Patents by Inventor Hiroki Okada
Hiroki Okada 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: 20200174101Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes a separation unit (16), a first detector (17), a switch (18), and a second detector (20). The separation unit (16) separates incident electromagnetic waves so that the electromagnetic waves propagate in a first direction (d1) and a second direction (d2). The first detector (17) detects the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the first direction (d1). The switch (18) includes a plurality of switching elements (se). The switching elements (se) are capable of switching the propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the second direction (d2) to a third direction (d3) and a fourth direction (d4). The second detector (20) detects the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the third direction (d3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Eri UCHIDA, Hiroki OKADA
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Publication number: 20200114872Abstract: A mobile terminal device is operated by a battery, performs wireless communication with a predetermined associated vehicle, and is available as an electronic key for the vehicle. The mobile terminal device includes a display unit including an electronic paper, and a terminal controller configured to display a predetermined code for unlocking the vehicle on the electronic paper when a remaining amount of the battery is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke HIROKI, Hiroki OKADA
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Patent number: 10618497Abstract: A server receives first identification information unique to a user of a vehicle from a first terminal device, receives second identification information unique to a user of a second terminal device from the second terminal device, generates second authentication information based on the first identification information, the second identification information, and first authentication information stored in a first storage unit, and transmits the second authentication information to the second terminal device. A vehicle verifies authenticity of the second authentication information acquired from the second terminal device based on the first identification information and the second identification information acquired from the second terminal device, and the first authentication information stored in a second storage unit, and in a case where authenticity is confirmed, unlocks a storage.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jumpei Fuke, Hiroki Okada
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Publication number: 20200096616Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes an irradiator (11), a first detector (17), a propagation unit (20), a memory (13), and a controller (14). The irradiator (11) irradiates electromagnetic waves. The first detector (17) detects reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto an object (ob). The propagation unit (20) includes propagation elements (px). By irradiation position of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto the object (ob), the propagation elements (px) switch between propagating and not propagating the reflected waves towards the first detector (17). The memory (13) stores information related to the emission direction of the electromagnetic waves. The controller (14) updates the information related to the emission direction based on the position of the propagation element (px) that is propagating the reflected waves toward the first detector (17) when the first detector (17) detects the reflected waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Eri UCHIDA, Hiroyuki MINAGAWA, Yoshiteru TAKAYAMA, Mitsuo ONO, Atsushi HASEBE, Katsutoshi KAWAI, Yukitoshi KANAYAMA
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Publication number: 20200088846Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes a detector (17), a propagation unit (15), and a controller (13). The detector (17) includes a first detection element (21). The first detection element (21) detects electromagnetic waves. The propagation unit (15) includes a first propagation element group (18). The first propagation element group (18) includes a plurality of propagation elements (20). The propagation elements (20) switch between allowing and not allowing propagation of incident electromagnetic waves towards the first detection element (21). The controller (13) is capable of controlling switching of each propagation element (20) between allowing and not allowing the propagation. The controller (13) sequentially causes different propagation elements (20) to switch between allowing and not allowing the propagation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Eri UCHIDA
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Patent number: 10593194Abstract: A power supply control module includes a first sheet portion, a second sheet portion, a wireless communication unit, a switch unit and a controller. The controller configured to cause the switch unit to switch between a closed state and an opened state based on the result of communication performed by the wireless communication unit, the closed state being a state in which a first cell side electrode layer and a terminal side electrode layer are electrically connected to each other and the opened state being a state in which the first cell side electrode layer and the terminal side electrode layer are electrically disconnected from each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Okada
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Publication number: 20200055088Abstract: A sensor includes a lower electrode layer facing a cavity, a piezoelectric layer located on the lower electrode layer, and an upper electrode layer located on the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer includes a first piezoelectric part and a second piezoelectric part. The first piezoelectric part includes a first material having piezoelectricity and at least partially overlays the cavity when viewed on a plane. The second piezoelectric part includes a second material having piezoelectricity and being different in at least one of a āgā constant and ādā constant from the first material and, when viewed on a plane, is located in a region different from an arrangement region of the first piezoelectric part and at least partially overlays the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiroki OKADA
