Patents by Inventor Susumu Kaneko

Susumu Kaneko 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).

  • Publication number: 20240055930
    Abstract: In an electronic control device E1 according to the present invention, a first board 50 and a second board 60 are connected to each other via connection members 801, 802. Thus, with the connection members 801, 801, it is possible to fix the first board 50 and the second board 60 without sacrificing areas for mounting electronic components on the first board 50 and the second board 60. Accordingly, it is possible to ensure sufficient mounting areas on the first board 50 and the second board 60, which contributes to downsizing the electronic control device E1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SATO, Kohtaro SHIINO, Yuichi YANAGISAWA, Susumu KANEKO, Masao FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11900835
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes at least one display panel arranged on a vehicle body of a vehicle and configured to display an image, and a display control unit configured to control display of the image. The display panel includes a movable portion provided on the vehicle body, and the display control unit includes an image control unit configured to control a display form of an image when the movable portion is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Takeda, Susumu Kaneko, Yoshiro Ito, Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11511661
    Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes: a housing that is configured to be attached to a vehicle; and a first light source and a second light source that are provided in the housing to emit light having main wavelengths in mutually different wavelength ranges. The first light source emits light having a main wavelength in 490 nm-498 nm while the vehicle is being automatically driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Watanabe, Susumu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220013045
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes at least one display panel arranged on a vehicle body of a vehicle and configured to display an image, and a display control unit configured to control display of the image. The display panel includes a movable portion provided on the vehicle body, and the display control unit includes an image control unit configured to control a display form of an image when the movable portion is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Takeda, Susumu Kaneko, Yoshiro Ito, Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20220009406
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system (4) comprising: a road surface drawing lamp (42) configured so as to emit light toward an object such as the ground surface or a wall in the surroundings of a vehicle (1), thereby drawing prescribed information as a road surface drawing; a brightness sensor (45) that can measure the brightness of the surroundings of the vehicle (1); and a lamp control unit (43) that controls the road surface drawing lamp (42), wherein when the brightness measured by the brightness sensor (45) exceeds a prescribed brightness, the lamp control unit (43) displays the prescribed information on a vehicle-exterior display unit (46) that can display the prescribed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki HARADA, Susumu KANEKO, Hajime TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 11173886
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device includes: a plurality of coil assembles each including a coil bobbin, and a yoke which has a cylindrical shape, and which receives the coil bobbin; a case including a bottom wall, and receiving the coil assemblies arranged on one side of the bottom wall; a wall portion protruding from an end surface of the coil bobbin in an axial direction of the coil bobbin, within a projection surface obtained by projecting an outer shape of the yoke in the axial direction of the coil bobbin; a first engagement portion provided to the wall portion; and a second engagement portion provided to the case, and arranged to be engaged with the first engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Susumu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210229595
    Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes: a housing that is configured to be attached to a vehicle; and a first light source and a second light source that are provided in the housing to emit light having main wavelengths in mutually different wavelength ranges. The first light source emits light having a main wavelength in 490 nm-498 nm while the vehicle is being automatically driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken WATANABE, Susumu KANEKO
  • Patent number: 10960861
    Abstract: An electronic control device is provided with a hydraulic control block made of an aluminum alloy, a synthetic-resin component holder configured to hold electronic components such as a pressure sensor, and a printed board for controlling driving of hydraulic control apparatus via the component holder. Electrode terminals of the pressure sensor are connected to the printed board, a terminal configuration part of an electroconductive member, which is inserted into an insertion hole of a body wall of the component holder, is connected to a negative electrode wiring of the printed board, and the outer end edge of an elastic contact part of the electroconductive member is brought into elastic-contact with the hydraulic control block, to establish conduction therebetween. Hence, the electric potential difference between the pressure sensor and the hydraulic control block can be canceled, thus reducing an electrical noise of the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kaneko, Takeshi Iizuka, Kazuaki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200166192
    Abstract: A vehicle illumination system includes a road surface drawing lamp configured to draw, as a drawing on a road surface, predetermined information by emitting light toward a target comprising a ground, a wall or the like around a vehicle, an illuminance sensor capable of measuring an illuminance around the vehicle, and a lamp control unit configured to control the road surface drawing lamp. The lamp control unit is configured to control the road surface drawing lamp so that an illuminance of the drawing on the road surface is to be higher than the illuminance measured by the illuminance sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugimoto, Yoshiro Ito, Tomoaki Harada, Susumu Kaneko, Hajime Takeda
  • Patent number: 10375841
    Abstract: Electronic control device has case, circuit board and cover. Case bottom wall section has insertion guide rising up from top surface thereof. Insertion guide has guide hole in top section wall, through which terminal of solenoid coil is inserted, and guide groove surrounding at least three sides of terminal is formed to be continuous with guide hole. Terminal is inserted into insertion hole through guide groove from the bottom section of insertion guide, is guided to guide hole by guide groove, and projects from insertion guide through guide hole. Top section wall and circuit board are adjacent, and through hole is disposed directly above guide hole, thereby terminal projecting from insertion guide is guided to and inserted into through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20190232933
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device includes: a plurality of coil assembles each including a coil bobbin, and a yoke which has a cylindrical shape, and which receives the coil bobbin; a case including a bottom wall, and receiving the coil assemblies arranged on one side of the bottom wall; a wall portion protruding from an end surface of the coil bobbin in an axial direction of the coil bobbin, within a projection surface obtained by projecting an outer shape of the yoke in the axial direction of the coil bobbin; a first engagement portion provided to the wall portion; and a second engagement portion provided to the case, and arranged to be engaged with the first engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Susumu KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20190061714
