Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kozai

Satoshi Kozai 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: 11643070
    Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenyang Wang, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda
  • Patent number: 11613273
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Yuusuke Nomura, Ryou Izumi, Mayuko Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210107468
    Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenyang WANG, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210107563
    Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus obtains a target travelling route from a present position of a vehicle to a target parking position when it is determined that a predetermined route obtaining condition is satisfied. In addition, the parking assistance apparatus executes a travelling assistance processing for controlling at least a steering angle of the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the target travelling route when a predetermined assist starting condition is satisfied. The target travelling route is obtained such that a distance between the vehicle and the object is kept larger than the threshold distance while the vehicle travels along that target travelling route The threshold distance is stored in the parking assistance apparatus and a configurable value which can be changed by a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Minase, Takuya Nakagawa, Junji Horiguchi, Satoshi Kozai, Norio Imai
  • Publication number: 20210107511
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Yuusuke NOMURA, Ryou IZUMI, Mayuko MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190344828
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus executes parking assist control for moving a vehicle along a determined target path to a target region. The parking assist apparatus displays on a display device an image of the vehicle and a vicinity of the vehicle as viewed from a position separated from the vehicle in a direction different from a direction directly above the vehicle at a point in time at which the vehicle is determined to have reached the target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miyuki OMORI, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai