Patents by Inventor Yutaka Okayasu

Yutaka Okayasu 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: 12204203
    Abstract: A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a lens array including an array of a plurality of lenses and a display unit. Light from each of the plurality of light source positions transmits through a different position on the display unit and is focused by a corresponding lens. A transmittance on the display unit through which the light transmits differs depending on a position on the display unit. The transmittance at a position of a plurality of positions on the display unit is a transmittance of one of three or more types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Gouo Kurata, Yuto Mori, Masao Mishina, Yutaka Okayasu, Yasuhito Uetsuji, Hayato Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240183514
    Abstract: A display switching apparatus, switching display images by switching irradiation of lights from light sources (7), includes: a lens array (6) in which lenses are arranged; a display part including pixel regions arranged to include regions through which a light formed by condensing each light emitted from the light sources with each lens of the lens array passes; and a housing (9) holding the display part. A transmittance in each pixel region is set corresponding to a predetermined static pattern, a shape of the display part as viewed in a direction perpendicular to a display surface of the display part is an irregular shape that is not rectangular, and a shape of the housing when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the display surface is the same as or similar to the shape of the display part as viewed in the direction perpendicular to the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20240169863
    Abstract: The disclosure realizes a highly recognizable display system for an observer. A display system (1), including display switching devices (10A to 10D), displays multiple kinds of warnings in a predetermined area. The display switching devices switch multiple switching images including predetermined symbols to display display images in the predetermined area. The switching images include a symbol indicating one warning among the kinds of warnings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Yutaka OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20240131997
    Abstract: A display switching device (1) includes: a lens array (40); a display part (10), comprising pixel regions (31) disposed to include regions in which light in which respective light emitted from light sources (50) is condensed by respective lenses (41) of the lens array (40) passes through. A transmittance of each pixel region (31) is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. Display of the display part (10) performed through irradiation of the light of the light sources (50) exhibits directivity, and a first averaged oriented direction (D1) averaging, among the light sources (50), oriented directions as directions of the directivity is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a normal direction of a display surface (11) of the display part (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20240123823
    Abstract: A display system includes an image display part displaying an image indicating a mode selected in a driving device of a vehicle having a plurality of modes. The image display part displays all images indicating each of the plurality of modes, and displays the image indicating the selected mode to be different in at least one of color, brightness, character format, and size from an image indicating a non-selected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230109081
    Abstract: A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a lens array including an array of a plurality of lenses and a display unit. Light from each of the plurality of light source positions transmits through a different position on the display unit and is focused by a corresponding lens. A transmittance on the display unit through which the light transmits differs depending on a position on the display unit. The transmittance at a position of a plurality of positions on the display unit is a transmittance of one of three or more types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Yasuhito UETSUJI, Hayato YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11340472
    Abstract: A first stereoscopic image display device includes a light guide plate having a plurality of reflectors and causes an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate. In a plan view from a direction vertical to an outgoing surface, when four quadrants are specified for each of the reflectors, the four quadrants taking a position of each of the reflectors as an origin, the four quadrants being divided by two straight lines orthogonal to each other and inclined 45° with respect to a direction in which the incident light is incident on each of the reflectors, light changed in the optical path by each of the reflectors is emitted to a quadrant adjacent to a quadrant on which incident light is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Publication number: 20210337180
    Abstract: A first stereoscopic image display device (2) is provided with a light guide plate (20) including a plurality of reflectors (31a, 31b, 31c), the first stereoscopic image display device (2) causing an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from an angle being a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 9281137
    Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame portion disposed integrally with an outer peripheral portion of an upper surface of the base, a common fixed contact disposed at a corner of inside surfaces of the frame portion, and a fixed contact disposed on an inside surface of the base opposite to the common fixed contact, a spring member having elastic arm portions extending respectively from both ends of a bellows-like spring portion, wherein a free end portion of one of the elastic arm portions serves as a sliding movable contact, wherein a free end portion of another of the elastic arm portions serves as a rotationally movable contact, and wherein the rotationally movable contact is positioned so as to be in contact with the common fixed contact of the base, and an operation lever including an operation rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
  • Publication number: 20150021150
    Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame portion disposed integrally with an outer peripheral portion of an upper surface of the base, a common fixed contact disposed at a corner of inside surfaces of the frame portion, and a fixed contact disposed on an inside surface of the base opposite to the common fixed contact, a spring member having elastic arm portions extending respectively from both ends of a bellows-like spring portion, wherein a free end portion of one of the elastic arm portions serves as a sliding movable contact, wherein a free end portion of another of the elastic arm portions serves as a rotationally movable contact, and wherein the rotationally movable contact is positioned so as to be in contact with the common fixed contact of the base, and an operation lever including an operation rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
  • Publication number: 20080291695
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a display device capable of displaying a prescribed display pattern by making the pattern luminous as needed, while the rear side can usually be seen through easily. In order to achieve it, a display pattern 20 is formed with minute recesses 29 provided on at least one surface of a translucent substrate 10, and at least one light source 30 is disposed on a side end face of the translucent substrate 10. The area density of the minute recesses 29 constituting the display pattern 20 is set to not more than 20%, and the opening area of one recess 29 is set to not more than 0.03 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Yutaka Okayasu, Shogo Nagasaka, Shinya Sonoda, Tsuyoshi Kubota