Patents by Inventor Yuji Sato
Yuji Sato 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: 9895934Abstract: In a pneumatic tire that includes strip members which extends in a tire circumferential direction, both ends thereof reaching each bead portion, a belt layer is disposed in a tread portion on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the strip members. The strip members are divided in the tire width direction, and the divided strip members have joints that join together in the tire circumferential direction. Relative positions of the joints are disposed deviated by not less than 20° in the tire circumferential direction within a region between an edge of a maximum width in the tire width direction of the belt layer and a maximum tire width position.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Hata, Yuji Sato
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Publication number: 20180037223Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs acquire a present location of a vehicle, acquire a road shape of a road where the vehicle travels, and set, on the basis of the present location of the vehicle and the road shape of the road where the vehicle travels, control content of first autonomous driving control that causes the vehicle to travel without deviating from a lane and second autonomous driving control that controls a speed of the vehicle in accordance with the road shape. The systems, methods, and programs perform the first autonomous driving control or the second autonomous driving control in compliance with the set control content, detect a steering operation by a driver of the vehicle, and continue or stop the first autonomous driving control or the second autonomous driving control on the basis of the detected steering operation, the present location, and the road shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Yuji SATO, Kuniaki TANAKA, Masaki TAKANO
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Publication number: 20180029556Abstract: A support structure for an airbag apparatus includes an airbag apparatus having a bag holder, a pin, a pin holder, a damper holder, an elastic member, a motion transmitting portion, a motion receiving portion, and a noise suppressing portion. The pin includes a shaft portion passed through a mounting hole provided in the bag holder and a flange portion formed at the rear end of the shaft portion. The pin holder slidably covers the shaft portion. The damper holder is mounted to the airbag apparatus while covering the pin holder. The elastic member includes an elastic body portion. A gap is provided inside the motion transmitting portion. The noise suppressing portion is located between the gap and the pin holder, is made of a material softer than the pin holder, and has an inner diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the elastic body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Tsutomu ISHII, Toshihito YANAGISAWA, Mikine HAYASHI, Yuji SATO, Koji KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20180023559Abstract: Provided is a floating ring type mechanical seal in which a floating ring is pinched and held between a rotary ring provided in a rotary shaft and a stationary ring provided in a seal casing to be movable in an axial direction while being urged toward the rotary ring so that a relative rotation of the floating ring with respect to the stationary ring is inhibited. The rotary ring is made of a sintered compact of SiC or cemented carbide. A diamond film is formed on a sealing surface sliding on the floating ring in the rotary ring. A diamond film continuous to the diamond film of the sealing surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary ring and a rear surface, which is a surface opposite to the sealing surface, in the rotary ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji SATO, Takashi NISHI
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Patent number: 9873289Abstract: A pneumatic tire including: a cylindrical annular structure; a rubber layer, which will become a tread portion, provided along a circumferential direction of the annular structure on an outer side of the annular structure; a carcass portion provided on at least both sides in a width direction of the cylindrical structure including the annular structure and the rubber layer; and an extending portion that extends from both sides in the width direction of the annular structure farther outward in the width direction than a ground contact edge on the outer side in the width direction of the tread portion, and that is provided in plurality on both sides in the width direction along the circumferential direction of the annular structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Noboru Takada, Yuji Sato, Jun Matsuda, Yuji Kodama, Susumu Imamiya
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Patent number: 9836051Abstract: Automated drive assisting devices, methods, and programs acquire position specifying information for specifying a vehicle position during travel, and acquire a continuity degree that represents a degree to which automated drive can be continued on the basis of the position specifying information acquired during the automated drive. The devices, methods, and programs determine whether the automated drive can be continued on the basis of the acquired continuity degree, and determine vehicle control information for controlling a vehicle such that the continuity degree becomes higher on the basis of the acquired position specifying information in the case where it is determined that the automated drive cannot be continued. The devices, methods, and programs output the determined vehicle control information to a vehicle control device that controls the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Ishikawa, Yuji Sato, Masaki Nakamura, Takayuki Miyajima
