Patents by Inventor Masataka Okuda

Masataka Okuda 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: 20240140478
    Abstract: An information processing device configured to communicate with an external service provider includes a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding communication quality necessary for executing an external service from the external service provider, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a predetermined database, information on the communication quality necessary for executing the external service based on the request received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the external service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240134381
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, the first vehicle control being control based on the instruction related to the remote control, and the second vehicle control being control determined by the vehicle itself in accordance with a traveling environment, and a transmission unit for notifying a predetermined control result to the control device when the second vehicle control is executed by the vehicle control unit. The control device includes a remote control unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. When the control result is notified from the vehicle, the remote control unit of the control device executes the remote control based on a content of the control result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11941247
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a control unit that is electrically connected to the non-volatile memory and that is configured to control the non-volatile memory. The control unit is configured to manage a plurality of management areas obtained by logically partitioning storage area of the non-volatile memory, when a write request is received that includes data for which a valid term has been set, determine, based on the valid term, a first management area from among the management areas, write the data included in the write request to the determined first management area, and when the data written to the first management area is erased, collectively erase all data written in the first management area which includes the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Yohei Hasegawa, Shinichi Kanno, Kohei Okuda, Masataka Goto
  • Publication number: 20240080702
    Abstract: A communication control device for performing communication with a plurality of vehicles, comprising: a communication unit that performs communication including acquisition of vehicle data with a plurality of vehicles; a database that stores data for forming a digital twin that is time-synchronized with a real space on a virtual space based on vehicle data acquired by the communication unit; and a control unit that controls a frequency of communication performed by the communication unit, wherein when there is a first vehicle in which a distance from a surrounding object is less than a first threshold value on the digital twin, the control unit increases a frequency of communication performed between the first vehicle and the surrounding object than when the distance between the first vehicle and the surrounding object is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240073104
    Abstract: A system includes: a server; and a moving body wherein, the server is configured to communicate with the moving body, predict occurrence of a loss of communication with the moving body, and send information necessary to execute a first process to the moving body when the loss of communication with the moving body is predicted to occur; and the moving body is configured to receive the information from the server, and execute the first process based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanade KURIYAMA, Masataka OKUDA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI
  • Publication number: 20240071227
    Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240056845
    Abstract: A communication abnormality determination device mounted on a vehicle that communicates with a server includes a detection unit that detects that a communication disruption occurs between the vehicle and the server, and a determination unit that determines a cause of occurrence of the communication disruption based on a communication strength at a first position at which the communication disruption occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masataka OKUDA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240040600
    Abstract: A vehicle communication control device that communicates with a plurality of vehicles, the vehicle communication control device including: a database generated from data acquired from the vehicles; and a control unit that controls data acquired from the vehicles based on information regarding a state of an own vehicle acquired from the vehicles and a completeness of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240015078
    Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Masatoshi KAKUTANI
  • Publication number: 20240010214
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing system includes a vehicle information processing device mounted on a vehicle, a first external information processing device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of vehicle control applications configured to output control commands to control target devices of the vehicle, and an arbitration unit provided in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The vehicle control applications are installed in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The arbitration unit is configured to arbitrate the control commands for a predetermined one of the control target devices to determine one control command. The control commands for the predetermined one of the control target devices are obtained by the vehicle control applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki MAKI, Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kosuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230254725
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes communication equipment configured to transmit a plurality of signals to a vehicle using a plurality of communication paths, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a communication latency for each of the communication paths, and determine a communication path to allocate to each of the signals based on the communication latency that is acquired. The communication equipment is configured to execute transmission of each of the signals to the vehicle using the communication path that is allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masataka OKUDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230125426
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to perform communication with a plurality of vehicles, transmit and receive data to and from the vehicles, acquire a communication delay time between the vehicle control device and a controlled vehicle that is a target of remote control among the vehicles, based on the transmitted and received data, and generate a control signal to be transmitted to the controlled vehicle for the remote control based on the communication delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11597434
    Abstract: An actuator that applies force to a member associated with steering, and a control device that controls the actuator, have duplex configuration. First and second control devices compute the same controlled variable as first and second controlled variables, respectively. In a normal mode, the control device controls the actuator according to the first controlled variable. The first and second control devices send and receive respectively computed controlled variables to and from each other via communications. When a discrepancy arises between the first and second controlled variables, or an abnormality occurs in communications between the first and second control devices, the operating mode is switched from the normal mode to an independent mode. In the independent mode, the first and second control devices control the first and second actuators, according to the first and second controlled variables, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Sato, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Shunsuke Hiromasa, Toshiyuki Mikida, Shoji Kubota, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 11565746
