Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Kubota
Masatoshi Kubota 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: 11807160Abstract: A housing for a circuit includes a top wall that defines an aperture configured for receiving a fastener, and a bottom wall integrally formed with the top wall, positioned directly below the aperture in a height direction, and extended across the aperture with respect to the height direction. The circuit is mounted on a bottom side of the bottom wall. The top wall and the bottom wall define an interior of the housing, and cooperate to obstruct egress of debris from the interior of the housing to the circuit at the bottom side of the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Antonio Emilio Sanchez Aguilar, Tomoya Hagihara, Yusuke Enoto, Masatoshi Kubota
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Publication number: 20230173977Abstract: A housing for a circuit includes a top wall that defines an aperture configured for receiving a fastener, and a bottom wall integrally formed with the top wall, positioned directly below the aperture in a height direction, and extended across the aperture with respect to the height direction. The circuit is mounted on a bottom side of the bottom wall. The top wall and the bottom wall define an interior of the housing, and cooperate to obstruct egress of debris from the interior of the housing to the circuit at the bottom side of the bottom wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Antonio Emilio SANCHEZ AGUILAR, Tomoya HAGIHARA, Yusuke ENOTO, Masatoshi KUBOTA
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Patent number: 11550532Abstract: A modular display system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of display units that may be arranged along an exterior of the vehicle in different orientations. The system offers a modular, scalable, accessible, and simplified approach to exterior displays for automated and other types of vehicles. The displays, being modular, are not tied to the specific mounting location on the vehicle's exterior. The image data for each display is rotated based on the orientation of the display as installed which is identified by reference to the distinct pin connections of each display's control port.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., LtdInventors: Antonio E. Sanchez Aguilar, Masatoshi Kubota, Tomoya Hagihara
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Patent number: 11364930Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a display and a display controller configured to cause the display to display an image related to a state of a vehicle and perform control for switching display details to be displayed on the display when a predetermined event has occurred in the vehicle before driving assistance of the vehicle is started.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Yoshitaka Mimura, Masayuki Takahashi, Hironori Takano
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Publication number: 20200172123Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a display and a display controller configured to cause the display to display an image related to a state of a vehicle and perform control for switching display details to be displayed on the display when a predetermined event has occurred in the vehicle before driving assistance of the vehicle is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Yoshitaka Mimura, Masayuki Takahashi, Hironori Takano
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Patent number: 10025341Abstract: Provided is a pedal reactive force controller including: a reaction force adding unit for adding reaction force to a pedal operated by a driver; and an information transmission unit for converting a depression amount of the pedal detected by a stroke sensor into visual information, and conveying the depression amount to the driver by displaying the visual information in an operation amount display section.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Go Suzaki, Hideto Nebuya, Naoto Sen, Yoshikazu Sato, Kohei Maruyama, Masatoshi Kubota, Jiro Hamada
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Publication number: 20160259362Abstract: Provided is a pedal reactive force controller including: a reaction force adding unit for adding reaction force to a pedal operated by a driver; and an information transmission unit for converting a depression amount of the pedal detected by a stroke sensor into visual information, and conveying the depression amount to the driver by displaying the visual information in an operation amount display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Go SUZAKI, Hideto NEBUYA, Naoto SEN, Yoshikazu SATO, Kohei MARUYAMA, Masatoshi KUBOTA, Jiro HAMADA
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Patent number: 8681136Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus includes a first indicator, a second indicator, and an illuminance detector. The illuminance detector is configured detect illuminance outside a vehicle. Display luminance of the second indicator is capable of being changed in a specific luminance range in accordance with the illuminance outside the vehicle detected by the illuminance detector irrespective of daytime or nighttime. A luminance setting device is configured to set the specific luminance range. A controller is configured to increase or decrease the display luminance of the second indicator at least in a portion of the specific luminance range set by the luminance setting device based on display luminance for each of daytime and nighttime of the first indicator set by the luminance setting device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Kubota
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Publication number: 20130190977Abstract: In an operating device for a vehicle, a first peripheral edge is set so as to correspond to a relative positional relationship in which a plurality of switches is arranged, and a predetermined position is set so that a gap between a second end opposite a first end of an image and a second peripheral edge of a display screen in a movement direction of the image becomes larger than a gap between the first end of the image and a first peripheral edge of the display screen in the movement direction of the image, in a state where the image stops at the predetermined position on the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro Onaka, Masatoshi Kubota
