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).
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Patent number: 12204203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Gouo Kurata, Yuto Mori, Masao Mishina, Yutaka Okayasu, Yasuhito Uetsuji, Hayato Yoshida
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Publication number: 20240183514Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
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Publication number: 20240169863Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Yutaka OKAYASU
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Publication number: 20240131997Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
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Publication number: 20240123823Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20230109081Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Yasuhito UETSUJI, Hayato YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11340472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
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Publication number: 20210337180Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Omron CorporationInventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
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Patent number: 9281137Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
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Publication number: 20150021150Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
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Publication number: 20080291695Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2005Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Yutaka Okayasu, Shogo Nagasaka, Shinya Sonoda, Tsuyoshi Kubota