Patents by Inventor Kazuo Inukai

Kazuo Inukai 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: 4636782
    Abstract: A display arrangement for displaying information perspectively or three-dimensionally has a first and second display devices. The first display device is positioned behind a semitransparent mirror and displays a first information which is directly viewed through the semitransparent mirror. The second display device is positioned to intersect the first display device at an acute angle and displays a second information downwardly. The second information from the second display device is reflected by the semitransparent mirror to be viewed indirectly. Since the virtual image of the second information is formed on a plane which is symmetric to the second display device with respect to the semitransparent mirror, it is viewed as displayed perspectively or three-dimensionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzi Nakamura, Akio Honda, Kazuo Inukai, Yoshito Ito
  • Patent number: 4635033
    Abstract: A display system adapted to a dashboard in a vehicle compartment, the dashboard including an instrument panel and a hood located above the instrument panel and below a front windshield of the vehicle compartment, wherein the instrument panel is provided with a first opening directed toward the driver's seat in the compartment, and the hood is provided with a second opening directed toward the internal surface of the front windshield, and wherein the display system comprises an indicator mounted within the dashboard in such a manner than the display surface of the indicator is opposed to the second opening, a mirror plate arranged within the dashboard and movable between a first position in which the mirror plate reflects visual rays representative of information on the indicator toward the first opening and blocks the visual rays toward the second opening and a second position in which the mirror plate permits the visual rays toward the second opening and blocks the visual rays toward the first opening, and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Inukai, Takeshi Haluyama
  • Patent number: D389125
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumoto Yamasaki, Kazuo Inukai, Tatsuhide Hoshi