Patents by Inventor Yuya Goto
Yuya Goto 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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Publication number: 20220266798Abstract: An authentication device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute first authentication based on biometric information acquired from a user and biometric information preregistered in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute second authentication based on identification information acquired from a mobile device of the user and identification information preregistered in the vehicle. The processor is configured to permit start of the vehicle when at least one of the first authentication and the second authentication is successful. The processor is configured to set an authentication function of the first authentication from ON to OFF when at least one of the first authentication and the second authentication is successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki SeisakushoInventors: Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA, Kosuke TAKI, Daisuke OGAWA, Hirokazu ITAKURA, Takahiko ANDO
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Patent number: 11396214Abstract: Provided is an electric suspension device including an electromagnetic actuator that is provided between a body and wheel of a vehicle and generates damping force for damping vibration of the body. It includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information on the vehicle's sprung speed, pitch rate, and roll rate; a bounce target value computation unit that computes a bounce target value for controlling the vehicle's bounce orientation based on the sprung speed; a pitch target value computation unit that computes a pitch target value for controlling the vehicle's pitch orientation based on the pitch rate; a roll target value computation unit that computes a roll target value for controlling the vehicle's roll orientation based on the roll rate; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the actuator with a control target load which is based on a sum of the bounce, pitch, and roll target values.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya Goto, Ryoma Kanda
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Patent number: 11390269Abstract: A vehicle control system (30) for controlling a behavior control device (20) that controls a behavior of a vehicle (1), comprising: a feed-forward computing unit (71) that computes a feed forward control amount of the behavior control device according to a steering angle of the vehicle; a feedback computing unit (72) that computes a feedback control amount of the behavior control device according to a difference between a target vehicle state amount computed from the steering angle and an actual vehicle state amount; a correcting unit (73) that computes a corrected feed-forward control amount by correcting the feed forward control amount according to the feedback control amount; and a target control amount computing unit (74) that computes a target control amount of the behavior control device according to the feedback control amount and the corrected feed forward control amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryoma Kanda, Yuya Goto
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Publication number: 20220144212Abstract: A communication system that performs first communication and second communication, which differs from the first communication, through wireless connection between a terminal and a communication peer, is provided. The communication system includes communication devices arranged in the communication peer. At least one of the communication devices performs the second communication. The communication devices include a first communication device and a second communication device, which differs from the first communication device. The first communication device is connected to a controller that controls the communication devices, and the second communication device is connected to the first communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masateru FURUTA, Yosuke OHASHI, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Yuya GOTO, Satoshi OZAWA
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Patent number: 11325599Abstract: A vehicle motion control system includes: a steering angle sensor for detecting a steering angle; a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed; a lateral acceleration sensor for detecting an actual lateral acceleration of a vehicle body; a reference lateral acceleration calculation unit configured to calculate a reference lateral acceleration from the steering angle and the vehicle speed; a required longitudinal force calculation unit configured to calculate a required longitudinal force for reducing a deviation of the actual lateral acceleration relative to the reference lateral acceleration; and a longitudinal force control unit configured to control an output of at least one of a brake and a power plant such that the required longitudinal force is generated.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Hirota, Takeshi Kojima, Naoto Okubo, Hitoshi Sasaki, Shigeru Doi, Ryoma Kanda, Yuya Goto
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Publication number: 20220089126Abstract: A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication process being different from the fingerprint authentication process, and (ii) suppress the detection process that detects the fingerprint in response to the power supply of the vehicle being ON and the predetermined authentication process being successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yasuhisa OHTA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA, Takahiko ANDO, Yosuke OHASHI, Rijin OWAKI, Daisuke OGAWA
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Patent number: 11267442Abstract: A vehicular authentication device that includes: a first processor; and a second processor. The first processor is configured to: perform a first permission to permit release of a steering lock of a vehicle in a case in which a verification of key information of the vehicle has been performed successfully, and in a case in which the steering lock has been released by the first permission, perform a second permission to permit deactivation of an immobilizer of the vehicle based on a successful verification of biometric information by the second processor.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Naoyuki Takada, Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Takahiko Ando, Yosuke Ohashi, Rijin Owaki, Daisuke Ogawa
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Patent number: 11230263Abstract: A fingerprint authentication device is mounted in a vehicle and includes a fingerprint sensor configured to perform a fingerprint detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger brought into contact with the fingerprint sensor, a fingerprint authentication unit configured to perform a fingerprint authentication process based on the fingerprint detected through the fingerprint detection process, and a controller configured to control permission and non-permission of execution of the fingerprint detection process, and the controller is configured not to permit the execution of the fingerprint detection process when a speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada, Takahiko Ando, Yosuke Ohashi, Rijin Owaki, Daisuke Ogawa
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Publication number: 20220009446Abstract: A biometric authentication system is configured to perform a biometric authentication operation based on biometric information of an occupant in a passenger compartment of a vehicle and is configured to permit starting of a travel driving force source in the vehicle based on a condition that biometric authentication is established in the biometric authentication operation. The biometric authentication system includes: a biometric information detecting unit configured to detect the biometric information; and a notification unit configured to issue a notification dependent on non-establishment of biometric authentication in the biometric authentication operation to the occupant. The notification unit is configured to issue the notification dependent on the non-establishment of the biometric authentication based on a condition that a brake pedal is depressed at the time of detecting the biometric information by the biometric information detecting unit when the biometric authentication is not established.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA, Hajime SASAKI, Hirokazu ITAKURA, Takahiko ANDO, Daisuke OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220001837Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Yo IKEDA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA
