Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Inoue
Tomohiko Inoue 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).
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Publication number: 20240182032Abstract: A control device (100) executes control for accelerating or decelerating a vehicle (1) such that constant-speed travel in which the vehicle (1) travels at a set vehicle speed is performed, and such that following travel in which the vehicle follows a preceding vehicle ahead is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Yusuke Ouchi, Toshinori Okita, Tomohiko Inoue, Youhei Masui
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Patent number: 11987248Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to: execute vehicle speed maintaining control for causing the vehicle speed to coincide with a set vehicle speed; start first control, for causing the acceleration to coincide with target acceleration for keeping maintaining acceleration no higher than limit acceleration, or second control, for controlling the acceleration such that the vehicle speed is kept no higher than a limit vehicle speed lower than the set vehicle speed, as limit control when a traffic signal correlated distance correlated with a traffic signal distance to a stop instructing traffic signal is determined to become a first threshold or less during execution of the vehicle speed maintaining control; and suspend the vehicle speed maintaining control and the limit control when a driver operates a deceleration operator during execution of the limit control.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Kuroki, Toshihiro Maruyama, Tomohiko Inoue, Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20240083296Abstract: Disclosed is a control device that executes display control for causing a display device to display information on a vehicle capable of traveling using electric power of a battery. Further, the control device, while the vehicle travels toward a predetermined destination, causes the display device to display a transition of a travelable distance corresponding to an SOC of the battery and a transition of a distance to the destination, and causes the display device to display a predicted remaining SOC of the battery when the vehicle arrives at the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sui KURIHASHI, Tomohiko INOUE
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Patent number: 11781810Abstract: The drying device is composed of an LED lamp unit and a thermally dispersing member. The LED lamp unit emits rays of light onto a work that a dried object is applied to the surface thereof. The thermally dispersing member is disposed on a stage and supports the work from the opposite side of the LED lamp unit. The thermally dispersing member generates heat by absorbing the rays of light transmitting through the work.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: PHOENIX ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomohiko Inoue
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Publication number: 20230174093Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a stoppage factor determination unit configured to determine whether to clear a stoppage factor of the own vehicle,; an interfering object determination unit configured to determine whether an interfering object is present that interferes with the starting of the own vehicle, based on object information of another object that has not been recognized as the stoppage factor; and a notification determination unit configured to: set, as a condition for permitting the provision of a notification for prompting the starting of the own vehicle being stopped, a determination that the stoppage factor is cleared made by the stoppage factor determination unit, and suppress the provision of the notification in response to the interfering object determination unit determining that the interfering object is present even if the stoppage factor determination unit determines that the stoppage factor is cleared during stoppage of the own vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Youhei MASUI, Hiroaki NIINO, Toshihiro MARUYAMA, Shota KUROKI
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Publication number: 20230124785Abstract: A light irradiation device for an exposure apparatus allowing implementation of photo-alignment process with a simple configuration is provided. The light irradiation device is configured using a light source with a plurality of LEDs, and a polarizing element that receives light from the light source and applies the light transmitted through the polarizing element to a workpiece. An optical axis of each of the LEDs is set in such a manner as to have a first angle ?1 to the workpiece. A second angle ?2 as an angle half of a light distribution angle of the light emitted from each of the LEDs is set smaller than the first angle ?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Kenichi YAMASHITA, Hiromu MATSUMOTO, Tomihiko IKEDA
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Publication number: 20220306111Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to: execute vehicle speed maintaining control for causing the vehicle speed to coincide with a set vehicle speed; start first control, for causing the acceleration to coincide with target acceleration for keeping maintaining acceleration no higher than limit acceleration, or second control, for controlling the acceleration such that the vehicle speed is kept no higher than a limit vehicle speed lower than the set vehicle speed, as limit control when a traffic signal correlated distance correlated with a traffic signal distance to a stop instructing traffic signal is determined to become a first threshold or less during execution of the vehicle speed maintaining control; and suspend the vehicle speed maintaining control and the limit control when a driver operates a deceleration operator during execution of the limit control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shota KUROKI, Toshihiro Maruyama, Tomohiko Inoue, Norio Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20220289190Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit that determines whether a brake light of a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle is turned on, based on a lighting state of a headlight of the preceding vehicle and an acceleration/deceleration of the preceding vehicle, a calculation unit that calculates a target acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, based on a determination by the determination unit of whether the brake light of the preceding vehicle is turned on, and a control unit that controls the vehicle so that an acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle corresponds to the target acceleration/deceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Youhei MASUI, Hiroaki NIINO, Yuki TEZUKA, Naoki KUSUMOTO, Yuuji KOSAKA
