Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Funayama
Tomoyuki Funayama 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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Patent number: 11849329Abstract: A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Sakamoto, Shigeki Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Patent number: 11679739Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yo Ikeda, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Publication number: 20220001837Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Yo IKEDA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA
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Patent number: 11170952Abstract: A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The through hole is an independent through hole being not electrically connected to a circuit of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho Ogawa, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Patent number: 11161478Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yo Ikeda, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Patent number: 10988108Abstract: A terminal performs communication with an in-vehicle device to control a vehicle. The terminal includes a controller configured to switch and set a plurality of operation modes, and a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration of the terminal. The operation modes include a first mode, a second mode different from the first mode, and a third mode where communication with the in-vehicle device is more restricted than in the first mode and the second mode. The controller is configured to, when the first mode is executed, in a case where vibration is not detected in the vibration detection unit for a predetermined time, switch the operation mode to the third mode, and when the second mode is executed, in a case where vibration is not detected in the vibration detection unit for a time longer than the predetermined time, switch the operation mode to the third mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Okada, Tomoyuki Funayama, Toru Yoshihara, Shigeki Nishiyama, Masashi Komeya, Yuuto Kameyama
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Publication number: 20210076203Abstract: A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Shigeki NISHIYAMA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA
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Patent number: 10916388Abstract: A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The air groove includes a non-linear path.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho Ogawa, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Publication number: 20200198537Abstract: A portable device communicates with a vehicle, and the portable device includes: a motion sensor; a control unit configured to determine whether or not abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor, based on an output from the motion sensor; and an output unit configured to perform an output representing abnormality in the motion sensor, when the control unit determines that abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Shigeki NISHIYAMA, Toru YOSHIHARA, Masashi KOMEYA
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Patent number: 10673175Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprises a first connector including a first housing having a mating opening, a second connector including a second housing configured to be mated with the mating opening of the first connector, and a drainage structure provided on and corresponding to a boundary portion between the first housing and the second housing. The boundary portion faces the mating opening. The drainage structure includes a convex region having a top at the boundary portion, a first concave region continuous with the convex region and formed in the first housing, and a second concave region continuous with the convex region and formed in the second housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignees: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsugumi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Kato, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Publication number: 20200122687Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Yo IKEDA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA
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Patent number: 10611303Abstract: A portable device communicates with a vehicle, and the portable device includes: a motion sensor; a control unit configured to determine whether or not abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor, based on an output from the motion sensor; and an output unit configured to perform an output representing abnormality in the motion sensor, when the control unit determines that abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Funayama, Shigeki Nishiyama, Toru Yoshihara, Masashi Komeya
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Patent number: 10611338Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to be connected to an antenna and to a sensor by a common wire. The vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit configured to perform a determination process of determining a vehicle operation corresponding to a signal received from the sensor, determine whether the determination process is completed, and transmit a drive signal to the antenna after determining that the determination process is completed and upon the vehicle operation being determined, the drive signal being transmitted to the antenna such that the antenna transmits a radio signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yuuto Kameyama
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Patent number: 10527707Abstract: An in-vehicle communication device includes a transmission controller configured to perform control so that a first signal is transmitted from outside and a predetermined second signal is transmitted from outside and inside, after the transmission of the first signal, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside based on a first response signal that is transmitted from the terminal device after the transmission of the second signal. When the determination unit is unable to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside, the transmission controller is configured to perform control so that a third signal is transmitted from inside, and the determination unit is configured to determine whether the terminal device is present outside or inside based on a second response signal that is transmitted from the terminal device after the transmission of the third signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Patent number: 10518749Abstract: A start switch device includes a start button configured to send a command to start or stop a vehicle drive device, a biometric sensor arranged on the start button for reading a biometric information of an operator to operate an operating surface of the start button, a light source configured to emit an illuminating light from an inside of the start button toward the operating surface, and a design part arranged around the biometric sensor on the operating surface and configured to define a design on the operating surface by the illuminating light transmitted therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yo Ikeda, Tomoyuki Funayama, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada
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Patent number: 10513244Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first transmitter that transmits a predetermined first signal over a predetermined area, a first receiver and a second receiver that receive second and third signals, a detector that detects the field intensities of the received signals, a second transmitter that transmits a signal through an RF-band radio wave, and an electronic control unit that operates an in-vehicle device based on the third signal received by the first receiver and restrains or prohibits the in-vehicle device from being operated based on the third signal when the field intensity of the third signal is lower than the field intensity of the second signal by a value greater than a predetermined standard.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroko Murakami, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Patent number: 10442398Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system that performs detection and authentication of an electronic key being present in a detection range on a periphery of a vehicle, on the basis of polling performed by an on-vehicle apparatus. Any one of the on-vehicle apparatus and a first electronic key includes: a determination section configured to determine whether or not communication, between the on-vehicle apparatus and the first electronic key, in which the first electronic key returns a signal in response to a signal transmitted from the on-vehicle apparatus is continuously performed for not less than a predetermined time period; and a first processing section configured to restrict a response, by the first electronic key, to a first polling signal transmitted from the on-vehicle apparatus, when the determination section has determined that the communication is continuously performed for not less than the predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Publication number: 20190311865Abstract: A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The air groove includes a non-linear path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Sho OGAWA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Yasuhisa OHTA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA
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Publication number: 20190311866Abstract: A switch device includes a substrate provided with at least one first contact and including at least one through hole, and a contact rubber, being an elastic sheet covering the substrate, provided with a dome-shaped cavity configured to make a second contact portion including a second contact corresponding to the first contact elastically deformable to be capable of contacting to and separating from the first contact, a vent cavity portion provided corresponding to the through hole, and an air groove communicating with the cavity and the vent cavity portion between the substrate and the elastic sheet. The through hole is an independent through hole being not electrically connected to a circuit of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Sho OGAWA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Yasuhisa OHTA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA
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Publication number: 20190275937Abstract: A portable device communicates with a vehicle, and the portable device includes: a motion sensor; a control unit configured to determine whether or not abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor, based on an output from the motion sensor; and an output unit configured to perform an output representing abnormality in the motion sensor, when the control unit determines that abnormality has occurred in the motion sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA, Shigeki NISHIYAMA, Toru YOSHIHARA, Masashi KOMEYA