Patents by Inventor Mitsunori Nishino

Mitsunori Nishino 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: 11932092
    Abstract: A power door device includes: a motor actuator to open/close a vehicle door; a controller to control driving of the motor actuator and include an abnormal state dealing unit; an information unit to acquire information about a vertical vehicle acceleration, and a motor load for the motor actuator; and a diagnostic unit to generate an abnormal signal when the motor load exceeds a predetermined load threshold and when the vertical acceleration does not exceed an predetermined acceleration threshold. When the motor load exceeds the load threshold and the vertical vehicle acceleration does not exceed a predetermined acceleration threshold, the diagnostic unit diagnoses an abnormality generates the abnormal signal. The abnormal state dealing unit performs the abnormal dealing control including stop movement during the door opening/closing in response to the abnormal signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kaneda, Mitsunori Nishino, Nobuyuki Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230304351
    Abstract: A power door device includes: a motor actuator to open/close a vehicle door; a controller to control driving of the motor actuator and include an abnormal state dealing unit; an information unit to acquire information about a vertical vehicle acceleration, and a motor load for the motor actuator; and a diagnostic unit to generate an abnormal signal when the motor load exceeds a predetermined load threshold and when the vertical acceleration does not exceed an predetermined acceleration threshold. When the motor load exceeds the load threshold and the vertical vehicle acceleration does not exceed a predetermined acceleration threshold, the diagnostic unit diagnoses an abnormality generates the abnormal signal. The abnormal state dealing unit performs the abnormal dealing control including stop movement during the door opening/closing in response to the abnormal signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230287726
    Abstract: A door opening and closing assisting apparatus that assists an opening and closing operation of a door on a vehicle is provided. The door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing acceleration of the door; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; and a controller that performs driving control for the door actuator based on the target assisting power. The controller starts the driving control for the door actuator at a timing at which the information obtainer obtains the opening and closing acceleration of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230287725
    Abstract: A door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing velocity of a door on a vehicle; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; and a controller that performs driving control for the door actuator based on the target assisting power. The target assisting power computer calculates, based on the opening and closing velocity of the door obtained by the information obtainer, a standard assisting power which is assisting power required to maintain the opening and closing velocity, makes a correction by decreasing the calculated standard assisting power according to a predetermined rule, and sets the standard assisting power after the decrease correction as the target assisting power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230097220
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a determination unit for determining, based on an image captured by a first camera with a first resolution, whether an object around a vehicle is a person or not; and a camera activation unit for activating a second camera when an image of the person as the object enters within a first area corresponding to a range of a first predetermined distance from the vehicle on the captured image, the second camera having a second resolution higher than the first resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Haisong Liu, Ryo Morosawa, Seonghun Lee, Masahiro Tanigawa, Kenya Sakurai, Eiji Hirano, Yuki Kagiya, Koji Nomura, Yuji Tsuchiya, Mitsunori Nishino, Toshihiro Kaneda, Kenji Okuma
  • Publication number: 20190106911
    Abstract: A latch device for a vehicle, which is capable of suppressing a butting sound and abnormal noise caused when a closing member is released from the closed position, is provided. The latch device for a vehicle has a driving mechanism to move the ratchet to the engagement-released position after the restraint member is driven in a restrained direction that is a direction to a restrained position from a released position when an operation for releasing a striker is done while the striker is being restrained by engaging the restraint member located at the restrained position with the ratchet located at an engagement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180363359
    Abstract: A vehicle door non-contact open apparatus includes: a detection part, a control part, and an actuator. The detection part detects an object and measures a distance to the object. The control part stores the distance which is measured by the detection part as an initial value and outputs a door open signal according to the stored initial value. The actuator opens a door to the object according to the door open signal from the control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Tomonori Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kishikawa, Kenji Shioiri, Mitsunori Nishino, Yoichi Katayama