Patents by Inventor Takashi Nishioka

Takashi Nishioka 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: 11974837
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a drive unit provided on the base and located on one side of the pump as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; an on-off valve provided on another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; a pressure sensor provided on said another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and packing provided between the on-off valve and the pressure sensor and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Noboru Kohara, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka
  • Patent number: 11969237
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on a surface of the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor that are provided such that the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction and located on one side as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and a first on-off valve and a second on-off valve that are provided such that the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction with reference to the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Noboru Kohara, Kotaro Kitajo, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka, Yoshihiko Sano
  • Patent number: 11929577
    Abstract: A connector capable of maintaining a state of being connected to a power feeding unit is provided. A blood pressure measurement device charging connector includes a main body including: a first member, a second member facing the first member, the second member including a protrusion including an end surface that makes contact with an inner peripheral surface of a pulling cuff provided on an inner peripheral surface of a curler mounted on the blood pressure measurement device, a rotational shaft configured to rotatably couple the first member and the second member, and a biasing member configured to bias the first member and the second member in an approaching direction; and a connection terminal connected to a power feeding terminal provided in the curler, the connection terminal being provided on the second member side in the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Brigham, Takashi Torihama, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka
  • Patent number: 11925444
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes a bag-like pressing cuff wound around a measurement target site of a living body; a back plate arranged on the living body side of the pressing cuff; a bag-like sensing cuff arranged on the living body side of the back plate; a supply device configured to supply a fluid into the cuffs; first guides arranged on the living body side of the pressing cuff and configured to form wrinkles in a direction intersecting the winding direction; and second guides arranged on the living body side of the sensing cuff and configured to form wrinkles in the direction intersecting the winding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nishida, Takanori Nishioka, Yoshihiko Sano, Brian Brigham, Takashi Ono
  • Patent number: 11861952
    Abstract: A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Kishimoto, Takashi Nishioka, Masayuki Sato, Tomoko Nishino, Yuki Murayama, Kazuasa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11814066
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device which can perform an effective warning to occupants of the vehicle in order to avoid collision between one's own vehicle and another vehicle. A driving support device 11 includes: an acoustic device 91; an outside-world information acquisition unit 40; a relative distance measurement unit 201 which measures the relative distance from another vehicle 300 traveling ahead of the vehicle 1 based on the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquisition unit 40; and a music control unit 202 which control music outputted by an acoustic device 91, in which the music control unit 202 modulates the tone of music according to the relative distance, in the case of the relative distance becoming no more than a first predetermined distance D1, in a state of outputting music by the acoustic device 91.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Murayama, Takashi Nishioka, Masayuki Sato, Tomoko Nishino, Kazuasa Suzuki, Yuya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11679779
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takashi Nishioka, Tomoko Nishino, Yuki Murayama, Kazuasa Suzuki, Yuya Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20220309839
    Abstract: A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya KISHIMOTO, Takashi NISHIOKA, Masayuki SATO, Tomoko NISHINO, Yuki MURAYAMA, Kazuasa SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220306141
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device which can perform an effective warning to occupants of the vehicle in order to avoid collision between one's own vehicle and another vehicle. A driving support device 11 includes: an acoustic device 91; an outside-world information acquisition unit 40; a relative distance measurement unit 201 which measures the relative distance from another vehicle 300 traveling ahead of the vehicle 1 based on the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquisition unit 40; and a music control unit 202 which control music outputted by an acoustic device 91, in which the music control unit 202 modulates the tone of music according to the relative distance, in the case of the relative distance becoming no more than a first predetermined distance D1, in a state of outputting music by the acoustic device 91.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki MURAYAMA, Takashi NISHIOKA, Masayuki SATO, Tomoko NISHINO, Kazuasa SUZUKI, Yuya KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220306129
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that assists driving of a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to detect deviation from a dividing line that defines a driving lane of the vehicle when the vehicle travels on a curve; and a control unit configured to control a process for recommending a driving posture to a driver of the vehicle based on an extending direction of the curve and a deviation direction of the dividing line from which the deviation has been detected with respect to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoko NISHINO, Yuki MURAYAMA, Takashi NISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20220266851
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takashi Nishioka, Tomoko Nishino, Yuki Murayama, Kazuasa Suzuki, Yuya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10718425
    Abstract: In a brake device of a transmission, rotation side friction plates are engaged with a cylindrical part of a rotation side holding member, and fixed side friction plates are engaged with a spline part that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of an inner cylindrical part of a fixed side holding member opposed to a cylindrical part of the rotation side holding member. The fixed side holding member includes an inflow oil passage that supplies lubricating oil from the outside to the inside of the radial direction thereof. An annular space communicating with an inflow oil passage is provided on the inside of the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member. Oil discharge holes supplying lubricating oil, which was flowed into the annular space, to the rotation side and fixed side friction plates are provided on the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Tatsuhiko Iwasaki, Norio Iwashita, Tomotaka Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20180340605
