in an operation amount of an accelerator pedal is equal to or greater than a first erroneous operation determination threshold value, a driving assistance apparatus determines that operation of the accelerator pedal is erroneous operation. When the driver is in the pedal erroneous operation inducing situation and the rate of change in the operation amount of the accelerator pedal is equal to or greater than a second erroneous operation determination threshold value, the riving assistance apparatus determines that the operation of the accelerator pedal is the erroneous operation, and the second erroneous operation determination threshold value is smaller than the first erroneous operation determination threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Tochigi, Yuta Ikezawa, Shogo Ito
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Patent number: 11518350Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to provide deceleration assistance of decelerating a host vehicle, and is configured to end the deceleration assistance on condition that a pedal operation is performed by a driver while the deceleration assistance is provided. The driving assistance apparatus is provided with: an estimator configured to estimate an operation intention of the driver associated with an operation of a brake pedal, on condition that the brake pedal is operated by the driver while the deceleration assistance is provided; and a controller programmed to delay timing in which a deceleration assistance amount associated with the deceleration assistance becomes zero at the end of the deceleration assistance, if the estimated operation intention is caused by the target, in comparison with that if the estimated operation intention is not caused by the target.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Yuta Ikezawa
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Patent number: 11511766Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to perform an assistance control of assisting in driving a vehicle, when a first condition and a second condition are satisfied, in a situation in which a target is recognized. The driving assistance apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine a state of the assistance control. The determinator is configured (i) to determine that the state of the assistance control is a standby state if a standby condition is satisfied, wherein the standby condition requires that the first condition is satisfied, but the second condition is not satisfied, in the situation in which the target is recognized, and (ii) to determine that the state of the assistance control is an interruption state if an interruption condition is satisfied, wherein the interruption condition requires that the first condition is no longer satisfied while the satisfaction of the standby condition is continued.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Tochigi, Shogo Ito, Yuta Ikezawa
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Publication number: 20220340131Abstract: A driving assistance device configured to execute deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle when the driver's vehicle turns right or left at an intersection is configured to recognize, based on a detection result from an external sensor of the driver's vehicle, an adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the driver's vehicle, determine whether the adjacent vehicle turns in the same direction of the driver's vehicle at the intersection based on the detection result from the external sensor when the adjacent vehicle is recognized and the driver's vehicle turns right or left at the intersection, and execute the deceleration assistance to cause a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the driver's vehicle and the adjacent vehicle to reach a distance equal to or larger than a target driver's vehicle-to-adjacent vehicle distance when the driving assistance device determines that the adjacent vehicle turns in the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Kumiko Kondo, Shinya Kawamata
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Patent number: 11479248Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle; a controller programmed to perform a deceleration control when a deceleration target is recognized by the recognizer; and a detector configured to detect a slip of the host vehicle. The controller sets a first controlled variable, which is a controlled variable associated with the deceleration control when the slip of the host vehicle is detected without execution of the deceleration control, so as to suppress an extent of deceleration of the host vehicle, in comparison with a second controlled variable, which is the controlled variable when the slip of the host vehicle is not detected without execution of the deceleration control.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Ito, Masahiko Adachi, Kohei Tochigi, Yuta Ikezawa
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Patent number: 11473585Abstract: A transmission includes a transmission housing member, a ring portion, a high speed shaft, a third roller, and a third plate bearing, which rotatably supports the third roller. The transmission housing member includes a first supporting surface, which restricts the third roller to a first position, and a second supporting surface, which restricts the third roller to a second position. The third roller is moved within a movement range from the first position to the second position. The movement range includes a specified range in which the third roller is not supported, in a radial direction of the high speed shaft, by the transmission housing member with the third plate bearing in between, but is supported by being held between the ring portion and the high speed shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Ryosuke Fukuyama, Kaho Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Hiroaki Kato, Satoru Mitsuda, Shogo Ito, Yohei Takase, Daisuke Watanabe, Ryo Umeyama, Noriyuki Suzuki