Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Hirota
Hideyuki Hirota 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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Publication number: 20240198925Abstract: A camera unit is housed and attached in an internal space of a pillar, the camera unit including a plurality of modules that executes respective functions regarding camera imaging, and a housing having a dimension in such a manner that an outer shape of the housing around a longitudinal direction of the housing is accommodated in the internal space, the modules being mounted on the housing without protruding from the outer shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki HIROTA
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Publication number: 20220248542Abstract: The display unit includes a display and a cover lens fixed to a front face of the display. A holder is a rigid body disposed on a rear side of the display unit and fixed to the display unit. A rear panel is a box having an opening, and the opening is covered with the cover lens in a state where the display and the holder are housed internally. Further, the rear panel is fixed to the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki HIROTA
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Publication number: 20150264840Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including in the internal space of a case formed by combining an upper case member 2 with a lower case member 3, a metal plate 7 that is provided between the upper case member 2 and a substrate 10 so as to cover the surface of the substrate 10 on which connectors 5, 6, 11, and 12 are mounted, and the shield metal plate 7 includes: an elastically shaped part 8 which is brought into contact with a connector housing 5A to bias the substrate 10 toward the lower case member 3; and pressure contact parts 9a and 9b which press against connector housings 11A and 12A in the direction of the lower case member 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8993911Abstract: When a lever driving section 43 that rotates integrally with a display 2 about a shaft 5a is pushed out by a concave portion 51, a switch operating section 44 on the other end side is rotated about a rotational central section 41 to turn off a switch 30. When the lever driving section 43 is drawn into a convex portion 53, the switch operating section 44 is rotated about the rotational central section 41 to turn on the switch 30.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8888060Abstract: A connecting portion 21 (31) includes a hole portion 22 (33) and a shaft insertion portion 23 (34) that is cut in from an edge of an arm 2 (3) to the hole portion 22 (33) by a width smaller than a diameter of the hole portion 22 (33), and a post portion 42a (42b) includes a shaft 43a (43b) that is attachable to/detachable from the hole portion 22 (33) through the shaft insertion portion 23 (34) only from a predetermined direction when upper and lower arms 2 and 3 are projected to an extent not normally used, and a fixing portion 44a (44b) formed at both ends of the shaft 43a (43b) by a diameter larger than that of the hole portion 22 (33).Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8835784Abstract: A push button structure includes: a panel 1 in which an opening 2 for exposing a button 7 is provided; a button 7 having a leg of which one end side is supported by a rotational central section 5 of the panel 1 and of which the other end side has a leg 6 extending in an orthogonal direction to the panel 1, wherein the other end side is rotated about the rotational central section 5 when the button is pushed with exposed from the opening 2 of the panel 1; and a board 3 on which a switch 4 is mounted and which is attached at an angle to the panel 1 such that a direction C tangential to a rotational path of the leg 6 is substantially the same as a stroke direction D of the switch 4.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8743295Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system and method to prevent a mechanical connection between certain components of an entertainment system for a vehicle can include an entertainment system housing containing a plurality of entertainment components and a remote control module. The remote control module can include a user interface on a surface of the remote control module. In addition, the remote control module can be configured to prevent secure mounting of the remote control module to the entertainment system housing when the remote control module is not the appropriate remote control module for the particular vehicle entertainment system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jason Michael Strohmaier, Eric Joshua Wecker, Aaron Michael Ambrose, Steven Feit, Jason Alexander Dutter, Takahiro Ikunami, Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8681494Abstract: A heat dissipating fan is housed in the opening of a chassis in the direction of thickness of the fan; a plurality of holding portions provided on the edges of the opening support the heat dissipating fan, parallel to the surface of the chassis; a plurality of elastic members provided on the two adjoining edges of the opening, respectively, urge the heat dissipating fan in the respective directions of the opposed edges of the opening to position the fan; and further a holder is provided with a plurality of elastic portions around ventilating openings corresponding to a blower window of the heat dissipating fan, and the elastic portions are abutted against the top surface of the peripheral portion of an outer casing of the heat dissipating fan to urge the heat dissipating fan perpendicularly to the face of the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Publication number: 20140079250Abstract: An information device for a moving object includes a display panel that is openable and closable via a rotating shaft of hinges, storing holes passing through the display panel, and a holding mechanism provided in the storing holes and holding stored devices fitted and stored in the storing holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8640306Abstract: A hinge device 100 includes: a one-piece hinge base 20 such that connecting hinge bases 21a, 21b in which rotational shaft portions 23a, 23b are protrusively provided in the same direction by a burring process are connected together through a hinge base connecting part 22; and a one-piece holder 10 such that connecting holders 11a, 11b having click washers 30a, 30b attached thereto are connected together through a holder connecting part 12, wherein the one-piece holder 10 is assembled to the one-piece hinge base 20 from one direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Publication number: 20130278843Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system and method to prevent a mechanical connection between certain components of an entertainment system for a vehicle can include an entertainment system housing containing a plurality of entertainment components and a remote control module. The remote control module can include a user interface on a surface of the remote control module. In addition, the remote control module can be configured to prevent secure mounting of the remote control module to the entertainment system housing when the remote control module is not the appropriate remote control module for