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).
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Publication number: 20210145676Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka TORIKAI, Junki KATO, Akira KANEKO, Kouichi MASAMURA, Shushi WASEDA
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Patent number: 7443286Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihide Nakane, Kouichi Masamura, Takao Ozawa
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Patent number: 7336001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Ozawa, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane
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Publication number: 20080042810Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihide Nakane, Kouichi Masamura, Takao Ozawa
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Publication number: 20070200660Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2005Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Takeo Endo, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane, Takao Ozawa
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Patent number: 7010756Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura
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Publication number: 20050258944Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takao Ozawa, Kouichi Masamura, Yoshihide Nakane
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Publication number: 20020051014Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Chikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura