Patents by Inventor Makoto Hasegawa

Makoto Hasegawa 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: 12208659
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery for traveling; an air conditioner that includes a defroster mode and that is configured to air-condition a vehicle cabin using a refrigeration cycle; a battery cooler configured to cool the battery with a coolant that is cooled by heat exchange with a refrigerant flowing through the air conditioner; and a control unit configured to control the air conditioner and the battery cooler. In a case where a temperature of the battery is higher than a reference temperature, the control unit operates the battery cooler and controls the air conditioner such that the air conditioner operates in the defroster mode when the vehicle is moving, and the control unit operates the battery cooler and stops the air conditioner when the vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hiyoshi, Yoshio Hasegawa, Haruka Tsuruta, Makoto Ikegami, Kazuya Fuke
  • Publication number: 20250024001
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a storage portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging, a control portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and controls storage of the image data in the storage portion and stores attribute information of the image data in the storage portion, an output portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs the image data stored in the storage portion, and a reception portion that receives an instruction related to the attribute information, in which the output portion outputs the attribute information corresponding to the instruction received by the reception portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20250020311
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source capable of emitting light and a collimator lens. The collimator lens has a recess facing the light source. The recess includes an interior surface. The interior surface includes a bottom surface smaller than an opening. The interior surface includes an inner side surface tapering toward the bottom surface. The inner side surface is generated by rotating a straight line around an optical axis of the light. The straight line is inclined at an angle of at least 10 degrees and at most 20 degrees with respect to the optical axis. The light enters the bottom surface at a light distribution angle of only three degrees or less with respect to the optical axis, and enters the inner side surface at a light distribution angle of more than three degrees with respect to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12196410
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device including a light guide plate, a plurality of LEDs, a prism sheet disposed on a side toward the upper surface of the light guide plate, and a reflective sheet disposed on a side toward the lower surface of the light guide plate. The plurality of LEDs are arrayed on a side surface corresponding to a first side of the light guide plate in a first direction along the first side. The prism sheet includes a first prism array that is formed on a surface facing the light guide plate. The first prism array includes prisms that are extended in the first direction and arrayed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The upper surface of the light guide plate and the prism sheet sandwich a diffusion sheet therebetween. The diffusion sheet has a haze value between 30% and 65% when measured in compliance with JIS K7361. The prisms on the first prism array have an apex angle between 55 degrees and 66 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12122474
    Abstract: A control device 20 of a rideable mobile body 1 determines a target speed of the rideable mobile body 1 according to at least the steering operation by a rider, and controls the travel of the rideable mobile body 1 according to the target speed. In the processing for determining a target speed, the target speed is restricted according to the positional relationship between a virtual wall set in a travel environment of the rideable mobile body 1 and the rideable mobile body 1. Thus, the comfort of the rider is secured while the travel of the rideable mobile body is restricted by the virtual wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ozaki, Masaki Goto, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Takeshi Echizenya, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240337787
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in an illumination device, a plurality of first projection portions and a plurality of second projection portions are provided in a second area of a first light guide, a thickness of the first light guide becomes less as a location thereof which is further away from a first side surface and closer to a first central portion, a plurality of third projection portions and a plurality of fourth projection portions are provided in a third area of a second light guide, and the third area has a constant thickness and a fourth area of the second light guide is a recess portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 12111589
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member that has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, is rotatably provided, comes into contact with, of a recording material on which an image is formed, a surface on which the image is formed, and fixes the image to the recording material, a rotating member that is rotatably provided and includes, at an outer peripheral portion, a contact surface coming into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and a removing member that is disposed to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the fixing member, is rotatably provided, and removes an attached object attached to the outer peripheral surface using a rotation speed difference with respect to the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohashi, Takashi Matsubara, Takuma Ishihara, Yasutaka Naito, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12099273
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and high emitting efficiency. A concrete structure of the inventions is as follows. A lighting device including a first light guide and a second light guide stacked on the first light guide, a reflecting sheet disposed under the first light guide, and a prism sheet disposed on the first light guide, in which a concentric first prism array is formed on the prism sheet, a plurality of first LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a first hole of the first light guide, a plurality of second LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a second hole of the second light guide, and the plurality of the first LEDs and the plurality of the second LEDs are displaced in azimuth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 12085270
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination apparatus capable of forming ring-shaped irradiation light by using a simple configuration. Also provided is an illumination apparatus capable of freely changing a shape of the ring-shaped irradiation light. In order to achieve these objects, the present invention has the following means. That is, the illumination apparatus includes a first reflector having a first hole where a light source is arranged, a second hole that emits light, and a reflecting curved surface that connects the first hole and the second hole with each other, a light shield arranged at an area including a center of the second hole as seen in plan view, an opening portion formed in a ring-shaped manner between an inner edge of the second hole and an outer edge of the light shield, and a liquid crystal lens arranged so as to cover the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20240255691
