Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kominato
Yasuhiro Kominato 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: 20220144096Abstract: A power device to be mounted on a vehicle is provided. The power device includes a battery, a power converter connected between the battery and an auxiliary device, a first capacitor, a first relay connected between the first capacitor and a line connecting the power converter and the auxiliary device, a second capacitor, a second relay connected between the second capacitor and the line connecting the power converter and the auxiliary device, and a controller configured to control the first relay and the second relay, in which the controller turns on the first relay and turns off the second relay when a power switch of the vehicle is ON, and turns off the first relay and turns on the second relay when the power switch of the vehicle is OFF.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro KOMINATO, Sadaharu Okuda
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Patent number: 11220211Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitter, a holding portion that slidably holds the light emitter inside a slide rail for a vehicle, and a light transmissive cover that covers the light emitter. According to a configuration, the cover of the light emitting device prevents a decrease in a communication performance of a signal transmission and reception device in which information on an electronic device is transmitted using an LED, as compared with a related art in which the communication performance decreases due to influence of scattering or shielding a light of the LED, the influence being caused by a grease which is heavily applied inside a slide rail of a vehicle and adheres to the LED.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Kominato
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Patent number: 11077790Abstract: A slide device includes an upper rail to which a slide seat for a vehicle is attached, a slide rail to which the upper rail is slidably attached, a light emitter, and an attachment portion that attaches the light emitter to the upper rail. The attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is arranged outside the slide rail. According to the slide device, since the attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is positioned outside the slide rail, the light emitter does not move inside the slide rail to which a large amount of grease is applied, and a decrease in communication performance can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Goro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11046263Abstract: A communication system includes a seat unit mounted on a seat of a vehicle and operating by an electrical power supplied from a battery, and a vehicle unit that wirelessly communicates with the seat unit, and transmits a start command. The seat unit receives the start command in a standby state in which a power consumption is lower than a normal state, and then the seat unit switches from the standby state to the normal state. After that, the seat unit transmits an information on an electronic device mounted on the seat, in the normal state. According to the communication system, the seat unit switches from the standby state to the normal state, only when the vehicle unit transmits the start command. Therefore, battery life can be extended.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Kominato
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Patent number: 10933841Abstract: A detection system for vehicle includes a reader and a first detector. The reader is provided in a vehicle, transmits and receives radio signals, and transmits transmission signals including at least radio signals for supplying electric power. The first detector is driven by the radio signals for supplying electric power included in the transmission signals when receiving the transmission signals and can transmit first response signals output in response to the transmission signals to the reader. The first detector is disposed in a sitting area on a seat where the first response signals transmitted to the reader are blocked. The reader determines a sitting state of a passenger based on whether the first response signals are received in response to the transmission signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Goro Nakamura, Tadahide Kunitachi, Kenji Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200369225Abstract: A communication system includes a seat unit mounted on a seat of a vehicle and operating by an electrical power supplied from a battery, and a vehicle unit that wirelessly communicates with the seat unit, and transmits a start command. The seat unit receives the start command in a standby state in which a power consumption is lower than a normal state, and then the seat unit switches from the standby state to the normal state. After that, the seat unit transmits an information on an electronic device mounted on the seat, in the normal state. According to the communication system, the seat unit switches from the standby state to the normal state, only when the vehicle unit transmits the start command. Therefore, battery life can be extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro KOMINATO
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Publication number: 20200361372Abstract: A slide device includes an upper rail to which a slide seat for a vehicle is attached, a slide rail to which the upper rail is slidably attached, a light emitter, and an attachment portion that attaches the light emitter to the upper rail. The attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is arranged outside the slide rail. According to the slide device, since the attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is positioned outside the slide rail, the light emitter does not move inside the slide rail to which a large amount of grease is applied, and a decrease in communication performance can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Goro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200361373Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitter, a holding portion that slidably holds the light emitter inside a slide rail for a vehicle, and a light transmissive cover that covers the light emitter. According to a configuration of the present disclosure, the cover of the light emitting device prevents a decrease in a communication performance of a signal transmission and reception device in which information on an electronic device is transmitted using an LED, as compared with a related art in which the communication performance decreases due to influence of scattering or shielding a light of the LED, the influence being caused by a grease which is heavily applied inside a slide rail of a vehicle and adheres to the LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Kominato
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Patent number: 10468161Abstract: A wiring member includes a laminated flat conductor and an insulating layer provided around the laminated flat conductor. The laminated flat conductor includes a plurality of flat conductors laid on each other in a thickness direction of the laminated flat conductor, and insulating sheet members each of which is interposed between and electrically insulates adjacent ones of the plurality of flat conductors.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Shingo Kato, Shigeki Iimuro
