Patents by Inventor Manabu Morita

Manabu Morita 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: 12254723
    Abstract: A tire maintenance management device includes a travel environment obtainer and a maintenance timing determiner. The travel environment obtainer obtains a travel environment of a vehicle. The maintenance timing determiner determines a maintenance timing of a tire of the vehicle based on the travel environment obtained by the travel environment obtainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Shimomura, Sachiko Nakajima, Tadashi Kuwahara, Keiko Seki, Shugo Mitamura, Manabu Morita, Akio Yoshinari
  • Publication number: 20250074362
    Abstract: A wiper control device includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a drive unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a value related to a current flowing through a wiper motor that drives a wiper configured to reciprocate between a first position and a second position. The estimation unit is configured to estimate a wiper angle, which is a rotation angle of the wiper, based on a current ripple in the current flowing through the wiper motor. The current ripple has a periodicity corresponding to driving of the wiper motor. The drive unit is configured to reduce an electric power supplied to the wiper motor when a position of the wiper is just before the first position or when the position of the wiper is just before the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Taiki SOMA, Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Mitsuyoshi TOMIDA
  • Publication number: 20250074361
    Abstract: A wiper control device includes an acquisition unit and an estimation unit. The estimation unit is configured to acquire a value related to a current flowing through a wiper motor that drives a wiper configured to reciprocate between a first position and a second position. The estimation unit is configured to estimate a wiper angle, which is a rotation angle of the wiper, based on a current ripple in the current flowing through the wiper motor. The current ripple has a periodicity corresponding to driving of the wiper motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Taiki SOMA, Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Mitsuyoshi TOMIDA
  • Patent number: 12202444
    Abstract: A washer control device includes a computer configured to: monitor a motor current value that is a value of electric current supplied to a washer motor; acquire an energization time for which the electric current is supplied to the washer motor; and calculate a usage amount of a washer fluid from the motor current value and the energization time, and calculate, as a margin of the washer fluid, a remaining amount of the washer fluid in a washer tank based on the usage amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Morita
  • Patent number: 12118204
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display region are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a pointer being provided at an intersection of division lines dividing a display screen of a display into three or more divided regions; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the display between a plurality of layouts set in advance according to the detected touch operation performed on the pointer. As a transition process of the plurality of layouts, the layout setting unit moves the pointer and deforms the division lines and the three or more divided regions imitating an elastic object according to drag as the touch operation performed on the pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Morita, Keita Katsuno
  • Patent number: 11458931
    Abstract: When a power failure does not occur, power supply to a first terminal of a wiper motor is performed by a first battery, and power supply to a second terminal of the wiper motor is performed by a second battery. When a power failure occurs in one of the first battery or the second battery, power supply to the wiper motor is performed by the other battery that is not in power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Morita, Shigekazu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20220275557
    Abstract: A washer control device includes a computer configured to: monitor a motor current value that is a value of electric current supplied to a washer motor; acquire an energization time for which the electric current is supplied to the washer motor; and calculate a usage amount of a washer fluid from the motor current value and the energization time, and calculate, as a margin of the washer fluid, a remaining amount of the washer fluid in a washer tank based on the usage amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Manabu MORITA
  • Patent number: 11407313
    Abstract: A power supply circuit for supplying power to an electric load of a vehicle includes a relay and a relay control circuit. The relay is configure to be turned on when enabling the supply of power to the electric load and configured to be turned off when interrupting the supply of power to the electric load. The relay control circuit is configured to turn on the relay when an ignition of the vehicle is on regardless of a state of an operation part that is to be operated by a driver to operate the electric load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Naruse, Manabu Morita, Jiro Ito, Yoshio Nishino
  • Patent number: 11345314
    Abstract: When a power failure does not occur, power supply to a first terminal of a wiper motor is performed by a first battery, and power supply to a second terminal of the wiper motor is performed by a second battery. When a power failure occurs in one of the first battery or the second battery, power supply to the wiper motor is performed by the other battery that is not in power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Morita, Shigekazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11334211
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a first display; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the first display between a plurality of layouts according to the detected touch operation, the plurality of layouts being different from each other in sizes and a positional relationship of divided regions, the divided regions being obtained by dividing a display screen of the first display into a plurality of divided regions, wherein the layout setting unit displays, on the display screen, a transition process of the plurality of layouts by way of an animation presenting change of the sizes and the positional relationship of the plurality of divided regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu Morita
  • Publication number: 20210268909
    Abstract: A power supply circuit for supplying power to an electric load of a vehicle includes a relay and a relay control circuit. The relay is configure to be turned on when enabling the supply of power to the electric load and configured to be turned off when interrupting the supply of power to the electric load. The relay control circuit is configured to turn on the relay when an ignition of the vehicle is on regardless of a state of an operation part that is to be operated by a driver to operate the electric load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Jiro ITO, Yoshio NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20210232271
