Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tsuji
Hiroshi Tsuji 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: 10773607Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including: a mode switching mechanism including: a rotating mechanism which is configured to switch one seat of two seats between a state where the one seat faces a vehicle front direction and a state where the one seat faces a vehicle rear direction by rotating the one seat; and a slide mechanism which is configured to move another seat of the two seats from a laterally located position where the other seat is located side by side with the one seat to a vertically located position where the other seat is located to face, in the front-rear direction, the one seat facing the vehicle rear direction by obliquely sliding the other seat in a rear direction and in the seat width direction from the laterally located position.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Patent number: 10764540Abstract: In a monitoring system, when a monitoring display instruction is received from a smartphone, a master device transmits an image transmission request to a plurality of cameras, each of the cameras transmits image data obtained by an image capturing unit to the master device in response to the image transmission request from the master device, the master device generates a plurality of separate images in order to display images from the plurality of cameras on a single screen in a distributed manner, and transmits image data of a monitoring screen of the plurality of separate images to the smartphone, and the smartphone includes a display/input unit and displays the monitoring screen of the plurality of separate images transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiichi Hatae, Nobuyuki Wada, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20200264081Abstract: In an FPGA, waveform data to be sent from the FPGA to a DAC is stored, and a logical circuit is configured from a detection circuit for extracting test force value and elongation value signal components from a signal input from an ADC, an offset subtractor, and a gain multiplier. The detection circuit extracts a resistance component proportional to the test force and displacement. In the detection circuit, an expression that includes a harmonic component of an odd multiple of the carrier frequency is used as a correlation function for extracting the resistance component. As a result, it is possible to obtain calculation results at a sampling frequency that is higher than the carrier frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Hiroshi TSUJI
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Patent number: 10746568Abstract: Data output from each of the ānā delay elements and a remainder value output from a divider in the previous calculation are input to an adder, and an addition process for obtaining a total sum thereof is executed. In addition, a division process is performed by dividing the total sum output from the adder by ān,ā and a quotient and a remainder are output from the divider. The remainder is delayed by a remainder delay element by one clock, is output to the adder, and is added in the next calculation.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tsuji
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Patent number: 10743671Abstract: An air conditioning seat including: two air outlets configured to distribute air distributed from an interior of the seat to an exterior of the seat, wherein the two air outlets are configured to receive supply of air from different air distribution paths and distribute air of different temperatures or humidity.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20200238873Abstract: A seat includes: a backrest configured to support a back of a seated occupant; a headrest provided to an upper portion of the backrest and configured to support a back of a head of the seated occupant; an overhang portion configured to overhang forward so as to laterally cover the head of the seated occupant from a side portion of the headrest; an overhang adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting an overhang amount of the overhang portion; and a height adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting a height position of the headrest with respect to the backrest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
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Patent number: 10697872Abstract: Once a sensor amplifier side connector of a cable unit for interconnecting a detector and a sensor amplifier is connected to the sensor amplifier, a gain resistor on the cable unit side and an instrumentation amplifier of the sensor amplifier are interconnected and the gain of the instrumentation amplifier is determined. As a result, the gain of the instrumentation amplifier is determined such that the magnitude of a signal that the sensor amplifier receives from the detector becomes a magnitude optimal for an analog circuit in the sensor amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20200173484Abstract: An error of an axial force detection is reduced by tensioning a bolt with a tensioning device engaged with a part of the bolt, different from a shaft portion of the bolt. A tensioning device is configured to apply upward tension to a bolt fastened to a fastened member H, and fitted with a washer. A first male thread portion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the washer. The tensioning device includes a connection member having a first female thread portion to be engaged with the first male thread portion, a tensioning mechanism for tensioning the connection member in a state where the first male thread portion is engaged with the first female thread portion, and a tension bearer which is disposed around an outer circumference of the connection member, and bears a reaction force applied from the fastened member H in tensioning performed by the tensioning mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Kyoichi KOMATSU, Hiroshi TSUJI, Osamu TSUJI, Seiji ITO
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Publication number: 20200171636Abstract: To provide a tensioning device capable of tensioning a bolt from a bolt head side while suppressing increase in the number of components. A tensioning device is configured to apply upward tension to a bolt fastened to a fastened member H. A first male thread portion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of a head of the bolt. The tensioning device includes a connection member having a first female thread portion to be threadly engaged with the first male thread portion, a tensioning mechanism for tensioning the bolt via the connection member in a state where the first male thread portion is threadly engaged with the first female thread portion, and a tension bearer which is disposed around an outer circumference of the connection member, and bears a reaction force applied from the fastened member H in tensioning performed by the tensioning mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi TSUJI, Kyoichi KOMATSU, Osamu TSUJI, Seiji ITO
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Publication number: 20200171637Abstract: A tensioning device is configured to apply upward tension to a bolt-nut fastener including a bolt fitted with a fastened member H, and a nut to be fastened to a shaft of the bolt, which protrudes from the fastened member. A first male thread portion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the nut. The tensioning device includes a connection member having a first female thread portion to be engaged with the first male thread portion, a tensioning mechanism for tensioning the nut via the connection member in a state where the first male thread portion is engaged with the first female thread portion, and a tension bearer which is disposed around an outer circumference of the connection member, and bears a reaction force applied from the fastened member H in tensioning performed by the tensioning mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Kyoichi KOMATSU, Hiroshi TSUJI, Osamu TSUJI, Seiji ITO
