Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Ito

Hiroyuki Ito 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: 20240302321
    Abstract: A gas sensor control device controls a gas sensor including a first pumping cell and a second pumping cell configured to output a current in accordance with a concentration of a specific component in a measurement target gas. The gas sensor control device has a microprocessor configured to, when calculating the concentration of the specific component, use a correction expression based on an index including at least either an initial offset indicating a current value when the concentration of the specific component at a first reference time is 0 or a difference between an ideal value and the current value when the concentration of the specific component at a second reference time is a set concentration, and a cumulative operating time which is a total operating time of the gas sensor from a third reference time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TANAKA, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20240306490
    Abstract: Compounds of formulae (2-7) or (2-9) are provided: Also provided are organic electroluminescence (EL) devices containing the compounds having a high emission efficiency when operated at low voltage and a long lifetime and electronic devices including such organic EL devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota TAKAHASHI, Tomoki KATO, Hirokatsu ITO, Masahiro KAWAMURA, Masakazu FUNAHASHI, Hiroyuki SAITO, Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Yoshiaki TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya MASUDA, Hitoshi KUMA
  • Patent number: 12076639
    Abstract: A seat experience system that allows an occupant to grasp the state of the system and feel secure about using the system is provided. In the seat experience system, a seat includes a seat body, and a sensor provided at the seat body and configured to acquire a measurement value for detection of a motion of the occupant seated on the seat body. A controller is connected to the sensor and capable of acquiring the measurement value from the sensor, and a seat experience device is connected to the controller and operable based on the measurement value. The seat experience device may be capable of communicating with a server. If the seat experience device detects a malfunction of the seat experience system, the seat experience device notifies the occupant of the malfunction and limits at least a subset of functions of the seat experience system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Akira Miyoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, Munetaka Kowa, Yousuke Higashi, Yoshikazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20240286620
    Abstract: An operation management aid system can access a first group of associated data in which biological measurement data pertaining to a biology of a driver is associated with task state data pertaining to a task state of the driver, and a second group of danger determination results indicating a degree of danger of driving by the driver, and wherein a processor executes: acquiring, the associated data pertaining to a specific task state of the driver from the first group, and acquiring a specific danger determination result group in the specific task state of the driver from the second group; and using an associated data group pertaining to the specific task state and a specific danger determination result group for the specific task state, to generate, for each of the specific task states, an estimation model that estimates an accident risk of the driver during the specific task state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: LOGISTEED, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao ITO, Takeshi TANAKA, Shunsuke MINUSA, Hiroyuki KURIYAMA, Kiminori SATO
  • Patent number: 12071023
    Abstract: An electric vehicle control method for controlling a motor based on a torque command value in an electric vehicle includes: a disturbance torque estimation process of calculating a disturbance torque estimation value including an influence of a road surface gradient; a speed parameter acquisition process of acquiring a speed parameter relating to a vehicle speed; and a vehicle state control including a stop process of calculating a stopping basis torque target value so as to converge the torque command value to the disturbance torque estimation value in accordance with a decrease in the speed parameter, and a vibration damping process of calculating a stopping correction torque target value by performing filtering on the stopping basis torque target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Komatsu, Jun Motosugi, Akira Sawada, Yui Ito
  • Patent number: 12066337
    Abstract: A load sensor includes: a base member being insulative and having elasticity; an electrode having elasticity and formed on an upper face of the base member; and a wire member being electrically conductive and disposed so as to be superposed on an upper face of the electrode, a surface of the wire member being covered by a dielectric body. A ratio of a thickness of the electrode to a thickness of the base member is not less than 0.02 and not greater than 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Moriura, Hironobu Ukitsu, Susumu Uragami, Takashi Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Ito
  • Publication number: 20240270190
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes: an upper beam to which a headlight is fixed; a bracket installed side by side with the upper beam and having a front end in a vehicle front-rear direction thereof fixed to a bulkhead and a rear end in the vehicle front-rear direction thereof fixed to a lower member; a shock absorbing bracket arranged so as to be held between the upper beam and the bracket; and an airbag sensor arranged in vicinity to the shock absorbing bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20240270317
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes: an upper beam to which a headlight is fixed; a bracket installed side by side with the upper beam and formed to extend outward in a vehicle width direction from one end thereof fixed to a bulkhead of a vehicle, curve rearward at a point halfway to an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the vehicle, and extend rearward to the other end thereof fixed to a lower member of the vehicle; and an airbag sensor provided on the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 12059976
    Abstract: An in-seat experience system includes: a seat which includes a seat body, a sensor, and a seat controller allowed to acquire a measurement value from the sensor; an experience instruction device connected to the seat controller, configured to notify an occupant seated on the seat body a motion instruction and to store user identification information; and a server capable of communicating with the experience instruction device. The experience instruction device makes a determination based upon a measurement value of the sensor as to whether or not a first condition is satisfied, and to transmit a result of the determination to the server when at least the first condition is satisfied, and the server is allowed to increase a point score stored for the corresponding user identification information with a condition that the result of the determination that the first condition is satisfied is received from the experience instruction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Satoru Kaneda, Munetaka Kowa, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Atsushi Kusano, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yousuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake
  • Patent number: 12063464
    Abstract: Provided is a bracket for a speaker, the bracket being capable of ensuring the strength when the speaker is attached by using an attachment plate, and also enhancing the workability in folding of the attachment plate when the speaker is attached without using the attachment plate. The present invention includes: a frame-shaped support portion 10 which supports a speaker; and a mounting member 20 which is used for attaching the speaker supported by the support portion 10 to the outside and is provided in the support portion 10, wherein a plurality of grooves having different extension directions are continuously formed on a base part of the mounting member 20, the base part connecting the mounting member 20 and the support portion 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayami Kondo, Ryu Ito, Shun Shirahata, Masato Tsuruya, Hiroyuki Dohi