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Publication number: 20210262728Abstract: The drying device is composed of an LED lamp unit and a thermally dispersing member. The LED lamp unit emits rays of light onto a work that a dried object is applied to the surface thereof. The thermally dispersing member is disposed on a stage and supports the work from the opposite side of the LED lamp unit. The thermally dispersing member generates heat by absorbing the rays of light transmitting through the work.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventor: Tomohiko INOUE
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Patent number: 11003927Abstract: In a target recognition apparatus that recognizes a target in a periphery of an own vehicle, a radar target acquiring unit acquires, as a radar target, the target that is detected by transmission and reception of radar waves. An image target acquiring unit acquires, as an image target, the target that is included in a captured image captured by an imaging apparatus. A target recognizing unit recognizes, as a first target, one of a plurality of radar targets included in a predetermined area relative to the image target and recognizes, as a second target, at least one of the plurality of radar targets other than the first target. A sameness determining unit determines whether the first target and the second target are the same object.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiko Inoue, Tadashi Sakai, Yohei Masui, Takashi Maeda
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Patent number: 10368408Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first white light source which includes N pieces of first white light emitting diodes and emits a first white light; and a second white light source which includes M pieces of second white light emitting diodes and a first resistance element electrically connected in series to the second white light emitting diodes and having a first resistance value, is electrically connected in parallel to the first white light source, and emits a second white light, the light emitting device emitting a mixed white light of the first white light and the second white light. The drive voltage of the first white light source is higher than a drive voltage of the second white light source, and a color temperature of the mixed white light is higher as a total luminous flux of the mixed white light is higher.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Kondo, Masahiko Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Ryoji Tsuda, Atsuji Nakagawa, Toshitaka Fujii, Tomohiko Inoue
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Patent number: 10368409Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first white light source which includes N pieces of first white light emitting diodes and emits a first white light; and a second white light source which includes M pieces of second white light emitting diodes and a first resistance element electrically connected in series to the second white light emitting diodes and having a first resistance value, is electrically connected in parallel to the first white light source, and emits a second white light, the light emitting device emitting a mixed white light of the first white light and the second white light. The drive voltage of the first white light source is higher than a drive voltage of the second white light source, and a color temperature of the mixed white light is higher as a total luminous flux of the mixed white light is higher.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Kondo, Masahiko Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Ryoji Tsuda, Atsuji Nakagawa, Toshitaka Fujii, Tomohiko Inoue
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Patent number: 10337694Abstract: An LED lamp includes a plurality of LEDs and a pillar that is defined by a polygonal cross-sectional shape and includes a plurality of lateral surfaces on which the plurality of LEDs are disposed. A pillar radius ratio is set to fall in a range of greater than or equal to 3.73% and less than or equal to 18.25%. The pillar radius ratio is defined as a dimensional ratio of a pillar radius to a radius of an opening of a reflector made in shape of a bowl. The pillar radius is defined as a distance from a center point of the pillar to each of the plurality of lateral surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: PHOENIX ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Gouda, Tomohiko Inoue
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Publication number: 20190128504Abstract: An LED lamp includes a plurality of LEDs and a pillar that is defined by a polygonal cross-sectional shape and includes a plurality of lateral surfaces on which the plurality of LEDs are disposed. A pillar radius ratio is set to fall in a range of greater than or equal to 3.73% and less than or equal to 18.25%. The pillar radius ratio is defined as a dimensional ratio of a pillar radius to a radius of an opening of a reflector made in shape of a bowl. The pillar radius is defined as a distance from a center point of the pillar to each of the plurality of lateral surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Tetsuya GOUDA, Tomohiko Inoue
