Patents by Inventor Norio Tsuchida
Norio Tsuchida 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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Publication number: 20220306108Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit configured to, in a case where a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle in a stopped state starts, determine whether an object is located inside a specified area that is a predetermined area in front of the vehicle, and a driving assistance unit configured to maintain the stopped state of the vehicle in a case where an object is located inside the specified area in a case where the preceding vehicle starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Norio TSUCHIDA, Naoki KUSUMOTO, Yuki TEZUKA
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Publication number: 20220306111Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to: execute vehicle speed maintaining control for causing the vehicle speed to coincide with a set vehicle speed; start first control, for causing the acceleration to coincide with target acceleration for keeping maintaining acceleration no higher than limit acceleration, or second control, for controlling the acceleration such that the vehicle speed is kept no higher than a limit vehicle speed lower than the set vehicle speed, as limit control when a traffic signal correlated distance correlated with a traffic signal distance to a stop instructing traffic signal is determined to become a first threshold or less during execution of the vehicle speed maintaining control; and suspend the vehicle speed maintaining control and the limit control when a driver operates a deceleration operator during execution of the limit control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shota KUROKI, Toshihiro Maruyama, Tomohiko Inoue, Norio Tsuchida
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Patent number: 11433888Abstract: A driving support system detects a deceleration object ahead and starts deceleration assistance for a host vehicle. The driving support system includes a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate a reliability of detection of the deceleration object, an assistance mode selection unit configured to select an assistance mode of the deceleration assistance from among multiple assistance modes in accordance with the calculated reliability of detection, and a driving support unit configured to perform the deceleration assistance in the selected assistance mode. The assistance mode selection unit is configured to select a first assistance mode when the reliability of detection is lower than a predetermined reliability threshold and select a second assistance mode higher in a level of the deceleration assistance than the first assistance mode when the reliability of detection is higher than or equal to the reliability threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Yuta Ikezawa, Norio Tsuchida
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Patent number: 11383710Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus performing an automatic driving of a vehicle includes: a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle information related to a nearby vehicle; a setting unit that sets an intervehicle margin between the vehicle and the nearby vehicle by using the vehicle information, and determines a change timing of a travelling speed of the vehicle depending on the intervehicle margin; and a driving control unit that performs in a lane change operation, a control of changing the travelling speed of the vehicle at the change timing, and a control of an intervehicle distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle of the vehicle after the lane change operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Norio Tsuchida, Youhei Masui
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Publication number: 20200339118Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus performing an automatic driving of a vehicle includes: a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle information related to a nearby vehicle; a setting unit that sets an intervehicle margin between the vehicle and the nearby vehicle by using the vehicle information, and determines a change timing of a travelling speed of the vehicle depending on the intervehicle margin; and a driving control unit that performs in a lane change operation, a control of changing the travelling speed of the vehicle at the change timing, and a control of an intervehicle distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle of the vehicle after the lane change operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Norio TSUCHIDA, Youhei MASUI
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Patent number: 9650040Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus includes an object detecting section for detecting a collision object present in front of an own vehicle on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, a drive assisting section that performs drive assist for avoiding a collision between the collision object detected by the object detecting section and the own vehicle or mitigates damage to the own vehicle due to the collision, an operation state detecting section for detecting an operation state of the own vehicle, and a timing setting section for setting start timing to start the drive assist by the drive assisting section in accordance with the operation state detected by the operation state detecting section.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Norio Tsuchida
