Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Okimoto
Yukihiro Okimoto 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: 7267003Abstract: An acceleration sensor unit including a board on which an acceleration sensor is mounted, a support part for supporting the board, and a housing in which the support part and the acceleration sensor are contained, the board is installed in the housing by means of the support part so as to swing with respect to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Hiraoka, Tohru Matsumoto, Yukihiro Okimoto, Toshiyuki Yamashita, Shinichi Harase, Takashi Furui
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Publication number: 20050066724Abstract: An acceleration sensor unit including a board on which an acceleration sensor is mounted, a support part for supporting the board, and a housing in which the support part and the acceleration sensor are contained, the board is installed in the housing by means of the support part so as to swing with respect to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2004Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Yuji Hiraoka, Tohru Matsumoto, Yukihiro Okimoto, Toshiyuki Yamashita, Shinichi Harase, Takashi Furui
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Patent number: 6681162Abstract: In a corrective device for an output of an acceleration sensor control means includes operation processing means for inputting a self-diagnosis check signal to the acceleration sensor 1, and for executing an offset corrective operation processing of the output of the acceleration sensor prior to inputting the self-diagnosis check signal to the acceleration sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yukihiro Okimoto
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Publication number: 20030171862Abstract: In a corrective device for an output of an acceleration sensor control means includes operation processing means for inputting a self-diagnosis check signal to the acceleration sensor 1, and for executing an offset corrective operation processing of the output of the acceleration sensor prior to inputting the self-diagnosis check signal to the acceleration sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: September 11, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukihiro Okimoto
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Patent number: 6411875Abstract: An automatic door lock releasing apparatus according to the present invention comprises decelerating direction integrating means for integrating a decelerating direction component of each of the acceleration signals obtained from acceleration sensors in a vehicle; accelerating direction integrating means for integrating an accelerating direction component; coefficient means for weighting an output of the accelerating direction integrating means with a specified coefficient; subtracting means for subtracting an output of the coefficient means from an output of the decelerating direction integrating means; an arithmetic processing unit for determining a resultant velocity of velocity signals; and a comparison processing unit for comparing the resultant velocity with a threshold value and generating a start signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Aki Ugusa, Yukihiro Okimoto
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Publication number: 20010007963Abstract: An automatic door lock releasing apparatus according to the present invention comprises decelerating direction integrating means for integrating a decelerating direction component of each of the acceleration signals obtained from acceleration sensors in a vehicle; accelerating direction integrating means for integrating an accelerating direction component; coefficient means for weighting an output of the accelerating direction integrating means with a specified coefficient; subtracting means for subtracting an output of the coefficient means from an output of the decelerating direction integrating means; an arithmetic processing unit for determining a resultant velocity of velocity signals; and a comparison processing unit for comparing the resultant velocity with a threshold value and generating a start signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 12, 2001Inventors: Aki Ugusa, Yukihiro Okimoto
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Patent number: 6104973Abstract: A device for starting an occupant crash protector can output, as a start signal, a logical product of an output of a collision determining mechanism and an output of a non-collision determining mechanism. The collision determining mechanism detects a collision including an impact that does not require a start-up. The non-collision determining mechanism detects only a collision that requires a start-up using a value obtained by subtracting a value varied with time from the output of an acceleration sensor and integrating the result of the subtraction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1996Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takami Sugiyama, Hideki Nishi, Sachiko Nakamura, Yukihiro Okimoto, Takashi Furui
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Patent number: 5904730Abstract: A device of detecting collision of a vehicle for determining collision of a vehicle based on an acceleration from an acceleration detecting means for detecting a collision acceleration of the vehicle, the device including a collision force calculating means for calculating an estimated collision force caused in the vehicle in the collision based on the collision acceleration and a collision determining means for determining the collision based on the estimated collision force.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Akihiko Imagi, Takashi Furui, Yukihiro Okimoto
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Patent number: 5742506Abstract: A starting device integrates an output signal of an acceleration sensor by a band-pass integrating means while restricting an upper limit of the output signal in a specified frequency range by an upper limit restricting means, and is provided with a comparing means for outputting a starting signal when the integrated value is larger than a predetermined threshold value. In this way, the starting device is certainly started by an acceleration waveform of collision that must start the device. Further, the device is not influenced by vibration components caused immediately after the beginning of collision with respect to a low-speed collision such as 8 mile/hour frontal collision that must not start the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1995Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyoshi Kura, Mitsunori Maruyama, Hidehiko Kinoshita, Takashi Furui, Yukihiro Okimoto
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Patent number: 5555174Abstract: A starting apparatus of a passenger protecting apparatus is actuated by detecting collision of a vehicle. The starting apparatus is provided so as to subtract a predetermined value from an acceleration signal fed from G sensor and integrate the subtracted acceleration signal, and forcedly set an integrated value to zero if the integrated value is less than zero. Further, the starting apparatus is provided so as to provide a starting signal when the integrated value exceeds a preset threshold value. Therefore, it is possible to discriminate collision to start the apparatus from other collision, prevent starting means from being unnecessarily actuated, and avoid malfunction of the starting means.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1995Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukihiro Okimoto, Takashi Furui, Katsuhiko Ohmae
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Patent number: 5515276Abstract: A starting apparatus for a passenger protecting apparatus includes a collision deciding unit, a control unit, and a trigger. The collision deciding unit makes a collision decision depending upon output of an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration at a time of collision. The control unit controls generation of a starting signal based upon a difference between output of a decelerating direction integrating unit, which integrates the acceleration signal of the acceleration sensor in the decelerating direction, and output of accelerating direction integrating unit, which integrates the acceleration signal of the acceleration sensor in an acceleration direction. The trigger outputs the starting signal based on output of the collision deciding unit and output of the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1994Date of Patent: May 7, 1996Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyoshi Kura, Mitsunori Maruyama, Yukihiro Okimoto, Takashi Furui
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Patent number: 5483451Abstract: Disclosed herein is a start control device for starting a vehicle passenger protecting device such as an air bag, which does not respond to an impact against which the vehicle passenger protecting device must not be started, but quickly responds to a collision against which the vehicle passenger protecting device must be started. The start control device includes a start level generator for setting a decision level of start signal generation to a higher level for a predetermined time from a rise timing of an acceleration signal obtained from an acceleration sensor in deciding a collision by using an integral value of the acceleration signal. With this arrangement, in case of the impact against which the vehicle passenger protecting device must not be started, the start signal can be prevented from being generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1995Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Ohmae, Yukihiro Okimoto, Takashi Furui
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Patent number: 5440485Abstract: A starting apparatus of a passenger protecting apparatus is actuated by detecting collision of a vehicle. The starting apparatus is provided so as to subtract a predetermined value from an acceleration signal fed from G sensor and integrate the subtracted acceleration signal, and forcedly set an integrated value to zero if the integrated value is less than zero. Further, the starting apparatus is provided so as to provide a starting signal when the integrated value exceeds a preset threshold value. Therefore, it is possible to discriminate collision to start the apparatus from other collision, prevent starting means from being unnecessarily actuated, and avoid malfunction of the starting means.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1993Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukihiro Okimoto, Takashi Furui, Katsuhiko Ohmae