Patents by Inventor Tomoyasu Sakaguchi

Tomoyasu Sakaguchi 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: 11827273
    Abstract: The vehicle stop position accuracy is improved. A parking assist device, which assists parking of a vehicle at a target stop position, includes: a traveling distance calculation unit that calculates a traveling distance of the vehicle based on a wheel speed pulse; and a braking/driving force calculation unit that determines a remaining distance to the target stop position based on the traveling distance, and switches control of the braking force of the vehicle from feedback control to feedforward control when the remaining distance becomes a value equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akitoshi Miyazaki, Yoshitaka Fukasawa, Tomoyasu Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230211824
    Abstract: A driving assistance device that includes a processor and a memory and assists driving of a vehicle includes: an external environment information acquisition unit that acquires external environment information of the vehicle; an obstacle detection unit that detects an obstacle in front of the vehicle from the external environment information; a lane detection unit that detects a lane boundary line and a road edge from the external environment information; an alarm unit that issues an alarm or performs steering assist when deviation from the lane boundary line or the road edge is detected; and a state management unit that suppresses the alarm or the steering assist when the obstacle detection unit detects the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Masashi SEIMIYA, Keisuke TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11472383
    Abstract: The present invention prevents occurrence of abnormal noise and swing of a vehicle in mitigating braking force of a steered wheel while reducing a steering load at the time of stationary steering to reduce a burden of a steering device and reducing stress accumulation due to stationary steering to reduce burdens of a tire, a suspension device and the steering device. The present invention includes a stop braking force control unit 202 that individually controls braking forces of steered wheels 51 and 52 and non-steered wheels 53 and 54 at the time of deceleration of the vehicle, and a pre-detection unit 203 that detects steering in a stopped state of the vehicle in advance, in which the stop braking force control unit executes, when the steering in a stopped state of the vehicle is detected in advance by the pre-detection unit, braking force mitigation control to decrease the braking forces of the steered wheels to be lower than the braking forces at the time of normal braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Masashi Seimiya, Takashi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11472419
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of accurately estimating a self-vehicle location with a yaw angle error occurring when a vehicle starts to travel due to an initial phase shift between pulsed waveforms of left and right wheels when the vehicle starts to travel suppressed. The vehicle control device further estimates a direction of wheel rotation while the vehicle is at a stop. A yaw angle deviation when the vehicle starts to travel is estimated and corrected on the basis of a weighted average of discrete yaw angle values obtained immediately after the vehicle starts to travel from wheel speed sensors installed on left and right non-steered wheels of the vehicle. A yaw angle while the vehicle is at a stop and a yaw angle when the vehicle starts to travel are also estimated, and the direction of wheel rotation while the vehicle is at a stop is also estimated from a difference between the yaw angles. The yaw angle and coordinates are corrected on the basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Takashi Tsutsui, Yoshiyuki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220227387
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor, a memory and a sensor that acquires surrounding environment information of the vehicle, a host vehicle position estimation unit that estimates the route of the vehicle, a surrounding environment storage unit that stores the surrounding environment information and the route estimated by the host vehicle position estimation unit in association with each other, a vehicle-speed threshold determination unit that sets a vehicle-speed threshold value when the surrounding environment storage unit stores the surrounding environment information and the route in association with each other, and determines whether or not a current vehicle speed exceeds the vehicle-speed threshold value when the surrounding environment storage unit stores the surrounding environment information and the route, and a warning unit that performs a notification of an excess of the vehicle speed when the vehicle-speed threshold determination unit determines that the vehicle speed exceeds the vehicl
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro OZAKI, Masashi SEIMIYA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 11383723
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of suppressing a yaw angle error at startup due to an initial phase shift of pulse waveforms of right and left wheels at the startup and precisely estimating a vehicle position. A yaw angle displacement amount of the vehicle is corrected in the direction of reducing an error in the yaw angle displacement amount at the estimation start point with respect to a reference direction in which the vehicle is to travel depending on output of a pulse waveform of a wheel speed sensor provided in right and left non-steering wheels of the vehicle immediately after the startup. Specifically, a range of an estimation error in a traveling direction at the startup is limited by two steps of correction at the startup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Takashi Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20220196424
