Patents Assigned to DENSO TEN LIMITED
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Patent number: 12041416Abstract: A panel speaker includes: a panel; a vibration actuator that vibrates the panel, the vibration actuator having first and second oppositely-facing surfaces, the first surface facing the panel; a bracket that is located between the first surface of the vibration actuator and the panel; a spacer that is located adjacent to the second surface of the vibration actuator, the spacer occupying a first area that is encompassed by a second area occupied by the bracket when the panel speaker is viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a plane of the second surface; and a screw that passes through the spacer, the vibration actuator, and the bracket to fasten the spacer, the vibration actuator, and the bracket to the panel. The vibration actuator, disposed between the bracket and the spacer, is fastened by the screw to the panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Shinichi Ikeda, Yasutaka Yamanaka
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Patent number: 12040639Abstract: A power supply device includes: a first system connected to a first load; a second system connected to a second load; an inter-system switch configured to connect and disconnect the first system and the second system to and from each other; a controller configured to normally supply power of a first power supply to the first system and the second system and, in response to a fault of the first system being detected, turn off the inter-system switch to supply power of a second power supply to the second system; and a backup circuit which includes a discharge regulation unit configured to regulate discharging of the second power supply.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITEDInventors: Daiki Hakushima, Takeshi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Keiichi Yonezaki, Ryuki Maeda
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Publication number: 20240230786Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes measurement devices and a battery monitoring device. Each measurement device measures a cell state of a corresponding cell constituting a battery. The battery monitoring device sequentially communicates, by using wireless communication, with the measurement devices during a communication period; and acquires state information indicating the cell state from each measurement device. In a case where transmitting a measurement instruction of the cell state to each of the measurement devices, the battery monitoring device transmits, to each of the plurality of measurement devices, a corresponding stand-by time interval such that measurement timings of the measurement devices synchronize, the stand-by time interval being a time interval from reception of the measurement instruction until the measurement timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi OHTANI, Shogo SHIGEMORI
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Publication number: 20240236581Abstract: A panel speaker includes: a single vibration panel formed by adhering one surface of a first panel and one surface of a second panel; a first vibration actuator configured to drive and vibrate the single vibration panel; and a second vibration actuator configured to drive and vibrate the single vibration panel, the single vibration panel has, in a plan view, a first non-adhesive region and a second non-adhesive region in both of which the first panel and the second panel are not bonded to each other, and the first vibration actuator is coupled to other surface of the second panel to drive the first non-adhesive region, and the second vibration actuator is coupled to the other surface of the second panel to drive the second non-adhesive region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Kazuki MATSUI
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Patent number: 12033173Abstract: A taxi management device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires first information including information specifying a use language of a first person and second information including information specifying an interpretable language of a second person; and a discount setting unit that performs discount setting of a fare of the second person at a time of ride-sharing of taxi by the first person and the second person based on the first information and the second information.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Shinichi Tanaka, Shinichi Shiotsu, Haruki Shiraishi, Minoru Maehata, Miki Hitotsuya, Tomohiro Ikeda
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Publication number: 20240222989Abstract: A charging control device including a controller that controls charging a battery that is mounted on a vehicle using an external power, wherein the controller is able to set a first charging mode in which charging is completed when a state of charge becomes a first target of charge close to full charging, and further is able to set a second charging mode in which charging is completed when a state of charge becomes a second target state of charge that is lower than the first target state of charge, and the controller is configured to: in a case of the first charging mode, control a timing when charging is completed based on a traveling due time, and in a case of the second charging mode, execute control such that the timing when charging is completed before the timing when charging is completed in the first charging mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Masatoshi HAGIWARA
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Publication number: 20240223120Abstract: A power supply control device includes: a connection device provided in an inter-system line that connects a first system and a second system; and a controller configured to control the connection device. The controller is configured to control the connection device to cut off the inter-system line in response to a power supply failure of the first system or the second system being detected, execute a confirmation process for confirming a failed system based on changes in voltages of the first system and the second system in a first period, and execute, in a case where the failed system cannot be confirmed in the confirmation process, an estimation process for estimating, as an abnormal system, a system with a greater possibility to be abnormal, based on changes in voltages of the first system and the second system in a second period longer than the first period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Takeshi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 12024107Abstract: A control device to be mounted on a vehicle, includes: a board; a control circuit which is provided on the board and is configured to execute a control in a case of a collision of the vehicle; a case in which the board is accommodated; and a bracket that extends from a side surface of the case and is to be fixed to the vehicle with a fastening member, and the bracket includes: a groove portion that extends in an intersection direction intersecting an extending direction of the bracket from the case; and a protrusion that closes a part of the groove portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Yuuya Sakai, Nobumasa Tokui, Takahiro Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20240213774Abstract: A power supply control device includes: an inter-system connection unit configured to disconnect electrical connection between a first system and a second system, a first detection device configured to detect an abnormality of the first system or the second system when a state in which a physical quantity indicating a state of the first system or a state of the second system exceeds a first threshold for abnormality determination from a normal value side continues for a first detection time, and block the inter-system connection unit, and a second detection device configured to specify in the first system and the second system, as an abnormal system, a system in which a state in which the physical quantity exceeds a second threshold for abnormality determination from the normal value side continues for a second detection time shorter than the first detection time, after the first detection device detects an abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Daiki HAKUSHIMA, Takeshi Matsumoto, Minoru Yoshimura
