Patents by Inventor Kenji Komori
Kenji Komori 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: 12179747Abstract: A drive assist apparatus includes: an avoidance target recognition portion that recognizes an avoidance target which is a target with which a host vehicle should avoid coming into contact when traveling on a road; a steering control portion that assists steering of the host vehicle at a time of the host vehicle and the avoidance target passing each other; a margin detection portion that detects a margin indicating a distance between the host vehicle and the avoidance target at the time of passing each other; and a level change portion that changes a steering assistance degree of the host vehicle by the steering control portion at subsequent times of passing each other based on the margin detected by the margin detection portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Yosuke Koike, Kenji Komori
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Patent number: 12151214Abstract: A separation membrane element including a pair of separation membranes containing two separation membranes arranged so that the filtrate-side surfaces thereof are disposed in mutually opposed relation, and a plurality of resin members bonded to both of the mutually opposed filtrate-side surfaces, a peripheral edge of the pair of separation membranes being sealed.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kenta Iwai, Shuji Furuno, Yoshifumi Odaka, Kenji Komori, Yasuharu Watanabe, Atsushi Kitanaka, Seiko Kantani, Hideaki Ando
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Patent number: 12139145Abstract: A mobile object control device acquires an image obtained by imaging an outside space of a mobile object, determines whether the mobile object is in a merging lane closer to a merged lane between two merging lanes, determines whether another mobile object is in a merging lane farther from the merged lane between the merging lanes in front of the mobile object when it is determined that the mobile object is in the closer merging lane, sets one or more merging position candidates at which merging of the mobile object to the merged lane is completed and which are positions between mobile objects in the merged lane, and selects a merging position at which the merging of the mobile object to the merged lane is completed from the one or more merging position candidates.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Aditya Mahajan, Aya Miura, Kenji Komori
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Publication number: 20240346921Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
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Patent number: 12109972Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; and a gas supply unit that supplies a gas for expansion selectively to the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenji Komori, Kenyu Okamura, Osamu Ito, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Hyejin Bae
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Patent number: 12097871Abstract: A drive assist apparatus includes: an avoidance target recognition portion that recognizes an avoidance target which is a target with which a host vehicle should avoid coming into contact when traveling on a road; and an output control portion that causes an output device to output an advice for a driver who drives the host vehicle at a plurality of stages which include: a pre-stage before mutual passing between the host vehicle and the avoidance target; and a post-stage after the mutual passing.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Yosuke Koike, Kenji Komori
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Patent number: 12090941Abstract: A control device of an embodiment includes an airbag inflated at least onto a hood of a vehicle by being filled with gas supplied from a gas supply, a recognizer that recognizes a surroundings situation of the vehicle, an index value deriver that derives an index value indicating a degree of overlap in a vehicle width direction between a traffic participant recognized by the recognizer and the vehicle when the traffic participant comes into contact with the vehicle, and an airbag controller that controls a timing at which the airbag is inflated, on the basis of the index value derived by the index value deriver.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenji Komori, Kenyu Okamura
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Patent number: 12057012Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kenji Komori, Takahiro Kurehashi, Hiroki Tanaka
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Patent number: 12030449Abstract: A vehicle comprises a motor configured to wind a seat belt provided in the vehicle; a first detection unit configured to detect a following vehicle while the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit configured to detect a preceding vehicle while the vehicle is traveling; a determination unit configured to determine a risk that the following vehicle that is detected by the first detection unit will collide with the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control winding of the seat belt by changing a winding speed of the seat belt by the motor in a case when the determination unit determines that there is the risk.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Komori
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Patent number: 12024171Abstract: A moving object control device includes a storage device storing a program and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device to acquire an image by imaging a space outside of a moving object, determine whether or not the moving object is traveling in a merging lane on the basis of the image, detect a first reference object and a second reference object according to image processing when it is determined that the moving object is traveling in the merging lane, virtually set a plurality of third reference objects extending parallel to the first reference object at a first prescribed width in a hypothetical plane virtually viewed from above, and derive information about a location where the merging lane disappears on the basis of at least a first intersection between the second reference object and the plurality of third reference objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Aditya Mahajan, Kenji Komori, Aya Miura
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Patent number: 12014628Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system that includes one or more terminal units and a monitoring unit that monitors an unknown mobile object around the one or more terminal units. Each terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information; a detected information generation component that generates a detected information set concerning an unknown mobile object; and a terminal-side communication component that transmits the detected information set. The monitoring unit includes: a collecting-side communication component that receives the detected information set; and a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object based on a collection of one or more detected information sets that have been received.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kenji Komori, Takahiro Kurehashi, Hiroki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11987201Abstract: An airbag system includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; a recognition portion that recognizes a risk object which is present in a vicinity of the vehicle; a prediction portion that predicts a collision between the risk object and the vehicle; and an expansion control portion that performs an expansion control of the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber based on a prediction of the prediction portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenji Komori, Kenyu Okamura, Osamu Ito, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Hyejin Bae
