Patents Assigned to Piolax, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11377884
    Abstract: A lock device includes a base member fixed on an opening/closing member, an operation member rotatably supported on the base member, and a rod configured to move forward and backward to be engaged with and disengaged from a locked portion of the fixed member in response to operation of the operation member. The operation member includes a pivot portion and a transmission portion. The base member includes a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion. When the transmission portion presses an inclined surface of the rod and thus causes the rod to move backward, the first attachment portion abuts against the rod, thereby limiting movement of the rod in the direction intersecting with the forward and backward movement direction of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Publication number: 20220194216
    Abstract: There is provided an over-fueling prevention valve including a housing provided with a first opening, a second opening, and a first valve seat; a main valve provided with a one end opening, the other end opening, and a second valve seat; a first biasing portion; a sub valve; and a second biasing portion. Biasing forces of the first biasing portion and the second spring are set such that a valve re-closing pressure of the main valve is higher than a valve re-opening pressure of the sub valve. In a state in which the main valve is separated from the first valve seat, the first opening and the second opening communicate with each other via an external space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi MATSUO, Nobuhiro HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20220161731
    Abstract: A locking device includes a lock portion on one of a fixed body or an opening/closing body, a rod on the other member, and a protrusion protruding from the other member. The rod has a recess surrounded by a pair of first walls facing each other in a sliding direction of the rod and a pair of second walls facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the sliding direction. A first elastic piece extends from one of the first walls toward the other and applies an elastic force against a tip end surface of the protrusion, and a pair of second elastic pieces extend from the second walls. Each of the second elastic pieces has a receiving surface that engages with a back surface of a flange portion of the protrusion, and is configured to elastically abut against a side surface of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Satoru TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20220128113
    Abstract: There is provided a damper device including: a cylinder; a piston; and a seal ring. The piston includes: a column portion wound around the seal ring; and a first restricting portion and a second restricting portion that are configured to restrict movement of the seal ring in a axial direction. The column portion has a protruding portion protruding outward in a radial direction. The first restricting portion has a cutout portion. The seal ring is capable of taking a deformed state where the seal ring is deformed so as to partially enter the cutout portion by movement of the piston. In a case where the seal ring is in the deformed state, and in a normal state where the seal ring does not enter the cutout portion, the seal ring is pressed against an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder by the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun SAITO
  • Patent number: 11306520
    Abstract: There is provided a handle device. The handle device includes a base member, a handle member, and a swing member. The handle member has a grasp portion. The swing member includes a handle-side abutting portion, a base-side abutting portion, and a rotational pivot portion. As the handle-side abutting portion comes away from a bottom portion of the base member, the base-side abutting portion comes close to the bottom portion of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Bong Won Jung, Jung Hyung Cho
  • Patent number: 11293206
    Abstract: An opening/closing body locking device for an opening/closing body that is openably/closably mounted to an opening portion of a stationary body, the locking device including locking portions provided on both lateral sides of the opening/closing body, a pair of link rods that are mounted to the stationary body, and are interlocked with each other to slidably move so that hook portions at distal ends thereof engage and disengage the locking portions, a biasing unit that biases the link rods in directions that the hook portions of the link rods engage the locking portions, and an operating member that causes the hook portions of the link rods to slide in directions that the hook portions disengage the locking portions against biasing force of the biasing unit, pressing members that are provided on the both lateral sides of the opening portion of the stationary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shimizu, Hisashi Nakasone
  • Patent number: 11229263
    Abstract: A hook device makes it easy to return a hook from a raised state to a stored state. This hook device has a holding member and a hook member, the holding member has an integrally formed elastic piece, the hook member has a rotating shaft and a hanger, the outer periphery of the rotating shaft is provided with an arcuately formed rotating surface and a holding surface formed so as to be close to the rotating shaft center, and the elastic piece abuts against the rotating surface of the rotating shaft in a flexural state when the hook member is raised, and abuts against the holding surface of the rotating shaft when the hook member is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Jung Hyung Cho, Hyun Kook Park, Ki Seob Nam
  • Publication number: 20210370840
    Abstract: Provided is a lock device for an opening/closing body, the device having a reduced number of parts and enabling a key cylinder to be removed with greater ease. The lock device comprises a lock part, a lock member which is operated via a manipulation member, a base member, and a key cylinder, wherein: the manipulation member comprises a cylinder housing part; the base member comprises a cylinder arrangement space in which the cylinder housing part is arranged, a wall part located at the tip side of the manipulation member, and an opening formed in the wall part; the key cylinder comprises a key plate; the key plate comprises a pressing surface; and the pressing surface is exposed inside the cylinder arrangement space and disposed further to the base end part side of the manipulation member than the edge part of the opening in the wall part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi NAKASONE
  • Publication number: 20210348427
    Abstract: Provided is a lock device for an opening/closing body, the device enabling a base member to be mounted from the front side of a mounting hole, and making it difficult for the base member to become loose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi NAKASONE
  • Patent number: 11160992