the particular vehicle entertainment system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Jason Michael STROHMAIER, Eric Joshua WECKER, Aaron Michael AMBROSE, Steven FEIT, Jason Alexander DUTTER, Takahiro Ikunami, Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8531825Abstract: A display securing structure includes a rectangular display 4 with thickness including a terminal, and a holder 9 assembled by the display 4; the holder 9 includes a resilient lug 91 serving as a thickness-directionally urging member, formed on a bottom plate of the holder to urge the display 4 mounted thereon in the direction of thickness; a resilient lug 92 working as a downwardly urging member, formed on an upper side plate thereof to urge the display 4 to the side of the terminal; resilient lugs 93 serving as a rightwardly and leftward urging member, formed on left and right side plates thereof so as to urge the display 4 from left and right; and resiliently engaging claws 94 and 95 working as a face pressing member, formed on a backside plate and the right and left side plates thereof to press the face of the display 4.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: To U, Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8523117Abstract: A protrusion 31 formed at an end edge of a board that is not screw-fixed is inserted into a rectangular opening engaging section 25 formed on a chassis 2, sides of the board are mounted on a screw-fixing section (also serving as a board receiver) 21, and a first and a second board receiving sections 22, 26 that are formed on the chassis 2 by a cutting and raising manner, respectively, the board 3 is gripped by board gripping sections 23a, 23b, and one side of the board 3 is screw-fixed to the screw-fixing section (also serving as the board receiver) 21.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8469529Abstract: A display device includes, within a panel formed of a front panel 11 and a rear panel 12, a switchboard 80 disposed in proximity to the front panel 11; a display board 20 disposed in proximity to the rear panel 12; a display 40 disposed between the switch board 80 and the display board 20; a switch mounting section 20a formed by protruding laterally at least a portion of the display board 20 from the display 40; a rotary switch 70 attached to the switch mounting section 20a; and an operation knob 90 attached to a shaft of the rotary switch 70 extended through the switch board 80 and the front panel 11.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8471965Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system and method to prevent a mechanical connection between certain components of an entertainment system for a vehicle can include an entertainment system housing containing a plurality of entertainment components and a remote control module. The remote control module can include a user interface on a surface of the remote control module. In addition, the remote control module can be configured to prevent secure mounting of the remote control module to the entertainment system housing when the remote control module is not the appropriate remote control module for the particular vehicle entertainment system.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jason Michael Strohmaier, Eric Joshua Wecker, Aaron Michael Ambrose, Steven Feit, Jason Alexander Dutter, Takahiro Ikunami, Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8456816Abstract: A structure assembled to a panel includes a panel 7, a hood 6, and a filter 5, and is arranged such that the hood 6 and the filter 5 are assembled to the panel 7 independently from each other by the engagement between resiliently engaging claws and engaging concavities.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Publication number: 20130097841Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system and method to prevent a mechanical connection between certain components of an entertainment system for a vehicle can include an entertainment system housing containing a plurality of entertainment components and a remote control module. The remote control module can include a user interface on a surface of the remote control module. In addition, the remote control module can be configured to prevent secure mounting of the remote control module to the entertainment system housing when the remote control module is not the appropriate remote control module for the particular vehicle entertainment system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventors: JASON MICHAEL STROHMAIER, Eric Joshua Wecker, Aaron Michael Ambrose, Steven Feit, Jason Alexander Dutter, Takahiro Ikunami, Hideyuki Hirota
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Publication number: 20130070430Abstract: A display device includes: circuit board 6 provided inside a display panel; flat cable 10 attached to connector 11 provided on the board 6; outlet section 10A which is provided in a position on the rotational axis side of the display panel at substantially the same height as that of the board 6, of which the corner of the open edge part is formed by a radius of curvature of a predetermined value or more, and which draws the cable 10 attached to the connector 11 to the outside of the panel; and a draw path section of flat part 4b and contact part 13, of which the corner coming into contact with the cable 10 attached to the connector 11 is formed by a radius of curvature of a predetermined value or more, and which leads the cable 10 to the section 10A without bending.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Hirota, Kazuhiro Tsuzuki, Masumi Ihara, Norimitsu Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8371539Abstract: A shaft 14 is provided on the opposite side of the side provided with a locking mechanism 7 in a remote control; a remote control holder 3 has provided thereon a bearing section 15 abutting on the shaft 14 when the remote control 1 is housed in the remote control holder 3; the remote control holder 3 further has supportingly provided thereon a holding lever 18 gripping the shaft 14 in cooperation with the bearing section 15; the holding lever 18 has provided thereon a coil spring 21 energizing the holding lever 18 toward the shaft 14; and further the remote control 1 has provided thereon a lever engaging section 23 that rotates the holding lever 18 against the resilient force of the coil spring when the remote control 1 is rotated to take out the remote control.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Hirota, Takahiro Ikunami
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Publication number: 20120326575Abstract: In a display device housing 2 in which a front panel 5 and a rear panel 8 are mounted to each other in a state in which peripheral portions 10 and 11 of the front panel 5 and the rear panel 8 are joined to each other, a rear rib protruding from the peripheral portion 11 of and being inwardly inserted into the inside of the front panel 5 is disposed on the rear panel 8. Front ribs 17 projecting from the peripheral portion 10 and being inwardly inserted into the inside of the rear panel 8 are disposed on the front panel 5. When the display device housing 2 is bent by an external force exerted thereon, the rear rib 14 and the front ribs 17 prevent the front panel 5 and the rear panel 8 from rubbing against each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventor: Hideyuki Hirota