Patents by Inventor Yusuke Fukui

Yusuke Fukui 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: 20240132091
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device (1) including: a front sensor configured to detect a traffic participant existing in a predetermined region on a left front side and a right front side of an own vehicle, and to acquire information on the traffic participant; a warning device configured to execute warning for an occupant of the own vehicle; and a processor configured to control the warning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240116498
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes an acceleration suppression control to suppress an acceleration of an own vehicle when an operating condition including a condition that an accelerator pedal operation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus sets the predetermined threshold value to a smaller value when an object entry condition that an object has a possibility to enter an area in front of the own vehicle, is satisfied than when the object entry condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki SOMIYA, Yusuke FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11921196
    Abstract: A radar device includes: an electromagnetic noise detecting unit for detecting electromagnetic noise input to an ADC using digital data in a period when no radar signal is transmitted, among digital data output from the ADC; and an observation target detecting unit for detecting an observation target using digital data in a period when the radar signal has been transmitted, among the digital data output from the ADC, and the electromagnetic noise detected by the electromagnetic noise detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kitsukawa, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11904849
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus determines that a control start condition is satisfied when there is an object in an area of a moving route of the own vehicle and determine that a control forbidding condition is satisfied when there is an oncoming vehicle which satisfies a predetermined moving condition that the oncoming vehicle moves in an oncoming lane next to a moving lane of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines that the control forbidding condition is not satisfied when a forbidding cancelling condition is satisfied, the forbidding cancelling condition being satisfied when a first me elapses since determining that the oncoming vehicle satisfying the predetermined moving condition disappears after determining that the control forbidding condition is satisfied and executes the steering control when the control start condition is satisfied, and the control forbidding condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukui, Yumi Shimanaka, Akshay Rajendra, Michael Patzelt
  • Publication number: 20240053751
    Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus obtains, using a frontward PVM camera, front side target object information that includes information on a target object that is located in a blind angle detection area lateral to and outside of a target object detection area of a frontward camera. The ECU specifies, based on the front side target object information, a kind and a moving state of a blind angle target object, and determines a front side obstacle area based on the kind and moving state of the blind angle target object. When the ECU determines that a target object whose kind and moving state coincide with the kind and the moving state, respectively, to which the front side obstacle area corresponds is located in the front side obstacle area, the ECU decreases a driving force to suppress a start of moving of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11866039
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus determines that a control start condition is satisfied when there is an object in an area of a moving route of the own vehicle and determine that a control forbidding condition is satisfied when there is an oncoming vehicle which satisfies a predetermined moving condition that the oncoming vehicle moves in an oncoming lane next to a moving lane of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines that the control forbidding condition is not satisfied when a forbidding cancelling condition is satisfied, the forbidding cancelling condition being satisfied when a first me elapses since determining that the oncoming vehicle satisfying the predetermined moving condition disappears after determining that the control forbidding condition is satisfied and executes the steering control when the control start condition is satisfied, and the control forbidding condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukui, Yumi Shimanaka, Akshay Rajendra, Michael Patzelt
  • Publication number: 20230347885
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a driving assistance control to alert a driver of an own vehicle for avoiding a collision of the own vehicle with an oncoming vehicle when the own vehicle performs a crossing movement. The crossing movement is a movement of the own vehicle to turn, crossing a line along which the oncoming vehicle moves. The electronic control unit detects and sets the oncoming vehicle as an alert-target oncoming vehicle, executes the driving assistance control when determining that the own vehicle is going to collide with the alert-target oncoming vehicle after determining that the crossing movement of the own vehicle starts and before a predetermined after-crossing-start elapsing time elapses, and keeps the driving assistance control unexecuted after the after-crossing-start elapsing time threshold elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230322213
