Patents by Inventor Shinichiro KOMAKI

Shinichiro KOMAKI 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: 11390191
    Abstract: This vehicle seat control device is provided with a storage unit, a position detection unit, a control unit, and an operation order setting unit. The space on a seat occupied by a passenger sitting in the seat is a sitting passenger-occupied space, and during the execution of an automatic operation, the operation order setting unit is configured to set the operation order such that position adjustments of seat elements operated in the direction of advancing into the sitting passenger-occupied space are started at the same time as, or are started after, the starting of the position adjustments of the seat elements operated in the direction moving away from the sitting passenger-occupied space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuko Tarui, Soichiro Hozumi, Shunsuke Tanaka, Shinichiro Komaki
  • Patent number: 11279261
    Abstract: A vehicle seat adjustment device includes a first adjustment mechanism, a second adjustment mechanism, and a controller. The first adjustment mechanism is moved in a first direction upon driving of a first motor to adjust a position of a vehicle seat. The second adjustment mechanism is moved in both the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction upon driving of a second motor to adjust the position of the vehicle seat. The controller controls and drives the first motor and the second motor. A speed at which the second adjustment mechanism is moved in the first direction is lower than or equal to a speed at which the first adjustment mechanism is moved in the first direction. When the second motor needs to be driven, the controller drives the second motor while driving the first motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Okada, Soichiro Hozumi, Shunsuke Tanaka, Shinichiro Komaki
  • Publication number: 20210276458
    Abstract: A controller, which serves as a pressure-feeding control portion, drives an air pump to pressure-feed air to massage airbags located in a seat. In addition, the controller, which serves as an inflation-deflation control portion, performs massage control that inflates and deflates the airbags while keeping the air pump driven by controlling the operation of intake-discharge valves in second flow passage (branch lines), which connects the air pump to the airbags. Furthermore, the controller, which serves as a decompression control portion, opens a discharge valve, which is located upstream of the intake-discharge valves, in a state in which the airbags are deflated during the massage control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki FUJII, Akiyoshi SHIBATA, Hiroyuki ODA, Shunsuke HAYAKAWA, Shunsuke TANAKA, Shinichiro KOMAKI, Kenji HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200023800
    Abstract: A vehicle seat device includes a reproduction control portion configured to inflate an airbag provided in a seat based on an internal pressure target value, an occupant detection portion configured to detect a seated state in which an occupant is seated on the seat, a body size detection portion configured to detect a size of the occupant, and a correction amount calculation portion configured to calculate, based on the size of the occupant, a correction amount to be used to correct the internal pressure target value in a non-seated state in which the occupant is not seated on the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki FUJII, Akiyoshi SHIBATA, Hiroyuki ODA, Shunsuke HAYAKAWA, Shunsuke TANAKA, Shinichiro KOMAKI, Kenji HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10406939
    Abstract: A pneumatic pressure control method for a vehicle seat includes: repeatedly detecting an internal pressure of a bladder provided inside the vehicle seat at intervals; correcting the internal pressure of the bladder based on a differential pressure between a detection value and a target value; and lengthening a detection interval to detect the internal pressure depending on a time elapsing from starting of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Shibata, Yuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Oda, Shunsuke Hayakawa, Shunsuke Tanaka, Kenji Hashimoto, Shinichiro Komaki
  • Publication number: 20190193592
    Abstract: This vehicle seat control device is provided with a storage unit, a position detection unit, a control unit, and an operation order setting unit. The space on a seat occupied by a passenger sitting in the seat is a sitting passenger-occupied space, and during the execution of an automatic operation, the operation order setting unit is configured to set the operation order such that position adjustments of seat elements operated in the direction of advancing into the sitting passenger-occupied space are started at the same time as, or are started after, the starting of the position adjustments of the seat elements operated in the direction moving away from the sitting passenger-occupied space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuko TARUI, Soichiro HOZUMI, Shunsuke TANAKA, Shinichiro KOMAKI
  • Patent number: 10220755
    Abstract: An air pressure control device of a vehicle seat includes: a bulging shape forming unit configured to form a bulging shape on a seat surface by expanding air bags configured to be provided inside a seat; a bulging shape moving unit configured to move a position of the bulging shape formed on the seat surface by each corresponding air bag by sequentially expanding and contracting a plurality of air bags aligned in a direction along the seat surface in an arrangement direction of the air bags; and a pumping capacity adjusting unit configured to increase a pumping capacity of an air pump that pumps air into each air bag as a protrusion amount of the corresponding bulging shape increases when a formation position of the bulging shape is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Shibata, Yuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Oda, Shunsuke Hayakawa, Shunsuke Tanaka, Shinichiro Komaki, Kenji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170368969
