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).
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Patent number: 11777263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
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Patent number: 11626701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
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Publication number: 20220320806Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
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Publication number: 20220285895Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
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Publication number: 20220285894Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi KOGA, Akihiko OTSU
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Patent number: 11386720Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
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Patent number: 11262761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
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Patent number: 11221226Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato
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Patent number: 11173906Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200043247Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
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Publication number: 20200041299Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Daichi Kato, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190389463Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190377344Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190359209Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190353493Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato
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Publication number: 20190354107Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
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Publication number: 20190344795Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
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Patent number: 10403987Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiko Otsu
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Publication number: 20180222482Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Daichi Kato, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Kazuyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10027038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiko Otsu