Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Natsume
Kazuyuki Natsume 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).
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Patent number: 7933699Abstract: An automatic control system stores information of an executed automatic control in a memory, and lists records of automatic controls that are cancellable based on an instruction from a user of the automatic control system. When the user selects the record of the executed automatic control in the list, the automatic control system sends to a subject device an instruction that instructs the subject device to return to a pre-execution condition of the automatic control performed on the subject device.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Hara, Kazuyuki Natsume
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Patent number: 7642900Abstract: An alarm device for a vehicle includes state information obtaining unit, alarm information obtaining unit, alarming unit, and controlling unit. The state information obtaining obtains as state information at least one of information of an occupant, information of the vehicle, and information of a surrounding of the vehicle. The alarm information obtaining unit obtains alarm information. The alarming unit informs the occupant of the alarm information. The controlling unit determines an expiration time of the alarm information based on the state information obtained by the state information obtaining unit when the controlling unit receives the alarm information from the alarm information obtaining unit, wherein the control unit causes the alarming unit to inform the occupant of the alarm information while the expiration time is valid.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Natsume, Tetsuya Hara
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Publication number: 20080059024Abstract: An automatic control system stores information of an executed automatic control in a memory, and lists records of automatic controls that are cancellable based on an instruction from a user of the automatic control system. When the user selects the record of the executed automatic control in the list, the automatic control system sends to a subject device an instruction that instructs the subject device to return to a pre-execution condition of the automatic control performed on the subject device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Hara, Kazuyuki Natsume
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Publication number: 20080036577Abstract: An alarm device for a vehicle includes state information obtaining unit, alarm information obtaining unit, alarming unit, and controlling unit. The state information obtaining obtains as state information at least one of information of an occupant, information of the vehicle, and information of a surrounding of the vehicle. The alarm information obtaining unit obtains alarm information. The alarming unit informs the occupant of the alarm information. The controlling unit determines an expiration time of the alarm information based on the state information obtained by the state information obtaining unit when the controlling unit receives the alarm information from the alarm information obtaining unit, wherein the control unit causes the alarming unit to inform the occupant of the alarm information while the expiration time is valid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Natsume, Tetsuya Hara
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Patent number: 5544538Abstract: A vehicular automatic transmission (AT) hydraulic controller has an integrated valve. The integrated valve has a cylindrical cam shaft including convex and concave parts on the outer periphery thereof, and the integrated valve is connected to a motor for automatic control and a connecting part which is interlocked with an external gearshift operated by a driver. Hydraulic control of the integrated valve can be performed in two different ways, i.e., automatic control and manual control, and even if automatic control malfunctions due to an error, manual control can maintain the control of the AT and avoid any inconvenience. The structure of this integrated valve provides a high degree of design freedom and can implement a wide variety of AT functions. Accordingly, a light, compact and reliable AT equipped with both an automatic control mechanism and a manual control mechanism can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1994Date of Patent: August 13, 1996Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Takagi, Fumiaki Murakami, Masami Fujutsuna, Kazuyuki Natsume, Masaru Suzuki, Toshihiro Takei
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Patent number: 4593920Abstract: A vehicle height control system includes a plurality of vehicle height adjusters actuated by a hydropneumatic actuating system and controlled by control signals from a control unit. The control unit calculates, for each of the vehicle height adjusters, a target difference between a target adjustment position set by a setting device and an actual position detected by a vehicle height sensor associated with the adjuster, and the control unit generates the control signals in accordance with the respective target differences. The control unit further selects a maximum target difference, and calculates deviations of the target differences from the maximum target difference. When any of the deviations exceeds a predetermined value, the adjustment operation of the vehicle height adjuster associated with this deviation is temporarily stopped thereby correcting the nonuniformity of the adjustments in the vehicle height adjusters.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1984Date of Patent: June 10, 1986Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuyuki Natsume, Yoshihiro Sasage, Naoto Ooka, Kaoru Oohashi
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Patent number: 4591185Abstract: A vehicle height control system includes a plurality of vehicle height adjusters actuated by a hydropneumatic actuating system and controlled respectively by control signals from a control unit. The control unit calculates, for each of the vehicle height adjusters, a target difference between a target adjustment position and an actual position detected by a vehicle height sensor associated with the adjuster. A maximum target difference is selected from the target differences respectively for the adjusters, and the selected maximum target difference is divided by a predetermined adjusting unit to determine a number of steps for adjustment of the target difference a little amount at a time. Then, tentative- or pseudo-target adjustment positions ranging between the actual position and the target adjustment position are obtained for each adjuster, and the adjustment control of each adjuster is carried out to achieve the pseudo target adjustment positions step by step.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1984Date of Patent: May 27, 1986Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuyuki Natsume, Kaoru Oohashi