Patents by Inventor Norio Kosaka

Norio Kosaka 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: 20230109243
    Abstract: Provided is an aqueous resin composition containing an alkyd resin (A) having vinyl polymer segments, a basic compound (B), and an aqueous medium (C). The alkyd resin (A) contains 20 to 45% by mass of an alicyclic polybasic acid-derived structure. The aqueous resin composition can produce a coating film with high hardness and excellent impact resistance and therefore can be suitably used for aqueous paints for metal products such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, machinery, furniture, cans, and building materials; plastic products such as automobile parts and home appliances; wood products such as furniture and building materials; and inorganic material products such as building materials and glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Okada, Akitaka Kuroshima, Takashi Mukai, Norio Kosaka
  • Patent number: 11402628
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus that displays an image on a windshield of a vehicle has an attention target detector configured to detect an attention target to which attention of a driver of the vehicle needs to be drawn, and calculate a distance from the attention target to the vehicle, and a display controller configured to perform display control that displays an attention mark on the windshield in a superimposed manner such that, from a point of view of the driver, the attention mark is displayed close to the attention target detected by the attention target detector, the attention mark being displayed to draw the attention of the driver to the attention target. The display controller sets a base point at a position of the attention target on the windshield, sets a display position of the attention mark at a position which is a predetermined distance away from the base point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11299575
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based resin composition that contains a polymer (A) containing, as essential raw materials, a hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) with an iodine value in the range of 5 to 25, a monomer (a2) with an acid group, and a monomer (a3) with a hydroxy group, a basic compound (B), and an aqueous medium (C), wherein the hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) constitutes 4% to 38% by mass of the raw materials of the polymer (A), and the polymer (A) has an acid value in the range of 10 to 65 mgKOH/g. A water-based resin composition of the present invention has high storage stability and forms a coating film with good physical properties, such as high adhesiveness to various substrates and high blocking resistance, and is therefore suitably used in a water-based paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazawa, Norio Kosaka, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11209285
    Abstract: A vehicular display device configured to display a guide route to a destination of a host vehicle includes a navigation device configured to calculate the guide route, a display controller configured to draw an arrow having a shaft with an arrowhead at one end of the shaft, as a guide figure for guidance along the guide route calculated by the navigation device, such that the arrow is shaped as a three-dimensional object in which one surface of the arrow is a continuous flat surface from the shaft to the arrowhead and the other surface of the arrow includes a first portion with a first width having a first height, and a second portion with a second width smaller than the first width and having a second height smaller than the first height, and a display configured to display an image drawn by the display controller in a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
  • Patent number: 11186722
    Abstract: A resin coated inorganic or metallic pigment includes inorganic or metallic particles (A) and an acrylic copolymer (B) formed on the inorganic or metallic particles (A) by subjecting a radically polymerizable unsaturated carboxylic acid or radically polymerizable phosphate monomer (B1) and a monomer (B2) containing 3 to 6 (meth)acryloyloxy groups per molecule to radical polymerization reaction using a polymerization initiator (C) containing a nitrile group, wherein the inorganic or metallic particles (A) are coated with a coating resin including the acrylic copolymer (B), and the acrylic copolymer (B) has at a tail thereof a structure which is derived from the polymerization initiator (C) and which is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 represents a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazawa, Norio Kosaka, Kazuhiro Sugiyama, Takuya Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20210163651
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based resin composition that contains a polymer (A) containing, as essential raw materials, a hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) with an iodine value in the range of 5 to 25, a monomer (a2) with an acid group, and a monomer (a3) with a hydroxy group, a basic compound (B), and an aqueous medium (C), wherein the hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) constitutes 4% to 38% by mass of the raw materials of the polymer (A), and the polymer (A) has an acid value in the range of 10 to 65 mgKOH/g. A water-based resin composition of the present invention has high storage stability and forms a coating film with good physical properties, such as high adhesiveness to various substrates and high blocking resistance, and is therefore suitably used in a water-based paint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAZAWA, Norio KOSAKA, Hideaki KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 10464421
