Patents by Inventor Yuta MURAMATSU
Yuta MURAMATSU 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: 11964608Abstract: A vehicular lamp system includes a light distribution control device that controls a first lamp unit and a second lamp unit. The light distribution control device forms a combined high-illuminance pattern in a region where no target is present. Meanwhile, the light distribution control device forms a combined shading pattern in regard to a forward vehicle. Furthermore, in regard to a specific target, the light distribution control device controls the first lamp unit so as to form an illuminance fixed pattern, controls the second lamp unit so as to form an illuminance fixed pattern or to form an illuminance adjusted pattern, and forms a combined mid-illuminance pattern by superposing the light distribution patterns that the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit form.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takao Muramatsu, Yuta Maruyama, Yuichi Watano
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Patent number: 11634157Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11603039Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. On the occasion of switching of a driving state of the vehicle from the automated driving to manual driving, the lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp after changing a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp from a first lighting state during the execution of the automated driving to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11524708Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11485282Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11465556Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes an automated driving indicator lamp, one or more lamps, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving of the vehicle. The one or more lamps are provided on the vehicle separately from the automated driving indicator lamp. The lamp controller is configured to start to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before starting to switch on the one or more lamps, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make a departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp and the one or more lamps off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11338828Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11208036Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20210094465Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094584Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094466Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094467Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. On the occasion of switching of a driving state of the vehicle from the automated driving to manual driving, the lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp after changing a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp from a first lighting state during the execution of the automated driving to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094585Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, information regarding a surrounding moving body present around the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in response to presence of any surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094573Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094586Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094572Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes an automated driving indicator lamp, one or more lamps, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving of the vehicle. The one or more lamps are provided on the vehicle separately from the automated driving indicator lamp. The lamp controller is configured to start to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before starting to switch on the one or more lamps, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make a departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp and the one or more lamps off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU