Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Mita
Hiroyuki Mita 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: 9878680Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame; and a holding member including a mounting portion that is attached to the seat frame. The holding member is attached to the seat frame via the mounting portion and is disposed and configured to hold a held member; the mounting portion is a tubular part projecting from the holding member toward the seat frame; a fastening member projects from one of the seat frame and the mounting portion and is inserted into the other of the seat frame and the mounting portion such that the holding member is fastened and attached to the seat frame; and the holding member includes five or more flat plate-shaped reinforcing portions projecting from the holding member toward the seat frame, and the five or more reinforcing portions are connected to the mounting portion, and are disposed radially around the mounting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Mita
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Patent number: 9802490Abstract: A power transfer unit configured to transfer power using magnetic fields, and a foreign object remover configured to remove a foreign object in the vicinity of a power transfer path when the power is transferred.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20170237588Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method which can suppress increase in power consumption. In an aspect of the present technology, control data, which is for controlling frequency modulation to a carrier signal using digital data to be transmitted, and for suppressing a time average of a fluctuation amount of a frequency modulation amount more than a case of controlling the frequency modulation to the carrier signal using the digital data is generated, the frequency modulation is performed to the carrier signal on the basis of the generated control data, and the carrier signal to which the frequency modulation is performed is transmitted as a transmission signal. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, or an electronic apparatus having a transmission function, a reception function, or a communication function, or a computer which controls these.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tamotsu Ikeda, Hitoshi Tomiyama, Makoto Sato, Hiroyuki Mita
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Patent number: 9511693Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle seat having an operating member to operate an operating seat mechanism disposed in the seat, and a pivoting operation lever coupled to the operating member to exert a pivoting operation force, thereby operating the operating seat mechanism, the operating member is integrally constituted of a shaft portion and an arm portion, the pivoting operation lever has a holding region and a coupling region to transmit the pivoting operation force to the operating member, and the coupling region has a fitting portion which fits on the shaft portion from an axial direction, and an output surface portion which comes in contact with the arm portion in a pivoting direction of the arm portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20160297382Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame; and a holding member including a mounting portion that is attached to the seat frame. The holding member is attached to the seat frame via the mounting portion and is disposed and configured to hold a held member; the mounting portion is a tubular part projecting from the holding member toward the seat frame; a fastening member projects from one of the seat frame and the mounting portion and is inserted into the other of the seat frame and the mounting portion such that the holding member is fastened and attached to the seat frame; and the holding member includes five or more flat plate-shaped reinforcing portions projecting from the holding member toward the seat frame, and the five or more reinforcing portions are connected to the mounting portion, and are disposed radially around the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki MITA
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Publication number: 20150306990Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle seat having an operating member to operate an operating seat mechanism disposed in the seat, and a pivoting operation lever coupled to the operating member to exert a pivoting operation force, thereby operating the operating seat mechanism, the operating member is integrally constituted of a shaft portion and an arm portion, the pivoting operation lever has a holding region and a coupling region to transmit the pivoting operation force to the operating member, and the coupling region has a fitting portion which fits on the shaft portion from an axial direction, and an output surface portion which comes in contact with the arm portion in a pivoting direction of the arm portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo NAKAGAWA, Hiroyuki MITA
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Patent number: 8960803Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided with an operation portion that protrudes toward a rear seat from an opening formed at an outer shield and that is used to unlock a recliner from the rear seat side and a reinforcement member that is attached to a cushion frame side so as to cover a notch formed near the opening of the outer shield. Engagement hooks that engage with respective engagement holes formed at edges of the notch and a fixing portion that is fixed to a plate provided at the cushion frame side are formed at the reinforcement member.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Mita, Jun Ueda
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Patent number: 8860254Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power feeding apparatus, including: a power feeding portion adapted to feed an electric power in a wireless manner; and a storage body storing therein the power feeding portion. The storage body includes a main body, a first storage portion formed within the main body and storing therein the power feeding portion, and at least one second storage portion formed so as to be adapted to store or retrieve a power receiving apparatus as a storage object in or from the main body, the electric power of the power feeding portion stored in the first storage portion being adapted to be fed from the at least one second storage portion. At least a magnetically shielding portion is formed in an outer peripheral portion, and the at least one second storage portion forms a magnetically closed space in a state of being stored in the main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Kozakai, Hiroyuki Mita
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Patent number: 8378524Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance non-contact power transmission device includes a transmitter including a transmitter resonance element having a mechanism for discretely or continuously varying a resonant frequency, a transmitter excitation element coupled to the transmitter resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an alternating current source for applying an alternating current at the same frequency as the resonant frequency to the transmitter excitation element, and a plurality of receivers each including a receiver resonance element having a specific resonant frequency, a receiver excitation element coupled to the receiver resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an output circuit for outputting an electric current induced by the receiver excitation element. Electric power is transmitted selectively from the transmitter to any of the receivers having different specific resonant frequencies by changing the resonant frequency of the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20130015699Abstract: A power transfer unit configured to transfer power using magnetic fields, and a foreign object remover configured to remove a foreign object in the vicinity of a power transfer path when the power is transferred.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20120205955Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided with an operation portion that protrudes toward a rear seat from an opening formed at an outer shield and that is used to unlock a recliner from the rear seat side and a reinforcement member that is attached to a cushion frame side so as to cover a notch formed near the opening of the outer shield. Engagement hooks that engage with respective engagement holes formed at edges of the notch and a fixing portion that is fixed to a plate provided at the cushion frame side are formed at the reinforcement member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki MITA, Jun UEDA
