Patents by Inventor Keigo HIRUMA

Keigo HIRUMA 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: 11932270
    Abstract: A vehicle driving system is equipped with an automatic driving control unit that outputs a signal for automatically actuating a plurality of pieces of in-vehicle operational equipment that can be operated by a driver, a manual driving control unit that outputs a signal to the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment based on an operational input by the driver, and an interface control unit that is connected to the automatic driving control unit, the manual driving control unit and the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment, that receives at least one of the signal output from the automatic driving control unit or the signal output from the manual driving control unit, and that outputs the received signal to the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Keigo Hiruma, Shogo Nakata
  • Patent number: 11254333
    Abstract: An electronic control device acquires at least one of subject vehicle information, surrounding environment information, and road information, detects an abnormality that has occurred in a vehicle during an autonomous driving based on a first travel plan, identifying a cause of the abnormality based on at least one of a content of the abnormality, the subject vehicle information, the surrounding environment information, and the road information, determines a situation around the vehicle based on at least one of the subject vehicle information, the surrounding environment information, and the road information, determines a target stop position for stopping the vehicle in a stoppable location based on the cause of the abnormality and the situation around the vehicle, and changes the first travel plan to a second travel plan for stopping the vehicle to the target stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keigo Hiruma
  • Patent number: 11079246
    Abstract: A management system according to the present disclosure is a management system that manages a travel plan of a vehicle that is capable of traveling on a road and a railway track, and includes controller that creates the travel plan of the vehicle. In a case where there is a route candidate track that is a railway track that is possibly used as a travel route of the vehicle, the controller acquires a railway operation schedule for the route candidate track, and determines whether the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, based on the operation schedule. In the case where the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, the controller creates a travel plan according to which the vehicle travels along the travel route including the route candidate track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Patent number: 10955844
    Abstract: A server apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles each of which carries a vibration control apparatus for attenuating vibration by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration approaches a target acceleration is disclosed. The server apparatus acquires traveling data including a magnitude of the predetermined acceleration generated in each of the vehicles and the target acceleration set for the vehicle every time when each of the vehicles travels on each of sections of a previously divided road, and accumulates the acquired traveling data while being correlated with section identification information. Then, the server apparatus sets the target acceleration which is adequate for each of the vehicles to travel on a scheduled traveling section on the basis of the accumulated traveling data, and transmits the set target acceleration to the vehicle scheduled to travel on the scheduled traveling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20200290675
    Abstract: There is provided a control device for an autonomous driving system for a vehicle in which a steering device configured to be mechanically coupled to a wheel is not provided in a vehicle cabin. The control device includes: a storage unit configured to store a parameter relating to an angle of the wheel calculated from a value of a relative angle sensor configured to detect a relative angle of the wheel; and a controller configured to read the parameter from the storage unit at a time of next power supply restart and control traveling of the vehicle based on a value of the read parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu MAKITA, Shuichi TAMAGAWA, Keigo HIRUMA, Shogo NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200290636
    Abstract: A vehicle driving system is equipped with an automatic driving control unit that outputs a signal for automatically actuating a plurality of pieces of in-vehicle operational equipment that can be operated by a driver, a manual driving control unit that outputs a signal to the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment based on an operational input by the driver, and an interface control unit that is connected to the automatic driving control unit, the manual driving control unit and the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment, that receives at least one of the signal output from the automatic driving control unit or the signal output from the manual driving control unit, and that outputs the received signal to the pieces of the in-vehicle operational equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Keigo Hiruma, Shogo Nakata
  • Publication number: 20200290632
    Abstract: A periphery recognition apparatus includes: a detection portion that detects an abnormality in at least a third detector from among a first detector, a second a detector, and the third detector; and an estimation portion that performs speed control that is control of traveling speed of a vehicle and uses information obtained from at least one of the first detector or the second detector to estimate whether an object is present in a third area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Keigo HIRUMA
  • Publication number: 20200139990
