Patents Assigned to J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.
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Patent number: 12654769Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a reaction device that applies a steering reaction force to a steering operation performed by a driver on a driver's vehicle; and a control device that executes steering reaction force control for controlling a value of the steering reaction force. The control device applies, to a steering operation, a reaction force having a reference value as a steering reaction force when a lane change of a driver's vehicle is not performed during execution of steering reaction force control. When the lane change of the driver's vehicle is performed, the control device sets the steering reaction force to be applied to the steering operation in a direction of the lane change of the driver's vehicle to a value smaller than the reference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Yu Sakai, Takahiro Adachi, Takuma Kyo
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Patent number: 12649482Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle, includes one or more processors configured to: receive motion requests from a plurality of applications, one or more of the applications being travel applications for controlling at least one of an acceleration of the vehicle or a steering angle of the vehicle, and another one or more of the applications being human-machine interface (HMI) applications for implementing transfer of information from the vehicle to an occupant; perform arbitration of the motion requests that have been received; when the motion requests have been received from the HMI applications, calculate the instruction information based on a different type arbitration result obtained by arbitrating the motion requests from the HMI applications and the result of the arbitration of the motion requests from the travel applications; and output the calculated instruction information to a control device for the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Miyake, Tatsuya Hiromura
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Patent number: 12630141Abstract: A vehicle control device to be applied to a vehicle including parking brakes provided in association with right and left wheels and configured to be driven to bring the wheels into a non-rotatable state includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire abnormality occurrence information on each of the right and left parking brakes. The processor is configured to, when an abnormality condition that a drive command is output to each of the parking brakes and one of the parking brakes has an abnormality is satisfied, control a device other than the parking brakes in the vehicle to suppress rotation of the wheel provided with the parking brake having the abnormality.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Ninomiya, Masanobu Horio, Atsushi Kuchinomachi
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Patent number: 12617406Abstract: A travel control device is configured to execute: a coasting travel process; a cruise travel process, a gradient information acquisition process acquiring, as gradient information, information indicating a gradient of a road surface on which a vehicle is traveling; a deviation variable acquisition process acquiring a deviation variable for determining an acceleration generated in the vehicle when the vehicle travels, by performing the coasting travel process, a downward slope having a predetermined gradient; and a switching process using the gradient information and the deviation variable as inputs and performing switching to the coasting travel process according to a value of the deviation variable even though a magnitude of the gradient of the road surface is different from a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Yuuki Ozawa, Riku Koyama
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Patent number: 12612059Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive acceleration request values from a plurality of applications and driver assistance levels associated with the respective acceleration request values; select the highest driver assistance level of the driver assistance levels received; select the smallest acceleration request value of the acceleration request values associated with the selected driver assistance level; output a specified value according to the selected acceleration request value to an actuator of the vehicle; and stop the output of the specified value under a condition according to the selected driver assistance level.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuta Ohashi, Tatsuya Hiromura
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Patent number: 12606242Abstract: A control device is applied to a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The control device is configured to perform a hitch angle variable acquisition process, a steered angle variable acquisition process, a virtual steering angle variable calculation process, a target virtual steering angle variable acquisition process, and a feedback process.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Terutaka Tamaizumi, Hirotaka Tokoro
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Patent number: 12600405Abstract: A vehicle includes vehicle devices configured to adjust a lateral movement amount of the vehicle, and a steering wheel lock mechanism. The vehicle devices include a front-wheel steering device and a remaining device that is a device other than the front-wheel steering device. When there is an anomaly in the front-wheel steering device, a vehicle control device switches a state of the steering wheel lock mechanism from a deactivated state to an activated state. The control device adjusts the amount of lateral movement of the vehicle by activating the remaining device when rotation of the steering wheel is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC., DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke Ohmori
