Patents by Inventor Kuniyoshi Shirai

Kuniyoshi Shirai 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: 11307572
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication portion, a communication device, and, a first signal conversion portion. The communication device includes a reception portion that receives two or more types of operation signals, an obtainment portion that obtains a conversion program for converting the operation signal into the remote instruction signal, a storage portion configured to store the conversion program, a second signal conversion portion configured to convert the operation signal into the remote instruction signal using the conversion program, and a communication device communication portion that sends the remote instruction signal to the vehicle communication portion. The communication device includes an update portion configured to update information stored in the storage portion so as to enable addition, deletion, or change of one or more of the operation signals that are convertible by the second signal conversion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Koji Hika, Tadashi Kondo, Kuniyoshi Shirai, Nobutoshi Kajiya, Shinya Goto
  • Publication number: 20190204822
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication portion, a communication device, and, a first signal conversion portion. The communication device includes a reception portion that receives two or more types of operation signals, an obtainment portion that obtains a conversion program for converting the operation signal into the remote instruction signal, a storage portion configured to store the conversion program, a second signal conversion portion configured to convert the operation signal into the remote instruction signal using the conversion program, and a communication device communication portion that sends the remote instruction signal to the vehicle communication portion. The communication device includes an update portion configured to update information stored in the storage portion so as to enable addition, deletion, or change of one or more of the operation signals that are convertible by the second signal conversion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Koji HIKA, Tadashi KONDO, Kuniyoshi SHIRAI, Nobutoshi KAJIYA, Shinya GOTO
  • Publication number: 20150143004
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that can aim to prevent unauthorized communications, i.e., to improve the reliability of communicated messages. A communication system comprises a plurality of ECUs connected to a communication line such that the plurality of ECUs can communicate communication messages. Each of the plurality of ECUs has a unique ID and also has a plurality of dummy IDs defined, as substitute candidates, from the unique ID. The ECU further has a defined pattern in which to cause one of the plurality of dummy IDs to be selected as a dummy ID that is a substitution object to be converted to the unique ID. Among the plurality of ECUs, the selection conditions of the substitution objects based on the pattern are synchronized, and the unique ID, which has been added to a communication message, is converted to a dummy ID on the basis of the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kuniyoshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20030044294
    Abstract: A sealing mechanism is used for a compressor. The compressor has a housing, a valve plate assembly located in the housing. The housing has a cylinder block and a cylinder head. The cylinder block and the cylinder head are connected with each other. The valve plate assembly has a plurality of plates. The sealing mechanism has a seal portion. The seal portion is a peripheral portion of one of the plates that extends radially outward in the compressor relative to the other plates. The seal portion seals a peripheral section between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. This provides an inexpensive and simple sealing mechanism of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shintoku, Kuniyoshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 6174147
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor, for compressing a refrigerant gas and delivering the compressed refrigerant gas toward an external refrigerating system, which has at least a rear housing provided with a rear discharge chamber defined by a partition wall and a rear discharge valve assembly including a rear discharge valve element and a rear retainer element coated with a rubber material, the partition wall having an endmost first end surface holding a base portion of the rear discharge valve element and a base end portion of the rear retainer element, a tapered surface portion extending toward a rear direction from the endmost first end surface, and a second end surface extending from the rear end of the tapered side surface to be parallel with the first end surface, the tapered surface portion and the second end surface defining a cavity and a support portion to prevent an uncontrolled deformation of controlling portions of the retainer element which control an amount of opening of the valve portions of the rear di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Tomoji Tarutani, Satoru Kuramoto, Norikazu Deto, Kuniyoshi Shirai