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Publication number: 20120007439Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power feeding apparatus, including: a power feeding portion adapted to feed an electric power in a wireless manner; and a storage body storing therein the power feeding portion. The storage body includes a main body, a first storage portion formed within the main body and storing therein the power feeding portion, and at least one second storage portion formed so as to be adapted to store or retrieve a power receiving apparatus as a storage object in or from the main body, the electric power of the power feeding portion stored in the first storage portion being adapted to be fed from the at least one second storage portion. At least a magnetically shielding portion is formed in an outer peripheral portion, and the at least one second storage portion forms a magnetically closed space in a state of being stored in the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kozakai, Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20110018494Abstract: A power receiving apparatus includes: a resonance element having a specific resonance frequency and adapted to couple in a non-contacting relationship to a different resonance element through a resonance relationship; a rectification section configured to rectify ac current of the resonance frequency in response to energy received by the resonance element; and a switching section configured to cut off a supplying path of the ac current from the resonance element to the rectification section; the resonance element maintaining the coupling state through the resonance relationship to the different resonance element also when the supplying path of the ac current to the rectification section is blocked by the switching section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki MITA
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Patent number: 7860473Abstract: A radio frequency receiver includes a receiver circuit for processing RF signals, an antenna to receive millimeter wave RF signals, and an attenuator circuit, coupled between the receiver circuit and antenna. In one embodiment, the attenuator circuit may be used to determine a signal strength of the millimeter wave RF signals, compare this signal strength to a first threshold value. If the signal strength is above the first threshold value, a level of attenuation applied to the millimeter wave RF signals may then be increased.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Robert Hardacker, Hiroyuki Mita, Kenichi Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20100219695Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric power supplying apparatus, including: a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance; and an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to the resonance circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Komiyama, Kenichi Fujimaki, Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20100052431Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance non-contact power transmission device includes a transmitter including a transmitter resonance element having a mechanism for discretely or continuously varying a resonant frequency, a transmitter excitation element coupled to the transmitter resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an alternating current source for applying an alternating current at the same frequency as the resonant frequency to the transmitter excitation element, and a plurality of receivers each including a receiver resonance element having a specific resonant frequency, a receiver excitation element coupled to the receiver resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an output circuit for outputting an electric current induced by the receiver excitation element. Electric power is transmitted selectively from the transmitter to any of the receivers having different specific resonant frequencies by changing the resonant frequency of the transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Mita
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Publication number: 20080014890Abstract: A radio frequency receiver includes a receiver circuit for processing RF signals, an antenna to receive millimeter wave RF signals, and an attenuator circuit, coupled between the receiver circuit and antenna. In one embodiment, the attenuator circuit may be used to determine a signal strength of the millimeter wave RF signals, compare this signal strength to a first threshold value. If the signal strength is above the first threshold value, a level of attenuation applied to the millimeter wave RF signals may then be increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Robert Hardacker, Hiroyuki Mita, Kenichi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 6104341Abstract: An SHF-band receiving apparatus is used for demodulating a signal received by an antenna and input through a cable by using an indoor receiving unit which comprises; demodulation means for demodulating an input signal supplied thereto through the cable; detection means for detecting a detection signal representing the direction of the antenna from a demodulated signal output by the demodulation means; and output means for generating a modulated signal for displaying information on the direction of the antenna by modulation of a carrier signal based on the detection signal produced by the detection means and for outputting the modulated signal through the cable to the antenna side.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mita, Tadashi Kajiwara, Toshikazu Ido
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Patent number: 5966638Abstract: An SHF-band receiving apparatus is used for demodulating a signal received by an antenna and input through a cable by using an indoor receiving unit which comprises: demodulation means for demodulating an input signal supplied thereto through the cable; detection means for detecting a detection signal representing the direction of the antenna from a demodulated signal output by the demodulation means; and output means for generating a modulated signal for displaying information on the direction of the antenna by modulation of a carrier signal based on the detection signal produced by the detection means and for outputting the modulated signal through the cable to the antenna side.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1998Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mita, Tadashi Kajiwara, Toshikazu Ido
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Patent number: 5926744Abstract: A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a terminal unit. The receiving apparatus including a receiving portion for receiving a number of multiplexed broadcast waves, a separation portion for separating the number of multiplexed broadcast waves received by the receiving portion into a number of types of broadcast waves, a conversion portion for converting the number of types of broadcast waves separated by the separation portion into a number of IF signals of mutually different frequencies; and an output portion for outputting the number of IF signals converted by the conversion portion to a processing section.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1996Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Keiji Fukuzawa, Kozo Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Mita, Mitsuru Ikeda