Patents by Inventor Yuki Sano
Yuki Sano 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: 20240111166Abstract: A mirror device includes a mirror including a main body portion having a reflection surface that reflects display light, and a rotating shaft protruding from a first side wall of the main body portion, and a driving member that includes a motor including an output shaft arranged parallel to the rotating shaft, and neighboring the rotating shaft in a direction orthogonal to a rotation axis line of the rotating shaft, a first gear portion coupled to the output shaft, and a second gear portion engaged with the first gear portion, and coupled to the rotating shaft, and rotates the mirror by transmitting rotation of the output shaft of the motor to the rotating shaft via the first gear portion and the second gear portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yuki Miyoshi, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Akira Yamanaka, Naoto Tsubakihara, Hiroshi Sano, Tetsuya Suganuma, Masaaki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240111128Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a housing including an opening, an image display device that outputs display light of an image, and a mirror that includes a main body including a reflective surface that reflects the display light toward the opening and is rotatable around a rotation axis. The mirror includes a first and a second ribs that extend along a first direction, and face each other in a second direction. The first rib is formed as a rib closest to a side of the upper end on the back surface, the second rib is formed as a rib closest to a side of the lower end on the back surface, and a central region between the first and the second ribs on the back surface is formed as a flat curved surface, at least a part of which extends from the first rib to the second rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yuki Miyoshi, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Akira Yamanaka, Tetsuya Suganuma, Hiroshi Sano
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Publication number: 20240011420Abstract: A fine particle filter for removing a particulate matter from exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a wall-flow type filter that has a porous wall, and a ceramic layer that is made of ceramic particles and that is applied in a flow channel of the wall-flow type filter, wherein the ceramic layer has a porosity of 20% or more and 41% or less. The ceramic particles may be formed of one selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica, zirconia, ceria, titania, and zeolite.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: UMICORE SHOKUBAI JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shota KAWASHIMA, Yuki SANO, Takuya ENOSAKA
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Publication number: 20230411981Abstract: A power supply device for controlling power supply from a power supply source to loads, comprising: a power storage element; a first circuit that connects the power supply source and the power storage element so as to be chargeable; a second circuit that connects the power storage element and the loads so as to be dischargeable; a third circuit that connects the power supply source and the loads so as to be able to supply power; and a control unit that controls the first circuit so as to charge the power storage element with the power of the power supply source when a predetermined signal is detected, and controls the third circuit so as to supply the power of the power supply source to the loads.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke TAKAHASHI, Yuki SANO
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Patent number: 11831191Abstract: A DC-DC converter is connected to an auxiliary battery using a second wire, and the DC-DC converter steps down a voltage and outputs it to the second wire. Plural loads are connected in parallel with the auxiliary battery to the DC-DC converter using plural third wires. A power supply control ECU varies the output voltage of the DC-DC converter and determines a fault range based on the output voltage of the DC-DC converter and a charging/discharging current of the auxiliary battery at that time.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuki Sano
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Publication number: 20230101070Abstract: A DC-DC converter is connected to an auxiliary battery using a second wire, and the DC-DC converter steps down a voltage and outputs it to the second wire. Plural loads are connected in parallel with the auxiliary battery to the DC-DC converter using plural third wires. A power supply control ECU varies the output voltage of the DC-DC converter and determines a fault range based on the output voltage of the DC-DC converter and a charging/discharging current of the auxiliary battery at that time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke TAKAHASHI, Yuki SANO
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Publication number: 20220316596Abstract: An annular sealing device in a recess in a housing has a movable annular piston; and an annular inner periphery sealing lip adhered to part of a first edge along an inner periphery of the piston and that slides while in contact with the recess. The first edge has a first inner periphery edge with a first thickness; a second inner periphery edge adjoining the first inner periphery edge and with a thinner second thickness; and a third inner periphery edge adjoining the second inner periphery edge and with a thinner yet third thickness. The first, second, and third inner periphery edges are in this order from the outer periphery of the piston. The inner periphery sealing lip is adhered to the third inner periphery edge and part of the second inner periphery edge to cover a step formed by thickness differences between the second and third inner periphery edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kiichiro GOTO, Yuki SANO
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Publication number: 20220292893Abstract: Provided are a vehicle-mounted relay device, a computer program, and a failure determining method capable of determining the presence of a failure in a vehicle-mounted device. The vehicle-mounted relay device includes: a power relay unit; a sensing unit that senses a power consumption; a communication relay unit that relays transmission and reception of data; and a failure determining unit that determines the presence or absence of a failure. The vehicle-mounted relay device may include a cutoff unit cutting off the power to the vehicle-mounted device from the power relay unit when a failure is determined to be present on the basis of the power consumption amount sensed. The vehicle-mounted relay device may include a limiting unit that limits the relay of data from the vehicle-mounted device to another device when a failure is determined to be present on the basis of the data transmitted being an abnormal value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventor: Yuki SANO
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Patent number: 11405322Abstract: Provided are an in-vehicle communication apparatus, a communication program, and a message transmission method. The in-vehicle communication apparatus according is connected to another apparatus via a plurality of communication lines, and includes a plurality of communication units that are provided respectively for the communication lines, and transmit/receive a message via the communication lines, a classification processing unit that performs processing for classifying messages that are to be transmitted to the other apparatus, into a plurality of groups in accordance with priorities of the messages and a message transmission processing unit that distributes messages classified into each of the plurality of groups, to one or more communication units allocated to the group, and the number of communication units allocated to a group into which a higher-priority message is classified is larger than the number of communication units allocated to a group into which a lower-priority message is classified.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kontani, Katsuya Ikuta, Yuki Sano
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Patent number: 11111433Abstract: Provided are a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic having fluorescence and optical transparency; and a method of producing the same. Such a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic includes a sialon phosphor which contains a matrix formed of a silicon nitride compound represented by the formula Mx(Si,Al)y(N,O)z (here, M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals, 0?x/z<3, and 0<y/z<1) and a luminescent center element.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Takuma Takahashi, Junichi Tatami, Yuki Sano, Takehiko Tanaka, Masahiro Yokouchi
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Publication number: 20210273887Abstract: Provided are an in-vehicle communication apparatus, a communication program, and a message transmission method. The in-vehicle communication apparatus according is connected to another apparatus via a plurality of communication lines, and includes a plurality of communication units that are provided respectively for the communication lines, and transmit/receive a message via the communication lines, a classification processing unit that performs processing for classifying messages that are to be transmitted to the other apparatus, into a plurality of groups in accordance with priorities of the messages and a message transmission processing unit that distributes messages classified into each of the plurality of groups, to one or more communication units allocated to the group, and the number of communication units allocated to a group into which a higher-priority message is classified is larger than the number of communication units allocated to a group into which a lower-priority message is classified.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kontani, Katsuya Ikuta, Yuki Sano
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Publication number: 20210250319Abstract: An in-vehicle communication apparatus includes a classification processing unit that classifies messages to be transmitted to another apparatus, into a plurality of groups and a message transmission unit that selects a group in a predetermined order, and transmits a message classified into the selected group, to the other apparatus. A configuration may be adopted in which the in-vehicle communication apparatus is connected to the other apparatus via a plurality of communication lines, and the message transmission unit selects a group in a predetermined order and transmits a message, for each of the communication lines. A configuration may also be adopted wherein the classification processing unit classifies messages to be transmitted to the other apparatus, into a first group and second group, and the message transmission unit alternately transmits a message classified into the first group and a message classified into the second group, to the other apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Yuki Sano, Katsuya Ikuta, Tsuyoshi Kontani
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Patent number: 11078416Abstract: Provided are a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic having fluorescence and optical transparency; and a method of producing the same. Such a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic includes a sialon phosphor which contains a matrix formed of a silicon nitride compound represented by the formula Mx(Si,Al)y(N,O)z (here, M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals, 0?x/z<3, and 0<y/z<1) and a luminescent center element.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Takuma Takahashi, Junichi Tatami, Yuki Sano, Takehiko Tanaka, Masahiro Yokouchi