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Patent number: 12594833Abstract: A display control device executes a calculation acceleration acquisition processing and a display processing. The calculation acceleration acquisition processing includes a process of acquiring a calculation acceleration variable that indicates a calculated acceleration of a vehicle in response to a driving state of the vehicle or a driving state of the vehicle that generates the calculated acceleration. The display processing includes a process of displaying an image that is visible to an occupant of the vehicle by operating a display device, and includes an image variation process of changing the image in response to the calculation acceleration variable.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Yuuki Ozawa, Koji Shibata, Yusuke Minamoto
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Publication number: 20260084699Abstract: In a travel control apparatus, a frontal information acquisition unit acquires frontal information including a display cycle of one or more traffic lights ahead of the vehicle. A travel plan generation unit generates a passing travel plan in which the vehicle passes through the traffic light without needing to wait for the traffic light to change. A travel plan determination unit determines that travel control of the vehicle is performed using a stopping travel plan in which the vehicle is stopped to wait for the traffic light to change, instead of the passing travel plan, in response to vehicle speed control information included in the generated passing travel plan including a predetermined stopping travel recommendation condition. The stopping travel recommendation condition includes a vehicle speed equal to or less than a threshold vehicle speed continuing for a predetermined period of time or longer, or deceleration exceeding a deceleration threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2025Publication date: March 26, 2026Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Yutaro ITO, Shigenori ICHINOSE, Tatsumi SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 12570298Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a command unit that generates a command value for an actuator and causes a vehicle to travel by outputting the command value to a control unit, a state quantity acquiring unit that acquires at least two values of a vehicle state quantity among a vehicle state quantity ideal value, a vehicle state quantity detection value, and a vehicle state quantity operation value, an event storage unit that stores multiple events that can occur when the vehicle on-board device is not functioning normally, an event acquiring unit that compares at least two values of the vehicle state quantity and acquires an event corresponding to a result of the comparison, and an anomaly determining unit that determines whether there is an anomaly in the vehicle on-board device by using a Bayesian network that includes, as a node, an occurrence probability of the event.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC., DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Ohmori, Akira Ito
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Patent number: 12546890Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus is applied for a vehicle provided with a ranging sensor that transmits probe waves and receives reflection waves of the probe waves, setting a precaution region in a laterally rear side of an own vehicle and causing a collision avoidance operation to be executed when the ranging sensor detects an object in the precaution region. The periphery monitoring apparatus is provided with an acquiring unit that acquires lane information indicating presence or absence of a lane marking on a traffic lane; a recognition unit that recognizes a position of the lane marking based on the lane information; and a precaution region setting unit that sets the precaution region based on the position of the lane marking recognized by the recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2024Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Masafumi Ibushi, Yasuyuki Miyake, Naotsugu Shimizu, Seiya Fujitsu, Koji Takeuchi, Junya Fukuta, Takaya Yamashita
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Patent number: 12522222Abstract: A zero point estimation device is configured to perform a first acquisition process, a second acquisition process, and a zero point estimation process. The first acquisition process is a process of acquiring a plurality of first detection values of a first sensor sampled at different timings from each other while a vehicle is traveling with a change in a direction of travel. The second acquisition process is a process of acquiring a plurality of second detection values of a second sensor sampled in synchronization with the sampling timings of the first detection values to be acquired by the first acquisition process. The zero point estimation process is a process of estimating a zero point of the second sensor by using, as inputs, the plurality of first detection values acquired by the first acquisition process and the plurality of second detection values acquired by the second acquisition process.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Hirotaka Tokoro, Nobuhiro Nitta
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Patent number: 12517624Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a plurality of capturing sections, a combining section, a virtual viewpoint image generation section, a display section, a touch panel configured to receive input for changing a setting condition related to the virtual viewpoint on a virtual viewpoint image on the display section, and an image adjustment section configured to enable the virtual viewpoint to be set in the vehicle exterior or the vehicle interior and to move between the vehicle exterior and the vehicle interior, to adjust the virtual viewpoint image.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2024Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QuAD Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Akira Sugie, Naoyuki Okada, Kenji Kohara, Hideaki Furuse, Yuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12454313Abstract: A motion control device includes a request value acquisition unit that obtains a motion amount request value, a limit value setting unit that sets first to third motion amount limit values, a first command unit that sends a first motion amount command value based on the motion amount request value and a first motion amount limit value to a front wheel steering controller, a second command unit that sends a second motion amount command value based on a first remaining request value and a second motion amount limit value to a rear wheel steering controller, and a third command unit that sends a command corresponding to a third motion amount command value based on a second remaining request value and a third motion amount limit value to a driving controller and a braking controller.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC., DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke Ohmori
