641 patents
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Utility
Parking Assistance Device
31 Mar 22
A parking assistance device includes a central processing unit.
Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Norio IMAI, Yuki MINASE, Takuya NAKAGAWA
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Parking Assistance Apparatus, Parking Assistance Method, and Program
31 Mar 22
A parking assistance apparatus includes: a route calculation unit configured to calculate a movement route for moving a vehicle to a parking target position; an inclination angle calculation unit configured to calculate first inclination angle information, calculate second inclination angle information by performing a filtering process, and when there is a deviation between the first inclination angle information and the second inclination angle information, reset the first inclination angle information used in the filtering process and calculate the second inclination angle information by performing the filtering process using first inclination angle information calculated after the resetting; and a movement control unit configured to execute movement control for controlling a driving force and a braking force to move the vehicle to the parking target position along the movement route, while adjusting the driving force and the braking force according to the second inclination angle information.
Yoshihiko Kosegaki, Kazuma Iwazawa
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Hybrid Drive Device
31 Mar 22
A hybrid drive device including a rotary electric machine having a stator and a rotor, a transmission coupled to the rotary electric machine, a clutch that couples an engine and the rotary electric machine and that releases a connection of the two, and a case for housing the rotary electric machine and the clutch, the hybrid drive device including: a first transmitting shaft coupled to an output shaft of the engine; and a second transmitting shaft that transmits power from the rotor of the rotary electric machine to the transmission.
Shigeki IDEUE, Takeru MORITA, Kenji DOZONO, Akinori OZAWA, Tatsuya OKISHIMA, Masashi IKEMURA
Filed: 8 Jan 20
Utility
Control Device for Vehicle
31 Mar 22
A control device, for a vehicle, comprising an electronic control unit configured to: output a first command value, for tightening a pack clearance, to a hydraulic control circuit system prior to output of a second command value, for transmitting cranking torque that raises a rotation speed of the engine, during a transition of switching a control state of a clutch from a released state to an engaged state when an engine is started; and perform, when the engine is started, first control for outputting the cranking torque by an electric motor and second control for starting operation of the engine, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to set the first command value to a first hydraulic pressure when the engine is started in a first situation, and set the first command value to a higher second hydraulic pressure higher when the engine is started in a second situation.
Keigo MATSUBARA, Masayuki BABA, Tomoya INAYOSHI
Filed: 30 Aug 21
Utility
Control Device for Vehicle
31 Mar 22
A control device for a vehicle, the control device comprising an electronic control unit configured to: perform, when the engine is started, a first clutch actuator control in which the clutch transmits a cranking torque for increasing a rotation speed of the engine during a transition in which the control state of the clutch is switched from a released state to an engaged state; perform, when the engine is started, first control for outputting the cranking torque by the electric motor and second control for starting operation of the engine; and perform, after the first clutch actuator control is completed, a second clutch actuator control in which a torque capacity of the clutch is set to a predetermined torque smaller than the cranking torque.
Keigo MATSUBARA, Masayuki BABA, Tomoya INAYOSHI
Filed: 2 Sep 21
Utility
Control Device for Vehicle
31 Mar 22
An electronic control unit is configured to: control a clutch actuator based on first phase definition that defines a plurality of stages of progress provided for each of control states of the clutch, the clutch being switched among the control states in a process of starting the engine; and control at least one of a motor and an engine based on second phase definition that defines a plurality of stages of progress, the second phase definition being different from the first phase definition.
Keigo MATSUBARA, Masayuki BABA, Tomoya INAYOSHI
Filed: 21 Sep 21
Utility
Air bag and seat apparatus for vehicle
29 Mar 22
An airbag includes a bag portion including two sheet members which are attached to each other.
Yasuhito Kurematsu, Ryosuke Mizuno, Satoshi Masuda, Takahiro Jomen, Makoto Sueyoshi
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Transmission belt and transmission belt element
29 Mar 22
An element of a transmission belt includes a pair of rocking edge portions with a convex surface, these are formed on one of a front face and a rear face to extend a part of the rocking edge portion over a pillar portion, and the rocking edge portions are spaced away from each other in a width direction; and a non-contact portion extended along a saddle surface in the width direction between the rocking edge portions, in non-contact with an adjacent element.
Takayuki Miyake, Akira Ochi, Wataru Ishihara, Junichi Tokunaga
Filed: 6 Jun 18
Utility
Vehicle Drive Device
24 Mar 22
An apparatus including a transmission mechanism in a power transfer path between a drive source and wheels; an oil pressure control device supplying lubricating oil to the transmission mechanism; and a control part outputting an electrical instruction to increase a flow rate of the supplied lubricating.
Takahiro SUZUKI, Tadaaki WATANABE
Filed: 30 Jan 20
Utility
Turn Assist Device for Vehicle, Turn Assist Method for Vehicle, and Computer-readable Medium Storing Turn Assist Program
24 Mar 22
A turn assist device is configured to execute a turn assist process that assists turning of a vehicle in a case in which a steering operation of a steering wheel is in progress in a situation in which collision prediction time is shorter than or equal to determination prediction time.
Yosuke OMORI
Filed: 2 Sep 21
Utility
Turning Controller for Vehicle, Computer-readable Medium Storing Turning Control Program, and Turning Control Method for Vehicle
24 Mar 22
A turning controller for a vehicle is configured to execute: a time obtaining process that obtains collision prediction time; a lateral movement amount determining process that determines whether a target lateral movement amount is greater than or equal to a lateral movement amount determination value; and an automatic turning process that, in a case in which the collision prediction time is shorter than or equal to a determination prediction time, outputs a command for steering the front wheel to the front wheel steering device and outputs a command for steering the rear wheel to the rear wheel steering device, in order to avoid a collision between the vehicle and the obstacle; a counter-phase process in the automatic turning process in a case in which the target lateral movement amount is determined to be greater than or equal to the lateral movement amount determination value.
