Patents by Inventor Akira FUNAKUBO

Akira FUNAKUBO 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).

  • Patent number: 11745733
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes circuitry for controlling a vehicle. The circuitry is configured to search for a stop location where the vehicle is to stop, on a basis of road shoulder region information, generate an evacuation path on a basis of road information to the stop location, and guide the vehicle to the stop location from a first travel lane adjacent to a road shoulder region. The circuitry is further configured to calculate a collision risk of collision with an on-road obstacle. When the collision risk is a predetermined degree or higher, the circuitry is to interrupt the guidance, otherwise the circuitry is to guide the vehicle to enter the stop location and stop the vehicle at the stop location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Tsuji, Akira Funakubo, Koji Kagami, Hitoshi Fukuba
  • Publication number: 20210229702
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a circuitry configured to generate an evacuation route to evacuate the vehicle to an evacuation position in a road shoulder area along an end of a road in a width direction on the basis of the road information stored in the memory and control travel of the vehicle such that the vehicle travels on the evacuation route while avoiding an on-road obstacle in the case where abnormality occurs to a driver. In the case where the vehicle does not reach the evacuation position within a specified target time from initiation of the circuitry to generate the evacuation route, the circuitry is configured to stop the vehicle in a travel lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta TSUJI, Akira FUNAKUBO, Koji KAGAMI, Hitoshi FUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20210229658
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes circuitry for controlling a vehicle. The circuitry is configured to search for a stop location where the vehicle is to stop, on a basis of road shoulder region information, generate an evacuation path on a basis of road information to the stop location, and guide the vehicle to the stop location from the first travel lane adjacent to a road shoulder region. The circuitry is further configured to calculate a collision risk of collision with an on-road obstacle. On condition that the collision risk is a predetermined degree or higher, the circuitry is to interrupt the guidance and otherwise to guide the vehicle to enter the stop location and stop the vehicle at the stop location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta TSUJI, Akira FUNAKUBO, Koji KAGAMI, Hitoshi FUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20210229705
    Abstract: In evacuation travel control, circuitry is configured to generate an evacuation route for evacuating the vehicle to the road shoulder area on the basis of road information and to control travel of the vehicle such that the vehicle travels on the evacuation route. The road information includes first information on a width of a road shoulder area along an end of the road in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Tsuji, Akira Funakubo, Koji Kagami, Hitoshi Fukuba
  • Patent number: 5901630
    Abstract: A band saw blade or hacksaw characterized because of it is machined with two rows of a plurality of cutting teeth, sustained and projecting from the base itself of the laminar body of the blade, the saw presents a laminar body at one of its ends while at the other end there are teeth with different geometries according to the use for soft cuts or hard cuts along the edge of said body of the band saw, being said rows formed by a pair of teeth of the same geometrical sizes of inverted "V" shape, but being in turn projected at an angular direction according to the required number of teeth +10 degrees, which is equivalent to the desired angle toward the external part of its axis, one with regard to the other, and alternatively followed by only one straight tooth of the same depth and so on, successively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Funakubo Kataoka, Toshio Saito Saito, Akira Funakubo Ishii