Patents by Inventor Junichi Nonomura

Junichi Nonomura 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).

  • Patent number: 9151630
    Abstract: Evaluation indication systems, methods, and programs display a current position of a vehicle and a map around the current position on a display unit, acquire current evaluations that indicate evaluations of fuel consumption in current travel of the vehicle by unit sections, and acquire previous evaluations that indicate evaluations of fuel consumption of the vehicle in a past prior to the current travel by unit sections. The systems, methods, and programs indicate the current evaluations and the previous evaluations together by unit sections on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura, Junki Yamakawa, Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9146131
    Abstract: Evaluation indication systems, methods, and programs are provided for a hybrid vehicle that is configured to travel in an HV mode with an internal combustion engine or in an EV mode without the internal combustion engine. The systems, methods, and programs display a current position of the hybrid vehicle on a map, acquire current evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in current travel by unit sections, acquire previous evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in previous travel by unit sections, and indicate current evaluation icons on the map, each of the icons being an EV icon or an HV icon. Each EV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the EV mode and each HV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the HV mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura, Junki Yamakawa, Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9057625
    Abstract: Navigation systems, methods, and programs acquire evaluation information for each unit interval having a predetermined distance, the evaluation information being an index for evaluating a driver's driving operation of a vehicle, and determine based on a first scale of a map displayed on a display unit, a first distance of an evaluation interval for evaluating the driver's driving operation. The systems, methods, and programs evaluate the driver's driving operation in the evaluation interval having the first distance based on the evaluation information for each unit interval included in the evaluation interval, and display the evaluation result at a position corresponding to the evaluation interval on the map displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura
  • Patent number: 8972160
    Abstract: A navigation device apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a fuel consumption determination unit that determines a fuel consumption during a travel of a vehicle. Also included is a fuel consumption information storage unit that stores point information identifying a departing point and a destination in the travel of the vehicle and fuel consumption information identifying the fuel consumption during a previous travel A display unit is included that acquires previous fuel consumption information identifying the fuel consumption during the previous travel corresponding to the departing point and the destination during a current travel of the vehicle, and controls the display of the fuel consumption during the previous travel based on the acquired previous fuel consumption information and the fuel consumption during the current travel determined by the fuel consumption determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura
  • Patent number: 8712677
    Abstract: Navigation devices, methods, and programs acquire a reference position related to the traveling of a host vehicle and acquire a host vehicle condition at the reference position. The devices, methods, and programs accesses a travel information storage unit that stores travel sequences. The stored data for each travel sequences includes at least one position along the travel sequence, operation information that specifies a vehicle operation at each stored position, and vehicle condition information that specifies a vehicle condition at each stored position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura
  • Publication number: 20140022749
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a display; a circuit board; a housing; an antenna; and a shield. The display includes a display screen. The circuit board is located at a side of the display opposite the display screen. The housing is configured to house the display and the circuit board. The antenna is in the housing, and includes a communication portion and a ground portion. The shield is along a periphery of the ground portion in the housing, and is located between the antenna and the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichi Nonomura, Ryosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 8633812
    Abstract: An accelerator opening determining unit determines whether an accelerator opening achieved through an accelerator operation by a driver of a vehicle exceeds an upper limit value thereof. A travel distance adding-up unit adds up a travel distance within accelerator-opening upper limit value when the accelerator opening is not determined to exceed the upper limit value. When the accelerator opening is determined to exceed the upper limit value, the travel distance adding-up unit adds up a travel distance exceeding accelerator-opening upper limit value. A fuel-saving driving rating unit rates the driving of the driver based on each added-up value added up by the travel distance adding-up unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignees: Fujitsu Ten Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Harumoto, Kouei Kiyo, Shojiro Takeuchi, Naoki Miura, Masaki Nakamura, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yoshio Yamatani, Junichi Nonomura
  • Patent number: 8570444
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a display; a circuit board; a housing; an antenna; and a shield. The display includes a display screen. The circuit board is located at a side of the display opposite the display screen. The housing is configured to house the display and the circuit board. The antenna is in the housing, and includes a communication portion and a ground portion. The shield is along a periphery of the ground portion in the housing, and is located between the antenna and the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichi Nonomura, Ryosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 8548670
    Abstract: A shift lever position determining unit determines whether a shift lever position of a vehicle satisfies predetermined conditions. If the shift lever position is determined to satisfy the predetermined conditions, a travel distance adding-up unit adds up an optimum shift lever position travel distance. If the shift lever position is determined not to satisfy the predetermined conditions, the travel distance adding-up unit adds up an inappropriate shift lever position travel distance. A fuel-saving driving rating unit rates driving by a driver based on each added-up value added up by the travel distance adding-up unit. A fuel-saving driving advice generating unit notifies the driver of fuel-saving driving advice together with a rating result in accordance with the rating result. Therefore, it is possible to encourage the driver to select an optimum shift lever position with high fuel efficiency and thereby to improve the driver's knowledge and awareness of the fuel-saving driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Fujitsu Ten Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Harumoto, Kouei Kiyo, Shojiro Takeuchi, Naoki Miura, Masaki Nakamura, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yoshio Yamatani, Junichi Nonomura
  • Patent number: 8515657
    Abstract: An information providing device, having a route acquisition unit that acquires a reference travel route between two points, a route finding unit that finds a fuel-saving travel route between the two points, a fuel cost calculating unit that calculates a difference in cost of fuel between the reference travel route and the fuel-saving travel route based on fuel consumption and a fee of fuel, a communication cost calculating unit that calculates a communication cost concerning the fuel-saving travel route, and a control unit that executes control for transmitting predetermined information to a terminal device based on the result of a comparison between the difference in cost of fuel and the communication cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Junichi Nonomura
