Patents by Inventor Shotaro Horikoshi

Shotaro Horikoshi 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: 11179977
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (30) includes a data acquisition portion (101) that acquires data indicating a tire pressure and a tire temperature of the tire, from a sensor (50FL), a sensor (50FR), a sensor (50RL), and a sensor (50RR) mounted to the tire; a puncture determination portion (103) that determines whether the tire is punctured, based on a puncture determination threshold defined by a relationship between the tire pressure and the tire temperature; and a warning processing portion (105) that generates a warning indicating that the tire is punctured apart from a warning of a drop of the tire pressure when the puncture determination portion (103) determines that the tire is punctured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shotaro Horikoshi
  • Publication number: 20200215859
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (30) includes a data acquisition portion (101) that acquires data indicating a tire pressure and a tire temperature of the tire, from a sensor (50FL), a sensor (50FR), a sensor (50RL), and a sensor (50RR) mounted to the tire; a puncture determination portion (103) that determines whether the tire is punctured, based on a puncture determination threshold defined by a relationship between the tire pressure and the tire temperature; and a warning processing portion (105) that generates a warning indicating that the tire is punctured apart from a warning of a drop of the tire pressure when the puncture determination portion (103) determines that the tire is punctured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shotaro HORIKOSHI
  • Patent number: 9561695
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire internal pressure warning system, comprising: an internal pressure data acquisition apparatus for obtaining data of internal pressure of each tire 5 of a vehicle 6 (a TPMS sensor transmitter 1 and a TPMS receiver 2); and an information terminal device 3 for determining whether there is a puncture-based failure or a failure resulting from a natural pressure drop, based on a change in the internal pressure of each tire received from the TPMS receiver 2, and displaying a warning in accordance with the failure condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Horikoshi, Kazuma Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20150239307
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire internal pressure warning system, comprising: an internal pressure data acquisition apparatus for obtaining data of internal pressure of each tire 5 of a vehicle 6 (a TPMS sensor transmitter 1 and a TPMS receiver 2); and an information terminal device 3 for determining whether there is a puncture-based failure or a failure resulting from a natural pressure drop, based on a change in the internal pressure of each tire received from the TPMS receiver 2, and displaying a warning in accordance with the failure condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Horikoshi, Kazuma Nakazawa