Patents Assigned to Murakami Corporation
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Publication number: 20220206629Abstract: A reference position setting method includes: a process of displaying at least three markers on an operation surface; a process of acquiring coordinate values of a sensor coordinate system; a process of transforming the acquired coordinate value into coordinate values of a temporary coordinate system; and a process of transforming the transformed coordinate values into coordinate values of a screen coordinate system. At least one of parallel movement and rotation is performed with respect to the sensor coordinate system to transform the sensor coordinate system into the temporary coordinate system. Movement of the temporary coordinate system in a direction parallel to a plane including a second X-axis and a second Y-axis, and enlargement or reduction of the temporary coordinate system are performed to transform the temporary coordinate system into the screen coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Takayoshi MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20220161814Abstract: Warning information that facilitates grasping an obstacle located in rear of a vehicle is provided. A driving assistance system including: a first detection section that detects an obstacle from a plurality of captured images of a rear side of a driver of a vehicle; a second detection section that detects the obstacle by analyzing a reflected wave of a measurement wave transmitted to the rear side; and an information output section that determines a direction in which the obstacle is located with respect to the vehicle on the basis of detection results of the first detection section and the second detection section, and that outputs warning information indicating the direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi HAYAMI, Masao MAKITA, Takayoshi MOCHIZUKI
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Patent number: 11285876Abstract: An attachment structure includes a support part for an in-vehicle device, a plate spring attached to the support part, and a screw screwed into the support part. The attachment base slides and is received in a space interposed between left and right plate spring pieces. The screw is fastened in this state. A screw distal end presses a front surface of the attachment base to generate an appropriate force of fitting between the attachment base and the left and right plate spring pieces and thereby the attachment base and the plate spring are elastically fitted with each other. The in-vehicle device is attached to the attachment base via the plate spring using the elastic fitting. If an external force that is equal to or exceeds a predetermined value is applied to the in-vehicle device, the elastic fitting is cancelled and the in-vehicle device drops off from the attachment base.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Naomi Sugimura
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Publication number: 20220073000Abstract: A tilting mechanism of a view device for a vehicle has a configuration in which a rotating section is rotatably supported on a shaft of a fixed portion. A helical compression spring is fitted onto the shaft. A plate is attached to the free-end side of the shaft via a washer. An outer circumferential surface of the shaft and a center hole of the washer include respective different diameter portions. A gap g in a radial direction is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the center hole of the washer. The tilting mechanism includes a deviation mechanism. The deviation mechanism makes the gap g become narrow or zero at the different diameter portions at at least one place, the different diameter portions facing each other, by making the washer move relative to the shaft in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu YAMASHITA, Yoshiaki NAGASHIMA
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Patent number: 11254264Abstract: A sensor assembling structure includes a sensor assembling void formed in a mounting base, a sensor assembling leaf spring, and mounting base-side leaf spring mounting portions formed at the mounting base. The mounting base is mounted to a windshield. The sensor assembling void receives a sensor. The sensor assembling leaf spring includes mounting base mounted portions. In a state in which the sensor is received in the sensor assembling void, the sensor assembling leaf spring is mounted to the mounting base-side leaf spring mounting portions via the mounting base mounted portions. The sensor assembling leaf spring maintains a state in which the sensor is received in the sensor assembling void.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignees: MURAKAMI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naomi Sugimura, Tatsuya Ohmaru, Manami Inai
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Patent number: 11237673Abstract: An operation detection device according to an embodiment includes: a display unit that displays an operation unit as a virtual image; a sensor that detects a position of an object approaching the operation unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the operation unit has been pressed based on the position of the object detected by the sensor. The determination unit determines that the operation unit has been pressed before the object reaches the operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Takayoshi Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11232540Abstract: With respect to two images acquired from two video images including a mutually-overlapping area in which the two video images overlap each other, an image transformation matrix for mapping coordinate systems is sequentially generated. Coordinate transformation of at least one image of the images is performed using the generated image transformation matrix. A composite image is created by overlaying two images with the at least one image subjected to the coordinate transformation. The currently used image transformation matrix and the newly generated image transformation matrix are compared with each other. If the two image transformation matrices are similar, the coordinate transformation is performed using the currently used image transformation matrix continuously. If the two image transformation matrices are dissimilar, the coordinate transformation is performed using an image transformation matrix corrected with the newly generated image transformation matrix.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Hayami
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Patent number: 11194403Abstract: A reference position setting method according to the present disclosure is a reference position setting method for setting a reference position for recognizing whether or not an operation unit displayed as a virtual image has been operated. The reference position setting method includes: a step of displaying a marker displayed as a virtual image larger than an object approaching the marker; a step of detecting the object approaching the marker; and a step of making a color or shade of the outer edge of the marker different from a color or shade of the center of the marker after the step of detecting the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Takayoshi Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11131872Abstract: A mirror display apparatus that subjects a mirror optical element to pulse voltage driving so that a reflectivity in a mirror mode can be changed by means of a duty cycle of the pulse voltage is provided. A mirror display apparatus includes a monitor display device and a mirror optical element disposed on the front side of the monitor display device. The mirror optical element includes a liquid-crystal panel with a reflection-type polarizer disposed on the back side thereof. The mirror optical element has a reflectivity and a transmissivity that are changed in respective directions opposite to each other via electric driving using a voltage applied to the liquid-crystal panel. A control circuit drives the liquid-crystal panel using a pulse voltage and performs control to change the reflectivity and the transmissivity of the mirror optical element by changing a duty cycle of the pulse voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Gohara, Noriyuki Unno, Mina Sugino
