Patents by Inventor Yojiro Tsutsumi

Yojiro Tsutsumi 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: 10762677
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus that provides, to a driver of a vehicle, an image showing vehicle information related to the vehicle by superimposing the image on a foreground of the vehicle, the apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain information related to a driving state of the driver, and a control unit configured to control a display mode of the image based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Senno, Kohei Noguchi, Yojiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 10642033
    Abstract: An image display device includes an acquisition unit that acquires two or more types of information, a detection unit that detects at least one of an acceleration, an orientation, and an angular velocity of the image display device, an image change section that determines a state of the image display device on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit, switches information, which is to be selected from the two or more types of information acquired by the acquisition unit, in accordance with the determined state of the image display device, and generates display data based on the switched information, and a display unit that displays the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yojiro Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20190155024
    Abstract: An image display device includes an acquisition unit that acquires two or more types of information, a detection unit that detects at least one of an acceleration, an orientation, and an angular velocity of the image display device, an image change section that determines a state of the image display device on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit, switches information, which is to be selected from the two or more types of information acquired by the acquisition unit, in accordance with the determined state of the image display device, and generates display data based on the switched information, and a display unit that displays the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Yojiro Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20190096107
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus that provides, to a driver of a vehicle, an image showing vehicle information related to the vehicle by superimposing the image on a foreground of the vehicle, the apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain information related to a driving state of the driver, and a control unit configured to control a display mode of the image based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masaharu Senno, Kohei Noguchi, Yojiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9415664
    Abstract: A windshield control device is configured such that a position and/or an angle in a height direction of a windshield attached to a front part of a vehicle is optionally adjusted by an actuator. The windshield control device includes receiving means that receives a signal related to a head set having a microphone used by a rider, and control means that drives and controls the windshield. The control means upwardly moves the windshield according to the signal received by the receiving means. The signal is a tone signal input from the microphone or a manipulated signal of an active switch for operating the head set or the receiving means. The windshield is upwardly moved according to magnitude of the tone signal input from the microphone after the receiving means is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hoshi, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Takeshi Konno, Kenji Suzuki, Sadanao Ichimi, Masakuni Ando
  • Publication number: 20160052373
    Abstract: A windshield control device is configured such that a position and/or an angle in a height direction of a windshield attached to a front part of a vehicle is optionally adjusted by an actuator. The windshield control device includes receiving means that receives a signal related to a head set having a microphone used by a rider, and control means that drives and controls the windshield. The control means upwardly moves the windshield according to the signal received by the receiving means. The signal is a tone signal input from the microphone or a manipulated signal of an active switch for operating the head set or the receiving means. The windshield is upwardly moved according to magnitude of the tone signal input from the microphone after the receiving means is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hoshi, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Takeshi Konno, Kenji Suzuki, Sadanao Ichimi, Masakuni Ando
  • Patent number: 9238496
    Abstract: Vibration generators are provided on a vehicle to give vibration to the body of an occupant in response to outside information inputted from the outside of the vehicle, or vehicle information outputted from an in-vehicle system. The vibration generators are installed under the seating faces or inside the back of the occupant seats, or in the side wall surface of a fuel tank. The vibration generators are driven by information on predetermined contents among outside information obtained by two-way radio communication with another vehicle using radio communication equipment. The vibration generator provided in the occupant seats can be operated as speaker means producing deep bass sound in response to an audio signal of an in-vehicle audio unit. The resulting configuration enables information to be transmitted to the occupant of the vehicle by vibration given to his/her body, rather than being transmitted audibly or visually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yojiro Tsutsumi, Tadatoshi Shigetomi, Mutsumi Katayama
  • Patent number: 8303144
    Abstract: A motorcycle is easily recognized by other vehicles or pedestrians and is hardly damaged during a maximum bank, by devising the disposition of lighting fixtures. An area surrounded by a vertical line passing on each of both side surfaces of a front wheel, a horizontal line passing through a protrusion of a step serving as a first grounding portion, and a straight line for connecting the first grounding portion with an intersection between the vertical line and the ground, is set. Lighting fixtures are provided in the area, as seen from the front side. The lighting fixtures are mounted to lower ends of front forks that support a shaft of the front wheel. The lighting fixture are mounted to lower rear ends of swing arms that support a shaft of the rear wheel. A lamp of each of the lighting fixtures is composed of an assembly of a plurality of light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokujiro Kizaki, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Koshi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8297812
