Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Hashimoto

Yasuharu Hashimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20190286130
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving control unit that executes a first driving mode in which steering, and speed of the vehicle are controlled or a second driving mode in which a degree of dependence on the operation of the occupant is higher than the first driving mode on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, and a switching controller that switches between the first driving mode and the second driving mode, wherein the driving control unit switches a traveling line of the vehicle from a first traveling line on which the vehicle travels in the first driving mode to a second traveling line on which the vehicle travels in the second driving mode and then switches a driving mode of the vehicle from the first driving mode to the second driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20190283743
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation including a position of another vehicle passing by a subject vehicle and a position of a retreat space in a vicinity of the subject vehicle, a retreat necessity or not determination unit that determines whether or not the other vehicle recognized by the recognition unit is required to move to the retreat space, and a driving control unit that controls acceleration or deceleration and steering of the subject vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, and stops or decelerates the subject vehicle while directing an orientation of the subject vehicle to a side opposite to the retreat space with respect to an extending direction of a road in a case where the retreat necessity or not determination unit determines that the other vehicle is required to move to the retreat space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190278270
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit (140, 160) that controls steering and acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where a traffic participant is recognized in a progress direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit sets an entry inhibition region where an entry of the vehicle is to be avoided, using the traffic participant as a reference, based on a degree of recognition of the vehicle by the traffic participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani
  • Publication number: 20190270447
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device including: a recognition unit that recognizes a nearby situation of a vehicle; and a driving control unit that automatically controls at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the nearby situation that is recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where an obstacle that exists in an advancing direction of the vehicle and a road-side structure that is provided in a road edge are recognized by the recognition unit, the driving control unit generates a target trajectory of the vehicle in a state in which a trajectory along which a wheel of the vehicle passes over the road-side structure is included as a candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190263398
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control an acceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein, in a case in which a plurality of pedestrians are recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer, the driving controller is configured to executes follow control for following the plurality of pedestrians and is configured to determines details of the follow control on the basis of a behavior of a nearest pedestrian who is closest to the vehicle among the plurality of pedestrians and a behavior of a second pedestrian who is a monitoring target other than the nearest pedestrian among the plurality of pedestrians.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20190244038
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle and a driving controller that is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, and, in a case in which a obstacle present in an advancement direction of the vehicle and traffic participants present near the obstacle are recognized by the recognizer, and the vehicle is caused to avoid the obstacle, the driving controller is configured to control the vehicle on the basis of advancement directions of the traffic participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20190244039
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to run on the basis of a first reference line deviating to one side of a road in a case in which a target obstacle is not recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer and, is configured to cause the vehicle to avoid the target obstacle after causing the vehicle to run on the basis of a second reference line disposed on an other side of the road from the first reference line, in a case in which the target obstacle is recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20190241188
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control apparatus (100) which includes a recognition unit (130) configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and driving control units (140 and 160) configured to automatically control acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, in which, in a case that a stop position of the vehicle is recognized in the traveling direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, and a traffic participant proceeding at a speed lower than the speed of the vehicle in the traveling direction is recognized in front of the stop position, the driving control unit determines whether the traffic participant catches up with the vehicle before the vehicle reaches the stop position, and determines to cause the vehicle to reach further ahead of the traffic participant in the traveling direction on the basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10195737
    Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device includes a vibrating body, a support portion formed integrally with the vibrating body, and a piezoelectric element formed of a first electrode film, a piezoelectric body film, and a second electrode film on at least one surface of the vibrating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Arakawa, Akio Konishi, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Osamu Miyazawa, Tomohisa Iwazaki, Yuichiro Tsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20180310243
    Abstract: For selection of a wireless access point, a terminal apparatus is configured to include a transmitter transmitting terminal information to a communication control apparatus, a receiver receiving access point candidate information from the communication control apparatus, a bandwidth estimator estimating current bandwidth associated with each of the candidate wireless access points included in the access point candidate information, and an access point selector selecting at least one wireless access point for communication from the candidate wireless access points included in the access point candidate information. Terminal information includes information on a communication location where the terminal apparatus communicates with the communication control apparatus and the access point candidate information includes information on candidate wireless access points for the communication location and past bandwidth information acquired associated with each of the candidate wireless access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki YOSHINO, Hiroaki ASANO, Yasuharu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9985555
    Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes a piezoelectric body; an electrode provided on the piezoelectric body; and a driving circuit which applies a driving voltage to the electrode, wherein the piezoelectric body has a thickness of 0.05 ?m to 20 ?m, and the driving voltage is a voltage obtained by adding an offset voltage to a fluctuating voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hashimoto, Akio Konishi
  • Patent number: 9919418
    Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate, a first piezoelectric vibrating body which is disposed on the first surface of the vibrating plate; a second piezoelectric vibrating body which is disposed on the second surface of the vibrating plate; and a protrusion which is provided on the vibrating plate and comes into contact with a body to be driven, wherein the first piezoelectric vibrating body and the second piezoelectric vibrating body have asymmetry that the first piezoelectric vibrating body and the second piezoelectric vibrating body are asymmetrical to each other with respect to the vibrating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9708001
    Abstract: An automatic steering system for a working vehicle, for automatic maneuvering of the working vehicle running on a working ground surface along a desired running path, in which the influences of various ground surface environments and of any aging degradation and/or individual variation of the working vehicle may be minimized, and the automatic steering operation may be conducted with improved stability. The automatic steering system includes a measurement section for acquiring measurements including those of the position, velocity, heading direction, and attitude of the vehicle and a data processing section. The data processing section includes a vehicle related parameter estimator for determining a value of a vehicle related parameter and a ground surface related parameter estimator for determining a value of a ground surface related parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO KEIKI INC.