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in an illumination device, a second light guide includes a plurality of fourth projecting portions provided in a first area of a fifth main surface opposing a prism sheet, a plurality of fifth projecting portions provided in a second area of a fifth main surface, and a plurality of sixth projecting portions on a sixth main surface opposing the fifth main surface, cross-sectional shapes of the fourth projecting portions and the fifth projecting portions are scalene triangles, and the fourth projecting portions and the fifth projecting portions are arranged in respective positions line-symmetrical position with respect to each other in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240219622
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first projecting portion on a first main surface and a second projecting portion on a second main surface on an opposite side to the first main surface in a first area of a first guide, a third projecting portion on a third main surface opposing the second main surface and a fourth projecting portion on a fourth main surface on an opposite side to the third main surface, in a third area of a second guide, and the first projecting portion and the third projecting portion have a cross sectional shape of a scalene triangle and the second projecting portion and the fourth projecting portion have a cross sectional shape of an isosceles triangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 12018831
    Abstract: The purpose is to realize a lighting device of thin, small light distribution angle, and less leak light. Further, the purpose is to realize a lighting device which can control light beam accurately with liquid crystal lenses. The structure of the invention is as follows. A lighting device including: a reflector cylinder including a mirror thereinside; and a liquid crystal lens assembly that is disposed at a light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder and includes a plurality of liquid crystal lenses being stacked, in which the liquid crystal lens assembly includes a light shading film which defines a light emitting area of the liquid crystal lens assembly and which is formed in parallel with the light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12013610
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12007097
    Abstract: A lighting device, comprises: a first reflector that includes a first hole where a light source is disposed, a second hole that emits light, and a reflection curved surface that connects the first hole and the second hole to each other, and the first reflector emits light to a first direction; a liquid crystal lens disposed to cover the second hole of the first reflector; and a polygonal pyramid including a bottom surface and a plurality of inclined surfaces, and being disposed so that the plurality of inclined surfaces oppose the liquid crystal lens. The plurality of inclined surfaces are reflection surfaces, and on the reflection surfaces, a traveling path of the light traveling to the first direction changes to a second direction. The liquid crystal lens can configure lenses corresponding to the plurality of inclined surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 11975787
    Abstract: The control device (20) corrects a basic movement command for a mobile body (1), which is based on an operator's maneuvering operation, in accordance with a positional relationship between the mobile body and an obstacle, and performs movement control of the mobile body (1) in accordance with the corrected movement command. The control device (20) is configured to correct the basic movement command, when a distance d between the obstacle and the mobile body (1) has become a predetermined value d1 or less, to cause a yaw rate in a direction away from the obstacle to be additionally generated on the mobile body (1), and also configured to correct the basic movement command so as to cause a rate of increase in magnitude of the yaw rate with respect to a decrease of the distance to be increased as the distance d is closer to the predetermined value d1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Goto, Shinya Shirokura, Makoto Hasegawa, Kazumasa Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20240117954
    Abstract: A lighting device, comprises: a first reflector that includes a first hole where a light source is disposed, a second hole that emits light, and a reflection curved surface that connects the first hole and the second hole to each other, and the first reflector emits light to a first direction; a liquid crystal lens disposed to cover the second hole of the first reflector; and a polygonal pyramid including a bottom surface and a plurality of inclined surfaces, and being disposed so that the plurality of inclined surfaces oppose the liquid crystal lens. The plurality of inclined surfaces are reflection surfaces, and on the reflection surfaces, a traveling path of the light traveling to the first direction changes to a second direction. The liquid crystal lens can configure lenses corresponding to the plurality of inclined surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Takeo KOITO
  • Publication number: 20240110687
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination apparatus capable of forming ring-shaped irradiation light by using a simple configuration. Also provided is an illumination apparatus capable of freely changing a shape of the ring-shaped irradiation light. In order to achieve these objects, the present invention has the following means. That is, the illumination apparatus includes a first reflector having a first hole where a light source is arranged, a second hole that emits light, and a reflecting curved surface that connects the first hole and the second hole with each other, a light shield arranged at an area including a center of the second hole as seen in plan view, an opening portion formed in a ring-shaped manner between an inner edge of the second hole and an outer edge of the light shield, and a liquid crystal lens arranged so as to cover the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11945400
    Abstract: A ridable moving object on which a user gets is provided. The ridable moving object includes a processor configured to execute a program to determine that the user has been away from the ridable moving object, detect a usage intention of another person different from the user for the ridable moving object, and generate an action command for causing the ridable moving object to perform a prescribed operation on a basis of setting information set for at least one of the user and the ridable moving object when it is determined that the user has been away from the ridable moving object and the usage intention of the another person for the ridable moving object has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa, Sachiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11945327
    Abstract: A charging control device (1A) according to the present invention includes a determination part that determines whether or not an abnormality in input power occurs on the basis of input power information on the input power and a predetermined determination threshold value. The determination part makes the determination on the basis of the input power information when a predetermined time has passed after an input of the input power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hirota, Makoto Hasegawa, Ryouta Kaneko, Fuyuhiko Mizuno, Takao Nagano
  • Patent number: 11934001
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide, a reflecting sheet and a first prism sheet, in which a first white LED, a second white LED and a third white LED are disposed in a same interval on a first side surface and on a second side surface, which opposes to the first side surface, a first prism array extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction is formed on the major surface, a second prism array extending in a second direction and arranged in a first direction is formed on the back surface, the reflecting sheet is disposed under the back surface of the light guide, the first prism sheet is disposed on the major surface of the light guide, and a third prism array, extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction is formed on the back surface of the first prism sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki