Patents by Inventor Mitsutaka SAKO

Mitsutaka SAKO 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: 11958408
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system capable of adjusting the brightness in a vehicle interior day and night and appropriately performing light-adjustment for each of occupants. The vehicle light-adjusting system includes an incident portion which external light enters, a light-adjusting member arranged in the incident portion, a light emitting unit provided in an interior of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member and controls illuminance of the light emitting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The control unit is capable of adjusting an individual transmittance of each of the parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Publication number: 20230311786
    Abstract: The present interior component includes a plate-shaped base material to be fastened to the base member and a skin material for covering the front surface of the base material. The skin material has a woven fabric in which an optical fiber is woven as a constituent yarn, the skin material is provided with a folded portion turned back to the back surface of the base material while being folded into a plurality of sheets, and a clip body for clipping the folded portion is provided on the back surface of the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Yohei ISHIZU, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Publication number: 20230219496
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system capable of adjusting the brightness in a vehicle interior day and night and appropriately performing light-adjustment for each of occupants. The vehicle light-adjusting system includes an incident portion which external light enters, a light-adjusting member arranged in the incident portion, a light emitting unit provided in an interior of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member and controls illuminance of the light emitting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The control unit is capable of adjusting an individual transmittance of each of the parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Patent number: 11679716
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system capable of adjusting the brightness in a vehicle interior day and night and appropriately performing light-adjustment for each of occupants. The vehicle light-adjusting system includes an incident portion which external light enters, a light-adjusting member arranged in the incident portion, a light emitting unit provided in an interior of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member and controls illuminance of the light emitting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The control unit is capable of adjusting an individual transmittance of each of the parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Patent number: 11643532
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition, a molded body, and first and second production methods are disclosed. The thermoplastic resin composition contains a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer and shows non-Newtonian properties in a fluidized state. The molded body includes the thermoplastic resin composition. The first production method includes molding the thermoplastic resin composition at a shear rate of 80 sec?1 or more and a standby step in which resin composition is on standby at a shear rate of 0 sec?1 or more but less than 80 sec?1. The second production method includes molding the resin composition at a shear rate X1 to obtain part of a molded body and molding the resin composition at a shear rate X2 to obtain another part of the molded body, wherein an absolute value of a difference between X1 and X2 is 200 sec?1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kito, Kosuke Geho, Mitsutaka Sako, Goro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11512174
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a fiber-reinforced material and an article made of the same. The fiber-reinforced material includes a fiber assembly and a matrix material coating the fiber assembly, the matrix material is a thermoplastic resin composition obtained by blending a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a puncture test is performed at a striker speed of 1-4 msec and when a maximum impact force is applied is defined as PM and a deflection at break is defined as PB, PB/PM?4. When the amount of energy absorbed before a maximum impact force is applied is E1, the amount of energy absorbed after a maximum impact force is applied and before break is E2, and a total amount of absorbed energy of E1 and E2 is ET, the ratio of E2:ET is 70% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Geho, Masayuki Kito, Mitsutaka Sako, Goro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11505041
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting window and a vehicle light-adjusting window system capable of clearly projecting a video are provided. A vehicle light-adjusting window includes a transparent plate, a first conductive film, a light-adjusting layer, a second conductive film, and a projection film, which are arranged in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYUSYU NANOTEC OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Masahiro Irie, Mitsutaka Sako, Junichi Baba
  • Patent number: 11465470
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting window and a vehicle light-adjusting window system capable of clearly projecting a video are provided. A vehicle light-adjusting window includes a transparent plate, a first conductive film, a light-adjusting layer, a second conductive film, and a projection film, which are arranged in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYUSYU NANOTEC OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Masahiro Irie, Mitsutaka Sako, Junichi Baba
  • Patent number: 11413942
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a vehicle door trim board that is less likely to break due to partial use of an impact resistant resin and a door trim using such a vehicle door trim board. A vehicle door trim board includes a reinforcing part made of an impact resistant resin containing a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a compatibilizer, wherein the compatibilizer is a modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. The door trim includes: the vehicle door trim board; and a surface skin layer provided on a design surface side of the vehicle door trim board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kito, Kosuke Geho, Goro Takahashi, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Patent number: 11326031
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a thermoplastic resin sheet having excellent mechanical strength and excellent conformability during molding, a laminated sheet using such a thermoplastic resin sheet, and a molded body. The thermoplastic resin sheet includes a thermoplastic resin containing a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a compatibilizer, wherein the compatibilizer is a modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. The laminated sheet includes a base layer containing a polyolefin resin and the thermoplastic resin sheet bonded to one surface of the base layer. The molded body includes a base body containing a polyolefin resin and the thermoplastic resin sheet or the laminated sheet bonded to one surface of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kito, Kosuke Geho, Mitsutaka Sako, Goro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11318877