Yosuke OMORI
Filed: 15 Sep 21
Utility
Aluminum Alloy Casting and Method of Manufacturing Same
24 Mar 22
An aluminum (Al)-magnesium (Mg)-silicon (Si)-based aluminum alloy casting includes: at least boron (B) and phosphorus (P).
Atsuya SUZUKI, Shuji INOUE
Filed: 16 Aug 21
Utility
Internal combustion engine
22 Mar 22
An internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine body including an intake valve and an exhaust valve, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to set a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body to a predetermined rotational speed based on an environmental temperature at a time of starting the internal combustion engine body, and perform a control to drive the internal combustion engine body at the set predetermined rotational speed during a time period until when fuel is supplied to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine body and first ignition is performed.
Seiichi Fujimoto, Tomohiro Kozaki, Masaaki Kaneko, Suguru Kamiya, Atsushi Hanaura, Tatsuki Okude, Tomoaki Fukao
Filed: 10 Jul 19
Utility
Damper device
22 Mar 22
A damper device includes first to third rotating elements rotatable about a rotational center; a first elastic element located between the first and third rotational elements and compressed by relative rotation of the first rotational element to the third rotational element in one rotational direction; a second elastic element located between the second and third rotational elements and compressed by relative rotation of the third rotational element to the second rotational element in the one rotational direction, a support member intervenient between the third rotational element and the first elastic element to support the first elastic element; and a restrictor provided with the third rotational element to rotatably support the support member in a plane orthogonal to the rotational center, to restrict the support member from rotating beyond a certain angle and from moving away from the third rotational element in rotational directions.
Satoshi Kubota
Filed: 17 Nov 17
Utility
Transfer belt
22 Mar 22
A transfer belt wound between a primary pulley and a secondary pulley of a continuously variable transmission, the transfer belt including: a plurality of elements, each of which has a body that includes a saddle surface and a pair of pillars that extend toward a radially outer side of the transfer belt from both sides of the saddle surface in a width direction; and a bind ring that binds the plurality of elements annularly with an inner peripheral surface of the bind ring contacting the saddle surface of each of the plurality of elements.
Yuki Sato, Kenji Kawano, Akira Ochi, Ryo Nakamura, Takayuki Miyake, Junichi Tokunaga, Masashi Hattori
Filed: 7 Feb 17
Utility
Object detection apparatus
22 Mar 22
An object detection apparatus includes a transmitting portion configured to transmit a transmission wave, a receiving portion configured to receive a reception wave based on the transmission wave which returned, an estimation portion configured to estimate an amount of frequency transition between the transmission wave and the reception wave on the basis of a result of a frequency analysis, a correction portion configured to correct the reception wave to obtain consistency of frequencies with the transmission wave on the basis of an estimation result of the estimation portion, and a detection portion configured to detect information related to the object on the basis of a relation between the transmission wave and the corrected reception wave corrected by the correction portion.
Ippei Sugae
Filed: 9 Mar 20
Utility
Electronic Substrate
17 Mar 22
An electronic substrate connects to a semiconductor component via a plurality of front surface terminals disposed in an array on a front surface and connects to a main substrate via a plurality of back surface terminals disposed in an array on a back surface.
Takanobu NARUSE, Yasuhiro SASSA
Filed: 31 Oct 19
Utility
Abnormality Detection Device, Abnormality Detection Computer Program Product, and Abnormality Detection System
17 Mar 22
An abnormality detection device includes an acquisition process unit that acquires plural captured images captured by an imaging device to image an object in different positions or postures in a mode in which a relative positional or postural relationship between the imaging device and the object is specifiable in each of the plural captured images, an extraction process unit that extracts plural abnormality-candidate images in which an abnormality-candidate part is imaged from the plural captured images, the abnormality-candidate part corresponding to a part that possibly includes an abnormality on a surface of the object, an estimation process unit that estimates a depth of the abnormality-candidate part with respect to the surface of the object, and a detection process unit that detects whether the abnormality-candidate part corresponds to abnormal based on the depth of the abnormality-candidate part in each of the plural abnormality-candidate images.
Truong Vinh Truong DUY, Naotake NATORI
Filed: 16 Aug 21
Utility
Hybrid Drive Device
17 Mar 22
During shift control of a transmission mechanism, a hybrid drive device computes the amount of change in input torque (deTr) acting on the transmission mechanism and an input torque change time (t15), and controls a motor so that motor torque is changed by the amount of change in input torque (deTr), when the motor can change the amount of change in input torque (deTr), and outputs, when the motor cannot change the amount of change in input torque (deTr), an engine torque signal (Tesig1) at an engine torque change time (t14) earlier than the input torque change time (t15) at which drive power of the motor is changed when the motor can change the amount of change in input torque (deTr).
Yutaro KAWATSU
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Door beam
15 Mar 22
A door beam includes: an upper inner flange; a lower inner flange; an outer flange; an upper rib; and a lower rib.
Taichi Itakura, Kazuhiro Kaimai, Kiyoichi Kita, Jun Shobo, Tamaki Obayashi, Kazutaka Mori
Filed: 11 May 20