Patents by Inventor Hideki Kamatani

Hideki Kamatani 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: 20240239339
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a moving speed control of autonomously controlling a moving speed of a vehicle with respect to a set speed. When the moving speed control is being executed, and a consumed energy amount to move the vehicle by the moving speed control with respect to a first set speed which is the current set speed, is greater than the consumed energy amount to move the vehicle by the moving speed control with respect to a second set speed different from the first set speed, the vehicle driving assistance apparatus provides an operator of the vehicle with a proposal of changing the set speed from the first set speed to the second set speed. When the operator approves of the proposal, the vehicle driving assistance apparatus moves the vehicle by the moving speed control with respect to the second set speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Sui KURIHASHI, Masayuki HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240227806
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control including a coasting control and an acceleration control. The apparatus continues executing the coasting control until a predetermined time elapses even when a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle increases and reaches an upper limit value of a predetermined distance range when a moving speed of the own vehicle becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined speed, the moving speed of the own vehicle is greater than a moving speed of the preceding vehicle, and a difference between the moving speed of the own vehicle and the moving speed of the preceding vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed difference while the coasting control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240227807
    Abstract: A vehicle moving control apparatus executes a regeneration charge coasting control when a stored electricity amount is equal to or smaller than a first deceleration charge threshold while a deceleration condition for decelerating a vehicle is satisfied, and executes a normal coasting control when the stored electricity amount of is greater than the first deceleration charge threshold while the deceleration condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Yusuke Tsuzuki, Takahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20240227801
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus stops executing an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control and executes a control to autonomously control an acceleration and a deceleration of an own vehicle so as to maintain a distance between the own vehicle and a preceding vehicle when there is a following vehicle, and a distance between the preceding vehicle and the following vehicle becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance while the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240199055
    Abstract: A displaying control apparatus displays an image which represents a predetermined speed range by a displaying device of an own vehicle while executing a moving speed control, or displays an image which represents a predetermined distance range by the displaying device while executing an inter-vehicle distance control. While executing the moving speed control, the displaying control apparatus display the image representing the predetermined speed range such that the own vehicle or an image representing the own vehicle is displayed within the image representing the predetermined speed range. While executing the inter-vehicle distance control, the displaying control apparatus displays the image representing the predetermined distance range such that the own vehicle or the image representing the own vehicle is displayed within the image representing the predetermined distance range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sawa HIGUCHI, Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240190430
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control to maintain an own vehicle moving speed within a predetermined speed range, or maintain an inter-vehicle distance within a predetermined distance range, executes a coasting control when the deceleration of the own vehicle is requested in a situation where the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is being executed, and executes a power running control when the acceleration of the own vehicle is requested in the situation where the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is being executed. The vehicle driving assistance apparatus terminates executing the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control when a predetermined condition relating to at least one of a gradient of a road on which the own vehicle is moving and the moving speed of the own vehicle in the situation where the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240132069
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus stops executing an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control and executes a control to autonomously control an acceleration and a deceleration of an own vehicle so as to maintain a distance between the own vehicle and a preceding vehicle when there is a following vehicle, and a distance between the preceding vehicle and the following vehicle becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance while the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240132073
    Abstract: A vehicle moving control apparatus executes a regeneration charge coasting control when a stored electricity amount is equal to or smaller than a first deceleration charge threshold while a deceleration condition for decelerating a vehicle is satisfied, and executes a normal coasting control when the stored electricity amount of is greater than the first deceleration charge threshold while the deceleration condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Yusuke Tsuzuki, Takahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20240132072
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control including a coasting control and an acceleration control. The apparatus continues executing the coasting control until a predetermined time elapses even when a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle increases and reaches an upper limit value of a predetermined distance range when a moving speed of the own vehicle becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined speed, the moving speed of the own vehicle is greater than a moving speed of the preceding vehicle, and a difference between the moving speed of the own vehicle and the moving speed of the preceding vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed difference while the coasting control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240123969
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously move a vehicle by controlling a power output from an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. When the vehicle is requested to be accelerated while the moving control is not executed, the apparatus keeps the engine deactivated and activates the motor while a requested power is smaller than a first start determination value, and starts to activate the engine when the requested power reaches the first start determination value. When the vehicle is requested to be accelerated while the moving control is executed, the apparatus keeps the engine deactivated and activates the motor while the requested power is smaller than a second start determination value, and starts to activate the engine when the requested power reaches the second start determination value. The second start determination value is smaller than the first start determination value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Yusuke Tsuzuki, Takahiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230286505
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes an on-vehicle sensor and a driving assistance ECU. The ECU detects presence of a preceding vehicle traveling immediately forward of an own vehicle, on the basis of pieces of information from the sensor, chooses the preceding vehicle as a vehicle to follow, and controls a drive apparatus, a braking apparatus, and a steering apparatus such that the own vehicle follows the vehicle to follow. When the own vehicle follows a first vehicle chosen as the vehicle to follow and the speed of the own vehicle or the first vehicle is a predetermined threshold speed or lower, upon determination that the own vehicle can follow a second vehicle traveling faster than the own vehicle in a second lane located adjacent to a first lane in which the own vehicle is traveling, the ECU changes the vehicle to follow from the first vehicle to the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Masayuki HOSOKAWA, Yuuki TAKEUCHI, Ryotarou ARAKI, Yasuhiro IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230234587
