Patents by Inventor Hiroki Uemura

Hiroki Uemura 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: 11912284
    Abstract: An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination may be made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a height changer which changes a height of a steering wheel, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a steering wheel controller 33 as one example of a height controller which controls the height changer such that the height of the steering wheel becomes lower as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer may be higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshito Hirata, Tomonori Ohtsubo, Hiroki Uemura, Kengo Iwata, Masato Maeda, Hiroaki Matsuda, Masahito Kashihara, Chieko Nakagami
  • Patent number: 11772523
    Abstract: An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination is made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a reclining mechanism as one example of an angle changer which changes an angle of a seat back of the driver seat with respect to a horizontal plane, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a seat controller as one example of an angle controller which controls the angle changer such that the angle of the seat back becomes closer to be perpendicular as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer is higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshito Hirata, Tomonori Ohtsubo, Hiroki Uemura, Kengo Iwata, Masato Maeda, Hiroaki Matsuda, Masahito Kashihara, Chieko Nakagami
  • Publication number: 20220388429
    Abstract: A body-size class specification device of the present invention comprises a class feature-quantity information memorizing section to memorize class feature-quantity information to correlate plural classes for classifying a body size according to a dimension ratio of prescribed parts of a body with plural prescribed feature quantities for characterizing the plural classes, a first input section as an example of a feature-quantity acquiring section to acquire feature quantity of an object person to be specified for the class, an eye-height measuring section and an upper-body-length-ratio processing section, and a class specifying section to specify the class corresponding to the feature quantity of the object person acquired by the feature-quantity acquiring section based on the class feature-quantity information memorized by the class feature-quantity information memorizing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke NOGUCHI, Yoshito HIRATA, Hiroki UEMURA, Tomonori OHTSUBO
  • Patent number: 11434990
    Abstract: A shift device comprises a shift lever and a shift knob. A driver moves the shift knob in a longitudinal direction when a shift change is conducted between plural traveling positions. The driver moves the shift knob, in a lateral direction, toward a driver's side when the shift change is conducted from a R position to a P position. When viewed from a vehicle rear side, the shift lever located at the traveling positions takes a first position where the shift lever is inclined, relative to its upright state, in a direction of separating its upper end portion with the shift knob from a driver's seat, whereas the shift lever located at the P position takes a second position where the shift lever is in the upright state or in a state which is closer to the upright state than the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Uemura, Yoshito Hirata, Tomonori Ohtsubo, Masanori Taguchi, Kouji Tokunaga, Akira Michinaga
  • Patent number: 11412110
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a lens, an assembly, a terminal, and an electronic component. The housing includes a front surface part, a rear surface part on the opposite side to that, and a side surface part connecting the front surface part and the rear surface part. The lens is exposed from the front surface part. The assembly includes an image sensor and is located on the rear surface part side relative to the lens. The terminal is located at the rear surface part for connection with an outside part. A flexible board includes a part extending from the assembly toward the terminal. The electronic component is mounted on the flexible board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Uemura, Yukinori Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20220212674
    Abstract: An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination may be made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a height changer which changes a height of a steering wheel, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a steering wheel controller 33 as one example of a height controller which controls the height changer such that the height of the steering wheel becomes lower as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer may be higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshito HIRATA, Tomonori OHTSUBO, Hiroki UEMURA, Kengo IWATA, Masato MAEDA, Hiroaki MATSUDA, Masahito KASHIHARA, Chieko NAKAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20220212572
