Patents by Inventor Masami Aikawa

Masami Aikawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240051789
    Abstract: There is provided a guidance system capable of guiding a user who does not operate an ascending/descending facility in a building as well on the basis of concern and interest of the user. In a guidance system (1), a behavior information acquisition unit (15) acquires behavior information on an arrival floor of a user. An interest information acquisition unit (20) acquires interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on the basis of a relationship between layout and attributes of areas on the arrival floor and the behavior information. A destination presentation unit (22) preferentially presents an area with an attribute with a higher degree of interest as a destination when a user specification unit (14) specifies a user, on the basis of the interest information for the user and information on attributes for each area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu MAKABE, Masami AIKAWA, Kei GOMITA, Atsushi HORI, Seiji FUWA
  • Patent number: 11751001
    Abstract: An audio system for an elevator includes two or more speaker cabinets arranged inside a suspended ceiling fixed to a ceiling board of a car of the elevator, an input device to which sound content radiated to an inside of the car from each of the two or more speaker cabinets are input, and a sound field control device configured to conduct phase control and reverberation time control for the sound content and thereby cause a sound wave based on the sound content to be radiated from the speaker cabinet to the inside of the car. Each of the speaker cabinets includes a casing arranged inside the suspended ceiling, and a speaker unit arranged inside the casing and having a radiation surface that radiates the sound wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fujiwara, Keigo Taruishi, Masami Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20230078706
    Abstract: An elevator device according to this disclosure includes a detection device, an identification module, and a determination module. The detection device is provided to a car of an elevator, and detects detection information. The identification module repeatedly acquires identification information for identifying a passenger from the detection information detected by the detection device. The determination module determines a leaving floor of the passenger based on a change in the identification information acquired by the identification module and a floor on which the car stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu MAKABE, Atsushi HORI, Masami AIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230060349
    Abstract: An audio system for an elevator includes two or more speaker cabinets arranged inside a suspended ceiling fixed to a ceiling board of a car of the elevator, an input device to which sound content radiated to an inside of the car from each of the two or more speaker cabinets are input, and a sound field control device configured to conduct phase control and reverberation time control for the sound content and thereby cause a sound wave based on the sound content to be radiated from the speaker cabinet to the inside of the car. Each of the speaker cabinets includes a casing arranged inside the suspended ceiling, and a speaker unit arranged inside the casing and having a radiation surface that radiates the sound wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Susumu FUJIWARA, Keigo TARUISHI, Masami AIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10919445
    Abstract: An irradiation control device is a device configured to control irradiation of light indicating a predetermined intention to a surrounding person, and includes an irradiation control unit configured to perform control to irradiate a first irradiation element, and a second irradiation element, which is irradiated when the first irradiation element is extinguished, and indicates an intention of the irradiation. As a result, light can be irradiated such that the attention of a target person is easily attracted and a delay in understanding by the target person is easily avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko Sakata, Munetaka Nishihira, Masami Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20200348516
    Abstract: A display system includes a first display device and a second display device. The first display device is a display device for a variable object, and displays the variable object in a predetermined area. The second display device is a display device for an invariable object, and displays the invariable object in the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko SAKATA, Naoki FURUHATA, Masami AIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200070716
    Abstract: An irradiation control device is a device configured to control irradiation of light indicating a predetermined intention to a surrounding person, and includes an irradiation control unit configured to perform control to irradiate a first irradiation element, and a second irradiation element, which is irradiated when the first irradiation element is extinguished, and indicates an intention of the irradiation. As a result, light can be irradiated such that the attention of a target person is easily attracted and a delay in understanding by the target person is easily avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko SAKATA, Munetaka NISHIHIRA, Masami AIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190315592
    Abstract: An elevator system that allows a plurality of autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged in an alighting order in a car. The elevator system includes processing circuitry to move and stop an elevator car based on information indicating destination floors transmitted from autonomous mobile bodies, to select an autonomous mobile body in the car and an autonomous mobile body that will board the car as targets to be rearranged. The processing circuitry is further to determine an alighting order of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged based on the destination floor of each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and to transmit information indicating the alighting order to each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged so that the autonomous mobile bodies are arranged one by one in the alighting order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koki Machida, Junshiro Kanda, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: 10065557
    Abstract: A rear-road surface illumination apparatus is provided which includes: an avoidance determiner 30 to determine whether to provide a display to induce a following vehicle to avoid a vehicle, on the basis of vehicle information; and a controller 9 to cause an illumination light 10 to illuminate a rear road surface with light having illumination information that induces the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle when the avoidance determiner 30 determines to provide a display to induce the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle. Therefore, the rear-road surface illumination apparatus can indicate the existence of the vehicle to the following vehicle, to give the existence of the vehicle prominence, and can also make it easy to notify the driver of the following vehicle about what the driver of the vehicle desires the driver of the following vehicle to do.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Masami Aikawa, Masato Hirai, Reiko Sakata, Hidebumi Arai, Kei Kasuga, Yumiko Ochiai
  • Patent number: 9849783
    Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Masami Aikawa, Takehisa Mizuguchi, Yoshihiko Mori, Takeshi Mitsui, Masakazu Okuda, Mitsuru Sakai, Masahiro Kosakada, Satoshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: D805104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Hashimoto, Hideo Imanaka, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: D819664
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Hashimoto, Hideo Imanaka, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: D825588
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Hashimoto, Hideo Imanaka, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: D831046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Hashimoto, Hideo Imanaka, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: D922430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Masami Aikawa, Reiko Sakata
  • Patent number: D922431
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Masami Aikawa, Reiko Sakata
  • Patent number: D922432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Masami Aikawa, Reiko Sakata
  • Patent number: D923050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Masami Aikawa, Reiko Sakata
  • Patent number: D938489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Reiko Sakata, Masami Aikawa
  • Patent number: D943628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kataoka, Reiko Sakata, Masami Aikawa