Patents by Inventor Akihisa Kumakura

Akihisa Kumakura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240116429
    Abstract: To improve pedestrian visibility. Provided is a headlight controller connectable to a first headlight and a second headlight spaced apart in a vehicle width direction at the front of the vehicle, the headlight controller including: a rainfall amount detection means installed in the vehicle; and a controller installed in the vehicle, where the controller is connected to the rainfall amount detection means, and the controller carries out control such that when rainfall amount detected by the rainfall amount detection means is equal to or more than a predetermined value, irradiation light from the first headlight becomes relatively darker than irradiation light from the second headlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru NAKASHIMA, Yasushi KITA, Takako KIMURA, Shuto OYAMA, Kouki KUDO, Akihisa KUMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20220355728
    Abstract: To reduce a sense of discomfort during sequential blinking. A lighting controller for a vehicular lamp to control lighting of the vehicular lamp, where the lighting controller is configured to carry out control of moving a bright spot within the light emitting region in a predetermined direction, the bright spot obtained by lighting on a partial region of a light emitting region of the vehicular lamp, and during that time, the bright spot is moved so as to partially overlap a first region which is a partial region corresponding to the bright spot during a first period and a second region which is a partial region corresponding to the bright spot during a second period which follows the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru NAKASHIMA, Yasushi KITA, Takako KIMURA, Kouki KUDO, Akihisa KUMAKURA, Hidetaka OKADA, Shuto OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220325866
    Abstract: To reduce a sense of discomfort during sequential blinking. A lighting controller for a vehicular lamp to control lighting of the vehicular lamp, where the lighting controller is configured to control so that a light emitting region of the vehicular lamp is repeatedly lighted on and off with a first luminance and where, during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at a partial region of the light emitting region, one or more bright spots are set with a second luminance that is higher than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region, or during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at the partial region of the light emitting region, one or more dark spots are set with a third luminance that is lower than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru NAKASHIMA, Yasushi KITA, Takako KIMURA, Kouki KUDO, Akihisa KUMAKURA, Hidetaka OKADA, Shuto OYAMA
  • Patent number: 11208033
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp can enhance the impression of the direction indication due to the movement of light when performing sequential winker controls by sequentially turning off a plurality of light-emitting parts. A lighting control device for performing lighting control of the vehicular lamp including the plurality of light-emitting parts, includes processor circuitry configured to perform controls to repeat a lighting cycle including turning on the plurality of light-emitting parts and maintaining a lighting state of all the light-emitting parts, and then sequentially turning off the light-emitting parts in a predetermined direction with a time difference and maintaining a lights-out state of all the light-emitting parts in such a manner that a rise time from the lights-out state to the lighting state during energizing the light-emitting parts is made longer than a fall time from when the lighting state to the lights-out state during deenergizing the light-emitting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki Kudo, Yasushi Kita, Takako Kimura, Wataru Nakashima, Shuto Oyama, Akihisa Kumakura, Hidetaka Okada
  • Patent number: 11203288
    Abstract: A lighting control device is capable of further enhancing the impression of direction indication due to the movement of light when performing sequential winker control. The lighting control device performs lighting control of a vehicular lamp including a plurality of light-emitting parts, and includes processor circuitry configured to perform controls to repeat a lighting cycle including turning on the plurality of light-emitting parts that have been turned off and maintaining a lighting state of all the light emitting parts, then sequentially dimming at least two or more of the light-emitting parts in a predetermined direction with a time difference, and thereafter turning off the plurality of light-emitting parts and maintaining a lights-out state of all the light-emitting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihisa Kumakura, Yasushi Kita, Takako Kimura, Wataru Nakashima, Shuto Oyama, Kouki Kudo, Hidetaka Okada
  • Publication number: 20210107399
    Abstract: A lighting control device is capable of further enhancing the impression of direction indication due to the movement of light when performing sequential winker control. The lighting control device performs lighting control of a vehicular lamp including a plurality of light-emitting parts, and includes processor circuitry configured to perform controls to repeat a lighting cycle including turning on the plurality of light-emitting parts that have been turned off and maintaining a lighting state of all the light emitting parts, then sequentially dimming at least two or more of the light-emitting parts in a predetermined direction with a time difference, and thereafter turning off the plurality of light-emitting parts and maintaining a lights-out state of all the light-emitting parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Akihisa Kumakura, Yasushi Kita, Takako Kimura, Wataru Nakashima, Shuto Oyama, Kouki Kudo, Hidetaka Okada
  • Publication number: 20210101523
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp can enhance the impression of the direction indication due to the movement of light when performing sequential winker controls by sequentially turning off a plurality of light-emitting parts. A lighting control device for performing lighting control of the vehicular lamp including the plurality of light-emitting parts, includes processor circuitry configured to perform controls to repeat a lighting cycle including turning on the plurality of light-emitting parts and maintaining a lighting state of all the light-emitting parts, and then sequentially turning off the light-emitting parts in a predetermined direction with a time difference and maintaining a lights-out state of all the light-emitting parts in such a manner that a rise time from the lights-out state to the lighting state during energizing the light-emitting parts is made longer than a fall time from when the lighting state to the lights-out state during deenergizing the light-emitting parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Kouki Kudo, Yasushi Kita, Takako Kimura, Wataru Nakashima, Shuto Oyama, Akihisa Kumakura, Hidetaka Okada