    Abstract: An alighting assistance device D of the present disclosure may be a device moving a driver seat rearward in a case where a determination is made that an occupant seated on the driver seat of a vehicle alights. The device may include a reclining mechanism as one example of an angle changer which changes an angle of a seat back of the driver seat with respect to a horizontal plane, a sitting height acquirer which acquires a sitting height of the occupant, and a seat controller as one example of an angle controller which controls the angle changer such that the angle of the seat back becomes closer to be perpendicular as the sitting height acquired by the sitting height acquirer is higher in the case where a determination is made that the occupant alights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshito HIRATA, Tomonori OHTSUBO, Hiroki UEMURA, Kengo IWATA, Masato MAEDA, Hiroaki MATSUDA, Masahito KASHIHARA, Chieko NAKAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20210199193
    Abstract: A shift device comprises a shift lever and a shift knob. A driver moves the shift knob in a longitudinal direction when a shift change is conducted between plural traveling positions. The driver moves the shift knob, in a lateral direction, toward a driver's side when the shift change is conducted from a R position to a P position. When viewed from a vehicle rear side, the shift lever located at the traveling positions takes a first position where the shift lever is inclined, relative to its upright state, in a direction of separating its upper end portion with the shift knob from a driver's seat, whereas the shift lever located at the P position takes a second position where the shift lever is in the upright state or in a state which is closer to the upright state than the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki UEMURA, Yoshito HIRATA, Tomonori OHTSUBO, Masanori TAGUCHI, Kouji TOKUNAGA, Akira MICHINAGA
  • Publication number: 20210014391
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a lens, an assembly, a terminal, and an electronic component. The housing includes a front surface part, a rear surface part on the opposite side to that, and a side surface part connecting the front surface part and the rear surface part. The lens is exposed from the front surface part. The assembly includes an image sensor and is located on the rear surface part side relative to the lens. The terminal is located at the rear surface part for connection with an outside part. A flexible board includes a part extending from the assembly toward the terminal. The electronic component is mounted on the flexible board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki UEMURA, Yukinori FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10668835
    Abstract: In a seat for a vehicle which comprises a seat body, a slide mechanism, and a lift mechanism, the lift mechanism is configured such that a hip point of a specified physique occupant seated on the seat body draws a track which is approximated to a virtual rotational track of the hip point around a heel point when viewed from a vehicle side, whereby a change quantity of an ankle's angle is restricted below a first threshold and a change quantity of a knee's angle is restricted below a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshito Hirata, Hiroki Uemura, Hiroaki Matsubara, Tomonori Ohtsubo
  • Patent number: 10452051
    Abstract: A numerical control device that controls a servomotor on the basis of a machining program. The machining program determines whether or not to perform correction on reversal of a moving direction of a mechanical system driven in a movement axis direction by the servomotor. This is done on the basis of the machining program including an instruction that causes the reversal of the moving direction of the mechanical system and another instruction to be executed later than the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Nagaoka, Hiroki Uemura
  • Patent number: 10444649
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a composite core and a shell layer covering a surface of the composite core. The composite core is a composite of a toner core and organic particles located on a surface of the toner core. The toner core contains a releasing agent having a carboxyl group. The organic particles contain a resin having a carboxyl group and a mass average molecular weight of from 30,000 to 50,500. The shell layer includes a unit having a non-ring-opened oxazoline group. An amount of the non-ring-opened oxazoline group contained in 1 g of the toner as measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is from 500 ?mol to 1,400 ?mol. An endothermic quantity due to melting of the releasing agent contained in 1 mg of the toner as measured by differential scanning calorimetry is from 80 mJ to 160 mJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20190196440
    Abstract: A numerical control device that controls a servomotor on the basis of a machining program. The machining program determines whether or not to perform correction on reversal of a moving direction of a mechanical system driven in a movement axis direction by the servomotor. This is done on the basis of the machining program including an instruction that causes the reversal of the moving direction of the mechanical system and another instruction to be executed later than the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAGAOKA, Hiroki UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20190187579
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a composite core and a shell layer covering a surface of the composite core. The composite core is a composite of a toner core and organic particles located on a surface of the toner core. The toner core contains a releasing agent having a carboxyl group. The organic particles contain a resin having a carboxyl group and a mass average molecular weight of from 30,000 to 50,500. The shell layer includes a unit having a non-ring-opened oxazoline group. An amount of the non-ring-opened oxazoline group contained in 1 g of the toner as measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is from 500 ?mol to 1,400 ?mol. An endothermic quantity due to melting of the releasing agent contained in 1 mg of the toner as measured by differential scanning calorimetry is from 80 mJ to 160 mJ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki UEMURA
