Patents by Inventor Hironori Ito

Hironori Ito 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: 10760508
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a control device, an EGR valve that adjusts an EGR rate, a PCV valve that adjusts an opening degree of a first PCV passage that communicates an inside of a crankcase and a downstream side of a throttle valve. The control device operates the throttle valve in a closing direction in response to a deceleration request. The control device adjusts an opening degree of the PCV valve based on an immediately preceding EGR rate immediately before reception of the deceleration request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 10759423
    Abstract: A lane departure preventing device includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: when there is a likelihood that a vehicle will depart from a traveling lane, calculate a prevention yaw moment, and control a brake actuator such that the prevention yaw moment is applied to the vehicle; acquire a lateral acceleration; determine whether the lateral acceleration is greater than an ideal value by a predetermined value; control the brake actuator such that the braking force matches a target braking force required to apply the prevention yaw moment to the vehicle, when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value; and control the brake actuator such that the braking force is less than the target braking force, when the lateral acceleration is greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Hironori Ito, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200255009
    Abstract: A lane departure prevention apparatus (17) has: a departure preventing device (172) for preventing a vehicle (1) from departing from a driving lane by controlling at least one of a steering apparatus (142) and a braking apparatus (13) selected on the basis of a state of the vehicle, when it is determined that the vehicle may depart from the driving lane; and a determining device for determining whether or not an abnormality condition that it is difficult for a person to normally drive the vehicle is satisfied, the departure preventing device prevents the vehicle from departing from the driving lane by controlling the braking apparatus even if the state of the vehicle is not a predetermined state in which the departure preventing device should prevent the vehicle from departing from the driving lane by controlling the braking apparatus, when it is determined that the abnormality condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki IKEDA, Ryo INOMATA, Akira NAGAE, Hironori ITO
  • Publication number: 20200252798
    Abstract: A purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a communication system that are capable of maintaining a high security level in each divided network in the case of applying network slicing to a core network. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes a subscriber-information management apparatus (10) configured to manage subscriber information of a communication terminal; and a security apparatus (20) configured to manage identification information of the communication terminal in association with security information used in at least one network slice system usable by the communication terminal. The subscriber-information management apparatus (10) acquires, using the identification information of the communication terminal and identification information of a network slice system used by the communication terminal, security information used in the network slice system used by the communication terminal from the security apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori ITO, Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Andreas KUNZ, Naoaki SUZUKI, Toshiyuki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200238963
    Abstract: A deflection control apparatus is configured to perform a deflection control in which a subject vehicle is deflected by a braking force difference between left and right wheels. The deflection control apparatus is provided with a releaser configured to release the deflection control if a steering operation, which is an operation of deflecting the subject vehicle in a direction opposite to a direction in which the subject vehicle is deflected by the deflection control, is detected during the deflection control. When releasing the deflection control, the releaser is configured to reduce a controlled variable over a predetermined time, which is shorter than a fall time of the controlled variable when the deflection control is ended without being released, and which becomes longer, as the controlled variable increases when the steering operation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori ITO, Akira NAGAE, Ryo INOMATA, Masayuki IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10717438
    Abstract: A lane keep assist device is configured to perform lane keep assist control for making a host vehicle travel along a lane, and preventing the host vehicle from departing from the lane. The lane keep assist device includes an electronic control device configured to detect presence or absence of another vehicle, present in a vicinity of the host vehicle, which have a gradual decrease in a distance from the host vehicle, and when the other vehicle is detected, the electronic control device configured to set virtual line extending along front-rear direction of the detected other vehicle at position away by first predetermined distance in right-left direction of the other vehicle from lateral side of the detected other vehicle, and to specify the lane based on the set virtual line to perform the lane keep assist control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Hironori Ito, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10688992