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Patent number: 9487217Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus is provided, which is installed in a vehicle and mitigates damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision. The apparatus includes an activation control section which detects an object positioned around the vehicle, and activates a collision mitigation part for mitigating damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision if a positional relationship between the vehicle and the object meets a predetermined activation condition, a type determining section which determines type of the object, the type being any one of a vehicle, a pedestrian and a roadside object, and an activation condition changing section which consolidates the activation condition compared to a case where the type of the object is not a roadside object, if the type of the object is a roadside object.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio Tsuchida, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9452759Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus for mitigating damage to a vehicle at a time of collision, on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, includes an operation control unit that detects a collision object present around the vehicle, makes a comparison between a collision time indicative of a time remaining before collision between the vehicle and the collision object and an operation reference time according to which timing to start control for avoiding collision is set, and causes a collision mitigation device mounted on the vehicle to start operating depending on a result of the comparison. The collision mitigation apparatus further includes a collision probability calculating unit that calculates a collision probability between the vehicle and the collision object, and a reference time setting unit that sets the operation reference time depending on the collision probability.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio Tsuchida, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9290172Abstract: A collision mitigation device sets an actuation condition indicating a condition for actuating a collision mitigating section configured to mitigate collision damage when an own vehicle is in a collision. A target object is positioned near the own vehicle and detected. The collision mitigating section is actuated when a positional relationship between the own vehicle and the target object meets the actuation condition. The collision mitigation device recognizes an own vehicle traveling segment that indicates a traveling segment of a road on which the own vehicle is traveling, and recognizes whether or not the target object is present within the own vehicle traveling segment. The actuation condition is relaxed in such a manner that the collision mitigating section is more easily actuated when the target object is present within the own vehicle traveling segment, compared to when the target object is not present within the own vehicle traveling segment.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio Tsuchida, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9150223Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus includes an object detecting section for detecting a collision object present in front of an own vehicle on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, a drive assisting section that performs drive assist for avoiding a collision between the collision object detected by the object detecting section and the own vehicle, or mitigate damage to the own vehicle due to the collision, a reliability determining section for determining reliability of detection result of the object detecting section, and a timing setting section for setting start timing to start the drive assist by the drive assisting section in accordance with the reliability determined by the reliability determining section.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Norio Tsuchida, Akira Isogai, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140350785Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus is provided, which is installed in a vehicle and mitigates damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision. The apparatus includes an activation control section which detects an object positioned around the vehicle, and activates a collision mitigation part for mitigating damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision if a positional relationship between the vehicle and the object meets a predetermined activation condition, a type determining section which determines type of the object, the type being any one of a vehicle, a pedestrian and a roadside object, and an activation condition changing section which consolidates the activation condition compared to a case where the type of the object is not a roadside object, if the type of the object is a roadside object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140343749Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus includes an object detecting section for detecting a collision object present in front of an own vehicle on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, a drive assisting section that performs drive assist for avoiding a collision between the collision object detected by the object detecting section and the own vehicle or mitigates damage to the own vehicle due to the collision, an operation state detecting section for detecting an operation state of the own vehicle, and a timing setting section for setting start timing to start the drive assist by the drive assisting section in accordance with the operation state detected by the operation state detecting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140343750Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus includes an object detecting section for detecting a collision object present in front of an own vehicle on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, a drive assisting section that performs drive assist for avoiding a collision between the collision object detected by the object detecting section and the own vehicle, or mitigate damage to the own vehicle due to the collision, a reliability determining section for determining reliability of detection result of the object detecting section, and a timing setting section for setting start timing to start the drive assist by the drive assisting section in accordance with the reliability determined by the reliability determining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Norio Tsuchida, Akira Isogai