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Patent number: 10562497Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes a portable authentication terminal configured to authenticate a user who carries the portable authentication terminal, and a vehicle configured to communicate with the portable authentication terminal. The vehicle includes a sound generation unit configured to generate a predetermined sound within a vehicle cabin, an information reception unit configured to receive information transmitted from the portable authentication terminal, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the portable authentication terminal is within the cabin based on the received information. The portable authentication terminal includes a sound collection unit configured to collect a sound, and an information transmission unit configured to transmit information based on the collected sound to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Okada
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Publication number: 20200033116Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes an irradiator (11), a first detector (17), a propagation unit (20), a memory (13), and a controller (14). The irradiator (11) irradiates electromagnetic waves. The first detector (17) detects reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto an object (ob). The propagation unit (20) includes propagation elements (px). By irradiation position of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto the object (ob), the propagation elements (px) switch between propagating and not propagating the reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves towards the first detector (17). The memory (13) stores related information. The controller (14) updates the related information based on the position of the propagation element (px) that is propagating the reflected waves toward the first detector (17) when the first detector (17) detects the reflected waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Eri UCHIDA, Hiroyuki MINAGAWA, Yoshiteru TAKAYAMA, Mitsuo ONO, Atsushi HASEBE, Katsutoshi KAWAI, Yukitoshi KANAYAMA
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Patent number: 10543482Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable palladium ion catalyst aqueous solution for electroless metal plating that does not use boric acid and can be used stably over a wide pH range. The catalyst solution for electroless plating of the present invention contains palladium ion, palladium ion complexing agent, and a specific amine compound and is alkaline.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLCInventors: Hiroki Okada, Shenghua Li, Shinjiro Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200018858Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes an irradiator (11), a first detector (17), a memory (13), and a controller (14). The irradiator (11) irradiates electromagnetic waves. The first detector (17) includes detection elements. The detection elements detect, by irradiation position, reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto an object (ob). The memory (13) stores related information. The related information is information associating any two of the emission direction of the electromagnetic waves and elements defining two points on a path. The path refers to a path of the electromagnetic waves emitted from the irradiator (11) to the first detector (17) via the object (ob). The controller (14) updates the related information based on the emission direction of the electromagnetic waves and the position of the detection element, among the detection elements, that detects the reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Eri UCHIDA, Hiroyuki MINAGAWA, Yoshiteru TAKAYAMA, Mitsuo ONO, Atsushi HASEBE, Katsutoshi KAWAI, Yukitoshi KANAYAMA
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Publication number: 20200012474Abstract: An acoustic system includes: a first terminal device including a first-terminal sound emitting unit, an earhole sound collecting unit configured to collect earhole echo sound, and a first-terminal control unit configured to perform authentication between the first terminal device and a user based on the echo sound collected by the earhole sound collecting unit; an onboard device including an onboard-device sound emitting unit and an onboard-device control unit configured to perform authentication between the onboard device and the user based on communication with the first terminal device; and a second terminal device includes a second-terminal control unit configured to set a destination of sound data to one of the first terminal device and the onboard device when the onboard-device control unit detects that a predetermined condition including a condition that the user has been authenticated is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Ryuta ATSUMI, Daisuke HIROKI, Shinpei ASAI
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Publication number: 20200003893Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes a switch (16), a first detector (19), and a second detector (20). The switch (16) includes an action surface (as) with a plurality of pixels (px) disposed thereon. The switch (16) is configured to switch each pixel (px) between the first state and the second state. In the first state, the pixels (px) cause electromagnetic waves incident on the action surface (as) to travel in a first direction (dl). In the second state, the pixels (px) cause the electromagnetic waves incident on the action surface (as) to travel in a second direction (d2). The first detector (19) detects the electromagnetic waves that travel in the first direction (dl). The second detector (20) detects the electromagnetic waves that travel in the second direction (d2).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Eri UCHIDA, Hiroyuki MINAGAWA, Yoshiteru TAKAYAMA, Mitsuo ONO, Atsushi HASEBE, Katsutoshi KAWAI, Yukitoshi KANAYAMA
