Patents by Inventor Akihiko Otsu

Akihiko Otsu 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: 11777263
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial connector capable of reducing harness processing steps. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The central conductor of a cable is placed on an installation surface of a contact located in a predetermined part of a housing, and a crimp housing with a slot cut out to allow pressure on the periphery of the center conductor is used. The crimp housing is held in the housing and enclosed and tightened by a pair of crimp barrels (the first barrel) provided in the shell. This allows the central conductor to be securely crimped to the installation surface of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
  • Patent number: 11626701
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial connector that realizes a high frequency signal flowing through a contact in a high frequency band. A coaxial connector includes a three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion covering one opening of the cylindrical portion with a bottom plate piece and accommodating the second connection base. The bottom plate piece includes an inclined surface having a higher side on the base end portion of the metal plate and a lower side on the tip end side of the metal plate. The distance between the metal plate of the contact and the bottom surface of the shell which are isolated by an insulating material of the housing is configured to become identical between the tip end side and the base end side of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
  • Publication number: 20220320806
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial connector capable of reducing harness processing steps. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The central conductor of a cable is placed on an installation surface of a contact located in a predetermined part of a housing, and a crimp housing with a slot cut out to allow pressure on the periphery of the center conductor is used. The crimp housing is held in the housing and enclosed and tightened by a pair of crimp barrels (the first barrel) provided in the shell. This allows the central conductor to be securely crimped to the installation surface of the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
  • Publication number: 20220285895
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial connector that realizes a high frequency signal flowing through a contact in a high frequency band. A coaxial connector includes a three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion covering one opening of the cylindrical portion with a bottom plate piece and accommodating the second connection base. The bottom plate piece includes an inclined surface having a higher side on the base end portion of the metal plate and a lower side on the tip end side of the metal plate. The distance between the metal plate of the contact and the bottom surface of the shell which are isolated by an insulating material of the housing is configured to become identical between the tip end side and the base end side of the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
  • Publication number: 20220285894
    Abstract: The present invention provides a further miniaturized coaxial connector. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The contact disposed inside an accommodation space on the first connection base, includes three terminals including a pair of fixed terminals and a movable terminal that are erected from a tip end side of a metal plate. The pair of fixed terminals are located at a set of vertices among vertices of a virtual equilateral triangle inscribed in a mating contact, the movable terminal is located at the other vertex of the virtual equilateral triangle, and a contact surface of the movable terminal is disposed in a state of facing an intermediate portion of the pair of fixed terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
  • Patent number: 11386720
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11262761
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11221226
    Abstract: A passing gate determining device including: an information acquirer configured to acquire a status of vehicles in front of gates in a place in which a plurality of gates are aligned; and a gate selector configured to select a gate through which a vehicle is to pass among the plurality of gates on the basis of the status acquired by the information acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11173906
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200043247
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20200041299
    Abstract: A passing gate determining device includes: an information acquirer configured to acquire information; and a gate selector configured to select a gate near a destination set in advance with priority at a tollgate in which a plurality of gates are disposed in parallel with each other on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190389463
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190377344
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a static information acquirer that is configured to acquire static information that is static information relating to gates; a dynamic information acquirer that is configured to acquire dynamic information that is dynamic information relating to the gates; a selector that is configured to select a gate among a plurality of gates on the basis of the static information acquired by the static information acquirer and thereafter correct a selection result of gates on the basis of the dynamic information acquired by the dynamic information acquirer; and a gate passage controller that is configured to perform control of a vehicle such that the vehicle passes through the gate selected by the selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190359209
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recommended lane determiner which determines a recommended lane in which a vehicle will travel, an acquirer which acquires road information including a road shape, and an automated driving controller which causes the vehicle to travel along the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner, and determines details of control of automated driving on the basis of the road information acquired by the acquirer when the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner is switched from a first recommended lane to a second recommended lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190353493
    Abstract: A passing gate determining device including: an information acquirer configured to acquire a status of vehicles in front of gates in a place in which a plurality of gates are aligned; and a gate selector configured to select a gate through which a vehicle is to pass among the plurality of gates on the basis of the status acquired by the information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20190354107
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190344795
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a gate selector configured to select a gate to be merged associated with a path to be merged after passage of the gate among a plurality of gates in accordance with a merging status between vehicles after passage of the gate; and a gate passage controller configured to control a subject vehicle such that the subject vehicle passes through the gate selected by the gate selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 10403987
    Abstract: To provide a pressure contacting connection type contact for reliably connecting a coaxial cable and a mating side contact. The contact is provided with a connecting terminal and a pressure contacting terminal. The connecting terminal has a pair of contact pieces, and the mating side connector can be inserted between the pair of contact pieces. The pressure contacting terminal has an extending piece and a plurality of pressure contacting pieces. The extending piece extends from a base portion. The plurality of pressure contacting pieces are alternately disposed along both sides of the extending piece separately at the extending piece, such that the central conductor can be inserted from an outer periphery. In a state wherein the central conductor is inserted between the plurality of pressure contacting pieces separately disposed at the extending piece, the plurality of pressure contacting pieces can reliable contact the central conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiko Otsu
  • Publication number: 20180222482
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a detection part that detects a behavior of another vehicle in a region on which it is supposed that a vehicle travels in order to pass through a gate; a determination part that determines whether or not a gate is an operating gate, based on the behavior of the other vehicle which is detected by the detection part; and a control part that performs a vehicle control so as to pass through a gate which is determined as an operating gate by the determination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10027038
    Abstract: The pressure contacting connection type contact has a base portion, a connecting terminal for a mating side contact, and a pressure contacting terminal. The pressure contacting terminal is provided with a base end section opposing an other end side of the base portion, where an extending piece extending from second both side portions of an other side of the base portion is folded such that mutual piece thickness faces are opposed, and a pair of pressure contacting pieces having spring characteristics where, from the base end section, the extending piece extends away from the base portion to the tip portion side such that the piece thickness faces are opposed, and in addition rises obliquely at an opposite side of the protrusion direction connecting terminal, and an open angle portion of the tip side of the pressure contacting pieces in which the central conductor can be inserted from an outer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiko Otsu