Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Fujioka

Yasuhiro Fujioka 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).

  • Publication number: 20240069220
    Abstract: Provided is a scintillator panel with reduced deterioration in brightness due to irradiation and higher brightness. A scintillator panel including a substrate and a scintillator layer containing phosphors, in which the scintillator layer includes a binder resin having a ?-conjugated structure composed of seven or more atoms; in which the glass transition temperature of the binder resin is from 30 to 430° C.; and the thickness of the scintillator layer is from 50 to 800 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Sho Miyao, Takahiro Murai, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Nobuyasu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9983745
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes an electrode, which is located at an inner side of a touch panel, and a control unit. The control unit detects a change in a capacitance generated at the electrode when a finger approaches the electrode to determine whether or not the touch panel has been touched from the change in the capacitance. The control unit detects a maximum capacitance generated at the electrode during detection of a touched state and set a first OFF determination threshold value, which is used to detect a non-touched state, to a value that is lower than the maximum capacitance by a predetermined value which is set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Yasue, Masaya Maeda, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9766758
    Abstract: An operation device includes a detecting portion that detects an operation performed on an operation surface and outputs a detection value, and a computing portion that includes a first threshold for determining whether or not an operation is performed on the operation surface and a second threshold more than the first threshold, and operates such that a detection point calculated based on a second detection value acquired from the detecting portion is replaced by a detection point calculated based on a first detection value acquired from the detecting portion when the second detection value is a value between the first and second thresholds, the first detection value being more than the second threshold and being acquired before the second detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9335858
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel configured to be displaceable in vertical direction and to be urged upwardly toward an original position in a non-depressed state, a depression start detector that detects a start of a depression manipulation of the touch panel while the touch panel is depressed and displaced downward, a determination manipulation detector that detects a determination manipulation based on the touch panel is displaced to a position which is lower than a position where the depression start detector detects the start of the depression manipulation, and a decision unit that stores the touch position when the depression start detector detects the start of the depression manipulation, and thereafter decides that the determination manipulation has been conducted at the stored touch position when the determination manipulation detector detects the determination manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiro Shirai, Yoshihisa Hirano, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20160085338
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes an electrode, which is located at an inner side of a touch panel, and a control unit. The control unit detects a change in a capacitance generated at the electrode when a finger approaches the electrode to determine whether or not the touch panel has been touched from the change in the capacitance. The control unit detects a maximum capacitance generated at the electrode during detection of a touched state and set a first OFF determination threshold value, which is used to detect a non-touched state, to a value that is lower than the maximum capacitance by a predetermined value which is set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yoshifumi YASUE, Masaya MAEDA, Yasuhiro FUJIOKA
  • Patent number: 9223428
    Abstract: A touch type input device includes a display capable of showing a plurality of icons. A detector detects touching of an operation surface. A controller moves operational coordinates on the display based on the detection of the detector. The controller selects one of the icons in accordance with a region in which the operational coordinates are located. Further, the controller moves the operational coordinates to a specified position in the region where the operational coordinates are located when a touch-release operation is performed indicating that the touching of the operation surface has been cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Ayano Ito, Masahisa Doko, Satoshi Arikura, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20150123941
    Abstract: An operation device includes a detecting portion that detects an operation performed on an operation surface and outputs a detection value, and a computing portion that includes a first threshold for determining whether or not an operation is performed on the operation surface and a second threshold more than the first threshold, and operates such that a detection point calculated based on a second detection value acquired from the detecting portion is replaced by a detection point calculated based on a first detection value acquired from the detecting portion when the second detection value is a value between the first and second thresholds, the first detection value being more than the second threshold and being acquired before the second detection value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Yasuhiro FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20140118275
    Abstract: A touch type input device includes a display capable of showing a plurality of icons. A detector detects touching of an operation surface. A controller moves operational coordinates on the display based on the detection of the detector. The controller selects one of the icons in accordance with a region in which the operational coordinates are located. Further, the controller moves the operational coordinates to a specified position in the region where the operational coordinates are located when a touch-release operation is performed indicating that the touching of the operation surface has been cancelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Ayano ITO, Masahisa DOKO, Satoshi ARIKURA, Yasuhiro FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20130038551
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel configured to be displaceable in vertical direction and to be urged upwardly toward an original position in a non-depressed state, a depression start detector that detects a start of a depression manipulation of the touch panel while the touch panel is depressed and displaced downward, a determination manipulation detector that detects a determination manipulation based on the touch panel is displaced to a position which is lower than a position where the depression start detector detects the start of the depression manipulation, and a decision unit that stores the touch position when the depression start detector detects the start of the depression manipulation, and thereafter decides that the determination manipulation has been conducted at the stored touch position when the determination manipulation detector detects the determination manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Takahiro SHIRAI, Yoshihisa HIRANO, Yasuhiro FUJIOKA
