Patents by Inventor Masayuki Okano
Masayuki Okano 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: 11513228Abstract: System and methods for Light Detecting and Ranging (LIDAR) are disclosed. The LIDAR system includes a light source that is configured project a beam at various wavelengths toward a wavelength dispersive element. The wavelength dispersive element is configured to receive the beam and direct at least a portion of the beam into a field of view (FOV) at an angle dependent on frequency. The system also includes a detector that is positioned to receive portions of the beam reflected from an object within the FOV and a processor that is configured to control the light source and determine a velocity of the object.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SANTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Changho Chong, Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20220334260Abstract: System and methods for Light Detecting and Ranging (LIDAR) are disclosed. The LIDAR system includes a light source configured to generate a tunable beam, an optical beam steering device positioned to receive at least a portion of the beam and configured to sweep the beam over a range of angles in a field of view (FOV) wherein each discrete frequency of the beam corresponds to a different angle in the FOV, a detector configured to generate an interference signal based on the received portions of the beam, and a processor communicably coupled to the detector. The processor is configured to cause the light source to tune the tunable beam from a first frequency to a second frequency and to calculate a range of an object corresponding to either the first frequency or the second frequency within the FOV.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Masayuki Okano, Changho Chong
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Publication number: 20220134408Abstract: An element manufacturing method for a transmission belt of a continuously variable transmission having a thick wall portion and a thin wall portion formed by sequentially feeding a material having a strip shape with a uniform thickness to each press position and performing press working on the material at the press position. The method includes, as the press working performed at the press position: a preliminary punching step in which a portion other than a connecting portion is cut off from surrounding material and the cut off portion is punched so as not to overlap with the surrounding material in a plate thickness direction; a crushing step of compressing and crushing a region of the thin walled cut off portion, after the preliminary punching step; and a punching step of punching the cutting off portion into an outer shape corresponding to the element, after the crushing step.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, MI Seiko Co.,LtdInventors: Yasuhiro TAKEUCHI, Toru ASAMI, Kazuhisa MIYATA, Hirotaka HATA, Masayuki OKANO
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Publication number: 20220080817Abstract: An inner belt line weather strip includes a body part to be attached to a door interior member of a vehicle and a plurality of protrusion disposed on a surface of the body part. The inner belt line weather strip is to be disposed in a space between the door interior member and a door glass, forming a propagation path of noise from outside a vehicle cabin to the vehicle cabin, to reduce transmission of noise through the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventor: Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20210278538Abstract: System and methods for Light Detecting and Ranging (LIDAR) are disclosed. The LIDAR system includes a light source that is configured project a beam at various wavelengths toward a wavelength dispersive element. The wavelength dispersive element is configured to receive the beam and direct at least a portion of the beam into a field of view (FOV) at an angle dependent on frequency. The system also includes a detector that is positioned to receive portions of the beam reflected from an object within the FOV and a processor that is configured to control the light source and determine a velocity of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: SANTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Changho CHONG, Masayuki OKANO
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Patent number: 10967810Abstract: A roof structure includes a roof panel constituting a roof of a vehicle, a roof headlining constituting a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and a stiffening board disposed between the roof panel and the roof headlining. The stiffening board is attached to a lower face of the roof panel by adhering at plural adhesion portions. Steps are formed at the stiffening board between the respective plural adhesion portions so as to widen a space between the stiffening board and the lower face of the roof panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kai Aizawa, Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20190359150Abstract: A roof structure includes a roof panel constituting a roof of a vehicle, a roof headlining constituting a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and a stiffening board disposed between the roof panel and the roof headlining. The stiffening board is attached to a lower face of the roof panel by adhering at plural adhesion portions. Steps are formed at the stiffening board between the respective plural adhesion portions so as to widen a space between the stiffening board and the lower face of the roof panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kai Aizawa, Masayuki Okano
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Patent number: 10343506Abstract: In a vehicle side portion structure, a vehicle body-side wall surface, which is a wall surface at a side of an aperture lower edge portion of a door lower space, is formed so as to include a first upper surface, a first corner surface, and a first vertical surface that extends substantially downwards from the first corner surface. The door lower space is formed so as to include a corner upper space, which is a space located at a vehicle upper side of the first corner surface, and a first space, which is a space between a door weather strip and the corner upper space. A width in a vehicle up-down direction of the corner upper space is less than a width in the vehicle transverse direction of the first space, and is also less than a width in the vehicle up-down direction of the first space.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichiro Tamao, Masaaki Wakahara, Masayuki Okano, Masashi Komada, Koki Ikeda
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Patent number: 10189509Abstract: There is provided a vehicular structure including (i) a vehicular panel member configured by resin including reinforcing fibers, and (ii) a joined portion of a vehicle body that supports, all the way around, a peripheral portion of a predetermined area of the panel member and to which the peripheral portion of the predetermined area is joined, wherein the panel member has a bulging shape where both front and back surfaces of the panel member bulge out such that the thickness of the panel member gradually becomes thicker from a peripheral end portion to a central portion within the predetermined area supported all the way around by the joined portionType: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kai Aizawa, Masayuki Okano, Sho Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180086188Abstract: In a vehicle side portion structure, a vehicle body-side wall surface, which is a wall surface at a side of an aperture lower edge portion of a door lower space, is formed so as to include a first upper surface, a first corner surface, and a first vertical surface that extends substantially downwards from the first corner surface. The door lower space is formed so as to include a corner upper space, which is a space located at a vehicle upper side of the first corner surface, and a first space, which is a space between a door weather strip and the corner upper space. A width in a vehicle up-down direction of the corner upper space is less than a width in the vehicle transverse direction of the first space, and is also less than a width in the vehicle up-down direction of the first space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichiro TAMAO, Masaaki WAKAHARA, Masayuki OKANO, Masashi KOMADA, Koki IKEDA
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Publication number: 20180086390Abstract: There is provided a vehicular structure including (i) a vehicular panel member configured by resin including reinforcing fibers, and (ii) a joined portion of a vehicle body that supports, all the way around, a peripheral portion of a predetermined area of the panel member and to which the peripheral portion of the predetermined area is joined, wherein the panel member has a bulging shape where both front and back surfaces of the panel member bulge out such that the thickness of the panel member gradually becomes thicker from a peripheral end portion to a central portion within the predetermined area supported all the way around by the joined portionType: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kai AIZAWA, Masayuki OKANO, Sho SASAKI
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Publication number: 20170077292Abstract: A trench gate semiconductor device includes a high concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a low concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a trench. The second conductivity type semiconductor is provided at a position corresponding to the bottom-side portion of the trench. The junction between the first conductivity type semiconductor and the second conductivity type semiconductor is provided at the side of the bottom-side portion of the trench. The junction extends upward from the interface between the high concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the low concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuichiro HOMMI, Kenji ONO, Kimiya AKAHORI, Masayuki OKANO
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Patent number: 9403201Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flat pipe 1 with concave-convex shapes on inner and outer surfaces includes making incisions with an expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 in a metal thin plate 2 such that intermediate portions 4 (middle portions) in the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 widthwise of the expanded shape are left uncut from the thin plate 2, machining the concave-convex shapes in a range of the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 and raising the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 from the thin plate 2 as cut-and-raised pieces 8 with the uncut intermediate portions 4 in between, closing tips of the cut-and-raised pieces 8 together to form an overall shape of the flat pipe 2, and separating the uncut intermediate portions 4 from the thin plate 2 to obtain the flat pipe 1.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ishimori, Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20150135795Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flat pipe 1 with concave-convex shapes on inner and outer surfaces includes making incisions with an expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 in a metal thin plate 2 such that intermediate portions 4 (middle portions) in the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 widthwise of the expanded shape are left uncut from the thin plate 2, machining the concave-convex shapes in a range of the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 and raising the expanded shape of the flat pipe 1 from the thin plate 2 as cut-and-raised pieces 8 with the uncut intermediate portions 4 in between, closing tips of the cut-and-raised pieces 8 together to form an overall shape of the flat pipe 2, and separating the uncut intermediate portions 4 from the thin plate 2 to obtain the flat pipe 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ishimori, Masayuki Okano
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Patent number: 9027982Abstract: A vehicle door structure that can improve an effect of insulating sounds that penetrate from a vehicle exterior into a vehicle cabin. A front side door to which a vehicle door structure is applied has, at a door main body that supports a door glass such that the door glass can be raised and lowered, a weatherstrip having a wall in which an opening is formed at a position facing the door glass, and a sealing lip that is disposed so as to project-out from the wall and slidingly contact the door glass. Further, a wall body that, together with the wall, forms a closed space that communicates with the opening is provided at a side of the wall opposite the door glass.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyoka Ide, Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20140117704Abstract: A vehicle door structure that can improve an effect of insulating sounds that penetrate from a vehicle exterior into a vehicle cabin. A front side door to which a vehicle door structure is applied has, at a door main body that supports a door glass such that the door glass can be raised and lowered, a weatherstrip having a wall in which an opening is formed at a position facing the door glass, and a sealing lip that is disposed so as to project-out from the wall and slidingly contact the door glass. Further, a wall body that, together with the wall, forms a closed space that communicates with the opening is provided at a side of the wall opposite the door glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toyoka Ide, Masayuki Okano
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Publication number: 20140091853Abstract: A switching circuit includes first and second switching elements arranged in parallel in an energization path, first and second gate driving lines, first and second fuses, and first and second abnormality detection portions capable of detecting abnormality in the switching elements. In the switching circuit, when abnormality in either one of the first and second switching elements is detected, the fuse between the first and second fuses which corresponds to the switching element in which abnormality is detected is turned into non-conduction state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masayuki OKANO
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Patent number: 7587820Abstract: Side hole-bearing tubular bodies made of metal and having an inside diameter of up to 2 mm are manufactured by a method which includes punching from a metal sheet a sheet blank in the developed shape of a tubular body and punching in the sheet blank a hole which corresponds to the side hole in the tubular body and/or notches which form the side hole when the sheet blank is pressed into a tubular shape, in such a way that the metal sheet and the sheet blank remain partly joined; pressing the sheet blank into a tubular shape; and cutting apart the metal sheet and the sheet blank where they remain joined. Metal tubular bodies manufactured in this way can have one or more side holes of any shape, position or number thereon, and are highly suitable for use in medical devices such as syringe needles.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignees: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Okano Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Ooyauchi, Masayuki Okano
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Patent number: 7180007Abstract: It comprises circuit board 10 with circuit pattern 2 formed by conductive resin paste on resin substrate 1, surface-mounted type electronic components 30, 40 arranged with electrode terminals with respect to the connecting region of circuit pattern 2, connecting member 3 formed from conductive resin paste for connecting the connecting region to the electrode terminal, and insulating adhesive 6 for bonding the electronic components 30, 40 and circuit board 10, which is lower in curing temperature than conductive resin paste and disposed in a space between circuit board 10 and electronic components 30, 40 between connecting regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Norihito Tsukahara, Masayuki Okano
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Patent number: 7104103Abstract: A small diameter metal tube whose inner surface is smooth and its production method are provided. The metal tube has an inner diameter of up to 1.0 mm and its inner surface has a maximum height difference (Rf) in the surface roughness of up to 3 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2005Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignees: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Okano Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Ooyauchi, Masayuki Okano