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Patent number: 11964621Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes circumstances around a vehicle, a steering operator that is able to adjust steering of the vehicle, a vibrator that causes a portion of the steering operator to vibrate, a seatbelt that restrains a portion of the body of an occupant of the vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust the tension of the seatbelt, and a controller that controls the vibrator and the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the circumstances recognized by the recognizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinsuke Odai, Yuji Yasui, Kenji Komori, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yosuke Koike, Kenshi Torikai
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Publication number: 20240112575Abstract: Area monitoring system includes a plurality of sensor devices each installed in a monitoring target area and configured to detect a mobile object moving in the monitoring target area and a determiner configured to determine whether or not mobile objects detected by the plurality of sensor devices are the same physical object on the basis of detection results of the plurality of sensor devices. The plurality of sensor devices include at least a radio wave sensor and an optical sensor. The determiner determines whether or not mobile objects detected by the radio wave sensor and the optical sensor are the same physical object on the basis of information of at least one of feature quantities regarding movements of the mobile objects and reflection intensities corresponding to attributes of the mobile objects when the mobile objects have been detected by the radio wave sensor and the optical sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20240112149Abstract: According to an embodiment, an area monitoring system includes a sensor device installed at a position where a monitoring target area can be imaged, an analyzer configured to analyze an image captured by the sensor device, a manager configured to manage a situation of the monitoring target area on the basis of an analysis result of the analyzer, and a provider configured to provide information about the monitoring target area. The manager causes the provider to provide information for promoting maintenance regarding at least one of the monitoring target area or the sensor device when a degree of deviation between a state of a road included in the image and a state of the road based on a predetermined reference image of the sensor device is greater than or equal to a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20240112572Abstract: According to an embodiment, an area monitoring system includes a sensor device installed at a position where a monitoring target area can be imaged, an analyzer configured to analyze an image captured by the sensor device, a manager configured to manage a movement situation of a mobile object moving on a road included in the monitoring target area on the basis of an analysis result of the analyzer, and a provider configured to provide prescribed information to the mobile object. The provider provides an action instruction for the mobile object to the mobile object when the mobile object is likely to depart from the road on the basis of the movement situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11938879Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire surrounding information of the vehicle; a recognition unit configured to recognize another vehicle traveling in surroundings of the vehicle, based on the surrounding information; a calculation unit configured to calculate a visual recognition ratio of a steering wheel of the other vehicle to a perfect circle; and a control unit configured to control the vehicle, based on the visual recognition ratio.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Komori
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Publication number: 20240017694Abstract: A driving assistance device for assisting driving by a driver of a vehicle is provided. The driving assistance device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an environment around the vehicle, a travel wheel detection unit configured to detect a travel wheel included in the environment around the vehicle, an operation determination unit configured to determine whether the travel wheel satisfies an operation condition of a safety device of the vehicle, and an operation unit configured to operate the safety device in a case where it is determined that the travel wheel satisfies the operation condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventor: Kenji KOMORI
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Patent number: 11865999Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device according to an embodiment includes a seatbelt that restrains a part of the body of an occupant in a host vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust a tension of the seatbelt, a recognizer that recognizes situation in the vicinity of the host vehicle, an index value deriver that derives an index value indicating an overlapping degree between a predicted traveling trajectory of another vehicle which is recognized by the recognizer and approaches the host vehicle and a predicted traveling trajectory of the host vehicle, and a tension controller that controls an operation timing of the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the index value derived by the index value deriver and a degree of approach of the another vehicle with respect to the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Komori, Shinsuke Odai
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Patent number: 11814081Abstract: A control system of a vehicle, the vehicle including a detection unit for detecting external information related to an outside of surroundings of the vehicle, the external information being used to control a driven state of the vehicle is provided. The control system performs a method comprising: obtaining map information of surroundings of a route on which the vehicle travels based on position information of the vehicle, and specifying, from among pieces of detection range information corresponding to the map information, detection range information corresponding to the detection unit; and controlling the driven state of the vehicle based on the specified detection range information and the external information.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Komori, Satoshi Onodera