    Abstract: An electronic control device acquires at least one of subject vehicle information, surrounding environment information, and road information, detects an abnormality that has occurred in a vehicle during an autonomous driving based on a first travel plan, identifying a cause of the abnormality based on at least one of a content of the abnormality, the subject vehicle information, the surrounding environment information, and the road information, determines a situation around the vehicle based on at least one of the subject vehicle information, the surrounding environment information, and the road information, determines a target stop position for stopping the vehicle in a stoppable location based on the cause of the abnormality and the situation around the vehicle, and changes the first travel plan to a second travel plan for stopping the vehicle to the target stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Keigo HIRUMA
  • Publication number: 20190272164
    Abstract: The present disclosure allows vehicle software to be updated in accordance with legal regulations. According to the present disclosure, when predetermined software which is vehicle software installed in a vehicle and which is a target of legal regulations is requested to be updated, update unit updates the predetermined software by using updating software for the predetermined software only in a case where predetermined certificate information in accordance with legal regulations is determined by determination unit to be attached to the updating software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20190258270
    Abstract: The present disclosure resides in a traveling control system for autonomous traveling vehicles for controlling the plurality of autonomous traveling vehicles which perform autonomous traveling in accordance with predetermined operation commands, the traveling control system comprising a controller which is configured to set priorities among the plurality of autonomous traveling vehicles, and to control traveling of the plurality of autonomous traveling vehicles so that the autonomous traveling vehicle having the priority set to be high travels preferentially as compared with the autonomous traveling vehicle having the priority set to be low, if the plurality of autonomous traveling vehicles travel on an identical lane in a mixed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20190250612
    Abstract: A server apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles each of which carries a vibration control apparatus for attenuating vibration by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration approaches a target acceleration is disclosed. The server apparatus acquires traveling data including a magnitude of the predetermined acceleration generated in each of the vehicles and the target acceleration set for the vehicle every time when each of the vehicles travels on each of sections of a previously divided road, and accumulates the acquired traveling data while being correlated with section identification information. Then, the server apparatus sets the target acceleration which is adequate for each of the vehicles to travel on a scheduled traveling section on the basis of the accumulated traveling data, and transmits the set target acceleration to the vehicle scheduled to travel on the scheduled traveling section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20190226857
    Abstract: A management system according to the present disclosure is a management system that manages a travel plan of a vehicle that is capable of traveling on a road and a railway track, and includes controller that creates the travel plan of the vehicle. In a case where there is a route candidate track that is a railway track that is possibly used as a travel route of the vehicle, the controller acquires a railway operation schedule for the route candidate track, and determines whether the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, based on the operation schedule. In the case where the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, the controller creates a travel plan according to which the vehicle travels along the travel route including the route candidate track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20190193722
    Abstract: The present disclosure realizes the transport quality and the transport cost corresponding to the way of use of a vehicle. The present disclosure resides in a vehicle control apparatus for attenuating the vibration of the vehicle by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration, which includes at least one of an acceleration in an upward-downward direction of the vehicle, an acceleration in a lateral direction of the vehicle, and an acceleration in a front-back direction of the vehicle, approaches a target acceleration. The control apparatus acquires the way of use of the vehicle to set the target acceleration on the basis of the acquired way of use of the vehicle. Then, the control apparatus adjusts the parameter that affects the predetermined acceleration on the basis of the target acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20190193721
    Abstract: The present disclosure realizes the transport quality and the transport cost corresponding to, for example, the type of a cargo transported by a vehicle. The present disclosure resides in a vehicle control apparatus for attenuating the vibration of the vehicle by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration, which includes at least one of an acceleration in an upward-downward direction of the vehicle, an acceleration in a lateral direction of the vehicle, and an acceleration in a front-back direction of the vehicle, approaches a target acceleration, wherein a required vibration suppression level of the cargo transported by the vehicle is acquired, and the target acceleration is set on the basis of the acquired required vibration suppression level. Then, the control apparatus adjusts the parameter that affects the predetermined acceleration on the basis of the set target acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Shinichi ADACHI, Ryo HATTORI, Taichi AMAKASU, Keigo HIRUMA