Patents by Inventor Takayuki Inomata

Takayuki Inomata 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).

  • Publication number: 20240262338
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a vehicle activation control unit. The vehicle activation control unit executes unlock processing for operating a steering lock mechanism by a steering lock control unit to attain a steering unlock state when an operation to start travel of a vehicle is recognized in a non-travelable mode, transitions the vehicle to a travelable mode where the vehicle is allowed to travel when a steering unlock recognition unit recognizes that a steering unlock state is attained by execution of the unlock processing, and prohibits transition to the travelable mode and maintains the vehicle in the non-travelable mode when the unlock processing is executed but the steering unlock recognition unit does not recognize that the steering unlock state is attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki Yoshikawa, Naoto Yamamoto, Takayuki Inomata
  • Publication number: 20240208460
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a remote operation reception unit which receives a remote operation of a vehicle; a steering lock recognition unit which recognizes a steering lock state where a steering is locked by a steering lock mechanism; a travel start operation recognition unit which recognizes an operation for starting travel of the vehicle; and a control unit which starts a drive source of the vehicle and turns the vehicle to a predetermined standby mode when an activation instruction for the vehicle is received by the remote operation reception unit in a state where the steering lock state is recognized, and stops the drive source when the operation for starting the travel of the vehicle in the vehicle is recognized by the travel start operation recognition unit in the standby mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki Yoshikawa, Naoto Yamamoto, Takayuki Inomata
  • Publication number: 20230256983
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a vehicle control unit configured to control a vehicle by executing a vehicle starting program for starting the vehicle; a storage unit including a rewrite limited area where the vehicle starting program is stored and rewrite is limited and a rewrite possible area where the vehicle starting program is rewritably stored; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device; and a program update unit configured to execute update processing of storing a vehicle starting update program received by the communication unit and utilized for updating the vehicle starting program in the rewrite possible area, in which the vehicle control unit executes the vehicle starting program stored in the rewrite possible area and executes the vehicle starting program stored in the rewrite limited area when the update processing by the program update unit is not normally completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Satoshi Aiyoshizawa, Takayuki Inomata, Seiju Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20230249647
    Abstract: A moving body control device includes a first ECU and a second ECU. The first ECU has a power switch connected thereto and when user authentication using identification information stored in a storage unit has succeeded in a power-off state of a moving body, sets the moving body to a power-on state in response to operation of the power switch. The second ECU has a terminal device connected thereto and communicates with the first ECU. When recognizing a predetermined operation of the power switch in a state where the identification information is not stored in the storage unit in a power-off state of the moving body, the first ECU establishes communication with the second ECU, thereby allowing the terminal device to operate the first ECU via the second ECU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Hisahiro Kato, Hiroaki Hakukawa, Takayuki Inomata
  • Patent number: 9511775
    Abstract: A vehicle control device equipped with a vehicle state switching control unit for permitting an on/off switching control of an onboard device or a start/stop switching control of a drive source by a normal pressing operation of a start/stop switch SSSW when the vehicle is currently stopped, and for prohibiting a STOP control of the drive source by the normal pressing operation of the start/stop switch SSSW and permitting the STOP control of the drive source by a special pressing operation of the start/stop switch SSSW when the vehicle is currently traveling. A traveling judgment unit judges that the vehicle is currently stopped, if an abnormality has occurred in at least one of a plurality of signals, and all of the signals, which have been judged not to be abnormal, are stop signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Inomata, Katsuyasu Yamane, Masayuki Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150166074
    Abstract: A vehicle control device equipped with a vehicle state switching control unit for permitting an on/off switching control of an onboard device or a start/stop switching control of a drive source by a normal pressing operation of a start/stop switch SSSW when the vehicle is currently stopped, and for prohibiting a STOP control of the drive source by the normal pressing operation of the start/stop switch SSSW and permitting the STOP control of the drive source by a special pressing operation of the start/stop switch SSSW when the vehicle is currently traveling. A traveling judgment unit judges that the vehicle is currently stopped, if an abnormality has occurred in at least one of a plurality of signals, and all of the signals, which have been judged not to be abnormal, are stop signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki Inomata, Katsuyasu Yamane, Masayuki Yamazaki