Patents by Inventor Takayuki Okai

Takayuki Okai 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: 7871136
    Abstract: A trouble diagnosis device of a vehicle body acceleration sensor by determining that the output fixing trouble of the vehicle body acceleration sensor or the like is not generated at a point of time that the fluctuation width of the output value of a vehicle body acceleration sensor becomes a predetermined value or above during the traveling of the vehicle with the vehicle speed equal to or more than the predetermined speed, and by stopping the trouble diagnosis of the output fixing trouble of the vehicle body acceleration sensor or the like until the vehicle speed is lowered to a value less than the predetermined speed thereafter, it is possible to avoid the trouble diagnosis of the output fixing trouble of the vehicle body acceleration sensor or the like when that the trouble diagnosis of the output fixing trouble of the vehicle body acceleration sensor or the like is unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Okai
  • Publication number: 20080041135
    Abstract: The present invention reduces a control processing load of a vehicle-use antilock brake system attributed to a trouble diagnosis of a sensor which is mounted on a vehicle and has an output thereof changed corresponding to a traveling state of the vehicle during traveling of the vehicle, particularly a vehicle body acceleration sensor which detects the vehicle body acceleration of the vehicle. From a point of time that a vehicle speed becomes a preset speed ? (4 m/s) or more (timing indicated by symbol T1), the storing and the updating of a maximum value Gmax and a minimum value Gmin of an output value of the vehicle body acceleration sensor 1 are started and it is determined whether the difference between the maximum value Gmax and the minimum value Gmin, that is, a fluctuation width of the output value of the vehicle body acceleration sensor 1 becomes a preset fluctuation width ? or more or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: BOSCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Okai
  • Patent number: 6682153
    Abstract: By a method for detecting an output-stuck fault of a car body acceleration sensor, an absolute value of a relative difference between the logical car body acceleration operated on the basis of a wheel speed and the physical car body acceleration output from a car body acceleration sensor is obtained, and the obtained absolute value of the relative difference is compared with a first rated value. When the absolute value of the relative difference exceeds the first rated value, a fail counter is made to start to count up at that point of time. When a counted value of the fail counter exceeds one second during the absolute value of the relative difference is exceeding the first rated value, the difference of the maximum value and the minimum value of the physical car body acceleration during the period is compared with a second rated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Bosch Automotive Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Okai
  • Publication number: 20030038537
    Abstract: By a method for detecting an output-stuck fault of a car body acceleration sensor, an absolute value of a relative difference between the logical car body acceleration operated on the basis of a wheel speed and the physical car body acceleration output from a car body acceleration sensor is obtained, and the obtained absolute value of the relative difference is compared with a first rated value. When the absolute value of the relative difference exceeds the first rated value, a fail counter is made to start to count up at that point of time. When a counted value of the fail counter exceeds one second during the absolute value of the relative difference is exceeding the first rated value, the difference of the maximum value and the minimum value of the physical car body acceleration during the period is compared with a second rated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventor: Takayuki Okai