Patents Assigned to Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9227591
    Abstract: An airbag according to the present invention has: an airbag main body that is provided with a gas introduction opening; and an inner cloth portion that is arranged to cover the gas introduction opening in the airbag main body. The inner cloth portion has a first and a second opening end parts, and is fixed to a peripheral edge part of the gas introduction opening of the airbag main body while a position of the inner cloth portion is superimposed with the gas introduction opening of the airbag main body. In this manner, an airbag is caused to inflate and expand more speedily and widely in a direction which is orthogonal to an occupant's side direction, and an occupant can be buffered and supported in a stable manner so as to have a wide area from a front side irrespective of whatsoever posture seated by the occupant may be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Sano, Yohei Kiuchi, Akito Urushibata, Hidenobu Suzuki, Minoru Oda, Hideki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9211828
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cup holder that is capable of preventing a drawing portion from being pushed and retracted while maintaining a state in which a cup is held. A retraction preventing portion is formed on an interior face of a bottom face of the holder case, and a protrusion is formed so as to be oriented to the bottom face's side of the holder case at a rear end part of a turnable holding arm portion that is provided at a drawing portion. In the case where an attempt is made to retract the drawing portion while maintaining the state in which the cup is held, the protrusion abuts against the retraction preventing portion, and retraction of the drawing portion can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Masuda, Kazuhisa Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9126635
    Abstract: A cowl section structure for a vehicle includes a cowl top cover arranged between a bonnet and a windshield and a contact piece portion. The cowl top cover includes a windshield fitting member provided to a lower end portion of the windshield and a protruding claw extending in a direction in which the protruding claw is inserted into an engagement recessed portion of the windshield fitting member. The contact piece portion is arranged in a space between the protruding claw and the engagement recessed portion. One end of the contact piece portion comes into contact with a tip end portion of the protruding claw. An opposite end of the contact piece portion comes into contact with an inner wall of the engagement recessed portion of the windshield fitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chikara Sano, Masanori Hirano
  • Patent number: 9114757
    Abstract: A drawer apparatus comprises a base member (2) having a base wall (3a) and two side walls (3b) that extend in the same direction from opposed ends of the base wall (3a); a drawer (4); a guide structure (10) by which the drawer (4) is guided to move in the base member (2) between an open position and a storage position; and a coil spring (6, 26) that is compressed between the base wall (3a) of the base member (2) and a rear wall (5a) of the drawer (4) to bias the drawer (4) toward the open position, wherein the coil spring (6, 26) includes continuous circular elements of which diameters gradually change in accordance with a positional change in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Masuda
  • Patent number: 9096192
    Abstract: The present invention provides an airbag that is capable of stabilizing a flow of a gas introduced into a lower air chamber to thereby stabilize an expansion behavior, the air bag being capable of stably constraining an occupant. Along a bulkhead configured to partition an airbag main body portion into an upper air chamber and the lower air chamber, a patch is mounted into the lower air chamber so that a rear end part is opposed to a distributing portion. The patch is expanded by means of a gas introduced into the lower air chamber in an expanded state of an inflating portion of the airbag main body portion to thereby form a cover portion along an interior face of the lower air chamber and a redundant portion configured to slacken with respect to the interior face of the lower air chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Koike
  • Patent number: 9085278
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steering wheel. Hook portions configured to engagingly fit an airbag module is directly supported by a boss portion independent of spoke portions. In addition, a tip end part's side of each of hook claws in each of the hook portions is arranged so as to be oriented to the inside of a steering wheel. With such a construction, even in the case where the airbag module is pulled in such a direction as to be spaced from a steering wheel at the time of inflation and expansion of an airbag, an engaged state between each of the hook claws and an engaged portion that is provided at the airbag module is obtained as engagement at a deeper position, and the engaged state can be established to be rigid in structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yohei Kiuchi, Kei Sano
  • Patent number: 9079559
