Patents by Inventor Yosuke Ito

Yosuke Ito 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).

  • Publication number: 20210070287
    Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus controls a safety apparatus for avoiding collision between an own vehicle and an object, based on detection information from an object detection apparatus. The assistance apparatus calculates a predicted time to collision of a target object and the own vehicle, and operates the safety apparatus in response to the predicted time to collision being equal to or less than a predetermined operation timing. In response to a steering operation by a driver for collision avoidance of the own vehicle being performed, the assistance apparatus performs operation-stop in which operation of the safety apparatus is stopped or operation-delay in which the operation timing is delayed. The assistance apparatus suppresses the operation-stop or the operation-delay in response to a target object serving as a collision avoidance target being recognized in a path of the own vehicle after the steering operation by the driver, based on the detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Toru TAKAHASHI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20210039636
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI
  • Patent number: 10857998
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including an acquisition unit for acquiring an object position detected by an object detection sensor, an identification determination unit for determining that a plurality of object positions relates the same object when the plurality of object positions is acquired by the acquisition unit, and a selection unit that selects a current target position from among the plurality of object positions based on the previous object position that was set as the operation target of a safety device in the case when the identification determination unit determines that the plurality of object positions relates to the same object, and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the safety device based on the current target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yosuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10850729
    Abstract: A collision determination device for determining the probability of a collision between an own vehicle and a target in the predetermined determination area surrounding the own vehicle includes an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the target relative to the own vehicle, an image sensor for capturing images surrounding the own vehicle, an angle calculation unit for calculating an angle ?0 formed by the movement direction of the own vehicle and the movement direction of the target, and a collision determination unit which uses image data acquired from the image sensor to calculate the state of a lane compartment line, and determines the probability of a collision between the own vehicle and the target based on the angle ?0 and the calculation result of the lane compartment line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya, Takahiro Baba, Kouichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10854081
    Abstract: A driving assistance device sets, in front of an own vehicle, an actuation region that is a region sandwiched by boundary lines, positioned at left and right, respectively. In a case where a target existing around the own vehicle has entered the actuation region, the device performs driving assistance for avoiding collision with the target or mitigating collision damage. The device, when setting the actuation region, in a case where the own vehicle is in a turning state, changes a lateral position of a boundary line in an outside in a turning direction of the own vehicle, of the left and right boundary lines of the actuation region, to a position closer to the own vehicle according to turning information. For a boundary line in an inside in a turning direction of the own vehicle, the device does not change a lateral position according to the turning information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei Tamura, Yosuke Ito, Toru Takahashi, Masayasu Tanase, Wataru Ike
  • Patent number: 10850717
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus determines, based on an instantaneous indicator which is an instantaneous value of a parameter regarding steering of the own vehicle, whether a driver has started a collision avoidance operation for avoiding a collision between a target and the own vehicle. When it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started, a support start timing for starting driving assistance for avoiding the collision between the target and the own vehicle or reducing collision damage is set to be a timing later than when the collision avoidance operation has not been started. The support start timing during a collision avoidance time period which is a time period until a predetermined set time has elapsed after it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started is set based on a time-dependent indicator for steering indicated by the instantaneous indicator at timings during the collision avoidance time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Ito, Toru Takahashi, Masayasu Tanase, Wataru Ike
  • Publication number: 20200361454
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo TAKAKI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10839232
    Abstract: In an apparatus, an attention region defining unit defines an attention region near a blocking obstacle upon the blocking object being determined to be located between the own vehicle and the target object based on the results of the detection operations. The blocking object at least partly blocks a view from the own vehicle. A determiner determines whether the target object is located in the attention region. An obtaining unit obtains, upon it being determined that the target object is located in the attention region, a detection history of the target object by the object detection sensor before the target object is determined to be located in the attention region. An adjuster adjusts, based on the obtained detection history, a predetermined procedure of recognition for the target object upon it being determined that the target object is located in the attention region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Takaki, Yosuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20200282983
    Abstract: When there is a likelihood of an own vehicle colliding with a first object present in a travelling direction of the own vehicle based on detection results from a detecting unit, a brake assistance apparatus determines whether there is an avoidance area, that is an area in which there is no second object in the periphery of the first object present in the travelling direction, is available for avoiding the collision by steering of the own vehicle. When no avoidance area is present, the brake assistance apparatus increases a brake assistance level using a brake assisting unit to be higher than when the avoidance area is present, and causes the brake assisting unit to perform brake assistance. Increasing the brake assistance level includes at least one of: advancing a timing for starting brake assistance of the own vehicle; and increasing the strength of brake assistance of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke Ito, Akira Isogai, Akihiko Yamamuro, Wataru Ike
  • Publication number: 20200262421
    Abstract: When a vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking, secondary braking is prohibited in S305, a hazard lamp flashes in S310, and an idling stop is prohibited in S320. After it is determined in S325 that the vehicle is stopped, when it is determined in S330 that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, stop maintenance braking is released in S340.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Kei KAMIYA, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI, Tomoyuki DOI
  • Publication number: 20200262422
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shinichi NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10723346
