Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Fujii

Tetsuya Fujii 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: 20100028610
    Abstract: A decorative member includes a transparent layer, a first decorated layer, and a second decorated layer. The first decorated layer is disposed on the transparent layer's rear surface. The second decorated layer is disposed on the transparent layer's rear surface. The transparent layer's rear surface has an irregular configuration that includes indented portions and indent-free portions. The indented portions dent toward the transparent layer's front surface. The indent-free portions protrude toward the transparent layer's rear surface. The first decorated layer is disposed directly on the rear surface of the transparent layer partially. The second decorated layer is made of a film that includes resin, and is laminated on the first decorated layer and on the transparent layer's rear surface entirely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani, Takayasu Ido
  • Patent number: 7619575
    Abstract: A metallically gross layer decorative molded article for use in the beam path of a radar device has a luxurious metallic design similar to the color tone of a chrome plating and the like that does not hinder the transmission of radio wave. The metallically gross layer decorative molded article includes a substrate comprised of a transparent resin layer, a tin and/or tin alloy layer provided on a back surface of the substrate, and a decorative paint layer provided on a back surface of the tin and/or tin alloy layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Kamiya, Itsuo Kamiya, Hiroki Tsuge, Tetsuya Fujii
  • Patent number: 7553552
    Abstract: A radiator grille, or ornament, includes a base material which transmits visible light and is made of an acrylic resin, a first ornamental layer coating the front surface of the base material, and a second ornamental layer coating the rear surface of the base material. The first and second ornamental layers each transmit visible light and have a thickness that is less than the wavelength of the visible light. It is preferred that the first ornamental layer and the second ornamental layer differ from each other in at least one of material, number of layers, thickness, refractive index of visible light, reflectance of visible light, absorptivity of visible light, and transmittance of visible light. The first ornamental layer is a hard coating layer, and the second ornamental layer is a hard coating layer or vapor deposition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Patent number: 7538734
    Abstract: A radar device is placed rearward of a vehicle decorative component in a vehicle. The decorative component is located in the path of radar waves emitted from the radar device, and has a two-layer structure with a back layer and a protective layer. The protective layer is made of a transparent resin material, and the back surface of the protective layer contacts the front surface of the back layer. The back layer is made of a resin material. The front surface of the back layer includes a front contact surface on which ground pattern is formed. The protective layer and the back layer have the same refractive index. Thus, the decorative component has an improved transparency of radar waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani, Tatsuya Oba
  • Publication number: 20090089056
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sound characteristic output module configured to analyze audio data in video content data, thereby outputting sound characteristic information indicative of sound characteristics of the audio data. A talk section detection process module detects talk sections in which talks are made by persons, which are included in the video content data, on the basis of the sound characteristic information, and classifies the detected talk sections into a plurality of groups which are associated with different speakers. A display process module displays, on a time bar which is representative of a sequence of the video content data, a plurality of bar areas indicative of positions of the detected talk sections in the sequence of the video content data, in different display modes in association with the groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Fujii
  • Patent number: 7482990
    Abstract: A radar device for a mobile body, such as a vehicle, having a high degree of installation freedom. The radar device comprises a sensor body transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves, and path changing means placed in an electromagnetic wave path through which the electromagnetic waves pass and changing the propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves by refraction and/or reflection. Even when the installation site of the sensor body is restricted by requirements on a mobile body on which this radar device is to be mounted, the sensor body can be installed at the restricted site by changing the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves appropriately, while maintaining the functions of the sensor body appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Publication number: 20080309579