  • Patent number: 7292228
    Abstract: A screen operating device having good operability is obtained. When a push switch is pressed via a sheet switch within a predetermined time from a finger touching the sheet switch, a click signal is received within a predetermined time from receipt of a touch signal. After receipt of this touch signal, if a click signal is received within a predetermined time, buttons other than a predetermined selection button 32 are not displayed on a screen of a monitor device 26, and processing corresponding to a label displayed on the selection button 32 is carried out. In this way, a specific processing, such as a processing having a high frequency of use or the like, can be carried out rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yoshimasa Kunimatsu, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 7176899
    Abstract: In a state in which any one of selection buttons is selected (state in which a color is reversed), a touch panel in a controller is operated, and, the selected state of the selection button is released when an operation signal from the above controller is corresponding to a moving trajectory from a gray zone to another gray zone through a cancellation zone. Thereby, unnatural feeling at operation caused by distance between a finger position on the touch panel of the controller and a position of the selection button in the selected state is reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yoshimasa Kunimatsu, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Michimasa Ito
  • Patent number: 7010756
    Abstract: A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura
  • Publication number: 20040103027
    Abstract: The advertisement distributing server system includes an advertiser database which stores advertising information including brief advertisement images and exclusive advertisement pages for a plurality of advertisers; a brief advertisement image display unit which displays the brief advertisement images associated with the plurality of advertisers stored in the advertiser database on a browser screen of the terminal in a switched manner switched at a predetermined time interval in accordance with a request from a client terminal; and an exclusive advertisement page display unit which displays the exclusive advertisement page of the advertiser stored in the advertiser database on the browser screen when a certain brief advertisement image is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Yamamoto, Mamoru Ikegashira, Toshimichi Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20040085352
    Abstract: A screen operating device having good operability is obtained. When a push switch is pressed via a sheet switch within a predetermined time from a finger touching the sheet switch, a click signal is received within a predetermined time from receipt of a touch signal. After receipt of this touch signal, if a click signal is received within a predetermined time, buttons other than a predetermined selection button 32 are not displayed on a screen of a monitor device 26, and processing corresponding to a label displayed on the selection button 32 is carried out. In this way, a specific processing, such as a processing having a high frequency of use or the like, can be carried out rapidly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yoshimasa Kunimatsu, Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20040012579
    Abstract: In a state in which any one of selection buttons is selected (state in which a color is reversed), a touch panel in a controller is operated, and, the selected state of the selection button is released when an operation signal from the above controller is corresponding to a moving trajectory from a gray zone to another gray zone through a cancellation zone. Thereby, unnatural feeling at operation caused by distance between a finger position on the touch panel of the controller and a position of the selection button in the selected state is reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yoshimasa Kunimatsu, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Michimasa Ito
  • Publication number: 20020051014
    Abstract: A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura
  • Patent number: 4640184
    Abstract: A mounting structure of a roof duct in an air conditioner which comprises a top surface of the roof duct having an air diffuser and formed with a grooved recess along the longitudinal direction of the roof duct, a trough-shaped reinforcement mounted at both ends thereof on an automotive body engaged with the grooved recess, a swelled part partly swelled on the bottom of the reinforcement and formed on the bottom in reverse direction to the grooved recess, and a wire harness connected to a control switch and inserted into the space formed between the bottom of the grooved recess and the swelled part of the reinforcement. Thus, this mounting structure can obtain a passage of a wire harness out of the roof duct, thereby reducing the resistance of ventilation of air through the roof duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Matsushima, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Takeshi Sasaki, Manabu Fujine, Kouji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4376879
    Abstract: A button-less push switch board including a plurality of push switches which comprises an insulator plate having a plurality of penetrating holes, a transparent flexible cover sheet overlying the main surface of the insulator sheet and having identification marks printed thereon to indicate the positions and functions of the switches, and a printed circuit plate on the reverse surface of the insulator plate and having fixed contacts formed thereon. A transparent block is disposed in each hole of the insulator plate and is urged towards the cover plate by elastic members supported thereon. Each elastic member is of cup-like shape and has a movable contact corresponding to a pair of fixed contacts on the printed circuit plate. A lamp or a light emitting diode is disposed in each hole of the insulator plate and is mounted on the printed circuit. Each fixed contact and each lamp or light emitting diode are connected to an external control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Masumi Nagata, Fumiyoshi Kushima, Takeo Matsushima, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Yasuhiro Iwata, Teiichi Nabeta
  • Patent number: 4325426
    Abstract: An air conditioner system for sensing and controlling the temperature in the compartment of an automotive vehicle to an established desired temperature includes an over-correction means whereby the vehicle compartment temperature is temporarily increased to exceed the desired temperature and the temperature rise is terminated after the sensed temperature has attained or nearly attained the desired temperature. When the sensed temperature rises so that the difference between it and the desired temperature exceeds a reference value, the corresponding correction signal is generated and correction is applied repeatedly so as to make the difference less than the reference value and thereby to attain the desired compartment temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Otsuka, Teiichi Nabeta, Yasufumi Kojima, Takeo Matsushima, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Eiichi Wada