Patents by Inventor Takashi Yanagi

Takashi Yanagi 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: 11152689
    Abstract: An in-vehicle wireless display includes a slot antenna to transmit and receive data, a nonmagnetic member provided apart from a slot formed in the slot antenna, to cover the slot, and a display unit installed in a vehicle constituting a train, to display information on the basis of data received by the slot antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Sudo, Atsuhiko Nagamune, Tomotaka Kaneda, Takashi Yanagi
  • Patent number: 11137065
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an operation element; a travel control unit configured to accelerate or decelerate a vehicle; and a shift range control unit configured to control a shift range of the vehicle. In a state where the shift range of the vehicle is set to a first travel range, the travel control unit accelerates the vehicle according to a moving operation on the operation element in a first travel direction and decelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in a second travel direction. In a state where the shift range of the vehicle is set to a second travel range, the travel control unit accelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in the second travel direction and decelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in the first travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeyuki Suzuki, Takashi Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20210252931
    Abstract: An electrically powered suspension system performs an accurate vibration damping of a vehicle with low power consumption even if a linear motor of an electromagnetic actuator strokes to reach an irregular region and includes an electromagnetic actuator generating a driving force for the vibration damping. A linear motor of the actuator includes a cylindrical rod member provided with a plurality of on-rod armature coils along its axis and a housing surrounding the rod member , mounted movable back and forth along the axis with respect to the rod member , and provided with a plurality of permanent magnets along the axis. The on-rod armature coils located on ends of the rod member are provided with short-circuit parts b suppressing the rod member and the housing from moving back and forth with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke YAMAZAKI, Takashi YANAGI, Kazuya KONADA
  • Publication number: 20210171051
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a travel control unit configured to switch a driving mode of a vehicle; a traveling state detecting unit configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle; a generating unit configured to generate at least one turning line; an external environment recognizing device configured to detect a state of an external environment of the vehicle; a setting unit configured to set a traveling area in front of the vehicle in a traveling direction thereof; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the turning line is located in the traveling area. In a case where the determining unit determines that the turning line is not located in the traveling area while a manual driving mode is selected, the travel control unit switches the driving mode of the vehicle from the manual driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masanori TAKEDA, Takashi YANAGI, Takeyuki SUZUKI, Ryo YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210101435
    Abstract: A second electric suspension device includes a second electromagnetic actuator that is provided between the vehicle body and a wheel of a vehicle and generates a driving force for damping vibration of the vehicle. The second electromagnetic actuator includes a columnar rod member and a casing surrounding the rod member and being provided capable of moving forward and backward relative to the rod member in the axial direction. Casing-side armature coils are provided in the casing in the axial direction, whereas magnets are provided in the rod member in the axial direction in such a manner as to face part of the casing-side armature coils in the casing. The magnets are formed by permanent magnets and electromagnets including rod-side armature coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke YAMAZAKI, Takashi YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20210101436
    Abstract: A first electric suspension device includes a first electromagnetic actuator that is provided between the vehicle body and a wheel of a vehicle and generates a driving force for damping vibration of the vehicle. The first electromagnetic actuator includes a columnar rod member and a casing surrounding the rod member and being provided capable of moving forward and backward axially relative to the rod member. The rod member has a conductive shaft and a tubular pipe portion surrounding the shaft. First ends of rod-side armature coils provided in the rod member are connected to the shaft. Power supply to the rod-side armature coils provided in the rod member is performed through the shaft of the rod member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke YAMAZAKI, Takashi YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20210088128
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an operation element; a travel control unit configured to accelerate or decelerate a vehicle; and a shift range control unit configured to control a shift range of the vehicle. In a state where the shift range of the vehicle is set to a first travel range, the travel control unit accelerates the vehicle according to a moving operation on the operation element in a first travel direction and decelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in a second travel direction. In a state where the shift range of the vehicle is set to a second travel range, the travel control unit accelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in the second travel direction and decelerates the vehicle according to the moving operation on the operation element in the first travel direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takeyuki SUZUKI, Takashi YANAGI
  • Patent number: 10950928
    Abstract: A line conductor is configured so as to be arranged between a lower surface conductor and an upper surface conductor in parallel with the lower surface conductor in such a way as to extend around the periphery of a hollow cylindrical conductor in a state in which an end is connected to a side surface of the hollow cylindrical conductor and another end is open. As a result, efficient supply of power to a conductive liquid can be performed without disposing a conducting tube having a length of approximately ?/4 at an operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Akimoto, Takashi Yanagi, Yasuhiro Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20210044023