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Publication number: 20210244287Abstract: The accuracy of detection of a heartbeat is increased and a time for detection of a heartbeat is shortened. A heartbeat detection device includes a heartbeat detection unit which detects a heart rate using the luminance of captured images of a part of a body surface of a user, which are captured images of a plurality of frames which have been captured in chronological order. The heartbeat detection unit computes a total luminance of the captured image of each of the frames, delays a vibrating wave representing chronological change of the total luminance at certain time intervals, and computes the heart rate using a cycle of a peak at which a difference between the vibrating wave which has not been subjected to a delay and each vibrating wave which has been subjected to a delay is reduced in a waveform of the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi HAYAMI
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Publication number: 20210215961Abstract: A mirror display apparatus that subjects a mirror optical element to pulse voltage driving so that a reflectivity in a mirror mode can be changed by means of a duty cycle of the pulse voltage is provided. A mirror display apparatus includes a monitor display device and a mirror optical element disposed on the front side of the monitor display device. The mirror optical element includes a liquid-crystal panel with a reflection-type polarizer disposed on the back side thereof. The mirror optical element has a reflectivity and a transmissivity that are changed in respective directions opposite to each other via electric driving using a voltage applied to the liquid-crystal panel. A control circuit drives the liquid-crystal panel using a pulse voltage and performs control to change the reflectivity and the transmissivity of the mirror optical element by changing a duty cycle of the pulse voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro GOHARA, Noriyuki UNNO, Mina SUGINO
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Patent number: 11056830Abstract: A manual operation element includes a locking active surface and an unlocking active surface. A locking displaceable element includes a locking passive surface and an unlocking passive surface. When the manual operation element is operated in a locking direction, the locking active surface engages with the locking passive surface and displaces the locking displaceable element toward a locked position. When the manual operation element is operated in an unlocking direction, the unlocking active surface engages with the unlocking passive surface and displaces the locking displaceable element toward an unlocked position. When the locking displaceable element performs a displacement operation electrically, neither the locking active surface and the locking passive surface nor the unlocking active surface and the unlocking passive surface engage with each other in an entire area or more than half area of a displacement range of the locking displaceable element.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Motomiya, Takayuki Miyazaki, Kenji Ichikawa, Hiroki Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20210190283Abstract: A lamp unit according to an embodiment is a lamp unit that irradiates with light from a light source, and includes: a circuit board on which the light source is mounted; a housing configured to have an internal space for accommodating the circuit board; a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit the light from the light source to the outside of the housing, wherein the housing include an insertion hole for inserting the circuit board into the internal space from the outside of the housing to which the lens is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ISEKI, Dinh DONG VAN, Kosuke MUTO
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Publication number: 20210188174Abstract: A BSM unit according to an embodiment is attached to a side surface facing the vehicle body of a visor of an outer mirror provided to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The BSM unit includes a light source; a housing configured to accommodate the light source; and a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit light from the light source to the outside of the housing, in which at least a portion of the lens protrudes from the side surface of the visor in an out-of-plane direction of the side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ISEKI, Dinh DONG VAN, Kosuke MUTO
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Publication number: 20210188176Abstract: A BSM unit according to an embodiment is attached to a side surface facing the vehicle body of a visor of an outer mirror provided to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The BSM unit includes: a light source; a housing; and a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit light from the light source to the outside of the housing. The visor has an edge portion which is positioned on a rear side of the vehicle on the side surface and is surrounding a mirror of the outer mirror, at least a portion of the lens is exposed on the side surface of the visor, and a shape of the exposure portion of the lens includes a center of the exposure portion and the edge portion and is bilateral-symmetrical with respect to a cross section orthogonal to the side surface of the visor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ISEKI, Dinh DONG VAN, Kosuke MUTO
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Publication number: 20210173218Abstract: An image display system includes a first display device and a second display device, each of which displays an image. The image display system further includes an optical imaging member that forms an aerial image displayed in each of the first display device and the second display device in respective positions different from each other. Light of an image displayed in the first display device passes through the first reflectance switching element and is then made incident on the optical imaging member, to thereby form the image of interest in the air. Light of an image displayed in the second display device is reflected by the first reflectance switching element and is then made incident on the optical imaging member, to thereby form the image of interest in the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventor: Masataka HAMANO
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Patent number: 10953802Abstract: Solving a problem in strength that occurs as a result of forming a shaft outside-fitting gear for an electric retractable view device for a vehicle, using a material including a resin as a base material. A shaft outside-fitting gear is formed of a material including a resin as a base material. The gear includes a clutch surface in one end face in an axis direction thereof. The clutch surface is disposed on an inner circumferential side and an outer circumferential side of a radial position of a tooth bottom of each gear tooth of the gear relative to the radial position of the tooth bottom, in a radial direction of the gear. One end face in the axis direction of the gear has a structure in which a valley of each gear tooth of the gear is occluded at a radial region at which the clutch surface is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Motomiya, Kenji Ichikawa, Takayuki Miyazaki, Mizuki Toyama
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Publication number: 20210061231Abstract: A heating apparatus for a washer fluid according to an embodiment includes a container having an accommodation space in which a washer fluid is accommodated, an inlet part configured to charge the washer fluid into the accommodation space, an outlet part configured to discharge the washer fluid from the accommodation space, a heater provided in the accommodation space, the heater being configured to heat the washer fluid, and coils wound around the heater. The coils are in a spiral shape extending about the axis of the coils and are formed of wires in contact with the heater. The coils have close contact parts at which a plurality of wires is in close contact to each other in an extending direction of an axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoga MIKI, Akira FUKAI, Noriaki MASUDA, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
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Patent number: D923569Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Ichikawa, Yoshihiro Murata, Takayuki Miyazaki, Hiroki Takeuchi
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Patent number: D923570Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Miyazaki, Hiroki Takeuchi, Yoshihiro Murata, Kenji Ichikawa