    Abstract: A lane departure prevention apparatus (17) has: a departure preventing device (172) for preventing a vehicle (1) from departing from a driving lane by controlling at least one of a steering apparatus (142) and a braking apparatus (13) selected on the basis of a state of the vehicle, when it is determined that the vehicle may depart from the driving lane; and a determining device for determining whether or not an abnormality condition that it is difficult for a person to normally drive the vehicle is satisfied, the departure preventing device prevents the vehicle from departing from the driving lane by controlling the braking apparatus even if the state of the vehicle is not a predetermined state in which the departure preventing device should prevent the vehicle from departing from the driving lane by controlling the braking apparatus, when it is determined that the abnormality condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ikeda, Ryo Inomata, Akira Nagae, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 10668904
    Abstract: A deflection control apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine whether or not a vehicle is about to depart from a driving lane; and a controller programmed to perform a deflection control for controlling a braking apparatus to supply a fluid pressure to at least one of brake mechanisms corresponding to a front wheel and a rear wheel on a side opposite to a departure direction of the vehicle. The controller is programmed to control the braking apparatus to supply the fluid pressure to the brake mechanism that is close to a fluid pressure source, out of the brake mechanisms corresponding to the front wheel and the rear wheel on the opposite side, on condition that a motion state corresponds to a regular-use area of the braking apparatus, if it is determined that the vehicle is about to depart from the driving lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ikeda, Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 10661768
    Abstract: A lane departure prevention apparatus (17) has: a controlling device (172) configured to control a braking device (122) so that prevention yaw moment for preventing a vehicle from departing from a driving lane; and determining device (173) configured to determine whether or not slip ratio of a front wheel is larger than a first threshold value (KSfr) and whether or not slip ratio of a rear wheel is larger than a second threshold value (KSrr), the controlling device is configured to control the braking device so that the braking force applied from the braking device becomes smaller than the braking force for applying the prevention yaw moment, if it is determined that the slip ratio of the front wheel is larger than the first threshold value and/or the slip ratio of the rear wheel is larger than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Akira Nagae, Kumiko Kondo, Hironori Ito, Tomoyuki Doi, Ryo Inomata, Masayuki Ikeda, Toshifumi Sugisawa
  • Patent number: 10654456
    Abstract: A deflection control apparatus is configured to perform a deflection control in which a subject vehicle is deflected by a braking force difference between left and right wheels. The deflection control apparatus is provided with a releaser configured to release the deflection control if a steering operation, which is an operation of deflecting the subject vehicle in a direction opposite to a direction in which the subject vehicle is deflected by the deflection control, is detected during the deflection control. When releasing the deflection control, the releaser is configured to reduce a controlled variable over a predetermined time, which is shorter than a fall time of the controlled variable when the deflection control is ended without being released, and which becomes longer, as the controlled variable increases when the steering operation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200145886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to secure provisioning of UE mobility restriction by extending neighbour relation tables to include mobility restrictions in addition to neighbour cell information and sending neighbour cell restriction information (per UE) to the UE, gNB, UE and gNB. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus and a system for mapping mobility restrictions with TA list and sending the TA list along with the Handover Restriction List during handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Sivakamy LAKSHMINARAYANA, Sivabalan ARUMUGAM, Sheeba Backia Mary BASKARAN, Hironori ITO, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Hisashi FUTAKI
  • Patent number: 10626827
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle that includes an actuator capable of generating a gas flow at a scavenging target portion of an internal combustion engine during an engine stop. The vehicle control device is configured, when at least one of a specified temperature condition and a specified humidity condition is met after the engine stop, to execute a scavenging control. The specified temperature condition is that, after the engine stop, a temperature correlation value correlated with the temperature of the scavenging target portion is higher than that at the engine stop time point. The specified humidity condition is that, after the engine stop, a humidity correlation value correlated with the absolute humidity of the gas at the scavenging target portion is higher than that at the engine stop time point. The scavenging control operates the actuator to cause the gas flow at the scavenging target portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Ito
  • Publication number: 20200099660
    Abstract: A VNF package signing system, comprises an orchestration unit sending an acknowledge of receiving a VNF package including the VNF image, in response to the receiving the VNF package from a sender, a storage unit storing the VNF package and generating a certificate for the VNF package using a private key for at least generating a certificate for signing the VNF package and a HISEE (Hardware Isolated Secured Execution Environment) unit providing the private key in response to the request from the storage unit. The orchestration unit sends the acknowledge of receiving a VNF package when the storage unit successes generating the certificate of the VNF package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pradheepkumar SINGARAVELU, Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Sivabalan ARUMUGAM, Hironori ITO
