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).
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Patent number: 12266266Abstract: A mobile object management device that manages a boarding-type mobile object that moves within a predetermined area with a user on board includes an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of the boarding-type mobile object, a manager configured to manage the boarding-type mobile object and a terminal device of a user on the boarding-type mobile object in association with each other, and an event operation commander configured to cause the boarding-type mobile object to execute a predetermined operation in accordance with an event performed in the predetermined area via the terminal device of the user on the basis of the positional information and information on the event.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Sachiko Yamamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa, Naoto Shikano, Shota Yamaguchi, Marika Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20250090768Abstract: A puncture device includes: a housing having a contact surface configured to contact skin of a living body; an abutting member having an abutting surface configured to contact the skin, the abutting member being movably disposed in the housing such that the abutting surface is protrudable from the contact surface; and a needle member that includes a puncture needle and is movable relative to the abutting member, the puncture needle being protrudable from the abutting surface toward the skin. In a state in which the housing has contact with the skin, when a relative position between the housing and a portion of the skin facing the abutting surface changes, the abutting member relatively moves with respect to the housing so as to maintain the contact between the abutting surface and the skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuya YANAGISAWA, Makoto HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 12251633Abstract: Provided is a program for a game where a plurality of players battle against a common enemy character, the program causing a computer to execute: storing an enemy common parameter in a storage device commonly to a plurality of items of player identification information; storing enemy next-action information so as to be individually associated with each of the items of the player identification information; executing an action of a player character based on an accepted command input; updating the enemy common parameter on the basis of the action of the player character; executing an action of the enemy character based on the enemy next-action information that is stored in association with the player identification information; deciding as enemy next action on the basis of the enemy common parameter; and updating the enemy next-action information that is associated with the player identifier, based on the decided enemy next action.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.Inventors: Keita Ueda, Tatsuya Hasegawa, Makoto Akashio
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Patent number: 12248167Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
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Patent number: 12225282Abstract: Provided is an imaging system including an imager configured to image a ridable moving object positioned at a registered photo spot, and a processor configured to execute a program to cause a guide to guide the ridable moving object on which a user gets and which is positioned near the photo spot to a recommended position in the photo spot.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa, Sachiko Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12208659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masatoshi Hiyoshi, Yoshio Hasegawa, Haruka Tsuruta, Makoto Ikegami, Kazuya Fuke
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Publication number: 20250024001Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20250020311Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 12196410Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 12122474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Ozaki, Masaki Goto, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Takeshi Echizenya, Makoto Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20240337787Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2024Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
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Patent number: 12111589Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takashi Ohashi, Takashi Matsubara, Takuma Ishihara, Yasutaka Naito, Makoto Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12099273Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
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Patent number: 12085270Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Masafumi Okada
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Publication number: 20240255691Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
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Publication number: 20240219622Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
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Patent number: 12018831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12013610Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12007097Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Takeo Koito
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Patent number: 11975787Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Goto, Shinya Shirokura, Makoto Hasegawa, Kazumasa Ozaki