Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ando

Hiroshi Ando 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: 9630538
    Abstract: A side support cover for application to a vehicle seat having a backrest part is disclosed. The side support cover includes left and right cover bodies for covering respective left and right side supports, and left and right lace members with one ends attached to the respective cover bodies. The left and right lace members are connected to the left and right cover bodies at a point positioned in the vicinity of boundaries between the lace members and the side supports. The backrest part has through-holes extending through the backrest part in a front-back direction. The lace members are passed through the respective through-holes in a state of being tensioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA ACCESS CORP.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsuhashi, Takumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170080118
    Abstract: An olfactory display includes a housing and a plurality of fragrance chambers formed in the housing. In each fragrance chamber, a solid-like fragrance source is accommodated and an airflow source is provided to send air into the fragrance chamber from an air intake port. An auxiliary airflow source that emits odorless air is also provided in the housing. The airflow source and the auxiliary airflow source are operated alternately or simultaneously. In response to a user operating an adjustment knob of a controller, operating time periods and stopping time periods of the airflow source and the auxiliary airflow source are changed, or the number of operating times is changed within a predetermined operating time period. A mixing ratio of the fragrance and the odorless air may also be adjusted by changing a voltage value of an alternating voltage to be applied to a piezoelectric device of the airflow source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFOMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9539353
    Abstract: An olfactory display 10 includes a display main body 12 and a fragrance source cartridge 14, and presents a fragrance to a range bounded in terms of time and space. A cartridge accommodation room (24) of the display main body 12 and a container main body (80) of the fragrance source cartridge 14 are formed with inclined surfaces 46 and 84 inclined with respect to an insertion direction of the fragrance source cartridge 14, and a force that pushes in the fragrance source cartridge 14 acts in a direction that an open air inlet 82 is pressed to an air supply port 54 side. Accordingly, adhesiveness of a coupling portion of the air supply port 54 and the open air inlet 82 increases, and therefore, capability of an airflow source 26 is used to the utmost, and a high static pressure is generated in the fragrance source cartridge 14 for a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9481168
    Abstract: A device for detecting a state of a discharged liquid droplet includes a plurality of nozzles which is arranged in a width direction of a recording medium orthogonal to a feeding direction of the recording medium to discharge a liquid droplet toward the recording medium, a light emitter which is provided on one side of the recording medium in the width direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the recording medium, and a light receiver which is provided on the other side of the recording medium in the width direction, wherein the light emitter includes a light-emitting element, a condenser lens which condenses light from the light-emitting element to emit as a light beam, and an aperture stop member including an aperture opening through which the light beam passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9477080
    Abstract: A head-up display device including a screen member, a first generation portion, and a second generation portion is provided. The screen member is provided with multiple optical elements each of which has a curved surface portion and forms a scan surface by an array of the curved surface portions. The first generation portion generates a first laser beam that is irradiated to the scan surface to draw a display image. The second generation portion generates a second laser beam to draw a display image that is irradiated to the scan surface from a direction different from the first laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Takayuki Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 9446736
    Abstract: A pillar garnish includes a body, a sliding plate, a mounting base, and a bridging portion. The body includes a decorative surface facing an inner side of a compartment of a vehicle and a back surface opposite from the decorative surface. The body extends in an extending direction of a pillar of the vehicle and mounted to the pillar with space between the back surface thereof and the pillar. The sliding plate is slidable along the back surface. The mounting base on the back surface is for mounting the body to the pillar. The bridging portion on the body is for retaining space in which the sliding plate is inserted between the back surface and the mounting base and for holding the mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9436008
    Abstract: An HUD device includes a laser scanner that projects laser light carrying a display image, and a screen member that has a plurality of optical elements arrayed in the form of a grating, and diffuses laser light which emanates from the laser scanner and enters the optical elements toward a projection surface. The optical elements have curved surfaces, which take on a convexly curved form as a common curved form, formed as their faces, and diffuse laser light which is emitted to the projection surface from the curved surfaces. A sag quantity from each of surface vertices of the curved surfaces to each of boundaries among the optical elements differs between adjoining optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujikawa, Hiroshi Ando, Masayuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9423617
