Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Fuki

Shinichiro Fuki 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: 11967838
    Abstract: An auxiliary power receiving device includes a power receiving unit, a notification unit, and a notification controlling unit. The power receiving unit receives power from a power transfer signal, which is used to supply power from a power transmitting device to a power receiving device. The notification unit may be provided on a main surface of a plate-shaped member. The notification controlling unit controls a notification performed by the notification unit in accordance with a power reception condition of the power transfer signal at the power receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakai, Shinichiro Fuki, Teppei Abe, Shigeo Takeda, Yuki Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 11916409
    Abstract: A power transmitting device includes a power transmission unit using contactless power supply, processing circuitry configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmission unit between a normal output mode and a limit mode, and a transmission-side communication unit configured to execute communication with a power receiving device. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the power receiving device is a registered power receiving device based on information related to the power receiving device obtained from the transmission-side communication unit, determine whether the registered power receiving device is located inside a power transmission range of the power transmission unit, set the power transmission mode to the normal output mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is located inside the range, and set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is not located inside the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugihara, Shinichiro Fuki, Kazuhito Kawamura, Yuki Tokuyama
  • Publication number: 20230318357
    Abstract: A charger includes a power receiving unit, a power storage unit, and a power transmission unit. The power receiving unit is configured to receive, through wireless power supply via radio waves, power transmitted from a power transmitting device disposed in a vehicle. The power storage unit is configured to be supplied and charged with the power received by the power receiving unit. The power transmission unit is configured to transmit, through wireless power supply via electromagnetic induction, the power stored in the power storage unit to an electrical device that is to be charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Teppei ABE, Shinichiro FUKI, Tomokazu SAKAI, Shigeo TAKEDA, Yuki TOKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230291245
    Abstract: A power transmitting device includes a power transmission unit using contactless power supply, processing circuitry configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmission unit between a normal output mode and a limit mode, and a transmission-side communication unit configured to execute communication with a power receiving device. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the power receiving device is a registered power receiving device based on information related to the power receiving device obtained from the transmission-side communication unit, determine whether the registered power receiving device is located inside a power transmission range of the power transmission unit, set the power transmission mode to the normal output mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is located inside the range, and set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is not located inside the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGIHARA, Shinichiro FUKI, Kazuhito KAWAMURA, Yuki TOKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230283113
    Abstract: A power receiving device includes a power receiving antenna, a rectifier circuit, and a bias circuit. The power receiving antenna is configured to receive radio waves for supplying power. The rectifier circuit includes a rectifier diode and is configured to convert radio waves received by the power receiving antenna into a DC power. The bias circuit is configured to apply a DC bias to the rectifier diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki SEKI, Shinichiro FUKI, Teppei YAMAKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20230266806
    Abstract: A power transmitting device includes a power transmitting unit configured to perform power transmission to the power receiving device through contactless power supply, and a memory unit that stores appropriate power supply information, and processing circuitry that is configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmitting unit. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire power supply information in a surrounding environment at execution of the power transmission, determine whether the power supply information and the appropriate power supply information are different from each other, set the power transmission mode to a limit mode when determining that the power supply information and the appropriate power supply information are different from each other, and set the power transmission mode to a normal-output mode when determining that the power supply information and the appropriate power supply information are not different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki TOKUYAMA, Shinichiro FUKI, Teppei ABE, Tomokazu SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230253832