    Abstract: When a vehicle is caused to autonomously travel and is guided to a target point, if an error from a design value occurs in a position or dimensions of an external-environment sensor due to a secular change of the vehicle, a riding state, or a loading state, an error also occurs in a sensing result. Thus, positional accuracy at the target point is deteriorated. There is provided a vehicle control method of controlling a vehicle by a vehicle control device including a processor and a memory. The vehicle control method includes a step of storing route information up to a predetermined point by the vehicle control device, and a step of performing autonomous traveling based on the route information by the vehicle control device. In the step of storing, a section for collecting information for disturbance correction on an external-environment sensor is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKEUCHI, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Masashi SEIMIYA
  • Patent number: 11332126
    Abstract: When one sensors fails and thus malfunctions during automatic parking of a vehicle, only the other sensor functions. Accordingly, depending on the behavior of the vehicle, the detection characteristics of the other sensor cause degradation in recognition of the vehicle, hindering the automatic parking from being continued. In processing S401, a determination is made whether or not an external recognition device, such as a camera or sonar, malfunctions. In processing S402, based on the determination on malfunction of the external recognition device, a determination is made whether or not to restrict vehicle speed or to restrict a path, with reference to restriction information for parking control. The restriction information for parking control provides information for restricting the vehicle speed in accordance with the malfunction of the camera, and for restricting the path in accordance with the malfunction of the sonar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Seimiya, Satoshi Matsuda, Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Yusuke Kogure, Yoshitaka Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20220084330
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a counting unit that counts rotation of wheels by a sensor; and a rotation determination unit that determines the rotation based on a count value of each of the wheels obtained by the counting unit. Based on a movement distance of a vehicle, the movement distance of each of the wheels from rotation detection to the next rotation detection is defined as a rotation detection travel distance of each of the wheels. The rotation determination unit determines a rotation direction of a wheel a second time is a direction opposite to that detected for a first time when rotation detection is not performed even once for a first reference wheel having a rotation detection travel distance equal to or less than a rotation detection travel distance of the first determination target wheel while the rotation of the selected first determination target wheel is detected twice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Masashi SEIMIYA, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20220063625
    Abstract: A vehicle braking force proportional to a gradient is reduced to zero after the vehicle is stopped by the braking force, thereby reducing the time for applying a braking force. A system and method for vehicle control includes a processor and a memory. The vehicle control method including a first step of the processor generating a command for applying a first braking force preset to hold the vehicle in a stopped state, a second step of the processor acquiring, from a gradient detection device, a gradient of a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling after applying the first braking force, the gradient being detected by the gradient detection device, a third step of the processor computing a second braking force proportional to the gradient of the road surface, and a fourth step of the processor applying the second braking force to the braking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro OZAKI, Yusuke KOGURE, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210380168
    Abstract: The vehicle stop position accuracy is improved. A parking assist device, which assists parking of a vehicle at a target stop position, includes: a traveling distance calculation unit that calculates a traveling distance of the vehicle based on a wheel speed pulse; and a braking/driving force calculation unit that determines a remaining distance to the target stop position based on the traveling distance, and switches control of the braking force of the vehicle from feedback control to feedforward control when the remaining distance becomes a value equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akitoshi MIYAZAKI, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210213941
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of improving the riding comfort of a vehicle during parking control. A vehicle control device 10 includes: a distance measuring unit 14 that measures a distance between a position of a vehicle and a target stop position of the vehicle; and an acceleration setting unit 15 that sets an acceleration profile, which is a time change of a target value of acceleration during deceleration of the vehicle, according to the distance based on a jerk profile 15a, which is a time change of a target value of jerk during deceleration of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Yusuke KOGURE, Masashi SEIMIYA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Satoshi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11009122
    Abstract: There is proposed a gearshift control device which can reduce a transmission load due to preshift, and improve fuel efficiency of a vehicle. A gearshift control device which controls a transmission 50 including two systems of power transmission mechanisms, and preshifts the transmission 50 based on a traveling plan during automatic driving of a vehicle. The gearshift control device makes automatic driving preshift execution decision of planning control contents of the transmission 50 based on the traveling plan, and preshift execution decision of deciding whether or not to preshift the transmission based on a control plan of the transmission 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Seimiya, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Takashi Matsuoka, Tomoyasu Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210078586