    Abstract: A vehicular display device, in execution of following cruise control with a preceding vehicle ahead of a host vehicle, causes a fixed indication to light up and displays a following mark in a superimposed manner with a following-target preceding vehicle. The fixed indication indicates that the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected. The vehicular display device includes a preceding vehicle detector that detects the following-target preceding vehicle, a display setter that sets the fixed indication to light up and sets the following mark to be displayed in a superimposed manner with the following-target preceding vehicle when the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected by the preceding vehicle detector, and a head-up display that displays images of the fixed indication and the following mark set by the display setter in a display region provided to be superimposed on a position of a windshield of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka, Kenji Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10466062
    Abstract: A front object determiner determines an object on a traveling road surface in front of a host vehicle based on an image of a forward view captured by a front camera. A display controller draws an overlapping portion where a guide route calculated by a navigation device and the object determined by the front object determiner overlap each other in a display region on a windshield and a non-overlapping portion where the guide route and the object do not overlap each other in the display region on the windshield such that the overlapping portion is to be presented in a mode different from a mode for the non-overlapping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Norio Kosaka, Masayuki Shishido
  • Patent number: 10422655
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes a display configured to display an image in a display area that overlaps a position of a windshield of a vehicle, a display processor configured to display a direction guide image in the display area in a manner superimposed on a road on which the vehicle is traveling, the direction guide image being an image showing a turn position where the vehicle is to make a turn on the road, and a display pattern determiner configured to determine a display pattern of the direction guide image based on a traveling speed of the vehicle. The display pattern determiner determines the display pattern such that, the higher the traveling speed is, the longer a length from a top end to a bottom end of the direction guide image is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Kenji Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190185676
    Abstract: A resin coated inorganic or metallic pigment includes inorganic or metallic particles (A) and an acrylic copolymer (B) formed on the inorganic or metallic particles (A) by subjecting a radically polymerizable unsaturated carboxylic acid or radically polymerizable phosphate monomer (B1) and a monomer (B2) containing 3 to 6 (meth)acryloyloxy groups per molecule to radical polymerization reaction using a polymerization initiator (C) containing a nitrile group, wherein the inorganic or metallic particles (A) are coated with a coating resin including the acrylic copolymer (B), and the acrylic copolymer (B) has at a tail thereof a structure which is derived from the polymerization initiator (C) and which is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 represents a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazawa, Norio Kosaka, Kazuhiro Sugiyama, Takuya Otsubo
  • Patent number: 10304228
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus, when a host vehicle follows a preceding vehicle in front, displays a highlighting indication used to highlight the preceding vehicle over the preceding vehicle in a superimposing manner. The vehicular display apparatus includes a preceding vehicle detector that detects the preceding vehicle travelling in front of the host vehicle, a preceding vehicle distance calculator that calculates a distance between the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector and the host vehicle, a highlighting indication setter that sets the highlighting indication to be displayed over the preceding vehicle in a superimposing manner, and causes a highlight level of the highlighting indication to be higher when the distance between the preceding vehicle and the host vehicle calculated by the preceding vehicle distance calculator is long than when the distance is short, and a head-up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10269161
    Abstract: A vehicular display device which displays a marker image in a manner superimposed on a preceding vehicle in front of a vehicle when the vehicle is following the preceding vehicle while traveling, includes a display configured to display an image in a display area provided to overlap a position of a windshield included in the vehicle, a preceding vehicle detector configured to detect a position of the preceding vehicle, a display processor configured to cause the display to display the marker image corresponding to the position of the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector, and a determiner configured to determine whether the preceding vehicle is located on an inner side of vehicle widthwise side edges of the display area or on outer sides of the vehicle width direction side edges, based on the position of the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190041232
    Abstract: A vehicular display device configured to display a guide route to a destination of a host vehicle includes a navigation device configured to calculate the guide route, a display controller configured to draw an arrow having a shaft with an arrowhead at one end of the shaft, as a guide figure for guidance along the guide route calculated by the navigation device, such that the arrow is shaped as a three-dimensional object in which one surface of the arrow is a continuous flat surface from the shaft to the arrowhead and the other surface of the arrow includes a first portion with a first width having a first height, and a second portion with a second width smaller than the first width and having a second height smaller than the first height, and a display configured to display an image drawn by the display controller in a display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20180306597