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Patent number: 12013805Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication apparatus and a second controller. The communication apparatus includes a memory to store a program, a reception buffer to save reception data, a transfer destination buffer to receive transfer reception data and a first controller to erase the reception data when the reception data are transferred to the transfer destination buffer, and execute a hardware reset of erasing the program and executing an initialization process upon detecting abnormality. The second controller checks, after transmitting the data to the communication apparatus, whether the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer after an elapse of a predetermined period of time shorter than a period of time till the hardware reset upon occurrence of abnormality in transferring the data. The second controller causes the communication apparatus to execute a software reset when at least some proportion of the transmitted data are saved in the reception buffer.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kazuki Fujita, Katsutomo Sasakura
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Patent number: 11982889Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid-crystal display module, a holder, an exterior panel, and a fixing part. The liquid-crystal display module includes the liquid-crystal panel and a polarizing plate. The holder holds a back light that is glued to a back surface of the liquid-crystal display module. The exterior panel surrounds a periphery of the liquid-crystal display module. The fixing part fixes the holder and the exterior panel to each other in a part where a straight line and a periphery portion of the holder intersect with each other, the straight line extending in a direction that is different from a light-transmission-axis direction of the polarizing plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Takahiro Tsukada, Kiyoshi Takeno, Shogo Fuchisaki, Keiji Nebiki, Takeshi Yasuda, Haruya Tsugimoto
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Patent number: 11979052Abstract: A power source device includes a step-up circuit, a diode for backflow prevention, and an electrolytic capacitor. The step-up circuit is connected to a power source on an input side thereof and is connected to a first load and a second load in parallel on an output side thereof. The diode for backflow prevention is connected between the step-up circuit and the first load. The electrolytic capacitor is connected between the diode for backflow prevention and the first load.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Tomoyuki Minami
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Patent number: 11980002Abstract: A holding device, includes: a holding portion configured to hold a shunt resistor; a spacer portion extending from the holding portion and abutting on a front surface of a substrate on which a monitoring unit configured to monitor a current value of a current flowing through the shunt resistor is mounted; and an engaging portion extending from the holding portion and having an engaging claw to be engaged with a back surface of the substrate. The spacer portion separates the holding portion and the substrate from each other such that a connection portion which electrically connects the shunt resistor and the monitoring unit is visible.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kazuya Hashimoto, Hitoshi Enomoto
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Patent number: 11972835Abstract: A latch circuit device includes: a latch circuit configured to latch an input signal to a microcomputer; a detection circuit configured to detect that the input signal is input to the latch circuit during a sleep period in which the microcomputer is in a sleep state; a wake-up circuit configured to transmit a wake-up signal to the microcomputer when an input of the input signal is detected during the sleep period; a sampling circuit configured to read the input signal from the latch circuit; a transmission circuit configured to transmit the input signal read by the sampling circuit to the microcomputer returned from the sleep state based on the wake-up signal; and a release circuit configured to release a latch state of the latch circuit after the input signal is read.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Kazuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 11972051Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user based on a sound signal in a content, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire data of a content including a sound signal; execute an analysis process on the sound signal; and generate a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user in a conversion process of the sound signal according to a result of the analysis process.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Rei Hiromi, Shinichi Shiotsu, Yoshikuni Miki, Akio Arai, Yohei Kakee
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Publication number: 20240137708Abstract: A panel speaker includes: a single vibration panel formed by adhering one surface of a first panel and one surface of a second panel; a first vibration actuator configured to drive and vibrate the single vibration panel; and a second vibration actuator configured to drive and vibrate the single vibration panel, the single vibration panel has, in a plan view, a first non-adhesive region and a second non-adhesive region in both of which the first panel and the second panel are not bonded to each other, and the first vibration actuator is coupled to other surface of the second panel to drive the first non-adhesive region, and the second vibration actuator is coupled to the other surface of the second panel to drive the second non-adhesive region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Kazuki MATSUI
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Publication number: 20240133974Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes measurement devices and a battery monitoring device. Each measurement device measures a cell state of a corresponding cell constituting a battery. The battery monitoring device sequentially communicates, by using wireless communication, with the measurement devices during a communication period; and acquires state information indicating the cell state from each measurement device. In a case where transmitting a measurement instruction of the cell state to each of the measurement devices, the battery monitoring device transmits, to each of the plurality of measurement devices, a corresponding stand-by time interval such that measurement timings of the measurement devices synchronize, the stand-by time interval being a time interval from reception of the measurement instruction until the measurement timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi OHTANI, Shogo SHIGEMORI
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Patent number: 11964562Abstract: An operation panel of an electronic equipment includes a panel body having at least two openings that have identical shapes and sizes, at least one dummy cover having a shape and a size that fits to any of the at least two openings that have identical shapes and sizes, and an electronic component that is mounted on the dummy cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Masataka Sakata, Shohei Yoshii, Tomoaki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11959766Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select at least one candidate camera from plural cameras based on position information of each of the plural cameras; a reception unit configured to establish communication connection with the candidate camera selected by the selection unit and to start to receive video captured by the candidate camera; and a display control unit configured to display the video received by the reception unit in response to a predetermined display condition being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Shinichi Shiotsu, Tomoe Ohtsuki, Toshiyuki Moribayashi, Motoki Kojima, Hiroshi Yanagi
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Patent number: 11958028Abstract: A preparation apparatus includes a first tank, a second tank, a preparation tank, and a computer having a hardware processor. The first tank contains a first liquid. The second tank contains a second liquid having a lower viscosity than the first liquid. The preparation tank stirs the first liquid supplied from the first tank and the second liquid supplied from the second tank to prepare a preparation liquid. The hardware processor measures a viscosity of the first liquid based on a supply time required to supply a specified amount of the first liquid at a constant pressure from the first tank to the preparation tank, and supplies an amount of the second liquid to the preparation tank based on the measured viscosity of the first liquid so as to cause the preparation liquid to have a target viscosity.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hisaki Hayashi