Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Harada
Tomoaki Harada 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: 20240101325Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas barrier laminated material which can be produced through a simple and easy process, and which can achieve stable gas barrier properties even at high humidity. The present inventors have made a gas barrier laminated material having a metal layer (A) formed by a vapor phase thin film formation method and a layer (B) formed from a compound having a carboxyl group in the structure thereof, wherein the metal layer (A) and the layer (B) are laminated, and thus can achieve a gas barrier laminated material which can be produced through a simple and easy process, and which can achieve stable gas barrier properties even at high humidity, and have solved the problems.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Harada, Hiroyuki Kagaya, Masanori Hayashi
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Patent number: 11938970Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Harada, Teppei Nishiguchi, Kazuki Komoriya, Tomoaki Ihara, Miyu Higashimura, Toshihiro Nakaichi, Kazunobu Okasaka, Ryo Hattori, Yohei Tanigawa, Ryohei Kimbara, Hiroshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11928907Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Nakao, Yukie Hasegawa, Kenji Harada, Kenichi Urasawa
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Publication number: 20230339425Abstract: A pedestrian protecting airbag device having an airbag cushion that expands and deploys from below a front hood toward a windshield, and inflators and that supply gas to the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes a first deployment part that expands and deploys along the lower portion of the windshield, and a second deployment part that expands and deploys along the windshield and the A pillars and independently of the first deployment part. The second deployment part has an overlap part that overlaps at least a part of the first deployment part. The first inflator supplies gas to the first deployment part and the second inflator supplies gas to the second deployment part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventor: Tomoaki HARADA
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Publication number: 20230272895Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a clearance lamp (330) and an illumination unit (400) for an active sensor. The illumination unit (400) includes a near-infrared light source (410) and a photoconductor (420). The photoconductor (420) receives emitted light from the near-infrared light source (410) and emits illumination light having a predetermined light distribution from an emission surface (422). The photoconductor (420) is disposed such that a rear surface (424) thereof faces a light emitting surface of the clearance lamp (330), and emits, from the emission surface (422), emitted light from the clearance lamp (330) which is received at the rear surface (424).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shota YONEMARU, Kazuya MOTOHASHI, Tomoaki HARADA
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Publication number: 20220177726Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a composition that delivers high barrier properties in fewer coating steps. The present invention solves this problem by providing a composition for gas barrier purposes that contains at least one carboxyl-containing resin (A), at least one divalent metal compound (B), and at least one alcohol (C). The alcohol (C) content of the composition is between 85 and 98 wt %, and the water content of the composition is 1% or less. The present invention, furthermore, is one that provides a gas barrier coating agent containing this composition for gas barrier purposes and a laminate having a substrate and a coat layer obtained by applying this coating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Tomoo Okubo, Tomoaki Harada, Yusho Usami
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Patent number: 11320110Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes: a planar light emitting body including a transparent base body, a light emitting portion disposed inside the base body, and an extraction electrode formed on the base body and configured to supply a current to the light emitting portion; and a flexible printed wiring board including a transparent wiring base, a connection electrode formed on the wiring base and connected to the extraction electrode, and a conductive portion connected to the connection electrode. The extraction electrode and the connection electrode are constituted by a plurality of metal wires respectively arranged at a predetermined interval.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
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Patent number: 11292893Abstract: A resin composition is provided that contains a urethane resin and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: DIC Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yasutaka Oka, Tomoaki Harada, Kumiko Akiba, Yusho Usami, Michiya Nakashima, Takeo Ebina, Ryo Ishii, Takafumi Aizawa