    Abstract: In a brake device of a transmission, rotation side friction plates are engaged with a cylindrical part of a rotation side holding member, and fixed side friction plates are engaged with a spline part that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of an inner cylindrical part of a fixed side holding member opposed to a cylindrical part of the rotation side holding member. The fixed side holding member includes an inflow oil passage that supplies lubricating oil from the outside to the inside of the radial direction thereof. An annular space communicating with an inflow oil passage is provided on the inside of the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member. Oil discharge holes supplying lubricating oil, which was flowed into the annular space, to the rotation side and fixed side friction plates are provided on the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Tatsuhiko Iwasaki, Norio Iwashita, Tomotaka Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 9233673
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure electrically generated by a slave cylinder (23) in accordance with an operation amount by a brake pedal (12) is supplied via a VSA system (24) to wheel cylinders (16, 17; 20, 21) provided respectively for wheels. This enables smooth braking by the wheel cylinders (16, 17; 20, 21) by using a brake fluid pressure pressurized by the slave cylinder (23) and including little pulsation. When the VSA system (24) is to individually control the brake fluid pressures supplied respectively to the wheel cylinders (16, 17; 20, 21) to control vehicle behavior, the slave cylinder (23) generates a brake fluid pressure corresponding to a total of the brake fluid pressures required for the wheel cylinders (16, 17; 20, 21). This configuration allows the slave cylinder (23) to generate a brake fluid pressure in just proportion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Ohkubo, Takashi Nishioka
  • Patent number: 8959909
    Abstract: In a brake-by-wire vehicle brake system using a feedback control unit (12a, 12b, 31, 36, 45) for producing a brake fluid pressure according to a brake input, a response restricting unit (26, 39, 48) restricts a response property of the feedback control unit when an extraneous brake fluid control operation is detected. Thereby, the control unit is prevented from excessively reacting to changes in the brake fluid pressure caused by the extraneous brake fluid control operation, and the vehicle brake system can provide a highly responsive property and a resistance to changes in the brake fluid pressure at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Satoshi Matsushita, Hidetoshi Kobori, Naoto Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 8944526
    Abstract: Upon occurrence of a change in the load versus fluid loss property, the braking force for the given brake pedal operation amount is changed so that the vehicle operator is enabled to perceive the change in the load versus fluid loss property. In a vehicle brake system comprising a motor actuated cylinder, wheel cylinders, a stroke sensor for detecting a brake pedal operation amount, a target value setting circuit for setting a target stoke of the motor actuated cylinder, and a fluid pressure compensating circuit for correcting the target stoke upon detection of a deviation between a brake fluid pressure reference value corresponding to the brake pedal operation amount and an actual brake fluid pressure in a direction to reduce the deviation, a stroke limiting circuit restricts a compensation value produced by the fluid pressure compensation circuit according to the brake pedal operation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Satoshi Matsushita, Hidetoshi Kobori, Kunimichi Hatano, Naoto Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 8851579
    Abstract: In a BBW type vehicle brake device, first and second fluid paths that are connected to each other are both connected to a slave cylinder with a simple structure that is equipped with a single fluid pressure chamber, thereby enabling wheel cylinders having two lines to be operated and eliminating the need for a complicated tandem type slave cylinder. When the slave cylinder becomes inoperable due to malfunction of the power supply, by opening first and second master cut valves and closing the communication control valve, braking is carried out by means of brake fluid pressure generated by a master cylinder. In this process, since the interconnection between the first and second fluid paths is blocked by closing the communication control valve, even if the wheel cylinder of one of the brake lines suffers from a liquid leakage malfunction, the other remained brake line is enabled to ensure a braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Ohkubo, Takashi Nishioka, Arata Inoue, Kunimichi Hatano
  • Patent number: 8827377
    Abstract: In a BBW type brake device, if a slave cylinder becomes inoperable, when a master cylinder is operated for the first time, a master cut valve is opened to charge brake fluid into a reservoir of a hydraulic modulator, and since the brake fluid charged into the reservoir is increased in pressure by driving a hydraulic pump when the master cut valve is closed, wheel cylinders are operated. Since the amount of brake fluid on the downstream side relative to the master cut valve is increased by charging the reservoir with brake fluid, it is possible to increase the pressure of the brake fluid of the reservoir by driving the hydraulic pump and generate brake fluid pressure by a hydraulic modulator that is higher than the brake fluid pressure generated by the master cylinder, thereby generating sufficient braking force without increasing the depressing force applied to a brake pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Naoto Ohkubo, Kunimichi Hatano
  • Patent number: 8670900
    Abstract: In a rear wheel steering control system for a vehicle, a rear wheel steering control unit (53) forces the toe angle of each rear wheel (3rl, 3rr) to a substantially neutral position or a slightly toe-in position when a road condition estimating unit (63) has detected a rough road surface. Thereby, when the vehicle is traveling over a rough road surface, the actuator is forced to the neutral position, and the rear wheels are brought to a neutral position so that the changes in the wheel geometry (tread and/or alignment) of the rear wheels at the time of a bump or a rebound can be avoided. Therefore, the ride quality of a vehicle equipped with the rear wheel steering control system is favorably maintained even when the vehicle is traveling over a road surface, and the rear wheels undergo large vertical displacements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20130270895
    Abstract: Upon occurrence of a change in the load versus fluid loss property, the braking force for the given brake pedal operation amount is changed so that the vehicle operator is enabled to perceive the change in the load versus fluid loss property. In a vehicle brake system comprising a motor actuated cylinder, wheel cylinders, a stroke sensor for detecting a brake pedal operation amount, a target value setting circuit for setting a target stoke of the motor actuated cylinder, and a fluid pressure compensating circuit for correcting the target stoke upon detection of a deviation between a brake fluid pressure reference value corresponding to the brake pedal operation amount and an actual brake fluid pressure in a direction to reduce the deviation, a stroke limiting circuit restricts a compensation value produced by the fluid pressure compensation circuit according to the brake pedal operation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishioka, Satoshi Matsushita, Hidetoshi Kobori, Kunimichi Hatano, Naoto Ohkubo