Patents by Inventor Takashi Hasegawa

Takashi Hasegawa 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).

  • Variable force limiter control system for vehicle
    Patent number: 10668895
    Abstract: A variable force limiter control system for a vehicle includes a variable force limiter mechanism, a relative speed sensor, an acceleration sensor and an electronic control unit. The variable force limiter mechanism is configured to change a force limiter load. The relative speed sensor is configured to detect a relative speed of the vehicle with respect to a collision object before a collision. The acceleration sensor is configured to detect an acceleration of the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to predict a severity of a collision on the basis of at least the relative speed. The electronic control unit is configured to control the force limiter load on the basis of both the predicted severity and the acceleration in an initial stage of the collision of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jiro Ohachi, Takuya Nezaki, Takashi Hasegawa, Katsunori Yamada, Mitsuaki Gotoh, Makoto Aki, Yusuke Mase, Takashi Fujinami
  • Mobile terminal device and input device
    Patent number: 10671276
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a display section having a display screen, an input section having a touch input region on the display screen, and a control section for displaying a plurality of keys. The display screen is provided as a software keyboard where a touch operation on a specific key causes an input of the specific key. In the specific display region on the display screen that can display operation keys on the software keyboard, the control section selects these keys from a previously prepared set of input candidate key groups. In response to a specific operation on the specific display region, the control section allows the plurality of keys to be displayed on the specific display region. In response to touch on a desired key in the specific display region, the control section determines that an input of the key has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kondo, Takashi Hasegawa, Tatsuhiko Nishimura, Daisuke Matsui, Masatoshi Inagawa, Tetsuro Inukai
  • COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200162617
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of terminal apparatuses including a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus. The first terminal apparatus includes one or more peripheral devices, each being configured to receive an input of at least one of image data and audio data, and first circuitry configured to transmit, to the second terminal apparatus, information regarding a user of the first terminal apparatus. The second terminal apparatus includes second circuitry configured to output the at least one of the image data and the audio data received from the first terminal apparatus, and receive the information regarding the user from the first terminal apparatus. The second circuitry displays information regarding the one or more peripheral devices that the first terminal apparatus includes identified based on the received information regarding the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: TAKASHI HASEGAWA
  • Power storage device
    Patent number: 10658636
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a plurality of battery modules, a rack for arranging and housing the plurality of battery modules, and a wall plate attached so as to close a back side-surface of the rack. The wall plate is transparent at least in part and is provided facing the connector terminal detachably connected to the battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Geshi, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Occupant restraining device for vehicle
    Patent number: 10647281
    Abstract: An occupant restraining device for a vehicle has: a time to collision estimating section that estimates a time to collision, the time to collision being a time until a front collision with a vehicle ahead; a force imparting portion that imparts force toward a vehicle rear side to a vehicle occupant of an own vehicle; a gap enlarging portion that enlarges a gap between the vehicle occupant and a seatback of a vehicle seat; a gap estimating section that estimates a size of the gap between the vehicle occupant and the seatback; and a control section that, in a case in which the gap enlarging portion operates, controls a timing of a start of operation of the force imparting portion on the basis of the time to collision estimated by the time to collision estimating section and the size of the gap estimated by the gap estimating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Hasegawa
  • CAMERA AND CAMERA ACCESSORY
    Publication number: 20200142286
    Abstract: The camera side mount is brought, by relative rotation with the accessory side mount, from a first state where each accessory side bayonet claw is inserted between the camera side bayonet claws into a second state where the camera side and accessory side bayonet claws engage with each other. The leaf spring biasing the camera side contact pins in the protruding direction is disposed between the camera side mount and the camera body. When the camera being in the normal position is viewed from the direction facing the camera side mount, the leaf spring extends from both sides of the mount center line, which extends from the center of the camera side mount in the direction of gravity, toward the camera side contact pins. The camera side contact pins are arranged at positions other than a position on the mount center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Azusa Sugawara
  • COLLISION AVOIDANCE ASSIST APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200062248