    Abstract: An air pressure control device of a vehicle seat includes: a bulging shape forming unit configured to form a bulging shape on a seat surface by expanding air bags configured to be provided inside a seat; a bulging shape moving unit configured to move a position of the bulging shape formed on the seat surface by each corresponding air bag by sequentially expanding and contracting a plurality of air bags aligned in a direction along the seat surface in an arrangement direction of the air bags; and a pumping capacity adjusting unit configured to increase a pumping capacity of an air pump that pumps air into each air bag as a protrusion amount of the corresponding bulging shape increases when a formation position of the bulging shape is moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyoshi SHIBATA, Yuki FUJII, Hiroyuki ODA, Shunsuke HAYAKAWA, Shunsuke TANAKA, Shinichiro KOMAKI, Kenji HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170274801
    Abstract: A pneumatic pressure control method for a vehicle seat includes: repeatedly detecting an internal pressure of a bladder provided inside the vehicle seat at intervals; correcting the internal pressure of the bladder based on a differential pressure between a detection value and a target value; and lengthening a detection interval to detect the internal pressure depending on a time elapsing from starting of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyoshi SHIBATA, Yuki FUJII, Hiroyuki ODA, Shunsuke HAYAKAWA, Shunsuke TANAKA, Kenji HASHIMOTO, Shinichiro KOMAKI
  • Publication number: 20130313099
    Abstract: An operating switch provided on a vehicle seat includes a first conductive cloth that includes a wire material that is able to carry current, and functions as a touch sensor that detects an input medium approaching or contacting with the conductive cloth, a second conductive cloth provided below the first conductive cloth and capable of absorbing electromagnetic wave, and an insulating cloth inserted between the two conductive cloths. The second conductive cloth absorbs electromagnetic waves, and can prevent malfunction of the first conductive cloth that functions as a touch sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro KOMAKI, Hiroshi MURAHATA
  • Patent number: 8535080
    Abstract: The invention provides a connector including first and second conductive parts and a biasing device. The first and second conductive parts are opposed to each other so as to hold a flexible electric conductor therebetween. The first conductive part includes a locking hole or locking recess, and the second conductive part includes a locking projection of pointed shape. The locking projection is configured to pass through the electric conductor and be received in the locking hole or locking recess when the first and second conductive parts hold the electric conductor. The biasing device includes a clamp of generally C shape to hold the first and second conductive parts holding the electric conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Nakatsuji, Masao Tada, Shinichiro Komaki, Akihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8529281
    Abstract: The invention provides a connector including first and second beams, first and second conductive plates, and an urging device. The first and second beams extend substantially in parallel with each other and include first and second accommodating recesses, respectively. The first and second recesses are opposed to each other and open toward distal end sides of the first and second beams. The first and second conductive plates are to be accommodated in the first and second accommodating recesses, respectively, and removably insertable from the distal end sides into the first and second accommodating recesses, respectively. The urging device urges the first and second conductive plates in directions close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Nakatsuji, Masao Tada, Shinichiro Komaki, Akihiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120208389
    Abstract: The invention provides a connector including first and second conductive parts and a biasing device. The first and second conductive parts are opposed to each other so as to hold a flexible electric conductor therebetween. The first conductive part includes a locking hole or locking recess, and the second conductive part includes a locking projection of pointed shape. The locking projection is configured to pass through the electric conductor and be received in the locking hole or locking recess when the first and second conductive parts hold the electric conductor. The biasing device includes a clamp of generally C shape to hold the first and second conductive parts holding the electric conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicants: HOSIDEN CORPORATION, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro NAKATSUJI, Masao TADA, Shinichiro KOMAKI, Akihiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20120196468
    Abstract: The invention provides a connector including first and second beams, first and second conductive plates, and an urging device. The first and second beams extend substantially in parallel with each other and include first and second accommodating recesses, respectively. The first and second recesses are opposed to each other and open toward distal end sides of the first and second beams. The first and second conductive plates are to be accommodated in the first and second accommodating recesses, respectively, and removably insertable from the distal end sides into the first and second accommodating recesses, respectively. The urging device urges the first and second conductive plates in directions close to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicants: HOSIDEN CORPORATION, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro NAKATSUJI, Masao TADA, Shinichiro KOMAKI, Akihiro TANAKA