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system includes a light-adjusting member arranged in an incident portion into which an external light enters, a control unit that controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member, and an instruction detecting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The instruction detecting unit detects an instruction given by the occupant in a non-contact manner to the light-adjusting member by at least one of gesture and words. When the instruction detecting unit detects the instruction designating any one of the parts, the control unit adjusts an individual transmittance of the part corresponding to the instruction detected by the instruction detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Patent number: 11308520
    Abstract: A vehicle advertisement display system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a display unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit performs display at least toward an interior of the vehicle. The detection unit detects at least one of a state of an occupant riding the vehicle or a motion of the occupant as a target. The control unit causes the display unit to display the advertisement image having an advertising content corresponding to the target detected by the detection unit based on correspondence information that defines the advertising content corresponding to each candidate of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Maekawa, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Patent number: 11046822
    Abstract: A method for using a modifier that includes mixing 0.5 parts by mass or more but 70 parts by mass or less of the modifier per 100 parts by mass of a first polyolefin resin. The modifier is composed of a continuous phase (A) containing a second polyolefin resin, and a dispersed phase (B) dispersed in the continuous phase (A) and containing a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer. The dispersed phase (B) is composed of a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and the modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a total of the continuous phase (A) and the dispersed phase (B) is 100% by mass, a content of the dispersed phase (B) is 80% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kito, Goro Takahashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Publication number: 20210107339
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting window and a vehicle light-adjusting window system capable of clearly projecting a video are provided. A vehicle light-adjusting window includes a transparent plate, a first conductive film, a light-adjusting layer, a second conductive film, and a projection film, which are arranged in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYUSYU NANOTEC OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Masahiro IRIE, Mitsutaka SAKO, Junichi BABA
  • Patent number: 10934424
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a molded body having a continuous phase (A) containing a first polyolefin resin and a second polyolefin resin and a dispersed phase (B) containing a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer, wherein the dispersed phase (B) is composed of a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and the modified elastomer, and wherein when a total of the continuous phase (A) and the dispersed phase (B) is 100% by mass, a content of the dispersed phase (B) is 70% by mass or less, and when a total of the first polyolefin resin and the second polyolefin resin is 100% by mass, a content of the second polyolefin resin is 70% by mass or less, and a method including the steps of: obtaining a molded body raw material by mixing a first polyolefin resin and an impact-resistant resin obtained by melt-kneading a second polyolefin resin and a melt-kneaded product of a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer; and obtaining a molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kito, Goro Takahashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mitsutaka Sako
  • Publication number: 20200394684
    Abstract: A vehicle advertisement display system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a display unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit performs display at least toward an interior of the vehicle. The detection unit detects at least one of a state of an occupant riding the vehicle or a motion of the occupant as a target. The control unit causes the display unit to display the advertisement image having an advertising content corresponding to the target detected by the detection unit based on correspondence information that defines the advertising content corresponding to each candidate of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Publication number: 20200377014
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system capable of adjusting the brightness in a vehicle interior day and night and appropriately performing light-adjustment for each of occupants. The vehicle light-adjusting system includes an incident portion which external light enters, a light-adjusting member arranged in the incident portion, a light emitting unit provided in an interior of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member and controls illuminance of the light emitting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The control unit is capable of adjusting an individual transmittance of each of the parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Publication number: 20200377005
    Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system includes a light-adjusting member arranged in an incident portion into which an external light enters, a control unit that controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member, and an instruction detecting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The instruction detecting unit detects an instruction given by the occupant in a non-contact manner to the light-adjusting member by at least one of gesture and words. When the instruction detecting unit detects the instruction designating any one of the parts, the control unit adjusts an individual transmittance of the part corresponding to the instruction detected by the instruction detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Publication number: 20200376937
    Abstract: The light-adjusting system includes an interior sensor that detects interior data for grasping a state of an interior of the vehicle, an interior information acquiring unit that acquires information related to the state of the interior based on the interior data detected by the interior sensor, a determination unit that determines whether or not the interior is in an abnormal state based on the information acquired by the interior information acquiring unit, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the light transmittance of the window glass. When it is determined as the abnormal state where the light transmittance of the window glass has been adjusted such that it is difficult to visually recognize the interior through the window glass, the adjustment unit adjusts the light transmittance of the window glass to visually recognize the interior from outside the vehicle through the window glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki MAEKAWA, Mitsutaka SAKO
  • Publication number: 20200369836
    Abstract: A method for using a modifier that includes mixing 0.5 parts by mass or more but 70 parts by mass or less of the modifier per 100 parts by mass of a first polyolefin resin. The modifier is composed of a continuous phase (A) containing a second polyolefin resin, and a dispersed phase (B) dispersed in the continuous phase (A) and containing a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer. The dispersed phase (B) is composed of a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and the modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a total of the continuous phase (A) and the dispersed phase (B) is 100% by mass, a content of the dispersed phase (B) is 80% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KITO, Goro TAKAHASHI, Toshihiro SUZUKI, Mitsutaka SAKO