  • Patent number: 8508354
    Abstract: An accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling determining unit determines whether the number of engine revolutions of a vehicle is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, whether an accelerator opening rate is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, and whether a traveling state is an accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling state where a quantity of fuel injection to an engine is 0. When it is determined that the traveling state is the accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling state, the traveling distance adding-up unit adds up accelerator-off, fuel-cut traveling distances. A fuel-saving driving rating unit rates driving by a driver based on each of the added-up values which were added up by the traveling distance adding-up unit. A fuel-saving driving advice generating unit notifies the driver of a fuel-saving driving advice together with a rating result in accordance with the rating result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Fujitsu Ten Limited, Toyota Jidoshakabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Harumoto, Kouei Kiyo, Shojiro Takeuchi, Naoki Miura, Masaki Nakamura, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yoshio Yamatani, Junichi Nonomura, Nobutaka Tauchi
  • Publication number: 20130107126
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a supporting device configured to support an external electronic apparatus including a display screen and a first connector, the supporting device including: a first supporter supporting a side of the electronic apparatus; a second supporter supporting a rear of the electronic apparatus; a third supporter joined to the second supporter, at least a part of the third supporter extending in a direction slanted with respect to the second supporter; a fourth supporter arranged inside of an angle between the second supporter and the third supporter, at least a part of the fourth supporter extending in a direction slanted with respect to each of the second and third supporters; and an interface exposed from the fourth supporter and capable of receiving data from outside or outputting data to outside, wherein the supporting device is capable of transmitting power or a magnetic flux to the external electronic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Junichi Nonomura, Nobuyuki Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20130107137
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a housing configured to house a display including a display screen, the housing including an opening; a movable part exposed through the opening and positioned lower than a part of a circumferential portion of the opening, the movable part configured to slide in the opening along an outer surface of the housing; and a stepped portion in a part of a circumferential area of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Junichi NONOMURA, Tetsuo OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20130083249
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a display; a circuit board; a housing; an antenna; and a shield. The display includes a display screen. The circuit board is located at a side of the display opposite the display screen. The housing is configured to house the display and the circuit board. The antenna is in the housing, and includes a communication portion and a ground portion. The shield is along a periphery of the ground portion in the housing, and is located between the antenna and the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichi NONOMURA, Ryosuke SAITO
  • Publication number: 20130018538
    Abstract: Evaluation indication systems, methods, and programs are provided for a hybrid vehicle that is configured to travel in an HV mode with an internal combustion engine or in an EV mode without the internal combustion engine. The systems, methods, and programs display a current position of the hybrid vehicle on a map, acquire current evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in current travel by unit sections, acquire previous evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in previous travel by unit sections, and indicate current evaluation icons on the map, each of the icons being an EV icon or art HV icon. Each EV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the EV mode and each HV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the HV mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MIURA, Junichi NONOMURA, Junki YAMAKAWA, Hiroyuki MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20130018573
    Abstract: Evaluation indication systems, methods, and programs display a current position of a vehicle and a map around the current position on a display unit, acquire current evaluations that indicate evaluations of fuel consumption in current travel of the vehicle by unit sections, and acquire previous evaluations that indicate evaluations of fuel consumption of the vehicle in a past prior to the current travel by unit sections. The systems, methods, and programs indicate the current evaluations and the previous evaluations together by unit sections on the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MIURA, Junichi NONOMURA, Junki YAMAKAWA, Hiroyuki MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20130018583
    Abstract: Navigation systems, methods, and programs acquire evaluation information for each unit interval having a predetermined distance, the evaluation information being an index for evaluating a driver's driving operation of a vehicle, and determine based on a first scale of a map displayed on a display unit, a first distance of an evaluation interval for evaluating the driver's driving operation. The systems, methods, and programs evaluate the driver's driving operation in the evaluation interval having the first distance based on the evaluation information for each unit interval included in the evaluation interval, and display the evaluation result at a position corresponding to the evaluation interval on the map displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MIURA, Junichi NONOMURA
  • Publication number: 20120154998
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing and a stylus guide provided in the housing. The stylus guide allows the insertion of a stylus, and has a plurality of convex portions. The convex portions are configured to come into slidable contact with the stylus at positions spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the stylus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Junichi NONOMURA, Nobuyuki HOSOYA
  • Publication number: 20120089327
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems obtain fuel efficiency information indicative of a zone associated with a fuel efficiency if a vehicle were to travel the zone, for each of a plurality of zones. The apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems provide information related to a first route searched according to a first route search method. The first route search method has a greater tendency to use a zone with a smaller deviation of the fuel efficiency indicated in the fuel efficiency information as a configuration zone of the first route. The apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems provide information related to a second route searched according to a second route search method. The second route search method has a greater tendency to use a zone with a larger deviation of the fuel efficiency indicated in the fuel efficiency information as a configuration zone of the second route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MIURA, Junichi NONOMURA
  • Publication number: 20120041671
    Abstract: An information providing device, having a route acquisition unit that acquires a reference travel route between two points, a route finding unit that finds a fuel-saving travel route between the two points, a fuel cost calculating unit that calculates a difference in cost of fuel between the reference travel route and the fuel-saving travel route based on fuel consumption and a fee of fuel, a communication cost calculating unit that calculates a communication cost concerning the fuel-saving travel route, and a control unit that executes control for transmitting predetermined information to a terminal device based on the result of a comparison between the difference in cost of fuel and the communication cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki MIURA, Junichi NONOMURA