Patents by Inventor Hirohito Ide
Hirohito Ide 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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Patent number: 12358552Abstract: Provided is an electric power steering device including: a motor; a drive device that supplies the motor with three-phase alternating current electric power; and a control device that controls the drive device, in which the control device is connected to a first power supply path that supplies power to the control device not via an ignition switch and a second power supply path that supplies power to the control device via the ignition switch, and the control device, in a case of detecting a failing of the first power supply path, operates with power supplied from the second power supply path and makes the motor generate an electromagnetic brake.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyoji Hamamoto, Takashi Kuribayashi, Seigo Murashige, Hirohito Ide, Hideki Imafuku, Ryoto Teranishi, Ryuhei Miyoshi, Yuki Mano
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Patent number: 12351163Abstract: An automatic driving vehicle is running in an automatic driving mode effected by a driving control device. An operator is able to instruct via a SLOW DOWN button on a touch panel that the automatic driving vehicle is to be decelerated or stopped. Should any anomaly occur to the SLOW DOWN button, a message or the like is displayed on a touch panel to encourage operation of an emergency stop switch. When the operator operates the emergency stop switch, emergency stop control is executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito Ide, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Satoshi Koganemaru, Shogo Nakata
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Publication number: 20250214475Abstract: A power supply support device includes a control unit that acquires traffic jam prediction information predicting a traffic jam of a vehicle generated for each road, and determines, based on the acquired traffic jam prediction information, a distribution vehicle of a power supply vehicle that supplies power to a general vehicle having an external power supply function.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro AOKI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Hirohito IDE, Seiji SUYAMA, Kiyotaka MORIIZUMI, Kazuyuki INOUE, Tomokazu MAYA, Naoya OKA
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Publication number: 20250214504Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles. The control unit calculates the switching timing of the hand signal based on the traffic amount in the vicinity of the intersection, identifies the head vehicle stopped at the intersection, and controls the in-vehicle device capable of recognizing the operation from the outside of the head vehicle provided in the head vehicle via the communication unit based on the switching timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro AOKI, Ibuki Shimada, Hirohito Ide, Seiji Suyama, Kiyotaka Moriizumi, Kazuyuki Inoue, Tomokazu Maya, Naoya Oka
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Publication number: 20250209906Abstract: The traffic control device includes a control unit that identifies one vehicle at a time, acquires vehicle information indicating a safety-related function mounted on the identified vehicle for each vehicle, selects a vehicle that imposes restrictions on entry into a specific road from among the identified vehicles on the basis of the acquired vehicle information, and notifies the user of the selected vehicle of the restriction information as the restriction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Inventors: Takahiro AOKI, Ibuki SHIIMADA, Hirohito IDE, Seiji SUYAMA, Kiyotaka MORIIZUMI, Kazuyuki INOUE, Tomokazu MAYA, Naoya OKA
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Patent number: 12337855Abstract: A vehicle power supply device acquires a state of a vehicle, controls a first switch disposed between an auxiliary power supply and a second load to be in a disconnected state in a case where the vehicle is in a predetermined state including ignition off, and controls the first switch to be in a connected state in a case where the vehicle is in a predetermined automatic driving state among automatic driving states including partial and conditional automatic driving.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirohito Ide
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Publication number: 20250010889Abstract: The vehicle control program is executed in a VCIB connected between DS and VP that performs autonomous driving in accordance with a command from DS. VCIB includes a memory in which a program including a predetermined API defined for each signal is stored, and a processor that controls VP in response to an instruction from DS by executing the program. VCIB has a manual/automatic mode. VP can accept a manual driving operation in the manual mode, and can accept a command from DS in the automated mode. The vehicle control program causes the processor to execute a step of executing a process for starting the limp-home travel by ICM that differs from VCIB on the condition that communication between DS and VCIB is impossible, and a step of switching from the automated mode to the manual mode on the condition that the limp-home travel by ICM is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruki OGURI, Kenichi YAMADA, Hirohito IDE
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Publication number: 20250002053Abstract: The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform (VP) and an autonomous driving kit (ADK). VP comprises a first control device, and ADK comprises a second control device. The vehicle control interface box (VCIB) included in VP includes a first computer configured to communicate with both the first control device and the second control device. The first computer detects an operation mode selected from options including an autonomous mode and a manual mode, and records operation mode information indicating the detected operation mode. The first control device is configured to control the vehicle according to the operation mode detected by VCIB. At the time of restart, the first computer detects the selected operation mode based on the operation mode information recorded immediately before the stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruki OGURI, Ikuma Suzuki, Hirohito Ide, Naohiro Tohyama
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Publication number: 20240375662Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device that is connected between an automated driving system and a vehicle platform that performs automated driving according to commands from the automated driving system, and includes: a memory that stores a program and a memory that executes the program; and a processor that interfaces between the autonomous driving system and the vehicle platform. When the processor receives a manual startup command in the unknown state, it transitions to the pure manual state, and when it receives a startup command from the automated driving system in the unknown state, it transitions to the pre-standby state, and in the pre-standby state, it transitions to standby mode. When the transition conditions are met, the system transitions to standby mode, and when the driver's driving intention is detected in the pre-standby state, the system transitions to pure manual state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruki Oguri, Kenichi Yamada, Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 12128932Abstract: A display control unit displays a background of a touch panel in a first color and does not display a button for starting autonomous driving on the touch panel when an autonomous driving vehicle is not permitted to travel in autonomous driving from a management center and displays the background of the touch panel in a second color different from the first color and displays an autonomous driving start button for starting the autonomous driving on the touch panel when the autonomous driving vehicle is permitted to travel in autonomous driving from the management center.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito Ide, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Shogo Nakata
