Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kataoka
Hiroaki Kataoka 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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Publication number: 20040254720Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an initial traveling locus calculating means for calculating an initial traveling locus, a new traveling locus calculating means for calculating a new traveling locus when a deviation amount of the present vehicle position from a current traveling locus is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, and a parking assist means for performing a parking assist to guide the vehicle along the traveling locus. The parking assist apparatus further includes an initial traveling locus deviation calculating means for calculating the deviation amount of the present vehicle position from the initial traveling locus generated by the calculation of the initial traveling locus calculating means. The parking assist means stops performing the parking assist when the deviation amount calculated by the initial traveling locus deviation calculating means is equal to or greater than a second predetermined value which is smaller than the fist predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20040254719Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes a target parking position setting means for setting a target parking position by an operation on a display appearing on an actual image that shows vehicle surroundings, and a traveling locus calculating means for calculating a traveling locus to the target parking position for performing a parking assist to guide the vehicle along the traveling locus. The parking assist apparatus further includes a memory means for keeping storing an information of the traveling locus being generated at a time immediately before a resetting of the target parking position is performed until a new traveling locus to a new target parking position is generated under a condition that the parking assist is once started based on the traveling locus initially generated and when the resetting of the target parking position is performed before the vehicle reaches the target parking position being initially set.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20040249564Abstract: Parking assist apparatus and method cause a vehicle driver to set a target parking position in which the vehicle is to be parked by prompting the driver to specify the position of a parking space frame in the screen of a touch display by touch-operating arrow button swithches shown in the screen, and then calculate a path to the target parking position. If a path to the target parking position is not generated by calculation, the arrow button switches for moving the parking space frame in such directions that a path will not be generated (i.e., the vehicle cannot be parked), among all the arrow button switches, are made non-displayed or are displayed dimmer than the other arrow button switches, and are disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Patent number: 6826469Abstract: A vehicle traveling control system includes a control mode for controlling a vehicle speed by applying braking force so as to maintain the vehicle speed at a predetermined driving force threshold vehicle speed or smaller than that while a predetermined driving force beyond a creeping torque has been applied. The applied driving force is reduced when a target braking force required for maintaining the vehicle speed at the predetermined upper threshold vehicle speed or smaller than that is equal to a first predetermined value or greater than that. The applied driving force is increased when the target braking force or the actual braking force becomes a second predetermined value or smaller than that during the applied driving force being reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshifumi Iwata, Yuu Tanaka, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hisashi Satonaka, Mitsuhiko Morita, Tomohiko Endo, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20030222793Abstract: A parking assist system includes an image obtaining means for obtaining an image of a view from a vehicle, a displaying means for displaying the image obtained by the image obtaining means in a monitor display provided in the vehicle, an inputting means for inputting a target parking position, at which the vehicle is parked, on the monitor display, a detecting means for detecting a relative relationship between the vehicle and the target parking position, and a judging means for judging whether or not the vehicle can be parked at the target parking position based upon the relative relationship detected by the detecting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Mitsuhiko Morita, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20030156045Abstract: According to a parking assist device and a method for assisting parking of the invention, when a parking assist is canceled after a start of the parking assist, and the parking assist is restarted, a target parking position (P2B) is reset at a reset position (P1B). In the invention, at this time, the target parking position (P2B) is determined based on a target parking position (P2A) which is set at a parking preparation position (P1A), and the determined target parking position (P2B) is displayed on a screen of a monitor (4) as a default display position of a target parking frame (11) at a reset time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Mitsuhiko Morita, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20030154014Abstract: A vehicle traveling control system includes a control mode for controlling a vehicle speed by applying braking force so as to maintain the vehicle speed at a predetermined upper threshold vehicle speed or smaller than that while a predetermined driving force beyond a creeping torque has been applied. The applied driving force is reduced when a target braking force required for maintaining the vehicle speed at the predetermined upper threshold vehicle speed or smaller than that is equal to a first predetermined value or greater than that. The applied driving force is increased when the target braking force or the actual braking force becomes a second predetermined value or smaller than that during the applied driving force being reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshifumi IWATA , Yuu TANAKA , Katsuhiko IWAZAKI , Mitsuhiko MORITA , Tomohiko ENDO , Seiji KAWAKAMI , Hiroaki KATAOKA , Hisashi SATONAKA