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a power receiving device, a reception-side power storage unit configured to store power received by the power receiving device, a drive unit configured to be activated together with the power receiving device by the power stored in the reception-side power storage unit, a notification unit configured to notify a user of a state of the power in the reception-side power storage unit, a first power measurement unit configured to measure supplied power, a second power measurement unit configured to measure power consumption, and circuitry configured to change a notification mode in the notification unit based on a relationship between the supplied power and the power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGIHARA, Shinichiro FUKI, Yuki TOKUYAMA, Ryo OSAWA, Kazuhito KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230246487
    Abstract: A power transmitting device performs power transmission to a power receiving device. The power receiving device is provided in a space that a person can enter or exit. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting unit, a processing circuitry, and a reception unit. The power transmitting unit is configured to perform power transmission to the power receiving device through contactless power supply. The processing circuitry is configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmitting unit between a normal-output mode and a limit mode in which a transmitted power is more limited than in the normal-output mode. The reception unit is configured to receive a limit instruction for the power transmission given by the person. The processing circuitry is configured to set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when the reception unit receives the limit instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki TOKUYAMA, Shinichiro FUKI, Tomokazu SAKAI, Atsushi SUGIHARA, Kazuhito KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230246482
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes one or more power receiving devices, a power transmitting device, and a determining unit. The power receiving devices each include a transmitting unit and a power receiving unit. The power transmitting device includes a receiving unit and a power supplying unit. The determining unit is configured to determine, based on a prevention condition information that represents a prevention condition, whether the power receiving device that has transmitted the beacon signal satisfies the prevention condition. The power received by the power receiving device is prevented from increasing when the prevention condition is satisfied. The power supplying unit is configured to reduce power supply to the power receiving device that satisfies the prevention condition based on a determination result of the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki TOKUYAMA, Shinichiro FUKI, Atsushi SUGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230208207
    Abstract: An auxiliary power receiving device includes a power receiving unit configured to receive power from a power transfer signal, which is used to supply power from a power transmitting device to a power receiving device, a notification unit configured to be provided on a main surface of a plate-shaped member, and a notification controlling unit configured to control a notification performed by the notification unit in accordance with a power reception condition of the power transfer signal at the power receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tomokazu SAKAI, Shinichiro FUKI, Teppei ABE, Shigeo TAKEDA, Yuki TOKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230208168
    Abstract: A power transmitting device is configured to perform contactless power supply using a power transfer signal to a power receiving device that supplies power to a power supply target. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting antenna, a region indicator unit, and processing circuitry. The power transmitting antenna is configured to transmit a power transfer signal to the power receiving device. The region indicator unit emits a visible beam. Based on a transmitted power that is transmitted as the power transfer signal, the processing circuitry derives a power receivable region, in which the power receiving device is capable of receiving the power transfer signal as a received power greater than or equal to a specified threshold. The processing circuitry uses the region indicator unit to emit the visible beam toward at least a part of the power receivable region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGIHARA, Shinichiro FUKI, Yuki TOKUYAMA, Tomokazu SAKAI, Takahiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20230208199
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes power receiving devices, a power transmitting device, and a determining unit. The power receiving devices each include a transmitting unit and a power receiving unit. The power transmitting device includes a receiving unit and a power supplying unit. Efficiency condition information is defined that includes an efficiency condition that indicates that the power transmitting device can transmit power to a power receiving device efficiently. The determining unit is configured to determine, based on the efficiency condition information, the power receiving device that satisfies the efficiency condition as the power receiving device to which the power transmitting device transmits power, among the power receiving devices from which the receiving unit has received the beacon signals. The power supplying unit is configured to supply power to the power receiving device that has been determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Teppei ABE, Shinichiro FUKI, Tomokazu SAKAI, Shigeo TAKEDA, Yuki TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11050299
    Abstract: A wireless power feeder includes a power feeding circuit, two or more power receiving circuits, and an electromagnetic field coupling circuit. Each power receiving circuit includes a resonant circuit having a load, a power receiving coil, and a capacitor connected in series to each other. The power feeding circuit includes a resonant circuit having a power feeding coil and a capacitor connected in series to the power feeding coil. The power feeding coil includes surrounding portions equal in number to the power receiving coils. The surrounding portions are disposed such that one surrounding portion surrounds one power receiving coil. Adjacent surrounding portions are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Kanto, Shinichiro Fuki