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Patent number: 10449914Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grommet, which is fixed to a wire harness W inserted into an opening portion of a panel P and which is fitted and attached to the opening portion to thereby support the wire harness W on the panel P. The grommet includes peripheral walls that surrounds the wire harness W to form a sound shield space S around the wire harness W, and a soundproof wall that is formed in the sound shield space S so as to cross a longitudinal direction of the wire harness W. The soundproof wall is designed by use of an expression of TL=20 log(?×f)?42.5 where TL designates transmission loss of the soundproof wall, ? designates surface density of the soundproof wall, and f designates a frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Katoh, Yasuhiro Kominato
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Publication number: 20190308524Abstract: A detector includes a first flexible sheet, a second flexible sheet placed opposite to the first flexible sheet, and an insulation sheet intervening between them. The first flexible sheet includes a second antenna unit and first contact portions formed on a first opposing surface. The second flexible sheet includes a detection unit and second contact portions formed on a second opposing surface. The first contact portions and the second contact portions become a state of contact by an external force based on the seating of an occupant, cause the second antenna unit to output a transmission signal to the detection unit, and cause the detection unit to output a detection signal to the second antenna unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro KOMINATO, Goro NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190308586Abstract: A detection system for vehicle includes a reader and a first detector. The reader is provided in a vehicle, transmits and receives radio signals, and transmits transmission signals including at least radio signals for supplying electric power. The first detector is driven by the radio signals for supplying electric power included in the transmission signals when receiving the transmission signals and can transmit first response signals output in response to the transmission signals to the reader. The first detector is disposed in a sitting area on a seat where the first response signals transmitted to the reader are blocked. The reader determines a sitting state of a passenger based on whether the first response signals are received in response to the transmission signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Goro Nakamura, Tadahide Kunitachi, Kenji Matsushita
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Patent number: 10236647Abstract: A routing members connection structure electrically connects a long first trunk routing member which is routed in a vehicle and can transmit power and a first branch routing member routed in the vehicle, can transmit power, and branches off from the first trunk routing member. Each of the first trunk routing member and the first branch routing member has a flat conductor and an insulator that is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the flat conductor. The first trunk routing member has a post-shaped first stud bolt that is made of a metal and extends outward from a first branching portion where the flat conductor is exposed without being covered with the insulator. The flat conductor of the first trunk routing member and the flat conductor of the first branch routing member are electrically connected to each other via the first stud bolt.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Kato, Yasuhiro Kominato
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Publication number: 20180316146Abstract: A routing members connection structure electrically connects a long first trunk routing member which is routed in a vehicle and can transmit power and a first branch routing member routed in the vehicle, can transmit power, and branches off from the first trunk routing member. Each of the first trunk routing member and the first branch routing member has a flat conductor and an insulator that is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the flat conductor. The first trunk routing member has a post-shaped first stud bolt that is made of a metal and extends outward from a first branching portion where the flat conductor is exposed without being covered with the insulator. The flat conductor of the first trunk routing member and the flat conductor of the first branch routing member are electrically connected to each other via the first stud bolt.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shingo KATO, Yasuhiro KOMINATO
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Publication number: 20180174716Abstract: A wiring member includes a laminated flat conductor and an insulating layer provided around the laminated flat conductor. The laminated flat conductor includes a plurality of flat conductors laid on each other in a thickness direction of the laminated flat conductor, and insulating sheet members each of which is interposed between and electrically insulate adjacent ones of the plurality of flat conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Shingo Kato, Shigeki Iimuro
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Publication number: 20170349123Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grommet, which is fixed to a wire harness W inserted into an opening portion of a panel P and which is fitted and attached to the opening portion to thereby support the wire harness W on the panel P. The grommet includes peripheral walls that surrounds the wire harness W to form a sound shield space S around the wire harness W, and a soundproof wall that is formed in the sound shield space S so as to cross a longitudinal direction of the wire harness W. The soundproof wall is designed by use of an expression of TL=20 log(p×f)?42.5 where TL designates transmission loss of the soundproof wall, ? designates surface density of the soundproof wall, and f designates a frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Shingo Katoh, Yasuhiro Kominato
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Patent number: 9812852Abstract: A grommet is secured to a wire harness inserted in an opening of a panel. The grommet is fitted in the opening and mounted, thereby supporting the wire harness in the panel, The grommet has: partition walls covering the periphery of the wire harness and forming a sound-blocking space around the wire harness; and a sound-insulating wall formed inside the sound-blocking space so as to intersect the longitudinal direction of the wire harness.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Shingo Kato, Gaku Ito
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Publication number: 20170179703Abstract: A grommet secured to a wire harness inserted in an opening of a panel, the grommet being fitted in the opening and mounted, thereby supporting the wire harness in the panel; wherein the grommet has: partition walls covering the periphery of the wire harness and forming a sound-blocking space around the wire harness; and a sound-insulating wall formed inside the sound-blocking space so as to intersect the longitudinal direction of the wire harness.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Kominato, Shingo Kato, Gaku Ito