Patents by Inventor Sunao Hashimoto
Sunao Hashimoto 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: 11970242Abstract: A brake lever and a transmission with a novel antenna are provided. The brake lever is attachable to the handlebar. The brake lever includes a long portion configured as including an electrically conductive material and an antenna located on the long portion. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a power supply line configured to be electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor faces the long portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Nekozuka, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11961429Abstract: A head-up display includes a display panel, a reflective optical element, a controller, and an obtainer. The display panel displays a first image. The reflective optical element reflects image light from the first image displayed by the display panel. The controller controls a position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel. The obtainer obtains, as positional information, a position of an eye of a user. The controller changes the position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel in accordance with the positional information.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11899218Abstract: A head-up display and a movable body can display a virtual image viewable at a position nearer a user. The head-up display includes a display device that displays a first image and emits image light from the first image in a first direction, a first optical member located in the first direction from the display device, and a second optical member located between the display device and the first optical member in the first direction. The second optical member reflects the first image in a first plane direction and a second plane direction and displays a virtual image of the first image in a space between the first optical member and a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11899206Abstract: A display device of the disclosure is a display device to be mounted on a vehicle, and includes a display panel, a first input unit, a second input unit, a third input unit, and a controller. The first input unit is configured so as to acquire an engine rotation speed. The second input unit is configured so as to acquire a vehicle speed. The third input unit is configured so as to acquire a shift position of a transmission of a vehicle. The controller is configured so that a first image representing the engine rotation speed and one or more second images representing the vehicle speed are combined and a combined image is displayed on the display panel. The controller is configured so that switching of the second images is carried out based on the shift position.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11882268Abstract: A head-up display system includes a three-dimensional display device, an optical member, and an accelerometer. The three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, an optical element, and a controller. The display panel displays an image. The optical element defines a traveling direction of image light emitted from the display panel. The optical member reflects the image light from the three-dimensional display device toward a user's eye. The optical member is at a fixed position relative to the three-dimensional display device. The accelerometer detects acceleration of the three-dimensional display device. The controller controls a position of the image on the display panel based on the acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11881130Abstract: A head-up display system includes a first projection module, a second projection module, and a first reflective optical element. The first projection module projects a first image. The second projection module projects a second image. The first reflective optical element reflects at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image. The first projection module includes a first display panel that displays the first image and projects the first image toward the first reflective optical element. The second projection module includes a second display panel that displays the second image, and an optical system that directs the second image toward the first reflective optical element.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11876297Abstract: A structure includes first to fourth conductors. The first conductor extends along a second plane including a second direction and a third direction intersecting with the second direction. The second conductor faces the first conductor along a first direction intersecting with the second plane and extends along the second plane. The third conductor capacitively connects the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends along a first plane including the first direction and the third direction. In the third conductor, a surface facing an opposite direction of the fourth conductor in the second direction is covered by a resist layer that includes a dielectric body. In the resist layer, a thickness above a central portion of the third conductor is lower than a thickness above a peripheral edge portion of the third conductor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11846698Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes an irradiator configured to irradiate a detection wave, a detector configured to detect a reflected wave of the detection wave, and a controller configured to estimate an arrival direction and a flight distance of the reflected wave. The controller is configured to perform an object detection process on a detection result of the reflected wave only when the arrival direction and the flight distance are included in a detection target range.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Masamitsu Nishikido, Yukitoshi Kanayama, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11843765Abstract: A head-up display system includes a three-dimensional display device, an optical member, and an accelerometer. The three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, an optical element, and a controller. The display panel displays an image. The optical element defines a traveling direction of image light emitted from the display panel. The optical member reflects the image light from the three-dimensional display device toward a user's eye. The optical member is at a fixed position relative to the three-dimensional display device. The accelerometer detects acceleration of the three-dimensional display device. The controller controls a position of the image on the display panel based on the acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11831082Abstract: A structure includes: a first conductor that extends in a second direction; a second conductor that faces the first conductor in a first direction and that extends along the second direction; a third conductor configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor; a fourth conductor that is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and that extends along a first plane; and a first resist layer that covers the fourth conductor. The fourth conductor includes a plurality of first areas exposed to outside via a plurality of through holes of the first resist layer. Each of the first conductor and the second conductor includes one or more second areas. The first resist layer extends on the first conductor and the second conductor to cover the fourth conductor, excluding the second areas. The first areas and the second areas are arranged along the first plane.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11764479Abstract: Provided are a new antenna, a bicycle including the new antenna, a display apparatus including the new antenna, and an unmanned aircraft including the new antenna. An antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, apart from the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected via the third conductor. The antenna is disposed in a bicycle component of a bicycle such that the fourth conductor faces the bicycle component.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Sunao Hashimoto, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Masato Fujishiro, Toi Kanda
