Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Noguchi

Tomoyuki Noguchi 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: 11719331
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a control method, a control device for vehicular automatic transmission, and a recording medium. The control device includes an ON/OFF control solenoid controlling LC to either ON or OFF, and an LC pressure control linear solenoid controlling LC pressure between a released state and a fully engaged state. The control device acquires, when an accelerator pedal opening of a vehicle is on a deceleration side in a fully closed state, a torque converter slip ratio when the ON/OFF control solenoid maintains ON for a predetermined time period and the LC pressure control linear solenoid is controlled such that the LC pressure is OFF, and determines whether or not the second solenoid has a high-pressure fixation failure according to whether or not the slip ratio is within a predetermined range from a slip reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Egashira, Ryota Yamasaki, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11662019
    Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus including a first and second control valves switched to exert hydraulic pressure on a piston to press toward first position, a third and fourth control valves switched to exert hydraulic pressure on the piston to press toward second position and, a CPU. The CPU performs executing a first process controlling the control valves so that hydraulic pressure is exerted by switching of the first, second and third control valves or a second process controlling the control valves so that hydraulic pressure is exerted by switching of the second control valve and determining that the first control valve is failed when movement of the piston to the first position is not detected through the first process and determining that the third control valve is failed when movement of the piston to the first position is not detected through the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Noguchi, Shunsuke Yoshida, Yuki Ono, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kotaro Hiramine, Yasunobu Tandai
  • Publication number: 20220316589
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a control method, a control device for vehicular automatic transmission, and a recording medium. The control device includes an ON/OFF control solenoid controlling LC to either ON or OFF, and an LC pressure control linear solenoid controlling LC pressure between a released state and a fully engaged state. The control device acquires, when an accelerator pedal opening of a vehicle is on a deceleration side in a fully closed state, a torque converter slip ratio when the ON/OFF control solenoid maintains ON for a predetermined time period and the LC pressure control linear solenoid is controlled such that the LC pressure is OFF, and determines whether or not the second solenoid has a high-pressure fixation failure according to whether or not the slip ratio is within a predetermined range from a slip reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio EGASHIRA, Ryota YAMASAKI, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220128634
    Abstract: In a magnetic sensor using a magnetic impedance effect, sensitivity is improved as compared to the case where a width of a sensitive element in the short direction is equal from one end to the other end in the longitudinal direction. The magnetic sensor includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and a sensitive element that is provided on the substrate, composed of a soft magnetic material, having a longitudinal direction and a short direction, provided with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, having a width at a center portion in the longitudinal direction that is smaller compared to a width at each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction, and sensing a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Sho TONEGAWA, Akira Sakawaki, Yasumasa Watanabe, Daizo Endo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Yuta Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20220049472
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, a traveling device provided on the machine body, an operation member operable to activate the traveling device, a camera device to capture an image of surroundings of the machine body, a display unit to display the image captured by the camera device, a notification unit to notify a traveling direction of the traveling device, and a controller to control the display unit and the notification unit so that when the operation member is operated to activate the traveling device, the display unit is controlled to display the captured image and the notification unit is controlled to notify the traveling direction. The controller delays either one of a first timing when the display unit starts to display the captured image and a second timing when the notification unit starts to notify the traveling direction later than the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji FUKUDA, Kohei NAGAO, Ryota HAMAMOTO, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220049461
    Abstract: A working machine includes a first pressure detector configured to detect a first pilot pressure that is a pressure of operation fluid passed through a first traveling fluid line, a second pressure detector configured to detect a second pilot pressure that is a pressure of operation fluid passed through a second traveling fluid line, a third pressure detector configured to detect a third pilot pressure that is a pressure of operation fluid passed through a third traveling fluid line, a fourth pressure detector configured to detect a fourth pilot pressure that is a pressure of operation fluid passed through a fourth traveling fluid line, and a controller configured or programed to judge in which of the left-front, right-front, left-rear and right-rear operation areas an operational position of the traveling operation member exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei NAGAO, Yuji FUKUDA, Hiroaki NAKAGAWA, Ryota HAMAMOTO, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11215280
    Abstract: Provided is a gear change control device of automatic transmission for vehicles. The gear change control device of automatic transmission includes a gear change control part which performs upshift gear change control and downshift gear change control of an automatic transmission according to a shift map. When an operation of a brake operation element is detected and full closure of an accelerator is detected, the gear change control part calculates, based on a change amount of a vehicle speed and a pressure of a brake master cylinder, a determination counter value for determining whether or not to execute the downshift of the automatic transmission, and when the determination counter value is equal to or greater than a threshold value (first threshold value), the gear change control part performs the downshift of the automatic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Noguchi, Kazuma Sasahara, Hiroki Murasawa, Naoyuki Kubo, Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: 11214277
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle capable of switching between an automated driving mode in which driving force of a vehicle having a transmission is automatically controlled and a manual driving mode in which the driving force of the vehicle is controlled on the basis of a driver's operation on the vehicle includes: an operation element to which the driver's operation is input; and a travel control unit that outputs a command value for selecting a gear range of the transmission. The travel control unit selects which of ordinary gear change control and gear change restricting control is to be performed on the basis of an operation performed on the operation element when there is an automated driving release request in which the automated driving mode is released and the automated driving mode is switched to the manual driving mode during traveling of the vehicle in the automated driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Kentaro Arai, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11180136