    Abstract: An electronic control device is provided with a hydraulic control block made of an aluminum alloy, a synthetic-resin component holder configured to hold electronic components such as a pressure sensor, and a printed board for controlling driving of hydraulic control apparatus via the component holder. Electrode terminals of the pressure sensor are connected to the printed board, a terminal configuration part of an electroconductive member, which is inserted into an insertion hole of a body wall of the component holder, is connected to a negative electrode wiring of the printed board, and the outer end edge of an elastic contact part of the electroconductive member is brought into elastic-contact with the hydraulic control block, to establish conduction therebetween. Hence, the electric potential difference between the pressure sensor and the hydraulic control block can be canceled, thus reducing an electrical noise of the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu KANEKO, Takeshi IIZUKA, Kazuaki NAGASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9890920
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a plurality of light sources arranged in a row; and a light guide configured to receive light emitted from the light sources on a rear surface thereof, and emit the light from a front surface thereof. The light guide includes: a base having a rear surface extending in an arrangement direction of the light sources; a plurality of rear surface projections protruding from the rear surface of the base; and a plurality of front surface projections protruding from a front surface of the base. The rear surface projections and the front surface projections are arranged in the arrangement direction to be spaced apart from one another, and are formed in a plurality of projection forming areas, respectively. Each of the front surface projections has a polyhedral shape including a plurality of faces that are successive in a circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kaneko, Kyouhei Akiyama, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180035555
    Abstract: Electronic control device has case, circuit board and cover. Case bottom wall section has insertion guide rising up from top surface thereof. Insertion guide has guide hole in top section wall, through which terminal of solenoid coil is inserted, and guide groove surrounding at least three sides of terminal is formed to be continuous with guide hole. Terminal is inserted into insertion hole through guide groove from the bottom section of insertion guide, is guided to guide hole by guide groove, and projects from insertion guide through guide hole. Top section wall and circuit board are adjacent, and through hole is disposed directly above guide hole, thereby terminal projecting from insertion guide is guided to and inserted into through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Susumu KANEKO
  • Patent number: 9781836
    Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition which contains a polyurethane resin and a curing agent, the polyurethane resin including a constitutional unit derived from an alicyclic diol and having an acid value of 10 to 35 mgKOH/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Iori Hukushima, Tomohiro Hirata, Hidekazu Kondou, Susumu Kaneko, Satoshi Uehara, Yuki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9516769
    Abstract: An electronic control device, comprising: a circuit board on which an electronic component having a heat generating characteristic is mounted; a resin made cabinet housing the circuit board; and a ventilation passage whose one end is opened to an inside of the cabinet and whose other end is opened to an outside of the cabinet to communicate between the inside of the cabinet and the outside of the cabinet, wherein the one end of the ventilation passage is opened to the electronic component having the heat generating characteristic and a standing wall is formed along an outer peripheral edge of the one end opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kaneko, Kazuaki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9411342
    Abstract: An electronic control device has a resin case to which a circuit board having a terminal contact pad is fixed; a hydraulic unit having an electromagnetic solenoid which controls a hydraulic circuit and a pressure sensor which detects a pressure of the hydraulic circuit; a motor post having a current-carrying member which electrically connects a motor and the circuit board and extending from the resin case and inserted in the hydraulic unit; and a fixing member which is provided at the resin case and holds an outer periphery of the pressure sensor. Positioning between the pressure sensor and the terminal contact pad of the circuit board is made by the motor post inserted in the hydraulic unit and fixation of the pressure sensor by the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Nagashima, Susumu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20160084467
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicular lamp. The vehicular lamp includes: a plurality of light sources arranged in a row; a light guide configured to receive light emitted from the light sources on a rear surface thereof, and emit the light from a front surface thereof. The light guide includes: a base having a rear surface extending in an arrangement direction of the light sources; a plurality of rear surface projections protruding from the rear surface of the base; and a plurality of front surface projections protruding from a front surface of the base. The rear surface projections and the front surface projections are arranged in the arrangement direction to be spaced apart from one another, and are formed in a plurality of projection forming areas, respectively. Each of the front surface projections has a polyhedral shape including a plurality of faces that are successive in a circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Susumu Kaneko, Kyouhei Akiyama, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9215823
    Abstract: A busbar member is a unit to be connect with a hydraulic unit. The busbar member includes a base portion, and a surrounding wall which defines a receiving portion formed between the hydraulic unit and the base portion and which is arranged to receive a control section to control the hydraulic unit. The busbar member further includes a connector supporting portion which is formed integrally with the base portion, which projects from the base portion in a form of a cantilever and which is arranged to support a connector, and a bulging portion which is arranged to receive a component of the control section, which projects from the connector supporting portion and which is connected with the surrounding wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kaneko, Kazuaki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20150271933
    Abstract: An electronic control device, comprising: a circuit board on which an electronic component having a heat generating characteristic is mounted; a resin made cabinet housing the circuit board; and a ventilation passage whose one end is opened to an inside of the cabinet and whose other end is opened to an outside of the cabinet to communicate between the inside of the cabinet and the outside of the cabinet, wherein the one end of the ventilation passage is opened to the electronic component having the heat generating characteristic and a standing wall is formed along an outer peripheral edge of the one end opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Susumu KANEKO, Kazuaki NAGASHIMA