Patents by Inventor Hirotane Ikeda

Hirotane Ikeda 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: 20070233328
    Abstract: An information provision system of the present disclosure stores a current vehicle condition and a normal unattended condition of the vehicle as relevant information in a driver's unit, when a driver of a vehicle gets off the vehicle. The relevant information in the driver's unit is transmitted to a facility unit when the driver having the driver's unit reaches a facility that has the facility unit. The facility unit that has received the relevant information provides a notice that how the current vehicle condition is different from the normal unattended condition of the vehicle based on a comparison result of the current vehicle condition and the normal unattended condition in the reference condition. The driver of the vehicle or the like is encouraged to change the current vehicle condition to an appropriate one when he/she receives the notice that the current vehicle condition is different from the normal unattended condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirotane Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20070219709
    Abstract: A drive assistance system is provided for assisting an operation of a driver of a vehicle in a manner that does not cause disturbance for the driver, based on image information derived from an external apparatus such as roadside cameras or the like. The image information is provided for the driver by a liquid crystal display unit, and the provision of the image information is accompanied by a provision of supplemental information from a headup display unit that draws driver's attention to the provision of the image information from the liquid crystal display unit in an appropriate manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotane Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20070021893
    Abstract: A vehicle accessory adjusting system that adjusts a variety of on-vehicle accessories of a vehicle to suit a driver or a passenger according to personal data stored in an IC card or other portable data storage medium. The vehicle accessory adjusting system includes a memory that stores standard setting data on the on-vehicle accessories, calculation circuit for calculating personal data based on specific setting data obtained when a driver or a passenger uses some on-vehicle accessories and corresponding standard setting data of the on-vehicle accessories, a rewriting unit to rewrite the personal data stored in the IC card with new personal data; and setting circuit to set the on-vehicle accessories according to the personal data stored in the IC card and the standard setting data stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotane Ikeda, Kimiaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5504356
    Abstract: This invention aims at providing a novel semiconductor accelerometer comprising a smaller number of substrates and a production method thereof.An insulating film is formed on a main plane of a P-type silicon substrate, and a beam-like movable electrode is formed on the insulating film. Fixed electrodes are then formed on both sides of the movable electrode in self-alignment with the movable electrode by diffusing an impurity into the P-type silicon substrate, and the insulating film below the movable electrode is etched and removed. There is thus produced a semiconductor accelerometer comprising the P-type silicon substrate 1, the movable electrode 4 having the beam structure and disposed above the P-type silicon substrate 1 with a predetermined gap between them, and the fixed electrodes 8, 9 consisting of the impurity diffusion layer and formed on both sides of the movable electrode 4 on the P-type silicon substrate 1 in self-alignment with the movable electrode 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takeuchi, Toshimasa Yamamoto, Yoshinori Ohtsuka, Shigeyuki Akita, Tadashi Hattori, Kazuhiko Kanou, Hirotane Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4714047
    Abstract: A method for forming an ultrafine particle film of compound includes the steps of evacuating a vessel provided with an evaporation source in its bottom portion, by which a material to be evaporated is retained, and a base plate in its upper portion, on which ultrafine particles of compound are to be deposited, supplying a reactive gas into the evacuated vessel, evaporating the retained material by heating the evaporation source and making the material interact with the reactive gas to form ultrafine particles of compound and depositing the formed ultrafine particles of compound on the base plate. The reactive gas is directly supplied to an interaction area adjacent to the evaporation source, in which the evaporated material concentrically exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotane Ikeda, Tadashi Hattori, Minoru Ohta, Shinichi Mukainakano