Patents by Inventor Yusuke Ando

Yusuke Ando 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).

  • Patent number: 12286087
    Abstract: An automatic brake control apparatus for a vehicle is configured to control a brake device of the vehicle in a control of a driving assist system of the vehicle. The automatic brake control apparatus includes electronic control units. The electronic control units include a first electronic control unit and are communicably coupled to each other and configured to exchange data with each other. The first electronic control unit is configured to control the driving assist system. The first electronic control unit is configured to send, to one or more of the electronic control units, an instruction that controls the brake device and that includes a first instruction for controlling a behavior of the vehicle and a second instruction that has an instruction content different from an instruction content of the first instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Publication number: 20250087390
    Abstract: A direction in which a wire harness (W) passes inside a grommet (10) according to one aspect of the present disclosure is defined as an insertion direction (D). The grommet (10) includes: a first member (11) that includes a seal portion (36) configured to come into contact with a vehicle body panel (P); a second member (12) that is attached to one side of the first member (11) in the insertion direction (D), and includes a second tubular portion (43) into which the wire harness (W) is inserted; and a third member (13) that is attached to the other side of the first member (11) in the insertion direction (D), and includes a third tubular portion (52) into which the wire harness (W) is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250083654
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support device includes a surrounding environment recognition unit, a travel control unit, and a collision avoidance controller. The collision avoidance controller is configured to estimate a position of a vehicle and generate a forecast traveling path thereof when turning across an opposite lane at an intersection, recognize an oncoming vehicle traveling on each of lanes of the opposite lane, based on surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment recognition unit, detect, for each lane, a collision forecast position at which the forecast traveling path intersects with a traveling path of the oncoming vehicle, and forecast a collision of the vehicle with the oncoming vehicle, determine whether to execute collision avoidance control in which the travel control unit operates a brake driver, for the collision forecast position, and dispose the collision avoidance control such that kinetic energy remains in the vehicle in a traveling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250083650
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support device includes a surrounding environment recognition unit, a travel control unit, and a collision avoidance controller. The collision avoidance controller is configured to estimate a position of a vehicle and generate a forecast traveling path thereof when turning across an opposite lane at an intersection, recognize an oncoming vehicle traveling on each of lanes of the opposite lane, based on surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment recognition unit, detect, for each lane, a collision forecast position at which the forecast traveling path intersects with a traveling path of the oncoming vehicle, and forecast a collision of the vehicle with the oncoming vehicle, determine whether to execute collision avoidance control in which the travel control unit operates a brake driver, for the collision forecast position, and dispose the collision avoidance control at a collision avoidance position on the forecast traveling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250042360
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first transmitter, one or more processors, and a recording medium. The first transmitter is configured to transmit first key-identifying information using a radio-frequency electromagnetic wave having a predetermined frequency, the first key-identifying information being linked to a predetermined vehicle. The recording medium stores a program configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to perform a process to stop the first transmitter from transmitting the first key-identifying information when it is determined that the radio-frequency electromagnetic wave having the predetermined frequency has increased in intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Patent number: 12187225
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a brake mechanism configured to brake a wheel in accordance with a pressure of a brake fluid; a hydraulic circuit configured to adjust the pressure of the brake fluid and transfer the brake fluid to the brake mechanism; and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors to execute: a torque adjustment process of giving an offset to increase a required driving torque determined based on an operation amount of accelerator of the vehicle in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is in a stolen state; and a brake fluid pressure adjustment process of applying control to the hydraulic circuit to pressurize the brake fluid so as to compensate for an increase in the required driving torque due to the offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Publication number: 20240425001
    Abstract: A grommet (10) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a grommet body (11) and a sound insulating wall (31). The grommet body (11) includes a first tubular portion (14) and a second tubular portion (21) configured to pass a wire harness (W) therethrough and a seal portion (12) configured to come into contact with a peripheral edge of an attachment hole (Pa). The grommet body (11) includes a first sound insulating space (S1) therein. The sound insulating wall (31) extends radially outward from the first tubular portion (14). The sound insulating wall (31) is configured to be capable of covering an insertion hole (41) in a sound insulating member (40) provided on one side surface of a vehicle body panel (P). The sound insulating wall (31) forms a second sound insulating space (S2) between the sound insulating wall (31) and the grommet body (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Patent number: 12172640
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus in a vehicle that includes left wheels, right wheels and brake mechanisms each provided for both. The apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more storage media storing a program causing a brake control process in which brake fluid pressure is applied to the brake mechanisms of one-side wheels, either left or right wheels, to bring the one-side wheels to a locked state under the condition including that the vehicle is in a stopped state or in a substantially stopped state through driver emergency control that is to be applied to the vehicle in response to detection of emergency of a driver who drives the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Patent number: 12172620
    Abstract: A brake device to be applied to a vehicle includes a housing, a piston, and a seal member. The housing has a first end that is closed. The housing includes a supply port configured to communicate with a reservoir tank. The piston has an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral surface and a through-hole extending from the outer peripheral surface to the inner peripheral surface. The piston is configured to generate a hydraulic pressure in a hydraulic chamber in the housing by moving toward a side of the first end inside the housing. The seal member is provided around the piston in a circumferential direction on the side of the first end with respect to the through-hole. The seal member is configured to seal between an inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Patent number: 12172600
    Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus comprises one or more processors, one or more storage media storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions. The one or more instructions cause the one or more processors to perform a brake control process in which, after a stroke of a predetermined amount or more is made to a brake pedal by a brake booster to apply brake fluid pressure to the brake mechanism to make the brake fluid pressure in a pressurized state in response to input of a predetermined signal corresponding to detection of theft of the vehicle, the stroke of the brake pedal by the brake booster is cancelled while a first valve disposed in a brake fluid pressure circuit is kept at a closed state to keep the pressurized state of the brake fluid pressure applied to the brake mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Patent number: 12165785
