Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Takimoto
Yasuaki Takimoto 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: 20240178495Abstract: A power storage device includes a case having a metal lid with an insertion hole, a terminal member inserted through the insertion hole, and a resin member insulating between the case and the terminal member. The lid has a surface facing outside, including a ring-shaped hole-surrounding region around the insertion hole, to which the resin member is airtightly firmly fixed, and an outer region contacting the resin member. A two-region consisting of two, the hole-surrounding region and the outer region, has a two-region length at a two-region length ratio of 3.0 or more, which is the ratio of the maximum two-region length to the minimum two-region length, and a seal length of 1.4 or less, which is the ratio of the maximum seal length to the minimum seal length of the hole-surrounding region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Tsuyoshi EHARA, Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20240170777Abstract: A power storage device includes a case member, a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole of the case member, and a resin member joined to the case member and the terminal member. The resin member includes, on a resin outer surface exposed on an outer side of the case member, at least any one of a recess and a projection portion increasing a creepage distance from a terminal outer surface, which is exposed on the outer side of the case member, of the terminal member to a case outer surface exposed on the outer side of the case member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Tsuyoshi EHARA, Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20240170776Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes an insert-molding step in which a resin member is formed by insert molding with a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole of a case member. This insert-molding step is performed using a molding mold that includes a top-surface contact portion which is to face and tightly contact with a terminal top surface of the terminal member, an inner annular flat portion and an outer annular flat portion to form a frame top surface of the resin member, and an annular protruding portion to form an annular groove of the resin member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Tsuyoshi EHARA, Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20240127604Abstract: A road surface information collecting device, which is mounted on a vehicle to transmit a shot image acquired by shooting a road surface to a server to detect road surface deterioration, includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire the shot image of the road surface around the vehicle shot by a shooting device mounted on the vehicle; acquire shot area information regarding an area on the road surface shot in the acquired shot image; extract one or more candidate images acquired by shooting a certain area on the road surface out of acquired shot images on a basis of the acquired shot area information; select a selected image to be transmitted to the server out of the extracted candidate images; and transmit the selected image to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ayako OYANAGI, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Takuya KONO
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Publication number: 20220342414Abstract: A resource comparison unit compares a resource list to be used by a control center to remotely operate a remotely driven vehicle with a resource list to be used by a vehicle control unit to control the remotely driven vehicle in accordance with the remote operation from the control center. An alternative resource storage unit stores information on an alternative resource for a resource of the remotely driven vehicle. A resource switching unit switches a resource which is not a commonality and is detected by the resource comparison unit to an alternative resource stored in the alternative resource storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Takuya KONO, Ryo MIZOBE
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Publication number: 20220173960Abstract: An abnormal data detecting unit detects pieces of abnormal data outputted by pieces of vehicle-mounted equipment mounted in a vehicle, and outputs detail of abnormalities which have occurred in the pieces of vehicle-mounted equipment. An abnormality position acquiring unit acquires position information about the vehicle when abnormal data is detected by the abnormal data detecting unit. An abnormality occurrence information transmitting unit transmits pieces of abnormality occurrence information in which pieces of position information acquired by the abnormality position acquiring unit are associated with detail of abnormalities in the pieces of vehicle-mounted equipment, the detail being outputted from the abnormal data detecting unit, to a vehicle data processing server.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ayako OYANAGI, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Yasunori HOSHIHARA
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Patent number: 10266055Abstract: A vehicle-mounted equipment operating device includes a display and a touch sensor, which are provided in a ring-shaped area of a steering wheel, and when detecting a driver's motion on a detection target range which is defined with reference to a holding position at which the steering wheel is being held by the driver, in accordance with information detected by the touch sensor, a vehicle-mounted equipment operating device generates a video in which an operation screen for vehicle-mounted equipment is arranged in a display area of the display which is defined with reference to the position of the motion, and displays the video on the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Yokota, Yasuaki Takimoto
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Patent number: 10185482Abstract: In the case where entertainment information is acquired as information to be displayed on an instrument panel display 1 when an object indicating driving information is displayed on the instrument panel display 1, an object indicating the entertainment information is moved from the outside of a screen of the instrument panel display 1 to the inside of the screen, and the object indicating the driving information and the object indicating the entertainment information are displayed such that all or part of the object indicating the entertainment information passes behind the object indicating the driving information during the movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Mori, Takehisa Mizuguchi, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Yasuaki Takimoto, Hiroyuki Yokota
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Publication number: 20190009676Abstract: A vehicle-mounted equipment operating device includes a display and a touch sensor, which are provided in a ring-shaped area of a steering wheel, and when detecting a driver's motion on a detection target range which is defined with reference to a holding position at which the steering wheel is being held by the driver, in accordance with information detected by the touch sensor, a vehicle-mounted equipment operating device generates a video in which an operation screen for vehicle-mounted equipment is arranged in a display area of the display which is defined with reference to the position of the motion, and displays the video on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki YOKOTA, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190005702Abstract: A drawing control apparatus includes: a drawing unit for drawing a plurality of images by executing a plurality of drawing tasks, each given a priority level, in each period; an output unit for combining and outputting the images drawn by the drawing unit in each period; a drawing time estimating unit for estimating a drawing time of each of one or more drawing commands included in a drawing task; and a drawing adjustment unit for planning a sequence for executing the drawing tasks on the basis of the drawing times estimated by the drawing time estimating unit and controlling the drawing unit. The drawing adjustment unit causes the drawing unit to execute the drawing tasks planned to be executed in a current period in descending order of priority and to execute some or all of the drawing commands of drawing tasks that have not been completed by output timing of the current period after execution of drawing tasks with higher priority than the uncompleted drawing tasks in a next period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI
