Patents by Inventor Satoru Okubo

Satoru Okubo 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: 11962010
    Abstract: Provided are a binder aqueous solution for a lithium-ion battery electrode, a slurry for a lithium-ion battery electrode, a lithium-ion battery electrode, and a lithium-ion battery. The binder aqueous solution for a lithium-ion battery electrode contains a water-soluble polymer (A). The water-soluble polymer (A) is a polymer of a monomer group containing, with respect to 100 mol % of the monomer group, 5 mol % to 80 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether (a). In one embodiment, the monomer group contains 20 mol % to 95 mol % of a (meth)acrylamide group-containing compound (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ARAKAWA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Okubo, Hideki Goda, Naoki Sasagawa, Satoru Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11760225
    Abstract: A battery depletion prevention apparatus including a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor and the memory are configured to perform registering an information of a user, acquiring an information of a remaining battery capacity of a vehicle, predicting a possibility of a battery depletion of the vehicle based on the information of the remaining battery capacity, and transmitting a use request command for requesting the user to use the vehicle for charging a battery of the vehicle to a user terminal of the user based on the possibility of the battery depletion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Okubo, Koki Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 11710095
    Abstract: A vehicle service providing apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory. The memory is configured to perform storing map data including route position data. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring reservation application data for using the vehicle including destination data, calculating a route to the destination base on the map data stored and the destination data acquired, acquiring parcel data including fee revenue data for a delivery of the parcel, determining whether the user satisfies a predetermined requirement for delivering the parcel when using the vehicle based on the parcel data in the acquiring and the route calculated in the calculating, deciding the incentive based on the parcel data in the acquiring when it is determined that the user satisfies the predetermined requirement; and outputting incentive data of the incentive in the deciding to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Fujisawa, Satoru Okubo, Hiroki Yokoyama, Takuro Masuda
  • Patent number: 11535152
    Abstract: In a tilt parking mode, “a target parking position” can be accurately determined without changing a camera tilt angle and an HMI display range, and can be notified to a driver, so that the usability can be improved. A parking support device includes an external field recognition unit such as a camera and a sonar, which recognizes an external field, an information holding unit which holds information of a parking frame line recognized by the external field recognition unit, a parking region extraction unit which extracts a parking region from information of the parking frame line, a parking position determination unit which determines a target parking position from the parking region, and a path calculation unit which calculates a parking path from a current position of an own vehicle up to the target parking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Okubo, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11505174
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a vehicle control device that, even when power characteristics of a power generation device and a power transmission device changes, senses degradation of vehicle components, corrects a drive instruction to the power transmission device, and is thereby capable of stabilizing vehicle behavior over a long term. The present invention, in a predetermined vehicle environment state, measures fluctuation in drive power and acceleration in a transient region by using vehicle behavior sensors 4, performs comparison with a reference fluctuation, and thereby senses degradation of vehicle components. The drive instruction to the transmission 16-side is corrected in accordance with the degradation of vehicle components that is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Okubo, Nobuhiro Akasaka, Satoshi Matsuda, Yusuke Kogure
  • Patent number: 11276309
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a plurality of imaging units that images an outside world of a vehicle, a surrounding screen image composition unit that combines a plurality of captured images captured by the plurality of imaging units to generate a surrounding screen image, a collision determination unit that determines whether an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle, an alarm screen image generation unit that selects, from a plurality of captured images, a captured image in which the obstacle is imaged to generate an alarm screen image including the selected captured image, and a display screen image switching unit that performs a process of displaying the surrounding screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is not present, and displaying the alarm screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Matsuyuki, Satoru Okubo, Munetoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 11238284
    Abstract: A vehicle state evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Fujisawa, Satoru Okubo, Hiroki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20210402986
    Abstract: The present invention sets an appropriate parking route according to a surrounding situation. A vehicle control device which controls traveling of a vehicle includes: a surrounding environment recognition unit which recognizes a surrounding environment of an own vehicle, detects a parking space, sets a target parking position and a travelable space; and a vehicle control unit which guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position in the travelable space. The vehicle control unit guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position without traveling the own vehicle in a space behind the target parking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato IMAI, Naoyuki TASHIRO, Satoru OKUBO, Shinsaku TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20210213937
    Abstract: To reduce a sense of discomfort to the occupants. A control device 100a includes a surrounding environment recognition unit 1 and a guidance unit 10. The surrounding environment recognition unit 1 recognizes the surrounding environment of an own vehicle 900 and sets a target parking position 901 and a travelable space of the own vehicle 900. The guidance unit 10 guides and controls the own vehicle 900 to the target parking position 901. The guidance unit 10 changes a traveling state of the own vehicle 900 according to the size of the travelable space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato IMAI, Naoyuki TASHIRO, Shinya KASAI, Satoru OKUBO, Koji TAKAHASHI, Satoshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210118300
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device for allowing the occupant to easily confirm the presence or absence of an obstacle for the own vehicle through a screen image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya MATSUYUKI, Satoru OKUBO, Munetoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20210078441
    Abstract: A battery depletion prevention apparatus including a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor and the memory are configured to perform registering an information of a user, acquiring an information of a remaining battery capacity of a vehicle, predicting a possibility of a battery depletion of the vehicle based on the information of the remaining battery capacity, and transmitting a use request command for requesting the user to use the vehicle for charging a battery of the vehicle to a user terminal of the user based on the possibility of the battery depletion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru OKUBO, Koki FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20210001837
