Patents by Inventor Tomokazu FURUYA

Tomokazu FURUYA 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: 20240133223
    Abstract: An open-and-close structure 1A for a cap includes a housing 2, a cap 3 rotatably supported on the housing 2, and a biasing member 43 configured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaft 42 of the cap 3, wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the cap 3 at an open position by a biasing force of the biasing member 43 and reaction force application means configured to apply a reaction force in a closing direction by the biasing member 43 to the cap 3 in response to a further movement of the cap 3 in an open direction from the open position are provided on at least one of a support portion 32 that is a cap-side sliding contact portion or a sliding contact member 45 that is a biasing member-side sliding contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu IWAMI, Yoshinobu FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20240022904
    Abstract: An on-board equipment control device includes a storage device a storage device and a controller. The controller performs a first authentication based on a signal transmitted from a wireless device held by a user and performs a second authentication based on biometric data of the user. The controller executes the first authentication before the user boards the vehicle and executes the second recognition after the user boards the vehicle. The controller determines whether the user identified by the first and second authentications are the same user. The controller controls the first on-board equipment or the first functions of the on-board equipment based on the user identified by the first and second authentications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Maiko KOMINE, Naoto KAJIYAMA, Sou TAMURA, Tomokazu FURUYA, Hiroshi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230377578
    Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method each stores line-of-sight data pertaining to a user's line of sight direction of acquired by a line-of-sight-data-receiving unit, and specifies a target apparatus to be operated based on the line-of-sight data when the voice data was acquired and the target apparatus to be operated cannot be specified based on the voice data. A control command is generated that is directed at the target apparatus to be operated based on the voice data, and the target apparatus to be operated is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke MORITA, Tomokazu FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20230365141
    Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method each perform specifying a target apparatus to be operated from a plurality of apparatuses based on line-of-sight data pertaining to a user's line of sight direction. After the target apparatus is specified, voice data is acquired to generate a control command for the target apparatus to be operated during a predetermined time span. Finally, the target apparatus to be operated is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke MORITA, Tomokazu FURUYA