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Publication number: 20230244081Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) projector includes a 3D display device and a camera. The 3D display device includes a backlight, a display including a display surface, a barrier, and a controller. The camera has an imaging direction that may be a direction of the image light emitted from the display or may be different from the direction of the image light. With the imaging direction of the camera being different from the direction of the image light, the controller performs a process to correct distortion on a captured image output from the camera with reference to the direction of the image light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Akinori SATOU, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230199165Abstract: A viewpoint detector includes an imager that captures an image of an eye of a user and outputs the captured image, and a controller that detects a viewpoint of the user based on the captured image. The controller detects a position of the viewpoint from the captured image, and corrects the detected position of the viewpoint to a corrected viewpoint position with a conversion table.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Akinori SATOU, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230171393Abstract: An image display system includes a display, a barrier, a second mirror that has a changeable reflection angle for reflecting and projecting image light, a first controller that controls a change in the reflection angle, a camera that captures an image of a face of a driver, and a second controller that clips out a target area from a captured image output from the camera. The second controller shifts the target area as the first controller changes the reflection angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Akinori SATOU, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11637383Abstract: A structure includes first to fourth conductors. The first conductor extends along a second plane including a second direction and a third direction intersecting with the second direction. The second conductor faces the first conductor along a first direction intersecting with the second plane and extends along the second plane. The third conductor capacitively connects the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends along a first plane including the first direction and the third direction. The third conductor includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer capacitively connected to the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is positioned between the first conductive layer and the fourth conductor in the second direction. The first conductive layer has more thickness in the second direction as compared to thickness of the second conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Masamichi Yonehara, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11611155Abstract: The structure includes a first conductor that extends in a second direction; a second conductor, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The second conductor faces the first conductor in a first direction and extends along the second direction. The third conductor is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is configured to be electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends along a first plane. The feeding line is connected to the third conductor. The feeding line includes a first constituting part that extends along the first direction, and a second constituent part that extends along the second direction. The first constituting part is positioned on an inside of both ends of the fourth conductor in a third direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Tetsuya Yuda, Sunao Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20230034816Abstract: Provided is a novel antenna, wireless communication module, and wireless communication device. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feed line. The second conductor faces the first conductor in a first direction. The third conductor is along the first direction, located between the first conductor and the second conductor, and configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is along the first direction, separated from the third conductor in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor. The feed line is electrically connected to the third conductor. The antenna is bending deformable in cross-sectional views along the first direction and the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Yuuki NAKAYAMA, Hikaru NEKOZUKA, Kouichi MARUTA, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230026137Abstract: A head-up display system includes a first projection module, a second projection module, and a first reflective optical element. The first projection module projects a first image. The second projection module projects a second image. The first reflective optical element reflects at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image. The first projection module includes a first display panel that displays the first image and projects the first image toward the first reflective optical element. The second projection module includes a second display panel that displays the second image, and an optical system that directs the second image toward the first reflective optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Mitsuhiro MURATA, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230019904Abstract: A head-up display and a movable body can display a virtual image viewable at a position nearer a user. The head-up display includes a display device that displays a first image and emits image light from the first image in a first direction, a first optical member located in the first direction from the display device, and a second optical member located between the display device and the first optical member in the first direction. The second optical member reflects the first image in a first plane direction and a second plane direction and displays a virtual image of the first image in a space between the first optical member and a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Mitsuhiro MURATA, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230004003Abstract: A head-up display system includes a first projection module that projects a first image to display the first image in a forward direction not directly facing a user, a second projection module that projects a second image to display the second image in a forward direction directly facing the user, and a reflective optical element that reflects at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Mitsuhiro MURATA, Sunao HASHIMOTO