Patents by Inventor Hirobumi Mikami

Hirobumi Mikami 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: 9739647
    Abstract: A meter includes at least one meter unit, a visor provided around the meter unit; and a light-emitting part. The light-emitting part includes a light-guiding ring, a light source and a prism provided between the light guiding ring and the light source. The light-emitting part is annularly provided so as to cover an outer periphery of a dial panel of the meter unit. The light guiding ring is composed of a light guiding body and a light shielding body. The light shielding body is integrally formed with the light guiding body so as to cover the light guiding body. The light guiding ring is fixed to a mounting part provided in a proximity of an end part of the visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hirobumi Mikami
  • Patent number: 9291483
    Abstract: A meter, comprising a meter unit, a visor arranged around the meter unit, a wiring board, a light source mounted on the wiring board, an annular light guiding member provided within the visor at a side of a light emitting surface of the light source so as to surround the meter unit, and a light emitting portion forwardly emitting light emitted by the light source and transmitted through the light guiding member and annually provided along an edge portion of the visor so as to surround the meter unit, wherein a protruding-length of the light guiding member is displaced to a longitudinal direction of the meter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hirobumi Mikami
  • Publication number: 20150323794
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes a device body disposed under a dashboard, a combiner which can be moved through an opening formed in the dashboard between a use position and a housed position, a combiner moving mechanism for moving the combiner between the use position and the housed position, a shutter which can be moved between a closing position and an escape position, and a shutter moving mechanism for moving the shutter to the escape position when the combiner is moved to the use position and moving the shutter to the closing position when the combiner is moved to the housed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hirobumi Mikami
  • Publication number: 20140307414
    Abstract: A meter, comprising a meter unit, a visor arranged around the meter unit, a wiring board, a light source mounted on the wiring board, an annular light guiding member provided within the visor at a side of a light emitting surface of the light source so as to surround the meter unit, and a light emitting portion forwardly emitting light emitted by the light source and transmitted through the light guiding member and annually provided along an edge portion of the visor so as to surround the meter unit, wherein a protruding-length of the light guiding member is displaced to a longitudinal direction of the meter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hirobumi Mikami
  • Publication number: 20140192511
    Abstract: A meter includes at least one meter unit, a visor provided around the meter unit; and a light-emitting part. The light-emitting part includes a light-guiding ring, a light source and a prism provided between the light guiding ring and the light source. The light-emitting part is annularly provided so as to cover an outer periphery of a dial panel of the meter unit. The light guiding ring is composed of a light guiding body and a light shielding body. The light shielding body is integrally formed with the light guiding body so as to cover the light guiding body. The light guiding ring is fixed to a mounting part provided in a proximity of an end part of the visor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirobumi MIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20140036472
    Abstract: An indicating instrument dial plate includes a substrate that is formed in a plate shape, made of a transparent or semi-transparent material, has a front face including a hairline-treated surface and has a rear face which is irradiated with a dial plate illumination light from a light source inside an indicating instrument, and a half-mirror layer that is formed in a shape of a thin film covering the hairline-treated surface by sputtering and adapted to allow a portion of external light incident to the front face of the substrate from the outside of the indicating instrument to be transmitted into the substrate and to allow a portion of the external light to be reflected. The hairline-treated surface is made by forming fine line-shaped grooves on the front face of the substrate. The hairline-treated surface includes hairline-patterned unevenness which diffuses the external light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Ishihara, Hirobumi Mikami