Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Tsuchiya

Tomoaki Tsuchiya 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: 20240314455
    Abstract: In a movable apparatus, a first imaging apparatus and a second imaging apparatus provided with an optical system for forming an optical image having a low resolution region in the vicinity of an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region on a light receiving surface of an imaging element are used, the first imaging apparatus is installed at a first installation position in a front corner portion of the movable apparatus so that the ground in front of the movable apparatus and the ground in a first side of the movable apparatus are imaged, and the second imaging apparatus is installed at a second installation position at a rear corner portion of the movable apparatus, which is on a diagonal corner side of the first imaging apparatus so that the ground in the rear of the movable apparatus and the ground in a second side of the movable apparatus are imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOAKI TSUCHIYA, HIRONOBU HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 12096133
    Abstract: In a camera system, a captured image of a rear of a vehicle is acquired, an optical image having a high-resolution region and a low-resolution region is formed on an imaging unit, a first image is generated by cutting out a first region from an image region corresponding to the high-resolution region in an image read from the imaging unit, a second image is generated by cutting out a second region from an image region different from the first region, the first image and the second image are generated such that at least a portion of a lower end of the second region is positioned below a lower end of the first region, and at least a portion of an upper end of the second region is positioned below an upper end of the first region, and at least one of the first image and the second image is output for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikunari Nakahara, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240278478
    Abstract: There is provided a resin container manufacturing apparatus configured to stretch a preform disposed in a stretch blow molding mold by a stretching rod and stretch the preform by introducing blow air into the preform so as to form a resin container. The resin container manufacturing apparatus includes detection means for detecting an actual position of the stretching rod inserted into the preform, and supply control means for controlling a supply state of the blow air based on a detection result of the detection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HIDAKA, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 11958231
    Abstract: There is provided a resin container manufacturing apparatus configured to stretch a preform disposed in a stretch blow molding mold by a stretching rod and stretch the preform by introducing blow air into the preform so as to form a resin container. The resin container manufacturing apparatus includes detection means for detecting an actual position of the stretching rod inserted into the preform, and supply control means for controlling a supply state of the blow air based on a detection result of the detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hidaka, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11951671
    Abstract: In a blow-molding apparatus, a cooling device and a heating device are each driven by being supplied with electricity of a predetermined voltage from a supply power source. The blow-molding apparatus comprises: a monitoring device configured to constantly monitor fluctuation of the predetermined voltage; and an output automatic control mechanism configured to, in a case where the predetermined voltage monitored by the monitoring device fluctuates beyond a normal range, automatically fluctuate an output of at least one of the heating device and the cooling device to keep the output in a certain range, thereby adjusting at least one of the preform temperature and the ambient temperature to fall within a normal temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Tsuchiya, Takeshi Hidai
  • Publication number: 20240114253
    Abstract: The imaging device images a wide range with high resolution, in a movable apparatus, an imaging device including an optical system forming an optical image having a low resolution region near an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region on a light reception surface of an imaging element is installed at an installation position for imaging at least one of a horizontal direction in a rear of one side of the movable apparatus, one direction in a left-right horizontal direction behind a driver seat of the movable apparatus, and a downward direction behind the movable apparatus, with the high resolution region of the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hironobu HOSHINO, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20240114252
    Abstract: In order to dispose an imaging device so that it can image a wide range with high resolution, a movable apparatus is configured such that a first imaging device is installed at a first installation position, the first imaging device including an optical system that forms an optical image, which has a low resolution region near an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region, on a light receiving surface of an imaging element, and the first installation position being a position where an image is captured in at least one of a horizontal backward direction of one side surface of the movable apparatus, right or left direction in a horizontal direction ahead a driver's seat of the movable apparatus, and a downward direction ahead the movable apparatus in the high resolution region of the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hironobu HOSHINO, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20240096572
