Patents by Inventor Koji Aoki

Koji Aoki 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).

  • Patent number: 9828057
    Abstract: A cushion member is swingable with respect to a main frame about a fourth rotation axis to be expanded and compressed according to a movement of a front wheel. A first arm is swingable with respect to a front fork supporting member about a fifth rotation axis and with respect to the main frame about a sixth rotation axis. A second arm is swingable with respect to the front fork supporting member about a seventh rotation axis, with respect to the cushion member about an eighth rotation axis, and with respect to the main frame about a ninth rotation axis. The fourth to ninth rotation axes are substantially parallel to one another. The fourth rotation axis is provided to be substantially perpendicular to a plane including a second rotation axis about which the front fork is turnable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9725127
    Abstract: A front wheel supporting frame structure of a saddle-ride vehicle includes a main frame, upper and lower arms and a lower frame. The main frame has a front portion and a rear portion. The main frame includes an upper connection portion, a lower connection portion, and an extending portion. The extending portion extends downward. The upper arm has an upper front end portion and an upper rear end portion. The upper rear end portion is movably connected to the upper connection portion. The lower arm has a lower front end portion and a lower rear end portion. The lower rear end portion of is movably connected to the lower connection portion. The lower frame includes a bottom portion and an upright portion. The bottom portion extends in the vehicle front-rear direction. The upright portion has a top portion connected to the extending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Aoki, Daisuke Kuramochi, Tatsuya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170131527
    Abstract: An optical system includes an aperture stop, and an optical member that is removably insertable in an optical path defined by an object side and an image side of the optical system, the optical member is disposed on the image side of the aperture stop. In a first focus range between infinity and a first finite distance, the optical member is removed from the optical path. In a second focus range between a second finite distance shorter than the first finite distance and a third finite distance shorter than the second finite distance, the optical member is inserted in the optical path. The thickness of the optical member on the optical axis and the focal length of the optical member are suitably determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170115482
    Abstract: To obtain a zoom lens easily performing image blur correction and maintaining optical performance while performing image blur correction while restricting an increase in size of the lens. A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first unit; a negative second unit; a positive third unit; and a rear group that has one or more units. Spacings between adjacent units change during zooming. First and second correction systems rotatable about first and second centers on or in the vicinity of an optical axis during blur correction are respectively constituted by at least a part of the second unit and at least a part of an optical system disposed on image side of the second unit. The first and second centers are on image side of a surface vertex of the respective first and second correction systems closest to the object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9590172
    Abstract: A sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, a first detection electrode and a second detection electrode, and at least one conductive pattern. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed at opposite ends of the semiconductor layer. The first detection electrode and the second detection electrode are disposed at the other opposite ends of the semiconductor layer, wherein a virtual connection line is provided through the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. The at least one conductive pattern is disposed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the conductive pattern does not overlap with the virtual connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki, Chia-Wei Chang
  • Publication number: 20160299338
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup optical system including a protection lens, which is arranged closest to a light incident side and has a convex-shaped surface on light incident side; and a housing houses the image pickup optical system, in which the image pickup optical system includes an aperture stop, and an optical systems A and B, which are arranged on an image side of aperture stop to be selectively placed in an optical path of image pickup optical system, the optical systems A and B having mutually different optical characteristics, and in which the housing separates a medium outside of housing and an inside of housing, and in which the image pickup apparatus further includes a switching unit selectively places one of optical systems A and B in optical path of image pickup optical system depending on a medium outside housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20160288862
    Abstract: A front wheel supporting frame structure of a saddle-ride vehicle includes a main frame, upper and lower arms and a lower frame. The main frame has a front portion and a rear portion. The main frame includes an upper connection portion, a lower connection portion, and an extending portion. The extending portion extends downward. The upper arm has an upper front end portion and an upper rear end portion. The upper rear end portion is movably connected to the upper connection portion. The lower arm has a lower front end portion and a lower rear end portion. The lower rear end portion of is movably connected to the lower connection portion. The lower frame includes a bottom portion and an upright portion. The bottom portion extends in the vehicle front-rear direction. The upright portion has a top portion connected to the extending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji AOKI, Daisuke KURAMOCHI, Tatsuya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160288868
    Abstract: A cushion member is swingable with respect to a main frame about a fourth rotation axis to be expanded and compressed according to a movement of a front wheel. A first arm is swingable with respect to a front fork supporting member about a fifth rotation axis and with respect to the main frame about a sixth rotation axis. A second arm is swingable with respect to the front fork supporting member about a seventh rotation axis, with respect to the cushion member about an eighth rotation axis, and with respect to the main frame about a ninth rotation axis. The fourth to ninth rotation axes are substantially parallel to one another. The fourth rotation axis is provided to be substantially perpendicular to a plane including a second rotation axis about which the front fork is turnable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AOKI
  • Patent number: 9415691
    Abstract: An electric vehicle can include a power unit including a speed reduction device coupled to a motor output shaft. Two systems can be provided which are a drive-power transmission path to transmit rotation of a motor to a wheel hub, and a regenerative-power transmission path to transmit rotation of the hub to the motor. A drive-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a second internal gear being the final-stage gear in the drive-power transmission path and is configured to transmit rotation of the drive-side final-stage gear to the hub. A regeneration-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a regeneration-side first-stage gear and is configured to transmit rotation of the hub to the regeneration-side first-stage gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Murakami, Tsutomu Yoshino, Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9332207
