Patents Assigned to Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11869349
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A traffic control device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a traffic control device that controls a traffic light installed on a route of a vehicle running on the basis of an operation diagram, including: an acquisition unit; a determination unit; and a signal generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from the vehicle, vehicle information including information regarding the operation diagram and a current position of the vehicle. The determination unit calculates, on the basis of the vehicle information, an estimated time of arrival at the traffic light, and determines whether or not the estimated time is on a scheduled time. The signal generation unit generates, where it is determined that the estimated time is delayed from the scheduled time, a control signal for causing the traffic light to execute signal control for preferentially causing the vehicle to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kai, Kenji Sumi, Yuichi Hida, Shinji Tatemoto
  • Patent number: 11849855
    Abstract: A seat device that can easily and positively achieve the conversion of the state of a seat. A leg stand (11) fixed on a floor surface, a movable stand (20) supported by the leg stand (11) so as to be able to advance/retract in front and back directions, an underframe (30) of the seat supported by the movable stand (20) so as to be rotatable in forward and backward directions, and an interlocking mechanism (50) that interlocks advancement/retraction of the movable stand (20) with rotation of the underframe (30) are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanobu Nakane, Yutaka Nagao
  • Patent number: 11835201
    Abstract: An optical lens (10) capable of facilitating efficient light distribution control with a simple configuration is provided. It comprises a plurality of light distribution control parts (11) continuing in a bilateral direction such that each of the light distribution control parts corresponds to each column of LEDs (22), the light distribution control parts defining optical paths of light from the LEDs (22) on a column basis, one light distribution control part (11) discharges light entering from the LEDs (22) in a column corresponding thereto in one direction of the bilateral direction that intersects the optical axes, and a further light distribution control part (11) discharges light entering from the LEDs (22) in a column corresponding thereto in a further direction of the bilateral direction that intersects the optical axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyo Kojima, Youmei Kaminaga
  • Patent number: 11820237
    Abstract: Information that was collected in time series in a moving body is delivered by wireless communication to a base station in a state in which real-time performance is high and omission of the information is reduced. An information transmission device installed in the moving body includes: a communication section; a position detection section; and a zone information storage section. An operation mode is periodically determined based on the current position and the zone information. When a first operation mode is determined, a predetermined attribute is assigned to new information. When a second operation mode is determined, new information and at least a part of information to which the attribute was assigned are transmitted to the base station. The attribute that had been assigned to the transmitted information among the information to which the attribute was assigned is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takumichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 11802684
    Abstract: It is an illumination apparatus (10) that can achieve special illumination in addition to normal illumination. It includes a main illumination light source (21) of a predetermined luminescent color, a sub illumination light source (22) adjustable to an arbitrary luminescent color, and a control unit (30) that controls lighting of the main illumination light source (21) and the sub illumination light source (22), the main illumination light source (21) and the sub illumination light source (22) are arranged in a state where respective irradiated lights are mixed on the same path, and the control unit (30) can set a high illuminance mode in which, in addition to lighting of the main illumination light source (21) during normal use, the sub illumination light source (22) is lighted in the same luminescent color as the main illumination light source (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Youmei Kaminaga
  • Patent number: 11783704
    Abstract: A configuration is provided so that information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. provided from a roadside device can be used by an automobile that cannot communicate with the roadside device. A warning device is configured to output a warning for an automobile traveling in a predetermined lane at an intersection where a roadside device is installed, the roadside device being configured to transmit information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc., the warning device including a receiving unit configured to receive information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. transmitted from the roadside device and signal information of a signal lamp for the predetermined lane, and a warning unit configured to output a warning based on the information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. and the signal information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiki Sudo
  • Patent number: 11725801
    Abstract: An optical lens capable of facilitating efficient light distribution control with a simple configuration includes a plurality of light distribution control parts arranged in a bilateral direction such that each of the light distribution control parts corresponds to each column of LEDs. The light distribution control parts define optical paths of light from the LEDs. The optical paths are sequentially shortened from one end side to the other end side in the bilateral direction. The light distribution control parts guide the light in a direction that intersects optical axes of the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyo Kojima, Youmei Kaminaga
  • Patent number: 11665805
