Patents by Inventor Yoshiro Ito
Yoshiro Ito 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: 11900835Abstract: A vehicular display device includes at least one display panel arranged on a vehicle body of a vehicle and configured to display an image, and a display control unit configured to control display of the image. The display panel includes a movable portion provided on the vehicle body, and the display control unit includes an image control unit configured to control a display form of an image when the movable portion is operated.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Takeda, Susumu Kaneko, Yoshiro Ito, Atsushi Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11320110Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes: a planar light emitting body including a transparent base body, a light emitting portion disposed inside the base body, and an extraction electrode formed on the base body and configured to supply a current to the light emitting portion; and a flexible printed wiring board including a transparent wiring base, a connection electrode formed on the wiring base and connected to the extraction electrode, and a conductive portion connected to the connection electrode. The extraction electrode and the connection electrode are constituted by a plurality of metal wires respectively arranged at a predetermined interval.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
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Publication number: 20220013045Abstract: A vehicular display device includes at least one display panel arranged on a vehicle body of a vehicle and configured to display an image, and a display control unit configured to control display of the image. The display panel includes a movable portion provided on the vehicle body, and the display control unit includes an image control unit configured to control a display form of an image when the movable portion is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Takeda, Susumu Kaneko, Yoshiro Ito, Atsushi Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11143378Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: a reflective display configured to provide display toward an outside of a vehicle; and a light emission member arranged to face a display part of the reflective display. The light emission member is configured to allow light to be incident from a display part side and light to be incident from an opposite side to the display part side to pass through the light emission member, and is configured to emit light toward the display part, which is different from the light to be incident from the display part side and the light to be incident from the opposite side to the display part side.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Kuboyama, Masaya Shido, Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210239294Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes: a planar light emitting body including a transparent base body, a light emitting portion disposed inside the base body, and an extraction electrode formed on the base body and configured to supply a current to the light emitting portion; and a flexible printed wiring board including a transparent wiring base, a connection electrode formed on the wiring base and connected to the extraction electrode, and a conductive portion connected to the connection electrode. The extraction electrode and the connection electrode are constituted by a plurality of metal wires respectively arranged at a predetermined interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Tomoaki HARADA, Yoshiro ITO, Masaya SHIDO
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Patent number: 10818214Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
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Publication number: 20200312213Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
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Publication number: 20200166192Abstract: A vehicle illumination system includes a road surface drawing lamp configured to draw, as a drawing on a road surface, predetermined information by emitting light toward a target comprising a ground, a wall or the like around a vehicle, an illuminance sensor capable of measuring an illuminance around the vehicle, and a lamp control unit configured to control the road surface drawing lamp. The lamp control unit is configured to control the road surface drawing lamp so that an illuminance of the drawing on the road surface is to be higher than the illuminance measured by the illuminance sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sugimoto, Yoshiro Ito, Tomoaki Harada, Susumu Kaneko, Hajime Takeda
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Patent number: 10643972Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light emitting device using an organic EL. The light emitting device includes an organic EL panel where a plurality of light emitting parts is arranged toward a predetermined direction. The plurality of light emitting parts is configured such that brightness is decreased gradually toward the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya Shido, Toru Ito, Koji Magori, Yoshiro Ito
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Patent number: 10462858Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a planar light-emitting structure having a substrate on which an organic EL emission element is provided, a framing member that fixes the planar light-emitting structure inside a vehicle-lamp light cabinet, and an elastic member that is interposed between the planar light-emitting structure and the framing member and that fixes the planar light-emitting structure by its biasing force.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya Shido, Yukihiro Onoda, Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Haruhiko Iyoda, Hironori Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20190301701Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: a reflective display configured to provide display toward an outside of a vehicle; and a light emission member arranged to face a display part of the reflective display. The light emission member is configured to allow light to be incident from a display part side and light to be incident from an opposite side to the display part side to pass through the light emission member, and is configured to emit light toward the display part, which is different from the light to be incident from the display part side and the light to be incident from the opposite side to the display part side.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Kuboyama, Masaya Shido, Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaru Sasaki
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Patent number: 10418591Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device disposed along a transparent member. The light emitting device includes: an organic electroluminescence panel having a translucent substrate disposed to face the transparent member, a translucent anode disposed on the substrate, an organic material layer disposed on the anode, and a non-translucent cathode disposed on the organic material layer. The organic material layer and the cathode are formed in a form of stripes. The cathode is formed wider than the organic material layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito
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Patent number: 10311770Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
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Patent number: 10295140Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicular lamp including an organic EL element that has only a non-light emitting point with a size of 120 ?m or less on a light emitting surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Ito, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yasutaka Sasaki
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Patent number: 10120038Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp including: an organic EL element; and a lighting circuit that applies a voltage to the organic EL device with a rise time of the voltage of 5 milliseconds or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Osamu Kuboyama, Yoshiro Ito, Toru Ito
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Publication number: 20180270921Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a planar light-emitting structure having a substrate on which an organic EL emission element is provided, a framing member that fixes the planar light-emitting structure inside a vehicle-lamp light cabinet, and an elastic member that is interposed between the planar light-emitting structure and the framing member and that fixes the planar light-emitting structure by its biasing force.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Masaya SHIDO, Yukihiro ONODA, Toru ITO, Yoshiro ITO, Haruhiko IYODA, Hironori TSUKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10018322Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
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Patent number: 9982860Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
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Publication number: 20170373278Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device disposed along a transparent member. The light emitting device includes: an organic electroluminescence panel having a translucent substrate disposed to face the transparent member, a translucent anode disposed on the substrate, an organic material layer disposed on the anode, and a non-translucent cathode disposed on the organic material layer. The organic material layer and the cathode are formed in a form of stripes. The cathode is formed wider than the organic material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito
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Publication number: 20170328960Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp including: an organic EL element; and a lighting circuit that applies a voltage to the organic EL device with a rise time of the voltage of 5 milliseconds or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Osamu Kuboyama, Yoshiro Ito, Toru Ito