Patents by Inventor Toshihiro KANEDA
Toshihiro KANEDA 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: 11959326Abstract: A vehicle operation detection device includes processing circuitry configured to output a command causing an opening-closing body of a vehicle to open and close in reference to capacitances of sensor electrodes arranged so as to form a row. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a first operation has been performed when one of the sensor electrodes of which the capacitance increases is sequentially shifted in a first direction from an operation start electrode and determine that a second operation has been performed when the shifting is performed in a second direction. The sensor electrodes include an adjacent electrode adjacent to the operation start electrode. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the capacitance of the adjacent electrode has increased when the capacitance becomes greater than or equal to a second determination value that is greater than a first determination value.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Enya, Takashi Kaino, Shiho Nakayama, Ryo Asami, Toshihiro Kaneda, Kenichiro Kagawa
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Patent number: 11932092Abstract: A power door device includes: a motor actuator to open/close a vehicle door; a controller to control driving of the motor actuator and include an abnormal state dealing unit; an information unit to acquire information about a vertical vehicle acceleration, and a motor load for the motor actuator; and a diagnostic unit to generate an abnormal signal when the motor load exceeds a predetermined load threshold and when the vertical acceleration does not exceed an predetermined acceleration threshold. When the motor load exceeds the load threshold and the vertical vehicle acceleration does not exceed a predetermined acceleration threshold, the diagnostic unit diagnoses an abnormality generates the abnormal signal. The abnormal state dealing unit performs the abnormal dealing control including stop movement during the door opening/closing in response to the abnormal signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Kaneda, Mitsunori Nishino, Nobuyuki Kishikawa
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Publication number: 20230304351Abstract: A power door device includes: a motor actuator to open/close a vehicle door; a controller to control driving of the motor actuator and include an abnormal state dealing unit; an information unit to acquire information about a vertical vehicle acceleration, and a motor load for the motor actuator; and a diagnostic unit to generate an abnormal signal when the motor load exceeds a predetermined load threshold and when the vertical acceleration does not exceed an predetermined acceleration threshold. When the motor load exceeds the load threshold and the vertical vehicle acceleration does not exceed a predetermined acceleration threshold, the diagnostic unit diagnoses an abnormality generates the abnormal signal. The abnormal state dealing unit performs the abnormal dealing control including stop movement during the door opening/closing in response to the abnormal signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230287725Abstract: A door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing velocity of a door on a vehicle; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; and a controller that performs driving control for the door actuator based on the target assisting power. The target assisting power computer calculates, based on the opening and closing velocity of the door obtained by the information obtainer, a standard assisting power which is assisting power required to maintain the opening and closing velocity, makes a correction by decreasing the calculated standard assisting power according to a predetermined rule, and sets the standard assisting power after the decrease correction as the target assisting power.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230287726Abstract: A door opening and closing assisting apparatus that assists an opening and closing operation of a door on a vehicle is provided. The door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing acceleration of the door; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; and a controller that performs driving control for the door actuator based on the target assisting power. The controller starts the driving control for the door actuator at a timing at which the information obtainer obtains the opening and closing acceleration of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Toshihiro KANEDA, Mitsunori NISHINO, Nobuyuki KISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11702033Abstract: A vehicle operation detection device includes sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle. When the user moves a part of a body toward the sensors and a motion of moving the part of the body along the axis is detected, the sensors detect an opening-closing operation for the door. The vehicle operation detection device further includes light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle along the axis in the opening-closing direction and an operation direction indicator configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a first direction in a fully-closed state of the door and drives the light-emitting members in sequence in a second direction in a fully-open state of the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Shimizu, Takaya Aiyama, Koichi Hirota, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda, Makoto Ono, Satoshi Katayama
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Publication number: 20230097220Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a determination unit for determining, based on an image captured by a first camera with a first resolution, whether an object around a vehicle is a person or not; and a camera activation unit for activating a second camera when an image of the person as the object enters within a first area corresponding to a range of a first predetermined distance from the vehicle on the captured image, the second camera having a second resolution higher than the first resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Haisong Liu, Ryo Morosawa, Seonghun Lee, Masahiro Tanigawa, Kenya Sakurai, Eiji Hirano, Yuki Kagiya, Koji Nomura, Yuji Tsuchiya, Mitsunori Nishino, Toshihiro Kaneda, Kenji Okuma
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Publication number: 20220106826Abstract: A vehicle operation detection device includes processing circuitry configured to output a command causing an opening-closing body of a vehicle to open and close in reference to capacitances of sensor electrodes arranged so as to form a row. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a first operation has been performed when one of the sensor electrodes of which the capacitance increases is sequentially shifted in a first direction from an operation start electrode and determine that a second operation has been performed when the shifting is performed in a second direction. The sensor electrodes include an adjacent electrode adjacent to the operation start electrode. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the capacitance of the adjacent electrode has increased when the capacitance becomes greater than or equal to a second determination value that is greater than a first determination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta ENYA, Takashi KAINO, Shiho NAKAYAMA, Ryo ASAMI, Toshihiro KANEDA, Kenichiro KAGAWA