    Abstract: A lighting device includes an indoor lamp (11), being provided in the cabin of a railroad vehicle (1) in order to wholly irradiate the inside of the cabin over the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a vehicle body power supply (20), supplying electric power to the indoor lamp (11), and a storage battery (30), being charged with a voltage applied by the vehicle body power supply (20). The indoor lamp (11) includes a general lamp light source (12) and a standby lamp light source (13), being lighted at an illuminance lower than that at which the general lamp light source (12) is lighted, and the general lamp source (12) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) not through the storage battery (30), while the standby lamp light source (13) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) through the storage battery (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Fujii, Hideto Sanui, Jun Ito, Hajime Suzuki, Youmei Kaminaga, Takayuki Izumi, Kazuo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11511657
    Abstract: [Object] To inhibit leg rests from colliding with each other and to allow a leg rest of his/her own seat to operate even in the case where a power source failure or the like occurs. [Solving Means] A seat apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a seat body; a control unit; and a setting means. The seat body includes a leg rest. The control unit includes a controller. The controller determines whether the seat body is in a first state in which the seat body does not face a front seat or a back seat of the seat body or a second state in which the seat body faces one of the front seat and the back seat. The controller enables, where the controller has determined that the seat body is in the first state, a tilt operation command for the leg rest to tilt forward, and invalidates, where the controller has determined that the seat body is in the second state, the tilt operation command. The setting means fixes the determination result by the controller to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Murase, Takao Okura
  • Patent number: 11105489
    Abstract: An illumination lens includes an incident face (510), being provided in a recessed manner in a bottom apex part of the lens body (51), and receiving light from the light source (41); a reflection face (520) on the inner side of an outer periphery of the lens body (51), totally reflecting the light, having reached from the incident face (510); and an emission face (530) at the upper end of the lens body (51), emitting the light, having reached from the incident face (510) and the reflection face (520), to the outside, and the incident face (510) distributes the light, which could be directed toward the entire region of the reflection face (520), only in a predetermined range (521) within the reflection face, being adjacent to the upper end side portion, following the emission face (530), and being closer to the bottom apex part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Fujii, Jun Ito, Youmei Kaminaga, Yasuyo Kojima, Satoru Yakushiji
  • Patent number: 10988051
    Abstract: A seat support mechanism including a leg pedestal (11), which is fixedly provided on a floor in the vicinity of a side wall (A), a moving pedestal (20), which is disposed under a top face part (12) of the leg pedestal (11) and is capable of being advanced/retracted in a direction orthogonal to the side wall A; an underframe (30) of the seat, which is disposed above the top face part (12) of the leg pedestal (11), and is turnably supported by a turning shaft (41) in the moving pedestal (20), the turning shaft (41) avoiding an interference with the top face part (12), and an interlocking mechanism (50), which interlocks turning and advancing/retracting of the underframe (30), in which, when the seat is turned together with the underframe (30), the interlocking mechanism (50) converts the turning motion of the underframe (30) into a linear motion and, through the turning shaft (41), transmits it to the moving pedestal (20), thereby causing the moving pedestal (20) and the underframe (30) to be advanced/retracted
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Fumito Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210062997
    Abstract: An illumination lens includes an incident face (510), being provided in a recessed manner in a bottom apex part of the lens body (51), and receiving light from the light source (41); a reflection face (520) on the inner side of an outer periphery of the lens body (51), totally reflecting the light, having reached from the incident face (510); and an emission face (530) at the upper end of the lens body (51), emitting the light, having reached from the incident face (510) and the reflection face (520), to the outside, and the incident face (510) distributes the light, which could be directed toward the entire region of the reflection face (520), only in a predetermined range (521) within the reflection face, being adjacent to the upper end side portion, following the emission face (530), and being closer to the bottom apex part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi FUJII, Jun ITO, Youmei KAMINAGA, Yasuyo KOJIMA, Satoru YAKUSHIJI
  • Patent number: 10932338
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply adjustment system including: an electronic load whose load voltage is variable; a power supply board that supplies the electronic load with current; and an information processing apparatus that controls the load voltage of the electronic load and the output current of the power supply board to the electronic load on the basis of a current value in the load voltage, in which the information processing apparatus includes a control unit that sets a plurality of load voltages in a predetermined range as the load voltage of the electronic load and sets a correction current value for adjusting the output current to a preset target current value for each of the plurality of load voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Izumi, Yukihito Yabuki, Kazuo Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20210008985
