Patents by Inventor Koichiro Wada
Koichiro Wada 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: 11958506Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a position of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle and to cause the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes in which tasks imposed on an occupant of the vehicle are different, and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode which is to be performed by the driving controller. The recognizer recognizes first road information including road marking objects near the vehicle with respect to a position of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from an external sensor, recognizes second road information including road marking objects near the vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the vehicle, and performs a process of recognizing the position of the vehicle through matching between the first road information and the second road information.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koichiro Wada, Yudai Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11867527Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an imaging device, a map generating unit, and an own lane identifying unit. The own lane identifying unit is configured to identify one lane as an own lane on a map in a case where the one lane is an only lane present in a specific area on the map, compare a type of a delimiting line of a captured own lane with types of delimiting lines of a plurality of lanes on the map in a case where the plurality of lanes are present in the specific area on the map, and identify one of the plurality of lanes on the map as the own lane on the map in a case where the type of the delimiting line of the captured own lane matches only a type of a delimiting line of the one of the plurality of lanes on the map.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Koichiro Wada
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Publication number: 20230347942Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a position of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle and to cause the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes in which tasks imposed on an occupant of the vehicle are different, and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode which is to be performed by the driving controller. The recognizer recognizes first road information including road marking objects near the vehicle with respect to a position of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from an external sensor, recognizes second road information including road marking objects near the vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the vehicle, and performs a process of recognizing the position of the vehicle through matching between the first road information and the second road information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koichiro Wada, Yudai Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20230233597Abstract: Provided is a diagnostic drug for evaluating permeability of intestinal mucosa, including chitin and/or chitosan as a main component. The chitin and/or chitosan to be used preferably has a weight average molecular weight prepared to a range of from 1,000 to 11,600.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Koichiro WADA, Haruki USUDA, Morihiko NAKAMURA, Yoshimori TAKAMORI, Seiji KUROZUMI
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Patent number: 11600425Abstract: One object is to increase the filling factor of magnetic particles and increase the evenness of distribution of the magnetic particles in a magnetic main body of a coil component. A coil component includes: a magnetic main body containing a resin and magnetic particles; and a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic main body. The magnetic particles include large-sized magnetic particles, middle-sized magnetic particles, and small-sized magnetic particles. The proportion of the volume of the large-sized magnetic particles to the total volume of all the magnetic particles is 70 vol % to 85 vol %, the proportion of the volume of the middle-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %, and the proportion of the volume of the small-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %. The particle size distribution of the small-sized magnetic particles overlaps that of the middle-sized magnetic particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Motoki Matsui, Hideki Ogawa, Tomoo Kashiwa
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Publication number: 20220315053Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment recognizes that a first other lane is present at a position of a first other vehicle on the basis of a first relative distance between an own vehicle and the first other vehicle, recognizes an advancing direction of the first other lane on the basis of a first relative speed between the own vehicle and the first other vehicle, in a case where the recognized advancing direction of the first other lane is opposite to an advancing direction of an own lane, determines whether or not an adjacent lane of the own lane is an oncoming lane on the basis of at least two of the first relative distance, a second relative speed between the own vehicle and a second other vehicle, and map information including an advancing direction of a lane and the number of lanes, and in a case where it is determined that the adjacent lane is an oncoming lane, continues driving assistance or automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Koichiro Wada
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Publication number: 20220315039Abstract: A vehicle control device controls automated driving of a vehicle and includes a processor configured to execute a program to acquire map information including information of lanes and reference information for identifying a position of the vehicle, determine a travel lane in which the vehicle is traveling in the map information based on the acquired reference information; determine lane candidates in which the vehicle is traveling in the map information based on the reference information when the travel lane has not been identified, and maintain a current control level of the automated driving when an event in which the control level needs to be changed does not occur in any one of the lane candidates and lower the control level when the event occurs in at least one of the lane candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Koichiro Wada
