Patents by Inventor Kouichi Masamura

Kouichi Masamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20210145676
    Abstract: Provided is a boarding/deboarding controller that enables reduce time and effort for boarding and deboarding a vehicle of which canopy is opened or closed to allow a user boards or deboards. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a boarding/deboarding controller for a vehicle including a seat, an occupant compartment provided with the seat, and a canopy that moves to a closed position where the canopy covers the occupant compartment and to an opened position, which is situated upper than the closed position. The boarding/deboarding controller is configured to change a posture or position of the seat concurrently while the canopy is moved from the closed position to the opened position in an opened movement, or, from the opened position to the closed position in a closed movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka TORIKAI, Junki KATO, Akira KANEKO, Kouichi MASAMURA, Shushi WASEDA
  • Patent number: 7443286
    Abstract: An anti-theft system for a vehicle includes an on-vehicle machine including reporting means configured to report by radio an illegal activity affecting the vehicle to a designated opponent to be reported to in a case where the illegal activity is detected; and an external facility, the external facility including obstruction radio wave detection means configured to detect a radio wave obstructing the radio-report by the reporting means; and illegal activity prevention means configured to prevent the illegal activity in a case where the radio wave is detected by the obstruction radio wave detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakane, Kouichi Masamura, Takao Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7336001
    Abstract: A door lock control device prevents deterioration in anti-theft property of a vehicle by restricting unjust cancellation of a locked state of a door of the vehicle. In-vehicle operation detecting means detects a predetermined operation performed in a compartment of the vehicle. Locked state canceling means cancels the locked state of the door when the predetermined operation is detected by the in-vehicle operation detecting means. Unjust act detecting means detects an unjust act applied to the vehicle. Locked state cancellation prohibiting means prohibits cancellation of the locked state by the locked state canceling means after the unjust act is detected by the unjust act detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Ozawa, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane
  • Publication number: 20080042810
    Abstract: An anti-theft system for a vehicle includes an on-vehicle machine (10) including reporting means (28) configured to report by radio an illegal activity affecting the vehicle to a designated opponent to be reported to in a case where the illegal activity is detected; and an external facility (30), the external facility (30) including obstruction radio wave detection means (36) configured to detect a radio wave obstructing the radio-report by the reporting means; and illegal activity prevention means (38, 40, 42) configured to prevent the illegal activity in a case where the radio wave is detected by the obstruction radio wave detection means (36). Jamming the radio signal from the vehicle is detected and triggers taking a photograph of the vehicle and its surroundings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihide Nakane, Kouichi Masamura, Takao Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20070200660
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antitheft apparatus for a vehicle, which is installed on a vehicle and configured to allow operation of predetermined on-vehicle devices only when a user ID code obtained from a user of the vehicle and a reference ID code registered on the vehicle are identical. The antitheft apparatus is provided with a setting unit for adding or deleting the reference ID code to or from the vehicle and a transmitting unit for transmitting the reference ID code registered on the vehicle to a predetermined communications station. A vehicle antitheft system using such apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Takeo Endo, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane, Takao Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7010756
    Abstract: A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura
  • Publication number: 20050258944
    Abstract: A door lock control device prevents deterioration in anti-theft property of a vehicle by restricting unjust cancellation of a locked state of a door of the vehicle. In-vehicle operation detecting means detects a predetermined operation performed in a compartment of the vehicle. Locked state canceling means cancels the locked state of the door when the predetermined operation is detected by the in-vehicle operation detecting means. Unjust act detecting means detects an unjust act applied to the vehicle. Locked state cancellation prohibiting means prohibits cancellation of the locked state by the locked state canceling means after the unjust act is detected by the unjust act detecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Ozawa, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane
  • Publication number: 20020051014
    Abstract: A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura