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).
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Patent number: 10994768Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai
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Patent number: 10821997Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi, Yusuke Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10793153Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20200207328Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Masayuki Sadakiyo
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Patent number: 10691124Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Kentaro Arai, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 10647330Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20190369623Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi
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Publication number: 20190322289Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Takashi ADACHI, Kentaro ARAI, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI, Masayuki SADAKIYO, Hisashi ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20190322308Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Takashi ADACHI, Masayuki SADAKIYO, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI, Hisashi ISHIKAWA, Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20190299979Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi
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Publication number: 20190283771Abstract: An automated driving controller that decides an action plan for a vehicle is selectable between an ordinary driving mode and a hurried driving mode that is used in a case in which a driver is in a hurry as compared with the ordinary driving mode. In an automated driving mode the vehicle is automatically controlled, the hurried driving mode is a mode in which it is possible to arrive at a destination earlier than in the ordinary driving mode, and the driver being in a hurry appears in behaviors in the vehicles, the vehicle is accompanied with an information acquisition unit that acquires the state in which the driver is in a hurry and delivers information to the automated driving controller, and the automated driving controller selects the hurried driving mode when the information acquisition unit acquires the state in which the driver is in a hurry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Takashi ADACHI, Masayuki SADAKIYO, Tomoyuki NOGUCHI, Hisashi ISHIKAWA, Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20190250607Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Kentaro Arai, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20190225237Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi, Yusuke Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20190225218Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including an electric control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform detecting that a first wheel of one of a front and rear wheels has ridden over a level difference; calculating a target vehicle speed required for a riding over of a second wheel of the other of the front and rear wheels when it is detected that the first wheel has ridden over the level difference, and controlling the actuator so that a vehicle speed immediately before the second wheel rides over the level difference after the first wheel has ridden over the level difference becomes the target vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Adachi
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Publication number: 20190204828Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20190202460Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 10337606Abstract: A shift control device for an automatic transmission is provided with an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode instructed by a manual operation of a driver. The shift control device includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code that cause the shift control device to measure a following distance between an own vehicle and a front vehicle, measure an accelerator opening of an engine, judge whether the measured following distance is equal to or less than a predetermined set value if a downshift is instructed by a manual operation of the driver and the measured accelerator opening is fully closed, and determine a target shift stage based on the following distance if the following distance is equal to or less than the set value. Accordingly, the shift control device downshifts to the target shift stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20190168770Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20190152491Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 10288168Abstract: A corner determinator detects a corner appearing in a traveling direction of a vehicle and determines whether a detected corner is a blind corner based upon a current position of the vehicle and road data. A blind distance calculator calculates a distance from the determined blind corner to the vehicle based upon the current position of the vehicle and the road data. A necessary engine braking amount calculator calculates, on the basis of a calculated distance, a necessary engine braking amount necessary for decelerating a current vehicle speed to a vehicle speed at which it is possible to stop around the blind corner when a braking operation is performed with a full braking amount. A required speed change stage determinator calculates a required speed change stage based upon the determined necessary engine braking amount. A transmission controller performs a downshift to a determined required speed change stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki Noguchi