Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Katashima
Yoshitaka Katashima 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: 11506779Abstract: An outside sensor unit includes an outside sensor, a main bracket, a support bracket, a rotation device, and a position adjustment device. The outside sensor detects the outside of a vehicle. The main bracket is attached to a vehicle body. The support bracket supports the outside sensor and is attached to the main bracket. The rotation device has a rotation axis line which is substantially parallel to a roll axis of the vehicle and connects the support bracket and the main bracket together rotatably around the rotation axis line. The position adjustment device is capable of adjusting the relative rotation position between the support bracket and the main bracket around the rotation axis line.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Fujita, Takato Watanabe, Yoshitaka Katashima
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Publication number: 20190219690Abstract: An outside sensor unit includes an outside sensor, a main bracket, a support bracket, a rotation device, and a position adjustment device. The outside sensor detects the outside of a vehicle. The main bracket is attached to a vehicle body. The support bracket supports the outside sensor and is attached to the main bracket. The rotation device has a rotation axis line which is substantially parallel to a roll axis of the vehicle and connects the support bracket and the main bracket together rotatably around the rotation axis line. The position adjustment device is capable of adjusting the relative rotation position between the support bracket and the main bracket around the rotation axis line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Akira Fujita, Takato Watanabe, Yoshitaka Katashima
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Patent number: 8340870Abstract: The vehicle maneuver assistance device includes: a plurality of external environment imaging units; a converter that performs a view point conversion; a display unit provided in an interior of the present-vehicle; a steering angle status value detector which detects status values of the steering angle representing an actual steering angle of the present-vehicle, and outputs a steering angle status value; a display controller that causes the display unit to display the converted image, and, overlaid thereon, a guidance display which assists a parking maneuver of the present-vehicle, wherein the display controller controls the guidance display according to the steering angle status value, so that the guidance display includes: an initial positioning guide line representing an initial location of the present-vehicle at the beginning of the parking maneuver; and a steering-switching start positioning guide line representing a starting location of a quick steering direction switching.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ohshima, Yukihiro Fujiwara, Yoshitaka Katashima, Hiroyuki Kawagoe, Shigenobu Saigusa, Yasushi Shoda, Manabu Shimizu, Yasuhiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20100070139Abstract: The vehicle maneuver assistance device includes: a plurality of external environment imaging units; a converter that performs a view point conversion; a display unit provided in an interior of the present-vehicle; a steering angle status value detector which detects status values of the steering angle representing an actual steering angle of the present-vehicle, and outputs a steering angle status value; a display controller that causes the display unit to display the converted image, and, overlaid thereon, a guidance display which assists a parking maneuver of the present-vehicle, wherein the display controller controls the guidance display according to the steering angle status value, so that the guidance display includes: an initial positioning guide line representing an initial location of the present-vehicle at the beginning of the parking maneuver; and a steering-switching start positioning guide line representing a starting location of a quick steering direction switching.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ohshima, Yukihiro Fujiwara, Yoshitaka Katashima, Hiroyuki Kawagoe, Shigenobu Saigusa, Yasushi Shoda, Manabu Shimizu, Yasuhiro Konishi
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Patent number: 7499100Abstract: A structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera in a vehicle allows a plurality of cameras to be attached to a vehicle body frame, in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle. The structure includes: a lateral stay for coupling the plurality of cameras with each other; and brackets for fixing the lateral stay or the plurality of cameras at a cross member having both ends folded upward, having the terminals connected to the front end parts of the side frames at both sides of the engine room, and having a radiator supported at the middle part thereof, wherein at least a part of the plurality of cameras is disposed between both the ends of the cross member and the radiator.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Hattori, Masahito Watanabe, Yoshitaka Katashima, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Kazuhiko Iwaizako, Hiromichi Tsushima
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Patent number: 7403709Abstract: A structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera to a vehicle, by which a plurality of cameras are attached to a body frame of the vehicle in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle; and the same structure includes a lateral stay for coupling the plurality of cameras with each other; and brackets for fixing the lateral stay or the plurality of cameras on the body frame, which are provided at a plurality of points, spaced from each other, of the lateral stay, or at the plurality of cameras fixed on the lateral stay; wherein the rigidity of at least a part of the brackets is lower than the bending rigidity of the lateral stay.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Hattori, Masahito Watanabe, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Yoshitaka Katashima
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Publication number: 20060072917Abstract: A structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera to a vehicle, by which a plurality of cameras are attached to a body frame of the vehicle in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle; and the same structure includes a lateral stay for coupling the plurality of cameras with each other; and brackets for fixing the lateral stay or the plurality of cameras on the body frame, which are provided at a plurality of points, spaced from each other, of the lateral stay, or at the plurality of cameras fixed on the lateral stay; wherein the rigidity of at least a part of the brackets is lower than the bending rigidity of the lateral stay.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Hattori, Masahito Watanabe, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Yoshitaka Katashima
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Publication number: 20060072008Abstract: This structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera in a vehicle allows a plurality of cameras to be attached to a vehicle body frame in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle, and the same structure includes: a lateral stay for coupling the plurality of cameras with each other; and brackets for fixing the lateral stay or the plurality of cameras at a cross member having both ends folded upward, having the terminals connected to the front end parts of the side frames at both sides of the engine room, and having a radiator supported at the middle part thereof, wherein at least a part of the plurality of cameras is disposed between both the ends of the cross member and the radiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Hattori, Masahito Watanabe, Yoshitaka Katashima, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Kazuhiko Iwaizako, Hiromichi Tsushima
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Patent number: 5988311Abstract: In an electric steering actuator comprising an electric motor having a hollow output shaft, a steering shaft passed through the hollow center of the output shaft of the electric motor, and a ball-screw mechanism provided between the output shaft and the steering shaft for converting the rotary movement of the output shaft into a longitudinal movement of the steering shaft. The ball-screw mechanism comprises a threaded section of the steering shaft, and a nut member which threadably engages with the threaded section of the steering shaft via steel balls, and is secured to the output shaft of the electric motor via a serration coupling or the like which achieves an axially free but rotatively fast coupling between the two parts. Thus, the overall axial dimension of the actuator can be reduced, and the step of joining these two parts is significantly simplified in terms of both effort and time while the number of component parts is also reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kuribayashi, Kazuhiro Kishimoto, Hirokazu Kitazawa, Yoshitaka Katashima, Yoshio Kakizaki, Hitoshi Suda
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Patent number: 5957236Abstract: In an electric steering actuator comprising an electric motor having a hollow output shaft, a steering shaft passed through the hollow center of the output shaft of the electric motor, and a ball-screw mechanism provided between the output shaft and the steering shaft for converting the rotary movement of the output shaft into a longitudinal movement of the steering shaft, a rotation preventing mechanism is provided for preventing the rotation of the steering shaft around its axial line. The rotation preventing mechanism comprises a guide pin extending in the casing in parallel with the axial line of the steering shaft, and a fork member engaging the guide pin between two prongs thereof. Because the rotation preventing mechanism can be formed by using a guide pin made of a stock steel or other metallic member, such as a cold finished steel bar, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Kitazawa, Kazuhiro Kishimoto, Yoshio Kakizaki, Yoshitaka Katashima, Takashi Kuribayashi, Hitoshi Suda