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Publication number: 20220306098Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage device configured to store a program, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle including a road division line and a surrounding vehicle, to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle based on at least the road division line without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and to determine whether occlusion, in which at least a part of the road division line is shielded, has occurred, based on the road division line and a position of the surrounding vehicle present in front of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Sho Tamura
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Publication number: 20220215674Abstract: A position determination device comprises a camera to capture an image ahead of a vehicle. The position determination device acquires position of the vehicle; estimates a first position of the vehicle, based on a position of a lane included in the image, the position of the vehicle that has been acquired, and map information; estimates a second position of the vehicle, based on a position of the vehicle that was determined most recently and a movement amount of the vehicle; and synthesizes the first position and the second position to determine the position of the vehicle, wherein the device weights the second position while the vehicle is traveling at a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed, and synthesizes the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Koichiro Wada
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Publication number: 20220205810Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an imaging device, a map generating unit, and an own lane identifying unit. The own lane identifying unit is configured to identify one lane as an own lane on a map in a case where the one lane is an only lane present in a specific area on the map, compare a type of a delimiting line of a captured own lane with types of delimiting lines of a plurality of lanes on the map in a case where the plurality of lanes are present in the specific area on the map, and identify one of the plurality of lanes on the map as the own lane on the map in a case where the type of the delimiting line of the captured own lane matches only a type of a delimiting line of the one of the plurality of lanes on the map.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventor: Koichiro Wada
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Publication number: 20220205789Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a movement amount calculating unit configured to calculate a movement amount of a vehicle by using dead reckoning, an imaging device configured to capture an image of a travel route on which the vehicle is traveling, a map generating unit configured to generate a map of a surrounding area of the vehicle, and an own vehicle position estimating unit configured to estimate a position of the vehicle on the map. The own vehicle position estimating unit is configured to calculate a first own vehicle position based on the movement amount of the vehicle calculated by the movement amount calculating unit, calculate a second own vehicle position by comparing the image captured by the imaging device with the map, and estimate the position of the vehicle on the map based on the first own vehicle position and the second own vehicle position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventor: Koichiro WADA
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Publication number: 20220207886Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of a travel route on which a vehicle is traveling, and a delimiting line estimating unit configured to estimate a position of a delimiting line on the travel route based on the image captured by the imaging device. The delimiting line estimating unit is configured to generate a first delimiting point sequence, generate a second delimiting point sequence that is offset rearward in a vehicle travel direction with respect to the first delimiting point sequence, generate a corrected delimiting point sequence based on the first delimiting point sequence and the second delimiting point sequence, and estimate the position of the delimiting line on the travel route based on the corrected delimiting point sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventor: Koichiro WADA
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Publication number: 20220204023Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a map generating unit configured to generate a map of a surrounding area of a vehicle, and a road shoulder determining unit configured to determine whether the vehicle has entered a road shoulder on the map. The road shoulder determining unit is configured to identify an own lane on which the vehicle is traveling on the map, determine whether an adjacent lane adjacent to the own lane is present on the map, determine whether the vehicle has crossed an own delimiting line that delimits the own lane on the map, and determine that the vehicle has entered the road shoulder on the map upon determining that the adjacent lane is not present on one lateral side of the own lane and that the vehicle has crossed the own delimiting line on the one lateral side.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventor: Koichiro WADA
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Publication number: 20210132074Abstract: Provided is a diagnostic drug for evaluating permeability of intestinal mucosa, including chitin and/or chitosan as a main component. The chitin and/or chitosan to be used preferably has a weight average molecular weight prepared to a range of from 1,000 to 11,600.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Koichiro WADA, Haruki USUDA, Morihiko NAKAMURA, Yoshimori TAKAMORI, Seiji KUROZUMI