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus calculates a position at which a distance between a pedestrian and the own vehicle becomes zero in a travelling direction of the own vehicle as a predicted collision position. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether the pedestrian is crossing a course of the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus sets a limit value indicating a width of a determination region in a lateral direction perpendicular to the travelling direction of the own vehicle, and determines whether the pedestrian is present within the course of the own vehicle based on the predicted collision position and the limit value. The vehicle control apparatus sets one of a left and right limit values of a determination region in which the predicted collision position is present in the travelling direction of the own vehicle to be greater than the limit value of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Yosuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10723350
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus determines, based on an instantaneous indicator which is an instantaneous value of a parameter regarding steering of the own vehicle, whether a driver has started a collision avoidance operation for avoiding a collision between a target and the own vehicle. When it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started, a support start timing for starting driving assistance for avoiding the collision or reducing collision damage is set to be a timing later than when the collision avoidance operation has not been started. The support start timing during a collision avoidance time period which is a time period until a predetermined set time has elapsed after it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started is set based on a time-dependent indicator for steering indicated by the instantaneous indicator at timings during the collision avoidance time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yosuke Ito, Masayasu Tanase, Wataru Ike
  • Publication number: 20200212753
    Abstract: In one aspect of a motor of the present invention, a housing has a stator housing portion and an inverter housing portion, and is a single member. A cover covers an opening on one side in an axial direction of a circumferential wall of a stator housing portion. A rotation detection unit detects the rotation of a rotor and is attached to a motor shaft on the one side in the axial direction of a stator. A speed-reduction device has a speed-reduction mechanism coupled to an end on the one side in the axial direction of the motor shaft and a casing in which the speed-reduction mechanism is housed. The rotation detection unit is covered by the casing from the one side in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OKUHATA, Kunihiro KAJITA, Mika KONAGAYA, Yosuke ITO
  • Publication number: 20200212755
    Abstract: In one aspect of a motor of the present invention, an inverter housing portion is located on the radially outer side of a stator housing portion. A housing has a tubular circumferential wall surrounding the rotor and the stator on the radially outer side of the rotor and the stator, and is a single member. The circumferential wall has a first cooling flow path, and a partition wall that partitions the stator housing portion and the inverter housing portion. The first cooling flow path extends in the circumferential direction, and at least a part of the first cooling flow path is provided in the partition wall. As viewed along the predetermined direction, a portion of the first cooling flow path provided in the partition wall has a portion overlapping the inverter and a portion overlapping the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OKUHATA, Kunihiro KAJITA, Mika KONAGAYA, Yosuke ITO
  • Patent number: 10688988
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided which includes position detecting means for detecting a position of a detected target using reflection information derived from a radar device 21, first determining means for determining whether the detected target is expected to be an obstacle not based on an intensity of a received reflected wave contained in the reflection information, and second determining means for determining whether an obstacle exists at the position, as detected by the position detecting means, or not using the image information. When the second determining means determines that the obstacle exists, and when a distance between an own vehicle and the detected target is smaller than a given threshold value, the detected target is determined as a target with which collision should be avoided regardless of a result of determination made by the first determining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Ito, Akitoshi Minemura, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10679502
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus is provided with an intersection determination unit, a dead angle determination unit, a right-left turn determination unit and a collision avoidance control unit. The collision avoidance control unit is configured to relax, when the right-left turn determination unit determines that the own vehicle makes a right turn or a left turn and the dead angle determination unit determines presence of the dead angle region, an operational condition of a collision avoidance process compared to a case where the dead angle region is not present, in order to avoid a collision between the own vehicle and a straight-running vehicle running on the opposite lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Kei Kamiya, Yosuke Ito, Takaharu Oguri, Ryo Takaki
  • Publication number: 20200177067
    Abstract: In one aspect of a motor of the present invention, a housing has a stator housing portion and an inverter housing portion, and is a single member. A rotation detection unit detects the rotation of a rotor. A sensor wiring electrically connects the rotation detection unit and an inverter. The stator housing portion has a bottomed tubular shape having a circumferential wall that is open to one side in the axial direction and a bottom wall that is provided at an end on the other side in the axial direction of the circumferential wall. An output end of a motor shaft of the rotor protrudes from an opening of the circumferential wall toward the one side in the axial direction. The rotation detection unit is arranged on the bottom wall, and the sensor wiring passes through the inside of the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OKUHATA, Kunihiro KAJITA, Mika KONAGAYA, Yosuke ITO
  • Patent number: 10672273
    Abstract: When it is determined by an acceleration condition determiner that an own vehicle is accelerating, a collision prediction time calculator calculates a collision prediction time in accordance with a relative speed and a relative distance, and a timing setter sets an activation timing to a reference timing. When it is determined by the acceleration condition determiner that the own vehicle is not accelerating, and by a preceding object determiner that an object is not a preceding object, the collision prediction time calculator calculates the collision prediction time in accordance with the relative speed, a relative acceleration, and the relative distance, and the timing setter is configured to set the activation timing to be larger than the reference timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Yosuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10668919
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus acquires a lateral position which is a relative position of a target to the own vehicle, and determines that a first target is present, as the target, ahead of the own vehicle and that a second target is present between the first target and the own vehicle. The object detection apparatus determines, based on the lateral position of the first target and a limiting value which indicates a width in the lateral direction, whether the first target is present on a traveling course of the own vehicle. The object detection apparatus sets the limiting value such that when the second target is not present, sets as the limiting value, a predetermined reference value, and when the second target is present, sets as the limiting value, a value different from the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yosuke Ito, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu