公开(公告)号：US20170197616A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-13

申请号：US15454753

申请日：2017-03-09

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Toru ICHIKAWA ,  Yasunori SHIGA

IPC: B60W30/085 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W10/18

CPC classification number: B60W30/085 ,  B60T7/22 ,  B60T2201/022 ,  B60T2230/08 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W2420/52 ,  B60W2420/54 ,  B60W2550/10 ,  G01S7/524 ,  G01S7/526 ,  G01S7/5345 ,  G01S15/87 ,  G01S15/931 ,  G01S17/936 ,  G01S2013/9317 ,  G01S2013/9346 ,  G01S2013/935 ,  G01S2013/9353 ,  G01S2013/9364 ,  G01S2013/9367 ,  G01S2013/9375 ,  G01S2013/9378 ,  G08G1/165

Abstract: A collision prevention device is mounted on a vehicle and prevents collision against an obstacle by controlling a driving system of the vehicle. This collision prevention device includes an obstacle sensor, an obstacle detection area setting unit, a detector and a vehicle controller. The obstacle sensor transmits one of a light wave, a radio wave and an ultrasonic wave to a predetermined obstacle detection area, and receives a reflected wave of one of the light wave, the radio wave and the ultrasonic wave. The obstacle detection area setting unit sets the obstacle detection area of the obstacle sensor. The detector detects the obstacle in the obstacle detection area based on a detection result of the obstacle sensor. The vehicle controller controls the driving system of the vehicle based on a result of the detection of the detector, and according to the obstacle detection area set by the obstacle detection area setting unit.

公开(公告)号：US20230322217A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US18161563

申请日：2023-01-30

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuya ISHIBASHI ,  Teppei SHIBATA ,  Toru ICHIKAWA

IPC: B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/09 ,  G01S15/931

CPC classification number: B60W30/0956 ,  B60W30/09 ,  G01S15/931 ,  B60W2420/54 ,  B60W2554/80

Abstract: A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device controls a vehicle on the basis of one or more detection times each representing a distance measured by a distance measuring device mounted on the vehicle. The distance measuring device measures a distance to an object around the vehicle by transmitting and receiving sound waves. The vehicle control device includes acquisition circuitry and estimated coordinate calculation circuitry. The acquisition circuitry acquires the one or more detection times. The estimated coordinate calculation circuitry calculates estimated coordinates indicating an estimated position of an object in a case where the object is present in a neighborhood of the distance measuring device but a distance to the object is not measured. The estimated coordinates is calculated on the basis of the one or more detection times having been acquired by the acquisition circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US20190018122A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-17

申请号：US16131928

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shinya OGAWA ,  Toru ICHIKAWA ,  Tatsuaki YAMAGISHI

IPC: G01S7/52 ,  G01S15/93

CPC classification number: G01S7/52004 ,  G01S15/08 ,  G01S15/931 ,  G01S2015/937 ,  G01S2015/938

Abstract: A sensor mounting state determination device includes distance measurement section that measures a distance to a road surface based on time from transmission of a transmission wave to reception of a reflection wave by an ultrasonic sensor that is mounted to a vehicle to transmit a transmission wave toward a road surface and receive a reflection wave reflected off the road surface. There is further provided a determination section configured to determine not only that the ultrasonic sensor is correctly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is identical to a predetermined distance, but also that the ultrasonic sensor is incorrectly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is not identical to the predetermined distance.