    Abstract: An actuator that applies force to a member associated with steering, and a control device that controls the actuator, have duplex configuration. First and second control devices compute the same controlled variable as first and second controlled variables, respectively. In a normal mode, the control device controls the actuator according to the first controlled variable. The first and second control devices send and receive respectively computed controlled variables to and from each other via communications. When a discrepancy arises between the first and second controlled variables, or an abnormality occurs in communications between the first and second control devices, the operating mode is switched from the normal mode to an independent mode. In the independent mode, the first and second control devices control the first and second actuators, according to the first and second controlled variables, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Sato, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Shunsuke Hiromasa, Toshiyuki Mikida, Shoji Kubota, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230001983
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a dual-system steering device including two systems each of which includes an electric motor as a drive source, the steering device being configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control a current to be supplied to each of the electric motors of the respective two systems so as to cause the steering device to steer the wheel in accordance with an operation of the operating member, wherein the controller is configured to prohibit the current greater than an upper limit value from being supplied to the electric motors of the respective two systems, and wherein, when the wheel is steered only by only one of the two systems, the controller raises the upper limit value of the current to be supplied to the electric motor of the one of the two systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT Corporation, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu YAMASHITA, Masataka OKUDA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Yuji FUJITA, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Kenichi ABE, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Takeshi IWANA
  • Publication number: 20220332368
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a steering device including an electric motor and configured to steer a wheel by a force generated by the electric motor; a controller configured to control the steering device, wherein the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operating member while imposing limitation on a supply current to the electric motor, and wherein the limitation imposed on the supply current is made smaller when a running speed of the vehicle is lower than a set speed and a steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to decrease a steering amount than i) when the running speed of the vehicle is not lower than the set speed and ii) when the steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to increase the steering amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT Corporation, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Yuji Fujita, Yuuta Kajisawa, Kenichi Abe, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11332140
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system, including: a two-system reaction force applying device including two reaction force controllers and configured to obtain operation information and apply an operation reaction force; a two-system steering device including two steering controllers and configured to steer a wheel; an operation information obtaining device; an auxiliary steering device capable of changing a direction of a vehicle; two dedicated communication lines one of which information-transmittably and information-receivably connects one of the two reaction force controllers and one of the two steering controllers to each other, and the other of which information-transmittably and information-receivably connects the other of the two reaction force controllers and the other of the two steering controllers to each other; and a first communication bus to which the operation information obtaining device is at least information-transmittably connected and to which the two steering controllers and the auxiliary stee
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Shoji Kubota, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220063712
    Abstract: An electric power source device includes an auxiliary electric power source for a main electric power source that supplies electric power to electric power supply targets, including an electric circuit of a control system for controlling a specific control target and an electric circuit of a power system that requires larger electric power than the electric circuit of the control system; and a selection circuit configured to supply the electric power from one electric power source having a higher voltage, out of the main electric power source and the auxiliary electric power source, to at least the electric circuit of the control system among the electric power supply targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Fumihiko SATO, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Atsushi SATOU, Masataka OKUDA, Toshiyuki MIKIDA, Hiroaki HANZAWA
  • Patent number: 11146255
    Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a first P-channel MOSFET and a first voltage application circuit. The first P-channel MOSFET is provided between an on-board power supply and a vehicular apparatus that is a power supply target, and is configured to switch a power-ON state in which electric power is supplied to the vehicular apparatus and a power-OFF state in which the supply of the electric power is interrupted. The first voltage application circuit is configured to apply a voltage having a potential lower than a potential of the on-board power supply to a gate terminal such that a state of the first P-channel MOSFET is switched to the power-ON state, and apply a voltage having a potential equal to the potential of the on-board power supply to the gate terminal such that the state of the first P-channel MOSFET is switched to the power-OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko Sato, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroaki Hanzawa, Masataka Okuda, Toshiyuki Mikida
  • Patent number: 11139679
    Abstract: An auxiliary power source device includes a main power source-side path, an auxiliary power source-side path, a power source control circuit, an analog determination circuit that is provided separately from the power source control circuit, and a power source switching circuit. The power source control circuit controls switching between a conduction state and an interruption state on the main power source-side path and the auxiliary power source-side path. The analog determination circuit determines an occurrence of abnormality in the main power source and generates a switching signal when the occurrence of the abnormality in the main power source is determined. The power source switching circuit switches a power source for supplying power to a power supply target, from the main power source to the auxiliary power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumihiko Sato, Masataka Okuda, Toshiyuki Mikida, Hiroaki Hanzawa