Patents by Inventor Makoto Kinoshita
Makoto Kinoshita 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: 20240110696Abstract: A power tool includes: a motor; an output shaft that is rotated by a rotational force of the motor; a chip-on-board light emitting diode disposed around the output shaft; and a suppression device configured to suppress a temperature of the chip-on-board light emitting diode to a predetermined allowable value or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto CHIKARAISHI, Akihiro Hozumi, Kazunori Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20240089907Abstract: A method performed by a terminal apparatus 10 in accordance with an application program configured to be initiated upon being designated as a destination for sharing electronic content, the method including acquiring shared information set for the electronic content, automatically entering the shared information in an input field in which a user can enter information, acquiring location information on a spot, and storing spot information, which includes information entered in the input field and the acquired location information, so that the spot information can be viewed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Kai TANAKA, Junpei OKAMOTO, Makoto KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20240088180Abstract: A solid-state imaging device package comprises a solid-state imaging device including a functional portion that performs imaging at the center portion of a surface, a frame provided to surround the functional portion at the outer peripheral portion of the solid-state imaging device, and a transparent substrate that is opposite to the functional portion and fixed to the frame to cover the solid-state imaging device. A manufacturing method includes the steps of forming the frame by laminating a resin in multiple layers by a 3D printer on either one of the solid-state imaging device or the transparent substrate, and bonding one other of the solid-state imaging device or the transparent substrate to the frame. The step of forming the frame further includes laminating the resin so that a surface roughness Ra of an inner peripheral surface of the frame is 50 nm or more and 30 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Kenta KURODA, Daiki KINOSHITA, Makoto KUTSUMIZU
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Patent number: 11913633Abstract: A power tool includes: a motor; an output shaft that is rotated by a rotational force of the motor; a chip-on-board light emitting diode disposed around the output shaft; and a suppression device configured to suppress a temperature of the chip-on-board light emitting diode to a predetermined allowable value or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Chikaraishi, Akihiro Hozumi, Kazunori Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20240020587Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a controller, wherein the controller is configured to acquire an activity history, which is information indicating a history of places of stay and times of stay of a user of a terminal apparatus, extract at least one place of stay for which the time of stay indicated by the activity history exceeds a threshold, set the at least one place of stay as a first place of stay based on the time of stay at the at least one place of stay, and transmit, in a case in which it is determined that a current location of the user is the first place of stay and that the first place of stay is within a service area, an instruction to the terminal apparatus of the user to display a reservation button for an on-demand bus on a screen of the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Kai TANAKA, Junpei OKAMOTO, Makoto KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20240015470Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus and a controller configured to transmit event information related to an event in an area to the terminal apparatus in response to area information, transmitted by the terminal apparatus, for identifying the area. Upon receiving anticipatory information indicating anticipation of transmission of the area information from the terminal apparatus, the controller is configured to predict an area to be identified by new area information based on past area information and transmit the event information corresponding to the predicted area to the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kai TANAKA, Junpei OKAMOTO, Makoto KINOSHITA
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Patent number: 11634157Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11603039Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. On the occasion of switching of a driving state of the vehicle from the automated driving to manual driving, the lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp after changing a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp from a first lighting state during the execution of the automated driving to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11524708Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11485282Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11465556Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes an automated driving indicator lamp, one or more lamps, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving of the vehicle. The one or more lamps are provided on the vehicle separately from the automated driving indicator lamp. The lamp controller is configured to start to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before starting to switch on the one or more lamps, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make a departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp and the one or more lamps off.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11338828Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Patent number: 11283340Abstract: A coil assembly in which a slack can be formed in a coil wire without increasing assembly cost, and a stepping motor using the same, are provided; the coil assembly includes a bobbin 232 having flange portions 233 and 234 at both ends thereof, multiple terminal pin embedding portions 235a arranged at one flange portion 234, a terminal pin 236 embedded in the terminal pin embedding portion 235a, and a coil 231 of which an end portion of coil wire 237 is entwined around the terminal pin 236, the coil wire 237 wound around the bobbin 232, in which a concave portion 238 which concaves to a radial direction of the bobbin 232 and penetrates to an axial direction of the bobbin 232 is formed between the terminal pin embedding portions 235a, the coil wire 237 exists from a base portion of the terminal pin 236, passes through the concave portion 238, started to be wound around the bobbin 232, and has a slack portion 237a which exists in the concave portion 238.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Hiroichi Shibata, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Hiroshi Sano, Makoto Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11208036Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Makoto Kinoshita, Keisuke Takayama, Yuta Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20210094466Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, attribute information regarding a place being traveled by the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with the place being traveled by the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094465Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of the automated driving. The lamp controller makes a control to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving. The lamp controller changes, during the execution of the automated driving, a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp in response to a change in the travel control state or a change in travel environment, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094584Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The lamp controller switches off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle executing the automated driving is traveling in an exclusive place for the automated driving. On the condition that a surrounding moving body is present around the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving in the exclusive place for the automated driving, with the automated driving indicator lamp off, the lamp controller switches the automated driving indicator lamp back on during the execution of the automated driving, in accordance with attributes of the surrounding moving body with respect to the exclusive place for the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094585Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller acquires, during the execution of the automated driving, information regarding a surrounding moving body present around the vehicle. The lamp controller makes a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in response to presence of any surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094573Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The automated driving indicator lamp is configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on the occasion of automated driving. The lamp controller is configured to start a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp that has been off, before the vehicle makes a departure by the automated driving, on the condition that the vehicle is about to make the departure by the automated driving from a parked or stopped state with the automated driving indicator lamp off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20210094586Abstract: An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kentarou YAMASAKI, Makoto KINOSHITA, Keisuke TAKAYAMA, Yuta MURAMATSU