Patents by Inventor Yuuki OIKAWA

Yuuki OIKAWA 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).

  • Vehicle steering system
    Patent number: 9399484
    Abstract: A vehicle steering system that hardly gives a driver a feeling of strangeness even in mode switching is provided. Even if condition such as a defect of a system, which caused switching from SBW mode to EPS mode, has been resolved, a mode switching section waits for a timing of switching from EPS mode to SBW mode until a second condition is satisfied. The second condition is that the vehicle is in a certain state in which the driver hardly notices mode switching. The mode switching section waits for and judges a timing when the vehicle becomes into a certain state in which the driver hardly notices mode switching, and then performs switching from EPS mode to SBW mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Katayama, Kuniyoshi Tanaka, Yasushi Ueda, Yuuki Oikawa
  • VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150203149
    Abstract: A vehicle steering system that hardly gives a driver a feeling of strangeness even in mode switching is provided. Even if condition such as a defect of a system, which caused switching from SBW mode to EPS mode, has been resolved, a mode switching section waits for a timing of switching from EPS mode to SBW mode until a second condition is satisfied. The second condition is that the vehicle is in a certain state in which the driver hardly notices mode switching. The mode switching section waits for and judges a timing when the vehicle becomes into a certain state in which the driver hardly notices mode switching, and then performs switching from EPS mode to SBW mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hirotaka KATAYAMA, Kuniyoshi TANAKA, Yasushi UEDA, Yuuki OIKAWA