    Abstract: An HUD device includes a laser scanner that projects laser light carrying a display image, and a screen member that has a plurality of optical elements arrayed in the form of a grating, and diffuses laser light which emanates from the laser scanner and enters the optical elements toward a projection surface. The optical elements have curved surfaces, which take on a convexly curved form as a common curved form, formed as their faces, and diffuse laser light which is emitted to the projection surface from the curved surfaces. The optical elements are configured so that an element width differs in at least one array direction of the array of the grating between adjoining optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Takayuki Fujikawa, Masayuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9417451
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus projects a display image onto a projection surface of a windshield so that a viewer views a virtual image of the display image from an eye box. A screen used in the apparatus is constructed of a plurality of micromirrors. Each micromirror has a convex surface portion being curved to magnify a laser beam toward the eye box. A scanned surface of the screen is provided by an array of the convex surface portions. In a cross section intersecting the scanned surface, adjacent convex surface portions have different curved shapes. Thus, brightness unevenness of the display image caused by interference of laser beams can be reduced while maintaining a simple structure of the screen such as a microlens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Takayuki Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 9395541
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes a projector that projects a laser beam and a screen including a plurality of optical elements that are arranged in a grid pattern. The screen diffuses the laser beam, which has entered into the plurality of optical elements from the projector, toward the projection plane. Each of the plurality of optical elements has a curved surface formed into a convex or a concave shape on an outside surface of the screen. One of the plurality of optical elements has a thickness at a curvature center point that is different from that of the other of the plurality of optical elements immediately adjacent to the one of the plurality of optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujikawa, Hiroshi Ando, Masayuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160178902
    Abstract: An information display apparatus reflects light representing information off a projection target to display the information as a virtual image, and includes a projector, at least two image forming devices and a focus adjusting device. The projector projects the light representing information. The image forming devices, to which the light from the projector is projected, are on an optical path from the projector to the projection target. At least one of the image forming devices is at a distance from the projector different from that of other image forming devices. The focus adjusting device adjusts a focal length of one optical system on an optical path from the projector to each of the image forming devices such that the light from the projector is in focus at each of the image forming devices. An image of information on each of the image forming devices is reflected off the projection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi ANDO, Shinji KASHIWADA
  • Patent number: 9370595
    Abstract: [Structure] An olfactory display 10 includes a housing 12 having an emitting port 22, and presents a fragrance within a range bounded in terms of time and space. Within the housing 12, a fragrance chamber 14 having an air inlet 26 and a fragrance outlet 24 which is communicated with the emitting port 22 is formed, and in the fragrance chamber 14, a solid-like fragrance source 20 is accommodated. Furthermore, in the fragrance chamber 14, there is provided with a airflow source 16 comprising a diaphragm 34 having a piezoelectric device 32. In presenting a fragrance, an air is sent into the fragrance chamber 14 from the air inlet 26 by the airflow source 16, and accordingly, the air within the fragrance chamber 14, which including a gas-like fragrance component volatilized from the fragrance source 20 is emitted from the emitting port 22 passing through the fragrance outlet 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20160170099
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of optical elements that are arrayed in a lattice pattern in a screen member which diffuses a laser beam incident from a projector to guide the laser beam toward a projection surface has a curved surface on a side thereof, and the curved surface has a common convexly curved shape, and diffuses the laser beam which is emitted from the curved surface toward the projection surface. The respective optical elements include a plurality of reference elements which serve as a reference and a plurality of peripheral elements which are adjacent to the respective reference elements. The respective reference elements and the respective adjacent peripheral elements are formed by offsetting surface vertexes of the curved surfaces in a stepwise manner. Offset amounts generated between the respective reference elements and the respective adjacent peripheral elements are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki FUJIKAWA, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20160159280
    Abstract: An image synthesizer apparatus for vehicle includes an image generator and an error detector. From multiple cameras arranged to a vehicle so that an imaging region of each camera partially overlaps with an imaging region of an adjacent camera, the image generator acquires images of areas allocated to the respective cameras, and synthesizes the acquired images to generate a synthetic image around the vehicle viewed from a viewpoint above the vehicle. The error detector detects errors in the cameras. When the error detector detects a faulty camera in the cameras, the image generator acquires, from the image captured by the camera adjacent to the faulty camera, an overlap portion overlapping with the image captured by the faulty camera, uses the overlap portion to generate the synthetic image, and applies image reinforcement to the overlap portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi Takazawa, Makoto Sakai, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20160152184