    Abstract: An autonomous parking apparatus incorporated into a vehicle including an internal combustion engine, a torque converter, a transmission, a detector detecting a creep torque acting on an axle, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform instructing a self-parking of the vehicle, determining whether it is necessary to perform a creep torque reduction control based on a creep torque detected when the self-parking is instructed, and controlling the transmission in accordance with a determination result in the determining. When it is determined that it is necessary to perform the creep torque reduction control, the microprocessor is configured to control the transmission so as to increase engaging force of engagement elements of the transmission or change speed stage of the transmission to high speed side than when it is determined that it is unnecessary to perform the creep torque reduction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210301920
    Abstract: Provided is a gear change control device of automatic transmission for vehicles. The gear change control device of automatic transmission includes a gear change control part which performs upshift gear change control and downshift gear change control of an automatic transmission according to a shift map. When an operation of a brake operation element is detected and full closure of an accelerator is detected, the gear change control part calculates, based on a change amount of a vehicle speed and a pressure of a brake master cylinder, a determination counter value for determining whether or not to execute the downshift of the automatic transmission, and when the determination counter value is equal to or greater than a threshold value (first threshold value), the gear change control part performs the downshift of the automatic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NOGUCHI, Kazuma SASAHARA, Hiroki MURASAWA, Naoyuki KUBO, Hiroki KATO
  • Patent number: 11014573
    Abstract: A vehicle control device performs a drive mode switching control including switching a drive mode, when a request for switching to a manual drive control is made during execution of an automated drive control, to one of a plurality of drive modes that allows a driving force to accord with a required driving force based on an operation of the driver of the vehicle, over a wide range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11009872
    Abstract: If the driver operates the operation tool while the vehicle is traveling under the automated drive control, override control is performed in which the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle is controlled according to the operation of the operation tool, when an automated drive target gear position selected based on automatic control of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle equals a manual drive target gear position determined according to the operation of the operation tool by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10994768
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle capable of operating in an automated driving mode for automatically controlling at least the accelerating/decelerating control of the steering control and the accelerating/decelerating control of a vehicle includes: a route information acquisition unit; and an automated driving control unit that decides an action plan on a basis of map information, the action plan includes a target vehicle speed sequence that defines a target vehicle speed at the respective predetermined points at least on a road along which the vehicle will travel next, and the automated driving control unit calculates requested braking force that is braking force for decelerating the vehicle to target vehicle speed when the target vehicle speed is achieved by deceleration, calculates a predicted temperature of a brake device when the requested braking force is achieved, and decides a utilization proportion of the brake device for the requested braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai
  • Patent number: 10821997
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus configured to control a vehicle capable of switching between a manual drive mode for driving manually and a self-drive mode for driving autonomously. The vehicle control apparatus includes an electric control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform detecting a failure of the vehicle while traveling in the manual drive mode, and switching a drive mode from the manual drive mode to the self-drive mode when the failure is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi, Yusuke Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10793153
    Abstract: The vehicle controller performs gear position switch control in which a gear position of an automatic transmission set based on the automated drive control is changed to an upper-level gear position if the driver operates the accelerator pedal under the automated drive control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200207328
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle including a temperature detection part detecting a temperature of a first motor-generator, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling an internal combustion engine, the first motor-generator and a second motor-generator so that the hybrid vehicle travels in accordance with a required driving force, outputting a request for temperature increase suppression of the first motor-generator based on the temperature of the first motor-generator, and the controlling including controlling the internal combustion engine, the first motor-generator and the second motor-generator so that power generation amount of the first motor-generator is reduced, the second motor-generator generates an electric power by a regenerative torque and a driving force of the internal combustion engine increases by an amount corresponding to the regenerative torque when the request for the temperature increase suppression is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Masayuki Sadakiyo
  • Patent number: 10691124
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a switching control unit that switches a traveling mode of a vehicle from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode if an automated drive canceling request to cancel the automated driving mode to switch to the manual driving mode is submitted while the vehicle is traveling in the automated driving mode. The switching control unit performs transmission gear setting control in which a transmission gear of an automatic transmission is set to a highest transmission gear among transmission gears within a range of a predetermined allowable driving force in the switching from the automated driving mode to the manual driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Kentaro Arai, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10647330
    Abstract: If an automated drive release request to release the automated drive mode and switch to the manual drive mode is made while the vehicle is travelling in an automated drive mode, a traveling control unit performs control that gradually shifts a vehicle driving force from the vehicle driving force in the automated mode to the vehicle driving force requested by the driver in the manual drive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190369623
    Abstract: A self-driving vehicle including an actuator used for traveling, a communication unit receiving disaster information and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling the actuator so as to evacuate the self-driving vehicle to a predetermined place when the disaster information is received by the communication unit, the actuator includes a shift actuator changing a speed ratio of a transmission. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including controlling the shift actuator so as to increase the speed ratio of the transmission when the disaster information is received by the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20190322289
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle capable of switching between an automated driving mode in which driving force of a vehicle having a transmission is automatically controlled and a manual driving mode in which the driving force of the vehicle is controlled on the basis of a driver's operation on the vehicle includes: an operation element to which the driver's operation is input; and a travel control unit that outputs a command value for selecting a gear range of the transmission. The travel control unit selects which of ordinary gear change control and gear change restricting control is to be performed on the basis of an operation performed on the operation element when there is an automated driving release request in which the automated driving mode is released and the automated driving mode is switched to the manual driving mode during traveling of the vehicle in the automated driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi ADACHI, Kentaro ARAI, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI, Masayuki SADAKIYO, Hisashi ISHIKAWA