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Patent number: 11028634Abstract: A manipulation detecting device for a vehicle includes a sensor electrode that is configured to have a capacitance that increases as a detection target approaches the sensor electrode and circuitry that is configured to selectively open and close an opening-closing body of a vehicle by controlling an actuator. A first determination value is used to determine proximity of the detection target to the sensor electrode. The circuitry is configured to selectively open and close the opening-closing body when the opening-closing body is in a stopped state and the capacitance of the sensor electrode is greater than or equal to the first proximity determination value and smaller than a second proximity determination value, which is greater than the first proximity determination value.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Shimizu, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda
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Publication number: 20200302707Abstract: An input operation detector includes an operation detection electrode configured to detect an input operation from a capacitance change resulting from an approaching detection subject and a wetting detection electrode arranged next to the operation detection electrode. Water from an outer surface of a vehicle, when the vehicle is wet, collects at a location referred to as a water collection portion, and the wetting detection electrode is closer to the water collection portion than the operation detection electrode. If the water collection portion does not include water, the operation detection electrode has a greater capacitance change sensitivity than the wetting detection electrode to the approach of the detection subject. If the water collection portion includes water, the wetting detection electrode has a greater capacitance change sensitivity than the operation detection electrode to the water in the water collection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori YASUDA, Takehiro TABATA, Hiroshi SHINGU, Kenichiro KAGAWA, Toshihiro KANEDA
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Publication number: 20200282950Abstract: A vehicle operation detection device includes sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle. When the user moves a part of a body toward the sensors and a motion of moving the part of the body along the axis is detected, the sensors detect an opening-closing operation for the door. The vehicle operation detection device further includes light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle along the axis in the opening-closing direction and an operation direction indicator configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a first direction in a fully-closed state of the door and drives the light-emitting members in sequence in a second direction in a fully-open state of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka SHIMIZU, Takaya AIYAMA, Koichi HIROTA, Hiroshi SHINGU, Kenichiro KAGAWA, Toshihiro KANEDA, Makoto ONO, Satoshi KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 10627205Abstract: A vehicle manipulation detecting device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a shield electrode. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be attached to a window glass of a vehicle and output a detection signal corresponding to a capacitance changed in response to contact or approach of an object. The sensor electrodes include at least one first sensor electrode and at least one second sensor electrode. The shield electrode is arranged at a position corresponding to the first sensor electrode on an inner side of the first sensor electrode with reference to a passenger compartment of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Miyagi, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda
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Publication number: 20190301232Abstract: A manipulation detecting device for a vehicle includes a sensor electrode that is configured to have a capacitance that increases as a detection target approaches the sensor electrode and circuitry that is configured to selectively open and close an opening-closing body of a vehicle by controlling an actuator. A first determination value is used to determine proximity of the detection target to the sensor electrode. The circuitry is configured to selectively open and close the opening-closing body when the opening-closing body is in a stopped state and the capacitance of the sensor electrode is greater than or equal to the first proximity determination value and smaller than a second proximity determination value, which is greater than the first proximity determination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka SHIMIZU, Hiroshi SHINGU, Kenichiro KAGAWA, Toshihiro KANEDA
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Publication number: 20180238672Abstract: A vehicle manipulation detecting device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a shield electrode. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be attached to a window glass of a vehicle and output a detection signal corresponding to a capacitance changed in response to contact or approach of an object. The sensor electrodes include at least one first sensor electrode and at least one second sensor electrode. The shield electrode is arranged at a position corresponding to the first sensor electrode on an inner side of the first sensor electrode with reference to a passenger compartment of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicants: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ayaka Miyagi, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda
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Publication number: 20170349145Abstract: An opening/closing control apparatus includes a directional microphone having a sound collecting device disposed on a vehicle and configured to collect sound outside the vehicle. The directional microphone further has directivity upward from a horizontal plane that includes a mounting position of the sound collecting device. The opening/closing control apparatus further includes a control circuit configured to control operation of one of a door and a lock of the vehicle, based on a recognition result obtained by performing speech recognition with respect to an audio signal detected by the directional microphone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicants: TRANSTRON INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya TANABE, Masashi TAMURA, Junichi WATANABE, Hisao KAMODA, Kenichiro Kagawa, Masaki WATANABE, Toshihiro KANEDA, Hiroshi SHINGU, Makoto ONO, Satoshi KATAYAMA