Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iwami

Hiroshi Iwami 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: 10843731
    Abstract: At a time when it is possible for a user's own vehicle to pull out from a parking space, an assist control unit of a parking exit assist device terminates an assist control in the event that the user's own vehicle has traveled forward by a predetermined distance (a minimum forward distance) from a predetermined position (a most recent intermediate position or an assist starting position).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Alsin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwami, Hiroki Inagaki, Hironori Hirata, Masahiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10793190
    Abstract: This assist device for pulling out of a parking spot includes: an assist control unit for performing assist control to change the steering angle of a vehicle to a target steering angle; and a pulling out possibility determination unit for determining whether or not the vehicle can pull out on the basis of the detection result of a forward obstacle detected by forward detection unit. If it is determined that the vehicle can pull out, the assist control unit performs assist control to change the steering angle of the vehicle from the target steering angle to a neutral angle or a neutral vicinity angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwami, Katsuhiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 10375345
    Abstract: A camera image display apparatus including a display request output part outputting a display request of camera images, a power supply part supplying power to a display unit, and a power supply control unit controlling flow of electricity so as to supply activating power from the power supply part to the display unit at a first time point within a predetermined time from a completion of an engine starting, when the display request is output by the display request output part at the first time point, and to supply activating power from the power supply part to the display unit at a second time point after lapse of the predetermined time, when the display request is not output within the predetermined time from the completion of the engine starting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Mitsugu Tosa, Kazuhiko Kameda, Yuji Yokota, Yusuke Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwami
  • Publication number: 20190185055
    Abstract: This assist device for pulling out of a parking spot comprises: an assist control means for performing assist control to change the steering angle of a vehicle to a target steering angle; and a pulling out possibility determination means for determining whether or not the vehicle can pull out on the basis of the detection result of a forward obstacle detected by forward detection means. If it is determined that the vehicle can pull out, the assist control means performs assist control to change the steering angle of the vehicle from the target steering angle to a neutral angle or a neutral vicinity angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAMI, Katsuhiro SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20180091761
    Abstract: A camera image display apparatus including a display request output part outputting a display request of camera images, a power supply part supplying power to a display unit, and a power supply control unit controlling flow of electricity so as to supply activating power from the power supply part to the display unit at a first time point within a predetermined time from a completion of an engine starting, when the display request is output by the display request output part at the first time point, and to supply activating power from the power supply part to the display unit at a second time point after lapse of the predetermined time, when the display request is not output within the predetermined time from the completion of the engine starting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Mitsugu Tosa, Kazuhiko Kameda, Yuji Yokota, Yusuke Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwami
  • Publication number: 20180061241
    Abstract: In the case that a user's own vehicle cannot pull out from a parking space without turning back steering, a parking exit assist device carries out a parking exit assist control by setting the size of a target steering angle in an exit-from-parking trajectory setting unit to a first steering angle. On the other hand, in the case that the user's own vehicle is capable of pulling out from the parking space without turning back steering, the parking exit assist device carries out a parking exit assist control by setting the size of a target steering angle to a second steering angle which is smaller than the first steering angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAMI, Satoko FURUKI, Hiroki INAGAKI, Hironori HIRATA, Masahiro ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180057057
    Abstract: At a time when it is possible for a user's own vehicle to pull out from a parking space, an assist control unit of a parking exit assist device terminates an assist control in the event that the user's own vehicle has traveled forward by a predetermined distance (a minimum forward distance) from a predetermined position (a most recent intermediate position or an assist starting position).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWAMI, HIROKI INAGAKI, HIRONORI HIRATA, MASAHIRO ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 9613533