    Abstract: An airbag includes a vent hole discharging gas, a slide tether performing transition of a state of the vent hole, from an open state via a close state to the open state, by changing between a slackened state and an extended state, and a slide tether cover guiding the slide tether. The other end portion in a longitudinal direction of the slide tether body portion constitutes a first supporting point by being fastened in a direction going from the vent hole toward a mounting position of the inflator, bifurcated portions constitutes a second supporting point by the other end portion of the slide tether cover being fastened, terminal end portions of leg piece portions constitute a third supporting point by being respectively fastened. When the airbag is deployed, transition of a state of the vent hole is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Yohei Kiuchi, Takahiro Yamauchi, Hideaki Saito, Hideki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9079557
    Abstract: An airbag includes: a gas introduction portion; and a folded bag-shaped airbag main body capable of being inflated and deployed in a first direction toward an object to be protected, by gas introduced from the gas introduction portion. The folded airbag main body includes: a deployment portion disposed to face a cover; a flow-in portion through which the gas flows from the gas introduction portion into the deployment portion; and a reduction portion disposed to face the gas introduction portion and configured to make the flow-in portion narrower toward a center portion of a main tear line of the cover and guide the gas introduced from the gas introduction portion to the center portion of the main tear line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Sano
  • Patent number: 9073571
    Abstract: A lower spoke cored bar of a spoke cored bar constituting a spoke portion couples one end portion of a first coupling portion to a rim cored bar. The lower spoke cored bar couples one end portion of a second coupling portion to a boss cored bar. The lower spoke cored bar is provided with a vertical wall portion which couples a bending-shaped first bent portion to the other end portion of the first coupling portion, and which couples a second bent portion in a bending form to the other end portion of the second coupling portion. The rim cored bar is provided with a deformation allowing portion capable of deforming. The vertical wall portion and deformation allowing portions are arranged substantially on the same line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Muramatsu, Tomohiro Sakurai, Takaaki Seki
  • Patent number: 9056544
    Abstract: In present invention, a protrusion portion 21 of a clip member 20 is abutted against an end face 2e of a front glass lower end 2c, and the clip member 20 is fixed to a back face 2b of the front glass 2 via an adhesive agent 17. An engagement portion 13 that is formed in a tongue piece 12 of a cowl-top cover 10 is engaged with a target engagement portion 22 of the clip member 20, and the cowl-top cover 10 is mounted in a state in which a surface 11a of the cowl-top cover 10 and a surface 2a of the front glass 2 are arranged so as to be flush with each other. In addition, an engagement direction is defined as an engagement direction taken along a lengthwise direction oriented from a lower end to an upper end of the front glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Kurata, Daisuke Serizawa
  • Patent number: 9027981
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin product for a vehicle, which can be welded, even in a shape having a part curved in a vibration direction, with a sufficient strength by means of vibration welding. A resin product 100 for a vehicle, made by welding a plurality of members 1, 2 by vibration welding is characterized in that: welded parts by vibration welding are arranged to a plurality of different surfaces 11 (11a, 11b, . . . ) discretely provided in a vibration direction Q; and a respective one of the plurality of surfaces 11 is set to fall within a predetermined angle with respect to the vibration direction Q.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takenori Kurata
  • Patent number: 9027955
    Abstract: First support portions 71 and 72 positioned on a predetermined straight line L2 approximately perpendicular to a broken line of a hinge portion is set in a support portion 70 that supports a back plate 27 with respect to a back face side of a door portion 36. Second and third support portions 73 and 74 positioned in line symmetry with respect to the straight line L2, are set in the support portion 70. It is possible to receive the centrifugal force, which is applied to the back plate 27 due to the expansion of the door portion 36, with good balance by the first to third support portions 71, 72, 73, and 74. An emblem 24 can be reliably fixed to the door portion 36 with preventing a fixing pin 31 from being excessively locked into a through hole 33 more than necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Muramatsu, Tomohiro Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9004577
    Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative panel including a design surface; and a circumferential edge portion that is formed so as to cross from the design surface, wherein the circumferential edge portion has a first face 7 that is continuous from the design surface along a circumferential extension direction and a second face 8 that is formed in a circumferential extension direction along the first face 7, wherein a face variation line is provided at a boundary between the first face 7 and the second face 8, wherein a decorative panel 1 is provided in such a manner that a decoration film 5 is imparted to at least a part of the design surface and a part of the circumferential edge portion, and wherein the decoration film 5 includes a trimming terminal portion CL along the face variation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8984988
