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: 20190248414Abstract: 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: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya SANNODO, Yuki MINASE
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Publication number: 20190225267Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya SANNODO, Yuki MINASE
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Publication number: 20180257665Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya SANNODO
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Patent number: 10024878Abstract: A decelerating factor estimating device configured to estimate a decelerating factor of a vehicle includes a drive force acquiring unit configured to acquire a drive force of the vehicle; a vehicle speed acquiring unit configured to acquire a vehicle speed of the vehicle; an acceleration acquiring unit configured to acquire an acceleration of the vehicle; and a decelerating factor estimating unit configured to estimate a plurality of decelerating factors based on a relationship of the acquired drive force, speed, and acceleration, wherein the decelerating factor estimating unit determines a type of the decelerating factor to estimate based on a traveling state of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake
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Publication number: 20180126982Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji OKAMURA, Shinya SANNODO
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Publication number: 20180118195Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus (14) has an assisting device (143) for performing a parking assist operation; and a controlling device (144) for performing a first control operation for charging an electric power storage (116) by using an output of an engine, if an amount of the stored electric power (SOC) is smaller than a first threshold value (TH#2), 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 (?SOC+TH#1) corresponding to an amount of the electric power that is capable of completing the parking of the vehicle at a target position and for putting the engine into a driving state before the moving start time and forbidding the engine from stopping after the moving start tType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naofumi MAGARIDA, Shinya SANNODO, Yuichi SAKAI
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Publication number: 20180022329Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya SANNODO
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Patent number: 9817018Abstract: A deceleration factor estimation apparatus estimating a deceleration factor of a vehicle includes: a driving force acquisition unit that obtains a driving force of the vehicle; a speed acquisition unit that obtains a speed of the vehicle; an acceleration acquisition unit that obtains an acceleration of the vehicle; and a deceleration factor estimation unit that estimates a plurality of deceleration factors on the basis of a relationship between the obtained driving force, speed, and acceleration, wherein the deceleration factor estimation unit switches the deceleration factor to be estimated on the basis of a travel condition of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake
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Patent number: 9643602Abstract: A parking support device 1 includes a calculation unit 17 that calculates a speed pattern, an acceleration recognition unit 13 that recognizes driver-requested acceleration, a parking support control unit 19 that performs parking support control in a target parking position based on the speed pattern, and a determination unit 18 that determines whether a host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at a set deceleration. When the driver-requested acceleration is recognized during the control and exceeds acceleration of the speed pattern at the time of recognition, the parking support control unit 19 accelerates the host vehicle V at the driver-requested acceleration. When the determination unit 18 determines that the host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at the set deceleration, the host vehicle V is decelerated at the set deceleration and is stopped in the target parking position regardless of the driver-requested acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Okamura, Atsushi Sagisaka, Shinya Sannodo, Yu Hiei, Kotaro Saiki, Keisuke Hata
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Patent number: 9387853Abstract: A parking assist apparatus that causes a vehicle to be parked in a target parking position generates a traveling route of a vehicle M from a parking travel start position P0 to a target parking position P2 (S12); generates a plurality of speed patterns having different speeds when the vehicle travels on the traveling route (S14); selects a target speed pattern from the plurality of speed patterns based on information of an object around the traveling route (S18); and controls the traveling of the vehicle M based on the target speed pattern (S24).Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Yu Hiei
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Publication number: 20150375740Abstract: A parking support device 1 includes a calculation unit 17 that calculates a speed pattern, an acceleration recognition unit 13 that recognizes driver-requested acceleration, a parking support control unit 19 that performs parking support control in a target parking position based on the speed pattern, and a determination unit 18 that determines whether a host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at a set deceleration. When the driver-requested acceleration is recognized during the control and exceeds acceleration of the speed pattern at the time of recognition, the parking support control unit 19 accelerates the host vehicle V at the driver-requested acceleration. When the determination unit 18 determines that the host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at the set deceleration, the host vehicle V is decelerated at the set deceleration and is stopped in the target parking position regardless of the driver-requested acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji OKAMURA, Atsushi SAGISAKA, Shinya SANNODO, Yu HIEI, Kotaro SAIKI, Keisuke HATA
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Publication number: 20150367845Abstract: A parking assist apparatus that causes a vehicle to be parked in a target parking position generates a traveling route of a vehicle M from a parking travel start position P0 to a target parking position P2 (S12); generates a plurality of speed patterns having different speeds when the vehicle travels on the traveling route (S14); selects a target speed pattern from the plurality of speed patterns based on information of an object around the traveling route (S18); and controls the traveling of the vehicle M based on the target speed pattern (S24).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya SANNODO, Yu HIEI
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Patent number: 9205843Abstract: A deceleration factor estimating device that estimates a deceleration factor of a vehicle includes a road load calculating unit configured to calculate a road load estimated value, and a filtering calculating unit configured to perform filtering processing of extracting a predetermined frequency component of the road load estimated value calculated by the road load calculating unit. The filtering calculating unit extracts a vehicle-originated road load component, an environment-originated road load component, and the like by filtering the road load estimated value to extract a certain predetermined frequency component.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake
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Publication number: 20150212107Abstract: A deceleration factor estimation apparatus estimating a deceleration factor of a vehicle includes: a driving force acquisition unit that obtains a driving force of the vehicle; a speed acquisition unit that obtains a speed of the vehicle; an acceleration acquisition unit that obtains an acceleration of the vehicle; and a deceleration factor estimation unit that estimates a plurality of deceleration factors on the basis of a relationship between the obtained driving force, speed, and acceleration, wherein the deceleration factor estimation unit switches the deceleration factor to be estimated on the basis of a travel condition of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake
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Publication number: 20150019158Abstract: A decelerating factor estimating device configured to estimate a decelerating factor of a vehicle includes a drive force acquiring unit configured to acquire a drive force of the vehicle; a vehicle speed acquiring unit configured to acquire a vehicle speed of the vehicle; an acceleration acquiring unit configured to acquire an acceleration of the vehicle; and a decelerating factor estimating unit configured to estimate a plurality of decelerating factors based on a relationship of the acquired drive force, speed, and acceleration, wherein the decelerating factor estimating unit determines a type of the decelerating factor to estimate based on a traveling state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake
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Publication number: 20150006052Abstract: A deceleration factor estimating device that estimates a deceleration factor of a vehicle includes a road load calculating unit configured to calculate a road load estimated value, and a filtering calculating unit configured to perform filtering processing of extracting a predetermined frequency component of the road load estimated value calculated by the road load calculating unit. The filtering calculating unit extracts a vehicle-originated road load component, an environment-originated road load component, and the like by filtering the road load estimated value to extract a certain predetermined frequency component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Hirotada Otake