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Publication number: 20190385618Abstract: A vehicle authentication device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to display predetermined verification information on a display device, receive, via an information processor possessed by a user, information on an operation performed by the user after the verification information is displayed, and determine that the information processor is present inside a vehicle cabin, when the information on the operation has a predetermined correspondence with the verification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki OKADA
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Publication number: 20190375360Abstract: A system that determines a condition of wearing of a seat belt, including: a marker provided on at least a part of the seat belt; an image capture processing unit that emits electromagnetic waves of the prescribed wavelength band toward a predetermined range and that creates an image indicating intensity distribution of electromagnetic waves of the prescribed wavelength band, based on reflected waves reflected in the predetermined range; a shape estimating unit that estimates a shape of an occupant based on the image, detects the marker from the image, and estimates a shape of the seat belt based on the marker detected; and a determining unit that determines the condition of wearing of the seat belt by the occupant, based on a positional relationship between the occupant and the seat belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke HIROKI, Hiroki OKADA
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Publication number: 20190364353Abstract: An information processing device having a to-be-worn portion capable of being worn at one ear of a user, the information processing device comprising: a first sound pickup section configured to pick up external sound; a sound emission section configured to emit sound to the one ear of the user; and a control section configured to determine whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied in a state where the information processing device is in a vehicle, and, when determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied, cause the sound emission section to emit the external sound picked up by the first sound pickup section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Daisuke HIROKI
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Patent number: 10395460Abstract: A portable terminal device of an authentication system includes a first communication unit that performs wireless communication with a vehicle-mounted device by using a first frequency band, a second communication unit that performs ultra-wideband wireless communication using a second frequency band, a notification unit configured to perform a predetermined notification operation, and a first controller that controls the first communication unit, the second communication unit, and the notification unit. The first controller controls the first communication unit to perform wireless communication for authentication with the vehicle-mounted device, and controls the second communication unit to perform wireless communication for measuring a distance from the portable terminal device to the vehicle-mounted device.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Okada
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Publication number: 20190241156Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes a portable authentication terminal configured to authenticate a user who carries the portable authentication terminal, and a vehicle configured to communicate with the portable authentication terminal. The vehicle includes a sound generation unit configured to generate a predetermined sound within a vehicle cabin, an information reception unit configured to receive information transmitted from the portable authentication terminal, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the portable authentication terminal is within the cabin based on the received information. The portable authentication terminal includes a sound collection unit configured to collect a sound, and an information transmission unit configured to transmit information based on the collected sound to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki OKADA
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Publication number: 20190197221Abstract: An authentication system that executes user authentication processing in accordance with an authentication request includes at least one first device. The first device has a biological information acquiring unit that is configured to acquire biological information of a user, and a first authentication unit that outputs an authentication result of which the user is authenticated, based on the biological information. The authentication system includes a second device that is configured to communicate with the first device. The second device has an information acquiring-storing unit that is able to store identification information of the first device beforehand, a determination unit that is configured to determine whether the first device is registered, and a second authentication unit that is configured to perform user authentication, in accordance with an authentication result output by the first authentication unit, when the determination unit determines that the first device is registered.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki OKADA, Ryuta ATSUMI, Satoshi FUJISAKI, Daisuke HIROKI, Shinpei ASAI, Kouji OOSUGI
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Publication number: 20190180536Abstract: A vehicular electronic key system includes an electronic key and a wireless communication device. The electronic key includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a first controller that switches an operating state between an ON state where a function of the first communication unit is operated, and an OFF state where the function of the first communication unit is at least partially stopped, based on a result of communication of the second communication unit with the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device includes a third communication unit, and a second controller. The first controller switches the operating state when the first controller detects that the electronic key has been moved by a predetermined distance or longer outside a vehicle based on at least a result of communication of a predetermined signal by the second communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki OKADA