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes a display configured to display an image in a display area that overlaps a position of a windshield of a vehicle, a display processor configured to display a direction guide image in the display area in a manner superimposed on a road on which the vehicle is traveling, the direction guide image being an image showing a turn position where the vehicle is to make a turn on the road, and a display pattern determiner configured to determine a display pattern of the direction guide image based on a traveling speed of the vehicle. The display pattern determiner determines the display pattern such that, the higher the traveling speed is, the longer a length from a top end to a bottom end of the direction guide image is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Kenji Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180292229
    Abstract: A front object determiner determines an object on a traveling road surface in front of a host vehicle based on an image of a forward view captured by a front camera. A display controller draws an overlapping portion where a guide route calculated by a navigation device and the object determined by the front object determiner overlap each other in a display region on a windshield and a non-overlapping portion where the guide route and the object do not overlap each other in the display region on the windshield such that the overlapping portion is to be presented in a mode different from a mode for the non-overlapping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Norio Kosaka, Masayuki Shishido
  • Publication number: 20180286094
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus, when a host vehicle follows a preceding vehicle in front, displays a highlighting indication used to highlight the preceding vehicle over the preceding vehicle in a superimposing manner. The vehicular display apparatus includes a preceding vehicle detector that detects the preceding vehicle travelling in front of the host vehicle, a preceding vehicle distance calculator that calculates a distance between the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector and the host vehicle, a highlighting indication setter that sets the highlighting indication to be displayed over the preceding vehicle in a superimposing manner, and causes a highlight level of the highlighting indication to be higher when the distance between the preceding vehicle and the host vehicle calculated by the preceding vehicle distance calculator is long than when the distance is short, and a head-up display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20180257489
    Abstract: A vehicular display device, in execution of following cruise control with a preceding vehicle ahead of a host vehicle, causes a fixed indication to light up and displays a following mark in a superimposed manner with a following-target preceding vehicle. The fixed indication indicates that the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected. The vehicular display device includes a preceding vehicle detector that detects the following-target preceding vehicle, a display setter that sets the fixed indication to light up and sets the following mark to be displayed in a superimposed manner with the following-target preceding vehicle when the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected by the preceding vehicle detector, and a head-up display that displays images of the fixed indication and the following mark set by the display setter in a display region provided to be superimposed on a position of a windshield of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka, Kenji Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180240258
    Abstract: A vehicular display device which displays a marker image in a manner superimposed on a preceding vehicle in front of a vehicle when the vehicle is following the preceding vehicle while traveling, includes a display configured to display an image in a display area provided to overlap a position of a windshield included in the vehicle, a preceding vehicle detector configured to detect a position of the preceding vehicle, a display processor configured to cause the display to display the marker image corresponding to the position of the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector, and a determiner configured to determine whether the preceding vehicle is located on an inner side of vehicle widthwise side edges of the display area or on outer sides of the vehicle width direction side edges, based on the position of the preceding vehicle detected by the preceding vehicle detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170146796
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus that displays an image on a windshield of a vehicle has an attention target detector configured to detect an attention target to which attention of a driver of the vehicle needs to be drawn, and calculate a distance from the attention target to the vehicle, and a display controller configured to perform display control that displays an attention mark on the windshield in a superimposed manner such that, from a point of view of the driver, the attention mark is displayed close to the attention target detected by the attention target detector, the attention mark being displayed to draw the attention of the driver to the attention target. The display controller sets a base point at a position of the attention target on the windshield, sets a display position of the attention mark at a position which is a predetermined distance away from the base point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170134662
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus that displays an image on a windshield of a vehicle has an attention target detector configured to detect an attention target to which attention of a driver of the vehicle needs to be drawn, and calculate a distance from the attention target to the vehicle, a display controller configured to perform display control that displays an attention mark on the windshield in a superimposed manner such that from a point of view of the driver, the attention mark is displayed close to the attention target detected by the attention target detector, the attention mark being displayed to draw the attention of the driver to the attention target, and a display modulator configured to change, according to the distance, a highlight level for highlighted display of the attention mark, the display control for which is performed by the display controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto