Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation
  • Patent number: 11706947
    Abstract: A light-emitting unit (140) is formed on a substrate (100), and includes a light-transmitting first electrode (110), a light-reflective second electrode (130), and an organic layer (120) located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). A light-transmitting region is located between a plurality of light-emitting units (140). An insulating film (150) defines an end (142) of the light-emitting unit (140). A sealing member (200) is fixed to the light-emitting unit (140) directly or through an adhesive layer (210). In addition, a thickness of the substrate (100) is d, and a width of a portion of the second electrode (130) that is further on the outer side of the light-emitting unit (140) than the end (142) is W, d/2 W is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeru Okada
  • Patent number: 11685465
    Abstract: An information output device that can output the position of a load applied to the pedal is provided. A strain gauge is provided on the inner face of a crank of a bicycle and detects strain occurring in the crank. A cycle computer display unit displays an image showing the center position of the load applied to the pedal connected to the crank based on the tangential force and the torsional torque calculated based on the output values of the first strain gauge to the sixth strain gauge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Mioka, Yasuteru Kodama
  • Patent number: 11671758
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; an attachment part facing an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member held between the outer peripheral region of the edge and the attachment part. The edge has a curved portion that is convexly curved to an opposite side to a side facing the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Niidera
  • Patent number: 11662858
    Abstract: A terminal device such as a smartphone displays a first image on a display unit, and outputs a second image including the first image as a part to a display device such as a navigation device. Also, the terminal device obtains relative position information indicating a relative positional relation of the first image with respect to the second image from an external server. When a user makes a touch input to the second image displayed on the display device, the input position is transmitted from the display device to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains the conversion necessity information indicating whether or not the input position on the second image needs to be converted based on the relative position information, and converts the input position on the second image to the input position on the first image based on the relative position information when the conversion is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nagao
  • Patent number: 11661015
    Abstract: A holding mechanism prevents a device at a back side of a held object from being hidden by the object. Even if a large smartphone is held, clamping with a fixed clamping part and a movable clamping part prevents the fixed part from being moved, wherein a device located back of the smartphone and at the side of the fixed clamping part cannot be hidden by the smartphone. Due to the movable clamping part being movable farther from a rotation axis than the fixed clamping part, a middle portion of the smartphone in the clamping direction substantially coincides with the rotation axis when holding a smartphone with a specified width, wherein the smartphone cannot be easily moved in a Y- and Z-direction when rotating a holding part to change orientation, and also at the back side, a device located at the side of the clamp cannot be easily hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Watabe, Hironori Shigeta, Hirofumi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11650051
    Abstract: An optical device comprises: a line sensor having a plurality of light reception elements that receive incident light including reflection light resulting from laser light having been emitted from a light source and reflected by an object, and including ambient light; a diffraction grating that guides the incident light to the plurality of light reception elements by diffracting the incident light to a direction depending on the wavelength; and a control unit that detects the reflection light on the basis of the light reception amounts of the light reception elements. The diffraction grating is configured to guide, to one of the plurality of light reception elements, a wavelength within a predetermined range that includes the wavelength of the laser light emitted from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Takanori Ochiai, Takuma Yanagisawa, Masakazu Ogasawara, Ryo Izuta
  • Patent number: 11644324
    Abstract: The present invention identifies a danger spot effectively. In a navigation device 10, a danger spot identification unit 34 identifies a jump-out danger spot on the basis of past information which is acquired by a past information acquisition unit 24 and indicates a situation of a jump-out accident in the past, and surrounding information which is acquired by a surrounding information acquisition unit 32 and indicates a surrounding situation of a vehicle. Here, the past information includes surrounding facility identification information (information related to an identification planimetric feature) used for identifying a jump-out danger spot and information related to a jump-out object. As a result, the danger spot identification unit 34 can identify a danger spot of a jump-out which can occur due to a planimetric feature (a facility) in a jump-out accident. Therefore, the navigation device 10 can identify a jump-out danger spot effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Shimizu, Makoto Matsumaru, Ryoji Noguchi, Itaru Takemura
  • Patent number: 11644965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Abe, Satoshi Suzuki, Kenji Kawamura, Shingo Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11635304
    Abstract: A server device 200 is a map generation device which assigns, to voxel data in the map DB 20 which is divided into multiple voxels, a first weight value for each voxel, wherein the first weight value is associated with the presence of a stationary object and a moving object. Then, the server device 200 acquires upload information Iu which includes position information relating to a travelling route of a measurement vehicle during measurement of point cloud data needed for generation or update of the voxel data. Then, the server device 200 determines the first weight value for each voxel based on the travelling route of the measurement vehicle identified by the position information included in the upload information Iu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Kazuki Oyama
  • Patent number: 11637253
    Abstract: A light, emitting element includes a flexible plate-like portion having a glass substrate, and an organic functional layer formed on one surface side of the glass substrate. The organic functional layer includes a light emitting layer. When the plate-like portion is curved in a prescribed curving direction, and one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a surface which is positioned on the concave surface side among both surfaces of the glass substrate is referred to as a first surface. When the plate-like portion is curved in a curving direction, and the one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a compressive stress is applied to a portion whose distance from the first surface of the glass substrate is less than or equal to L (L>T/2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Takeru Okada
  • Patent number: 11617032
    Abstract: A speaker includes: a diaphragm; a coil directly or indirectly attached to the diaphragm; a pair of conducting lines connecting electrically with the coil; a yoke having one pair of longer side portions, and another pair of shorter side portions; a frame disposed between the coil and the yoke; and an inner terminal provided on an area on a straight line extended from the longer side portion of the yoke, and electrically connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11590870
    Abstract: A seat includes a seating portion, a backrest, two pairs of vibrators and a vibration absorbing member, and constitutes a driver's seat of a vehicle. The vibration absorbing member is arranged at a boundary portion between a first region and a second region of the seating portion, and is arranged at an intermediate portion between the pair of vibrators. The vibration absorbing member suppresses vibration of the vibrator from being propagated to the second region and vibration of the vibrator from being propagated to the first region. The vibration absorbing member is arranged at a boundary portion between a first region and a second region of the backrest, and is arranged at an intermediate portion between the pair of vibrators. The vibration absorbing member suppresses vibration of the vibrator from being propagated to the second region and vibration of the vibrator from being propagated to the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Iizawa, Tatsuya Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11596034
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a light-emitting plate including a light-irradiating surface including a plurality of striped-pattern light-emitting units, and a reflecting member including a reflecting surface to reflect light emitted from the light-irradiating surface of the light-emitting plate toward a target surface of an object. Light at a peak luminous intensity in a light distribution in a first region of the light-irradiating surface is sent to a first region of the target surface via a first region of the reflecting surface. Light at a peak luminous intensity in a light distribution in a second region of the light-irradiating surface is sent to a second region of the target surface via a second region of the reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kashiwagura, Shinsuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11585656
    Abstract: A control unit of the sensor control device controls sensor based on the planimetric feature information related to the planimetric features and the sensor information related to the sensors. Thereby, while the sensors are appropriately operated as necessary, and the detailed current information of the planimetric feature is acquired by the sensors, the total data size of the information acquired by the sensors can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Amano, Reiji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11577643
    Abstract: This system for detecting the surrounding conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit state to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body, if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11568747
    Abstract: Provided is a determination device capable of safely and reliably causing a vehicle on a side road to enter and merge into a main road when merging into the main road. Information is acquired that indicates the vehicle status of vehicles CA, etc., and vehicles Ca, etc., that are traveling on a side road SR that merges with a main road MR on which the vehicles CA, etc., are traveling. When, on the basis of said information, an intervehicular space is to be formed between the vehicles CA, etc., that will make it possible for a vehicle Ca, etc., to enter, the vehicles CA, etc., are caused to form an interval on the basis of the acceleration applied to each of the vehicles CA, etc., and the entering vehicle Ca, etc., is allowed to move to a position in the intervehicular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Shibasaki
  • Patent number: 11555892
    Abstract: A drive device (10) includes a support (23), a first movable portion (21), a first magnet (41), a second magnet (42), a first coil (31), and a second coil (32). The first movable portion (21) is swingable in two axial directions with respect to the support (23). The first magnet (41) is positioned inside the first movable portion (21) when viewed from a first direction. The second magnet (42) is positioned outside the first movable portion (21) when viewed from the first direction. Magnetic flux from the first magnet (41) acts on the first coil (31). Magnetic flux from the second magnet (42) acts on the second coil (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji Kuroki
  • Patent number: 11554774
    Abstract: The control apparatus (200) is an apparatus that controls the travel of a target vehicle (10). The control apparatus (200) detects a partial object (20) using a sensor. The partial object (20) is a part of an object riding on the target vehicle (10) and is jutting outside the target vehicle (10). Furthermore, the control apparatus (200) outputs information (travel information) relating to travel of the target vehicle (10) based on the detected partial object (20). For example, the travel information is control information for travel control of the target vehicle (10) and notification information indicating information relating to the partial object (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Gotoda, Makoto Kurahashi, Hiroshi Nagata
  • Patent number: D976867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jinta Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D982062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Kishimoto