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna device including a ground conductor plate 1 having a first circular hole 6, a disc-shaped conductor plate 5 which has a second circular hole 7 whose center is disposed on a straight line passing through a center of the first hole 6 and orthogonal to the ground conductor plate 1, has a center that coincides with the center of the second hole 7, and is disposed substantially parallel to the ground conductor plate 1, a first linear conductor 4 having a first end passing through the first hole and a second end passing through the second hole, a second linear conductor 3 having a first end connected to the second end of the first conductor and disposed substantially parallel to the ground conductor plate, and an antenna element 2 connected to a second end of the second conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YANAGI, Kiyotaka SUZUKI, Hidetoshi MAKIMURA, Yasuhiro NISHIOKA
  • Patent number: 10889325
    Abstract: A vehicle steering system includes: actuators, respectively provided for wheels, for changing toe angles of the wheels; lock devices, respectively provided for the wheels, for restricting changes in the toe angles of the wheels; and a control device for controlling the actuators and the lock devices. For each lock device, the control device at a time performs an individual unlocking operation of unlocking the lock device, and a lock relaxation operation of relaxing a locked state of the lock device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Ojima, Takashi Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20200276971
    Abstract: A lane departure prevention assist system for a vehicle includes: a tilt angle control unit configured to control a tilt angle of a seat surface with respect to a lateral direction by driving a tilt angle changing device; a lane detection unit configured to detect a lane on a road; and a vehicle position estimation unit configured to estimate a lateral position of the vehicle in the lane. The tilt angle control unit is configured to increase the tilt angle of the seat surface with respect to the lateral direction such that, as the vehicle approaches one lateral end of an own lane, a height of the seat surface on a side near the one lateral end of the own lane becomes greater than the height of the seat surface on a side remote from the one lateral end of the own lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Masanori TAKEDA, Takashi YANAGI, Takeyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200269918
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a steering input member rotatably supported by a vehicle body of a vehicle, a primary capacitive sensor provided along an outer edge of a steering input member and configured to detect a position on the steering input member at which a contact is made by a vehicle operator, a rotational angle sensor configured to detect a rotational angle of the steering input member, and a control unit configured to control a steering unit of the vehicle according to a signal from the rotational angle sensor and a signal from the primary capacitive sensor, wherein the control unit is configured to operate in a first operation mode and a second operation mode, the steering unit being controlled according to the signal from the rotational angle sensor in the first operation mode, and according to the signal from the primary capacitive sensor in the second operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo YAMAZAKI, Takashi YANAGI, Takeyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200274251
    Abstract: Included are: a coaxial line (10) provided so as to pass through a second ground conductor (6), a first dielectric substrate (8), and a second dielectric substrate (9), the coaxial line (10) including an outer conductor (11) allowing a first ground conductor (1), a second ground conductor (6), and a third ground conductor (7) to be conductive thereamong; and a conductive member (15) provided so as to pass through the first dielectric substrate (8), the conductive member (15) allowing the first ground conductor (1) and the second ground conductor (6) to be conductive therebetween. An interface circuit (18) combines a plurality of signals having mutually different phases output from each of plurality of element antennas (3a), (3b), (3c), and (3d) and outputs the combined signal to the coaxial line (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKAMOTO, Takashi YANAGI, Yusuke KITSUKAWA, Moriyasu MIYAZAKI, Takuma KADOYA, Yuichi HAGITO
  • Publication number: 20200269863
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a steering input member rotatably supported by a vehicle body, a first capacitive sensor provided on a first surface portion of the steering input member facing in one direction along a rotational center line of the steering input member, a second capacitive sensor provided on a second surface portion of the steering input member opposite to the first surface portion, and a control unit configured to control a drive unit and/or a brake unit of the vehicle according to signals from the first and second capacitive sensors. The control unit executes an acceleration control to control the drive unit to accelerate the vehicle when a prescribed signal is received from the first capacitive sensor, and to execute a deceleration control to control the drive unit and/or the brake unit to decelerate the vehicle when a prescribed signal is received from the second capacitive sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi YANAGI, Ryo YAMAZAKI, Takeyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200194894
    Abstract: A metal housing (1) has an aperture (1a). A first conductor (3a) is disposed in a portion except for the aperture (1a) of the metal housing (1), and is capacitively coupled to the metal housing (1). A second conductor (3b) is a conductor transparent to visible light, and is disposed in the aperture (1a) of the metal housing (1). An AC voltage is applied to the first conductor (3a) and the second conductor (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YANAGI, Yasuhiro NISHIOKA, Atsuhiko NAGAMUNE
  • Publication number: 20200144706
    Abstract: An in-vehicle wireless display includes a slot antenna to transmit and receive data, a nonmagnetic member provided apart from a slot formed in the slot antenna, to cover the slot, and a display unit installed in a vehicle constituting a train, to display information on the basis of data received by the slot antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akitoshi SUDO, Atsuhiko NAGAMUNE, Tomotaka KANEDA, Takashi YANAGI
  • Patent number: D881171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakamoto, Takashi Yanagi, Yusuke Kitsukawa, Moriyasu Miyazaki, Takuma Kadoya, Yuichi Hagito
  • Patent number: D886084
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakamoto, Takashi Yanagi, Yusuke Kitsukawa, Moriyasu Miyazaki, Takuma Kadoya, Yuichi Hagito
  • Patent number: D889444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakamoto, Takashi Yanagi, Naoya Noguchi, Ryuya Seki
  • Patent number: D890144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakamoto, Takashi Yanagi, Naoya Noguchi, Ryuya Seki