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Patent number: 9821749Abstract: A lateral partition of a side airbag apparatus extends in a front-rear direction to divide the interior of an airbag into an upper inflation chamber and a lower inflation chamber. A vertical partition extends vertically and includes a communication portion. The vertical partition divides the upper inflation chamber into an upper-rear inflation chamber, to which inflation gas from a gas generator is supplied, and an upper-front inflation chamber, to which the inflation gas is supplied via the communication portion. An inner tube regulates the flow of the inflation gas to direct to the upper-rear inflation chamber and the lower inflation chamber. The rear ends of two first fabric portions of the vertical partition are joined to the upper parts of the front ends of two second fabric portions of the inner tube by a first vertical joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi Hotta, Takashi Ilda, Yuji Sato, Norio Mizuno, Yuta Okayama
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Publication number: 20170327021Abstract: A vehicle seat (1) includes a seat frame (6), an elastic sheet (9) mounted to the seat frame in a tensioned state (6), and a trim (10) provided on the elastic sheet (9). The elastic sheet (9) includes a fastening section including a fastening plate (16) for the trim (10). The trim (10) includes a trim body (11) and a trim end (15) that is attached to the trim body (11) and fastened to the fastening plate (16) with the trim body (11) being stretched.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Takahiro Okui, Katsumi Sumoto, Yuji Sato
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Publication number: 20170301152Abstract: A remote server identifies based on unique identification information, model information, operator name information and/or owner name information, and a plurality of pieces of contact information. The remote server identifies trouble content information, estimated cause information, and seriousness information based on trouble content identification information. The remote server simultaneously transmits transmission information to contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information identified, the transmission information including the model information, the operator name information and/or the owner name information, date and time information, position information, the trouble content information, the estimated cause information, and the seriousness information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Sosuke Murata, Akihiro Shinkuma, Yuji Sato
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Patent number: 9791287Abstract: Drive assist systems, methods, and programs display, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present and specify a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage. The systems, methods, and programs display on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Sato, Toshihiro Mori, Koichi Nakao
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Publication number: 20170282842Abstract: A folding completion body of a head-protecting airbag includes a compressed portion which is compressed to have a small sectional shape in an axis orthogonal direction in the folding completion body is provided in at least one end in a front and rear direction, wherein: the compressed portion is formed in such a manner that a thin-plate folded portion is disposed by folding back an end periphery in the front and rear direction to be directed to a center in the front and rear direction in a state where the head-protecting airbag is flatly deployed, and a folded-up portion in which the lower periphery is brought close to the upper periphery is provided; and the thin-plate folded portion is configured such that a tip extending from a crease is disposed to be positioned on an end side of the gas guidance path in the front and rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Masaaki OKUHARA, Koji KAWAMURA, Yuji SATO
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Publication number: 20170213360Abstract: This posture state estimation device is capable of estimating with high accuracy the posture state of an object. The posture state estimation device (100) is a device for estimating the posture state of an object having a plurality of sections connected by joints on the basis of image data that images the object, and has a section candidate extraction unit (140) for extracting a section candidate for a section from the image data, a complementary section candidate extraction unit (160) which estimates that a portion of an unextracted section for which a section candidate has not been extracted is being shadowed by an already extracted section for which a section candidate has been extracted in order to extract a section candidate of the unextracted section, and a posture state estimation unit (170) for estimating the posture state of the object on the basis of the extracted section candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Kyoko KAWAGUCHI, Masamoto TANABIKI, Kensuke MARUYA, Yuji SATO, Mitsuko FUJITA
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Publication number: 20170197634Abstract: Automated drive assisting systems, methods, and programs acquire an expected travel route for a vehicle that includes an automated drive section in which automated drive control for the vehicle is permitted, and execute the automated drive control for the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the expected travel route in the automated drive section which is included in the expected travel route. The systems, methods, and programs recover the automated drive control after the vehicle, which travels through manual drive based on a drive operation by a user, passes through a branch point that is provided in the automated drive section and that meets a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2016Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji SATO
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Publication number: 20170197635Abstract: Automated drive assisting systems, methods, and programs acquire an expected travel route for a vehicle that includes an automated drive section in which automated drive control for the vehicle is permitted, and execute the automated drive control for the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the expected travel route in the automated drive section which is included in the expected travel route. The systems, methods, and programs make a changeover from the automated drive control to manual drive based on a drive operation by a user in the case where there is a branch point that meets a predetermined condition ahead in a travel direction of the vehicle which travels through the automated drive control in the automated drive section, the changeover being made before the branch point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji SATO