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus predicts (i) a first consumed energy amount corresponding to a consumed energy amount consumed by a driving apparatus of an own vehicle when executing a first following control and (ii) a second consumed energy amount corresponding to the consumed energy amount consumed by the driving apparatus of the own vehicle when executing the second following control. The apparatus executes the second following control when the second consumed energy amount is smaller than the first consumed energy amount. On the other hand, the apparatus executes the first following control when the second consumed energy amount is equal to or greater than the first consumed energy amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya ITO, Hideki Kamatani
  • Publication number: 20230145836
    Abstract: While an ordinary moving assist control is executed, a vehicle driving assist apparatus stops the ordinary moving assist control and execute an ordinary moving control to accelerate an own vehicle, based on an accelerator pedal operation amount when an accelerator override state is produced due to an operation of an accelerator pedal of the own vehicle. While an economy moving assist control is executed, the vehicle driving assist apparatus accelerates the own vehicle by an optimum acceleration control when an acceleration request condition that the accelerator override state is produced, is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20230098792
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus sets a lower limit of an enlarged vehicle moving speed control range such that a first lower limit difference is smaller than a second lower limit difference while an enlarged constant speed moving control is executed. The first lower limit difference is a difference between the lower limit of the enlarged vehicle moving speed control range and a set vehicle moving speed when a constant speed acceleration determination change condition is satisfied. The second lower limit difference is the difference between the lower limit of the enlarged vehicle moving speed control range and the set vehicle moving speed when the constant speed acceleration determination change condition is not satisfied. The constant speed acceleration determination change condition is a condition that the set vehicle moving speed is equal to or smaller than a predetermined vehicle moving speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20220185280
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance system performs traveling assistance control under which an own vehicle automatically travels with. The traveling assistance control includes first constant-speed control for automatically controlling the acceleration of the own vehicle, based on a first vehicle-speed range including a set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle is kept equal to the set vehicle speed, and second constant-speed control for automatically controlling the acceleration of the own vehicle, based on a second vehicle-speed range including the set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle is kept equal to the set vehicle speed. The second vehicle-speed range is set to a wider range than the first vehicle-speed range. The vehicle driving assistance system switches the traveling assistance control between the first constant-speed control and the second constant-speed control, according to the traveling state of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KAMATANI, Hideaki ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 11001251
    Abstract: During a hybrid drive, a hybrid vehicle sets an engine required power based on a driving required power and controls an engine to output the engine required power, while controlling a motor to drive the hybrid vehicle with the driving required power. When a catalyst temperature of an exhaust emission control device is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature that requires warming up, in the state that an output upper limit power which a power storage device is allowed to output is equal to or larger than a predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets a power calculated by subtracting the output upper limit power from the driving required power, to the engine required power. In the state that the output upper limit power is smaller than the predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets the driving required power to the engine required power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Kamatani, Kazuma Aoki, Koji Hokoi
  • Publication number: 20210070314
    Abstract: The vehicle driving assist apparatus can execute at least one of an acceleration/deceleration control as a driving assist control to automatically accelerate and decelerate an own vehicle and a steering control as the driving assist control to automatically steer the own vehicle. The vehicle driving assist apparatus includes a driving assist restart switch operated by a driver of the own vehicle to restart the driving assist control. The vehicle driving assist apparatus does not restart the acceleration/deceleration control even when the driving assist restart switch is operated after stopping the acceleration/deceleration control in response to the driver performing an automatic acceleration/deceleration rejection operation. The vehicle driving assist apparatus does not restart the steering control even when the driving assist restart switch is operated after stopping the steering control in response to the driver performing an automatic steering rejection operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki MATSUNAGA, Atsuko YAMADA, Kohsuke FUJII, Hideki KAMATANI, Yuzuru KAMOGARI, Soichi OKUBO
  • Patent number: 10919516
    Abstract: When the state of charge of a power storage device is equal to or higher than a predetermined ratio in a specific acceleration time where an acceleration request is equal to or greater than a predetermined level, a hybrid vehicle controls an engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in a range of an output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a fuel consumption priority operation line. When the state of charge of the power storage device is lower than the predetermined ratio in the specific acceleration time, the hybrid vehicle controls the engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in the range of the output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a power priority operation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Kamatani
  • Patent number: 10486688
    Abstract: When a temperature of a catalyst in an exhaust emission control device mounted in an exhaust system of an engine is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature at a time of a request for stopping the engine, a hybrid vehicle including the engine and a motor continues fuel injection of the engine until satisfaction of a predetermined condition and stops fuel injection of the engine on satisfaction of the predetermined condition. When the temperature of the catalyst is lower than the predetermined temperature at the time of the request for stopping the engine, on the other hand, the hybrid vehicle immediately stops fuel injection of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kamatani, Koji Hokoi
  • Publication number: 20190184965
    Abstract: When the state of charge of a power storage device is equal to or higher than a predetermined ratio in a specific acceleration time where an acceleration request is equal to or greater than a predetermined level, a hybrid vehicle controls an engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in a range of an output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a fuel consumption priority operation line. When the state of charge of the power storage device is lower than the predetermined ratio in the specific acceleration timer the hybrid vehicle controls the engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in the range of the output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a power priority operation line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Hideki Kamatani