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Publication number: 20220009406Abstract: A vehicle lighting system (4) comprising: a road surface drawing lamp (42) configured so as to emit light toward an object such as the ground surface or a wall in the surroundings of a vehicle (1), thereby drawing prescribed information as a road surface drawing; a brightness sensor (45) that can measure the brightness of the surroundings of the vehicle (1); and a lamp control unit (43) that controls the road surface drawing lamp (42), wherein when the brightness measured by the brightness sensor (45) exceeds a prescribed brightness, the lamp control unit (43) displays the prescribed information on a vehicle-exterior display unit (46) that can display the prescribed information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki HARADA, Susumu KANEKO, Hajime TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20210239294Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes: a planar light emitting body including a transparent base body, a light emitting portion disposed inside the base body, and an extraction electrode formed on the base body and configured to supply a current to the light emitting portion; and a flexible printed wiring board including a transparent wiring base, a connection electrode formed on the wiring base and connected to the extraction electrode, and a conductive portion connected to the connection electrode. The extraction electrode and the connection electrode are constituted by a plurality of metal wires respectively arranged at a predetermined interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Tomoaki HARADA, Yoshiro ITO, Masaya SHIDO
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Patent number: 11015013Abstract: A resin composition contains a polyester polyol and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignees: DIC Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yusho Usami, Tomoaki Harada, Michiya Nakashima, Takeo Ebina, Ryo Ishii, Takafumi Aizawa
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Patent number: 10919476Abstract: A pre-crash control device includes target information acquisition units and an electric control unit configured to update a recognized position based on an acquired position each time target information is newly acquired, to estimate a moving direction based on history of the recognized position, to determine whether a collision probability is high based on the recognized position and the moving direction, and to perform pre-crash control if it is determined that the collision probability is high and a time to collision becomes equal to or smaller than a threshold execution time. The electric control unit is configured to update the recognized position based on a currently predicted position and on the acquired position and to update the recognized position to the acquired position when the time to collision becomes equal to or smaller than a first threshold switching time.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoaki Harada
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Patent number: 10883693Abstract: A vehicle lamp 100 includes: an organic EL element 120; a lighting circuit 200 configured to switch between lighting and lighting-off of the organic EL element 120; and a lighting control unit 202 configured to control the lighting circuit 200 so as to repeat instantaneous lighting-off in a state in which the organic EL element 120 is to be lighted. The lighting circuit 200 includes a discharge path 210 formed at least during the instantaneous lighting-off so as to discharge accumulated charges from the organic EL element 120.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Toru Ito
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Patent number: 10818214Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
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Publication number: 20200312213Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
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Patent number: 10688950Abstract: When an object detected by a sensor (20L, 20R) is not an unnecessary object and the object's collision probability index satisfies the predetermined condition, a pre-collision control ECU 10 performs a pre-collision control to prepare for a collision between an own vehicle and this object. The pre-collision control ECU determines that the object is the unnecessary object, when an initially detected location which is a location of the object in relation to the own vehicle when the sensor initially detected the object is in an unnecessary object area NA, and a velocity index value which represents a degree of a velocity change of an initial detected object whose the initially detected location is in the unnecessary object area does not fall within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoaki Harada, Tsunekazu Yasoshima, Ryu Hatakeyama, Masataka Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200166192Abstract: A vehicle illumination system includes a road surface drawing lamp configured to draw, as a drawing on a road surface, predetermined information by emitting light toward a target comprising a ground, a wall or the like around a vehicle, an illuminance sensor capable of measuring an illuminance around the vehicle, and a lamp control unit configured to control the road surface drawing lamp. The lamp control unit is configured to control the road surface drawing lamp so that an illuminance of the drawing on the road surface is to be higher than the illuminance measured by the illuminance sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sugimoto, Yoshiro Ito, Tomoaki Harada, Susumu Kaneko, Hajime Takeda
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Publication number: 20200095366Abstract: A resin composition contains a polyester polyol and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Yusho Usami, Tomoaki Harada, Michiya Nakashima, Takeo Ebina, Ryo Ishii, Takafumi Aizawa
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Publication number: 20200002465Abstract: A resin composition contains an epoxy compound and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Yusho Usami, Michiya Nakashima, Takeo Ebina, Ryo Ishii, Takafumi Aizawa
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Publication number: 20190382558Abstract: A resin composition is provided that contains a urethane resin and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: DIC Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yasutaka Oka, Tomoaki Harada, Kumiko Akiba, Yusho Usami, Michiya Nakashima, Takeo Ebina, Ryo Ishii, Takafumi Aizawa