Patents by Inventor Yuichi Mizutani

Yuichi Mizutani 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: 20180053992
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a roof panel and a vehicle antenna device. The roof panel includes a roof portion and an antenna cover portion that protrudes from the roof portion and has an internal space. The vehicle antenna device includes a base portion and an upright portion that extends from the base portion into the internal space in the antenna cover portion. An outer imaginary plane is assumed to extend along a boundary line on a boundary portion between an outer surface of the roof portion and an outer surface of the antenna cover portion. In a state where the vehicle antenna device is mounted on the vehicle, at least part of the base portion is located below the outer imaginary plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, YOKOWO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi MIZUTANI, Tomohiko YAMASE, Seiji GO
  • Publication number: 20180050633
    Abstract: A high mount stop lamp mounted on a rear portion of a roof of an automobile is provided. The high mount stop lamp includes a flat light guide arranged below a resin roof panel. The light guide includes a front end and a rear end. The high mount stop lamp also includes a light source opposing the front end of the light guide. The rear end of the light guide is located on or proximate to a rear end of the roof panel to function as a light emitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki TERAI, Kazumasa OKUMURA, Yuichi MIZUTANI, Kazutami OISHI, Koji UCHINO, Masaki AGEMI
  • Patent number: 9900854
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a selection unit that selects and outputs one clock serving as a transport stream (TS) clock, which represents timing of data of a TS, among a plurality of clocks with frequencies not less than a serial rate which is a data rate at which the TS included in a radio frequency (RF) signal is output in a serial manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Mizutani, Sotaro Ohara
  • Publication number: 20180045280
    Abstract: Provided is a speed reduction or speed increasing apparatus where the rotational stiffness can be increased, including a housing, a first crown gear, a support unit placed radially outward of the first crown gear to support the first crown gear to be capable of wave motion and incapable of rotation with respect to the housing, a second crown gear configured to be rotatable with respect to the housing, the second crown gear having a different number of teeth from the first crown gear, the second crown gear facing the first crown gear, and a cam unit configured to incline the first crown gear with respect to the second crown gear in such a manner that the first crown gear engages with the second crown gear, and to cause the first crown gear to undergo wave motion in such a manner that the location of contact moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hideo SAITO, Yuichi MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20170261326
    Abstract: A vehicle position detecting device according to an embodiment includes a wheel speed acquisition unit, a skid detection unit, a vehicle body speed calculation unit, and a position calculation unit. The wheel speed acquisition unit acquires a wheel speed of a wheel of a vehicle corresponding to rotation of the wheel. The skid detection unit detects a skid of the wheel. The vehicle body speed calculation unit calculates, when the skid is not detected by the skid detection unit, a vehicle body speed corresponding to the speed of a vehicle body of the vehicle based on the wheel speed acquired by the wheel speed acquisition unit, and corrects, in response to detection of the skid by the skid detection unit, the wheel speed acquired by the wheel speed acquisition unit based on correction information and calculates the vehicle body speed based on the corrected wheel speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi MIZUTANI, Shogi FUKUKAWA, Takatomo ASAI, Hiroyuki TACHIBANA, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170259849
    Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes: a steering controller configured to control steering of a vehicle; and a controller configured to, when the vehicle is located at a first position on a travel route, instruct the steering controller to control the vehicle at a steering angle corresponding to a second position that is an advanced position from the first position in a traveling direction on the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogi FUKUKAWA, Motonari OBAYASHI, Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Yuichi MIZUTANI, Takatomo ASAI
  • Patent number: 9705669
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including: a valid clock width calculation unit configured to calculate a valid clock width corresponding to a bit rate of a valid section in which a transport stream (TS) packet exists; and a TS clock signal generation unit configured to generate, on a basis of the valid clock width calculated by the valid clock width calculation unit, a TS clock signal by combining clocks with different frequency dividing rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20170029027
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a setting unit that sets a movement route of a vehicle with an electric power steering when parking assistance is activated in the vehicle; a generation unit that generates control data equivalent to a changed steering angle curve which has taken into consideration a response delay between the output steering angle of the electric power steering and an actual tire angle in advance, based on the set movement route; and a control unit that controls the electric power steering based on the control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi MIZUTANI, Shogi FUKUKAWA, Masaya KATO
  • Publication number: 20160075376
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect that a vehicle has moved through a switching position and reached a predetermined state during parking assist for the vehicle, and, when it is detected that the vehicle has reached the predetermined state, provide a notice that the vehicle has reached the predetermined state by imparting a predetermined vibration to a steering wheel of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motokatsu TOMOZAWA, Masaya KATO, Shogi FUKUKAWA, Yuichi MIZUTANI, Takatomo ASAI, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150349947
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including: a valid clock width calculation unit configured to calculate a valid clock width corresponding to a bit rate of a valid section in which a transport stream (TS) packet exists; and a TS clock signal generation unit configured to generate, on a basis of the valid clock width calculated by the valid clock width calculation unit, a TS clock signal by combining clocks with different frequency dividing rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9180862
    Abstract: A vehicle dynamic control apparatus is designed to control a plurality of controlled objects based on a first parameter associated with a motion of a vehicle in a same direction to fulfill a request value of a second parameter associated with the motion of the vehicle in the same direction and outputted from a control requester. The vehicle dynamic control apparatus includes an availability obtainer configured to obtain an availability of the first parameter of each of the controlled objects, and to output the availability of the first parameter of each of the controlled objects to the control requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, ADVICS CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Junpei Tatsukawa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Masaki Maruyama, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Hirofumi Nitta, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9145166