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Patent number: 8285437Abstract: A maintenance time notification device includes a storing unit storing a threshold value of a usage time or a traveling distance for each of a plurality of vehicle parts; a measuring unit measuring the usage time and the traveling distance of a vehicle since the vehicle began to be used for each of the vehicle parts; a maintenance period determination unit determining a maintenance period of each of the vehicle parts by comparing the usage time and the traveling distance measured by the measuring unit, with the threshold value; and a reporting unit reporting to a passenger based on a determination result of the maintenance period determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Naoki Fukui, Kazuyuki Endo
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Publication number: 20110261039Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus includes a first indicator, a second indicator, and an illuminance detector. The illuminance detector is configured detect illuminance outside a vehicle. Display luminance of the second indicator is capable of being changed in a specific luminance range in accordance with the illuminance outside the vehicle detected by the illuminance detector irrespective of daytime or nighttime. A luminance setting device is configured to set the specific luminance range. A controller is configured to increase or decrease the display luminance of the second indicator at least in a portion of the specific luminance range set by the luminance setting device based on display luminance for each of daytime and nighttime of the first indicator set by the luminance setting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20100174443Abstract: A maintenance time notification device includes a storing unit storing a threshold value of a usage time or a traveling distance for each of a plurality of vehicle parts; a measuring unit measuring the usage time and the traveling distance of a vehicle since the vehicle began to be used for each of the vehicle parts; a maintenance period determination unit determining a maintenance period of each of the vehicle parts by comparing the usage time and the traveling distance measured by the measuring unit, with the threshold value; and a reporting unit reporting to a passenger based on a determination result of the maintenance period determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Naoki Fukui, Kazuyuki Endo
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Patent number: 7572055Abstract: The present invention provides an outside air temperature determination apparatus including an outside air temperature detection means (3) disposed in a vehicle for detecting an outside air temperature; a control means (6) having a first determination processing portion (61) which performs a first determination processing to obtain a determination value based on the detection temperature detected by the outside air temperature detection means (3); and a speed detection means (4) for detecting a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control means (6) includes a second determination processing portion (62) which predicts a real outside air temperature based on a variation on the detection temperature detected by the outside air temperature detection means (3) and performs a second determination processing to obtain a determination value based on the predicted outside air temperature; and controls the second determination processing portion (62) to perform the second determination processing (STEP 6) prior to the fiType: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Masafumi Higashiyama
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Publication number: 20090016405Abstract: The present invention provides an outside air temperature determination apparatus including an outside air temperature detection means (3) disposed in a vehicle for detecting an outside air temperature; a control means (6) having a first determination processing portion (61) which performs a first determination processing to obtain a determination value based on the detection temperature detected by the outside air temperature detection means (3); and a speed detection means (4) for detecting a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control means (6) includes a second determination processing portion (62) which predicts a real outside air temperature based on a variation on the detection temperature detected by the outside air temperature detection means (3) and performs a second determination processing to obtain a determination value based on the predicted outside air temperature; and controls the second determination processing portion (62) to perform the second determination processing (STEP 6) prior to the fiType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Masafumi Higashiyama
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Patent number: 5202293Abstract: A carbon fiber reinforced carbon of the present invention is composed of a sintered body comprising precursor carbonaceous fiber and self-sintering carbonaceous powder with the precursor carbonaceous fiber buried therein. Since the precursor carbonaceous fiber working as a reinforcement and the self-sintering carbonaceous powder working as a binder come to have substantially the same physical properties (strength, shrinkage rate and the like), the boudary adhesion between them improves, thereby giving the sintered body high strength and excellent abrasion resistance. When the precursor carbonaceous fiber is subjected to a surface treatment using a viscous material, the wettability of the surface of the precursor carbonaceous fiber increases, thereby further improving the boundary adhesion between the precursor carbonaceous fiber and the self-sintering precursor carbonaceous powder.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1992Date of Patent: April 13, 1993Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka Gas Company LimitedInventors: Mamoru Okamoto, Hirohisa Miura, Shoichi Tsuchiya, Yoshio Huwa, Hirohumi Michioka, Masatoshi Kubota, Yoshiteru Nakagawa, Satoru Nakatani