Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Seki

Kazuhiko Seki 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: 11764506
    Abstract: A connector pair includes a first connector, and a second connector electrically connected to the first connector. The first connector includes a first electrical contact part provided with a graphene film on a metal base material. The second connector includes a second electrical contact part electrically connected to the first connector via the graphene film. A contact area between the first electrical contact part and the second electrical contact part is smaller than an area of the graphene film coating the metal base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshitaka Kubo, Kazuhiko Seki, Mitsuhiro Okada, Kazuto Hatakeyama, Kenji Koga, Tetsuo Shimizu, Nan Ye, Hiroki Kawai
  • Patent number: 11376924
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a plurality of seat air conditioning units configured to selectively perform cooling or heating for corresponding seats installed in a cabin, respectively; and a plurality of exhaust ducts for discharging, outside the cabin, part of air used in the plurality of seat air conditioning units. At least part of the plurality of exhaust ducts is merged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Imaizumi, Kazuhiko Seki, Subaru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11299012
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided which includes: a plurality of seat air conditioning units configured to selectively perform cooling or heating per corresponding seat among a plurality of seats installed in a cabin, respectively; and a plurality of exhaust ducts for discharging, outside the cabin, part of air used in the plurality of seat air conditioning units. An exhaust duct of a given one of the plurality of seat air conditioning units is connected to an air inlet of another seat air conditioning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Imaizumi, Kazuhiko Seki, Subaru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11267316
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device acquires environmental measurement information, acquires an action schedule of a user of a host vehicle on the basis of past or future schedule table information of the user, and estimates a boarding time at which the user gets on the host vehicle, a destination, and a route based on the action schedule. The control device then derives an instruction value pattern that includes a first instruction value for the air conditioning device at the boarding time, a second instruction value for the air conditioning device in a travel route toward the destination, and a third instruction value for the air conditioning device in a case that the user gets on after getting off the vehicle, based on the environmental measurement information. An air conditioning controller controls an air conditioning device of the host vehicle based on the instruction value pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Subaru Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210234295
    Abstract: A connector pair includes a first connector, and a second connector electrically connected to the first connector. The first connector includes a first electrical contact part provided with a graphene film on a metal base material. The second connector includes a second electrical contact part electrically connected to the first connector via the graphene film. A contact area between the first electrical contact part and the second electrical contact part is smaller than an area of the graphene film coating the metal base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Toshitaka Kubo, Kazuhiko Seki, Mitsuhiro Okada, Kazuto Hatakeyama, Kenji Koga, Tetsuo Shimizu, Nan Ye, Hiroki Kawai
  • Publication number: 20200130466
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a plurality of seat air conditioning units configured to selectively perform cooling or heating for corresponding seats installed in a cabin, respectively; and a plurality of exhaust ducts for discharging, outside the cabin, part of air used in the plurality of seat air conditioning units. At least part of the plurality of exhaust ducts is merged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro IMAIZUMI, Kazuhiko SEKI, Subaru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200130467
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided which includes: a plurality of seat air conditioning units configured to selectively perform cooling or heating per corresponding seat among a plurality of seats installed in a cabin, respectively; and a plurality of exhaust ducts for discharging, outside the cabin, part of air used in the plurality of seat air conditioning units. An exhaust duct of a given one of the plurality of seat air conditioning units is connected to an air inlet of another seat air conditioning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro IMAIZUMI, Kazuhiko SEKI, Subaru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200122549
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device includes an environmental measurement information acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental measurement information, an action schedule estimating unit configured to acquire an action schedule of a user on the basis of past or future schedule table information of the user of the host vehicle, and to estimate a boarding time at which the user gets on the host vehicle, a destination, and a route on the basis of the acquired action schedule, an air conditioning planning unit configured to derive an instruction value pattern that includes a first instruction value for the air conditioning device at the boarding time, a second instruction value for the air conditioning device in a travel route toward the destination, and a third instruction value for the air conditioning device in a case that the user gets on after getting off the vehicle, on the basis of the environmental measurement information, and an air conditioning controller configured to control an air conditio
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Subaru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10589600
    Abstract: An auxiliary heat exchanger separated from a main heat exchanger is disposed at the position facing a heat exhausting passage. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which a condenser performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the ventilation air. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the ventilation air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Keisuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190283636
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes: a vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion having a side surface that is curved inward with respect to a widthwise direction as the side surface extends upward; an air conditioning unit configured to adjust a temperature of air and discharge temperature-adjusted air; and a blowing opening provided to open upward at a position along the side surface of the seat cushion and blowing the air discharged from the air conditioning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichiro IMAIZUMI, Kazuhiko SEKI
  • Publication number: 20170355247
    Abstract: An auxiliary heat exchanger separated from a main heat exchanger is disposed at the position facing a heat exhausting passage. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which a condenser performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the ventilation air. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the ventilation air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Keisuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130303071