    Abstract: A driving assistance device executes dual-side braking steering avoidance control for forcibly decelerating a target vehicle by applying braking forces to wheels on both sides of the target vehicle and forcibly turning the target vehicle to swerve around an object in a case where a turning amount increase request condition is not satisfied. When forcibly turning the target vehicle rightward or leftward by collision avoidance control to swerve around the object in a case where the turning amount increase request condition is satisfied, the driving assistance device executes single-side braking steering avoidance control for forcibly decelerating the target vehicle by applying a braking force only to a right or left wheel of the target vehicle and forcibly turning the target vehicle to swerve around the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Takashi MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20230303069
    Abstract: In a driving assist apparatus which carries out a collision avoidance assist that is an assist for avoiding a collision of a self-vehicle and a collision risk object that is an object judged to have a high possibility to collide with the self-vehicle when the collision risk object is judged to exist, an object which does not exist in an object detection range of a front side radar and whose predicted running locus and a predicted running locus of a self-vehicle intersect at a position within a predetermined distance from the self-vehicle on the front side of the self-vehicle is selected as a target of judgment of a possibility to collide with the self-vehicle based on information acquired by the front lateral side radar, among the objects detected by the front lateral side radar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Chen XI
  • Publication number: 20230278546
    Abstract: In a driving assist apparatus, front side object information that is information about a front side object existing in front of a self-vehicle and front lateral side object information that is information about a front lateral side object existing in a lateral side with respect to a running direction of the self-vehicle are acquired, and a moving course of the front lateral side object is judged to be a grade separation course which is away from a moving course of the self-vehicle in a vertical direction and does not intersect with the moving course of the self-vehicle course and the front lateral side object is not judged to be a collision risk object when a positional relation between the front side object and the front lateral side object fulfills a predetermined condition, based on the front side object information and the front lateral side object information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Tsunekazu YASOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230264663
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus includes a control unit configured to, in a case where the control unit determines, based on radar target object information, that at least one target control object that is approaching so as to intersect with a predicted traveling path of the host vehicle is present, when a line of vision of the driver detected by a driver monitor device is not directed to the target control object that will reach the intersecting position at the earliest time, perform at least one of a host vehicle traveling suppression control (e.g., a brake hold control to prohibit the host vehicle from moving) and an attention seeking warning control to generate a warning sound so as to cause the driver to recognize that there is a warning sound source in a direction along which the target control object is approaching the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuzo KANESHIGE
  • Patent number: 11731619
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus calculates a lane marking recognition reliability level and execute an emergency steering control. The emergency steering control includes processes to determine a target steering torque to avoid a collision of a vehicle with an obstacle when determining that the vehicle has a high probability of colliding with the obstacle, a moving lane defined by the left and right lane markings is a straight lane, and the calculated lane marking recognition reliability level is equal to or higher than a first threshold reliability level, and apply a steering torque corresponding to the target steering torque to a steering mechanism. The collision avoidance assist apparatus stops executing the emergency steering control when the lane marking recognition reliability level becomes lower than a second threshold reliability level set to a value lower than the first threshold reliability level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Takashi Moriya, Sho Hashimoto, Yusuke Fukui, Akshay Rajendra, Michael Patzelt
  • Publication number: 20230219566
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a collision avoidance control to avoid a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle by forcibly braking and stopping the own vehicle before the object when a collision condition that the own vehicle collides with the object, becomes satisfied. The vehicle driving assistance apparatus acquires information on a situation behind the own vehicle as rearward detection information when the own vehicle tows a trailer, acquires an angle between a moving vector of the own vehicle and a moving vector of the trailer as a towing angle. and keep the collision avoidance control unexecuted even when the collision condition becomes satisfied when a forbiddance condition that the towing angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined towing angle, is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230166727
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a driving assistance control which provides a driver of an own vehicle with a driving assistance when a predetermined execution condition becomes satisfied. The apparatus performs an assistance delay function and a positive assistance function. The assistance delay function is a function to change the predetermined execution condition such that a timing of starting to execute the driving assistance control is later than a base timing. The positive assistance function is a function to change the predetermined execution condition such that the timing of starting to execute the driving assistance control is earlier than the base timing. The apparatus does not perform the assistance delay function even when the assistance delay function is requested to be performed while the positive assistance function is requested to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230159028