    Abstract: An input device includes housing; operation nob; cam member swingable in a direction intersecting with pivoting direction of operation knob, and performing swinging as first movement in response to operation knob pivoting in first angular range and performing swinging as second movement succeeding first movement in response to operation knob pivoting in second angular range; substrate; first switch on substrate, switched on in conjunction with first movement of cam member; and second switch on substrate, switched on in conjunction with second movement of cam member. When operation force is ceased, operation knob is automatically restored by restoring forces from first and second switches. Input device includes: first actuator to be slid in conjunction with first movement of cam member to push first switch perpendicularly to substrate; and second actuator to be slid in conjunction with second movement of cam member to push second switch perpendicularly to substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20230394845
    Abstract: A movable apparatus includes a camera unit including an optical system for forming an optical image with a high-resolution area and a low-resolution area on a light reception surface of an imaging unit, the camera unit being installed on the lateral side of the movable apparatus, and A tan(h1/(d1+x1))??v/2<?v<A tan(h1/(d2+x1))+?v/2, for example, is satisfied when a vertical angle of view of the high-resolution area is ?v, a vertical direction angle of an optical axis of the optical system is ?v, an offset between a viewpoint position of a driver in a long axis direction of the movable apparatus and the camera unit is x1, an offset in a height direction of the camera unit from the ground is h1, distances from the viewpoint position of the driver in a long axis direction are d1 and d2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20230096414
    Abstract: A method of installing a camera unit including an imaging device and an optical system that forms an optical image on a light receiving surface of the imaging device, wherein the light receiving surface includes a first area and a second area on a peripheral side of the first area, wherein an increase in an image height with respect to a unit half angle of view in the first area is larger than an increase in an image height with respect to a unit half angle of view in the second area, wherein the optical system and the imaging device are disposed such that the gravity center of the first area deviates in a first direction from the center of the light receiving surface, and wherein the method includes installing the camera unit such that the first direction is directed to an area other than a predetermined targeted area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ikunari Nakahara, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20230097715
    Abstract: In a camera system, a captured image of a rear of a vehicle is acquired, an optical image having a high-resolution region and a low-resolution region is formed on an imaging unit, a first image is generated by cutting out a first region from an image region corresponding to the high-resolution region in an image read from the imaging unit, a second image is generated by cutting out a second region from an image region different from the first region, the first image and the second image are generated such that at least a portion of a lower end of the second region is positioned below a lower end of the first region, and at least a portion of an upper end of the second region is positioned below an upper end of the first region, and at least one of the first image and the second image is output for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ikunari Nakahara, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20230101459
    Abstract: In a mobile object, a camera unit including an optical system that forms an optical image having a high-resolution region and a low-resolution region on a light receiving surface of an image pickup element and is disposed on a side of the mobile object, wherein the camera unit is installed to meet the following conditions: A tan (h/(d1+x))??v/2<?v<A tan (h/(d2+x))+?v/2, ?h_limit=max (A tan ((w1?y)/(d1+x))??h/2, A tan ((w2?y)/(d2+x))??h/2), ?h limit <?h <?A tan (y/(d1+x))+?h/2, where ?v and ?h denote a vertical and a horizontal field angle of the high-resolution region, ?v and ?h denote a vertical and a horizontal direction angle of the optical axis of the optical system, x, y, and h denotes offsets, and w1 and w2 denote predetermined widths on the ground at the distances d1 and d2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ikunari Nakahara, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20220176609
    Abstract: There is provided a resin container manufacturing apparatus configured to stretch a preform disposed in a stretch blow molding mold by a stretching rod and stretch the preform by introducing blow air into the preform so as to form a resin container. The resin container manufacturing apparatus includes detection means for detecting an actual position of the stretching rod inserted into the preform, and supply control means for controlling a supply state of the blow air based on a detection result of the detection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HIDAKA, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220161482