    Abstract: An air blowing portion 7 for blowing air flowing in an air feed duct 9 into a vehicle compartment is provided with a plurality of lateral fins 11, and the air blowing portion 7 is provided with a longitudinal fin 12, and the longitudinal fin 12 is inclined in such a way that as a portion is closer to a downstream side, the portion is positioned closer to a one side portion 11S1 side of the lateral fin 11, and a convex portion 14 protrudes into a flow passage of the air from a one side portion 9S1 side of the air feed duct 9 on an upstream side of the longitudinal fin 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Seki
  • Patent number: 8204162
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a reception frequency control circuit that is small in mounting area and unaffected by disturbance where an FSK-modulated signal is demodulated. In the reception frequency control circuit, a reception signal processing unit converts an FSK-modulated digital signal to an intermediate frequency when the FSK-modulated digital signal is received. Thereafter, a frequency voltage converting unit converts the intermediate signal to a voltage signal and outputs an output signal. At the same time, an analog frequency controlling unit detects a frequency deviation from the output signal by analog processing. A digital frequency controlling unit generates a reception frequency control signal for correcting the frequency and feeds back the same to the reception signal processing unit. Stable frequency control can be realized by performing reception frequency control by a combination of an analog circuit-digital circuit in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Takashi Taya
  • Patent number: 8091767
    Abstract: A substrate manufacturing apparatus manufactures a ball-mounted substrate and has a ball mounting apparatus which includes a ball vacuum chucking apparatus including a vacuum chucking head that carries out a vacuum chucking process to chuck balls at edges of inlets formed in a vacuum chucking surface and which mounts the balls vacuum-chucked by the vacuum chucking head on a substrate, the ball vacuum chucking apparatus further including: a holding vessel that holds the balls; and a vacuum chucking/holding unit that vacuum chucks and holds the balls held in the holding vessel on a front end thereof, and carrying out a supplying process that brings the vacuum chucking/holding unit that holds the balls on the front end thereof and the vacuum chucking surface of the vacuum chucking head relatively close to supply the balls to the vacuum chucking head while air is being drawn through the inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hioki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Hideo Matsubayashi, Makoto Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100200284
    Abstract: A substrate manufacturing apparatus manufactures a ball-mounted substrate and has a ball mounting apparatus which includes a ball vacuum chucking apparatus including a vacuum chucking head that carries out a vacuum chucking process to chuck balls at edges of inlets formed in a vacuum chucking surface and which mounts the balls vacuum-chucked by the vacuum chucking head on a substrate, the ball vacuum chucking apparatus further including: a holding vessel that holds the balls; and a vacuum chucking/holding unit that vacuum chucks and holds the balls held in the holding vessel on a front end thereof, and carrying out a supplying process that brings the vacuum chucking/holding unit that holds the balls on the front end thereof and the vacuum chucking surface of the vacuum chucking head relatively close to supply the balls to the vacuum chucking head while air is being drawn through the inlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Hioki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko SEKI, Hideo MATSUBAYASHI, Makoto SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20090086856
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a reception frequency control circuit that is small in mounting area and unaffected by disturbance where an FSK-modulated signal is demodulated. In the reception frequency control circuit, a reception signal processing unit converts an FSK-modulated digital signal to an intermediate frequency when the FSK-modulated digital signal is received. Thereafter, a frequency voltage converting unit converts the intermediate signal to a voltage signal and outputs an output signal. At the same time, an analog frequency controlling unit detects a frequency deviation from the output signal by analog processing. A digital frequency controlling unit generates a reception frequency control signal for correcting the frequency and feeds back the same to the reception signal processing unit. Stable frequency control can be realized by performing reception frequency control by a combination of an analog circuit-digital circuit in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko SEKI, Takashi TAYA
  • Publication number: 20080170642
    Abstract: A wireless voice communication circuit includes an AD converter generating a first digital variable density signal from voice signal, and a first speed change circuit storing the first signal temporally in a first buffer and reading out it at a burst, a sending frame processing circuit generating a sending frame from the first signal, a modulator modulating and sending a frequency carrier in response to the sending frame, a demodulator demodulating a radio frequency signal received and outputting a receiving frame, a receiving frame processing circuit extracting a second digital variable density signal and outputting it together with a writing timing signal, a second speed change circuit writing the second signal in a second buffer temporally and reading out the signal stored in the second buffer at constant speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Seki, Takashi Taya
  • Publication number: 20080123535
    Abstract: Maintenance apparatus is connected to terminal apparatus equipped with a function for transmitting and receiving audio packets storing audio data via a network. The maintenance apparatus sets a transmission interval for transmitting maintenance packets storing predetermined maintenance data for terminal apparatus to an integer multiple of a transmission interval the terminal apparatus transmits the audio packets by, generates maintenance packets based on the set transmission interval, and sends the generated maintenance packets to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Shiro Saito, Kazuhiko Seki
  • Publication number: 20080123639
    Abstract: Relay apparatus selecting first VoIP packets of at least the same transmission IP address from a plurality of VoIP packets arriving within a predetermined period, generating second VoIP packets taking a common transmission destination IP address as a transmission destination IP address and generating second VoIP packets containing each of the extracted media information, and substituting the first VoIP packets and routing the second VoIP packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Shiro Saito, Kazuhiko Seki
  • Publication number: 20080037758
    Abstract: Terminal apparatus having a telephone function stores a correlation relationship between a prefix number of a first n digits of a telephone number decided based on a numbering plan and a total number of digits for a telephone number decided based on a numbering plan, for a plurality of types of numbering plans. In the event that a user starts to input a telephone number, the terminal apparatus refers to a correlation relationship of prefix numbers and a total number of digits for the telephone number, selects a prefix number matching with the number inputted by the user, acquires the total number of digits corresponding to the selected prefix number, and in the event that the number of digits for the number inputted by the user matches the acquired total number of digits, determines that input of the telephone number is complete and carries out call processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Shiro Saito, Kazuhiko Seki