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).
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Patent number: 12643500Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2024Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12640289Abstract: A grommet 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12630133Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Publication number: 20260110655Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element extending in the direction of an axial line and having electrode pads on the surface of a rear end side portion, metallic terminal members, which elastically contact the electrode pads, and a separator, which holds the metallic terminal members. The metallic terminal members are made of an Fe-based alloy and contain Ni in the range of 9.75 to 10.25 mass %, Cr in the range of 23.00 to 23.90 mass %, Mn in the range of 5.80 to 6.20 mass %, N in the range of 0.47 to 0.53 mass %, unavoidable impurities, and the balance of Fe. The gas sensor can be manufactured at low cost and is excellent in the reliability of electrical connection between the metallic terminal members and the sensor element at high temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: Niterra Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke ANDO, Kensuke MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 12607592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Niterra Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masana Okai, Kensuke Mizutani, Ryoji Aoki, Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12597539Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12583403Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12545222Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12509087Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an operation receiving unit and an automatic driving control processor. The operation receiving unit receives an operation at least through an electrical signal. The operation is to be performed by an occupant of a vehicle. The automatic driving control processor performs an automatic driving control of the vehicle, and causes transition from an automatic driving mode to a manual driving mode to be performed in a predetermined case. The automatic driving mode is a driving mode in which the automatic driving control is performed. The manual driving mode is a driving mode in which manual driving based on the operation received by the operation receiving unit is performed. The operation receiving unit has an interface state that is unchanged from a neutral state in a no-operation period in which the operation on the operation receiving unit is not received.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Publication number: 20250354893Abstract: A gas sensor comprising: a sensor element; a metal shell; a holder having a first element hole; a sleeve having a second element hole; and filling powder, wherein at least one of the holder and the sleeve has a flat surface contacting with the filling powder, and a protrusion protruding from the flat surface toward the filling powder and surrounding the first element hole or the second element hole, the protrusion is tapered toward the filling powder, as seen from a direction D perpendicular to a main surface of the sensor element, and a boundary portion BR where corners parallel to the axial-line-O direction of the sensor element abut on the protrusion is located between a top portion of the protrusion and a base portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2025Publication date: November 20, 2025Applicant: Niterra Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke ANDO, Kensuke MIZUTANI, Yasuhiro FUJII
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Patent number: 12459510Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors configured to function as a target object detector, a road state detector, a speed calculator, and a braking controller. The target object detector is configured to detect a target object in front of the vehicle. The road state detector is configured to detect a road state of a road in front of the vehicle. The speed calculator is configured to calculate a non-stuck speed at which the vehicle does not become stuck on the road in front of the vehicle, when the target object is detected, the road in front of the vehicle is an uphill slope, and a road surface of the road satisfies a predetermined condition. The braking controller is configured to brake the vehicle to the non-stuck speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12384335Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12370891Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 12374475Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Ando, Kouichi Kurokawa
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Patent number: 12286087Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando
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Publication number: 20250083654Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
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Publication number: 20250087390Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
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Publication number: 20250083650Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventor: Yusuke ANDO
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Publication number: 20250042360Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke ANDO
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Patent number: 12187225Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Ando