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Publication number: 20190080187Abstract: In a target recognition apparatus that recognizes a target in a periphery of an own vehicle, a radar target acquiring unit acquires, as a radar target, the target that is detected by transmission and reception of radar waves. An image target acquiring unit acquires, as an image target, the target that is included in a captured image captured by an imaging apparatus. A target recognizing unit recognizes, as a first target, one of a plurality of radar targets included in a predetermined area relative to the image target and recognizes, as a second target, at least one of the plurality of radar targets other than the first target. A sameness determining unit determines whether the first target and the second target are the same object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Tadashi SAKAI, Yohei MASUI, Takashi MAEDA
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Publication number: 20180290352Abstract: A method for manufacturing a seat cushion material, the seat cushion material including a front layer part and a back layer part, the back layer part having a back side surface, and a concave portion being provided in the back side surface, the method including: preparing for molding the seat cushion material by attaching the back layer part to an upper die which has an upper cavity surface and a convex portion that can be fitted into the concave portion in such a manner that the back side surface is brought into contact with the upper cavity surface; molding the seat cushion material by adding foamed resin raw material forming the front layer part on a lower cavity surface of a lower die and then by closing the upper die to which the back layer part is attached; and demolding the molded seat cushion material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiko INOUE
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Publication number: 20180049285Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first white light source which includes N pieces of first white light emitting diodes and emits a first white light; and a second white light source which includes M pieces of second white light emitting diodes and a first resistance element electrically connected in series to the second white light emitting diodes and having a first resistance value, is electrically connected in parallel to the first white light source, and emits a second white light, the light emitting device emitting a mixed white light of the first white light and the second white light. The drive voltage of the first white light source is higher than a drive voltage of the second white light source, and a color temperature of the mixed white light is higher as a total luminous flux of the mixed white light is higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicants: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd., Phoenix Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Kondo, Masahiko Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Ryoji Tsuda, Atsuji Nakagawa, Toshitaka Fujii, Tomohiko Inoue
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Patent number: 9841165Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp is composed of a reflective mirror, a pillar and a plurality of light emitters disposed in radial arrangement about a focal point of the reflective mirror on the surface of the pillar. Each of the plurality of light emitters is composed of a light emitting diode and a lens forming a virtual image in a position of the focal point located behind the light emitting diode. Additionally, a plurality of light emitting diode elements composing the light emitting diode in each of the plurality of light emitters emit light rays with the same wavelength, and the light emitting diodes in the plurality of light emitters emit the light rays with at least two types of wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: PHOENIX ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiko Inoue, Tetsuya Gouda, Kenichi Yamashita, Kana Watanabe
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Publication number: 20170048941Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first white light source which includes N pieces of first white light emitting diodes and emits a first white light; and a second white light source which includes M pieces of second white light emitting diodes and a first resistance element electrically connected in series to the second white light emitting diodes and having a first resistance value, is electrically connected in parallel to the first white light source, and emits a second white light, the light emitting device emitting a mixed white light of the first white light and the second white light. The drive voltage of the first white light source is higher than a drive voltage of the second white light source, and a color temperature of the mixed white light is higher as a total luminous flux of the mixed white light is higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicants: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd., Phoenix Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu KONDO, Masahiko YAMAKAWA, Yasuhiro SHIRAKAWA, Ryoji TSUDA, Atsuji NAKAGAWA, Toshitaka FUJII, Tomohiko INOUE
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Patent number: 8864343Abstract: A light emitting device comprises: a surface light source for a surface-emission; a CPC lens having a light receiving surface, a side reflective surface, and a light emitting surface, the light receiving surface receiving a part of light from the surface light source, the side reflective surface reflecting the light from the light receiving surface, and the light emitting surface facing the light receiving surface and emitting the light; and a reflector containing the surface light source and the CPC lens, and having a concaved reflective surface for reflecting forward the light deviating the light receiving surface from the surface light source, wherein a ratio of a illumination area of the surface light source to an area of the light receiving surface of the CPC lens is not less than 0.63 and not more than 2.93.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Phoenix Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiko Inoue