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Publication number: 20030151526Abstract: A parking assist device (1) includes a camera (3) for capturing an image of an exterior of a vehicle, and a monitor (4) for displaying the captured image, and sets a target parking position by moving a target parking frame (11) displayed on a screen of the monitor (4). A default position of the target parking frame (11) is determined based on a target parking position (P2) which is a relative position with respect to a parking preparation position (P1). The target parking position (P2) is estimated based on a running state of the vehicle until the vehicle reaches the parking preparation position (P1).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Mitsuhiko Morita, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20030150661Abstract: In a parking assist apparatus that assists with moving, by automatic steering, a vehicle from an arbitrary stopping position to a target parking position set by the driver, a setting portion (i.e., a parking assist ECU) sets both a path from the stopping position to the target parking position and a steering operation necessary to bring the vehicle along that path. When this path cannot be set with the steering angle in the stopping position set as the initial steering angle, and when the path can be set with another steering angle as the initial steering angle, an instruction portion (i.e., a monitor or a speaker) instructs the driver to turn the steering wheel to this other steering angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Kataoka, Hisashi Satonaka, Seiji Kawakami, Mitsuhiko Morita, Tomohiko Endo, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Yoshifumi Iwata, Yuu Tanaka
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Patent number: 6478742Abstract: In order to obtain an optimum PRF, the velocity distribution of an echo source is calculated based on the Doppler shift of an ultrasonic wave echo, the profile of the velocity distribution is calculated (172), the reflection of the profile is corrected (174), the maximum value of the velocity in the corrected profile is detected (176), and the PRF of the ultrasonic wave transmission is adjusted based thereon (178).Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventor: Hiroaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 6322510Abstract: In order to capture an image representing pulsation strength in moving velocity of an echo source, a moving velocity V of the echo source is detected based on the Doppler shift in an ultrasonic echo, and a pulsation strength P in the moving velocity V is detected at a pulsation detecting means 132 by a calculation that employs a value Vn of the moving velocity V at a current time phase and a value Vo of the moving velocity V at a past time phase.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1999Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, LimitedInventors: Hiroaki Kataoka, Yoichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 5474870Abstract: A process for producing a toner for developing electrostatic image is disclosed which comprises preparing a suspension of a mixed solution of a polymerizable monomer system containing at least a coloring agent and a release agent and an aqueous medium system and polymerizing the suspension, wherein the suspension is prepared by jetting the mixed solution through a nozzle under elevated pressure in a flowing direction which is forced to vary so that the mixed solution collides with each other or with a predetermined plane to prepare suspended grains, and immediately passing the mixed solution through an apparatus for throttling the path so that back pressure and shearing stress produced by the throttling apparatus are used to adjust the grain diameter and grain size distribution of the suspended grains. The process provides a toner having a small grain diameter and a narrow grain size distribution and comprising additives homogeneously dispersed therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1994Date of Patent: December 12, 1995Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hamada, Hiroaki Kataoka, Shinji Otani
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Patent number: 5460913Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of a polymerization process toner for developing an electrostatic image which comprises the polymerization of a polymerizable monomer containing finely divided magnetic grains dispersed therein, a compound represented by formula R--(COOM).sub.n being used as a dispersant, wherein n represents an integer 1 to 4, R represents an alkyl group (including phenyl-substituted alkyl group), an alkylene group (including a phenyl-substituted alkylene group), or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and M represents a hydrogen atom, alkaline metal or alkaline earth metal. The process provides an enhancement of pigment dispersability in a toner, giving a toner that provides a high image quality.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1994Date of Patent: October 24, 1995Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kataoka, Hajime Yamazaki, Shinji Otani, Hiroshi Hamada
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Patent number: 4860523Abstract: The hermetic packaging apparatus comprises a nozzle for reducing pressure in a thermoplastic packaging bag containing certain contents, the nozzle reduces pressure in the packaging bag by the pressure control of the air pump and the water sucked from the contents is directed to a strainer tank. Thereafter, the nozzle moves backward, the opening of the packaging bag is heated by a heating element, and an airtight pressure connecting bar is pressured downward so that the opening portion is heat-sealed by the airtight pressure connecting bar and the sealing base.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1987Date of Patent: August 29, 1989Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Nihon Dennetsu Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iwao Teteishi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Takeshi Hashimoto, Tuguyoshi Ritou, Katsufumi Kajiyama, Fumiaki Shimizu, Kenji Tanaka, Yutaka Aibara, Hiroaki Kataoka, Katsuya Nakai, Takashi Yoshikawa, Masaaki Kanamori, Masao Miyajima, Shuzo Seki, Sadanobu Takahashi