Patents by Inventor Tomohisa Yamashita

Tomohisa Yamashita 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: 20160075326
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit configured to detect a stopped vehicle, and to set a target position, to which a vehicle moves, to a position between a first stopped vehicle and a second stopped vehicle that are detected, the position being commensurate with a distance between the first stopped vehicle and the second stopped vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160078763
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit configured to: set at least one candidate position that is a candidate for a target position of a moving path of a vehicle on the basis of at least one of a detection result of an obstacle and a detection result of a parking boundary; set an orientation of the vehicle at each of the at least one candidate position, as a candidate position vehicle orientation, on the basis of at least one of the detection result of the obstacle and the detection result of the parking boundary; rank each of the at least one candidate position on the basis of an orientation of the vehicle and the candidate position vehicle orientation; and determine one of the ranked at least one candidate position as the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160075375
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an available parking area in an area around a vehicle, calculate a parking guidance path for guiding the vehicle from a current position of the vehicle to a parking target position included in the available parking area, execute guidance control for guiding the vehicle to the parking target position by executing at least steering control along the parking guidance path, and, when an end condition for ending guidance is satisfied in the middle of execution of the guidance control, end the guidance control and carry out at least one of steering to keep a steering angle at an end of the steering control for a predetermined period or steering to gradually reduce the steering angle from the steering angle at the end of the steering control toward a neutral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Masaya KATO, Hiroyuki TACHIBANA, Takashi KUWAYAMA, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Keisuke OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160075327
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a target position of a moving path of a vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine the target position at a position at which the vehicle is spaced at least a predetermined distance from the obstacle higher than a first threshold and the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle lower than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Masaya KATO, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Tomoyuki MATSUBA, Takashi KUWAYAMA, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Keisuke OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160075328
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to, when it is determined that the vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle, set a target position, to which the vehicle moves, to a position at which the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Masaya KATO, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Tomoyuki MATSUBA, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Keisuke OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160078764
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle, detect a boundary of a parking space, determine a target position to which a vehicle moves, and, when the vehicle is allowed to be located in a third area in which a first area and a second area overlap with each other, be allowed to determine the target position in the third area. The first area is an area across a limit line from the obstacle. The limit line is set substantially along an outer periphery of the obstacle at a position spaced a predetermined distance from the obstacle outward of the obstacle. The second area is an area out of the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Masaya KATO, Hiroyuki TACHIBANA, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Tomoyuki MATSUBA, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150254981
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus of an embodiment includes an area detection unit, a line detection unit, and a target position calculation unit. The area detection unit detects a parking allowable area where the parking of a vehicle is allowable. The line detection unit detects a parking section line provided on a track surface. The target position calculation unit calculates a target parking position by using a detection result of the parking allowable area by the area detection unit when the parking allowable area is detected by the area detection unit, the parking section line is detected by the line detection unit, and the parking section line is located outside the parking allowable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tachibana, Yu Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Kuboyama, Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20150219760
    Abstract: Provided is a parking assistance device that can obtain information regarding the height from a parking road surface of an object without acquiring height information of an object in advance. The parking assistance device includes: an emission unit configured to emit ultrasonic waves in at least an outward lateral direction of a vehicle; a reception unit configured to receive reflection waves from an object reflecting the emitted ultrasonic waves; and an object determination unit configured to receive the reflection waves from an object existing on a far side of a target parking region as the vehicle enters the target parking region, and determine a feature relating to the height of the object based on a change in a detection state of the object, which was specified based on the obtained reflection wave data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hiramaki, Jun Adachi, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Tomohisa Yamashita, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150138011