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Publication number: 20210118603Abstract: One object is to increase the filling factor of magnetic particles and increase the evenness of distribution of the magnetic particles in a magnetic main body of a coil component. A coil component includes: a magnetic main body containing a resin and magnetic particles; and a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic main body. The magnetic particles include large-sized magnetic particles, middle-sized magnetic particles, and small-sized magnetic particles. The proportion of the volume of the large-sized magnetic particles to the total volume of all the magnetic particles is 70 vol % to 85 vol %, the proportion of the volume of the middle-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %, and the proportion of the volume of the small-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %. The particle size distribution of the small-sized magnetic particles overlaps that of the middle-sized magnetic particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Koichiro WADA, Motoki MATSUI, Hideki OGAWA, Tomoo KASHIWA
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Patent number: 10910141Abstract: One object is to increase the filling factor of magnetic particles and increase the evenness of distribution of the magnetic particles in a magnetic main body of a coil component. A coil component includes: a magnetic main body containing a resin and magnetic particles; and a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic main body. The magnetic particles include large-sized magnetic particles, middle-sized magnetic particles, and small-sized magnetic particles. The proportion of the volume of the large-sized magnetic particles to the total volume of all the magnetic particles is 70 vol % to 85 vol %, the proportion of the volume of the middle-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %, and the proportion of the volume of the small-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %. The particle size distribution of the small-sized magnetic particles overlaps that of the middle-sized magnetic particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Motoki Matsui, Hideki Ogawa, Tomoo Kashiwa
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Patent number: 10800303Abstract: A operation knob device (10) for an armrest, that is configured to unlock the armrest and moves the armrest to a useable state, includes: a knob min body (30) having an operation knob (32); and an inner case (50) disposed around the knob main body (30) and configured to expose the operation knob (32) from a first opening (55). The inner case (50) includes a plurality of case protrusions (60) that protrude from a lower region (54a) of a lower edge of the first opening (55) toward the knob main body (30). The knob main body (30) includes a plurality of main body protrusions (40) that protrude toward the lower region (54a) of the inner case (50). The plurality of case protrusions (60) and the plurality of main body protrusions (40) are alternately disposed when viewed in a +Z direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., LEAR CORPORATION JAPAN LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Zhengda Mao, Anand Patil, Masao Sebata, Chunhua Hu, XiaoZhong Wu, YuLiang Wang, Cheng Peng
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Publication number: 20190184874Abstract: A operation knob device (10) for an armrest, that is configured to unlock the armrest and moves the armrest to a useable state, includes: a knob min body (30) having an operation knob (32); and an inner case (50) disposed around the knob main body (30) and configured to expose the operation knob (32) from a first opening (55). The inner case (50) includes a plurality of case protrusions (60) that protrude from a lower region (54a) of a lower edge of the first opening (55) toward the knob main body (30). The knob main body (30) includes a plurality of main body protrusions (40) that protrude toward the lower region (54a) of the inner case (50). The plurality of case protrusions (60) and the plurality of main body protrusions (40) are alternately disposed when viewed in a +Z direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Lear Corporation Japan Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Zhengda Mao, Anand Patil, Masao Sebata, Chunhua Hu, XiaoZhong Wu, YuLiang Wang, Cheng Peng
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Publication number: 20190051445Abstract: One object is to increase the filling factor of magnetic particles and increase the evenness of distribution of the magnetic particles in a magnetic main body of a coil component. A coil component includes: a magnetic main body containing a resin and magnetic particles; and a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic main body. The magnetic particles include large-sized magnetic particles, middle-sized magnetic particles, and small-sized magnetic particles. The proportion of the volume of the large-sized magnetic particles to the total volume of all the magnetic particles is 70 vol % to 85 vol %, the proportion of the volume of the middle-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %, and the proportion of the volume of the small-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %. The particle size distribution of the small-sized magnetic particles overlaps that of the middle-sized magnetic particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Koichiro WADA, Motoki MATSUI, Hideki OGAWA, Tomoo KASHIWA
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Patent number: 10131258Abstract: A pair of brackets (25, 30) are provided on either side of a seat back frame (10), each bracket defining a support hole (27, 31) for rotatably supporting a support shaft (41) of an arm rest, and a guide slot (28, 32) for guiding a corresponding guide pin (42B, 42C) of the arm rest along an arcuate path centered around the corresponding support hole. The two guide slots are offset from each other, and the guide pins are offset from each other in a corresponding manner in side view so that the two brackets may be offset from each other. Thereby, the layout of the brackets for rotatably supporting the arm rest can be selected in an advantageous manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: TS TECH CO., LTD., HONDA R&D CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Akai, Shigekazu Otake, Koichiro Wada, Daiga Ito