    Abstract: In a lower end of a finisher having a substantially I-shape, an extending portion extending along a rim is provided. The finisher has an upper locking portion to be locked to an upper spoke and a lower locking portion provided in the extending portion and to be locked to a lower spoke. The lower locking portion has a protruding portion and a locking piece both standing upright from a back surface of the extending portion. The protruding portion and the locking piece are arranged away from each other in an up-down direction. The lower spoke has an engagement receiving portion for the protruding portion to be fitted and for the locking piece to be engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 8939495
    Abstract: A spoiler where when a weld face is inclined with respect to a pressurization direction, a weld rib is uniformly welded, and an outer member and an inner member are welded and fixed to each other at a stable strength. An inner member is welded and fixed to on an interior face side of an outer member by a vibration welding method. The outer member and/or the inner member before being welded has a weld rib formed on a face inclined with respect to a pressurization direction at the time of welding; a cross section of the rib is formed in a triangular or quadrangular shape; and in the cross section, two corners at both ends of a bottom edge each form an angle of 90 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takenori Kurata
  • Patent number: 8905430
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cover body for airbag device that is capable of easily mounting an emblem that is provided with an emblem body having a narrow portion while ensuring its related mounting strength. A lock pin is protruded at a main body portion with a relatively large width of the emblem body. A hook pin is protruded at a narrow portion with a relatively small width of the emblem body. The lock pin is inserted into a first door portion and then is inserted into a thorough hole of a back plate on a rear face side. The hook pin is inserted into the first door portion, and is hooked therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Ishikawa, Daisuke Ishioroshi
  • Publication number: 20140353954
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a steering wheel in which a decorative member is easily mounted and fixed to a steering main body without a need to employ fixing parts such as screws, and which is capable of effectively absorbing an impact by appropriately deforming the decorative member at the time of input of a load. The steering wheel of the present invention has: a plurality of engaging fixed units by which the decorative member is mounted and fixed to the steering main body's side via a fixing unit, and demounting of the fixing unit is restrained at the time of deformation of the decorative member; and an engaging unit which is arranged on a site configured to produce a bending deformation of the decorative member, and by which demounting is disallowed to be restrained at the time of deformation of the decorative member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ishioroshi, Tomotaka Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Tono
  • Publication number: 20140346018
    Abstract: A back cover includes an opening configured to penetrate the back cover throughout between an exterior surface and an interior surface of the back cover, lock receivers capable of engaging respectively with hook-shaped lock portions of a switch unit, and fastening portions capable of fastening the switch unit to the back cover. The lock receivers and the fastening portions are arranged near a peripheral edge of the opening at positions with the opening interposed between the lock receivers and the fastening portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro TOUNO
  • Publication number: 20140339846
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cup holder that is capable of preventing a drawing portion from being pushed and retracted while maintaining a state in which a cup is held. A retraction preventing portion is formed on an interior face of a bottom face of the holder case, and a protrusion is formed so as to be oriented to the bottom face's side of the holder case at a rear end part of a turnable holding arm portion that is provided at a drawing portion. In the case where an attempt is made to retract the drawing portion while maintaining the state in which the cup is held, the protrusion abuts against the retraction preventing portion, and retraction of the drawing portion can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa MASUDA, Kazuhisa YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140333050
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steering wheel. Hook portions configured to engagingly fit an airbag module is directly supported by a boss portion independent of spoke portions. In addition, a tip end part's side of each of hook claws in each of the hook portions is arranged so as to be oriented to the inside of a steering wheel. With such a construction, even in the case where the airbag module is pulled in such a direction as to be spaced from a steering wheel at the time of inflation and expansion of an airbag, an engaged state between each of the hook claws and an engaged portion that is provided at the airbag module is obtained as engagement at a deeper position, and the engaged state can be established to be rigid in structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei KIUCHI, Kei Sano