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure provides a grommet that can improve water sealing property. A grommet main body according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an opposing portion that opposes a circumferential portion of an attachment hole of a vehicle body panel and an annular seal portion that is provided in the opposing portion and is brought into tight contact with the vehicle body panel. The seal portion includes an annular first lip portion that extends from the opposing portion toward the vehicle body panel and an annular second lip portion that extends from the opposing portion toward the vehicle body panel and is provided radially inward of the first lip portion. The first lip portion is inclined radially outward toward the tip end of the first lip portion, and the second lip portion is inclined radially inward toward the tip portion of the second lip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Patent number: 12077109
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides a wire harness support member that makes it easier to increase the range in which a position tolerance of a bolt can be handled. A support member according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a main body portion that includes a holding portion for holding an electric wire; and a bolt fixing member that is a separate member from the main body portion. The bold fixing member includes a fixing hole into which a bolt provided on a vehicle body side is inserted and fixed, and an insertion portion serving as a supported portion. The main body portion includes a groove portion that is formed along a direction that intersects an axial direction of the bolt (height direction), and the groove portion movably supports the insertion portion in the length direction of the groove portion (height direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ando
  • Publication number: 20240274329
    Abstract: A grommet according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first coupling portion that couples a first tubular portion and a first base portion to each other; and a second coupling portion that couples a second tubular portion and a second base portion to each other. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion are provided with a space therebetween in the axial direction of the grommet. The first coupling portion includes a first flexible portion. The second coupling portion includes a second flexible portion. The first flexible portion and the second flexible portion are configured to bend so as to absorb an inclination of a wire harness with respect to a vehicle body panel. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion provide a first sound insulation space therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240233988
    Abstract: A grommet includes an umbrella-shaped member that is separate from a grommet body. The umbrella-shaped member has a covering portion that covers an insertion hole of a sound insulator provided on one surface of a vehicle body panel. The covering portion is inclined to increase in diameter toward the sound insulator. The grommet body has an engagement portion that axially locks to a front end of the covering portion, which is the front end of the umbrella-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke ANDO, Kouichi KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240208469
    Abstract: A vehicle control system performs a first determination process to determine whether a first condition is satisfied, a second determination process to determine whether a second condition is satisfied, and a precedence process to gradually decrease a braking force of the vehicle by decreasing a braking force applied to a rear wheel preferentially over a braking force applied to a front wheel. The first condition includes at least a braking force condition that the braking force of the vehicle is greater than or equal to a predetermined braking force, and a turning condition that a turning degree of the vehicle is greater than or equal to a predetermined turning degree. The second condition is a condition that the vehicle is brought into a state where braking is to be cancelled while the first condition is being satisfied. The precedence process is performed when the second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240182007
    Abstract: A vehicle control system conducts contact avoidance brake control and electronic stability control on a vehicle using a braking unit. The vehicle control system includes one or more processors, and one or more storage media in which a program to be executed by the one or more processors is stored. The program includes one or more commands that are directed to cause the one or more processors to perform a skid prediction process and an enabling process based on a reference vehicle behavior and a control value of the contact avoidance brake control. The skid prediction process is adapted to predict whether the vehicle will exhibit a skid behavior during the contact avoidance brake control. The enabling process is adapted to enable the electronic stability control if the electronic stability control is in a disabled mode when it is predicted that the vehicle will exhibit the skid behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240175843
    Abstract: A gas sensor (1) including: a sensor element (21); a tubular casing (81); a lead wire (71); and an elastic member (85) having a terminal passage hole (85h) through which the lead wire passes, the terminal passage hole having two or more annular projecting ridges (85R1-85R2) on an inner surface thereof, the elastic member being placed on a rear-end of the casing and sealing the opening (81e), wherein the casing is reduced in diameter by a crimping portion (81c) so that the projecting ridges contact with an outer surface of the lead wire in an airtight state, and when the elastic member is viewed in a state of being removed from the casing, an inner diameter d1 of a first projecting ridge which is the projecting ridge on a most-front-end side is smallest among inner diameters of all the projecting ridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NITERRA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masana OKAI, Kensuke MIZUTANI, Ryoji AOKI, Yusuke ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240145428
    Abstract: Provided are a flip connection structure, a room-temperature flip connection structure, and a connection method therefor, in which there is no risk of deterioration of a substrate or a semiconductor chip due to heat. Provided is a flip-chip connection structure in which semiconductors are connected using a flip chip structure of chip on chip. Each of terminals that connects the semiconductors is formed by aluminum (Al), and the terminals constitute a joined body integrally joined to each other by ultrasonic vibration involving pressurization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUHIDE TERAHATA, YUSUKE ANDO, SATORU TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240136092
    Abstract: A grommet includes an umbrella-shaped member that is separate from a grommet body. The umbrella-shaped member has a covering portion that covers an insertion hole of a sound insulator provided on one surface of a vehicle body panel. The covering portion is inclined to increase in diameter toward the sound insulator. The grommet body has an engagement portion that axially locks to a front end of the covering portion, which is the front end of the umbrella-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke ANDO, Kouichi KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240051389
    Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors include a controller. The controller is configured to: perform an acceleration suppression control, in which the acceleration suppression control is configured to suppress acceleration of the vehicle based on pressing of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle performed by a driver who drives the vehicle; and cancel the acceleration suppression control, when two or more operation elements provided in the vehicle are operated by the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke ANDO