Patents by Inventor Makoto NAKAUCHI

Makoto NAKAUCHI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230294760
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus to be applied to a vehicle comprises a running environment recognizer; a preceding vehicle information acquirer that detects a vehicle class and variation in behavior of a preceding vehicle; an amount-of-steering control calculator that calculates an amount of steering control to cause the vehicle to run along a target path of travel set on a lane; a disturbance estimation control calculator that estimates lateral-direction disturbance to calculate an amount of steering against the disturbance based on the estimated disturbance; and a coordination controller that corrects the amount of steering control with the amount of steering. If a rolling direction and a lateral motion direction of the preceding vehicle coincide with each other, the disturbance estimation control calculator determines that the variation in the behavior of the preceding vehicle is caused by the disturbance, and calculates the amount of steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kensuke OSHIMA, Makoto NAKAUCHI, Masaya SAKAMOTO, Yuki YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11400918
    Abstract: A vehicle control device to be installed in a vehicle includes a self-driving controller and a calculator. The self-driving controller is configured to set a target vehicle speed and a target steering angle to allow the vehicle to trace a predetermined target travel locus. The self-driving controller is configured to control the vehicle based on the target vehicle speed and the target steering angle. The calculator is configured to calculate a deviation between an index of an actual vehicle behavior and an index of a reference vehicle behavior. The self-driving controller corrects one or both of the target vehicle speed and the target steering angle in accordance with an increase of the deviation, so as to stabilize the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harunobu Horiguchi, Yuta Ishizuka, Makoto Nakauchi, Ryoichi Mizutani, Masaki Sunagawa
  • Patent number: 11285951
    Abstract: A vehicle brake control apparatus includes a vibration detector configured to detect a predetermined vibration state in a frictional brake device, a power regeneration execution determination unit configured to determine, in a case where the predetermined vibration state is detected by the vibration detector, whether to permit execution of power regeneration by a power generating device or to limit the execution, a pressing force controller configured to change, in a case where the execution of the power regeneration is limited by the power regeneration execution determination unit, a pressing force of a friction material in the frictional brake device, and a driving force cooperative controller configured to adjust a driving force of a vehicle to suppress fluctuation in forward acceleration or backward acceleration of the vehicle associated with a change in the pressing force by the pressing force controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harunobu Horiguchi, Yuta Ishizuka, Makoto Nakauchi, Ryoichi Mizutani, Masaki Sunagawa
  • Publication number: 20220011063
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes an interface and a controller. The interface is configured to acquire a signal that is based on the temperature of the inside of a cooling tower configured to cool a cooling target. The controller is configured to acquire the signal from the interface and calculate the temperature distribution of the inside of the cooling tower. The controller analyzes an abnormal site of the cooling tower based on the temperature distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SUZUKI, Makoto NAKAUCHI, Seiki KAWAZOE
  • Publication number: 20200398846
    Abstract: A vehicle brake control apparatus includes a vibration detector configured to detect a predetermined vibration state in a frictional brake device, a power regeneration execution determination unit configured to determine, in a case where the predetermined vibration state is detected by the vibration detector, whether to permit execution of power regeneration by a power generating device or to limit the execution, a pressing force controller configured to change, in a case where the execution of the power regeneration is limited by the power regeneration execution determination unit, a pressing force of a friction material in the frictional brake device, and a driving force cooperative controller configured to adjust a driving force of a vehicle to suppress fluctuation in forward acceleration or backward acceleration of the vehicle associated with a change in the pressing force by the pressing force controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Harunobu HORIGUCHI, Yuta ISHIZUKA, Makoto NAKAUCHI, Ryoichi MIZUTANI, Masaki SUNAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200307551
    Abstract: A vehicle control device to be installed in a vehicle includes a self-driving controller and a calculator. The self-driving controller is configured to set a target vehicle speed and a target steering angle to allow the vehicle to trace a predetermined target travel locus. The self-driving controller is configured to control the vehicle based on the target vehicle speed and the target steering angle. The calculator is configured to calculate a deviation between an index of an actual vehicle behavior and an index of a reference vehicle behavior. The self-driving controller corrects one or both of the target vehicle speed and the target steering angle in accordance with an increase of the deviation, so as to stabilize the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Harunobu HORIGUCHI, Yuta ISHIZUKA, Makoto NAKAUCHI, Ryoichi MIZUTANI, Masaki SUNAGAWA