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Publication number: 20170186920Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member with improved capability of releasing heat from a fluorescent material is provided. The method of manufacturing the wavelength conversion member includes: disposing a fluorescent material paste containing a fluorescent material and a binder on a surface of a light-transmissive body; orienting face-down the surface where the fluorescent material paste is disposed, to settle the fluorescent material in the fluorescent material paste on a side opposite to another side of the fluorescent material paste, the another side being in contact with the light-transmissive body; and curing the binder in a state where the fluorescent material has been settled, to form a fluorescent material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masami KUMANO, Yuji SATO
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Publication number: 20170182962Abstract: An airbag includes a main inflation portion, in which an inflator is arranged, and an auxiliary inflation portion, the volume of which is smaller than that of the main inflation portion. The main inflation portion is deployed forward in a space between an occupant and a side wall of the vehicle. Prior to the deployment of the main inflation portion outside the seat back, the auxiliary inflation portion is inflated inside the seat back with inflation gas from the inflator to push the occupant toward the inner side. The main inflation portion and the auxiliary inflation portion each have a communication port that connects the main inflation portion and the auxiliary inflation portion to each other. The airbag includes an inflation promoting structure, which promotes the inflation of the auxiliary inflation portion compared to the inflation of the main inflation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Takuya HIRAIWA, Yuji SATO, Takashi IIDA, Masashi HOTTA
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Publication number: 20170182963Abstract: A vehicle seat with a side airbag apparatus includes a seat back having a seat frame, a side airbag apparatus having an airbag and an inflator, and an entry preventing portion. The seat frame includes a pressure receiving plate and an outer frame portion, which surrounds the pressure receiving plate. The airbag and the inflator are installed in the outer side section of the seat back. The airbag includes a main inflation portion and an auxiliary inflation portion. The auxiliary inflation portion is inflated on the front side of the pressure receiving plate prior to inflation of the main inflation portion, thereby pushing the occupant toward the inner side. The entry preventing portion prevents the auxiliary inflation portion being inflated from entering the gap between the outer frame portion and the pressure receiving plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Takuya HIRAIWA, Yuji SATO, Minoru ONO, Takashi IIDA, Masashi HOTTA
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Publication number: 20170147107Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate; a detection electrode disposed on a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate and including conductive thin wires and electrical coupling portions disposed where the conductive thin wires intersect with each other or are bent, and are coupled with each other, the conductive thin wires being arranged in a mesh-like form; a coupling wire that couples the conductive thin wires with a detecting unit at an end portion of the detection electrode; and a protective layer that is made of an insulation material and that covers the detection electrode and the coupling wire. An area density of the conductive thin wires per unit area is smaller in an end region ranging from an electrical coupling portion closest to the coupling wire to the coupling wire than in a region of the entire detection electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Masahiro TERAMOTO, Yuji SATO
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Patent number: 9646381Abstract: This posture state estimation device is capable of estimating with high accuracy the posture state of an object. The posture state estimation device (100) is a device for estimating the posture state of an object having a plurality of sections connected by joints on the basis of image data that images the object, and has a section candidate extraction unit (140) for extracting a section candidate for a section from the image data, a complementary section candidate extraction unit (160) which estimates that a portion of an unextracted section for which a section candidate has not been extracted is being shadowed by an already extracted section for which a section candidate has been extracted in order to extract a section candidate of the unextracted section, and a posture state estimation unit (170) for estimating the posture state of the object on the basis of the extracted section candidate.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoko Kawaguchi, Masamoto Tanabiki, Kensuke Maruya, Yuji Sato, Mitsuko Fujita
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Patent number: 9639950Abstract: With this device, an edge pair likelihood map generation unit (120) computes edge pair likelihood which denotes the plausibility that a pixel of a pair is an edge of an estimation subject site, and generates an edge pair likelihood map which denotes the edge pair likelihood for each pixel. A continuity likelihood map generation unit (130) evaluates, upon the edge pair likelihood map, the continuity for the edge pair likelihood of a pixel which is included in a region wherein the estimate subject site is presumed, and generates a continuity likelihood map which denotes an edge pair likelihood which has continuity as a candidate region of the estimate subject site. An integrated likelihood map generation unit (140) generates an integrated likelihood map which denotes the candidate region which the continuity likelihood map denotes, refined based on a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoko Kawaguchi, Masamoto Tanabiki, Yuji Sato