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a first display; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the first display between a plurality of layouts according to the detected touch operation, the plurality of layouts being different from each other in sizes and a positional relationship of divided regions, the divided regions being obtained by dividing a display screen of the first display into a plurality of divided regions, wherein the layout setting unit displays, on the display screen, a transition process of the plurality of layouts by way of an animation presenting change of the sizes and the positional relationship of the plurality of divided regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Manabu MORITA
  • Publication number: 20210166503
    Abstract: A tire maintenance management device includes a travel environment obtainer and a maintenance timing determiner. The travel environment obtainer obtains a travel environment of a vehicle. The maintenance timing determiner determines a maintenance timing of a tire of the vehicle based on the travel environment obtained by the travel environment obtainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuo SHIMOMURA, Sachiko NAKAJIMA, Tadashi KUWAHARA, Keiko SEKI, Shugo MITAMURA, Manabu MORITA, Akio YOSHINARI
  • Publication number: 20210157480
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display region are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a pointer being provided at an intersection of division lines dividing a display screen of a display into three or more divided regions; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the display between a plurality of layouts set in advance according to the detected touch operation performed on the pointer. As a transition process of the plurality of layouts, the layout setting unit moves the pointer and deforms the division lines and the three or more divided regions imitating an elastic object according to drag as the touch operation performed on the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Keita KATSUNO
  • Patent number: 10971920
    Abstract: An overcurrent protection device is to be provided between a power supply and a load circuit including an electric load and an electric wire electrically connected with each other, and includes a switching element, a current detector, a characteristic estimation portion, and a controller. The switching element switches flowing and interrupting of a load current that flows from the power supply to the electric load. The current detector detects the load current. The characteristic estimation portion estimates a thermal characteristic of the electric wire based on the load current detected by the current detector. The controller outputs an overcurrent protection signal for interrupting the load current so as to protect the load circuit from an overcurrent to the switching element based on the thermal characteristic estimated by the characteristic estimation portion and the load current detected by the current detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomokatsu Fuseya, Naoyuki Yasuda, Manabu Morita, Jiro Ito, Shinji Oshita
  • Patent number: 10848150
    Abstract: A load driving device includes an H bridge circuit that includes a first upstream switching element, a first downstream switching element, a second upstream switching element, a second downstream switching element, a first output terminal between the first upstream switching element and the second downstream switching element, and a second output terminal between the second upstream switching element and the first downstream switching element. A first load is connected between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and a second load is connected between a ground potential point and one of the first output terminal and the second output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: ANDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yasuda, Manabu Morita
  • Publication number: 20200269814
    Abstract: When a power failure does not occur, power supply to a first terminal of a wiper motor is performed by a first battery, and power supply to a second terminal of the wiper motor is performed by a second battery. When a power failure occurs in one of the first battery or the second battery, power supply to the wiper motor is performed by the other battery that is not in power failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Shigekazu SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190326905
    Abstract: A load driving device includes an H bridge circuit that includes a first upstream switching element, a first downstream switching element, a second upstream switching element, a second downstream switching element, a first output terminal between the first upstream switching element and the second downstream switching element, and a second output terminal between the second upstream switching element and the first downstream switching element. A first load is connected between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and a second load is connected between a ground potential point and one of the first output terminal and the second output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Naoyuki YASUDA, Manabu MORITA
  • Publication number: 20190256051
    Abstract: When a power failure does not occur, power supply to a first terminal of a wiper motor is performed by a first battery, and power supply to a second terminal of the wiper motor is performed by a second battery. When a power failure occurs in one of the first battery or the second battery, power supply to the wiper motor is performed by the other battery that is not in power failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Shigekazu SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190165564
    Abstract: An overcurrent protection device is to be provided between a power supply and a load circuit including an electric load and an electric wire electrically connected with each other, and includes a switching element, a current detector, a characteristic estimation portion, and a controller. The switching element switches flowing and interrupting of a load current that flows from the power supply to the electric load. The current detector detects the load current. The characteristic estimation portion estimates a thermal characteristic of the electric wire based on the load current detected by the current detector. The controller outputs an overcurrent protection signal for interrupting the load current so as to protect the load circuit from an overcurrent to the switching element based on the thermal characteristic estimated by the characteristic estimation portion and the load current detected by the current detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Naoyuki YASUDA, Manabu MORITA