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Publication number: 20240227936Abstract: A driving support ECU is configured to, when a specific recognition state occurs where a lane marker recognized changes from a left lane marker to a right lane marker or vice versa under a one side lane marker recognizable state, set a steering angle guard value to a second steering angle guard value smaller than a first steering angle guard value and set a steering angle speed guard value to a second steering angle speed guard value smaller than a first steering angle speed guard value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Publication number: 20240132155Abstract: A driving support ECU is configured to, when a specific recognition state occurs where a lane marker recognized changes from a left lane marker to a right lane marker or vice versa under a one side lane marker recognizable state, set a steering angle guard value to a second steering angle guard value smaller than a first steering angle guard value and set a steering angle speed guard value to a second steering angle speed guard value smaller than a first steering angle speed guard value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 11912305Abstract: During a period from when an automated driving vehicle starts pulling over to a sidewalk side until the vehicle pulls over completely thereto, an operation control section causes the vehicle to immediately stop when an object that can be an obstacle exists in at least one of a middle front area, a sidewalk-side front area, and a sidewalk-side side area that are areas each within a predetermined distance at a middle front, at a sidewalk-side front, and on a sidewalk-side side of the vehicle, respectively. During the period, the operation control section does not cause the vehicle to stop when the object does not exist in any of the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area, even when the object exists in an area surrounding the vehicle other than the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 11897540Abstract: A driving support ECU is configured to, when s specific recognition state occurs where a lane marker recognized changes from a left lane marker to a right lane marker or vice versa under a one side lane marker recognizable state, set a steering angle guard value to a second steering angle guard value smaller than a first steering angle guard value and set a steering angle speed guard value to a second steering angle speed guard value smaller than a first steering angle speed guard value.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 11801748Abstract: A speed control device can execute continuous deceleration control and speed setting change control. In the continuous deceleration control, a vehicle is decelerated over a period of time that a first operation is effective. In the speed setting change control, upon reception of a second operation, one set speed is selected out of a plurality of set speeds that are set in advance, and a target speed of the vehicle is changed to the selected set speed. When a deceleration completion speed, which is a speed at completion of the continuous deceleration control, is equal to or above a slowest set speed among the set speeds, the speed control device is configured to set as a new target speed the set speed that is equal to or below the deceleration completion speed and that is closest to the deceleration completion speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 11801854Abstract: A load weight notification device includes a weight sensor configured to detect a load weight of a vehicle as a detection weight, an output device configured to at least notify a passenger in the vehicle of information, and a controller configured to, in a case where the detection weight obtained during an opening period of a door of the vehicle exceeds a prescribed first threshold value, instruct the output device to notify the passenger of information indicating overweight, in which the controller is configured to, until completion of an initial closing operation that is a closing operation of the door performed after the vehicle is activated until the vehicle starts traveling, not instruct the output device to notify the passenger in the vehicle of the information indicating the overweight even when the detection weight exceeds the first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Publication number: 20230303125Abstract: A display control unit displays a background of a touch panel in a first color and does not display a button for starting autonomous driving on the touch panel when an autonomous driving vehicle is not permitted to travel in autonomous driving from a management center and displays the background of the touch panel in a second color different from the first color and displays an autonomous driving start button for starting the autonomous driving on the touch panel when the autonomous driving vehicle is permitted to travel in autonomous driving from the management center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito IDE, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Shogo Nakata
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Publication number: 20230278545Abstract: An automatic driving vehicle is running in an automatic driving mode effected by a driving control device. An operator is able to instruct via a SLOW DOWN button on a touch panel that the automatic driving vehicle is to be decelerated or stopped. Should any anomaly occur to the SLOW DOWN button, a message or the like is displayed on a touch panel to encourage operation of an emergency stop switch. When the operator operates the emergency stop switch, emergency stop control is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito Ide, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Satoshi Koganemaru, Shogo Nakata
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Patent number: 11718325Abstract: A display control unit displays a background of a touch panel in a first color and does not display a button for starting autonomous driving on the touch panel when an autonomous driving vehicle is not permitted to travel in autonomous driving from a management center and displays the background of the touch panel in a second color different from the first color and displays an autonomous driving start button for starting the autonomous driving on the touch panel when the autonomous driving vehicle is permitted to travel in autonomous driving from the management center.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito Ide, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Shogo Nakata
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Patent number: 11685370Abstract: An automatic driving vehicle is running in an automatic driving mode effected by a driving control device. An operator is able to instruct via a SLOW DOWN button on a touch panel that the automatic driving vehicle is to be decelerated or stopped. Should any anomaly occur to the SLOW DOWN button, a message or the like is displayed on a touch panel to encourage operation of an emergency stop switch. When the operator operates the emergency stop switch, emergency stop control is executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohito Ide, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Satoshi Koganemaru, Shogo Nakata