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device for a vehicle includes a driving assistance ECU which executes vehicle speed suppression control of suppressing a speed of the vehicle when an obstacle condition indicating that an obstacle exists and an erroneous operation condition indicating that an operation of an accelerator pedal executed is an erroneous operation for a brake pedal are satisfied. The driving assistance ECU inhibits the vehicle speed suppression control in a case in which an avoidance operation condition indicating that a steering operation is an operation for avoiding the collision with the obstacle is satisfied when the vehicle speed is higher than a threshold value, and does not inhibit the vehicle speed suppression control in a case in which the avoidance operation condition is satisfied when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or lower than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20230129531
    Abstract: An erroneous start suppression device equipped with an electronic control unit that controls a drive device that generates a driving force of a vehicle, and the electronic control unit determines whether or not an accelerator operation of a driver is an erroneous operation based on whether or not a predetermined determination condition is satisfied; limits a driving force generated by the drive device when the electronic control unit determines that the accelerator operation of the driver is an erroneous operation; determines whether or not the vehicle is towing a towed vehicle; and changes the predetermined determination condition so that it becomes difficult to determine that the predetermined determination condition is satisfied when it is determined that the vehicle is towing a towed vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: YUSUKE FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230063729
    Abstract: A collision avoidance support device for a vehicle that includes an obstacle detection device for detecting an obstacle in front of the vehicle and an electronic control unit configured to perform automatic brake control that automatically applies braking force to a vehicle when it is determined that the obstacle detection device have detected an obstacle and the vehicle may collide with the obstacle, and the electronic control unit is configured to prohibit the automatic brake control when it is determined that the vehicle is not towing a trailer and a turning index value indicating a degree of turning of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a first reference value, and prohibit the automatic brake control when it is determined that the vehicle is towing a trailer and the turning index value is equal to or larger than a second reference value smaller than the first reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukui, Yuzo Kaneshige, Takashi Moriya
  • Publication number: 20230061982
    Abstract: A collision avoidance support device for a vehicle that includes an obstacle detection device for detecting an obstacle in front of the vehicle and an electronic control unit configured to perform automatic brake control that automatically applies braking force to a vehicle when it is determined that the obstacle detection device have detected an obstacle and the vehicle may collide with the obstacle, and the electronic control unit is configured to prohibit the automatic brake control when the vehicle is towing a trailer and a friction coefficient of a road surface is determined to be lower than a standard value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YUSUKE FUKUI, YUZO KANESHIGE, TAKASHI MORIYA
  • Patent number: 11403950
    Abstract: A moving body detection system detects a moving body that is present in a blind spot of a driver of a host vehicle. A main control device of the moving body detection system executes a first terminal signal acquisition process for acquiring, as a first terminal signal, a signal that a reception device has received from a first terminal control device. When the first terminal signal is acquired by the process, the main control device determines whether a blind-spot condition that a moving body is present in the blind spot is met based on the acquired first terminal signal. The main control device executes the process on a first cycle when it is determined that the condition is not met, and executes the process on a second cycle that is shorter than the first cycle when it is determined that the condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukui, Yuzo Kaneshige, Takashi Moriya
  • Publication number: 20220017078
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus determines that a control start condition is satisfied when there is an object in an area of a moving route of the own vehicle and determine that a control forbidding condition is satisfied when there is an oncoming vehicle which satisfies a predetermined moving condition that the oncoming vehicle moves in an oncoming lane next to a moving lane of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines that the control forbidding condition is not satisfied when a forbidding cancelling condition is satisfied, the forbidding cancelling condition being satisfied when a first me elapses since determining that the oncoming vehicle satisfying the predetermined moving condition disappears after determining that the control forbidding condition is satisfied and executes the steering control when the control start condition is satisfied, and the control forbidding condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Continental Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yumi SHIMANAKA, Akshay RAJENDRA, Michael PATZELT