Patents by Inventor MASAMINE YASUI

MASAMINE YASUI 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: 11624632
    Abstract: A position detection device includes two detection systems that are respectively fed from power supply systems different from each other, and displace together with a shift lever. Each detection system can output detection patterns with four digits. A detection pattern when being located at a given position is different from a detection pattern when being located at another position. In any detection pattern, outputs of certain two digits among the four digits are set so as to be identical to each other, and to be different from outputs of two other digits. Alternatively, outputs of certain three digits among the four digits are set to be identical to each other, and to be different from an output of another digit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seigo Yamanaka, Masamine Yasui, Ryo Shimada, Masahiro Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20190271571
    Abstract: A position detection device includes two detection systems that are respectively fed from power supply systems different from each other, and displace together with a shift lever. Each detection system can output detection patterns with four digits. A detection pattern when being located at a given position is different from a detection pattern when being located at another position. In any detection pattern, outputs of certain two digits among the four digits are set so as to be identical to each other, and to be different from outputs of two other digits. Alternatively, outputs of certain three digits among the four digits are set to be identical to each other, and to be different from an output of another digit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: SEIGO YAMANAKA, MASAMINE YASUI, RYO SHIMADA, MASAHIRO MIZUKAMI
  • Patent number: 9920831
    Abstract: A pattern of a rotational operation force is changed by a state of a device of an input object. An input device includes a knob, a rotation shaft body that rotates together with the knob, a rotation controller that is capable of changing a rotational operation force, a detector that detects a rotational position, a controller, and a storage that stores a plurality of patterns. The controller reads a pattern from the storage according to a pattern signal input from an outside and controls the rotation controller when the knob is operated to be rotated according to a rotational position detected by the detector and the read pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seigo Yamanaka, Masamine Yasui, Masahiro Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20180038478
    Abstract: The rotating operation input device has the structure in which the click section applies a clicking force to the shaft at a predetermined rotation angle, and the first controller controls the actuator, based on the control signal received from the second controller, so as to apply a desired external force to the shaft. A shifting operation device is structured by connecting the rotating operation input device to the second controller for controlling the shifting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: TORU ARAKAWA, MASAHIRO MIZUKAMI, MASAMINE YASUI
  • Publication number: 20170261097
    Abstract: A pattern of a rotational operation force is changed by a state of a device of an input object. An input device includes a knob, a rotation shaft body that rotates together with the knob, a rotation controller that is capable of changing a rotational operation force, a detector that detects a rotational position, a controller, and a storage that stores a plurality of patterns. The controller reads a pattern from the storage according to a pattern signal input from an outside and controls the rotation controller when the knob is operated to be rotated according to a rotational position detected by the detector and the read pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: SEIGO YAMANAKA, MASAMINE YASUI, MASAHIRO MIZUKAMI