Patents Assigned to Alpha Corporation
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Publication number: 20220194188Abstract: A handle device for a vehicle includes a handle body, a latch release lever, a door latch device, an electric actuator and a push portion forming member. The handle body moves between an initial position, a pop-up position and to a latch operation position. The door latch device is released by the latch release lever rotating to a latch release position. The push portion forming member moves from an initial corresponding position to a latch operation corresponding position and has a lever push portion to, when the push portion forming member is at the latch operation corresponding position, rotate the latch release lever to the latch release position. The push portion forming member has a restriction wall to prevent, when the push portion forming member is between the initial corresponding position and a pop-up corresponding position, the latch release lever from rotating toward the latch release position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao TOYAMA
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Patent number: 11198392Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit for capturing images of a vehicle body side surface, a rear side and a diagonally backward of the vehicle, a storage unit that stores a reference image defining a reference state of the vehicle body side surface, and an image comparison unit that detects an abnormal state of the vehicle body by comparing the captured images captured by the imaging unit with the reference image read from the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Sakakura, Kazuhiko Kaniwa, Soh Saito, Teruhisa Kato
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Publication number: 20210381284Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base including an inertia stopper and an operation handle including a stopper protruding portion. The operation handle is movable from an initial position to a use position and to a latch operation position. The inertia stopper has two stopper surfaces and is to rotate from a standby position to a regulation position due to inertia when a collision force is applied to the vehicle. The stopper protruding portion includes a first stopper to, when the operation handle is at the initial position, limit a movement of the operation handle toward the use position by abutting against one of the stopper surfaces, and a second stopper to, when the operation handle is at the use position, limit the movement of the operation handle toward the latch operation position by abutting against another one of the stopper surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao TOYAMA
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Patent number: 11186253Abstract: A steering lock device includes a trigger that is displaced as a frame cover drops from a frame, an auxiliary lock device that holds a lock member in a locked position as the trigger is displaced under condition that the lock member is positioned in the locked position, a housed component that is arranged in a housing chamber defined by the frame cover and the frame or in a guide hole, and a trigger coupling member that couples the housed component and the trigger. When the housed component is displaced, the trigger is displaced via the trigger coupling member.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Takano, Yusuke Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210363795Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base, a first link and a second link and an operation handle connected to the first link and the second link and to be driven from an initial position to a use position. The operation handle is manually operable to a latch operation position beyond the use position. The second link includes an end holding spring to apply an urging force to hold a rotation center of the second link and the operation handle at an initial end position. The handle base includes a latch release lever to be driven by the second link with a movement of the operation handle from the use position to the latch operation position and to transmit a latch release operation force to a door latch device fixed to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao TOYAMA
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Patent number: 11066852Abstract: A vehicle door handle device includes a handle base that is fixed to a door panel back surface of a vehicle, an operating handle that is linked to the handle base from a door front surface side to be rotatable around a rotation center, a stopper protrusion that is provided in any one of the operating handle and the handle base, and an engaged portion that is provided in the other one of the operating handle and the handle base.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20210156180Abstract: A vehicle door handle includes a pair of front and back covers which are connected to each other. One of the front and back covers includes a locking body. The locking body includes a leg portion configured to elastically deform and a locking hook projecting from a tip end of the leg portion. The locking hook is elastically locked and connected to a locked portion formed on the other of the front and back covers. The locking body is biased and the locking hook is press-contacted to the locked portion in a locking state of the locking body and the locked portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Kosuke KAKITA
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Patent number: 11008783Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a first imaging unit that captures an image of a rear side and a diagonally backward, a distance detection unit that detects a distance from the vehicle to an object present in the rear side and the diagonally backward, based on the image captured by the first imaging unit, a course prediction unit that predicts a course of the object, based on transition of the distance to the object detected by the distance detection unit, and an entry prediction unit that predicts whether the object enters a door opening and closing area, based on the course of the object predicted by the course prediction unit and the door opening and closing area which is set on sides of the vehicle and defines a movable range in which side doors of the vehicle are opened and closed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Sakakura, Kazuhiko Kaniwa, Soh Saito, Teruhisa Kato
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Publication number: 20210115709Abstract: An inside handle device includes a handle base attached to a door panel of a vehicle and an operation handle member rotatably supported on the handle base. The operation handle member includes a handle shaft support portion that is provided on a base end side of the operation handle member and serves as a rotation fulcrum point of the operation handle member a grip portion that is provided on a leading end side of the operation handle member and is configured to be gripped and operated by an occupant when the occupant opens a door of the vehicle, and a parting line formed on a door panel side with respect to the grip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi TANAKA, Yoshiyuki NAGATANI