    Abstract: There is a problem that it takes a long time to park a vehicle because the vehicle has to be returned to a position outside the parking frame and parked. In step S160, the correction judgment unit 142 judges from the necessary correction amounts calculated in steps S140 and S150 and the remaining distance to the re-targeted parking position that is re-recognized, whether or not correction of the parking route with this remaining distance is possible. In a case where it is judged in step S160 that correction with the remaining distance r2 is impossible, the vehicle is stopped in step S171. Even if it is judged in step S160 that the correction is impossible, when the vehicle is moved backward toward the parking frame is parked, the vehicle is obliquely parked in the parking frame and cannot be fit neatly in the parking frame. In step S172, a parking route including a turnabout is regenerated with respect to the re-targeted parking position calculated in step S130 while the stopped state is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro HIRAKAWA, Satoru OKUBO, Masashi SEIMIYA, Munetoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20200353866
    Abstract: In a tilt parking mode, “a target parking position” can be accurately determined without changing a camera tilt angle and an HMI display range, and can be notified to a driver, so that the usability can be improved. A parking support device includes an external field recognition unit such as a camera and a sonar, which recognizes an external field, an information holding unit which holds information of a parking frame line recognized by the external field recognition unit, a parking region extraction unit which extracts a parking region from information of the parking frame line, a parking position determination unit which determines a target parking position from the parking region, and a path calculation unit which calculates a parking path from a current position of an own vehicle up to the target parking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru OKUBO, Koji TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10808836
    Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission of an electric actuator system from which a hydraulic pressure generator such as an oil pump is excluded, it is necessary to cut off power supply to an actuator and turn a motor into an inoperative state similarly in a hydraulic actuator system in order to prevent unintended sudden acceleration or deceleration when a fail state is formed due to microcomputer failure of an electronic control device. As a result, a belt-slipping state occurs causing traveling failure. Thus, a master CPU (for control) and a slave CPU (for monitoring), which are configurations of an existing electronic control device are used. Both CPUs have monitoring functions configured to perform mutual monitoring. In addition, the existing electronic control device is also considered as a monitoring device via a network to provide a monitoring configuration among the three devices to accurately specify the failure part (CPU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Okubo
  • Patent number: 10720055
    Abstract: The present invention provides a parking assist apparatus capable of improving convenience when a passenger of a vehicle gets on and off. According to the present invention, the parking assistance apparatus acquires information on parking candidate frames, and where an own vehicle can park, from a front camera, a right camera, a rear camera, and a left camera configured to acquire information on a surrounding environment of the own vehicle, and from surrounding environment information acquired by these cameras. The parking assistance apparatus detects surrounding environment information and of the parking candidate frames, and from the surrounding environment information and information on the parking candidate frames, and determines a target parking position where the own vehicle parks based on the information on the parking candidate frames, the surrounding environment information, and the preference information related to getting on and off of a passenger who rides on the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuda, Nobuhiro Akasaka, Satoru Okubo, Yusuke Kogure
  • Publication number: 20200226858
    Abstract: A user reliability evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring an image of a vehicle used by a user of a vehicle renting service and a location information of a photographing location of the image of the vehicle; detecting a degree of dirt of the vehicle based on the image of the vehicle acquired; evaluating a state of the vehicle based on the degree of dirt of the vehicle detected; acquiring a user evaluation of the state of the vehicle made by the user with respect to the degree of dirt of the vehicle; and determining a user reliability including a use manner of the vehicle based on an evaluation result of the state of the vehicle evaluated based on the degree of dirt of the vehicle detected and the user evaluation acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Koki Fujisawa, Satoru Okubo, Hiroki Yokoyama, Takuro Masuda, Makoto Takano
  • Publication number: 20200219056
    Abstract: A vehicle service providing apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory. The memory is configured to perform storing map data including route position data. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring reservation application data for using the vehicle including destination data, calculating a route to the destination base on the map data stored and the destination data acquired, acquiring parcel data including fee revenue data for a delivery of the parcel, determining whether the user satisfies a predetermined requirement for delivering the parcel when using the vehicle based on the parcel data in the acquiring and the route calculated in the calculating, deciding the incentive based on the parcel data in the acquiring when it is determined that the user satisfies the predetermined requirement; and outputting incentive data of the incentive in the deciding to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Koki Fujisawa, Satoru Okubo, Hiroki Yokoyama, Takuro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20200218893
    Abstract: A vehicle state evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Koki Fujisawa, Satoru Okubo, Hiroki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200219179
    Abstract: A vehicle rental management apparatus configured to incorporate an unused parking space as a station of a vehicle used in a vehicle rental service to manage rental of the vehicle, includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform managing a reservation data of a user of the vehicle; and determining whether use of the vehicle by a station manager managing the station is possible. The determining further includes permitting use of the vehicle by the station manager within a reservable time period during which the vehicle is not reserved by the user when the reservable time period of a predetermined length is found from the vehicle reservation data managed in the managing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Makiko Matsumoto, Hiroki Yokoyama, Satoru Okubo, Koki Fujisawa, Takuro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20190176797
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a vehicle control device that, even when power characteristics of a power generation device and a power transmission device changes, senses degradation of vehicle components, corrects a drive instruction to the power transmission device, and is thereby capable of stabilizing vehicle behavior over a long term. The present invention, in a predetermined vehicle environment state, measures fluctuation in drive power and acceleration in a transient region by using vehicle behavior sensors 4, performs comparison with a reference fluctuation, and thereby senses degradation of vehicle components. The drive instruction to the transmission 16-side is corrected in accordance with the degradation of vehicle components that is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Satoru OKUBO, Nobuhiro AKASAKA, Satoshi MATSUDA, Yusuke KOGURE