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Patent number: 10625608Abstract: A vehicle monitor device for a vehicle that includes at least a first seat and a second seat, the vehicle monitor device including: a monitor which is electrically connected to a computer of the vehicle and which can be used for driving the vehicle; and a moving mechanism capable of moving the monitor between a position where the monitor can be used for driving by an occupant seated on the first seat and a position where the monitor can be used for driving by an occupant seated on the second seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20190368987Abstract: There is provided a material testing machine that a control device of the material testing machine includes a detection circuit which extracts a resistance component caused by the physical quantity and a capacitive component caused by an electrostatic capacitance of the cable from a measurement signal from the detector, a memory element which stores a normal capacitive component extracted by the detection circuit, and a comparator which compares the current capacitive component extracted by the detection circuit with the normal capacitive component, and when a comparison result from the comparator indicates that a value of the current capacitive component varies beyond a predetermined allowable range with respect to the normal capacitive component, it is treated that the cable is disconnected, and a disconnection warning is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi TSUJI
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Publication number: 20190359086Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including a first seat and a second seat, wherein the first seat includes: a tilting rotation mechanism configured to connect the first seat with respect to a floor in a manner switchable between a sitting position and a raised position; and a pivoting mechanism configured to pivotably connect the first seat to the floor with the tilting rotation mechanism provided therebetween, and wherein the second seat includes a concave portion configured to reduce interference between the second seat and a forefoot of a sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position when the second seat and the first seat are in a positional relationship in which the second seat overlaps, in a plan view, with a pivoting trajectory of the forefoot of the sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI, Keisuke TODA, Hajime TAKAGI
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Patent number: 10486574Abstract: A vehicle footrest device including: a footrest; and a footrest moving mechanism including: a rail fixed on a vehicle floor and extending in a front and rear direction; a slider configured to be guided so as to be slidable in the front and rear direction along the rail; and a variable-length arm bridged in a height direction between the slider and a vehicle seat and configured to change a bridging length between the slider and the vehicle seat by a sliding displacement of the variable-length arm in response to a forward and rearward movement of the slider, wherein the footrest is connected to the variable-length arm, and a position in the front and rear direction and an inclination angle of the footrest to the vehicle floor are configured to be changed according to a movement of the variable-length arm caused by the forward and rearward movement of the slider.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji, Yasuhiro Kato
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Patent number: 10434908Abstract: An air conditioning seat configured to blow temperature-adjusted air and including: a seat including a seat cushion and a seat back; a lateral member which is provided along the seated person seated on the seat on a lateral side of the seated person; a first air duct which is provided in the lateral member and is configured to guide the temperature-adjusted air towards the seated person; and a first air outlet from which the temperature-adjusted air is configured to be blown out from first the air duct, wherein the temperature-adjusted air is configured to be directed and blown out towards at least one of a knee and a lower leg portion of a leg of the seated person through the first air outlet, the at least one of the knee and the lower leg portion being positioned on a front side than a front end of the seat cushion.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20190176626Abstract: A vehicle monitor device for a vehicle that includes at least a first seat and a second seat, the vehicle monitor device including: a monitor which is electrically connected to a computer of the vehicle and which can be used for driving the vehicle; and a moving mechanism capable of moving the monitor between a position where the monitor can be used for driving by an occupant seated on the first seat and a position where the monitor can be used for driving by an occupant seated on the second seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
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Patent number: 10300825Abstract: A table apparatus for a vehicle including: a table having a substantially horizontal upper surface in a region directly above a seating surface of a vehicle seat; a heat source provided to the table and configured to perform heat radiation from a lower surface side of the table; and a table moving mechanism configured to move the table so as to change a position of the table with respect to the vehicle seat, wherein a position of the heat source with respect to the vehicle seat is changed by moving the table by the table moving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji, Yasuhiro Kato
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Publication number: 20190143845Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including: a mode switching mechanism including: a rotating mechanism which is configured to switch one seat of two seats between a state where the one seat faces a vehicle front direction and a state where the one seat faces a vehicle rear direction by rotating the one seat; and a slide mechanism which is configured to move another seat of the two seats from a laterally located position where the other seat is located side by side with the one seat to a vertically located position where the other seat is located to face, in the front-rear direction, the one seat facing the vehicle rear direction by obliquely sliding the other seat in a rear direction and in the seat width direction from the laterally located position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
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Publication number: 20190135136Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including: a mode switching mechanism configured to switch configurations of two seats arranged in a front-rear direction between a face-to-face mode in which seated occupants are seated on the seats to face each other in the front-rear direction and a non-face-to-face mode in which the face-to-face mode is released, wherein one seat of the two seats is a wall seat attached to a wall of a vehicle which faces another seat of the two seats in the front-rear direction, and is configured to be switched, by the mode switching mechanism, between the non-face-to-face mode in which a seat surface portion of the one seat is accommodated in a concave portion in the wall and the face-to-face mode in which the seat surface portion of the one seat is pulled out from the concave portion so as to be capable of being seated on.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
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Publication number: 20180372602Abstract: Once a sensor amplifier side connector of a cable unit for interconnecting a detector and a sensor amplifier is connected to the sensor amplifier, a gain resistor on the cable unit side and an instrumentation amplifier of the sensor amplifier are interconnected and the gain of the instrumentation amplifier is determined. As a result, the gain of the instrumentation amplifier is determined such that the magnitude of a signal that the sensor amplifier receives from the detector becomes a magnitude optimal for an analog circuit in the sensor amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Hiroshi TSUJI