    Abstract: Provided is a parking assisting device capable of appropriately setting a target parking space for parking a self vehicle. This parking assisting device includes an object detecting section transmitting, from a self vehicle, oscillatory waves in different directions on one lateral side of the self vehicle during traveling of the self vehicle and receiving reflected waves of the respective transmitted oscillatory waves transmitted in the different directions, a corner-portion identifying section identifying a corner portion of a non-self vehicle present on the one lateral side, based on the reflected waves obtained by the object detecting section, and a target parking space setting section setting a target parking space for the self vehicle, based on the corner portion of the non-self vehicle identified by the corner-portion identifying section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hiramaki, Jun Adachi, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Tomohisa Yamashita, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150133304
    Abstract: There is provided a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coil and a method of manufacturing the same, allowing simple and excellent affixation between side panels for cooling the superconducting coil and the HTS coil while inhibiting delamination of an HTS wire. The method of manufacturing the HTS coil including the rare-earth-based HTS wire of the superconducting coil and side panels for cooling the superconducting coil which are affixed thereto, windings of the rare-earth-based HTS wire of the superconducting coil being separated between turns, includes: utilizing a tape-like polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film 3 as an insulator between the windings of the rare-earth-based HTS wire 2 to form a PTFE-film co-wound superconducting coil; impregnating the PTFE-film co-wound superconducting coil 4 with epoxy resin 6; and affixing the side panels 5 to the-PTFE film co-wound superconducting coil 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI MIZUNO, MASAFUMI OGATA, TOMOHISA YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20080299894
    Abstract: A mobile communication device configured to communicate by radio with a base station connected to a network is provided. The mobile communication device has a broadcast receiver configured to receive broadcasting, a monitor configured to monitor condition of receiving broadcasting and a controller connected to the broadcast receiver and the monitor. The controller is configured to perform a first process in the foreground, and configured to selectively perform a second process in the background in parallel with the first process. The second process includes a process of receiving broadcasting. The controller is configured to end the process of receiving broadcasting if the broadcast receiver receives broadcasting as the second process controlled by the controller and the monitor detects degradation of the condition of receiving broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Natori, Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6070053
    Abstract: In a radio communication system and radio communication apparatus, the ringing sound or melody of calling notification can be altered by users. A music data receiving section, a music data storage section and a music data reproducing section are provided within a controller. A calling party transmits a calling signal in which music data is appended to the message; a called party receives the calling signal through an antenna and radio section, where a music data receiving section is used to determine whether or not music data is contained in the received message in the calling signal, and, if it is contained, to perform ringing for calling notification with a speaker by using the music data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5374610
    Abstract: An insulating composition consisting of Bi, Sr, RE, Cu, O or of Tl, Ba, RE, Cu, O (wherein; RE is an element selected from a group consisting of Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and Y) aligns properly with a crystal face of an oxide superconductor because its crystal structure is the same as or similar to that of the oxide superconductor. An insulating composition in which a part of Bi is replaced by Pb is further near the oxide superconductor its construction, and the modulation structure in this insulating composition is mitigated or disappears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noburu Fukushima, Shunji Nomura, Hisashi Yoshino, Ken Ando, Hiromi Niu, Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5034359
    Abstract: An insulating composition consisting of Bi, Sr, RE, Cu, O or of Tl, Ba, RE, Cu, O (wherein; RE is an element selected from a group consisting of Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and Y) aligns properly with a crystal face of an oxide superconductor because its crystal structure is the same as or similar to that of the oxide superconductor. An insulating composition in which a part of Bi is replaced by Pb is further near the oxide superconductor its construction, and the modulation structure in this insulating composition is mitigated or disappears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noburu Fukushima, Shunji Nomura, Hisashi Yoshino, Ken Ando, Hiromi Niu, Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4896103
    Abstract: The magnetic field sensor is described for sensing the magnetic field, which comprises a light source part, a magnetic field detection part which contains a magnetooptic element consisting of a magnetic materials having a magnetooptic effect, and a light measurement part which measures the light that has been radiated from the light source part and has passed through the magnetic field detection part, is characterized in that the magnetooptic element is arranged such that its easy axis of magnetization is at substantially right angles to the direction of the magnetic field to be measured. The sensor can measure in a wide range of magnetic field with a high degree of accuracy and high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Senji Shimanuki, Susumu Hashimoto, Shunji Nomura, Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4721547
    Abstract: A process for producing a signal crystal of garnet ferrite comprises causing a signal crystal to grow by subjecting raw materials for the garnet ferrite to sintering so as to utilize the anomalous grain growth induced by the sintering. The process requires a shorter period of time for the growth of the single crystal, is free from mixing of impurities, and is capable of producing a single crystal with a high Faraday rotation while reducing production cost for the crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shunji Nomura, Senji Shimamuki, Susumu Hashimoto, Tomohisa Yamashita