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Publication number: 20140324287Abstract: A collision mitigation device sets an actuation condition indicating a condition for actuating a collision mitigating section configured to mitigate collision damage when an own vehicle is in a collision. A target object is positioned near the own vehicle and detected. The collision mitigating section is actuated when a positional relationship between the own vehicle and the target object meets the actuation condition. The collision mitigation device recognizes an own vehicle traveling segment that indicates a traveling segment of a road on which the own vehicle is traveling, and recognizes whether or not the target object is present within the own vehicle traveling segment. The actuation condition is relaxed in such a manner that the collision mitigating section is more easily actuated when the target object is present within the own vehicle traveling segment, compared to when the target object is not present within the own vehicle traveling segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140324286Abstract: A collision mitigation apparatus for mitigating damage to a vehicle at a time of collision, on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, includes an operation control unit that detects a collision object present around the vehicle, makes a comparison between a collision time indicative of a time remaining before collision between the vehicle and the collision object and an operation reference time according to which timing to start control for avoiding collision is set, and causes a collision mitigation device mounted on the vehicle to start operating depending on a result of the comparison. The collision mitigation apparatus further includes a collision probability calculating unit that calculates a collision probability between the vehicle and the collision object, and a reference time setting unit that sets the operation reference time depending on the collision probability.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Denso CorporationInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Patent number: 8862383Abstract: A collision judgment apparatus includes: a distance detecting unit detecting distance between a vehicle and an object; a relative speed detecting unit detecting a relative speed therebetween; a margin time calculation unit calculating a time to collision therebetween, based on the distance and the relative speed; an angle detecting unit detecting an angle of the object with respect to a running direction of the vehicle; a variation calculation unit calculating a variation of the angle over time; a setting unit setting a judgment value such that the shorter the margin time, the larger the judgment value; and a judgment unit judging that the vehicle is likely to collide with the object when the variation of the angle calculated by the variation calculation unit is lower than the judgment value set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140163859Abstract: A collision judgment apparatus includes: a distance detecting unit detecting distance between a vehicle and an object; a relative speed detecting unit detecting a relative speed therebetween; a margin time calculation unit calculating a time to collision therebetween, based on the distance and the relative speed; an angle detecting unit detecting an angle of the object with respect to a running direction of the vehicle; a variation calculation unit calculating a variation of the angle over time; a setting unit setting a judgment value such that the shorter the margin time, the larger the judgment value; and a judgment unit judging that the vehicle is likely to collide with the object when the variation of the angle calculated by the variation calculation unit is lower than the judgment value set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140136097Abstract: An anti-collision system for preventing collision of a vehicle has an object detector that detects a periphery object of the vehicle; a prevention actuation portion that performs actuation for preventing the collision of the vehicle with the periphery object detected by the object detector; and an actuation timing change portion configured to change an actuation timing of the prevention actuation portion, the actuation timing being a timing of actuation of the prevention actuation portion depending on the detection of the periphery object by the object detector, the actuation timing change portion delaying the actuation timing more steeply than when accelerating the actuation timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Norio Tsuchida
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Patent number: 8175771Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus that controls a motor of an electric power steering system to assist a steering effort of an operator. The control apparatus includes a sensor, a parameter computer, a difference computer, a target torque computer, and a motor driver. The parameter computer computes a current value of one of physical parameters of one of constituents of the electric power steering system based on a steering parameter determined by the sensor referring to an equation of motion. The difference computer computes a difference between the current value of the one of the physical parameters computed by the parameter computer and a predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters. The target torque computer computes a target torque of the motor which compensates for the difference between the current value and the predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignees: National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology, Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ukai, Yoshifumi Morita, Makoto Iwasaki, Nobuyuki Matsui, Norio Tsuchida, Yuya Yamamoto, Jiro Hayashi, Akihiko Sawada, Nobuhiko Makino
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Publication number: 20080306655Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus that controls a motor of an electric power steering system to assist a steering effort of an operator. The control apparatus includes a sensor, a parameter computer, a difference computer, a target torque computer, and a motor driver. The parameter computer computes a current value of one of physical parameters of one of constituents of the electric power steering system based on a steering parameter determined by the sensor referring to an equation of motion. The difference computer computes a difference between the current value of the one of the physical parameters computed by the parameter computer and a predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters. The target torque computer computes a target torque of the motor which compensates for the difference between the current value and the predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Ukai, Yoshifumi Morita, Makoto Iwasaki, Nobuyuki Matsui, Norio Tsuchida, Yuya Yamamoto, Jiro Hayashi, Akihiko Sawada, Nobuhiko Makino