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of accurately estimating a self-vehicle location with a yaw angle error occurring when a vehicle starts to travel due to an initial phase shift between pulsed waveforms of left and right wheels when the vehicle starts to travel suppressed. The vehicle control device further estimates a direction of wheel rotation while the vehicle is at a stop. A yaw angle deviation when the vehicle starts to travel is estimated and corrected on the basis of a weighted average of discrete yaw angle values obtained immediately after the vehicle starts to travel from wheel speed sensors installed on left and right non-steered wheels of the vehicle. A yaw angle while the vehicle is at a stop and a yaw angle when the vehicle starts to travel are also estimated, and the direction of wheel rotation while the vehicle is at a stop is also estimated from a difference between the yaw angles. The yaw angle and coordinates are corrected on the basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Takashi TSUTSUI, Yoshiyuki YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210070283
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of quickly obtaining a route for reaching a target parking position re-recognized during automatic parking control. The vehicle control device includes: a connection route generation unit 33 which generates a target route 47 for moving a vehicle 1 from a parking start position 41 to a target parking position 44a of a target parking frame 44, and generates a connection route 48 for moving the vehicle to the target parking position of the target parking frame re-recognized by a recognition unit 31 while the vehicle moves along the target route from the position of the vehicle; and a mode switching unit which switches from a first mode in which the vehicle 1 moves along the target route 47 to a second mode in which the vehicle 1 moves along the connection route 48, on condition that the connection route 48 is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Masashi SEIMIYA, Satoshi MATSUDA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Yusuke KOGURE
  • Publication number: 20200406890
    Abstract: When one sensors fails and thus malfunctions during automatic parking of a vehicle, only the other sensor functions. Accordingly, depending on the behavior of the vehicle, the detection characteristics of the other sensor cause degradation in recognition of the vehicle, hindering the automatic parking from being continued. In processing S401, a determination is made whether or not an external recognition device, such as a camera or sonar, malfunctions. In processing S402, based on the determination on malfunction of the external recognition device, a determination is made whether or not to restrict vehicle speed or to restrict a path, with reference to restriction information for parking control. The restriction information for parking control provides information for restricting the vehicle speed in accordance with the malfunction of the camera, and for restricting the path in accordance with the malfunction of the sonar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi SEIMIYA, Satoshi MATSUDA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Yusuke KOGURE, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 10871380
    Abstract: The present invention enhances estimation accuracy of a travel distance to estimate a position of a host vehicle. A vehicle control device 1 includes front and rear cameras 7 and 8 and a measurement control unit 23. The front and rear cameras 7 and 8 are provided at front and rear of a vehicle 10 to acquire information on an external world. The measurement control unit 23 calculate a travel distance of the vehicle 10 during traveling of the vehicle 10 in a predetermined driving state based on the information of an identical characteristic object 30 acquired by the front camera 7 and the rear camera 8, the rear camera 8 acquiring the information of the identical characteristic object 30 after the front camera 7 acquires the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Masashi Seimiya, Yoshiyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10704678
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a transmission control device capable of shortening a switching time between forward control and reverse control of a transmission. The present invention relates to a transmission control device that controls a transmission, including: a forward power transmission mechanism configured to move a vehicle forward; and a reverse power transmission mechanism configured to reverse the vehicle. Each of the forward power transmission mechanism and the reverse power transmission mechanism includes a driving-side connector and a driven-side connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Seimiya, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Tomoyasu Sakaguchi, Takashi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20200141483
    Abstract: There is proposed a gearshift control device which can reduce a transmission load due to preshift, and improve fuel efficiency of a vehicle. A gearshift control device which controls a transmission 50 including two systems of power transmission mechanisms, and preshifts the transmission 50 based on a traveling plan during automatic driving of a vehicle. The gearshift control device makes automatic driving preshift execution decision of planning control contents of the transmission 50 based on the traveling plan, and preshift execution decision of deciding whether or not to preshift the transmission based on a control plan of the transmission 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi SEIMIYA, Yoshiyuki YOSHIDA, Takashi MATSUOKA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200122735
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of suppressing a yaw angle error at startup due to an initial phase shift of pulse waveforms of right and left wheels at the startup and precisely estimating a vehicle position. A yaw angle displacement amount of the vehicle is corrected in the direction of reducing an error in the yaw angle displacement amount at the estimation start point with respect to a reference direction in which the vehicle is to travel depending on output of a pulse waveform of a wheel speed sensor provided in right and left non-steering wheels of the vehicle immediately after the startup. Specifically, a range of an estimation error in a traveling direction at the startup is limited by two steps of correction at the startup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Takashi TSUTSUI