Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Shigefuji
Yasuyuki Shigefuji 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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Patent number: 11491874Abstract: A vehicle body structure, comprising an image capturing apparatus configured to capture an image of a left-rearward area and a right-rearward area of a vehicle, and a display apparatus including a left-side display unit configured to display the left-rearward area and a right-side display unit configured to display the right-rearward area, wherein when viewed in a vehicle body front-and-rear direction, the left-side display unit and the right-side display unit are respectively fixed at a left-side end part and a right-side end part of a vehicle cabin forward structure so as to be positioned higher than a center of a steering wheel and lower than an upper end of the steering wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa Hayashida, Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki
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Patent number: 11198364Abstract: A pair of outside view displays that are provided on an instrument panel, are located outside a steering in a vehicle width direction, and display captured outside view images and displays that are provided inside the outside view displays in the vehicle width direction and have display regions from a driver seat to a front passenger seat are provided, and the outside view displays are provided so as to face the inside in the vehicle width direction and are disposed such that inner ends of the outside view displays are located on a front side of the vehicle relative to closer left and right ends of the displays.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa Hayashida, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki, Yasuyuki Shigefuji
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Publication number: 20210268906Abstract: A vehicle body structure, comprising an image capturing apparatus configured to capture an image of a left-rearward area and a right-rearward area of a vehicle, and a display apparatus including a left-side display unit configured to display the left-rearward area and a right-side display unit configured to display the right-rearward area, wherein when viewed in a vehicle body front-and-rear direction, the left-side display unit and the right-side display unit are respectively fixed at a left-side end part and a right-side end part of a vehicle cabin forward structure so as to be positioned higher than a center of a steering wheel and lower than an upper end of the steering wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Yoshimasa HAYASHIDA, Yasuyuki SHIGEFUJI, Akinori MYOI, Susumu SEKI
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Patent number: 11052822Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus comprises a shooting unit configured to shoot a periphery of a vehicle, a display unit configured to display an image shot by the shooting unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire illuminance information regarding peripheral illuminance of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control a display mode of the display unit based on the illuminance information acquired by the acquisition unit. The control unit changes the control of the display mode of the display unit between a case where peripheral illuminance of the vehicle increases and a case where the peripheral illuminance of the vehicle decreases.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Takenaka, Yasuyuki Shigefuji
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Patent number: 11027664Abstract: A rearview monitor apparatus includes: a display provided on an instrument panel; and a housing formed to surround a periphery of the display, wherein the housing includes an upper surface arranged above the display, a side surface arranged at the outside in a vehicle width direction of the display, and a visor that extends in a vehicle rearward direction beyond the display from vehicle rearward positions of the upper surface and the side surface and that forms an opening part in a vehicle rearward direction, and a first recess part of which a depth gradually increases toward a vehicle frontward direction towards the inside in the vehicle width direction from an outer end in the vehicle width direction is formed on the upper surface side of the visor.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Shunsuke Osafune, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki
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Patent number: 10899228Abstract: A rear view monitoring device includes: a display unit which is provided on both sides of an instrument panel in a vehicle width direction; and a housing formed to surround a periphery of the display unit, wherein the housing includes an opening portion formed on a display surface side of the display unit, an upper surface disposed above the display unit, a side surface disposed outside the display unit in the vehicle width direction, and an overhanging portion which straddles the upper surface and the side surface and overhangs outward in the vehicle width direction from a range in which a pillar projects in a vertical direction, and at least the overhanging portion is formed to have a downward gradient toward an outside in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki
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Publication number: 20200269697Abstract: A pair of outside view displays that are provided on an instrument panel, are located outside a steering in a vehicle width direction, and display captured outside view images and displays that are provided inside the outside view displays in the vehicle width direction and have display regions from a driver seat to a front passenger seat are provided, and the outside view displays are provided so as to face the inside in the vehicle width direction and are disposed such that inner ends of the outside view displays are located on a front side of the vehicle relative to closer left and right ends of the displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Yoshimasa Hayashida, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki, Yasuyuki Shigefuji
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Publication number: 20200164801Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus comprises a shooting unit configured to shoot a periphery of a vehicle, a display unit configured to display an image shot by the shooting unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire illuminance information regarding peripheral illuminance of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control a display mode of the display unit based on the illuminance information acquired by the acquisition unit. The control unit changes the control of the display mode of the display unit between a case where peripheral illuminance of the vehicle increases and a case where the peripheral illuminance of the vehicle decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Kenta TAKENAKA, Yasuyuki SHIGEFUJI
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Publication number: 20200114832Abstract: A rearview monitor apparatus includes: a display provided on an instrument panel; and a housing formed to surround a periphery of the display, wherein the housing includes an upper surface arranged above the display, a side surface arranged at the outside in a vehicle width direction of the display, and a visor that extends in a vehicle rearward direction beyond the display from vehicle rearward positions of the upper surface and the side surface and that forms an opening part in a vehicle rearward direction, and a first recess part of which a depth gradually increases toward a vehicle frontward direction towards the inside in the vehicle width direction from an outer end in the vehicle width direction is formed on the upper surface side of the visor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Shunsuke Osafune, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki
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Publication number: 20200114762Abstract: A rear view monitoring device includes: a display unit which is provided on both sides of an instrument panel in a vehicle width direction; and a housing formed to surround a periphery of the display unit, wherein the housing includes an opening portion formed on a display surface side of the display unit, an upper surface disposed above the display unit, a side surface disposed outside the display unit in the vehicle width direction, and an overhanging portion which straddles the upper surface and the side surface and overhangs outward in the vehicle width direction from a range in which a pillar projects in a vertical direction, and at least the overhanging portion is formed to have a downward gradient toward an outside in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Akinori Myoi, Susumu Seki
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Patent number: 6791501Abstract: The present invention includes an antenna rod, an antenna base which attaches the antenna rod so as to be capable of swiveling, a joint assembly which consists of a cylindrical member in an axial direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rod at one end of the antenna rod, a pair of pivotal support portions provided so as to confront an upper portion of the antenna base so as to mount the joint assembly on a pivot in a swiveling manner, and a torsion spring which is provided with respect to the joint assembly and automatically returns the joint assembly to a predetermined swiveling position by giving the elasticity of itself even if a swiveling position of the joint assembly is changed due to an external force applied to the antenna rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignees: Harada Industry Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Junichi Kohinata, Masaki Shinkawa, Morihiro Inomata, Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Hitoshi Otsuka
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Publication number: 20030112191Abstract: The present invention includes an antenna rod, an antenna base which attaches the antenna rod so as to be capable of swiveling, a joint assembly which consists of a cylindrical member in an axial direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rod at one end of the antenna rod, a pair of pivotal support portions provided so as to confront an upper portion of the antenna base so as to mount the joint assembly on a pivot in a swiveling manner, and a torsion spring which is provided with respect to the joint assembly and automatically returns the joint assembly to a predetermined swiveling position by giving the elasticity of itself even if a swiveling position of the joint assembly is changed due to an external force applied to the antenna rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: HARADA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Junichi Kohinata, Masaki Shinkawa, Morihiro Inomata, Yasuyuki Shigefuji, Hitoshi Otsuka