Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Egawa
Tetsuya Egawa 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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Publication number: 20230131363Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a vibration-imparting unit to impart vibration to at least one of a seat and a seat belt on the side of a driver of a vehicle, and a control unit to, after the vehicle is transitioned to a movable state by start of driving assistance of the vehicle, notify the driver that it is ready to accept an operation by controlling the vibration-imparting unit to impart vibration to at least one of the seat and the seat belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Masanori KOSUGI, Hitoshi MURAKI, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20230128403Abstract: An operation device has a first displacement portion that is displaceable by being operated by an occupant of a vehicle, and a second displacement portion that is supported at the first displacement portion and that is displaceable with respect to the first displacement portion by being operated by an occupant of the vehicle. Further, the operation device has a first locking portion and a second locking portion that, at a time when a mode of the vehicle is a first mode, permit displacement of the first displacement portion and restrict displacement of the second displacement portion with respect to the first displacement portion, and, at a time when the mode of the vehicle is a second mode, restrict displacement of the first displacement portion and permit displacement of the second displacement portion with respect to the first displacement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Masanori KOSUGI, Hitoshi MURAKI, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20230100326Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a terminal including a storage unit to store additional function information generated by software configured to add a new function to functionality of at least one electronic device mounted on a vehicle and a first communication unit to output the additional function information, and a vehicle control device including a second communication unit to communicate with the terminal through the first communication unit and configured to add a new function to the at least one electronic device based on the additional function information obtained from the terminal through the second communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA, Hitoshi MURAKI, Masanori KOSUGI
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Publication number: 20230093177Abstract: An operation device includes a first displacement portion that is displaceable by being operated by an occupant of a vehicle, a second displacement portion supported at the first displacement portion, and an extension/retraction locking portion. The second displacement portion is displaceable with respect to the first displacement portion by being operated by an occupant of the vehicle. In a state in which the first displacement portion is positioned at a first position, the extension/retraction locking portion restricts displacement of the second displacement portion with respect to the first displacement portion. In a state in which the first displacement portion is positioned at a second position, the extension/retraction locking portion permits displacement of the second displacement portion with respect to the first displacement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Masanori KOSUGI, Hitoshi MURAKI, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20230083098Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit to, when a vehicle is transitioned to a movable state by start of driving assistance of the vehicle and a display related to the driving assistance is presented, determine whether or not a driver is in a drivable state in which the driver is capable of consciously performing an operation, based on whether or not the driver has recognized the display, and a control unit to allow acceptance of the operation when the determination unit determines that the driver is in the drivable state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Masanori KOSUGI, Hitoshi MURAKI, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20230077977Abstract: A vehicle control device includes at least one allowed function that a user is allowed to use and at least one disallowed function that the user is not allowed to use in a plurality of functions of at least one mounted electronic device, and a control unit to perform at least one of changing at least one of the disallowed function into the allowed function and changing at least one of the allowed function into the disallowed function, based on obtained function information about the allowed function and the disallowed function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Naofumi KATO, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA, Hitoshi MURAKI, Masanori KOSUGI
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Patent number: 11565635Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an actuation unit that actuates an anomaly control switch that acknowledges execution of safety control, which improves safety during driving of a vehicle, upon detection of an occupant in an anomalous state from a monitoring result of a state of the occupant of the vehicle. The actuation unit causes the anomaly control switch to be actuated to allow the occupant to recognize a control content of the safety control. The vehicle control device further includes an operation acknowledgement unit that acknowledges operation of the anomaly control switch and a controller that executes the safety control when the operation acknowledgement unit acknowledges the operation of the anomaly control switch.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masanori Kosugi, Tetsuya Egawa, Takashi Nagao
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Patent number: 11416206Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch input part that is installed on a vehicle and includes a tabular panel to be touch-operated and an actuator causing a vibration of the panel; and a control unit that performs at least one of a first control and a second control, the first control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates in response to touch operations, and the second control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates at an audible band. The touch input device is positioned such that a directivity of a sound emitted from the panel is increased toward an ear of an occupant of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Tatsushi Katsuyama, Takashi Nagao, Tetsuya Egawa, Takeyoshi Mori
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Patent number: 11066013Abstract: A viewing device for a vehicle has: a monitor that displays a captured image of a vehicle rear side; and a control device that carries out display control that compresses the captured image such that a compression rate gradually becomes higher from a vehicle inner side toward outer sides, and displays an image on the monitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masanori Kosugi, Takashi Nagao, Tetsuya Egawa
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Publication number: 20210009037Abstract: When a relationship between a distance from a rear camera to a target subject, and a ratio of a size of the target subject displayed on a monitor with respect to a size of the target subject reflected in a half-mirror, is determined while fixing an angle of view of the rear camera to a predetermined value, the angle of view of the rear camera is set such that a size of the target subject at an infinite distance in the relationship becomes a size that is 0.33 times to 0.5 times a size of the target subject that is reflected in the half-mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Masanori KOSUGI, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20210009036Abstract: A viewing device for a vehicle has: a monitor that displays a captured image of a vehicle rear side; and a control device that carries out display control that compresses the captured image such that a compression rate gradually becomes higher from a vehicle inner side toward outer sides, and displays an image on the monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Masanori KOSUGI, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA
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Publication number: 20200409648Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch input part that is installed on a vehicle and includes a tabular panel to be touch-operated and an actuator causing a vibration of the panel; and a control unit that performs at least one of a first control and a second control, the first control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates in response to touch operations, and the second control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates at an audible band. The touch input device is positioned such that a directivity of a sound emitted from the panel is increased toward an ear of an occupant of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Tatsushi KATSUYAMA, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA, Takeyoshi MORI
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Publication number: 20200398884Abstract: A switch device includes a switch part that is installed on a steering wheel of a vehicle and that includes an operation knob and an electromagnetic element for detecting an operation on the operation knob and causing a vibration of the operation knob, and a control unit that makes the operation knob vibrate. The control unit controls the electromagnetic element to vibrate under a predetermined condition so that vibration is transmitted to a hand of an occupant holding the steering wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki SeisakushoInventors: Tatsushi KATSUYAMA, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA, Takeyoshi MORI
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Patent number: 10752177Abstract: A vehicular visual recognition device, including: an imaging section that, from outside a vehicle, captures plural vehicle exterior capture images in which portions of the images overlap with each other; and a controller that effects control such that an image of a vehicle body portion of a vehicle cabin image set to a predetermined transmissive state overlaps with at least part of an overlapping portion of the plural vehicle exterior capture images, and such that the plural vehicle exterior capture images and the vehicle cabin image are combined and displayed at a display section.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masanori Kosugi, Takashi Nagao, Tetsuya Egawa, Takuya Hayashi, Naofumi Kato
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Publication number: 20200189641Abstract: A switch device that is installed on a steering wheel of a vehicle. The switch device includes a switch part that is installed on the vehicle and includes an operation knob and an electromagnetic element for detecting an operation on the operation knob and causing a vibration of the operation knob, and a control unit that performs at least one of a first control and a second control, the first control controlling the electromagnetic element such that the operation knob vibrates in response to the operation, and the second control controlling the electromagnetic element such that the operation knob vibrates at an audible band. The switch device is positioned such that a directivity of a sound emitted from the operation knob is increased toward an ear of an occupant of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Tatsushi KATSUYAMA, Takashi NAGAO, Tetsuya EGAWA, Takeyoshi MORI
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Publication number: 20190366950Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an actuation unit that actuates an anomaly control switch that acknowledges execution of safety control, which improves safety during driving of a vehicle, upon detection of an occupant in an anomalous state from a monitoring result of a state of the occupant of the vehicle. The actuation unit causes the anomaly control switch to be actuated to allow the occupant to recognize a control content of the safety control. The vehicle control device further includes an operation acknowledgement unit that acknowledges operation of the anomaly control switch and a controller that executes the safety control when the operation acknowledgement unit acknowledges the operation of the anomaly control switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masanori KOSUGI, Tetsuya EGAWA, Takashi NAGAO
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Patent number: 10487546Abstract: This door locking device for a vehicle includes: an electronic key and an in-vehicle device. The electronic key stores a first threshold defining an extension of a first region in which an electric field intensity of a response request signal is strong and a second threshold for defining an extension of a second region in which an electric field intensity is weaker than the first region around the first region. The electronic key outputs, based on the electric field intensity of the response request signal and the first and second thresholds, a response signal including position information indicating whether the electronic key is in the first region, or is outside the first region but in the second region, or is outside the second region. Based on the received response signal, the in-vehicle device switches the door to an unlocked state or a locked state.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Tetsuya Egawa, Toru Maeda
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Publication number: 20190316387Abstract: This door locking device for a vehicle includes: an electronic key and an in-vehicle device. The electronic key stores a first threshold defining an extension of a first region in which an electric field intensity of a response request signal is strong and a second threshold for defining an extension of a second region in which an electric field intensity is weaker than the first region around the first region. The electronic key outputs, based on the electric field intensity of the response request signal and the first and second thresholds, a response signal including position information indicating whether the electronic key is in the first region, or is outside the first region but in the second region, or is outside the second region. Based on the received response signal, the in-vehicle device switches the door to an unlocked state or a locked state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Tetsuya EGAWA, Toru MAEDA
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Patent number: 10399496Abstract: There is provided a viewing device for a vehicle, including: an imaging portion that captures an image of a rear of a vehicle from a vehicle exterior; and a display portion that carries out image processing that combines a first captured image that has been captured by the imaging portion and a second captured image that shows a vehicle cabin interior in which a vehicle rear including the vehicle cabin interior is captured from the vehicle cabin interior, such that a region of a rear side window glass becomes longer than an apparent width of the rear side window glass that is actually seen from a position of capturing the second captured image, and displays the images.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masanori Kosugi, Tetsuya Egawa, Takuya Hayashi, Takashi Nagao, Naofumi Kato
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Publication number: 20180345905Abstract: A lock device includes a lock member arranged in a by-wire turning mechanism that turns a turning wheel by transmitting power of a turning actuator to a turning shaft. The lock member is moved between a lock position where the lock member is engaged with the turning actuator restricting operation of the turning actuator and an unlock position where the lock member is disengaged from the turning actuator permitting operation of the turning actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Masanori KOSUGI, Tetsuya EGAWA