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus is configured to perform a collision avoidance assist operation for avoiding a collision between a moving body and an object if a time to collision, which is a time for the moving body to collide with the object that is around the moving body, is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. The collision avoidance assist apparatus is provided with a threshold value changer configured to reduce the predetermined threshold value when an angle made by a straight line in a direction of travel of the moving body and by a straight line in a direction of travel of the object is greater than a predetermined angle, in comparison with when the angle made is less than the predetermined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi HASEGAWA, Toshinori Okita, Kazuya Saimura, Yosuke Yamada
  • COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, LOG DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200067992
    Abstract: A communication terminal that receives at least one of image data and audio data from at least one other communication terminal via a network, the communication terminal including circuitry to generate log data in response to occurrence of an event at the communication terminal, and transmit the generated log data to an accumulation apparatus each time the event occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO TERAYAMA, KENICHIRO MORITA, TATSUYA NAGASE, TAKASHI HASEGAWA, SHOICHIRO KANEMATSU, YOSHIKAZU GOTO
  • COLLISION AVOIDANCE ASSIST APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200066161
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine whether or not one lane on which a host vehicle drives is inner than another lane that extends along the one lane and that a moving body exists, in a curve section, if there is the curve section ahead in a travel direction of the host vehicle; and a changer configured to change an operating condition for a collision avoidance operation such that a first condition, which is the operating condition in a first case in which it is determined that the one lane is not inner than the other lane in the curve section, is more easily satisfied than a second condition, which is the operating condition in a second case in which it is determined that the one lane is inner than the other lane in the curve section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi HASEGAWA, Yuji YOSHIOKA
  • Occupant restraining device for vehicle
    Patent number: 10562490
    Abstract: The occupant restraining device for a vehicle has a seatbelt, a collision predicting sensor, a braking device that enlarges a gap between a vehicle occupant and a seatback of a vehicle seat, an explosive-type pretensioner and electric motor that retract the seatbelt, and a control section that, in a case in which a front collision of the vehicle is sensed in advance by the collision predicting sensor, enlarges the gap between the vehicle occupant and the seatback by the braking device and starts retracting of the seatbelt by the explosive-type pretensioner and the electric motor, and at least until forward movement of the vehicle occupant starts after occurrence of the front collision, continues to input load to the vehicle occupant from the seatbelt and continues to move the vehicle occupant toward a vehicle rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Goto, Takashi Hasegawa, Katsunori Yamada
  • BINDER FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE
    Publication number: 20200044254
    Abstract: A water-based binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode, includes a crosslinked polymer having a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, and the crosslinked polymer includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; and a structural unit derived from a macromonomer including at least one compositional monomer selected from compounds represented by following formula (1): [C1] H2C?CR1—X??formula (1) wherein in formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen or a methyl group; X represents C(?O)OR2 or CN; and R2 represents a straight chain or branched C1-C8 alkyl group or a C3-C8 alkyl group having an alicyclic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicants: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiko SAITO, Takashi HASEGAWA, Atsushi NISHIWAKI, Hideo MATSUZAKI, Nobuhiro SAKITANI, Sho URATA, Takaharu MORIKAWA
  • Remote communication system, communication terminal, and extended function providing method
    Patent number: 10554732
    Abstract: A remote communication system includes: a first communication terminal configured to establish a call session for transmitting and receiving at least a voice with a target communication terminal, and to communicate with the target communication terminal; and a second communication terminal configured to participate in the call session. The second communication terminal provides a given function that is not limited to a telephone call to one of the first communication terminal and the target communication terminal, in response to a request from one of a user of the second communication terminal, the first communication terminal, and the target communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Hideki Shiro, Takashi Hasegawa, Takeshi Fujita
  • Camera accessory and camera
    Patent number: 10545393
