Patents by Inventor Koji Takeuchi
Koji Takeuchi 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: 11130460Abstract: A sensor protector includes two stays and a thin-plate shaped separate sheet held by the stays. The stays are provided on a bracket. The bracket holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of the body of a vehicle covered with a bumper cover of the vehicle. The sheet extends such that, in the sensor attached state, the sheet divides/partitions a space around the sensor formed between the outside panel of the body and the bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of the detection surface of the sensor and a lower space which does not contain the detection surface of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Furumoto, Takuto Kumashiro, Takashi Unno, Shinji Takeo, Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20210284065Abstract: A vehicle exit assist apparatus includes: a right BSM ECU configured to issue a warning when a moving object approaching an own vehicle is detected; and a message uttering device including an amplifier and a speaker configured to operate by electric power supplied from an in-vehicle battery, and being configured to utter a sound message in accordance with control of the right BSM ECU. The right BSM ECU is configured to supply electric power to the message uttering device when a generator configured to charge the in-vehicle battery is operating, and bring the power supply to the message uttering device to an OFF state when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the generator is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Iwao Izumikawa, Koji Takeuchi, Masaho Ishida
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Patent number: 11022674Abstract: If a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is equipped with four radars disposed at each of the four corners of the body of a vehicle in order to detect an object around the vehicle, the interfere of the radio waves of the radars likely to occur. As a result, the accuracy for detecting an object by the radars will deteriorate. Specifically, if two of detection areas are adjacent to each other of the radars overlaps with each other and the two of the radars transmits radio waves at the same time, the interfere of the radio waves will occur in the overlapping area. In view of this, the four radars are divided into two groups such that the detection areas of two radars within the group aren't adjacent to each other and transmission period of one of the groups and that of the other of the groups are repeated alternately.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Koji Takeuchi, Takuya Kaminade, Yoji Honma
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Patent number: 10994654Abstract: A rear pre-crash safety system of a vehicle comprising a judgement logic adapted to issue at least one collision warning signal in response to a detected radar signal reflected by an object approaching the vehicle from behind depending on a radar cross section, RCS, of the approaching object and depending on a velocity of the approaching object relative to the respective vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: Continental Automotive GmbH, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gladys Acervo, Koji Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10793147Abstract: A radar ECU 13 gives priorities based on predicted collision times TTC and priorities based on relative distances D to all moving objects (S13), and selects 4 (four) moving objects in ascending order of the predicted collision times TTC (S14). The radar ECU 13 selects 5 (five) in ascending order of the relative distances D among the moving objects other than the moving object selected at S14 (S15). The radar ECU 13 transmits object information on the moving objects selected at S13 and S14 to a driving support ECU 20 (S16). The driving support ECU 20 performs various driving support controls based on the transmitted object information.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Takuya Kaminade, Koji Takeuchi, Atsushi Kido
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Patent number: 10723353Abstract: Rear lateral detection (RLL) ECU 10 determines whether or not a lane change assist control (LCA) is being performed. The RLDECU 10 sets a performing condition for performing a rear-end pre-crash safety control (rear PCS control) to a moderate performing condition when the LCA is being performed, and sets the performing condition of the rear PCS control to a normal performing condition when the LCA is not being performed. The moderate performing condition is set such that the rear PCS control is performed more easily compared with the normal performing condition. For example, in the moderate performing condition, a detection area of a target vehicle which is a vehicle subject to the rear PCS control is expanded compared with the detection area in the normal performing condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20200207269Abstract: A rear pre-crash system, RPCS, of a subject vehicle comprising a judgement logic adapted to trigger an RPCS warning signal in response to a detected radar signal reflected by a target vehicle approaching the subject vehicle from behind, wherein said judgement logic is configured to modify the triggering of the RPCS warning signal in detected specific traffic scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: Continental Automotive GmbH, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gladys Acervo, Koji Takeuchi, Junya Fukuta
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Publication number: 20200172011Abstract: A rear pre-crash safety system of a vehicle comprising a judgement logic adapted to issue at least one collision warning signal in response to a detected radar signal reflected by an object approaching the vehicle from behind depending on a radar cross section, RCS, of the approaching object and depending on a velocity of the approaching object relative to the respective vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2017Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicants: Continental Automotive GmbH, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gladys Acervo, Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20200101916Abstract: A sensor protector includes two stays and a thin-plate shaped separate sheet held by the stays. The stays are provided on a bracket. The bracket holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of the body of a vehicle covered with a bumper cover of the vehicle. The sheet extends such that, in the sensor attached state, the sheet divides/partitions a space around the sensor formed between the outside panel of the body and the bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of the detection surface of the sensor and a lower space which does not contain the detection surface of the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Kenji FURUMOTO, Takuto KUMASHIRO, Takashi UNNO, Shinji TAKEO, Koji TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 10399522Abstract: There is provided a mounting structure of a vehicle periphery monitoring device, the structure including (i) a front bumper reinforcement of a vehicle, (ii) a headlamp having a lamp housing, the headlamp being disposed further in a vehicle body upward direction than the front bumper reinforcement and at an outward end section in the vehicle width direction of the vehicle, (iii) a vehicle component disposed further in a vehicle body downward direction than the headlamp, and (iv) a vehicle periphery monitoring device disposed further in a vehicle body downward direction than a lower surface of the lamp housing, the vehicle periphery monitoring device separated by a first gap from an outward end surface in the vehicle width direction of the front bumper reinforcement, and being separated by a second gap from an upward end surface of the vehicle component.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Kaminade, Koji Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10239110Abstract: A method of manufacturing a large- or medium-sized wheel disk including using a punch or die in a first step of ironing a blank of a flat plate to a first-stage product. The first-stage product having a cylindrical rising portion with an axially non-constant thickness. The rising portion includes a thick portion located at a tip portion of the rising portion and a thickness-reduced portion which is a remaining portion of the rising portion excluding the thick portion. During the first step, only a portion of the blank corresponding to the thickness-reduced portion is ironed.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Topy Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kikuya Itou, Koji Takeuchi, Yoshio Suzui
