Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Sakurai
Hideyuki Sakurai 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: 11565647Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system includes an airbag configured to deploy downward into a vehicle cabin from a roof of the vehicle cabin by receiving gas supplied, a region setting unit configured to set a predetermined region according to a position of the airbag, a collision sensor configured to detect a collision of a vehicle, a seat position detection sensor configured to detect at least one of a position and an angular position of a seat on which an occupant is seated, and a seat control unit configured to, when the collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle and the seat position detection sensor detects that the seat is located in the predetermined region, execute control to change at least one of the position and the angular position of the seat. Thus, a positional relation between the seat and the airbag is appropriately controlled.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideyuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20230013660Abstract: An electric pump includes a pump, a motor configured to drive the pump, a motor drive unit having a switching element and configured to drive the motor with electric power output from the switching element, and a control unit configured to output a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for driving the switching element to the motor drive unit. The PWM signal output from the control unit, is used for monitoring a state of the motor. When the motor stops abnormally, the control unit sets a frequency of the PWM signal for use in monitoring the state of the motor to a frequency outside of a frequency band which is used when the motor is normal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Kei Kubota, Hideyuki Sakurai, Takuya Iwazaki, Tatsuki Tanuma, Masato Ito
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Publication number: 20220289091Abstract: An entrance handrail includes: a base portion rotatably provided with an up-down direction as an axial direction; a rail portion extending from a lower portion of the base portion and holding a slide member to be slidable, the slide member being attached to a sliding door; a first handrail body extending from an upper portion of the base portion, disposed on a vehicle cabin side when the sliding door closes the entrance, and projecting outward of the vehicle such that a passenger can hold the first handrail body when the sliding door opens the entrance; and second handrail body disposed on the vehicle cabin side with respect of the rail portion when the sliding door closes the entrance and disposed inward of the rail portion in a width direction of the entrance such that the passenger can hold the second handrail body when the sliding door opens the entrance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yuto OTA
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Patent number: 11433796Abstract: A boarding handrail includes: a base supported by a support member provided on a periphery of an entrance of a vehicle; a handrail main body provided on the base and capable of being grasped by a passenger who gets on or off the vehicle through the entrance; and a moving member movably fitted on the handrail main body. The moving member has a self-propelled device that rolls over an outer circumferential surface of the handrail main body so as to cause the moving member to move in an axial direction while rotating on its axis, and an irradiation device that irradiates the outer circumferential surface of the handrail main body with ultraviolet light.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideyuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20220278560Abstract: A vehicle includes: a transmission unit provided in a vehicle cabin to transmit a radio wave for supplying power to a device in the vehicle cabin; and a reflection unit that reflects the radio wave transmitted from the transmission unit toward the device. The reflection unit is provided on a skeleton member made of metal. The skeleton member including the reflection unit is covered from the vehicle cabin inner side by an interior member made of a material that allows passage of the radio wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220266735Abstract: An entrance handrail includes: a base portion provided proximal to an entrance opening of a vehicle so as to be turnable; a handrail body that extends from the base portion; and a rail portion that extends from the base portion and that holds a second end portion of a link arm such that the second end portion is slidable. A first end portion of the link arm is turnably attached to a slide door that is movable along an outer wall surface of the vehicle to open and close the entrance opening. The handrail body and the rail portion project outward of the vehicle when the slide door opens the entrance opening. The handrail body and the rail portion are disposed to extend along the slide door when the slide door closes the entrance opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yuto OTA
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Patent number: 11390139Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning device comprises an instrument panel, a door that includes an overlapping portion where part of the door overlaps with the instrument panel in a closed state of the door, and a door blower outlet that opens toward a vehicle cabin interior, a first opening that is open toward the door, a second opening that is open toward the instrument panel, an air conditioning unit body, a first duct that that has a length direction end portion connected to the first opening, a second duct that has a length direction end portion connected to the door blower outlet, and a fin member respectively provided at the first opening and the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Sawada, Hideyuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20220198540Abstract: An information providing system includes a first portable terminal of a first visitor who visits a theme park and a server that communicates with the first portable terminal, in which the information providing system provides information on food provided in the theme park, the server includes a database in which an image of the food is associated with the information on the food, and when the first visitor takes a picture of food eaten by a second visitor and uploads the taken picture, the server specifies the food in the picture with reference to the database, and transmits the information on the specified food to the first portable terminal of the first visitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220198759Abstract: In an image display system that is equipped with a camera that images a figure of a visitor of a theme park in front of a mirror device and a background, a server that processes an image of the visitor imaged by the camera and that generates display data, and a display device that displays the display data generated by the server on the mirror device, the server includes a database that stores image data on a character, and generates the display data after replacing part of the image of the visitor imaged by the camera with part of an image of the character selected by the visitor with reference to the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220197310Abstract: A delivery system includes a cooking station, a meal serving station, a drone, a meal conveying device configured to convey a meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station, and a controlling portion. A character of a theme park is displayed on the drone. The controlling portion causes the drone to fly from the cooking station to the meal serving station and causes the meal conveying device to convey the meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station such that, just after the drone has arrived at the meal serving station, the meal conveyed by the meal conveying device is served to a visitor from the meal serving station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220196038Abstract: A fluid pressure actuator is provided with an actuator main portion whose shape is changed by the expansion or contraction of a cylindrical tube expanded and contracted by the pressure of fluid, and a detection unit for detecting the length L of the actuator main portion along the longitudinal direction of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo SAKURAI, Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220144086Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: an acceleration prediction section that predicts a direction of an acceleration acting on a vehicle based on information including at least one of: information regarding a planned travel path of the vehicle, information acquired from a periphery information detection sensor that detects information regarding a vehicle periphery, or information acquired from an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle; and a display control section that, in a case in which an acceleration predicted by the acceleration prediction section is greater than a predetermined threshold, displays a direction of the predicted acceleration at a display portion in a vehicle cabin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yoshimi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20220134879Abstract: An outside information display control device limits operation of at least one of onboard devices including a wiper, an electronic mirror, and a defroster at the time of automated driving of a vehicle. An interest determining unit determines whether an occupant is interested in outside information. The limitation on operation of the onboard device is released when the interest determining unit determines that the occupant is interested in the outside information in a state in which the operation of the onboard device has been limited.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220080917Abstract: A roof airbag system includes a roof airbag, a lifting mechanism, a collision sensor, memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The roof airbag is provided at a roof portion of a vehicle, receives a supply of gas from an inflator and deploys toward an upper body side of a vehicle occupant sitting on a vehicle seat. The lifting mechanism is provided at a seat cushion side of the vehicle seat and lifts a thigh area of the vehicle occupant. A collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle. The processor is configured to, when a seat back of the vehicle seat is tilted more than a predetermined angle to the seat rear side and the collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle, control the lifting mechanism to lift the thigh area of the vehicle occupant and control operation of the inflator to deploy the roof airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20220072987Abstract: A boarding handrail includes: a base supported by a support member provided on a periphery of an entrance of a vehicle; a handrail main body provided on the base and capable of being grasped by a passenger who gets on or off the vehicle through the entrance; and a moving member movably fitted on the handrail main body. The moving member has a self-propelled device that rolls over an outer circumferential surface of the handrail main body so as to cause the moving member to move in an axial direction while rotating on its axis, and an irradiation device that irradiates the outer circumferential surface of the handrail main body with ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220063542Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system includes an airbag configured to deploy downward into a vehicle cabin from a roof of the vehicle cabin by receiving gas supplied, a region setting unit configured to set a predetermined region according to a position of the airbag, a collision sensor configured to detect a collision of a vehicle, a seat position detection sensor configured to detect at least one of a position and an angular position of a seat on which an occupant is seated, and a seat control unit configured to, when the collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle and the seat position detection sensor detects that the seat is located in the predetermined region, execute control to change at least one of the position and the angular position of the seat. Thus, a positional relation between the seat and the airbag is appropriately controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideyuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20220062471Abstract: A boarding handrail disinfecting device includes: a cover member that is provided on a door for opening and closing an entrance of a vehicle, and that is disposed so as to closely face a boarding handrail provided on a periphery of the entrance when the door closes the entrance and withdrawn from the boarding handrail when the door opens the entrance; and an irradiation device that is provided on a surface of the cover member that faces the boarding handrail and irradiates the boarding handrail with ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220063472Abstract: An entrance handrail includes an outer pipe that is supported by a supporting member provided in a proximity of an entrance of a vehicle, and that has a non-looped shape that is a shape obtained by removing a partial section from a looped-shape, an inner pipe supported inside of the outer pipe and exposed from the outer pipe at a partial section, the inner pipe having a looped-shape, a sheet member that is configured to be able to cover an outer peripheral face of the inner pipe, and that is movable in an axial direction of the inner pipe and the outer pipe by a drive device provided inside of the outer pipe, and a disinfecting device that is provided inside of the outer pipe and that is configured to disinfect the sheet member by irradiation of ultraviolet rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20220063471Abstract: A boarding handrail includes: an outer pipe which is supported by a support member provided on a periphery of an entrance of a vehicle and of which one segment is removed to form a non-annular shape; an inner pipe that has a substantially C-shaped cross-section as seen from an axial direction, with the outside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the outer pipe, and is disposed in the one segment by being suspended across one end and the other end of the outer pipe; a sheet member that continuously covers an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the inner pipe and is capable of being moved in a circumferential direction of the inner pipe by a driving device provided inside the inner pipe; and a disinfecting device that is provided inside the inner pipe and disinfects the sheet member by irradiating it with ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventor: Hideyuki SAKURAI
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Patent number: 11207925Abstract: This disclosure aims to provide a tire having excellent braking performance on dry road surface and on wet road surface, and having excellent steering stability. This disclosure is a tire comprising a tread 10, wherein: the tread 10 has a plurality of circumferential grooves extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction C, the circumferential grooves including circumferential main grooves 21a, 21b, 22 with a cross-sectional area in a tire width direction W of 10 mm2 or more, and a groove width Lb at a 95% groove depth position with a groove depth of a groove bottom as 100% of at least the circumferential groove 21a located on an outermost side when mounted to a vehicle among the circumferential main grooves 21a, 21b, 22 being 25% to 60% with respect to a groove width Lt on a tread surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Tomida, Hideyuki Sakurai