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).
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Patent number: 12254723Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Shimomura, Sachiko Nakajima, Tadashi Kuwahara, Keiko Seki, Shugo Mitamura, Manabu Morita, Akio Yoshinari
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Publication number: 20250074362Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Taiki SOMA, Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Mitsuyoshi TOMIDA
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Publication number: 20250074361Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Taiki SOMA, Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Mitsuyoshi TOMIDA
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Patent number: 12202444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Manabu Morita
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Patent number: 12118204Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Morita, Keita Katsuno
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Patent number: 11458931Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Morita, Shigekazu Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20220275557Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventor: Manabu MORITA
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Patent number: 11407313Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Naruse, Manabu Morita, Jiro Ito, Yoshio Nishino
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Patent number: 11345314Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Morita, Shigekazu Sugimoto
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Information control device and method for changing display region sizes and positional relationships
Patent number: 11334211Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventor: Manabu Morita -
Publication number: 20210268909Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Yasuo NARUSE, Manabu MORITA, Jiro ITO, Yoshio NISHINO
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Publication number: 20210232271Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventor: Manabu MORITA
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Publication number: 20210166503Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Tetsuo SHIMOMURA, Sachiko NAKAJIMA, Tadashi KUWAHARA, Keiko SEKI, Shugo MITAMURA, Manabu MORITA, Akio YOSHINARI
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Publication number: 20210157480Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Keita KATSUNO
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Patent number: 10971920Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignees: DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomokatsu Fuseya, Naoyuki Yasuda, Manabu Morita, Jiro Ito, Shinji Oshita
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Patent number: 10848150Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: ANDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Yasuda, Manabu Morita
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Publication number: 20200269814Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Shigekazu SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190326905Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Naoyuki YASUDA, Manabu MORITA
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Publication number: 20190256051Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Manabu MORITA, Shigekazu SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190165564Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Tomokatsu FUSEYA, Naoyuki YASUDA, Manabu MORITA