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Publication number: 20190084558Abstract: A radar ECU 13 gives priorities based on predicted collision times TTC and priorities based on relative distances D to all moving objects (S13), and selects 4 (four) moving objects in ascending order of the predicted collision times TTC (S14). The radar ECU 13 selects 5 (five) in ascending order of the relative distances D among the moving objects other than the moving object selected at S14 (S15). The radar ECU 13 transmits object information on the moving objects selected at S13 and S14 to a driving support ECU 20 (S16). The driving support ECU 20 performs various driving support controls based on the transmitted object information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Takuya KAMINADE, Koji TAKEUCHI, Atsushi KIDO
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Publication number: 20190086511Abstract: If a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is equipped with four radars disposed at each of the four corners of the body of a vehicle in order to detect an object around the vehicle, the interfere of the radio waves of the radars likely to occur. As a result, the accuracy for detecting an object by the radars will deteriorate. Specifically, if two of detection areas are adjacent to each other of the radars overlaps with each other and the two of the radars transmits radio waves at the same time, the interfere of the radio waves will occur in the overlapping area. In view of this, the four radars are divided into two groups such that the detection areas of two radars within the group aren't adjacent to each other and transmission period of one of the groups and that of the other of the groups are repeated alternately.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Koji TAKEUCHI, Takuya KAMINADE, Yoji HONMA
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Patent number: 10144050Abstract: A method of manufacturing a large- or medium-sized wheel disk including using a punch or die in a first step of ironing a blank of a flat plate to a first-stage product. The first-stage product having a cylindrical rising portion with an axially non-constant thickness. The rising portion includes a thick portion located at a tip portion of the rising portion and a thickness-reduced portion which is a remaining portion of the rising portion excluding the thick portion. During the first step, only a portion of the blank corresponding to the thickness-reduced portion is ironed.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TOPY KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kikuya Itou, Koji Takeuchi, Yoshio Suzui
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Publication number: 20180257646Abstract: Rear lateral detection (RLL) ECU 10 determines whether or not a lane change assist control (LCA) is being performed. The RLDECU 10 sets a performing condition for performing a rear-end pre-crash safety control (rear PCS control) to a moderate performing condition when the LCA is being performed, and sets the performing condition of the rear PCS control to a normal performing condition when the LCA, is not being performed. The moderate performing condition is set such that the rear PCS control is performed more easily compared with the normal performing condition. For example, in the moderate performing condition, a detection area of a target vehicle which is a vehicle subject to the rear PCS control is expanded compared with the detection area in the normal performing condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventor: Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20180162306Abstract: There is provided a mounting structure of a vehicle periphery monitoring device, the structure including (i) a front bumper reinforcement of a vehicle, (ii) a headlamp having a lamp housing, the headlamp being disposed further in a vehicle body upward direction than the front bumper reinforcement and at an outward end section in the vehicle width direction of the vehicle, (iii) a vehicle component disposed further in a vehicle body downward direction than the headlamp, and (iv) a vehicle periphery monitoring device disposed further in a vehicle body downward direction than a lower surface of the lamp housing, the vehicle periphery monitoring device separated by a first gap from an outward end surface in the vehicle width direction of the front bumper reinforcement, and being separated by a second gap from an upward end surface of the vehicle component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Kaminade, Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20170355009Abstract: A method of manufacturing a large- or medium-sized wheel disk including using a punch or die in a first step of ironing a blank of a flat plate to a first-stage product. The first-stage product having a cylindrical rising portion with an axially non-constant thickness. The rising portion includes a thick portion located at a tip portion of the rising portion and a thickness-reduced portion which is a remaining portion of the rising portion excluding the thick portion. During the first step, only a portion of the blank corresponding to the thickness-reduced portion is ironed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: TOPY KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kikuya ITOU, Koji TAKEUCHI, Yoshio SUZUI
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Patent number: 9824585Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes an obstacle detection unit to detect an obstacle ahead of a vehicle; an approaching object detection unit to detect an approaching object approaching the vehicle from behind the vehicle; and an electronic control unit to calculate a collision time until the vehicle collides with the obstacle, based on the distance and relative speed of the obstacle, and starts a drive support to avoid a collision with the obstacle when the vehicle speed is a lower limit speed or greater, and the collision time is a threshold or less. When there is a likelihood for the object to collide with the vehicle from behind the vehicle, the electronic control unit lowers the lower limit speed, and/or starts drive support when the collision time is the threshold or less, even when the vehicle speed is less than the lower limit speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20160240084Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes an obstacle detection unit to detect an obstacle ahead of a vehicle; an approaching object detection unit to detect an approaching object approaching the vehicle from behind the vehicle; and an electronic control unit to calculate a collision time until the vehicle collides with the obstacle, based on the distance and relative speed of the obstacle, and starts a drive support to avoid a collision with the obstacle when the vehicle speed is a lower limit speed or greater, and the collision time is a threshold or less. When there is a likelihood for the object to collide with the vehicle from behind the vehicle, the electronic control unit lowers the lower limit speed, and/or starts drive support when the collision time is the threshold or less, even when the vehicle speed is less than the lower limit speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 9248488Abstract: A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material. The lower die contact portion includes, in the middle portion thereof, a groove portion formed to have a size which allows a moving means to grip the bent material in non-contact relation with the bent material.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Takeuchi, Masashi Nakano, Chihiro Kitamoto, Shunsuke Suzuki, Hirotoshi Hamada