Patents by Inventor Yuuichi Kubota
Yuuichi Kubota 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: 8487783Abstract: To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Yoshihashi, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Takashi Nonoyama, Takashi Ohira, Keisuke Ikari, Yasushi Makino, Takuya Ito
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Patent number: 8126625Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus for assisting in driving a vehicle by varying drive torque of wheels that includes: a torque-up mechanism increasing the drive torque; a step detecting mechanism detecting a step that may exist on a road surface in a traveling direction of the vehicle; and a switching mechanism switching a status of control between a first status in which the torque-up mechanism is permitted to operate and a second status in which the torque-up mechanism is restricted to operate, wherein the switching mechanism forms the first status if the step is detected by the step detecting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Miyuki Omori, Kiyotaka Moriizumi
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Publication number: 20110304477Abstract: To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akio YOSHIHASHI, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Takashi Nonoyama, Takashi Ohira, Keisuke Ikari, Yasushi Makino, Takuya Ito
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Patent number: 8035531Abstract: To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Yoshihashi, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Takashi Nonoyama, Takashi Ohira, Keisuke Ikari, Yasushi Makino, Takuya Ito
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Publication number: 20100118140Abstract: A disclosed parking assisting apparatus can determine the angle of the own vehicle to be changed at the time of parking in a parking space by precisely estimating the direction of the parking space next to a parked vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yasushi Makino, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Miyuki Omori, Yukiko Kawabata
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Publication number: 20100114438Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus with high convenience in which torque-up is performed only if there is an instruction from the driver. The vehicle drive assist apparatus assists in driving a vehicle by varying a drive torque of wheels, and includes a torque-up mechanism increasing the drive torque and a switch switching, in accordance with an input from a vehicle occupant, a status of control between a first status in which the torque-up mechanism is operational and a second status in which the torque-up mechanism is not operational.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Miyuki Omori, Kiyotaka Moriizumi
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Publication number: 20100049413Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus for assisting in driving a vehicle by varying drive torque of wheels that includes: a torque-up mechanism increasing the drive torque; a step detecting mechanism detecting a step that may exist on a road surface in a traveling direction of the vehicle; and a switching mechanism switching a status of control between a first status in which the torque-up mechanism is permitted to operate and a second status in which the torque-up mechanism is restricted to operate, wherein the switching mechanism forms the first status if the step is detected by the step detecting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Miyuki Omori, Kiyotaka Moriizumi
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Publication number: 20090251334Abstract: To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akio Yoshihashi, Yuuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Yukiko Kawabata, Takashi Nonoyama, Takashi Ohira, Keisuke Ikari, Yasushi Makino, Takuya Ito