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).
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Patent number: 11932246Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Takaso
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Publication number: 20240001919Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
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Patent number: 11814031Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Takaso
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Publication number: 20230347892Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Taiki SUGIYAMA, Yuichiro TSUKASAKI, Yasushi TAKASO, Kouki TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210380093Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
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Publication number: 20210309288Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Yuichiro TSUKASAKI, Yasushi TAKASO
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Publication number: 20210078574Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
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Patent number: 10286952Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Takaso, Fumihito Yamaguchi, Koji Matsuno, Masayuki Yajima
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Patent number: 10131355Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Takaso, Hajime Oyama
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Patent number: 10000209Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Takaso, Takashi Kubo
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Patent number: 9944294Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Takaso
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Patent number: 9889884Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Shiro Ezoe, Takayuki Nagase, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 9809164Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Shiro Ezoe, Takayuki Nagase, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 9776641Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Matsuno, Harunobu Horiguchi, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Satoru Akiyama
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Patent number: 9764640Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Matsuno, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Harunobu Horiguchi, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Satoru Akiyama
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Publication number: 20170225686Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Hajime OYAMA
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Publication number: 20170158238Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Fumihito YAMAGUCHI, Koji MATSUNO, Masayuki YAJIMA
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Patent number: 9637107Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Matsuno, Satoru Akiyama, Takayuki Nagase, Eiichi Shiraishi, Shiro Ezoe, Hajime Oyama, Yasushi Takaso, Masato Mizoguchi, Harunobu Horiguchi
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Publication number: 20160362113Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventor: Yasushi TAKASO
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Publication number: 20160355212Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yasushi TAKASO, Takashi KUBO