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes an information display portion disposed on a housing provided forwardly of a driver's seat. The information display portion has a display screen disposed in opposed relationship to the driver's seat. The display device further includes a holder unit disposed rearwardly of the housing in opposed relationship with the information display portion, and a mobile terminal detachably retained between the holder unit and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Nakayama, Yoshimitsu Ishida, Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9243574
    Abstract: To prevent a reduction in engine load detection accuracy due to variations in reluctor size within mass production tolerances, an engine control unit includes a pulse generator PC that detects a reluctor to output crank pulses. An angular velocity calculating unit calculates a first crank angular velocity on the basis of an interval between two crank pulses output in a predetermined section near compression top dead center TDC, and detects near overlap top dead center OLP the same reluctor used for calculating the first crank angular velocity to calculate a second crank angular velocity on the basis of an interval between generated two crank pulses. An engine load estimating unit calculates, as an engine load, a difference between the first crank angular velocity and the second crank angular velocity. The engine load is indicated mean effective pressure over a whole cycle including negative work done by the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nishida, Tetsuya Kaneko, Tomiyuki Sasaki, Koji Aoki, Ranju Imao, Kazuto Fukuzawa
  • Publication number: 20160018477
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor using a thin-film field effect transistor configured to control sensitivity appropriately includes a semiconductor film, a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a first hall electrode, and a second hall electrode, in which a drain current passes through a channel region of the semiconductor film between the drain electrode and the source electrode according to a drain voltage applied to the drain electrode and a gate voltage applied to the gate electrode. A hall voltage is generated between the first hall electrode and the second hall electrode according to the drain current and a magnetic field present in the channel region. The gate voltage applied to the gate electrode is substantially higher than a threshold voltage and outside a low voltage range that is substantially lower than the threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Tokuro OZAWA, Chih-Che KUO, Koji AOKI, Mutsumi KIMURA, Takaaki MATSUMOTO, Akito YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9218057
    Abstract: A vehicular display system includes a mobile device having a mobile display part and adapted to be disposed in a predetermined position in a vehicle. The mobile display part is configured to display contents such that at least one of a display size and a display position of each of the contents is changed in accordance with positions of eyes of a driver sitting on a driver's seat in the vehicle with respect to a reference position in the vehicle. Preferably, the mobile device has an imaging unit for picking up an image and recognizes the positions of the driver's eyes and the reference position from the image picked up by the imaging unit. The vehicular display system may further include a vehicle on-board unit fixedly mounted in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Aoki, Yoshimitsu Ishida, Masaru Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9216660
    Abstract: An electrically driven vehicle includes a first electric motor, a second electric motor, a first power drive device, a second power drive device, a first heat sink, a second heat sink, a baffle member, a first air guide passage, and a second air guide passage. The baffle member closes a space defined between the first power drive device and the second power drive device at a first end and a second end of the space. The first air guide passage houses the first heat sink. The first air guide passage is provided between a first partition wall and the first power drive device. The second air guide passage houses the second heat sink. The second air guide passage is provided between the first partition wall and the second power drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takamura, Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9152290
    Abstract: A touch-screen system including a stylus, a display panel and a touch module is disclosed herein. The stylus includes a magnetic component. The touch-sensing module is disposed within the display panel. The touch-sensing module includes a plurality of sensing units distributed at different locations as an array over the display panel. Each of the sensing units includes a Hall induction plate for sensing a magnetic field established by the magnetic component and forming an induction output voltage. The touch module detects a touch position of the stylus according to the induction output voltages from the sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Wei Chang, Yu-Jung Liu, Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20150280109
    Abstract: A sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, a first detection electrode and a second detection electrode, and at least one conductive pattern. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed at opposite ends of the semiconductor layer. The first detection electrode and the second detection electrode are disposed at the other opposite ends of the semiconductor layer, wherein a virtual connection line is provided through the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. The at least one conductive pattern is disposed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the conductive pattern does not overlap with the virtual connection line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki, Chia-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 9143130
    Abstract: There is provided an integrated circuit having a plurality of circuit blocks. An acquisition unit acquires a request of a reset operation for at least one of the plurality of circuit blocks. A determination unit determines, based on constraining condition information indicating whether or not a reset target circuit block can perform the reset operation simultaneously with another circuit block in which the reset operation is underway, whether or not to instruct the reset target circuit block to perform the reset operation according to the request. An instruction unit instructs the reset target circuit block to start the reset operation according to the request when the determination unit determines to instruct the reset target circuit block to perform the reset operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9126483
    Abstract: A vehicular display system includes a vehicle on-board unit having a vehicular display part, and a mobile device having a mobile display part. The vehicular display part is fixedly mounted on a vehicle and configured to display vehicular information including at least a vehicle speed. The mobile display part is configured to display the vehicular information including the vehicle speed when the mobile device is set in position between a driver of the vehicle and the vehicular display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Aoki, Yoshimitsu Ishida, Masaru Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20150237059
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detector that detects an attack performed via a communication line, and a changing unit that changes a current attacked address of the information processing apparatus to an address different from the current attacked address if the attack is detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20150185493
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; and a rear lens unit including at least one lens unit. In the zoom lens, an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, at least a part of the second lens unit is a correction lens unit rotatable during image blur correction with one point located on an optical axis or near the optical axis as a center of rotation located closer to the image side than an intersection between the optical axis and a lens surface of the correction lens unit closest to the object side, and a distance in a direction of the optical axis from the intersection to the center of rotation and a thickness of the correction lens unit on the optical axis are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Koji Aoki