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Publication number: 20250319870Abstract: A reverse control device starts reversing a combination vehicle by autonomous driving only when conditions for appropriately performing the autonomous driving are satisfied, and stably reverses the combination vehicle by the autonomous driving. The autonomous driving functions as a reverse control device and is installed in a towing vehicle of a combination vehicle in which a towed vehicle is connected to the towing vehicle, and controls the towing vehicle during autonomous reverse driving for reversing the combination vehicle by autonomous driving. The autonomous driving starts the autonomous reverse driving when towing reverse start conditions are satisfied, the towing reverse start conditions including that the speed of the towing vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and that steering torque of the towing vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: October 16, 2025Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Hirotaka TOKORO, Nobuhiro NITTA
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Publication number: 20250313264Abstract: A control device is applied to a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The control device is configured to perform a state quantity acquisition process, a predicted trajectory information calculation process, and a display process. The state quantity acquisition process is a process of acquiring a state quantity of the combination vehicle. The predicted trajectory information calculation process is a process of calculating predicted trajectory information of the trailer according to the state quantity. The display process is a process of displaying the predicted trajectory information by operating a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: October 9, 2025Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Hirotaka TOKORO, Nobuhiro NITTA
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Patent number: 12427955Abstract: A motion manager includes one or more processors configured to: receive a stop holding request for keeping a vehicle in a stopped state as one of motion requests from application software; and output an instruction value for turning ON a hydraulic brake to the hydraulic brake on a condition that the stop holding request is received. The one or more processors are configured to continue outputting the instruction value to a parking brake regardless of a presence or absence of the stop holding request, when outputting an instruction value for turning ON a parking brake to the parking brake after starting outputting the instruction value and until switching of the parking brake to an ON state is completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2024Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC., ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Ninomiya, Masanobu Horio, Atsushi Kuchinomachi
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Publication number: 20250296395Abstract: A relative angle detection device for a combination vehicle, the relative angle detection device being used in the combination vehicle in which a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle are connected via a towing-side connecting member and a towed-side connecting member. The relative angle detection device includes an imaging device that is installed on the towed vehicle and that captures an image of the towing vehicle, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates a relative angle of the towed vehicle with respect to the towing vehicle based on information obtained from the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro NITTA, Hirotaka TOKORO
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Publication number: 20250296625Abstract: A control device is applied to a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The control device is configured to perform a hitch angle variable acquisition process, a steered angle variable acquisition process, a virtual steering angle variable calculation process, a target virtual steering angle variable acquisition process, and a feedback process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.Inventors: Terutaka TAMAIZUMI, Hirotaka TOKORO
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Publication number: 20250292428Abstract: A relative angle detection device for a combination vehicle, the relative angle detection device being used in the combination vehicle in which a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle are connected by a towing-side connecting member and a towed-side connecting member. The relative angle detection device includes an imaging device that captures an image of one of the towing vehicle and the towed vehicle from the other, a radiation device that emits marker light to a position where the image is to be captured by the imaging device, and an image analysis device that analyzes the image captured by the imaging device to detect a relative angle of the towed vehicle with respect to the towing vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 18, 2025Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc.Inventors: Hirotaka TOKORO, Nobuhiro NITTA