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).

  • Publication number: 20180339632
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI, Yasuhiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20180339630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI, Yasuhiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20180328825
    Abstract: A synchronous controller is connected to each of boards by one communication wire, and one communication path is formed between the synchronous controller and each of the boards. A multiple synchronization signal S in which a plurality of synchronization signals are multiplexed is transmitted from the synchronous controller to each of the boards. Signal extraction units as extraction means for recognizing synchronization signals included in the multiple synchronization signal S and extracting the individual synchronization signals are provided in the boards, respectively. The individual synchronization signals are extracted from the multiple synchronization signal S input to the boards by the signal extraction units, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi TSUJI
  • Patent number: 10043377
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes at least one sensor, at least one monitoring camera, a master device that is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones, and a mobile phone terminal that is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network. The master device records an image captured by the monitoring camera or outputs warning information depending on whether or not an event is detected by at least two of the sensors and the monitoring cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Wada, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20180216962
    Abstract: Data output from each of the ā€œnā€ 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 ā€œn,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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20180199009
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Eiichi Hatae, Nobuyuki Wada, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10000625
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame-retarding agent comprising a phosphoramidate compound represented by Formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently C1-3 alkyl, R11 and R12 are each independently C1-3 alkylene, R13 is C1-6 alkylene, B1 is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl, and A is hydrogen or an organic group represented by Formula (Ia): wherein R3 and R4 are each independently C1-3 alkyl, R14 and R15 are each independently C1-3 alkylene, and B2 is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl, wherein when B1 is C1-6 alkyl, and A is hydrogen, B1 and R13-A, taken together with nitrogen to which they are attached, may form a non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocycle, and wherein when B1 is C1-6 alkyl, A is an organic group represented by Formula (Ia), and B2 is C1-6 alkyl, B1 and B2, taken together with nitrogen to which they are attached and with R13, may form a non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Daihachi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Ueki, Tomoe Takemoto, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20180160816
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20180162243
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI
  • Patent number: 9937837
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame. The seat frame has a hollow deformable portion that is bent, and linear recessed portions formed by partially recessing an inner side of the deformable portion. The deformable portion has a linear separation portion formed in a projecting manner relative to the recessed portions and extending on the inner side of the deformable portion. A plurality of recessed portions is formed on each of one side and the other side of the separation portion so as to sandwich the separation portion, and placed independently from each other such that adjacent recessed portions are not connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuji, Fumitoshi Akaike
  • Patent number: 9852608
    Abstract: In a monitoring system, a master device stores setting information indicating a detection area of a target detected by a sensor in a storage unit, and transmits the setting information to a camera (a baby monitoring camera) having a sensor built thereinto or correlated with a sensor so as to set a detection parameter including the detection area therein. When a predetermined state set by the detection parameter is detected inside the detection area by the camera, a master device transmits detection notification information to a smartphone, and the smartphone displays a detection information screen based on the detection notification information transmitted from the master device on a display/input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Arakawa, Daisuke Wakeyama, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9742582
    Abstract: A house monitoring system includes at least one sensor that detects a predetermined event, a master device that communicates with the sensor, and is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones, and a mobile phone terminal that includes a display/input unit, performs wireless communication with the master device by using a wireless router, and is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network. When the sensor detects the predetermined event, the master device transmits information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event to the mobile phone terminal, and the mobile phone terminal displays the information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Hatae, Koji Yamanishi, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9705696
    Abstract: In a monitoring system, a master device transmits predetermined sound source list data to a mobile phone terminal in response to a first operation on a display/input unit. The mobile phone terminal displays the predetermined sound source list data transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit, and transmits information regarding a selected sound source to the master device in response to an operation of selecting one sound source from the sound source list data. When the information regarding the sound source is received from the mobile phone terminal, the master device outputs selection audio data corresponding to the information regarding the selected sound source from a speaker of a monitoring camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Wada, Daisuke Wakeyama, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9522984
    Abstract: A polypropylene-based resin composition is provided that can provide a foam molding that exhibits an excellent closed cell characteristic and excellent extrusion characteristics, that is light weight and has a rigid feel, and that has an excellent recyclability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Kaneno, Koji Yamashita, Hiroshi Tsuji, Akihiro Suzuki, Shinichi Kitade, Masaru Aoki, Isamu Terayama
  • Patent number: 9515841
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes at least one sensor, at least one monitoring camera, a power control apparatus, a master device that is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones, and a mobile phone terminal that is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network. A master device instructs the power control apparatus to supply power depending on whether or not an event is detected by at least two of the sensors and the monitoring cameras, and the power control apparatus supplies power to the connected apparatus on the basis of a power supply instruction from the master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Wakeyama, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9507370
    Abstract: A voltage conversion circuit has a plurality of primary capacitors charged by a power supply, a secondary capacitor connected in parallel to the respective plurality of primary capacitors that is charged at a voltage supplied to a load circuit, a plurality of switching circuits provided in association with the respective plurality of primary capacitors that change over a connection state between the primary capacitors and the secondary capacitor, and a connection control circuit that successively connects the respective primary capacitors to the secondary capacitor through the corresponding switching circuits, the respective primary capacitors across which the charging voltages reach a predetermined connection voltage higher than a charging voltage across the secondary capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sameshima, Misato Nabeto, Tatsuakira Masaki, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9503275
    Abstract: A house monitoring system includes at least one sensor that detects a predetermined event, a master device that communicates with the sensor, and is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones, and a mobile phone terminal that includes a display/input unit, performs wireless communication with the master device by using a wireless router, and is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network. When the sensor detects the predetermined event, the master device transmits information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event to the mobile phone terminal, and the mobile phone terminal displays the information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Hatae, Koji Yamanishi, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20160328953
    Abstract: A house monitoring system includes at least one sensor that detects a predetermined event, a master device that communicates with the sensor, and is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones, and a mobile phone terminal that includes a display/input unit, performs wireless communication with the master device by using a wireless router, and is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network. When the sensor detects the predetermined event, the master device transmits information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event to the mobile phone terminal, and the mobile phone terminal displays the information regarding the sensor having detected the predetermined event transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Hatae, Koji Yamanishi, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9485111
    Abstract: In a monitoring system, a master device stores setting information indicating a predetermined state for detecting a target by using a sensor in a storage unit, and transmits the setting information to a camera (a baby monitoring camera or a monitoring camera) having a sensor built thereinto or correlated with a sensor so as to set a detection parameter therein. When the predetermined state set by the detection parameter is detected, the camera transmits a detection notification to the master device. When the detection notification is received from the camera, the master device transmits detection notification information to a smartphone, and the smartphone displays a detection information screen based on the detection notification information transmitted from the master device on a display/input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Kido, Nobuyuki Wada, Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20160257230
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame. The seat frame has a hollow deformable portion that is bent, and linear recessed portions formed by partially recessing an inner side of the deformable portion. The deformable portion has a linear separation portion formed in a projecting manner relative to the recessed portions and extending on the inner side of the deformable portion. A plurality of recessed portions is formed on each of one side and the other side of the separation portion so as to sandwich the separation portion, and placed independently from each other such that adjacent recessed portions are not connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSUJI, Fumitoshi AKAIKE