Patents by Inventor Yasushi TAKASO

Yasushi TAKASO 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: 11932246
    Abstract: A driving assist apparatus for a manual transmission vehicle includes a traveling environment information acquisition unit, a power transmission detector and a controller. The traveling environment information acquisition unit is configured to acquire traveling environment information ahead of the vehicle. The power transmission detector is configured to detect engagement or disengagement of power transmission between a drive source and a drive wheel. The controller is configured to, when recognizing a target object ahead of the vehicle based on the traveling environment information acquired by the traveling environment information acquisition unit, control a vehicle speed of the vehicle in accordance with a distance between the vehicle and the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Takaso
  • Publication number: 20240001919
    Abstract: A safe driving assist device for a vehicle includes an inter-vehicle distance detector, a preceding vehicle speed detector, a preceding vehicle deceleration detector, an assumed deceleration calculator, and a vehicle controller. The inter-vehicle distance detector detects an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle. The preceding vehicle speed detector detects a traveling speed of the preceding vehicle. The preceding vehicle deceleration detector detects a deceleration of the preceding vehicle based on the traveling speed of the preceding vehicle. The assumed deceleration calculator calculates an assumed deceleration when the preceding vehicle enters a curve, based on the inter-vehicle distance, the traveling speed of the preceding vehicle, and curve information acquired from map information. The vehicle controller performs control to reduce a speed of the vehicle when the deceleration of the preceding vehicle is greater than the assumed deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
  • Patent number: 11814031
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes a clutch provided between a drive source and a transmission, a clutch operator with which a driver who drives a vehicle disengages the clutch, a clutch operation detector that detects that the clutch is disengaged, a shift operator with which the driver sets the transmission at least to a neutral position, a shift position detector that detects that the transmission is in the neutral position, a low-speed motor, and a controller that controls a drive force of the low-speed motor. The controller includes a driving mode setter that sets a driving mode of the vehicle to a motor driving mode when the clutch is detected to be disengaged or the transmission is detected to be in the neutral position. The controller stops the drive source and starts the low-speed motor when the driving mode is set to the motor driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Takaso
  • Publication number: 20230347892
    Abstract: A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes: a driving environment recognizer recognizing driving environment information on outside of the vehicle; a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance setter setting a target preceding vehicle distance to a preceding vehicle; and a driving controller performing driving control for maintaining a preceding vehicle distance at the target preceding vehicle distance. When a vehicle driving path is congested, the target vehicle-to-vehicle distance setter sets an extended target preceding vehicle distance and a target following vehicle distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki SUGIYAMA, Yuichiro TSUKASAKI, Yasushi TAKASO, Kouki TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210380093
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes a clutch provided between a drive source and a transmission, a clutch operator with which a driver who drives a vehicle disengages the clutch, a clutch operation detector that detects that the clutch is disengaged, a shift operator with which the driver sets the transmission at least to a neutral position, a shift position detector that detects that the transmission is in the neutral position, a low-speed motor, and a controller that controls a drive force of the low-speed motor. The controller includes a driving mode setter that sets a driving mode of the vehicle to a motor driving mode when the clutch is detected to be disengaged or the transmission is detected to be in the neutral position. The controller stops the drive source and starts the low-speed motor when the driving mode is set to the motor driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
  • Publication number: 20210309288
    Abstract: An automatic steering control apparatus includes a road information recognition device, a travel state detector, and a steering angle control device. The road information recognition device recognizes road information ahead of a vehicle. The travel state detector detects information regarding a travel state of the vehicle. The steering angle control device controls a steering angle of the vehicle, on the basis of the road information and the information regarding the travel state, to allow the vehicle to move toward a target position ahead of the vehicle. The steering angle control device controls the steering angle, to allow at least a portion of a steering angle waveform to have a non-sinusoidal wave. The steering angle waveform represents a time change in the steering angle in a case where the vehicle travels while crossing repetitively an ideal travel locus to be obtained from the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichiro TSUKASAKI, Yasushi TAKASO
  • Publication number: 20210078574
    Abstract: A driving assist apparatus for a manual transmission vehicle includes a traveling environment information acquisition unit, a power transmission detector and a controller. The traveling environment information acquisition unit is configured to acquire traveling environment information ahead of the vehicle. The power transmission detector is configured to detect engagement or disengagement of power transmission between a drive source and a drive wheel. The controller is configured to, when recognizing a target object ahead of the vehicle based on the traveling environment information acquired by the traveling environment information acquisition unit, control a vehicle speed of the vehicle in accordance with a distance between the vehicle and the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