    Abstract: The momentum control apparatus includes: an optimal feedback gain obtaining part for obtaining a plurality of optimal feedback gains used when each of the plurality of actuators is independently actuated to feedback control the momentum of the controlled object; and a feedback gain setting part for extracting a minimum feedback gain out of the plurality of optimal feedback gains obtained by the optimal feedback gain obtaining part as a feedback gain of a control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Mizutani, Hirofumi Nitta, Junpei Tatsukawa, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Yoshihisa Ogata, Hajime Kumabe, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Masaki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20150139220
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a selection unit that selects and outputs one clock serving as a transport stream (TS) clock, which represents timing of data of a TS, among a plurality of clocks with frequencies not less than a serial rate which is a data rate at which the TS included in a radio frequency (RF) signal is output in a serial manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Mizutani, Sotaro Ohara
  • Publication number: 20150131746
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device, including a clock width calculation unit configured to calculate a clock width corresponding to a data rate of a valid section in which a transport stream (TS) packet exists, and a generation unit configured to generate a clock signal whose period is the clock width calculated in the clock width calculation unit and to output the clock signal as a shaped TS clock signal, the shaped TS clock signal being a TS clock signal of the TS packet to which shaping has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada, Sotaro Ohara, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9020706
    Abstract: A vehicle motion control apparatus configured to control a plurality of control objects in a same direction of vehicle motion control to achieve a requested control amount is provided. The vehicle motion control apparatus includes a control object selection unit which is configured to determine priority of the control objects used for the vehicle motion control based on a priority determination condition, to select a control object from among the plurality of control objects. The control object selection unit includes a control object selection timing determination section configured to detect a change in the priority determination condition, and cause the control object selection unit to reselect a control object at a timing of the change detection as a selection timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Advics Co., Ltd., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hanzawa, Masaki Maruyama, Hirofumi Nitta, Yuichi Mizutani, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Junpei Tatsukawa
  • Patent number: 9014916
    Abstract: A vehicle dynamic control apparatus is designed to control a plurality of controlled objects according to a request value of a first parameter from an application associated with motion of a vehicle in a same direction to fulfill the request value of the first parameter. An availability obtainer obtains an availability corresponding to a controllable range of a second parameter of each of the plurality of controlled objects, the second parameter being associated with motion of the vehicle in the same direction. A selector determines an order of the plurality of controlled objects to be controlled based on the availability of the second parameter of each of the plurality of controlled objects, and selects at least one of the plurality of controlled objects to be controlled in accordance with the determined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Junpei Tatsukawa, Masaki Maruyama, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Hirofumi Nitta, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8938002
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a program that are configured to prevent (or lower) the increase in scale and cost of the apparatus. A read/write control portion executes read/write control in which slots subject to extraction of two or more slots in one frame that is a collection of two or more slots each of which is a unit of error correction coding are written to a ring buffer and the slots subject to extraction in one frame written to the ring buffer are read within the unit time. When slots subject to extraction are changed, an output portion executes output processing in which dummy data outputted from a dummy data output portion are outputted with a timing immediately before a change start frame that is a frame from which the change of slots subject to extraction is started and, slots subject to extraction read from the ring buffer are outputted for frames subsequent to the change start frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8855833
    Abstract: In a vehicle dynamic control platform arranged between a controlled object and an application, an availability obtainer obtains an availability corresponding to a controllable range of a second parameter of the controlled object, and outputs the availability of the second parameter of the controlled object to the application. The application is programmed to output the target value of the first parameter based on the availability of the second parameter of the controlled object. A comparator compares the target value of the first parameter with the availability of the second parameter when the target value of the first parameter is outputted from the application, and determines, based on a result of the comparison, whether to perform dynamic control of the vehicle by controlling the controlled object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Kumabe, Yoshihisa Ogata, Junpei Tatsukawa, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Masaki Maruyama, Hirofumi Nitta, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8577553
    Abstract: A lateral motion control apparatus for a vehicle includes a control stop determination unit that determines whether or not to stop the control for the control target by the control target control unit based on a steering operation amount inputted by a driver of the vehicle, and a degeneration control amount determination unit that determines a degeneration control amount for the control target such that the control amount for the control target degenerates after the time when the control stop determination unit has determined that the control for the control target is to be stopped. When the control stop determination unit has determined that the control for the control target is to be stopped, the control target control unit controls the control target based on the degeneration control amount determined by the degeneration control amount determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nitta, Yuichi Mizutani, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Junpei Tatsukawa, Yasuhiko Mukai, Yoshihisa Ogata, Hajime Kumabe, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Masaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8565935
    Abstract: The lateral motion control apparatus calculates lateral motion control amounts for a plurality of control targets that operate cooperatively in order to change the lateral motion amount of the vehicle based on a target value for the lateral motion amount of the vehicle, and control the plurality of control targets based on the calculated lateral motion control amounts. Meanwhile, it is determined whether or not the control of the plurality of control targets is to be stopped. When it has been determined that the control of the plurality of control targets is to be stopped, lateral motion degeneration control amounts are determined for each of the plurality of control targets so that the lateral motion control amounts of the plurality of control targets degenerate starting at that time, and the plurality of control targets are controlled based on the determined lateral motion degeneration control amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Mizutani, Hirofumi Nitta, Yasuhiko Mukai, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Junpei Tatsukawa, Yoshihisa Ogata, Hajime Kumabe, Masatoshi Hanzawa, Masaki Maruyama