Patents by Inventor Takao Sugiyama
Takao Sugiyama 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: 10173580Abstract: A lighting circuit which lights a semiconductor light source, the lighting circuit includes a drive circuit configured to receive a PWM signal from a controller, to generate a drive current to the semiconductor light source, and to switch the drive current according to the PWM signal. When a non-input state of the PWM signal exceeds a predetermined time, the lighting circuit is configured to assert an abnormality detection signal and to output the abnormality detection signal to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama, Susumu Ogo
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Publication number: 20180339641Abstract: A light source includes a first light emitting unit, which performs light emission of a first function, and a second light emitting unit, which performs light emission of a second function and has the maximum lighting voltage lower than the forward voltage of the first light emitting unit, the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit being connected in parallel to each other. A lighting circuit includes a current supply unit, which supplies driving current to the light source, a controller, which performs stabilization control of the driving current from the current supply unit, a switch element, which is provided to disconnect a current path portion, which is the current path of the second light emitting unit and is parallel to the current path of the first light emitting unit, and a selector, which connects the current path of the second light emitting unit by the switch element when light emission of the second function is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9992835Abstract: A lighting circuit is configured to supply a driving current to a first light source and a second light source. The light circuit includes a conversion unit which receives a first voltage for the first light source and a second voltage for the second light source via a common input terminal, performs voltage conversion on the first voltage or the second voltage and supplies the driving current, a control unit which controls a current value of the driving current output from the conversion unit, a first switch which selects whether to supply the driving current to the first light source by a first signal based on the first voltage, a signal generation unit which receives the first voltage and the second voltage and generates a second signal, and a second switch which selects whether to supply the driving current to the second light source by the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20180029526Abstract: A lighting circuit which lights a semiconductor light source, the lighting circuit includes a drive circuit configured to receive a PWM signal from a controller, to generate a drive current to the semiconductor light source, and to switch the drive current according to the PWM signal. When a non-input state of the PWM signal exceeds a predetermined time, the lighting circuit is configured to assert an abnormality detection signal and to output the abnormality detection signal to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama, Susumu Ogo
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Publication number: 20160302267Abstract: A lighting circuit is configured to supply a driving current to a first light source and a second light source. The light circuit includes a conversion unit which receives a first voltage for the first light source and a second voltage for the second light source via a common input terminal, performs voltage conversion on the first voltage or the second voltage and supplies the driving current, a control unit which controls a current value of the driving current output from the conversion unit, a first switch which selects whether to supply the driving current to the first light source by a first signal based on the first voltage, a signal generation unit which receives the first voltage and the second voltage and generates a second signal, and a second switch which selects whether to supply the driving current to the second light source by the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8985823Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a lamp body having an opening, a front cover attached to the lamp body to close the opening, and a first optical unit disposed inside a lamp chamber defined by the lamp body and the cover. The first optical unit includes a printed wiring board having a first section formed with a first conductor pattern and a second section formed with a second conductor pattern electrically coupled to the first conductor pattern, an LED mounted on the first section of the printed wiring board, and a lighting control circuit provided on the second section of the printed wiring board to control a lighting of the LED. The first optical unit further has a bracket supporting the printed wiring board in a horizontal manner, and a drip-preventive cover covering the lighting control circuit. The drip-preventive cover is provided on the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takao Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8476838Abstract: A lighting circuit includes: a countercurrent prevention unit including a first control terminal and a second control terminal, the countercurrent prevention unit transmitting a first current or a second current; and a current controller including: a common terminal connected to the first control terminal and the second control terminal; and a switching terminal connected to the first control terminal, the current controller providing a first driving current or a second driving current from the common terminal to the light source. The countercurrent prevention unit further includes: a first rectifier, wherein voltage at the first control terminal is provided to the switching terminal through the first rectifier; a first P-FET provided between the first control terminal and the common terminal; a second P-FET provided between the second control terminal and the common terminal; and a second rectifier provided between the second P-PET and the common terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8330375Abstract: A vehicle lamp lighting control device includes: a current control unit which is of a non-insulation type and supplies a supply current to a semiconductor light source; an abnormality detecting unit which detects abnormality of a positive-electrode-side output based on at least one of a power supply voltage or a supply voltage supplied to the semiconductor light source, and outputs signal indicating the abnormality; and a bypass unit which bypasses the supply current supplied from the current control unit in accordance with the signal indicating the abnormality.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20120307510Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a lamp body having an opening, a front cover attached to the lamp body to close the opening, and a first optical unit disposed inside a lamp chamber defined by the lamp body and the cover. The first optical unit includes a printed wiring board having a first section formed with a first conductor pattern and a second section formed with a second conductor pattern electrically coupled to the first conductor pattern, an LED mounted on the first section of the printed wiring board, and a lighting control circuit provided on the second section of the printed wiring board to control a lighting of the LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Takao Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20120032591Abstract: A lighting circuit includes: a countercurrent prevention unit including a first control terminal and a second control terminal, the countercurrent prevention unit transmitting a first current or a second current; and a current controller including: a common terminal connected to the first control terminal and the second control terminal; and a switching terminal connected to the first control terminal, the current controller providing a first driving current or a second driving current from the common terminal to the light source. The countercurrent prevention unit further includes: a first rectifier, wherein voltage at the first control terminal is provided to the switching terminal through the first rectifier; a first P-FET provided between the first control terminal and the common terminal; a second P-FET provided between the second control terminal and the common terminal; and a second rectifier provided between the second P-PET and the common terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20100270926Abstract: A vehicle lamp lighting control device includes: a current control unit which is of a non-insulation type and supplies a supply current to a semiconductor light source; an abnormality detecting unit which detects abnormality of a positive-electrode-side output based on at least one of a power supply voltage or a supply voltage supplied to the semiconductor light source, and outputs signal indicating the abnormality; and a bypass unit which bypasses the supply current supplied from the current control unit in accordance with the signal indicating the abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20090267520Abstract: A lighting control device includes a current driving portion for DC-controlling or PWM-controlling an LED unit, and a disconnection detection portion for detecting disconnection of the LED unit. The disconnection detection portion has a latch circuit and a reset portion. The latch circuit provides a disconnection detection signal after it is detected that disconnection has occurred for a prescribed time. The reset portion resets the disconnection detection signal based on prescribed conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takayoshi Kitagawa, Takao Sugiyama
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Patent number: 4929438Abstract: Preventives or remedies for medicinal and alcoholic poisoning contain as a pharmaceutically effective component phytic acid or its salt which may be an innoxious metal salt, or an innoxious salt with an organic base, a basic amino acid or an organic ester residue.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1989Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sanwa Kagaku KenkyushoInventors: Kiichi Sawai, Masayasu Kurono, Hiromiotu Asai, Takahiko Mitani, Naohisa Ninomiya, Takao Sugiyama, Eiji Furukawa, Hisashi Michishita
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Patent number: 4541441Abstract: A combine harvester having a cutting device provided in a front portion of the combine harvester, a conveying device for conveying the cut crops, a threshing device for threshing the conveyed crops, and a separating device for separating the threshed crops. The threshing device comprises a threshing auger oriented in the traveling direction of the harvester, and a concave sieve provided around a lower portion of the auger. The separating device comprises two separating augers arranged parallel with the threshing auger at a position under the concave sieve, and a sieve provided under the separating auger.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1983Date of Patent: September 17, 1985Assignee: Institute of Agricultural MachineryInventors: Tomohiko Ichikawa, Takao Sugiyama, Masao Manaka