  • Publication number: 20190273401
    Abstract: A wireless power feeder includes a power feeding circuit, two or more power receiving circuits, and an electromagnetic field coupling circuit. Each power receiving circuit includes a resonant circuit having a load, a power receiving coil, and a capacitor connected in series to each other. The power feeding circuit includes a resonant circuit having a power feeding coil and a capacitor connected in series to the power feeding coil. The power feeding coil includes surrounding portions equal in number to the power receiving coils. The surrounding portions are disposed such that one surrounding portion surrounds one power receiving coil. Adjacent surrounding portions are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Toru KANTO, Shinichiro FUKI
  • Patent number: 10272869
    Abstract: A light emitting display device, which is applied to a vehicle provided with an airbag device having an airbag accommodated in a folded state and an airbag cover with a shape of covering a vehicle interior of the airbag, the light emitting display device includes: a light emitting display part provided to the airbag cover, the light emitting display part configured to emit light using supplied power; a power feeding device including a power reception coil and a power transmission coil, the power feeding device configured to supply power to the light emitting display part in a non-contact manner, wherein: the power reception coil is provided to the airbag cover in a state of being integrated with the light emitting display part; and the power transmission coil is arranged at a position out of a range, in which the airbag is deployed, when the airbag device is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Kanto, Shinichiro Fuki, Yuji Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20180278094
    Abstract: Provided is a console box that realizes power feeding to a power receiving device (that allows a power receiving device to receive power). A console box 1 of the present invention includes: a box body 2 having a bottom portion 20, and a tubular wall portion 21 standing from a surface of the bottom portion 20; and a coil 3 provided at the box body 2, implemented by a conductive wire 30 wound along a peripheral direction of the wall portion 21, and forming an electromagnetic resonance field when being energized according to a predetermined condition. In the console box 1 of the present invention, power feeding of a resonance type is performed, and thus, wireless power feeding is realized in a console box where, in the case of a conventional electromagnetic-induction-type wireless power feeding, a power feeding device is difficult to be installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Toru KANTO, Shinichiro FUKI, Minoru SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10005420
    Abstract: An inflator includes an inflator body that produces an inflation gas by burning a gas generating agent and a sensor that is mounted on the inflator body and is capable of detecting a degradation of the gas generating agent. The sensor is preferably composed of at least either one of a gas sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshio Ono, Keisuke Mori, Shinichiro Fuki
  • Patent number: 9908463
    Abstract: A storage device includes a storage body having an opening and a lid for selectively opening and closing the opening of the storage body. The storage body has a light emitter and a power receiving portion connected to the light emitter. The lid has a power supplying portion, which is configured to supply power to the power receiving portion by the direct current resonance method. The light emitter emits light to interior of the storage body at a first luminance when the opening is closed by the lid. When the lid opens the opening so that the distance between the power receiving portion and the power supplying portion is reduced, the light emitter changes the luminance to a second luminance, which is different from the first luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Shinichiro Fuki, Jiyun Paku, Satomi Akehi
  • Publication number: 20170369022
    Abstract: A light emitting display device, which is applied to a vehicle provided with an airbag device having an airbag accommodated in a folded state and an airbag cover with a shape of covering a vehicle interior of the airbag, the light emitting display device includes: a light emitting display part provided to the airbag cover, the light emitting display part configured to emit light using supplied power; a power feeding device including a power reception coil and a power transmission coil, the power feeding device configured to supply power to the light emitting display part in a non-contact manner, wherein: the power reception coil is provided to the airbag cover in a state of being integrated with the light emitting display part; and the power transmission coil is arranged at a position out of a range, in which the airbag is deployed, when the airbag device is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Toru KANTO, Shinichiro FUKI, Yuji KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170088090
    Abstract: An inflator includes an inflator body that produces an inflation gas by burning a gas generating agent and a sensor that is mounted on the inflator body and is capable of detecting a degradation of the gas generating agent. The sensor is preferably composed of at least either one of a gas sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto SATO, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshio ONO, Keisuke MORI, Shinichiro FUKI