Patents by Inventor Koji Muto
Koji Muto 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: 11472401Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a parking region detection unit configured to periodically detect a parking-possible space in which the own-vehicle can be parked based on a result of detection by an external image capturing camera and a sonar configured to periodically detect the status of surroundings of the own-vehicle, a candidate region selection unit configured to select a parking candidate space as a parking candidate for the own-vehicle among the parking-possible spaces detected by the parking region detection unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a touch panel to display a surrounding image in which a parking position image illustrating a parking position is superimposed on the parking candidate space selected by the candidate region selection unit, and the candidate region selection unit continuously selects, as the parking candidate space, the parking-possible space corresponding to the selected parking candidate space for a predetermined duration.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Muto
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Patent number: 11394736Abstract: A log output device includes a generation unit that generates a log indicating history information of execution of processing, a memory that stores a first list including first static information indicating that the processing is abnormal; a second list including second static information indicating that the processing is normal; and a third list including dynamic information to be used for determining the necessity of output of the log according to the log, and a selection unit that determines to output the generated log when the log has the first static information, and decides not to output the generated log when the log has the second static information. The selection unit determines the necessity of output of the generated log on the basis of the log and the third list.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Tadaomi Aso, Koji Muto, Yutaka Iyoki
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Publication number: 20210323539Abstract: A parking position at which an own-vehicle 1 can be parked can be stably displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji MUTO
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Publication number: 20210320937Abstract: A log output device includes a generation unit that generates a log indicating history information of execution of processing, a memory that stores a first list including first static information indicating that the processing is abnormal; a second list including second static information indicating that the processing is normal; and a third list including dynamic information to be used for determining the necessity of output of the log according to the log, and a selection unit that determines to output the generated log when the log has the first static information, and decides not to output the generated log when the log has the second static information. The selection unit determines the necessity of output of the generated log on the basis of the log and the third list.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tadaomi ASO, Koji MUTO, Yutaka IYOKI
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Patent number: 9145106Abstract: In a webbing-winding device, a tension acting on a webbing is smaller when a pretensioner-mechanism is actuated than when a force-limiter mechanism is actuated, thus, projection dimensions of a first claw and a second claw can be made smaller than projection dimensions of second contact portions. A total of contact areas of first contact portions and the second contact portions with a body portion is larger than a total of contact areas of the first claw and the second claw with the body portion. Accordingly, the first claw and the second claw are caused to insert through an insertion hole from the lower side of a stay to attach. Since the projection dimensions can be made smaller, an amount of deflection of the protector can be made smaller. Therefore, the protector can be held on the stay reliably to allow the protector to be attached to the stay easily.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventor: Koji Muto
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Publication number: 20120199686Abstract: In a webbing-winding device, a tension acting on a webbing is smaller when a pretensioner-mechanism is actuated than when a force-limiter mechanism is actuated, thus, projection dimensions of a first claw and a second claw can be made smaller than projection dimensions of second contact portions. A total of contact areas of first contact portions and the second contact portions with a body portion is larger than a total of contact areas of the first claw and the second claw with the body portion. Accordingly, the first claw and the second claw are caused to insert through an insertion hole from the lower side of a stay to attach. Since the projection dimensions can be made smaller, an amount of deflection of the protector can be made smaller. Therefore, the protector can be held on the stay reliably to allow the protector to be attached to the stay easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventor: Koji MUTO
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Patent number: 7516987Abstract: A buckle pretensioner system includes a substantially L-shaped rail for guiding a buckle body of a buckle from a position where the buckle body engages with a tongue plate to a position corresponding to a lumbar region of a vehicle occupant. When a vehicle disposed with the buckle pretensioner system undergoes a sudden deceleration, a piston inside a cylinder is moved in a frontward direction of the vehicle by gas generated by the actuation of a gas generator, a buckle stay is pulled by a wire coupled to the piston, and the buckle stay is moved along the shape of the rail. As a result, the buckle body supported by the buckle stay pivots from the position where the buckle body engages with the tongue plate to a vehicle occupant restraining position of a webbing belt, and then is pulled to the lumbar region-corresponding position.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Teruhiko Koide, Koji Muto, Masayoshi Nojiri, Toshihito Miyagawa
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Patent number: 7416149Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, when the release of a webbing belt is detected from the signal of a buckle switch, a motor starts driving, the webbing belt is taken up, and a computing circuit increases a voltage Eb in accordance with an integrated time after the signal is switched. In this state, a lock current flows due to an output shaft of the motor being stopped, and when the power to the motor is cut off by increasing the lock current, the values of voltages El and Ed respectively corresponding to the integrated time in which the lock current is powered and the integrated time in which the power to the motor is cut off are subtracted from the value of the voltage Eb, and the motor is driven until the computing result reaches a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Teruhiko Koide, Masayoshi Nojiri, Koji Muto
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Patent number: 7182995Abstract: Disclosed herein is a plated-polyester article with a plating layer formed on the surface of a polyester article. The polyester article is irradiated with ionizing radiation to crosslink a polyester resin, the arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface of the plating layer is at most 1 ?m, and adhesion strength between the polyester article and the plating layer is at least 2 MPa. A production process of a plated-polyester article, which comprises the step of melt-forming a resin composition obtained by dispersing an inorganic filler having an average particle diameter of 1 to 10 ?m in a proportion of 5 to 20 vol. % in a polyester resin, which can be crosslinked by irradiation with ionizing radiation, into a polyester article, is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Muto, Hiroshi Hayami, Yoshito Sakamoto, Shinya Nishikawa, Shohei Okabe
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Publication number: 20060121249Abstract: Disclosed herein is a plated-polyester article with a plating layer formed on the surface of a polyester article. The polyester article is irradiated with ionizing radiation to crosslink a polyester resin, the arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface of the plating layer is at most 1 ?m, and adhesion strength between the polyester article and the plating layer is at least 2 MPa. A production process of a plated-polyester article, which comprises the step of melt-forming a resin composition obtained by dispersing an inorganic filler having an average particle diameter of 1 to 10 ?m in a proportion of 5 to 20 vol. % in a polyester resin, which can be crosslinked by irradiation with ionizing radiation, into a polyester article, is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTDInventors: Koji Muto, Hiroshi Hayami, Yoshito Sakamoto, Shinya Nishikawa, Shohei Okabe
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Publication number: 20060022079Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, when the release of a webbing belt is detected from the signal of a buckle switch, a motor starts driving, the webbing belt is taken up, and a computing circuit increases a voltage Eb in accordance with an integrated time after the signal is switched. In this state, a lock current flows due to an output shaft of the motor being stopped, and when the power to the motor is cut off by increasing the lock current, the values of voltages El and Ed respectively corresponding to the integrated time in which the lock current is powered and the integrated time in which the power to the motor is cut off are subtracted from the value of the voltage Eb, and the motor is driven until the computing result reaches a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Teruhiko Koide, Masayoshi Nojiri, Koji Muto
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Publication number: 20050269148Abstract: A buckle pretensioner system includes a substantially L-shaped rail for guiding a buckle body of a buckle from a position where the buckle body engages with a tongue plate to a position corresponding to a lumbar region of a vehicle occupant. When a vehicle disposed with the buckle pretensioner system undergoes a sudden deceleration, a piston inside a cylinder is moved in a frontward direction of the vehicle by gas generated by the actuation of a gas generator, a buckle stay is pulled by a wire coupled to the piston, and the buckle stay is moved along the shape of the rail. As a result, the buckle body supported by the buckle stay pivots from the position where the buckle body engages with the tongue plate to a vehicle occupant restraining position of a webbing belt, and then is pulled to the lumbar region-corresponding position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Teruhiko Koide, Koji Muto, Masayoshi Nojiri, Toshihito Miyagawa
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Patent number: 6887539Abstract: The present invention improves the concentricity after expansion process of a heat shrinkable tube which is required to have a thin wall and hardness, and further aims to obtain elongation of 100% or more in a heat aging test, copperstability test, and heat shock test. The heat shrinkable tube satisfying such aim uses a medium- or high-density polyethylene that has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 30 to 55, an MFR of 0.05 to 0.2, and a specific gravity of 0.94 to 0.96. A medium- or high-density polyethylene obtained by combining an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-ethylacrylate copolymer, ethylene-methylacrylate copolymer, and ethylene-ethylmethacrylate copolymer may be used. More preferably, for an antioxidant, phenol-based and sulfur-based antioxidants are used together and zinc oxide is added.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.Inventors: Koji Muto, Taro Fujita, Shinya Nishikawa, Hiroshi Hayami
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Publication number: 20030026926Abstract: The present invention improves the concentricity after expansion process of a heat shrinkable tube which is required to have a thin wall and hardness, and further aims to obtain elongation of 100% or more in a heat aging test, copper stability test, and heat shock test. The heat shrinkable tube satisfying such aim uses a medium- or high-density polyethylene that has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 30 to 55, an MFR of 0.05 to 0.2, and a specific gravity of 0.94 to 0.96. A medium- or high-density polyethylene obtained by combining an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-ethylacrylate copolymer, ethylene-methylacrylate copolymer, and ethylene-ethylmethacrylate copolymer may be used. More preferably, for an antioxidant, phenol-based and sulfur-based antioxidants are used together and zinc oxide is added.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.Inventors: Koji Muto, Taro Fujita, Shinya Nishikawa, Hiroshi Hayami