  • Patent number: 10324392
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a composite core and a shell layer. The composite core is a composite of a toner core, organic particles, and polyhedral magnetic particles. The organic particles each contain a releasing agent and adhere to a surface of the toner core. The magnetic particles include magnetic particles adhering to the surface of the toner core and magnetic particles adhering to surfaces of the organic particles. An amount of the magnetic particles is 0.5 parts by mass to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner cores. In a cross-sectional image of each toner particle, an area of protruding portions of the magnetic particles, which protrude from the shell layer, accounts for 10% to 75% of an overall area of the magnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uemura
  • Patent number: 10241431
    Abstract: Toner particles contain a non-crystalline polyester resin. The toner particles further contain 10 parts by mass to 30 parts by mass of a crystalline polyester resin, 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass of a styrene-acrylic acid-based resin, and 8 parts by mass to 15 parts by mass of an ester wax relative to 100 parts by mass of the non-crystalline polyester resin. The crystalline polyester resin includes a repeating unit derived from an acrylic acid-based monomer and a repeating unit derived from a styrene-based monomer. The styrene-acrylic acid-based resin includes a repeating unit derived from an acrylic acid-based monomer having an amino group and has an amino group ratio of 40% to 60%. The ester wax in the toner particles has a dispersion diameter of 500 nm to 1,000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Yamauchi, Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20190072177
    Abstract: A vehicle shifting device is a shift-by-wire vehicle shifting device for changing a shift-range of a vehicle among a plurality of shift-ranges including a parking range, a reverse range, a neutral range, and a drive range based on manipulation made by a driver. The vehicle shifting device includes a shift lever that is set to positions corresponding to the plurality of shift-ranges, a detector that detects the position of the shift lever, and a lever holder that keeps the shift lever in one of the positions while the shift-range is kept in a predetermined shift-range, the one of the positions corresponding to the predetermined shift-range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TOKUMO, Tomonori OHTSUBO, Hiroki UEMURA, Yoshito HIRATA, Kouji TOKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20190061568
    Abstract: In a seat for a vehicle which comprises a seat body, a slide mechanism, and a lift mechanism, the lift mechanism is configured such that a hip point of a specified physique occupant seated on the seat body draws a track which is approximated to a virtual rotational track of the hip point around a heel point when viewed from a vehicle side, whereby a change quantity of an ankle's angle is restricted below a first threshold and a change quantity of a knee's angle is restricted below a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshito HIRATA, Hiroki UEMURA, Hiroaki MATSUBARA, Tomonori OHTSUBO
  • Patent number: 10209640
    Abstract: Cores of toner particles contain a non-crystalline polyester resin, a carnauba wax, and a crystalline polyester resin (polymer of monomers including alcohol, carboxylic acid, styrene-based monomer, and acrylic acid-based monomer) having an SP value ((cal/cm3)1/2) of at least 10 and no greater than 11. Shell layers each include a resin film mainly constituted by a complex of resin particles having a glass transition point of at least 50° C. and no greater than 100° C. A Ru-dyed ratio of the toner particles in a state in which no external additive is present is at least 50% and no greater than 80%. An intensity of an absorbency peak around a wavenumber of 701 cm?1 is at least 0.0100 and no greater than 0.0250. Surface adsorption forces (FA: coated regions, FB: exposed regions) satisfy “0 nN<FA”, “50 nN?FB?70 nN”, and “35 nN?FB?FA?65 nN”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Okita, Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20180373173
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a composite core and a shell layer. The composite core is a composite of a toner core, organic particles, and polyhedral magnetic particles. The organic particles each contain a releasing agent and adhere to a surface of the toner core. The magnetic particles include magnetic particles adhering to the surface of the toner core and magnetic particles adhering to surfaces of the organic particles. An amount of the magnetic particles is 0.5 parts by mass to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner cores. In a cross-sectional image of each toner particle, an area of protruding portions of the magnetic particles, which protrude from the shell layer, accounts for 10% to 75% of an overall area of the magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki UEMURA