Patents by Inventor Kensuke INAMOTO

Kensuke INAMOTO 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: 12233869
    Abstract: A vehicle travel assistance system includes a travel assistance control unit, an operation unit, and a travel assistance setting unit. The travel assistance control unit is configured to perform travel assistance in a braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode and an automatic cruise control mode. The travel assistance setting unit supplies, to the travel assistance control unit, setting information of travel assistance in response to the received operation under a condition that the operation received by the operation unit is for selecting the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode, the travel assistance setting unit automatically supplies setting information of the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode to the travel assistance control unit regardless of the operation in a case where a speed of the vehicle becomes an automatic deactivation speed or higher and thereafter becomes an automatic reactivation speed or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsuki Manita, Kensuke Inamoto
  • Publication number: 20230014274
    Abstract: A vehicle travel assistance system includes a travel assistance control unit, an operation unit, and a travel assistance setting unit. The travel assistance control unit is configured to perform travel assistance in a braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode and an automatic cruise control mode. The travel assistance setting unit supplies, to the travel assistance control unit, setting information of travel assistance in response to the received operation under a condition that the operation received by the operation unit is for selecting the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode, the travel assistance setting unit automatically supplies setting information of the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode to the travel assistance control unit regardless of the operation in a case where a speed of the vehicle becomes an automatic deactivation speed or higher and thereafter becomes an automatic reactivation speed or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Natsuki MANITA, Kensuke INAMOTO