Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Onagi

Tsutomu Onagi 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: 20220258731
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus includes: a front-and-lateral target information acquisition device configured to acquire front-and-lateral target information; a vehicle information acquisition device configured to acquire vehicle information including a vehicle speed and at least one of a yaw rate or a steering input value; and a control unit configured to execute collision avoidance assist control when a target satisfies a collision condition that is satisfied when the target is determined to have collision possibility. The control unit selects targets that satisfy a predetermined selection condition from targets in the front-and-lateral target information, determines whether the collision condition is satisfied for each selected target, determines, when this determination is to be made, whether an own vehicle is turning based on the vehicle information, and changes the selection condition between a case in which the own vehicle is not turning and a case in which the own vehicle is turning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro KUNO, Xi CHEN, Yuto SHIMBO, Tsutomu ONAGI
  • Patent number: 11110899
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including a detection sensor used to detect a surrounding condition of the vehicle; a vehicle controller configured to perform drive control of the vehicle by using a signal output from the detection sensor; a fuel cell configured to generate electric power while generating water; an accumulating portion configured to accumulate the generated water discharged from the fuel cell therein as liquid water; and a cleaning portion connected with the accumulating portion, provided with a nozzle that is open to the detection sensor, and configured to eject the liquid water accumulated in the accumulating portion through the nozzle and thereby clean the detection sensor under control of the vehicle controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fukazawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Patent number: 10896610
    Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20200062222
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including a detection sensor used to detect a surrounding condition of the vehicle; a vehicle controller configured to perform drive control of the vehicle by using a signal output from the detection sensor; a fuel cell configured to generate electric power while generating water; an accumulating portion configured to accumulate the generated water discharged from the fuel cell therein as liquid water; and a cleaning portion connected with the accumulating portion, provided with a nozzle that is open to the detection sensor, and configured to eject the liquid water accumulated in the accumulating portion through the nozzle and thereby clean the detection sensor under control of the vehicle controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUKAZAWA, Tsutomu ONAGI
  • Publication number: 20190235251
    Abstract: A vehicle dispatch service coordinated search assistance system, includes a glasses-type wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition section; a gaze information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch responder-side position information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch requester-side position information acquisition section; and a control unit that, in coordination with a vehicle dispatch service system that matches the vehicle dispatch requester with the dispatch response vehicle, displays position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester on a lens section of the wearable terminal based on the orientation information relating to the wearable terminal, the gaze information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder, the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder and to the dispatch response vehicle, and the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester, such that the display is overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the vehicle d
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20190228660
    Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20190220238
    Abstract: A vehicle display nexus control apparatus includes: a first display part provided at a vehicle main body; a wearable terminal that is worn at a head region of an occupant, and that is provided with a second display part disposed in front of an eye of the occupant in a worn state; a display information acquisition unit that acquires information to be displayed at at least one of the first display part or the second display part; and a display location selection unit that determines whether to display the information acquired by the display information acquisition unit at both the first display part and the second display part, at only the first display part, or at only the second display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Patent number: 8381869
    Abstract: An electric power steering device for a vehicle includes an estimation mechanism estimating if there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows in a booster circuit toward a vehicle battery device, and a boosting controller stopping the boosting operation of the booster circuit to prevent a backward electric current from flowing in the booster circuit when it is estimated that there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows by the estimation mechanism. The estimation mechanism estimates that there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows in the booster circuit when the steering condition of a steering wheel is a returning condition or a steering-held condition. Otherwise, the estimation mechanism estimates if a backward electric current flows on the basis of input and output voltages of the booster circuit and information on the switching of a first boosting switching element. Thereby, overheat of the booster circuit can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Fujimoto, Masaharu Yamashita, Kenichiro Aoki, Megumu Nishikohri, Akihiro Ohtomo, Eiji Kasai, Tsutomu Onagi, Keitaro Niki
  • Publication number: 20110272205
    Abstract: An electric power steering device for a vehicle includes an estimation mechanism estimating if there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows in a booster circuit toward a vehicle battery device, and a boosting controller stopping the boosting operation of the booster circuit to prevent a backward electric current from flowing in the booster circuit when it is estimated that there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows by the estimation mechanism. The estimation mechanism estimates that there is a possibility that a backward electric current flows in the booster circuit when the steering condition of a steering wheel is a returning condition or a steering-held condition. Otherwise, the estimation mechanism estimates if a backward electric current flows on the basis of input and output voltages of the booster circuit and information on the switching of a first boosting switching element. Thereby, overheat of the booster circuit can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Fujimoto, Masaharu Yamashita, Kenichiro Aoki, Megumu Nishikohri, Akihiro Ohtomo, Eiji Kasai, Tsutomu Onagi, Keitaro Niki