    Abstract: In a blow-molding apparatus, a cooling device and a heating device are each driven by being supplied with electricity of a predetermined voltage from a supply power source. The blow-molding apparatus comprises: a monitoring device configured to constantly monitor fluctuation of the predetermined voltage; and an output automatic control mechanism configured to, in a case where the predetermined voltage monitored by the monitoring device fluctuates beyond a normal range, automatically fluctuate an output of at least one of the heating device and the cooling device to keep the output in a certain range, thereby adjusting at least one of the preform temperature and the ambient temperature to fall within a normal temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki TSUCHIYA, Takeshi HIDAI
  • Patent number: 10838552
    Abstract: A touch sensor false detection preventing structure for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that is provided with a through-hole provided area through which a sensor sheet passes, a circuit board that is mounted inside the housing, and a touch panel that is electrically connected to the circuit board by the sensor sheet. The touch sensor false detection preventing structure includes protruding portions formed on an inner surface at both ends of the through-hole provided area in planar view so as to protrude a predetermined distance, such that movement at a part of both side ends of the sensor sheet is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younghoon Kim, Tomoaki Tsuchiya, Tomoya Sasaki, Shinya Abe, Yasunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10668658
    Abstract: A blow molding apparatus includes: an injection molding section for injection molding a plurality of preforms at a time; a cooling section for cooling the preforms; a heating section for heating the preforms while continuously transporting them along a transport line; and a blow molding section for blow molding the preforms to form hollow containers. The blow molding section includes a primary blow molding section which is equipped with a heat-treating blow mold and blow molds the preforms moved from the transport line into the heat-treating blow mold to form intermediate molded products, and a secondary blow molding section which is equipped with a final blow mold and blow molds the intermediate molded products moved from the heat-treating blow mold into the final blow mold to form the hollow containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daizaburo Takehana, Masaki Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190265838
    Abstract: A touch sensor false detection preventing structure for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that is provided with a through-hole provided area through which a sensor sheet passes, a circuit board that is mounted inside the housing, and a touch panel that is electrically connected to the circuit board by the sensor sheet. The touch sensor false detection preventing structure includes protruding portions formed on an inner surface at both ends of the through-hole provided area in planar view so as to protrude a predetermined distance, such that movement at a part of both side ends of the sensor sheet is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Younghoon KIM, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA, Tomoya SASAKI, Shinya ABE, Yasunori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190022913
    Abstract: A blow molding apparatus includes: an injection molding section for injection molding a plurality of preforms at a time; a cooling section for cooling the preforms; a heating section for heating the preforms while continuously transporting them along a transport line; and a blow molding section for blow molding the preforms to form hollow containers. The blow molding section includes a primary blow molding section which is equipped with a heat-treating blow mold and blow molds the preforms moved from the transport line into the heat-treating blow mold to form intermediate molded products, and a secondary blow molding section which is equipped with a final blow mold and blow molds the intermediate molded products moved from the heat-treating blow mold into the final blow mold to form the hollow containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daizaburo TAKEHANA, Masaki YAMAGUCHI, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 9373466
    Abstract: An inner wall for partitioning a storage chamber is disposed in a case. A switching member operating a movable contact inside the storage chamber is positioned inside a penetrating portion formed between an inner recess formed on an inner wall and a first cutout portion formed in an inner clamping piece of a lid body. The switching member is formed integrally with a flange portion, and the flange portion closes the penetrating portion. As a result, dust, dirt and moistures are unlikely to enter the storage chamber through the penetrating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tomoaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140346019
    Abstract: An inner wall for partitioning a storage chamber is disposed in a case. A switching member operating a movable contact inside the storage chamber is positioned inside a penetrating portion formed between an inner recess formed on an inner wall and a first cutout portion formed in an inner clamping piece of a lid body. The switching member is formed integrally with a flange portion, and the flange portion closes the penetrating portion. As a result, dust, dirt and moistures are unlikely to enter the storage chamber through the penetrating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tomoaki Tsuchiya