    Abstract: Information that was collected in time series in a moving body is delivered by wireless communication to a base station in a state in which real-time performance is high and omission of the information is reduced. An information transmission device installed in the moving body includes: a communication section; a position detection section; and a zone information storage section. An operation mode is periodically determined based on the current position and the zone information. When a first operation mode is determined, a predetermined attribute is assigned to new information. When a second operation mode is determined, new information and at least a part of information to which the attribute was assigned are transmitted to the base station. The attribute that had been assigned to the transmitted information among the information to which the attribute was assigned is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takumichi KUDO
  • Patent number: 10857933
    Abstract: A control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a controller. The controller that switches between a first control mode for executing lighting control intended for a marker lamp of a railway vehicle and a second control mode for executing lighting control intended for the marker lamp and a display unit disposed in vicinity of the marker lamp in a manner that depends on a travelling state of the railway vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Kojima, Yasuyo Kojima
  • Patent number: 10668811
    Abstract: A power supply system (120) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first power supply device (121), a second power supply device (122), and an addition circuit (123). The first power supply device (121) includes a first driving circuit that outputs a first direct current from a first power supply input and a first control circuit that controls the first driving circuit. The second power supply device (122) includes a second driving circuit that outputs a second direct current from a second power supply input and a second control circuit that monitors the first driving circuit and controls the second driving circuit. The addition circuit (123) is connected to an output terminal of each of the first and second power supply devices (121, 122) and outputs a third direct current that is a value obtained by adding the first and second direct currents to a load device (on-board illumination device (110)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akitaka Samejima, Takayuki Izumi, Jun Matsunaga, Kazuo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10282980
    Abstract: A push-button box that can enhance the waterproofness and the safety of the structure of the cabinet, and prevent a foreign matter from being left thereon, that enhances the operability of the push button, thereby being user friendly, and that is excellent in durability in operation and strength. In the push-button box 10 for instructing an operation of a pedestrian signal lamp device, a cabinet 11 that accommodates various components is formed of a base main body 20, which constitutes the rear face of the cabinet 11, being opened on the front face side, and a front case 30, which is combined with the base main body 20 so as to cover the opening thereof from forward, being provided with a push button 40, and in the state in which said front case 30 covers the opening of said base main body 20 from forward, the rear face thereof is opened downward in a diagonally rearward direction in the cabinet 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Rika Takagi
  • Patent number: 10174888
    Abstract: Problem: To provide a modular lighting unit that allows freely designing a lighting fitting in accordance with the demand for illumination design of the user, and moreover that can be easily assembled, resulting from the simple structure thereof, whereby the cost can be substantially reduced, and its commercial value is high. Solution: A modular lighting unit 10, including one light emitting element 42 disposed in a lamp chamber that is enclosed by a case 20 and a cover 30, the case 20 and the cover 30 being combined with each other in such a way that the peripheral wall 31 of the cover 30 covers the peripheral wall 21 of the case 20, and in the mutually combined state, they being fixed to each other with an engaging part 34 provided for either one of them being engaged with an engaged part 24 provided for the other by snap fitting. Between the light emitting element 42 and the irradiation aperture 33a, there being disposed a lens body 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Narushima, Youmei Kaminaga
  • Patent number: 8855009
    Abstract: There are provided a method and a device for providing communication data that provide communication data for identifying a device on a mobile object that communicates through an LAN in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol to the device on a mobile object installed on a mobile object without a communication data provision problem caused due to a manual operation, a data gathering method and a system for a mobile object using the method and the device, the device on a mobile object for the system, a network system for organizing vehicles, and an on-vehicle device for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Niiyama, Kenichiro Komatsu, Kazuki Furusawa, Akitaka Samejima
  • Patent number: 8714770
    Abstract: A lighting device (1) is configured to include: an elongated flat substrate (2); a plurality of semiconductor light sources (3) arranged on the flat substrate in a longitudinal direction of the flat substrate; and a lens plate (4) disposed to face the semiconductor light sources, wherein the lens plate includes a lens-light-incident surface facing the semiconductor light sources and includes a lens-light-emitting surface, a first lens section (5) is formed on one of the lens-light-incident surface and the lens-light-emitting surface and distributing the light emitted by the semiconductor light source in the longitudinal direction, a second lens section (9) is formed on the other one of the lens-light-incident surface and the lens-light-emitting surface for distributing the light emitted by the semiconductor light sources in a width direction, and the first lens section has a curvature surface unit including two or more convex section curvature surfaces having different curvature radii and formed adjacent in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Nichia Corporation, Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Kazunori Watanabe