Patents by Inventor Hideki MITO

Hideki MITO 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: 10573102
    Abstract: A fuel maintenance guide system is provided in a hybrid vehicle in which a shift to a fuel maintenance mode prioritizing consumption of fuel is automatically performed under a predetermined condition regardless of a driver's intention. The fuel maintenance guide system includes an information notification unit configured to perform notification of information urging consumption of the fuel, and a control unit configured to estimate a time to shift automatically to the fuel maintenance mode and to begin to perform notifying actuation of the information notification unit a predetermined period of time before the estimated time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Mito, Naoki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10232843
    Abstract: A fuel maintenance guide system in hybrid vehicles in which a shift to the fuel maintenance mode giving priority to consuming fuel is executed automatically under a predetermined condition regardless of intention of a driver, the fuel maintenance guide system including: a residual fuel detecting unit detecting a residual amount of the fuel; a cancel condition determining unit determining a cancel condition for cancelling the shift to the fuel maintenance mode, based on the residual amount detected by the residual fuel detecting unit; and a displaying unit displaying the cancel condition determined by the cancel condition determining unit from a predetermined time period before the shift to the fuel maintenance mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Mito, Naoki Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180257636
    Abstract: A fuel maintenance guide system in hybrid vehicles in which a shift to the fuel maintenance mode giving priority to consuming fuel is executed automatically under a predetermined condition regardless of intention of a driver, the fuel maintenance guide system including: a residual fuel detecting unit detecting a residual amount of the fuel; a cancel condition determining unit determining a cancel condition for cancelling the shift to the fuel maintenance mode, based on the residual amount detected by the residual fuel detecting unit; and a displaying unit displaying the cancel condition determined by the cancel condition determining unit from a predetermined time period before the shift to the fuel maintenance mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki MITO, Naoki MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180232965
    Abstract: A fuel maintenance guide system is provided in a hybrid vehicle in which a shift to a fuel maintenance mode prioritizing consumption of fuel is automatically performed under a predetermined condition regardless of a driver's intention. The fuel maintenance guide system includes an information notification unit configured to perform notification of information urging consumption of the fuel, and a control unit configured to estimate a time to shift automatically to the fuel maintenance mode and to begin to perform notifying actuation of the information notification unit a predetermined period of time before the estimated time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki MITO, Naoki MIYAMOTO