Patents by Inventor Takuya Okubo
Takuya Okubo 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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Patent number: 11926323Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: an engine controller configured to perform an IS control upon satisfaction of a predetermined stop condition and an engine restart control upon satisfaction of a predetermined restart condition; an HDC controller configured to perform, when the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road and a deceleration request according to an HDC control occurs, a target vehicle speed-based deceleration irrespective of brake operations by the driver; and an information acquisition part configured to acquire progress status information related to the engine restart control and including information on initiation and completion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahito Yoshida, Yoshinari Sugita, Rei Okubo, Hidetoshi Kobori, Shumpei Tahara, Shun Igarashi, Takuya Sato, Takayuki Matsuyoshi
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Publication number: 20240067231Abstract: A travel controller of a vehicle that can travel on a road under autonomous driving control detecting two-wheelers, including bicycles, located in surroundings of the vehicle from surrounding data representing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a surrounding sensor mounted on the vehicle, determining whether a target road on which the vehicle was traveling when the surrounding data in which a two-wheeler was detected was generated is a shared road on which travel by bicycles is permitted, when it is determined that the target road is a shared road, notifying a driver of the vehicle of a transition demand demanding transition in control of the vehicle from autonomous driving control to manual driving control requiring driving operations by the driver of the vehicle, and when it is determined that the target road is not a shared road, not notifying the driver of the transition demand.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Ryusuke Kuroda, Kenichiro Aoki, Tadashi Okubo, Takuya Fujiki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kunio Goto
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Publication number: 20240071097Abstract: An apparatus for object detection detects a number of lanes included in a road on which a vehicle is traveling, detects one or more surrounding vehicles positioned in surroundings of the vehicle from a surrounding image showing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a camera mounted in the vehicle, and determines, when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes detected in a predetermined range at the back of the vehicle are detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle, that a possibility that any one of the surrounding vehicles being an emergency vehicle which is allowed to travel without obeying the traveling rule of the road is higher than when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes are not detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Takuya Fujiki, Ryusuke Kuroda, Tadashi Okubo, Kenichiro Aoki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Wataru Kawashima, Hitoshi Kamada
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Publication number: 20240067168Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle ahead of a host vehicle from time-series sensor signals obtained by a sensor provided on the host vehicle for sensing objects around the host vehicle, track the vehicle ahead detected from the time-series sensor signals, determine whether the vehicle ahead has performed an avoidance action, based on the result of tracking, detect, when the vehicle ahead has performed an avoidance action, a trajectory of an edge of the vehicle ahead opposite a direction of avoidance in the avoidance action, and control travel of the host vehicle so that an edge of the host vehicle opposite the direction of avoidance moves along the detected trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Kenichiro Aoki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Takuya Fujiki, Hitoshi Kamada, Wataru Kawashima, Tadashi Okubo
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Publication number: 20230223863Abstract: A power control apparatus, comprising: a first wiring and a second wiring connected to a power source; a first capacitor connected to the first wiring and the second wiring; an electrical component including a plurality of switches connected in parallel with the first capacitor through the first wiring and the second wiring; and a second capacitor which is connected to one of the first wiring and the second wiring and is connected to a reference potential portion having a constant potential, wherein an impedance of a first conducting path between another side connection point, which is connected to the first capacitor, of the other one of the first wiring and the second wiring and the power supply not through the first capacitor, is higher than an impedance of a second conducting path between the another side connection point and the second capacitor through the first capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Denso CorporationInventors: Yuuki Ogawa, Takuya Okubo
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Patent number: 11365701Abstract: An engine device includes an engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a spark plug, an exhaust gas control device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a last fuel injection from the in-cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and to set a fuel injection amount for the last fuel injection in expansion stroke injection driving, based on a coolant start temperature, post-start time, and volumetric efficiency. The expansion stroke injection driving is a control that is performed by performing the ignition by the spark plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Koji Ichikawa, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Takuya Okubo, Sohichi Imai, Hirokazu Andoh
