Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Fukui
Hirofumi Fukui 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: 11964729Abstract: An operated component for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first wired communicator and a first wireless communicator. The first wired communicator has a first wired communication state in which the first wired communicator is configured to recognize a wired signal transmitted via a wired communication channel. The first wireless communicator has a first wireless communication state in which the first wireless communicator is configured to recognize a wireless signal transmitted via a wireless communication channel. The first wireless communicator is configured to be in the first wireless communication state while the first wired communicator is in the first wired communication state.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Akihiro Nozaki, Tomohiro Takimoto, Hirofumi Fukui
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Patent number: 11414150Abstract: An operating device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a base member, an operating member, an electric switch, and a controller. The operating member is movably coupled to the base member. The electric switch is configured to receive a user input in response to a movement of the operating member to operate an additional device. The controller is configured to change a mode of the controller at least between a first mode in which the controller is configured to be under first power consumption and a second mode in which the controller is configured to be under second power consumption different from the first power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Tomohiro Takimoto, Hirofumi Fukui, Takaya Masuda
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Publication number: 20220081068Abstract: An operated component for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first wired communicator and a first wireless communicator. The first wired communicator has a first wired communication state in which the first wired communicator is configured to recognize a wired signal transmitted via a wired communication channel. The first wireless communicator has a first wireless communication state in which the first wireless communicator is configured to recognize a wireless signal transmitted via a wireless communication channel. The first wireless communicator is configured to be in the first wireless communication state while the first wired communicator is in the first wired communication state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Tomohiro TAKIMOTO, Hirofumi FUKUI
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Publication number: 20210339814Abstract: An operating device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a base member, an operating member, an electric switch, and a controller. The operating member is movably coupled to the base member. The electric switch is configured to receive a user input in response to a movement of the operating member to operate an additional device. The controller is configured to change a mode of the controller at least between a first mode in which the controller is configured to be under first power consumption and a second mode in which the controller is configured to be under second power consumption different from the first power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Tomohiro TAKIMOTO, Hirofumi FUKUI, Takaya MASUDA
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Patent number: 10048295Abstract: A current sensor includes magneto-electric conversion elements divided into a first and second group. The first and second groups are positioned so as to interpose a cut formed in a printed circuit board between them. The first and second groups are symmetrically positioned with respect to a first virtual line. The magneto-electric conversion elements in the first and second groups are symmetrically positioned with respect to a second virtual line orthogonal to the first virtual line at a positioning position at which a to-be-measured current path is positioned. The sensitivity axes of each of pairs of magneto-electric conversion elements that are symmetrical with respect to the positioning position are oriented in parallel in the same direction or opposite directions. An inter-element spacing between adjacent magneto-electric conversion elements in the first and second groups is narrower than an inter-group spacing, which is the narrowest spacing between the first and second groups.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirofumi Fukui
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Patent number: 9423429Abstract: A first magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements, and a second magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements are arranged across a cutout of a wiring board. The first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a first imaginary line. The elements in the first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a second imaginary line. The first imaginary line and the second imaginary line orthogonally intersect each other at a placement position at which a current path to be measured is placed. The orientation of the sensitivity axis of each of a plurality of magnetoelectric-conversion-element sets having point symmetry about the placement position is parallel or antiparallel. An element spacing, which is spacing between neighboring elements in the first and second groups, is narrower than a group spacing, which is the narrowest spacing between the first and second groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirofumi Fukui
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Publication number: 20160169941Abstract: A current sensor includes magneto-electric conversion elements divided into a first and second group. The first and second groups are positioned so as to interpose a cut formed in a printed circuit board between them. The first and second groups are symmetrically positioned with respect to a first virtual line. The magneto-electric conversion elements in the first and second groups are symmetrically positioned with respect to a second virtual line orthogonal to the first virtual line at a positioning position at which a to-be-measured current path is positioned. The sensitivity axes of each of pairs of magneto-electric conversion elements that are symmetrical with respect to the positioning position are oriented in parallel in the same direction or opposite directions. An inter-element spacing between adjacent magneto-electric conversion elements in the first and second groups is narrower than an inter-group spacing, which is the narrowest spacing between the first and second groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Hirofumi FUKUI
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Publication number: 20140320122Abstract: A first magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements, and a second magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements are arranged across a cutout of a wiring board. The first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a first imaginary line. The elements in the first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a second imaginary line. The first imaginary line and the second imaginary line orthogonally intersect each other at a placement position at which a current path to be measured is placed. The orientation of the sensitivity axis of each of a plurality of magnetoelectric-conversion-element sets having point symmetry about the placement position is parallel or antiparallel. An element spacing, which is spacing between neighboring elements in the first and second groups, is narrower than a group spacing, which is the narrowest spacing between the first and second groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventor: Hirofumi FUKUI
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Patent number: 8847591Abstract: A current sensor includes a magnetic sensor including magnetoresistive sensors configured to detect induction fields generated by a measurement current passing through a current line, a magnetic field application unit configured to apply to the magnetoresistive sensors a magnetic field having a direction perpendicular to sensitivity directions of the magnetoresistive sensors; and a computing unit configured to calculate from an output of the magnetic sensor a compensation value for the output. The computing unit is configured to be capable of calculating the compensation value from the outputs of the magnetic sensor obtained in at least two states in which magnetic fields applied by the magnetic field application unit are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: ALPS Green Devices Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirofumi Fukui
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Publication number: 20130082698Abstract: A current sensor includes a magnetic sensor including magnetoresistive sensors configured to detect induction fields generated by a measurement current passing through a current line, a magnetic field application unit configured to apply to the magnetoresistive sensors a magnetic field having a direction perpendicular to sensitivity directions of the magnetoresistive sensors; and a computing unit configured to calculate from an output of the magnetic sensor a compensation value for the output. The computing unit is configured to be capable of calculating the compensation value from the outputs of the magnetic sensor obtained in at least two states in which magnetic fields applied by the magnetic field application unit are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirofumi FUKUI
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Publication number: 20120290240Abstract: A current sensor includes an electric wire to be measured, a guide portion for guiding the electric wire to be measured, a holding portion for holding the electric wire to be measured, and four pairs of magnetic sensor elements arranged at intervals of 90 degrees along a circumference around a center axis which is a virtual arrangement axis of the electric wire to be measured. The outputs of the magnetic sensor elements of each pair are appropriately linearly combined and the linearly combined outputs of all the pairs are added. Hence, a space for guiding the electric wire to be measured can be easily allocated, and the effects of variation sources such as the displacement of the electric wire to be measured, a constant external magnetic field, and an external magnetic field generated by a neighboring electric wire are compensated for, whereby a small high-accuracy current sensor is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirofumi FUKUI
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Patent number: D662864Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Kazumi Kowaki
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Patent number: D662866Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Kazumi Kowaki
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Patent number: D665314Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Kazumi Kowaki
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Patent number: D667343Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Kazumi Kowaki, Akira Ishiguro
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Patent number: D679037Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Daisuke Nagayasu
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Patent number: D735906Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Daisuke Nagayasu
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Patent number: D775004Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Manabu Kojima, Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Taketoshi Aoki
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Patent number: D776580Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fukui, Takafumi Ito, Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Taketoshi Aoki
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Patent number: D899321Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya Suzuki, Hirofumi Fukui, Sho Okazaki