  • Patent number: 10597019
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a controller (i) configured to set first brake fluid pressure associated with wheels on one of left and right sides out of a plurality of wheels to be higher than second brake fluid pressure associated with wheels on the other side in order to turn a vehicle in one direction, and configured (ii) to then increase the second brake fluid pressure by using a fluid pressure difference between the first brake fluid pressure and the second brake fluid pressure, and (iii) to set the first brake fluid pressure to be lower than the second brake fluid pressure while holding the second brake fluid pressure in order to turn the vehicle in another direction, which is different from the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10597011
    Abstract: A deflection control apparatus is configured to perform a deflection control in which a subject vehicle is deflected by a braking force difference between left and right wheels. The vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a calculator configured, in the deflection control, (i) to calculate a target yaw rate so that the subject vehicle drives on a target track by the deflection control, and (ii) to calculate a target yaw moment by dividing the calculated target yaw rate by a coefficient based on a velocity of the subject vehicle; and a controller configured to control a braking force of each wheel so that the target yaw moment is applied to the subject vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200014535
    Abstract: Provided is an authentication device capable of generating a master key suited to a UE in a 5GS. The authentication device (10) includes a communication unit (11) configured to, in registration processing of user equipment (UE), acquire UE key derivation function (KDF) capabilities indicating a pseudo random function supported by the UE, a selection unit (12) configured to select a pseudo random function used for generation of a master key related to the UE by use of the UE KDF capabilities, and a key generation unit (13) configured to generate a master key related to the UE by use of the selected pseudo random function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheeba Backia Mary BASKARAN, Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Sivabalan ARUMUGAM, Sivakamy LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Hironori ITO, Andreas KUNZ
  • Publication number: 20190394715
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication terminal capable of using a newly-generated network slice or service. A communication terminal (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) configured to receive a parameter related to SM-NSSAI (Session Management-Network Slice Selection Assistance Information) from a core network When subscriber information of the communication terminal itself managed in the core network or a location of the communication terminal itself is changed, and a control unit (12) configured to update NSSAI by using the parameter related to the SM-NSSAI, the NSSAI being managed to select a network slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Sivakamy Raghawa LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Sivabalan ARUMUGAM, Hironori ITO, Andreas KUNZ
  • Publication number: 20190373461
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a communication system capable of achieving advanced security in a 5G communication system. The communication system according to the present disclosure includes: a communication terminal (10); an Access and Mobility Management (AMF) entity (20) configured to execute Mobility Management (MM) processing regarding the communication terminal (10); and a Session Management Function (SMF) entity (30) configured to execute Session Management (SM) processing regarding the communication terminal (10), in which the communication terminal (10) sends an MM message used in the MM processing, a first security key having been applied to the MM message, between the communication terminal and the AMF entity (20), and sends an SM message used in the SM processing, a second security key having been applied to the SM message, between the communication terminal and the SMF entity (30) via the AMF entity (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori ITO, Anand Raghawa PRASAD, Sivabalan ARUMUGAM, Sivakamy LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Naoaki SUZUKI, Andreas KUNZ
  • Patent number: 10486677
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes an electronic control device that controls an internal combustion engine such that a response delay of the internal combustion engine at the time of acceleration is restrained for a predetermined time period from the time point at which an acceleration demand of a driver of a vehicle is estimated when the acceleration demand is estimated while the vehicle is travelling using a driving force from the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Akira Nagae, Ryo Inomata, Masayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10436158
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device for a humidity sensor has a humidity sensor disposed in an intake passage, a temperature sensor to detect an intake air temperature, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a first sensor signal at a time of the intake air temperature being a first intake air temperature, and a second sensor signal at a time of the intake air temperature changing from the first intake air temperature and reaching a second intake air temperature, calculate values from which an influence of a temperature difference between the first and second intake air temperatures is excluded, from the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal, as respective humidity index values, and detect presence or absence of abnormality of the humidity sensor according to whether or not a deviation degree of these humidity index values is larger than a predetermined degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Ito