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Publication number: 20220010749Abstract: An engine device includes an engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a spark plug, an exhaust gas control device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a last fuel injection from the in-cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and to set a fuel injection amount for the last fuel injection in expansion stroke injection driving, based on a coolant start temperature, post-start time, and volumetric efficiency. The expansion stroke injection driving is a control that is performed by performing the ignition by the spark plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao IDOGAWA, Takahiro UCHIDA, Koji ICHIKAWA, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Takuya OKUBO, Sohichi IMAI, Hirokazu ANDOH
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Patent number: 11139752Abstract: A power conversion device includes an inverter, a smoothing capacitor, Y capacitors, and a power supply wiring that electrically connects a DC power supply and the inverter. The power supply wiring includes power terminal portions to which the DC power supply is connected, power terminal portions to which the inverter is connected, and capacitor terminal portions to which the Y capacitors are connected. In the power supply wiring, a parasitic inductance L1 between the power terminal portions and the capacitor terminal portions are made smaller than a parasitic inductance L2 between the power supply terminal portions and the capacitor terminal portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Okubo
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Patent number: 11041473Abstract: A control device includes an injection control unit, an ignition control unit, an idling stop control unit, and a boost control unit. The injection control unit executes a rich reduction control that makes an air-fuel ratio richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio when the engine operation has been resumed by resuming supply of fuel to a combustion chamber. Further, the boost control unit is configured to execute a valve-closing keeping control that keeps a wastegate closed until a condition for cancelling the valve-closing keeping control has been satisfied by the engine operation that was performed after closing the wastegate during execution of a fuel cut-off control.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takuya Okubo
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Patent number: 10821867Abstract: Provided is a simple and compact headrest support device. The headrest support device (20) comprises a support member (22) coupled to a frame (2) of a seatback (1), and a headrest pillar structure including a pillar base portion (25) extending laterally and supported by the support member so as to be rotatable around an axial line of the pillar base portion, and a pair of pillar main body portions (26) extending substantially vertically from the pillar base portion substantially in parallel to each other in a laterally spaced apart relationship and connected to a headrest (24), wherein the support member is coupled to the frame at at least one coupling portion (34) disposed between the two pillar main body portions in front view in a headrest upright condition where the headrest is positioned above the seatback.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Okubo, Takayuki Inose, Masaki Nonaka
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Publication number: 20200295672Abstract: A power conversion device includes an inverter, a smoothing capacitor, Y capacitors, and a power supply wiring that electrically connects a DC power supply and the inverter. The power supply wiring includes power terminal portions to which the DC power supply is connected, power terminal portions to which the inverter is connected, and capacitor terminal portions to which the Y capacitors are connected. In the power supply wiring, a parasitic inductance L1 between the power terminal portions and the capacitor terminal portions are made smaller than a parasitic inductance L2 between the power supply terminal portions and the capacitor terminal portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya OKUBO
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Publication number: 20200263650Abstract: A control device includes an injection control unit, an ignition control unit, an idling stop control unit, and a boost control unit. The injection control unit executes a rich reduction control that makes an air-fuel ratio richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio when the engine operation has been resumed by resuming supply of fuel to a combustion chamber. Further, the boost control unit is configured to execute a valve-closing keeping control that keeps a wastegate closed until a condition for cancelling the valve-closing keeping control has been satisfied by the engine operation that was performed after closing the wastegate during execution of a fuel cut-off control.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takuya OKUBO
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Patent number: 10655547Abstract: The internal combustion engine comprising: a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage and able to store oxygen, a variable valve timing mechanism able to change a valve overlap amount between an intake valve and an exhaust valve, and a fuel supplying means for feeding fuel to the exhaust passage. The fuel supplying means feeds fuel to the exhaust passage only in an initial cycle after scavenging where valve overlap causes air to be expelled from an intake passage through a cylinder to the exhaust passage if such scavenging occurs.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Kimura, Takuya Okubo, Norihisa Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10647234Abstract: A seat device for a vehicle includes a dynamic damper attached to a frame of a seat installed in the vehicle. The dynamic damper includes a damper case that is formed from separable first and second case halves, a weight that is housed in a damper chamber, and an elastic member that is disposed between the weight and the damper chamber so as to allow vibration of the weight. The damper case is provided with a plurality of mounting parts that are mounted on the frame, and the mounting parts comprise first and second mounting parts which are engaged with the frame at two left and right places as seen in a front view of the seat, and a third mounting part other than the first and second mounting parts which is provided between the first and second mounting parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takuya Okubo