  • Publication number: 20240262257
    Abstract: To propose a new value for a seat, a seat system which can make notification of advertising information fit for an occupant seated on the seat with a sensor included therein is provided. The seat system includes: a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor provided in the seat body and configured to acquire information for use in identifying a physical state of an occupant seated on the seat body; a server having pieces of advertising information stored therein; and a terminal capable of acquiring the information from the sensor and communicating with the server. The terminal or the server is configured to choose, based on the information or an evaluation value based on the information, a piece of advertising information related to the information or the evaluation value from among the pieces of advertising information, and notify the occupant of the piece of advertising information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAKU, Atsushi KUSANO, Satoru KANEDA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Munetaka KOWA, Yoshikazu ITO, Yasuharu OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20240262340
    Abstract: There are provided a display system and a vehicle that provide good usability to an occupant. A display system includes: a projection device provided in a vehicle interior of a vehicle and capable of projecting a video in the vehicle interior; a sensor provided in the vehicle to detect a state of the vehicle or an occupant of the vehicle; and a control unit that receives a signal from the sensor to control the projection device. The control unit changes a projection state of the projection device based on the signal from the sensor. By automatically changing the projection state of the projection device, the effort for the occupant to operate the projection device is saved, and the usability of the projection device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NUMAJIRI, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Mika KUROSAWA, Hiroshi YOGO, Shoichi TAKAHASHI, Yuta OSHINO, Takuya OZAKI, Hiroki ITO, Jinichi TANABE, Takayoshi ITO
  • Patent number: 12057017
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes an input unit that is capable of receiving input of a dispatch request and a destination and a position determiner that is capable of obtaining a terminal position which is its own current position. In accordance with the dispatch request, an autonomous vehicle is designated as a vehicle that is to be dispatched. The autonomous vehicle includes an autonomous driving controller that performs driving control so as to track the mobile terminal based on the terminal position while on its way to pick up the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20240259113
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication apparatus including: a synchronizer configured to perform synchronization processing according to a Doppler shift on a reception signal; and an equalizer configured to perform equalization processing on a reception signal on which the synchronization processing has been performed, in which the synchronizer includes a correlator configured to output a correlation between a reception signal and a known preamble sequence and a correlation between the reception signal and a known postamble sequence, a slide correlator configured to output a sliding correlation based on an output of the correlator, and a Doppler estimator configured to estimate a Doppler shift based on the sliding correlation of the slide correlator
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Toshimitsu TSUBAKI, Miharu OIWA, Yuya ITO, Marina NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240259111
    Abstract: A receiver including a plurality of wave receivers that receive signals arriving from a predetermined direction, a plurality of detection units that is connected to at least some of the plurality of wave receivers and detect arrival times of signals received by a connected wave receivers, and a plurality of adjustment units that adjust a deviation between arrival times of the plurality of wave receivers based on arrival times or arrival directions of the plurality of detected signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Toshimitsu TSUBAKI, Miharu OIWA, Yuya ITO, Marina NAKANO
  • Patent number: 12043358
    Abstract: A drive unit rotates a propeller shaft and is accommodated in a housing. A mount is provided on the housing. A light unit is attached to the mount and includes light sources. A controller is connected to the light unit, and is configured or programmed to turn on the light sources in a lighting pattern depending on an operating state of the outboard motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Kensuke Ito
  • Patent number: 12045006
    Abstract: There is provided an electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape, the electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer, wherein an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member has wrinkles, and when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 ?m is placed at an arbitrary position on the outer surface, a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are defined as L2 to L3,600, respectively, each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABU SHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuhei Iwasaki, Tomohito Ishida, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tatsuya Yamaai, Yuka Ishiduka, Yota Ito, Takeshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 12038207
    Abstract: The refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, an outside heat exchanger, a cooling pressure reducing unit, an evaporator, a branch portion, a cool down pressure reducing unit, a temperature adjusting unit, a merging portion, a bypass passage, and a first on-off valve. The temperature adjusting unit includes a temperature adjusting heat exchange unit and adjusts a temperature of a temperature adjustment target object. During a cooling and cool down mode, the outside heat exchanger functions as a radiator, and the evaporator and the temperature adjusting heat exchange unit function as heat absorbers. During a target object warm up mode, the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is guided to the temperature adjusting heat exchange unit via the bypass passage, and the heat of the discharged refrigerant is used as a heat source for heating the temperature adjustment target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tada, Kengo Sugimura, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yuichi Kami, Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 12036923
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes a vehicle body, a driver compartment provided in the vehicle body, an obstacle detector configured to detect an obstacle existing behind the vehicle body, a warning generator configured to generate a warning, and a control device configured to control the warning generator. The warning generator is positioned at least in front of the driver compartment. The control device actuates the warning generator when the obstacle detector detects an obstacle behind the vehicle body that is moving rearward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masataka Ishizaki, Hiroyuki Ito, Takahito Miyake, Keishi Ashida
  • Publication number: 20240224141
    Abstract: Provided is a radio terminal that operates in a service area having a first cell and a second cell, the radio terminal comprising: a timer; a communication status acquisition unit that acquires a communication status of the radio terminal when an expiration period expires in the timer; a connection possibility determination unit that determines whether or not connection to the first cell is possible if the communication status is an idle state; a control unit that sequentially acquires the expiration period from a sequence of expiration periods and that repeatedly operates the communication status acquisition unit and the connection possibility determination unit until the communication status is in an idle state and connection to the first cell is determined to be possible; and a connection unit that connects to the first cell if connection to the first cell is determined to be possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKESHITA, Takeshi USUI, Hiroyuki ITO