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Patent number: 10968666Abstract: An inside handle device for vehicle includes a handle unit and a cable unit. In the handle unit, an operation handle including a connecting recess is rotatably connected to a handle base. The cable unit is connected to the handle unit while holding one end of an operating force transmission cable in which an inner cable is movably inserted into an outer cable. The connecting recess is locked to a connecting body formed at a tip end of the inner cable in a state where the handle unit is connected to the cable unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro Sugimoto, Takao Toyama
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Publication number: 20210087860Abstract: A vehicle handle device configured to operate a door lock device by transmitting an operation force of an operator via a cable device, the vehicle handle device includes an operation member configured to apply the operation force to the cable device by operation of the operator, and a handle case configured to accommodate the operation member. The handle case includes a cable fixing base portion in which the cable device is configured to be disposed, a cap portion configured to fix the cable device to the cable fixing base portion, and a hinge portion which is provided on the cable fixing base portion and the cap portion and is configured to rotate the cap portion relative to the cable fixing base portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Lan KIN
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Patent number: 10954697Abstract: An inside handle device of a vehicle includes a handle unit and a cable unit. In the handle unit, an operation member including an operation handle is rotatably connected to a handle base. The cable unit movably holds one end of a cable device configured to connect the operation member to a latch device fixed to a door on a cable cover. The cable cover has a first locking portion formed at a cable introduction edge and a second locking portion formed at an opposite-end edge. The first locking portion is rotatably locked to the handle base with the opposite-end edge as a rotating end. The second locking portion is elastically locked in a state of being rotated around the first locking portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro Sugimoto, Takao Toyama
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Publication number: 20210002928Abstract: An outside handle device for vehicle includes an operation handle configured to serve as a handhold at a time of a door opening operation, and an electric actuator configured to drive the operation handle between an accommodated position and a use position. The outside handle device for vehicle is configured to allow a locking accommodating operation having a locking operation of a door latch device fixed to a door and a non-locking accommodating operation not having a locking operation when the operation handle is moved to the accommodated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Takao TOYAMA, Kazuya TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210002926Abstract: An inside handle device includes a handle base attached to a door panel of a vehicle; a lock lever rotatably supported on the handle base, a stopper portion provided on the handle base and limiting a rotation range of the lock lever, and an impact absorbing portion provided on the handle base and absorbing impact generated by a contact of the lock lever with the stopper portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Saeko TATEMICHI, Ryuji MINEMURA, Ryoichi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200408008Abstract: A vehicle door control device includes a swipe operation portion provided on a vehicle interior side of a door, a detection unit provided at least in the swipe operation portion and configured to detect a swipe operation, a door lock device configured to hold the door in a closed state, and a controller configured to release a closed state of the door by the door lock device when it is determined that the swipe operation is detected based on a detection result of the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuo NISHIZUKA
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Publication number: 20200392771Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base, an operation handle, first and second link members disposed at an interval and rotatably pin-connected to the handle base respectively, and an electric actuator configured to rotatably drive the first link member. The operation handle is connected to the handle base so as to be able to protrude from an initial position to a use position. The operation handle is rotatably connected to end portions of the first and second link members. The handle base, the first and second link members, and the operation handle form a link mechanism in which the operation handle at the use position maintains a posture parallel to the initial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao TOYAMA
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Publication number: 20200354994Abstract: An inside handle device of a vehicle includes a handle base and a cable holding case. The inside handle device is connected to a door latch device fixed to a door via a cable device in which an inner cable is inserted into an outer cable, and is configured to remotely control the door latch device. The handle base is configured to swingably support a handle body. The handle body includes an operation portion capable of being operated from a front surface at one end portion and a cable connection recessed portion opening to a back surface direction at another end portion. The cable holding case includes a cable fixing portion configured to fix one end of the outer cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuo NISHIZUKA
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Publication number: 20200340287Abstract: A door opening/closing device includes an operation handle, a detection unit provided in the operation handle and configured to detect a contact state of a user with the operation handle, a door driving unit configured to open or close a door, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine that a first operation involving a direction is a user operation in which a user comes into contact with the operation handle, when the detection unit detects the first operation and a second operation. The control unit is configured to control the door driving unit and open or close the door based on the user operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo NISHIZUKA, Takashi ONO, Takao TOYAMA
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Patent number: 10815704Abstract: A vehicle door outside handle device includes a through hole opening toward a vehicle rear side in a protrusion portion from a door side wall. An optical lens and an imaging element disposed in the through hole toward the vehicle rear side captures a vehicle rear side image including a vehicle side wall image.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Toyama, Kouichirou Sugimoto, So Saito, Teruhisa Kato
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Patent number: 10790104Abstract: A rotary switch device includes a terminal base to which a center portion contact and a fixed contact are fixed, a rotation operation member which is operable to rotate around the center portion contact with respect to the terminal base, a plate-like movable contact member which includes a contact protrusion part and a contact surface and which is held in the rotation operation member so as to short-circuit between the center portion contact and the fixed contact at a conductive rotation position, and a compression coil spring of a barrel type.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Okada