Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Ito

Hirokazu Ito 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: 20240140433
    Abstract: A control device includes: a control unit that controls a vehicle. Further, the control unit determines, when the vehicle travels in a section including a plurality of lanes, whether a negative emotion associated with a lane change is detected in a preceding vehicle on a same lane as the vehicle, and causes, in a case of determining that the negative emotion is detected, a notification device of the vehicle to give notification of instruction information giving an instruction for the lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Hirokazu ITO, Shinya SHIRATORI, Noriml ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240140416
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus including a processor, where the processor acquires operation information for an own vehicle by a driver at the time of a driving assistance intervention for keeping a lane of the own vehicle, environmental information including another vehicle around the own vehicle, and biometric information of the driver, estimates emotion of the driver based on the operation information, the environmental information, and the biometric information, estimates control parameters related to an amount of intervention at the time of driving assistance intervention based on the estimation result of emotion of the driver, and controls the own vehicle based on the control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Hiroshi Oyagi, Shinya Shiratori, Norimi Asahara
  • Publication number: 20240140466
    Abstract: A control device includes: a controller controlling a first vehicle, the controller being configured to estimate a degree of concentration of a driver in the first vehicle during traveling of the first vehicle based on a first distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, a second distance between the first vehicle and a third vehicle traveling behind the first vehicle, and a relationship between a vehicle speed of the first vehicle and a predetermined vehicle speed, and execute a vehicle control of recovering the concentration of the driver based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Hirokazu ITO, Shinya SHIRATORI, Norimi ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240134474
    Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240069671
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit configured to receive an indication of a transition from a first image refresh rate to a second image refresh rate, wherein the first image refresh rate is greater than a beacon signal rate and the second image refresh rate is equal to or lower than the beacon signal rate. The proximity sensing panel is also configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on the proximity sensing panel to a non-refresh period corresponding to the second refresh rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11917844
    Abstract: An organic EL element characterized by including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a third light-emitting layer that are disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first light-emitting layer, the second light-emitting layer, and the third light-emitting layer each containing a host material and a light-emitting material, in which the first light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer that emits red light and green light, the second light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer that emits blue light, and the third light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer that emits green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Itaru Takaya, Naoki Yamada, Takayuki Ito, Hirokazu Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11850945
    Abstract: A power supply device for an electric work vehicle, including: a battery by which an electric work vehicle is drivable; a first connection unit for an internal inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an internal electric device installed in the electric work vehicle; a second connection unit for an external inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an external electric device; and a battery control unit connected to the first connection unit and the second connection unit, and configured to control charging of, and power supply from, the battery, wherein the battery control unit is configured to communicate with the external inverter side via the second connection unit to perform authentication regarding whether or not power supply to the external inverter is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Yamamoto, Tomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Patent number: 11828809
    Abstract: A storage battery monitoring apparatus includes: monitoring units attached to storage batteries connected in series and/or in parallel; and a management unit capable of wireless communication connection with the monitoring units. By using identification information of a specific monitoring unit included in a message broadcasted from the management unit to the monitoring units, communication between the management unit and the specific monitoring unit is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Yoshimoto, Shuichi Takemoto, Hirokazu Ito, Yuya Kihira
  • Patent number: 11794563
    Abstract: An electric powered work vehicle is to be configured so that holding of the battery at the storage position can be carried out easily at the time of attachment of the battery. There is provided guide mechanism for movably guiding the battery while supporting it along a horizontal direction between a storage position and a detachment position located away from the storage position along the horizontal direction. There is provided a holding mechanism configured to be automatically operated to a holding state capable of holding the battery at the storage position when the battery is moved to the storage position along the guide mechanism. There is provided a releasing operational portion manually operable to render the holding mechanism to a releasing state for allowing movement of the battery to the detachment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Patent number: 11770013
    Abstract: A stand for a charger includes an attachment portion attachable and detachable to and from the charger and a leg portion configured to be capable of supporting the charger with the charger being lifted up off the ground surface when the stand is attached to the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ito, Tomohiko Hisakuni
  • Publication number: 20230296761
    Abstract: The present image generation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an interference SAR (synthetic aperture radar) image relating to an earth ground surface of a predetermined range and generated based on a plurality of SAR images generated by reflecting radio waves received from a SAR satellite by a reflecting plate disposed at a predetermined point, a bird's-eye view image relating to the earth ground surface, and ground point data including coordinates of the predetermined point on the earth ground; and an image generation unit that specifies the predetermined point in the bird's-eye view image based on the ground point data, and generates an integrated image by combining the predetermined point specified in the interference SAR image, the interference SAR image and the bird's-eye view image with a reference of the predetermined point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Mikio SATOMURA, Hirokazu ITO, Shinichi UEDA, Mikio SUENO, Tomohiro NARUMI, Norihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11753058