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Patent number: 11203243Abstract: A control system for a variable damping force damper, includes: motion state quantity sensors configured to detect motion state quantities of a vehicle; a roll damping force base value setting unit configured to set a roll damping force base value based on the motion state quantities, the roll damping force base value being used to compute a target damping force of the variable damping force damper; a roll rate computation unit configured to compute a sprung mass roll rate and an unsprung mass roll rate of the vehicle based on the motion state quantities; and a roll damping force correction unit configured to correct the roll damping force base value based on a roll rate difference that is a difference between the sprung mass roll rate and the unsprung mass roll rate and to output the corrected roll damping force base value as the target damping force.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya Goto, Ryoma Kanda
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Patent number: 11170952Abstract: A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The through hole is an independent through hole being not electrically connected to a circuit of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho Ogawa, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Patent number: 11161478Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yo Ikeda, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Publication number: 20210319086Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes a biometric information sensor to read biometric information of a user, a biometric information storage unit to pre-register biometric information of a registered person as registered biometric information for verification, a determination unit to determine whether or not a captured image captured by the biometric information sensor is suitable for biometric authentication, and to perform biometric authentication by comparing the captured image to the registered biometric information registered in the biometric information storage unit when the determination unit determines that the captured image is suitable for the biometric authentication, and a notification unit to issue a notification indicating that the captured image is unsuitable for the biometric authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Rijin OWAKI, Takahiko ANDO, Yasuhisa OHTA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA, Daisuke OGAWA
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Publication number: 20210303670Abstract: A biometric information authentication device includes a control unit to, during biometric authentication by comparing biometric information of a user read by a biometric information sensor to preliminarily registered biometric information of a registered person, issue a notification to encourage the user to register different biometric information when a predetermined condition for determining that a biometric authentication after a current biometric authentication is highly likely to fail is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Rijin OWAKI, Yosuke OHASHI, Takahiko ANDO, Yuya GOTO, Yasuhisa OHTA, Naoyuki TAKADA, Daisuke OGAWA
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Publication number: 20210303893Abstract: A biometric information authentication device includes a control unit, wherein, when a first biometric authentication is successfully completed based on biometric information acquired from an operator and registered biometric information preliminarily registered by a registered person and an operation for registering new registered biological information is subsequently performed, the control unit permits registration upon a successful second biometric authentication based on biometric information acquired again and the registered biometric information preliminarily registered by the registered person.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Rijin OWAKI, Yosuke OHASHI, Yuya GOTO, Yasuhisa OHTA, Naoyuki TAKADA, Daisuke OGAWA
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Publication number: 20210291609Abstract: Provided is an electric suspension device including an electromagnetic actuator that is provided between a body and wheel of a vehicle and generates damping force for damping vibration of the body. It includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information on a sprung speed and sprung acceleration of the vehicle; a bounce target value computation unit that computes a bounce target value for controlling the vehicle's bounce orientation based on the sprung speed; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the actuator with a control target load which is based on the bounce target value. The bounce target value computation unit has a bounce target load map in which the bounce target value is associated with the sprung speed. The bounce target value computation unit adjusts a width of a dead zone set in the map based on the information on the sprung speed and sprung acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Yuya Goto, Ryoma Kanda
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Publication number: 20210291610Abstract: Provided is an electric suspension device including an electromagnetic actuator that is provided between a body and wheel of a vehicle and generates a load for damping vibration of the body. It includes: a camera that detects preview image information of a road surface in front of the vehicle; a 3D gyro sensor that detects a sprung speed of the vehicle; a target load computation unit that computes a target load based on the preview image information and the sprung speed; and a load control unit that controls the load of the actuator by using the computed target load. When a detection result based on the preview image information indicates that the front road surface is even but a detection result based on the sprung speed indicates that the front road surface is uneven, the target load computation unit computes the target load based on the sprung speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Yuya GOTO, Ryoma KANDA
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Publication number: 20210291608Abstract: Provided is an electric suspension device including an electromagnetic actuator that is provided between a body and wheel of a vehicle and generates damping force for damping vibration of the body. It includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information on the vehicle's sprung speed, pitch rate, and roll rate; a bounce target value computation unit that computes a bounce target value for controlling the vehicle's bounce orientation based on the sprung speed; a pitch target value computation unit that computes a pitch target value for controlling the vehicle's pitch orientation based on the pitch rate; a roll target value computation unit that computes a roll target value for controlling the vehicle's roll orientation based on the roll rate; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the actuator with a control target load which is based on a sum of the bounce, pitch, and roll target values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Yuya GOTO, Ryoma KANDA
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Publication number: 20210291606Abstract: Provided is an electric suspension device including an electromagnetic actuator that is provided between a body and wheel of a vehicle and generates damping force for damping vibration of the body. It includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information on a wheel speed and a sprung speed of the vehicle; an estimation unit that estimates a stroke speed of the actuator based on the wheel speed; a determination unit that determines whether a wheel slip has occurred; and an orientation control unit that performs orientation control of the vehicle based on the sprung speed and the estimated stroke speed. When a wheel slip occurs, the orientation control unit performs orientation control of the vehicle based on a fixed stroke speed whose direction is the same as a direction of the sprung speed and whose magnitude is set at a predetermined fixed value, instead of the estimated stroke speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Ryoma KANDA, Yuya GOTO