    Abstract: A head-up display (10) equipped to a vehicle includes a front view information acquisition unit (22, S110, S120), a virtual image display unit (22, S180), and a size adjustment unit (22, S140-S160). The front view information acquisition unit acquires front view information indicative of an object existing on a travelling road of the vehicle. The virtual image display unit controls lights generated for displaying an object marker corresponding to the object indicated by the front view information acquired by the front view information acquisition unit to be reflected on a windshield (6) and displays the object marker as a virtual image in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ogawa, Makoto Sakai, Hiroshi Ando, Takayuki Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20160147073
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display unit displaying images in a display region defined on a vehicle windshield, a vehicle information acquisition unit acquiring vehicle information, a forward view information acquisition unit acquiring forward view information, a display object detection unit detecting a display object for which guidance information is required to be displayed in the display region, a display control unit, and a display form setting unit. The display control unit generates a guidance image indicating the guidance information of the detected display object and displays the generated guidance image over the display object in superimposed manner on the windshield. The display form setting unit calculates an annoyance value indicative of an annoyance level felt by a vehicle occupant when displaying the guidance image in superimposed manner, and sets a display form of the guidance image so that the calculated annoyance value is within a predetermined appropriate range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Onda, Hiroshi Ando, Makoto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20160059756
    Abstract: A side support cover for application to a vehicle seat having a backrest part is disclosed. The side support cover includes left and right cover bodies for covering respective left and right side supports, and left and right lace members with one ends attached to the respective cover bodies. The left and right lace members are connected to the left and right cover bodies at a point positioned in the vicinity of boundaries between the lace members and the side supports. The backrest part has through-holes extending through the backrest part in a front-back direction. The lace members are passed through the respective through-holes in a state of being tensioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA ACCESS CORP.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsuhashi, Takumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20160060340
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-human FOLR1 antibody against diseases associated with human FOLR1-expressing cells, which specifically recognizes and binds to an amino acid sequence of human FOLR1 or a conformational structure thereof and also has a high effector activity such as antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity activity (ADCC activity). The present invention can provide a monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes and binds to the amino acid sequence of human FOLR1 or the conformational structure thereof and also has ADCC activity and CDC activity, or an antibody fragment thereof, a DNA encoding the antibody, a vector comprising the DNA, a transformant obtained by introducing the vector, a method for producing the antibody or the antibody fragment thereof using the transformant, and a therapeutic agent and a diagnostic agent comprising the antibody or the antibody fragment as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Munetoshi ANDO, Hiroshi ANDO, Mariko NAKANO, Naoya KAMEYAMA, Tsuguo KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20160001737
    Abstract: A pillar garnish includes a body, a sliding plate, a mounting base, and a bridging portion. The body includes a decorative surface facing an inner side of a compartment of a vehicle and a back surface opposite from the decorative surface. The body extends in an extending direction of a pillar of the vehicle and mounted to the pillar with space between the back surface thereof and the pillar. The sliding plate is slidable along the back surface. The mounting base on the back surface is for mounting the body to the pillar. The bridging portion on the body is for retaining space in which the sliding plate is inserted between the back surface and the mounting base and for holding the mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20160007512
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting system includes a component mounting line formed by interconnecting component mounting units which concurrently performs component mounting work on two kinds of boards different in mounting workload. The component mounting units includes: first and second board conveyance mechanisms; a component mounting unit; a board distribution unit which receives the board from the upstream-side apparatus and distributes the received board to either the first board conveyance mechanism or the second board conveyance mechanism; and a distribution control unit which controls the first board conveyance mechanism, the second board conveyance mechanism and the board distribution unit. The distribution control unit mixedly distributes the two kinds of the boards to each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms based on a board request signal issued from a most-upstream component mounting unit in the component mounting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki HIGASHI, Taisuke MORI, Ryouji KOUCHI, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hisashi MAEZONO, Hiroshi ANDO