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio wave transmission cover having superior design and radio wave transmissibility. The radio wave transmission cover includes a front side member (1), a rear side member (5) and a connection layer (6). The front side member (1) and the rear side member (5) are formed separately and are integrated with each other by the connection layer (6). Furthermore, the distance between the front side member (1) and the rear side member (5) in the front-to-rear direction ranges from 0.01 mm to 0.4 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Maeda, Daiichiro Kawashima, Tetsuya Fujii
  • Publication number: 20080233367
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio wave transmission cover, which is provided in front of a radar device for vehicles, and a method of manufacturing the radio wave transmission cover. In the radio wave transmission cover, cover-side wall surfaces (50) are formed in a second cover layer (35) at positions adjacent to each other. Furthermore, substrate-side wall surfaces (60), which have shapes complementary to the cover-side wall surfaces (50), are formed in a substrate layer (4), which is provided on the rear surface of the second cover layer (35). The cover-side wall surfaces (50) and the corresponding substrate-side wall surfaces (60) are engaged to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Maeda, Daiichiro Kawashima, Kimihiro Iimura, Koji Kuno, Mamoru Kato, Takayasu Ido, Muneo Furutani, Tetsuya Fujii
  • Patent number: 7295166
    Abstract: The wave-transmitting cover comprises a transparent resin layer, a base layer and a decorative layer, and the decorative layer contains a lustered piece. The method for producing it comprises a film-forming step of forming a film that has a print face and a deposition design face formed thereon, a shaping step of shaping the film, a first molding step of molding one of a transparent resin layer or a base layer thereon to give a first molded part, and a second molding step of forming the other of the transparent resin layer or the base layer on a surface of the first molded part where the film is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Ryoiti Takada, Daiichiro Kawashima, Hiromi Hyuga, Koichi Ogiso
  • Publication number: 20070230201
    Abstract: An outside door handle for a vehicle includes a handle main body provided on an outer surface of a vehicle door. The handle main body is formed of a transparent material. A light emitting member is embedded in the handle main body. Electricity required for permitting the light emitting member to emit light is wirelessly supplied from the outside of the handle main body. The outside door handle thus prevents the wiring from being complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Publication number: 20070229391
    Abstract: A radar device for a mobile body, such as a vehicle, having a high degree of installation freedom. The radar device comprises a sensor body transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves, and path changing means placed in an electromagnetic wave path through which the electromagnetic waves pass and changing the propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves by refraction and/or reflection. Even when the installation site of the sensor body is restricted by requirements on a mobile body on which this radar device is to be mounted, the sensor body can be installed at the restricted site by changing the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves appropriately, while maintaining the functions of the sensor body appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Publication number: 20070115167
    Abstract: A resin product (e.g., a millimeter-wave radar device cover) comprises a plate-like resin substrate, a base film formed on the resin substrate, and a metallic gloss film having a discontinuous structure formed on the base film, a top coat, a block coat, or the like being formed as a protective film on the metal film. The metal film contains a first film having a discontinuous structure obtainable by vacuum deposition of a first metal, a modified surface obtainable by modification of the surface of the first film by bringing the surface into contact with air, and a second film having a discontinuous structure obtainable by vacuum deposition of a second metal on the modified surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani, Hiroshi Watarai, Takayasu Ido
  • Publication number: 20070117380
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metallic coating having a sheen and having a discontinuous structure at high productivity and low cost by using sputtering. A resin product includes a resin base material, and a metallic coating having a sheen and a discontinuous structure that is deposited on the resin base material so as to include a portion in which a high-formation metal that relatively readily forms a discontinuous structure when using vacuum vapor deposition is sputtered, and thereafter, a low-formation metal that does not relatively readily form a discontinuous structure when using vacuum vapor deposition is sputtered. The high-formation metal and the low-formation metal are selected from at least two species of metals whose crystal structures are identical and whose lattice constant difference is within 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicants: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., SHINKO NAMEPLATE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayasu Ido, Hiroshi Watarai, Chiharu Totani, Tetsuya Fujii, Mitsuo Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20070115434
