Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Utsui

Yoshihiro Utsui 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).

  • Danger avoidance system for a vehicle
    Patent number: 5521580
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a danger avoidance system capable of avoiding the collision of a vehicle against obstacles and of reducing the effect of collision on a vehicle. A traveling condition deciding unit decides whether or not the vehicle is in a dangerous traveling condition on the basis of the respective outputs of a vehicle monitoring system and an ambient condition monitoring system. A danger recognition confirming unit decides whether or not the driver is aware of the dangerous traveling condition on the basis of the respective outputs of a driver monitoring system, the ambient condition monitoring system and the vehicle monitoring system. When the traveling condition deciding unit decides that the vehicle is in the dangerous traveling condition, measures to avoid danger or to reduce the effect of collision on the vehicle are taken only when the driver is not aware of the dangerous traveling condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuma Kaneko, Mitsuo Shimotani, Yoshiharu Morihiro, Norihiro Tamiya, Yuichi Fudewaki, Noriyuki Inoue, Minoru Nishida, Yoshihiro Utsui, Shouichi Washino