    Inventors: Hiroomi Arakane, Takao Sagawa, Nobuyuki Okamura, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Shioto Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170001306
    Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device includes a vibrating body, a support portion formed integrally with the vibrating body, and a piezoelectric element formed of a first electrode film, a piezoelectric body film, and a second electrode film on at least one surface of the vibrating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yutaka ARAKAWA, Akio KONISHI, Yasuharu HASHIMOTO, Osamu MIYAZAWA, Tomohisa IWAZAKI, Yuichiro TSUYUKI
  • Patent number: 9451503
    Abstract: A mobile terminal which can be connected to a plurality of base stations with different mobile communication systems, includes a handover determination section that determines a handover execution between cells provided by the plurality of base stations, a transmission rate control section that changes a transmission rate before a handover when the handover execution is determined, and a report creation section that creates a measurement report including information regarding the handover after the transmission rate is changed, and transmits the measurement report to a base station of a cell to which the mobile terminal is currently connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chie Ishida, Ichiro Takei, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Naohiro Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20160052546
    Abstract: An automatic steering system for a working vehicle, for automatic maneuvering of the working vehicle running on a working ground surface along a desired running path, in which the influences of various ground surface environments and of any aging degradation and/or individual variation of the working vehicle may be minimized, and the automatic steering operation may be conducted with improved stability. The automatic steering system includes: a measurement section 14 for acquiring measurements including those of the position, velocity, heading direction, and attitude of the vehicle; and a data processing section 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroomi ARAKANE, Takao SAGAWA, Nobuyuki OKAMURA, Yasuharu HASHIMOTO, Shioto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160049572
    Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes a piezoelectric body; an electrode provided on the piezoelectric body; and a driving circuit which applies a driving voltage to the electrode, wherein the piezoelectric body has a thickness of 0.05 ?m to 20 ?m, and the driving voltage is a voltage obtained by adding an offset voltage to a fluctuating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuharu HASHIMOTO, Akio KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20160049886
    Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate, a first piezoelectric vibrating body which is disposed on the first surface of the vibrating plate; a second piezoelectric vibrating body which is disposed on the second surface of the vibrating plate; and a protrusion which is provided on the vibrating plate and comes into contact with a body to be driven, wherein the first piezoelectric vibrating body and the second piezoelectric vibrating body have asymmetry that the first piezoelectric vibrating body and the second piezoelectric vibrating body are asymmetrical to each other with respect to the vibrating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Yasuharu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9101714
    Abstract: A fluid injection system includes: a first apparatus which is attached to a human body and injects a fluid into the human body; and a second apparatus which is attached to a wrist of the human body and remotely controls the first apparatus, wherein the second apparatus includes an entry section accepting an entry of an operation command to the first apparatus and a first communicating section transmitting the operation command to the first apparatus, and the first apparatus includes a second communicating section receiving the operation command, a storing section storing the fluid, and a transporting section transporting the fluid from the storing section and injecting the fluid into the human body based on the operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Miyazaki, Atsuya Hirabayashi, Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9017798
    Abstract: A press-formed product includes a top panel portion and a side panel portion connected to the top panel portion through a bent portion that is curved so as to have an arc shape. The top panel portion includes a recessed portion that is curved so as to have an arc shape in a direction opposite to a direction in which the bent portion is curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Topre Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hashimoto, Yusuke Tezuka