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Patent number: 9849783Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Masami Aikawa, Takehisa Mizuguchi, Yoshihiko Mori, Takeshi Mitsui, Masakazu Okuda, Mitsuru Sakai, Masahiro Kosakada, Satoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20170238196Abstract: The network connection information about a mobile communication terminal 30 is notified from a tablet terminal 20 joining a network B provided by the mobile communication terminal 30 to an HU 10 via short-range wireless communications. The dual-mode HU 10 uses the network connection information, notified from the tablet terminal 20, to configure anew a network C which the HU 10, the tablet terminal 20 and the mobile communication terminal 30 join.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro NAKATSUKASA, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Hideki FUKUHARA, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI
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Patent number: 9466162Abstract: An electronic key system includes a lock-side terminal that is mounted in a locked object and capable of at least locking and unlocking the locked object, and a portable terminal capable of sending and receiving the electronic key to and from the lock-side terminal mounted in the locked object and the other portable terminals, and when receiving a request from the one portable terminal, the lock-side terminal generates the electronic key at random, and sends the randomly generated electronic key to the one portable terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC COPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Nakai, Yasuaki Takimoto, Masahiro Abukawa, Takeshi Mitsui, Hisao Nakano
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Publication number: 20160250925Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Masami AIKAWA, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI, Yoshihiko MORI, Takeshi MITSUI, Masakazu OKUDA, Mitsuru SAKAI, Masahiro KOSAKADA, Satoshi OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9410818Abstract: According to a navigation device of the invention, at the time of performing turning guidance for a user who drives a vehicle, it is possible to perform the guidance in a way easy-to-understand for the user. Namely, a presentation of a preceding vehicle is made using an actual image or a graphic image of a vehicle that is the same as the actually seen vehicle, so that the user who drives the vehicle in traveling will understand that he/she only has to follow the preceding vehicle actually traveling ahead. This results in such route guidance that does not cause misunderstanding of a turning point and is very easy-to-understand.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Takeshi Mitsui, Takayoshi Chikuri
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Publication number: 20160224222Abstract: In the case where entertainment information is acquired as information to be displayed on an instrument panel display 1 when an object indicating driving information is displayed on the instrument panel display 1, an object indicating the entertainment information is moved from the outside of a screen of the instrument panel display 1 to the inside of the screen, and the object indicating the driving information and the object indicating the entertainment information are displayed such that all or part of the object indicating the entertainment information passes behind the object indicating the driving information during the movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko MORI, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI, Yoshiaki WATANABE, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Hiroyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20160078664Abstract: An image synthesizing apparatus, when synthesizing graphic images a plurality of apparatuses draw, transmits timing request information from the image synthesizing apparatus to the individual drawing apparatuses to fix the timing. Thus, even when graphic images the plurality of apparatuses draw and transmit continuously have a different number of frames, the image synthesizing apparatus can synthesize and display them while synchronizing so far as the timing of changes in an animation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takehisa MIZUGUCHI, Takeshi MITSUI, Hideki FUKUHARA, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160069702Abstract: According to a navigation device of the invention, at the time of performing turning guidance for a user who drives a vehicle, it is possible to perform the guidance in a way easy-to-understand for the user. Namely, a presentation of a preceding vehicle is made using an actual image or a graphic image of a vehicle that is the same as the actually seen vehicle, so that the user who drives the vehicle in traveling will understand that he/she only has to follow the preceding vehicle actually traveling ahead. This results in such route guidance that does not cause misunderstanding of a turning point and is very easy-to-understand.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Takeshi MITSUI, Takayoshi CHIKURI
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Patent number: 9146130Abstract: According to an in-vehicle information device or a navigation device of the invention, each of a plurality of terminals in a vehicle is configured to cause the terminal itself to operate in one of modes including: “an independent operation mode” in which the terminal itself is operated independently; “a participatory cooperative operation mode” in which the terminal directly participates in an operation of the other terminal; and “a transitional cooperative operation mode” in which the terminal takes over information of the other terminal and performs an operation on the information followed by reflecting or not reflecting the information after that operation to the other terminal as information source. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently transmit or reflect an intention of each of plural occupants in the vehicle to the other occupant by combining independent operations and cooperative operations by the plurality of terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Masahiro Abukawa, Takeshi Mitsui
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Publication number: 20140358428Abstract: According to an in-vehicle information device or a navigation device of the invention, each of a plurality of terminals in a vehicle is configured to cause the terminal itself to operate in one of modes including: “an independent operation mode” in which the terminal itself is operated independently; “a participatory cooperative operation mode” in which the terminal directly participates in an operation of the other terminal; and “a transitional cooperative operation mode” in which the terminal takes over information of the other terminal and performs an operation on the information followed by reflecting or not reflecting the information after that operation to the other terminal as information source. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently transmit or reflect an intention of each of plural occupants in the vehicle to the other occupant by combining independent operations and cooperative operations by the plurality of terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Masahiro Abukawa, Takeshi Mitsui