Patents by Inventor Yasuhiko Kodate

Yasuhiko Kodate 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: 11279379
    Abstract: Provided is an assist apparatus for a vehicle leaving a parking space, including an automatic leaving execution unit configured to execute automatic leaving by automatic travel control mode of the vehicle and a switching control unit configured to switch driving of the vehicle from the automatic travel control mode to driver's driving operation mode, in which a state of the vehicle is determined and whether or not to perform a predetermined automatic travel control before switching the drive of the vehicle to the driver's driving operation mode is determined based on the determination result of the state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sakurai, Yasuhiko Kodate, Toshiyuki Anzai, Katsumi Iwano
  • Publication number: 20200223448
    Abstract: Provided is an assist apparatus for a vehicle leaving a parking space, including an automatic leaving execution unit configured to execute automatic leaving by automatic travel control mode of the vehicle and a switching control unit configured to switch driving of the vehicle from the automatic travel control mode to driver's driving operation mode, in which a state of the vehicle is determined and whether or not to perform a predetermined automatic travel control before switching the drive of the vehicle to the driver's driving operation mode is determined based on the determination result of the state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SAKURAI, Yasuhiko KODATE, Toshiyuki ANZAI, Katsumi IWANO
  • Publication number: 20090025018
    Abstract: There is provided a disc player which does not require any mechanism for guiding a disc to the center inside a main body and any dedicated mechanism for preventing double insertion of discs, and can surely detect the disc diameter of not only general discs, but also partially-transparent discs. In order to attain this object, a disc player for loading a disc inserted in an insertion port into the inside of the main body to reproduce the disc is provided with a pair of gate members 59 which are disposed so as to be allocated to both the sides of the insertion port substantially with respect to the center of the insertion port and evacuated in the side direction of the insertion port in contact with the outer peripheral portion of the inserted disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Sato, Yasuhiko Kodate, Tsutomu Ito