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Patent number: 10516329Abstract: In a power converter system, a control unit includes a drive circuit controlling on-off switching operations of a converter switch, and a power supply circuit that includes a power supply switch and a transformer connected to the power supply switch. The control unit includes a frequency changing unit that receives a reception frequency of a radio receiver, and calculates harmonic frequencies of a driving frequency of the power supply switch. The control unit determines whether an absolute value of each of frequency differences between any of the harmonic frequencies and the reception frequency is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The control unit changes the driving frequency such that the absolute value of at least one of the frequency differences becomes greater than the predetermined threshold when determining that the absolute value is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Okubo
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Publication number: 20190356214Abstract: In a power converter system, a control unit includes a drive circuit controlling on-off switching operations of a converter switch, and a power supply circuit that includes a power supply switch and a transformer connected to the power supply switch. The control unit includes a frequency changing unit that receives a reception frequency of a radio receiver, and calculates harmonic frequencies of a driving frequency of the power supply switch. The control unit determines whether an absolute value of each of frequency differences between any of the harmonic frequencies and the reception frequency is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The control unit changes the driving frequency such that the absolute value of at least one of the frequency differences becomes greater than the predetermined threshold when determining that the absolute value is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya OKUBO
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Publication number: 20190329687Abstract: Provided is a simple and compact headrest support device. The headrest support device (20) comprises a support member (22) coupled to a frame (2) of a seatback (1), and a headrest pillar structure including a pillar base portion (25) extending laterally and supported by the support member so as to be rotatable around an axial line of the pillar base portion, and a pair of pillar main body portions (26) extending substantially vertically from the pillar base portion substantially in parallel to each other in a laterally spaced apart relationship and connected to a headrest (24), wherein the support member is coupled to the frame at at least one coupling portion (34) disposed between the two pillar main body portions in front view in a headrest upright condition where the headrest is positioned above the seatback.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Takuya Okubo, Takayuki Inose, Masaki Nonaka
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Patent number: 10458348Abstract: In a control apparatus applied to an internal combustion engine in which when an opening degree of a valve body of a waste gate valve is less than the predetermined opening degree, the extension line intersects a wall surface of an exhaust passage located upstream of the upstream side end face of the exhaust gas purification catalyst, the control apparatus controls the waste gate valve so that at the time of execution of fuel cut off processing, when the temperature of the exhaust gas purification catalyst is less than a predetermined temperature, the valve body is fully closed, whereas when the temperature of the exhaust gas purification catalyst is not less than the predetermined temperature, the opening degree of the valve body is made to a deterioration suppression opening degree which is larger than when the valve body is fully closed and which is smaller than the predetermined opening degree.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Kimura, Norihisa Nakagawa, Takanobu Hosoya, Takuya Okubo
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Publication number: 20190299828Abstract: A seat device for a vehicle includes a dynamic damper attached to a frame of a seat installed in the vehicle. The dynamic damper includes a damper case that is formed from separable first and second case halves, a weight that is housed in a damper chamber, and an elastic member that is disposed between the weight and the damper chamber so as to allow vibration of the weight. The damper case is provided with a plurality of mounting parts that are mounted on the frame, and the mounting parts comprise first and second mounting parts which are engaged with the frame at two left and right places as seen in a front view of the seat, and a third mounting part other than the first and second mounting parts which is provided between the first and second mounting parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventor: Takuya OKUBO
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Patent number: 10391907Abstract: Provided is a simple and compact headrest support device. The headrest support device (20) comprises a support member (22) coupled to a frame (2) of a seatback (1), and a headrest pillar structure including a pillar base portion (25) extending laterally and supported by the support member so as to be rotatable around an axial line of the pillar base portion, and a pair of pillar main body portions (26) extending substantially vertically from the pillar base portion substantially in parallel to each other in a laterally spaced apart relationship and connected to a headrest (24), wherein the support member is coupled to the frame at at least one coupling portion (34) disposed between the two pillar main body portions in front view in a headrest upright condition where the headrest is positioned above the seatback.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Okubo, Takayuki Inose, Masaki Nonaka