    Abstract: Provided is a parking space detector designed so as not to erroneously detect an inter-vehicle distance as a parking space, the inter-vehicle distance being the distance between oncoming vehicles continuously passing by. The invention is provided with a parking space presence determination part for determining whether or not a parking space for a vehicle is present. The parking space presence determination part is designed so as to determine whether or not oncoming vehicles are stationary on the basis of the vehicle speed and the relative speed of the oncoming vehicles, therefore preventing the space (inter-vehicle distance) between two other oncoming vehicles being erroneously detected as a parking space, the oncoming vehicles being vehicles traveling toward the vehicle and continuously passing by.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwami, Satoko Yokochi, Yuki Hara
  • Publication number: 20160148514
    Abstract: Provided is a parking space detector designed so as not to erroneously detect an inter-vehicle distance as a parking space, the inter-vehicle distance being the distance between oncoming vehicles continuously passing by. The invention is provided with a parking space presence determination part for determining whether or not a parking space for a vehicle is present. The parking space presence determination part is designed so as to determine whether or not oncoming vehicles are stationary on the basis of the vehicle speed and the relative speed of the oncoming vehicles, therefore preventing the space (inter-vehicle distance) between two other oncoming vehicles being erroneously detected as a parking space, the oncoming vehicles being vehicles traveling toward the vehicle and continuously passing by.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAMI, Satoko YOKOCHI, Yuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20040251367
    Abstract: In a seat belt device, when the collision of a vehicle is foreknown, a motor of a retractor is driven for rotation in a normal direction to take up a webbing of a seat belt, and when an acceleration equal to or larger than a predetermined value is applied to the vehicle, the webbing is locked so that it cannot be drawn out of the retractor. In a case where the collision is avoided after the motor of the retractor is driven for rotation in the normal direction based on the foreknowing of the collision to increase the tension of the webbing of the seat belt, when it is detected by systems having information regarding the acceleration of the vehicle that the acceleration of the vehicle has been reduced to be smaller than the predetermined value, the locking operation of the retractor is cancelled to loose the webbing by driving the motor of the retractor for rotation in the normal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzuki, Hiroshi Akaba, Hiroshi Iwami, Nobuhiro Koyota
  • Patent number: 6076593
    Abstract: A control apparatus controls a vehicular air-conditioning system to control a fuel-combustion heater for producing combustion heat to heat a heating medium in a heating medium circuit which heats air flowing through a duct having air outlets openable into a passenger compartment, through heat exchange between the heating medium and the air with a heat exchanger disposed in the duct. The control apparatus has a shutdown controller for temporarily shutting down the fuel-combustion heater and an extinguishing controller for extinguishing the fuel-combustion heater based on a signal from the shutdown controller. The shutdown controller includes a shutdown signal entering unit for entering a shutdown signal to temporarily shut down the fuel-combustion heater and a shutdown signal canceler for canceling the shutdown signal in response to a canceling signal entered to cancel the shutdown of the fuel-combustion heater within a predetermined period of time after the shutdown signal has been entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Hiroshi Iwami, Masashi Tsuneishi, Makoto Kobayashi, Masahiro Kimishima, Hiroshi Echigoya
  • Patent number: 5971845
    Abstract: A vehicular defroster control system comprising a single defroster selector switch for alternatively operating the air-conditioning defroster only or both the air-conditioning defroster and the electric heat-operated defroster, an environmental condition input unit for inputting environmental conditions including at least an ambient air temperature and a sunlight intensity, and an operation control means for judging whether or not the inputted ambient air temperature and the sunlight intensity are lower than previously set predetermined values, and operating the electric heat-operated defroster only when it is judged that both of the inputted ambient air temperature and the sunlight intensity are lower than the predetermined values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Echigoya, Hiroshi Iwami
  • Patent number: 5153167
    Abstract: A catalyst carrier having a honeycomb structure made of metal sheets and used for a catalytic convertor for treating an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. The catalyst carrier is made of layers, each having a plain sheet, and at least one corrugated sheet applied on the plain sheet and having a width smaller than that of the plain sheet so that, laterally of the corrugated sheet, a portion of the plain sheet is not occupied by the corrugated sheet. The portion without the corrugated sheet is in face to face contact with a portion having a corrugated sheet on an adjacent layer, and as a result, a lateral engagement is obtained between the corrugated sheets of the facing layers, thereby preventing the layers from being laterally displaced along at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Saito, Hiroshi Iwami, Yasushi Ishikawa