    Abstract: The camera accessory is attachable to a camera by relatively rotating from a first state to a second state. Camera side contact pins include a first camera side contact pin making contact with an accessory side contact holding portion in the first state and second camera side contact pins not making contact with the accessory side contact holding portion in the first state. Accessory side contact surfaces include a first accessory side contact surface making contact with the first camera side contact pin in the second state and second accessory side contact surfaces not making contact with the first camera side contact pin in the second state. A pitch between the first and second accessory side contact surfaces adjacent thereto is larger than a pitch between the second accessory side contact surfaces adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Conductive wire welding method, stator, and high-frequency induction heating device
    Patent number: 10543563
    Abstract: A conductive wire welded structure of which a stator is composed can be obtained using a conductive wire welding method in which a plurality of conductive wires are welded together using a high-frequency induction heating device. This conductive wire welding method involves performing a disposition step in which a plurality of conductive wires are made to intersect and the end of at least one of the conductive wires is disposed at a location that is extended from an intersection portion, and a welding step in which the end of the at least one conductive wire that is at a location extended from the intersection portion is welded outside an induction heating coil by induction heating, and the welded material thereof is solidified at the intersection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Minoru Ohta, Toru Koseki, Takashi Hasegawa, Yoshihide Ochi
  • Storage cell and power storage device in which same is used
    Patent number: 10529962
    Abstract: A storage cell includes a battery module including a plurality of unit cells; a case for housing the battery module; and a connector installed on a side-wall of the case and electrically connected to the unit cells constituting the battery module. By providing a part of the case with a cut-away portion, a connector housing space is formed. The connector protrudes from a cut-away side-wall that defines a connector housing space and is located in the connector housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hasegawa
  • Camera and camera accessory
    Patent number: 10527912
    Abstract: The camera side mount is brought, by relative rotation with the accessory side mount, from a first state where each accessory side bayonet claw is inserted between the camera side bayonet claws into a second state where the camera side and accessory side bayonet claws engage with each other. The leaf spring biasing the camera side contact pins in the protruding direction is disposed between the camera side mount and the camera body. When the camera being in the normal position is viewed from the direction facing the camera side mount, the leaf spring extends from both sides of the mount center line, which extends from the center of the camera side mount in the direction of gravity, toward the camera side contact pins. The camera side contact pins are arranged at positions other than a position on the mount center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Azusa Sugawara
  • NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, MICROCOMPUTER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190392903
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory device 10 includes a first memory cell array MA1 in which a plurality of non-volatile memory cells are arranged, a first driver circuit DRC1, a first read/write circuit RWC1 that writes and reads out data, a second memory cell array MA2 in which a plurality of non-volatile memory cells having the same structure as the memory cells of the first memory cell array are arranged, a second driver circuit DRC2, and a second read/write circuit RWC2 that writes and reads out data. The first driver circuit DRC1 performs an erase operation in units of bytes on the first memory cell array MA1, and the second driver circuit DRC2 performs an erase operation in units of blocks, a block being larger than a byte, on the second memory cell array MA2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MIYAZAKI, Masaki SHODA, Takashi HASEGAWA
  • RACK TYPE POWER SOURCE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190372068
    Abstract: A rack type power source device includes a plurality of battery packs, a rack to house the plurality of battery packs being arranged, and a connector plate fixed to the rack at a far side in a direction in which the battery packs are inserted into the rack. The connector plate is provided with a plurality of connectors designed to be electrically connected to terminals of the plurality of battery packs. The connector plate includes a side wall that constitutes a part of a first-side wall of the rack, and a connector mount wall disposed at an inner position in the rack so as to form a depth difference from the side wall. The connector mount wall is provided with the plurality of connectors arranged corresponding to the battery packs housed in the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: KEISUKE NAITO, TAKASHI HASEGAWA
  • Tobacco Mousse
    Publication number: 20190343168
    Abstract: A foam includes a tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or an inhalable agent, an aerosol forming agent, a foam stabilizing agent, and a foam forming agent. In one embodiment, a weight of the tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or the inhalable agent is 0.1-33 wt.-% of a weight of the foam, and a weight of the aerosol forming agent is 10-80 wt. % of the weight of the foam. In another embodiment, the foam forming agent is a non-protein contain polysaccharide and a weight of the foam forming agent is less than 20 wt.-% of the foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Michael Plattner, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Network camera
    Patent number: D872790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Toshiaki Sakamoto