Patents by Inventor Yasutsugu Sugiura

Yasutsugu Sugiura 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).

  • Patent number: 11679715
    Abstract: The vehicle interior component includes a front surface side space and a slit. A light emitting part, which is disposed on a vehicle interior outer side with respect to at least one of the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel lower portion of the upper panel and the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel upper portion of the lower panel and emits light emitted obliquely upward toward an inside of a vehicle interior through the slit, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanae Matsumura, Hiroko Shibakawa, Kazuki Yabashi, Yasutsugu Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20230130405
    Abstract: A lighting device to be installed in an instrument panel inside a vehicle to be used as an indirect lighting device to emit a light reflected on a surface of the instrument panel. The lighting device is installed at a space behind the instrument panel while being separated from a gap to serve as a light extraction slot of the instrument panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kanae MATSUMURA, Yasutsugu SUGIURA, Kenichi ITO, Hirotaka HORI
  • Publication number: 20230099347
    Abstract: A lighting device to be installed on an instrument panel in a vehicle cabin. The lighting device is configured to emit light in a first direction toward a seat in the vehicle cabin so as to be directly visually perceived by an occupant sitting in the seat and to emit light in a second direction toward an interior of the vehicle cabin so as to be reflected by the interior and then visually perceived by the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kanae MATSUMURA, Yasutsugu SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20230045310
    Abstract: The vehicle interior component includes a front surface side space and a slit. Alight emitting part, which is disposed on a vehicle interior outer side with respect to at least one of the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel lower portion of the upper panel and the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel upper portion of the lower panel and emits light emitted obliquely upward toward an inside of a vehicle interior through the slit, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kanae MATSUMURA, Hiroko SHIBAKAWA, Kazuki YABASHI, Yasutsugu SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 10555396
    Abstract: A light emitting device, which includes a plurality of light emitting elements each having a different chromaticity of emission light, to emit mixed light produced by mixing the respective emission light of the plurality of light emitting elements together, includes a receiving section to obtain command information on the mixed light, a driving section to perform a PWM drive on the plurality of light emitting elements on the basis of the command information, and a storing section to store correction information to be set on the basis of measurement results on the respective emission light of the plurality of light emitting elements. The driving section is being configured in such a manner as to, on the basis of the correction information, correct a duty ratio in the PWM drive to be set in accordance with the command information, and perform the PWM drive on the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutsugu Sugiura, Taro Isogai, Kazuki Yabashi