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system having a plurality of lighting apparatuses disposed so as to make a vehicle front surface reminiscent of a “face,” wherein an outline of a light-emitting surface of each of the lighting apparatuses from blurring to be fused. A glare area G has a width y as expressed in an expression “y=a+b·ln(x) (ln is a natural logarithm),” “a=?107,” and “b=39.6” when a main lighting apparatus has a luminous intensity of x is defined outside an outline OL of a main light-emitting surface in a vehicle front view, and an auxiliary lighting apparatus disposition area, in which an auxiliary lighting apparatus of a steadily lighting type different from a flashing type lighting apparatus is disposed, is set upwardly of the main lighting apparatus and outside the glare area G.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Maruyama, Yutaka Murata, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Toru Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20100195340
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system having a plurality of lighting apparatuses disposed so as to make a vehicle front surface reminiscent of a “face,” wherein an outline of a light-emitting surface of each of the lighting apparatuses from blurring to be fused. A glare area G has a width y as expressed in an expression “y=a+b·ln(x) (ln is a natural logarithm),” “a=?107,” and “b=39.6” when a main lighting apparatus has a luminous intensity of x is defined outside an outline OL of a main light-emitting surface in a vehicle front view, and an auxiliary lighting apparatus disposition area, in which an auxiliary lighting apparatus of a steadily lighting type different from a flashing type lighting apparatus is disposed, is set upwardly of the main lighting apparatus and outside the glare area G.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Maruyama, Yutaka Murata, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Toru Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 7641269
    Abstract: In a vehicular body structure, left and right front pillars are provided closer to the longitudinal centerline of a vehicle than left and right corner sections of a compartment of the vehicle. First corner window (26) provided adjacent to one of the left and right front pillars (13) which is more remote from a driver's seat (24) has a greater opening area than a second corner window (25) provided adjacent to the other of the left and right pillars (11) which is closer to the driver's seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Masaaki Abe, Isao Uematsu, Kazuyuki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20090059611
    Abstract: A motorcycle is easily recognized by other vehicles or pedestrians and is hardly damaged during a maximum bank, by devising the disposition of lighting fixtures. An area surrounded by a vertical line passing on each of both side surfaces of a front wheel, a horizontal line passing through a protrusion of a step serving as a first grounding portion, and a straight line for connecting the first grounding portion with an intersection between the vertical line and the ground, is set. Lighting fixtures are provided in the area, as seen from the front side. The lighting fixtures are mounted to lower ends of front forks that support a shaft of the front wheel. The lighting fixture are mounted to lower rear ends of swing arms that support a shaft of the rear wheel. A lamp of each of the lighting fixtures is composed of an assembly of a plurality of light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Tokujiro KIZAKI, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Koshi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20080128190
    Abstract: Vibration generators are provided on a vehicle to give vibration to the body of an occupant in response to outside information inputted from the outside of the vehicle, or vehicle information outputted from an in-vehicle system. The vibration generators are installed under the seating faces or inside the back of the occupant seats, or in the side wall surface of a fuel tank. The vibration generators are driven by information on predetermined contents among outside information obtained by two-way radio communication with another vehicle using radio communication equipment. The vibration generator provided in the occupant seats can be operated as speaker means producing deep bass sound in response to an audio signal of an in-vehicle audio unit. The resulting configuration enables information to be transmitted to the occupant of the vehicle by vibration given to his/her body, rather than being transmitted audibly or visually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yojiro Tsutsumi, Tadatoshi Shigetomi, Mutsumi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20070216189
    Abstract: In a vehicular body structure, left and right front pillars are provided closer to the longitudinal centerline of a vehicle than left and right corner sections of a compartment of the vehicle. First corner window (26) provided adjacent to one of the left and right front pillars (13) which is more remote from a driver's seat (24) has a greater opening area than a second corner window (25) provided adjacent to the other of the left and right pillars (11) which is closer to the driver's seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Yojiro Tsutsumi, Masaaki Abe, Isao Uematsu, Kazuyuki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20070070641
    Abstract: This vehicular lighting unit enhances an accuracy of when a driver of another vehicle and a pedestrian looking a vehicle perceive the vehicle, and a vehicle having the vehicular lighting unit is enhanced in a perceived accuracy, wherein the vehicular lighting unit includes at least not less than three supplementary lights arranged not to be in a row at the front side of a vehicle and having an equivalent color and brightness, wherein the supplementary lights are arranged at an equivalent position with respect to any one of a two-wheeled vehicle, a four-wheeled passenger vehicle, and a large size vehicle, and wherein in the supplementary lights each one arranged outside is in a range of 460 to 1715 mm in a vertical direction and 240 to 840 mm in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari Sakamoto, Hiroshi Uematsu, Isao Uematsu, Kazuyuki Maruyama, Yojiro Tsutsumi