Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yogo

Hiroshi Yogo 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: 20240116406
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi YOGO
  • Patent number: 11878608
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20220281362
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi YOGO
  • Patent number: 11345261
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Patent number: 11236539
    Abstract: In a door trim assembly for a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a vertically moveable window pane and a drive unit for driving the window pane for selectively closing the opening, the door trim assembly includes: a door trim main body configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door under the opening; at least one transmitter provided in an upper part of the door trim main body; at least one receiver provided in an upper part of the door trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter and reflected by an object positioned near the window pane; and a control unit connected to the receiver to compute a position of the object according to the signal received by the receiver and control the drive unit according to the computed position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20210162891
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20200325721
    Abstract: In a door trim assembly for a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a vertically moveable window pane and a drive unit for driving the window pane for selectively closing the opening, the door trim assembly includes: a door trim main body configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door under the opening; at least one transmitter provided in an upper part of the door trim main body; at least one receiver provided in an upper part of the door trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter and reflected by an object positioned near the window pane; and a control unit connected to the receiver to compute a position of the object according to the signal received by the receiver and control the drive unit according to the computed position of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Patent number: 10731399
    Abstract: In a door trim assembly for a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a vertically moveable window pane and a drive unit for driving the window pane for selectively closing the opening, the door trim assembly includes: a door trim main body configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door under the opening; at least one transmitter provided in an upper part of the door trim main body; at least one receiver provided in an upper part of the door trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter and reflected by an object positioned near the window pane; and a control unit connected to the receiver to compute a position of the object according to the signal received by the receiver and control the drive unit according to the computed position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20190359088
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Patent number: 10377272
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20180266164
    Abstract: In a door trim assembly for a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a vertically moveable window pane and a drive unit for driving the window pane for selectively closing the opening, the door trim assembly includes: a door trim main body configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door under the opening; at least one transmitter provided in an upper part of the door trim main body; at least one receiver provided in an upper part of the door trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter and reflected by an object positioned near the window pane; and a control unit connected to the receiver to compute a position of the object according to the signal received by the receiver and control the drive unit according to the computed position of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20180178681
    Abstract: In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yogo
  • Patent number: 9308956
    Abstract: Provided is a seat for a two-wheeled vehicle provided with a lumbar support portion which can be constructed to not deform rearward without a support element such as a plate and a bottom panel, can produce a sufficient sense of fit adapted to a physique, is lightweight, and is simple in configuration. The seat for a two-wheeled vehicle is provided with the lumbar support portion. The lumbar support portion is formed into an arc shape having both sides protruding forward. The lumbar support portion includes an internal padding material formed continuously, and bulging portions having surface sides of both side regions including both sides of the lumbar support portion bulging forward of the vehicle are formed on both side regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Honma, Hiroshi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20140327280
    Abstract: Provided is a seat for a two-wheeled vehicle provided with a lumbar support portion which can be constructed to not deform rearward without a support element such as a plate and a bottom panel, can produce a sufficient sense of fit adapted to a physique, is lightweight, and is simple in configuration. The seat for a two-wheeled vehicle is provided with the lumbar support portion. The lumbar support portion is formed into an arc shape having both sides protruding forward. The lumbar support portion includes an internal padding material formed continuously, and bulging portions having surface sides of both side regions including both sides of the lumbar support portion bulging forward of the vehicle are formed on both side regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Yuichi Honma, Hiroshi Yogo