    Abstract: A movement assisting tool (23) includes an attachment portion (24) that can be attached to and removed from a main body portion (11) of a battery unit (4), leg portions (25) that are coupled to the attachment portion (24) and extend from the attachment portion (24), and moving wheels (26) that are supported by extension portions of the leg portions (25). In a state where the attachment portion (24) has been attached to the main body portion (11) of the battery unit (4) and the moving wheels (26) are touching the ground, the battery unit (4) can be kept in an inclined orientation in which the wheels (13) are touching the ground and ground contact portions (14) are raised above the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutomo Miyaguchi, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230225248
    Abstract: In an electric grass cutting machine relating to the present invention, an electric motor for driving a traveling device having a pair of left and right front wheels and a pair of left and right rear wheels and a gear transmission for speed-changing output from the electric motor and transmitting the resultant power to the traveling device are disposed between the left and right rear wheels and arranged one after the other in the front/rear direction at positions laterally of a conveying duct for guiding cut grass pieces from a rear discharge type mower device to a grass collecting container supported to a rear portion of a machine body frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ito, Katsuhiko Uemura, Kazuaki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20230223776
    Abstract: A storage battery monitoring device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of monitoring units attached to a plurality of storage batteries connected in series and/or in parallel; and a management unit capable of wirelessly communicating with the plurality of monitoring units. The management unit sequentially selects identification information about the plurality of monitoring units stored previously, and transmits a connection request message including identification information about a selected monitoring unit to the plurality of monitoring units through wireless communication in order to establish communication with the selected monitoring unit. The management unit further updates identification information about another monitoring unit to identification information about one monitoring unit through the wireless communication when the another monitoring unit is replaced with the one monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Yuya KIHIRA, Kazuo HARUKI, Ibuki WATANO
  • Patent number: 11690317
    Abstract: A cutter blade for a mower is disposed inside a housing of the mower and rotatably driven about a vertical axis. The cutter blade includes a blade body a blade portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise front end portion of the blade body, and a wind generating portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise rear end portion of the blade body, the wind generating portion extending more upwards than the blade portion. A thickness of the wind generating portion at the rotational direction-wise rear end portion is smaller at least partially than a thickness of the remaining part of the wind generating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ito, Motosumi Shiotsuki
  • Publication number: 20230176132
    Abstract: A lead-acid battery monitoring device includes a plurality of sensor units 20 attached to a plurality of lead-acid batteries 1 connected in series and/or in parallel and a control unit 10 that sequentially establishes wireless communication connection with the plurality of monitoring units 20. The lead -acid battery monitoring device executes a first monitoring operation in which the management unit 10 sequentially receives monitoring data including an internal resistance and a temperature of each lead-acid battery 1 from the plurality of monitoring units 20 and a second monitoring operation in which the management unit 10 sequentially receives monitoring data including the temperature of each lead-acid battery 1 from the plurality of monitoring units 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Yuya KIHIRA, Kazuo HARUKI, Ibuki WATANO
  • Patent number: 11632906
    Abstract: In an electric grass cutting machine relating to the present invention, an electric motor for driving a traveling device having a pair of left and right front wheels and a pair of left and right rear wheels and a gear transmission for speed-changing output from the electric motor and transmitting the resultant power to the traveling device are disposed between the left and right rear wheels and arranged one after the other in the front/rear direction at positions laterally of a conveying duct for guiding cut grass pieces from a rear discharge type mower device to a grass collecting container supported to a rear portion of a machine body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ito, Katsuhiko Uemura, Kazuaki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11623505
    Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes: a carrier 32 in which a battery can be stored and a support portion 40 is provided; a carrier storage portion provided in a vehicle body and capable of holding the carrier 32; a guide portion 21, 22 that is capable of supporting, via the support portion 40, the carrier 32 operated so as to be lifted from the ground, in a state in which the carrier is lifted from the ground, and guiding the carrier 32 toward the carrier storage portion; and a positioning portion 42 configured to, when the carrier 32 placed on the ground is operated so as to be lifted and the support portion 40 has reached a position at which the support portion 40 can be supported by the guide portion 21, 22, stop the operation of lifting the carrier 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito, Makoto Odagiri
  • Publication number: 20230087889
    Abstract: A work vehicle capable of traveling on a public road and in a working field includes: a public road traveling determination unit configured to generate vehicle body position information regarding a position at which the vehicle body is located, determine based on the vehicle body position information whether or not the vehicle body is traveling on the public road, and output a determination result; and a vehicle speed limiter configured to limit a vehicle speed in accordance with the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230090301
    Abstract: A power supply device for an electric work vehicle, including: a battery by which an electric work vehicle is drivable; a first connection unit for an internal inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an internal electric device installed in the electric work vehicle; a second connection unit for an external inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an external electric device; and a battery control unit connected to the first connection unit and the second connection unit, and configured to control charging of, and power supply from, the battery, wherein the battery control unit is configured to communicate with the external inverter side via the second connection unit to perform authentication regarding whether or not power supply to the external inverter is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi Yamamoto, Tomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito