Patents by Inventor Shinya Sannodo
Shinya Sannodo 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: 20230347980Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya SANNODO, Yuki MINASE
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Patent number: 11731702Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Patent number: 11681286Abstract: A remote movement system of the invention comprises an operation terminal and a vehicle electronic control unit. The operation terminal includes a touch sensing portion which senses a finger of a user touching the touch sensing portion and a terminal electronic control unit configured to transmit a control execution command for requesting an execution of a remote movement control to cause a vehicle to move to a target position when movement of the user's finger touching the touch sensing portion satisfies a predetermined touch interaction condition. The vehicle electronic control unit is provided in the vehicle and configured to execute the remote movement control in response to receiving the control execution command from the terminal electronic control unit. The predetermined touch interaction condition does not include a condition that the user's finger moves, touching the touch sensing portion along a predetermined specific path.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Naoya Matsunaga, Keisuke Oyama
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Publication number: 20230108530Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a traveling assistance control unit that causes a vehicle to automatically travel to a designated parking area and park the vehicle; a reception unit that receives an operation signal for shifting to a state in which traveling control by the traveling assistance control unit can be executed from an operation unit provided in a vehicle interior of the vehicle; and a braking switching unit that switches a braking device that maintains a stop state of the vehicle to a braking force generating state in a case where the operation signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motokatsu TOMOZAWA, Shinya SANNODO, Shinya OTANI
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Publication number: 20230102751Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus comprises a radio receiver and a control unit. The radio receiver receives a terminal signal from a first terminal that a user located outside the vehicle carry. The control unit performs a remote operation control to move the vehicle in accordance with a remote operation to the first terminal. The control unit is configured to: perform the remote operation control in accordance with the remote operation, when a signal condition including a condition that the terminal signal is received is satisfied; and in a case in which the signal condition becomes unsatisfied while performing the remote operation control, continue performing the remote operation control when an unsatisfied state in which the signal condition is not satisfied has not yet continued for a predetermined extension time, and stop performing the remote operation control when the unsatisfied state has continued for the extension time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya SANNODO, Yuuki SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230101237Abstract: A driving assistance device provides driving assistance to a vehicle including a sensor that collects peripheral information according an instruction from a terminal of a user of the vehicle, the device including: a route calculation unit that calculates a movement route of the vehicle to a target position based on the peripheral information; a detection unit that detects an obstacle at a periphery of the vehicle moving through the movement route based on the peripheral information; and a movement control unit that moves the vehicle along the movement route; where the movement control unit temporarily interrupts the driving assistance and waits until the obstacle moves from a position that hinders the movement when the obstacle is detected at a position hindering the movement of the vehicle on the movement route and a length of the movement route shortened by the obstacle is longer than or equal to a predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicants: Aisin Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motokatsu TOMOZAWA, Tsutomu MOCHIDA, Shinya OTANI, Shinya SANNODO
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Publication number: 20230096747Abstract: A driving assistance device that provides assistance to a vehicle including a sensor, collecting peripheral information, includes a detection unit that detects an obstacle and a parking area at a vehicle periphery; a road width calculation unit that calculates an area between first and second boundary lines as a road width; a route calculation unit that calculates a movement route through the area and the parking area to a target position; and a movement control unit that moves the vehicle along the movement route; where when a second obstacle is detected on the inside of the first and second boundary lines and on the second boundary line side with respect to the vehicle, and the second obstacle is continuously detected when the vehicle reaches a predetermined timing, an area between a third boundary line extending in the predetermined direction and the first boundary line is detected as new road width.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motokatsu TOMOZAWA, Tsutomu MOCHIDA, Shinya OTANI, Shinya SANNODO
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Publication number: 20230060130Abstract: A remote parking apparatus executes a remote parking control to park the own vehicle in a designated parking space by controlling operations of the driving apparatus and the braking apparatus in response to commands from outside of the own vehicle. The remote parking apparatus executes a braking-drive process to apply the braking force to the own vehicle by the braking apparatus and apply the driving force to the own vehicle by the driving apparatus before starting to move the own vehicle by the remote parking control. The remote parking apparatus starts to move the own vehicle by the remote parking control on the condition that the own vehicle is maintained stopped until a predetermined time elapses from starting the braking-drive process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya SANNODO
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Patent number: 11420679Abstract: A steering assist apparatus is configured to, when performing a steering assist control for parking, perform one or both of the following processes (a) and (b): (a) a first setting process for setting a movement path when an oncoming lane is present, the first setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a vehicle body does not enter the oncoming lane side from an own lane across a center line or a predetermined line obtained by translating the center line; and (b) a second setting process for setting the movement path when a following vehicle is present, the second setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a distance between the vehicle body and a parking-possible region is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20220236732Abstract: A remote moving system for remotely moving a vehicle with an operation terminal outside of the vehicle. The operation terminal wirelessly communicates with the vehicle electronic control unit. The vehicle electronic control unit executes a remote moving control of receiving a signal from the operation terminal and moving the vehicle along a predetermined route in accordance with the received signal. The operation terminal changes its state from a first state to a second state when the operation terminal is in the first state, and a first interaction is applied to the operation terminal, and transmits a signal of commanding to move the vehicle to the vehicle electronic control unit when the operation terminal is in the second state, and a second interaction different from the first interaction is applied to the operation terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro YASUDA, Shinya SANNODO
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Patent number: 11312388Abstract: An automatic parking device includes a vehicle control unit configured to control a speed, steering of the vehicle, and a shift range of a transmission of the vehicle in order to park the vehicle, a reception unit configured to receive a driving operation by a driver of the vehicle during the automatic parking by the vehicle control unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the driving operation received by the reception unit satisfies a predetermined override condition. The vehicle control unit stops the vehicle and sets the shift range of the transmission of the vehicle to a non-drive range in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the driving operation satisfies the override condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya Sannodo
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Patent number: 11273822Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to execute parking assist control including steering angle automatic control, driving force automatic control and braking force automatic control, the parking assist apparatus being programmed to notify an occupant of an operation request requesting a driving operation of the vehicle to be performed for the parking assist control; and terminate the parking assist control and notify the occupant that the parking assist control is terminated when the driving operation corresponding to the operation request has not been performed by the occupant within a predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Oyama, Yuki Minase, Shinya Sannodo, Miyuki Omori, Norio Imai
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Publication number: 20210316788Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Patent number: 11072367Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20200218249Abstract: A remote movement system of the invention comprises an operation terminal and a vehicle electronic control unit. The operation terminal includes a touch sensing portion which senses a finger of a user touching the touch sensing portion and a terminal electronic control unit configured to transmit a control execution command for requesting an execution of a remote movement control to cause a vehicle to move to a target position when movement of the user's finger touching the touch sensing portion satisfies a predetermined touch interaction condition. The vehicle electronic control unit is provided in the vehicle and configured to execute the remote movement control in response to receiving the control execution command from the terminal electronic control unit. The predetermined touch interaction condition does not include a condition that the user's finger moves, touching the touch sensing portion along a predetermined specific path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya SANNODO, Naoya Matsunaga, Keisuke Oyama
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Patent number: 10556583Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including an assisting device for performing a parking assist operation and a controlling device for performing a first control operation that controls charging an electric power storage by using an output of an engine if an amount of the stored electric power is smaller than a first threshold value. The controlling device performs a second control operation for putting the engine into a stopping state before a moving start time at which the vehicle starts to move after an assist start time and forbidding the engine from being started after the moving start time if the amount of the stored electric power at a timing before the moving start time is larger than a second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naofumi Magarida, Shinya Sannodo, Yuichi Sakai
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Patent number: 10525949Abstract: A parking assist device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: perform parking assist of a vehicle to automatically park the vehicle at a target position while restricting a vehicle speed to an upper limit or lower in accordance with an instruction of a user who is outside the vehicle; determine whether or not the vehicle moves on a road surface having a downhill grade along a travelling direction of the vehicle by the parking assist; and set the upper limit in the case where the vehicle is determined to move on the road surface having a downhill grade to be smaller than the upper limit in the case where the vehicle is not determined to move on the road surface having a downhill grade.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya Sannodo
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Publication number: 20200001864Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to execute parking assist control including steering angle automatic control, driving force automatic control and braking force automatic control, the parking assist apparatus being programmed to notify an occupant of an operation request requesting a driving operation of the vehicle to be performed for the parking assist control; and terminate the parking assist control and notify the occupant that the parking assist control is terminated when the driving operation corresponding to the operation request has not been performed by the occupant within a predetermined period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke OYAMA, Yuki Minase, Shinya Sannodo, Miyuki Omori, Norio Imai
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Publication number: 20190375381Abstract: A parking support device 10 comprises a display device 70 and a control device 20. When the control device determines a parking request operation is performed, the control device displays a parking area image 300. When the control device determines that a parking start condition, which is satisfied when the parking request operation is performed and the vehicle stops, has been satisfied, the control device starts a stop brake control required to cause the vehicle not to move. When the control device determines that a parking consent operation has been performed after the parking start condition became satisfied, the control device finishes the stop brake control and starts an automatic parking control for controlling a traveling state of the vehicle in order to park the vehicle into the parking area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Yuki Minase, Shinya Sannodo, Shinya Otani, Norio Imai
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Patent number: 10464554Abstract: A vehicle controller configured to control a vehicle which includes a transmission gear includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: determine whether a shift range of the transmission gear is switched such that the vehicle travels in a changed traveling direction not based on a shift range switching operation by an occupant of the vehicle; and limit, when it is determined that the shift range is switched such that the vehicle travels in the changed traveling direction not based on the shift range switching operation, a driving force of the vehicle such that the driving force of the vehicle is smaller than when it is determined that the shift range is not switched such that the vehicle travels in the changed traveling direction not based on the shift range switching operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Okamura, Shinya Sannodo