  • Patent number: 10286952
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a first setting unit and a correcting unit. The control target point setting unit sets a set position of a preceding vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in a vehicle width direction as a control target point of follow-up traveling for traveling while following the preceding vehicle. The steering control amount correcting unit corrects, on a basis of deviation between a target steering angle that brings the own vehicle to the control target point and an actual steering angle, an amount of a steering control that controls the own vehicle to the target steering angle which is a steering angle that brings the own vehicle to the control target point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Takaso, Fumihito Yamaguchi, Koji Matsuno, Masayuki Yajima
  • Patent number: 10131355
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a detector, and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains traveling environment information. The traveling environment information includes at least lane line information of a lane along which an own vehicle travels and preceding vehicle information. The detector detects traveling information of the own vehicle. The controller performs a steering control on a basis of the traveling environment information and the traveling information. When the obtaining unit obtains only the lane line information and when the obtaining unit obtains both the lane line information and the preceding vehicle information, the controller performs the steering control on a basis of the lane line information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Takaso, Hajime Oyama
  • Patent number: 10000209
    Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus includes a target course setter, a first control quantity calculator, a second control quantity calculator, a control rate variator, and a steering controller. The target course setter sets, based on forward environment information, a target course to be traveled by an own vehicle. The first control quantity calculator calculates a first control quantity that allows the own vehicle to travel along the target course. The second control quantity calculator calculates a second control quantity based on a steering angle. The control rate variator variably sets, in accordance with a vehicle speed, a first rate of the first control quantity and a second rate of the second control quantity. The steering controller calculates a steering control quantity, based on the first control quantity corrected based on the first rate and the second control quantity corrected based on the second rate, and executes a steering control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Takaso, Takashi Kubo
  • Patent number: 9944294
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a first information obtaining unit, a second information obtaining unit, a traveling controller, a detector, and a calculator. The first information obtaining unit obtains information on a traveling environment of an own vehicle as traveling environment information. The second information obtaining unit obtains information on traveling of the own vehicle as traveling information. The traveling controller performs an evacuation traveling control, based on the traveling environment information and the traveling information. The evacuation traveling control causes an evacuation traveling of the own vehicle to be executed. The detector detects an abnormal state of a driver of the own vehicle. The calculator calculates waiting time during which waiting is performed from the detection of the abnormal state of the driver to starting of the evacuation traveling control, when the abnormal state of the driver is detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Takaso
  • Patent number: 9889884
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a vehicle detects a vehicle to be passed that is a target of passing and is in front of the vehicle equipped with the apparatus in the traveling lane thereof, detects a parallel traveling vehicle that is traveling in a lane that is adjacent to a lane to which the vehicle performs lane changing to pass the vehicle to be passed and is located on the opposite side of the lane which the vehicle to be passed is traveling, monitors the vehicle to be passed and the parallel traveling vehicle, and variably controls a passing maneuver with respect to the vehicle to be passed on the basis of a monitoring result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Shiro Ezoe, Takayuki Nagase, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 9809164
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a vehicle detects a vehicle to be passed that is an target of passing and is located in front of a vehicle equipped with the travel control apparatus in a traveling lane thereof on the basis of peripheral environment information and travel information, detects a following vehicle that is behind the vehicle in the traveling lane thereof as a following vehicle in the original lane on the basis of the peripheral environment information, monitors the vehicle to be passed and the following vehicle in the original lane, and variably controls a passing maneuver with respect to the vehicle to be passed on the basis of a monitoring result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Shiro Ezoe, Takayuki Nagase, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 9776641