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Patent number: 11061659Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus which is connected to an on-vehicle control device via an in-vehicle communication line, and constitutes, together with the on-vehicle control device, an in-vehicle network with the in-vehicle communication line being a transmission path. The control apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store therein an update program for the on-vehicle control device; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an occupancy of the in-vehicle communication line; and a transfer control unit configured to control a timing to transfer the stored update program to the on-vehicle control device, on the basis of the occupancy being monitored.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yuki Sano
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Publication number: 20210119819Abstract: An in-vehicle communication system comprises a plurality of in-vehicle relay devices, each including a plurality of first connection units, an in-vehicle communication device connected to each one of the first connection units, a plurality of second connection units to which another one of the in-vehicle relay devices is connected, and a relay processing unit that relays messages between the in-vehicle communication devices connected to the first connection units and the in-vehicle relay devices connected to the second connection units, wherein two of the in-vehicle relay devices are connected to one another via two or more communication lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Yuki Sano, Katsuya Ikuta, Tsuyoshi Kontani
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Publication number: 20210009739Abstract: The present invention provides a (meth)acrylic acid copolymer-containing composition which can sufficiently exhibit both stability at low temperatures and a calcium phosphate scale inhibition ability. The present invention relates to a (meth)acrylic acid copolymer-containing composition containing a (meth)acrylic acid copolymer including: a structural unit (a) derived from at least one selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and salts thereof; and a structural unit (b) derived from a sulfonic acid monomer (B), the copolymer containing the structural unit (b) in a proportion of 5 to 90 mol % based on 100 mol % of all structural units, and having a weight average molecular weight of 4,500 to 18,000, the composition containing a sulfur-containing inorganic component not incorporated into the copolymer at a concentration of 6,000 ppm or lower in terms of sulfur atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Rika MATSUMOTO, Yuki SANO
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Patent number: 10675986Abstract: The driving support device is provided with: a speed acquisition unit for acquiring speed information of a vehicle; a distance information acquisition unit for acquiring information on the distance between the vehicle and an intersection; a running state judgment unit for judging a dangerous running state to be determined by a stop condition for causing the vehicle to stop in front of the intersection and an entry condition for causing the vehicle to enter the intersection, on the basis of the distance to the intersection, the speed of the vehicle, and signal information; a determination unit for determining whether to cause the vehicle to stop at the intersection or to pass through the intersection if the running state judgment unit judges that the vehicle is in the dangerous running state; and a specification unit for specifying a regeneration time zone when running accompanied with regenerative braking is performed or an inertia time zone when inertia running is performed, before the vehicle arrives at theType: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yuki Sano
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Publication number: 20200057628Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus which is connected to an on-vehicle control device via an in-vehicle communication line, and constitutes, together with the on-vehicle control device, an in-vehicle network with the in-vehicle communication line being a transmission path. The control apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store therein an update program for the on-vehicle control device; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an occupancy of the in-vehicle communication line; and a transfer control unit configured to control a timing to transfer the stored update program to the on-vehicle control device, on the basis of the occupancy being monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yuki SANO
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Publication number: 20200031967Abstract: The invention aims to provide a polymer that can exhibit excellent calcium phosphate scale inhibition performance. The invention relates to a sulfuric acid (salt) ester group-containing copolymer containing a structural unit (a) derived from a sulfuric acid (salt) ester group-containing monomer (A) represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit (b) derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventor: Yuki SANO
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Publication number: 20190286454Abstract: A control apparatus configured to control updating of a control program of an on-vehicle control device configured to control a target device installed in a vehicle, the control apparatus including: a prediction unit configured to predict, on the basis of signal information, a stopping time period of the vehicle caused by waiting for a traffic signal; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an updating time period, the updating time period being a time period required in updating of the control program; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not updating of the control program during the waiting for the traffic signal is possible, on the basis of a result of comparison between the stopping time period and the updating time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yuki Sano