    Abstract: A radiator grille for a vehicle equipped with an in-vehicle camera that captures images outside the vehicle. The radiator grille includes a base material made of a transparent resin. A thick portion is formed integrally with the base material. The thick portion is arranged outward from the in-vehicle camera and functions as a lens of the in-vehicle camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Publication number: 20070109206
    Abstract: A radar device is placed rearward of a vehicle decorative component in a vehicle. The decorative component is located in the path of radar waves emitted from the radar device, and has a two-layer structure with a back layer and a protective layer. The protective layer is made of a transparent resin material, and the back surface of the protective layer contacts the front surface of the back layer. The back layer is made of a resin material. The front surface of the back layer includes a front contact surface on which ground pattern is formed. The protective layer and the back layer have the same refractive index. Thus, the decorative component has an improved transparency of radar waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani, Tatsuya Oba
  • Publication number: 20070104897
    Abstract: A radiator grille, or ornament, includes a base material which transmits visible light and is made of an acrylic resin, a first ornamental layer coating the front surface of the base material, and a second ornamental layer coating the rear surface of the base material. The first and second ornamental layers each transmit visible light and have a thickness that is less than the wavelength of the visible light. It is preferred that the first ornamental layer and the second ornamental layer differ from each other in at least one of material, number of layers, thickness, refractive index of visible light, reflectance of visible light, absorptivity of visible light, and transmittance of visible light. The first ornamental layer is a hard coating layer, and the second ornamental layer is a hard coating layer or vapor deposition layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Fujii, Chiharu Totani
  • Publication number: 20070059473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet-like medical covering member, which covers the surface of a medical device attached inside a living body and/or to a percutaneous site, and thereby allows the medical device to be fixed inside a living body and/or to a percutaneous site, so as to allow the medical device to stably stay there for a long period of time, wherein the sheet-like medical covering member is modified by a hydrophilic surface treatment, and/or by a coating treatment with calcium phosphate ceramics or with a composition comprising a biopolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Medical Technology Research Corp.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamazaki, Toshikatsu Kitazume, Tomoko Hirata, Tetsuya Fujii, Nobuaki Aizawa
  • Publication number: 20060284335
    Abstract: A process for producing a resinous laminated member, which is provided with an inclining first resinous layer, a decorated layer disposed parallelly to the first resinous layer, a second resinous layer disposed parallelly to the first resinous layer and an engaging portion extending obliquely to the first resinous layer, includes the steps of molding a primary molded product by molding the first resinous layer with a first forming mold's first-inner-surface molding cavity surface and at the same time shaping a film, which makes the decorated layer, with the first-inner-surface molding cavity surface while extending the film parallelly to the first-inner-surface molding cavity surface's extending direction, and molding the second resinous layer integrally with the primary molded product with a second forming mold while disposing the primary molded product parallelly to the obliquely-extending direction of the produced resinous laminated member's engaging portion in the second forming mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Fujii
  • Publication number: 20060262003
    Abstract: A metallically gross layer decorative molded article for use in the beam path of a radar device has a luxurious metallic design similar to the color tone of a chrome plating and the like, does not hinder the transmission of radio wave, and has excellent adhesion with a substrate. The metallically gross layer decorative molded article includes a substrate comprised of a transparent resin layer, a tin and/or tin alloy layer provided on a back surface of the substrate, and a design paint layer provided on a back surface of the tin and/or tin alloy layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Itsuo Kamiya, Hideo Kamiya, Hiroki Tsuge, Tetsuya Fujii
  • Publication number: 20060216442
    Abstract: A metallically gross layer decorative molded article for use in the beam path of a radar device has a luxurious metallic design similar to the color tone of a chrome plating and the like that does not hinder the transmission of radio wave. The metallically gross layer decorative molded article includes a substrate comprised of a transparent resin layer, a tin and/or tin alloy layer provided on a back surface of the substrate, and a decorative paint layer provided on a back surface of the tin and/or tin alloy layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Hideo Kamiya, Itsuo Kamiya, Hiroki Tsuge, Tetsuya Fujii