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a travel environment information acquisition unit that acquires travel environment information on a travel environment where the vehicle travels; a travel information detector that detects travel information on the vehicle; and an overtaking controller that detects an overtaking target vehicle ahead of the vehicle in an identical travel lane on the basis of the travel environment information and the travel information, and overtakes the overtaking target vehicle using automatic driving control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Satoru Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9764640
    Abstract: In a travel control apparatus for a vehicle, a travel environment information acquisition unit acquires travel environment information, and a travel information detector detects travel information relating to the vehicle. The apparatus executes automatic driving control based on such information pieces. A vehicle peripheral object detector detects an object around the vehicle, separately to the travel environment information acquisition unit. An environment information acquisition failure detector detects an acquisition failure in the travel environment information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Matsuno, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Harunobu Horiguchi, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Satoru Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20170225686
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a detector, and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains traveling environment information. The traveling environment information includes at least lane line information of a lane along which an own vehicle travels and preceding vehicle information. The detector detects traveling information of the own vehicle. The controller performs a steering control on a basis of the traveling environment information and the traveling information. When the obtaining unit obtains only the lane line information and when the obtaining unit obtains both the lane line information and the preceding vehicle information, the controller performs the steering control on a basis of the lane line information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Hajime OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170158238
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a first setting unit and a correcting unit. The control target point setting unit sets a set position of a preceding vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in a vehicle width direction as a control target point of follow-up traveling for traveling while following the preceding vehicle. The steering control amount correcting unit corrects, on a basis of deviation between a target steering angle that brings the own vehicle to the control target point and an actual steering angle, an amount of a steering control that controls the own vehicle to the target steering angle which is a steering angle that brings the own vehicle to the control target point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Fumihito YAMAGUCHI, Koji MATSUNO, Masayuki YAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9637107
    Abstract: In a travel control apparatus for a vehicle, a travel environment information acquisition unit acquires travel environment information on a travel environment of the vehicle. A travel information detector detects travel information on the vehicle in order to execute automatic driving control based on such information pieces. A lateral force generator generates lateral force to be applied to the vehicle during the automatic driving control. A torsion bar is interposed on a torque transmission path of a steering system. A steering wheel angle detector detects a steering wheel angle. A lateral force detector detects the lateral force acting on the vehicle. An intervening steering operation determination unit determines that a driver has performed an intervening steering operation when a characteristic of the detected steering wheel angle and lateral force differs from a reference characteristic that varies univocally when the steering wheel is in a no load condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Matsuno, Satoru Akiyama, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Harunobu Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20160362113
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a first information obtaining unit, a second information obtaining unit, a traveling controller, a detector, and a calculator. The first information obtaining unit obtains information on a traveling environment of an own vehicle as traveling environment information. The second information obtaining unit obtains information on traveling of the own vehicle as traveling information. The traveling controller performs an evacuation traveling control, based on the traveling environment information and the traveling information. The evacuation traveling control causes an evacuation traveling of the own vehicle to be executed. The detector detects an abnormal state of a driver of the own vehicle. The calculator calculates waiting time during which waiting is performed from the detection of the abnormal state of the driver to starting of the evacuation traveling control, when the abnormal state of the driver is detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
  • Publication number: 20160355212
    Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus includes a target course setter, a first control quantity calculator, a second control quantity calculator, a control rate variator, and a steering controller. The target course setter sets, based on forward environment information, a target course to be travelled by an own vehicle. The first control quantity calculator calculates a first control quantity that allows the own vehicle to travel along the target course. The second control quantity calculator calculates a second control quantity based on a steering angle. The control rate variator variably sets, in accordance with a vehicle speed, a first rate of the first control quantity and a second rate of the second control quantity. The steering controller calculates a steering control quantity, based on the first control quantity corrected based on the first rate and the second control quantity corrected based on the second rate, and executes a steering control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Takashi KUBO