    Abstract: A light emitting type capsule treatment tool for irradiating light with a specific wavelength required for photoimmunotherapy, includes a power receiving coil, a magnetic member, a light emitting member and a capsule. The power receiving coil is formed by winding a conductive wire and configured to receive electric power supplied from an external transmission antenna via a magnetic flux. The magnetic member is placed on an inner circumference of the power receiving coil. The light emitting member is configured to be supplied with electric power from the power receiving coil and to emit the light with the specific wavelength. The capsule houses the power receiving coil, the magnetic member and the light emitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: PIOLAX, INC., PIOLAX MEDICAL DEVICES, INC., B & PLUS K.K.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kimura, Satoshi Yoshita, Yasuo Yoshikawa, Takayuki Shindo
  • Publication number: 20210317690
    Abstract: A lock device for an opening and closing body attached to a fixed body, includes a rotary member includes a rotary shaft and a lock member connecting portion rotatably connected to a lock member. A rotary member attaching part includes an upright wall erected from a lock member arrangement surface, which is a surface of the opening and closing body or the fixed body facing the lock member, and a rotation support wall continuously provided to the upright wall and arranged spaced from the lock member arrangement surface, and is provided integrally with the opening and closing body or the fixed body. The rotation support wall is formed with a bearing hole in which the rotary shaft is inserted. A retainer preventing the rotary shaft inserted in the bearing hole from coming off is provided between the bearing hole and the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi NAKASONE
  • Patent number: 11135913
    Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing having a valve chamber and a ventilation chamber divided by a dividing wall, the dividing wall having an opening, and the housing having a discharge opening formed at a peripheral surface on the ventilation chamber side; a float valve coming into and out of contact with the opening; and a fuel vapor pipe connected with the discharge opening outside the housing. The ventilation chamber is provided with a tubular wall which communicates with the discharge opening and which extends from the discharge opening toward the inside of the ventilation chamber. The tubular wall has a surface on the dividing wall side which is provided with a ventilation hole communicating with the ventilation chamber. An end portion on the extending direction side of the tubular wall is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Mihara
  • Publication number: 20210284248
    Abstract: There is provided a hole plug including: a body portion including a cover flange portion that covers an opening, an insertion portion that is inserted into the opening, and at least one pair of engagement portions that is engaged with a back side peripheral edge of the opening; and a thermosoftening resin member that is fixed to a back side peripheral edge of the cover flange portion and that is configured to be heated and melted so as to fix the cover flange portion to a predetermined member. The thermosoftening resin member includes an extension portion extending obliquely outward toward the predetermined member, and the extension portion is elastically abutted against a front side of the predetermined member in a state where the engagement portion is engaged with the back side peripheral edge of the opening before melting of the thermosoftening resin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: PIOLAX, INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru KIYOTA, Nobuyuki NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 11098833
    Abstract: A quick connector includes a tubular socket, a wire retainer attached to an outer circumferential surface of the socket, and a guide member provided inside of the socket. The wire retainer has a lock portion which engages with a flange of a first tubular body when the guide member is at a second position. An outer circumferential surface of the guide member is formed with a holding recess in which the lock portion is fitted when the guide member is at a first position, and a wall of a pair of walls forming the holding recess is formed with a tapered guide surface that extends radially outward. The tapered guide surface guides the wire retainer so that the wire retainer goes over the flange when the first tubular body is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11098503
    Abstract: A lock device for holding an openable and closable member mounted on an opening portion of a fixed member, includes a base member, an operation member, and a rod. The operation member has an operating portion exposed to a front side of an outer member, and a pivotally supporting portion pivotally supported on the base member. The base member has a hook portion configured to be hooked on a mounting edge portion formed on the outer member, and a locking claw portion configured to be locked on a locking edge portion formed on a rear side of the outer member to restrict the base member from moving in a direction in which the base member moves away from a rear surface of the outer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Patent number: 11041536
    Abstract: A spring assembly includes coil springs supported on a spring support member. The coil springs include plural first coil springs and a second coil spring. The spring support member includes a first support member and a second support member facing the first support member. One ends of the first coil springs are supported on a front surface of the first support member. One end of the second coil spring is supported on the front surface of the first support member or a front surface of the second support member, and in this state, another end of the second coil spring protrudes further than other ends of the first coil springs. A sum of elastic repulsive forces of the first coil springs is larger than an elastic repulsive force of the second coil spring in a state where the first coil springs and the second coil spring are compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20210180549
    Abstract: To provide a fuel tank check valve making it easy to assemble a cap to a valve element housing. This fuel tank check valve has a body tube provided with a valve element housing, a valve element, a cap, and a spring, wherein the valve element housing has a base end side frame, a tip end side frame to which the cap is mounted, and a first coupling frame connecting the both frames, the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion having a shape in which a circumferential part is retracted from the tip end surface thereof to the base end side frame side, the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched, and the cap is assembled to the valve element housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PioLax, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro SAKAI, Yusuke OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20210164596
    Abstract: There is provided a hose clamp, including a plate spring body and a pair of tab portions. The plate spring body has a base portion, and arm portions. A first overlap portion and a second overlap portion are formed at the arm portions, and in a state where a diameter of the plate spring body is reduced, the first overlap portion and the second overlap portion overlap with each other in the circumferential direction of the plate spring body. Engagement portions are provided on facing surfaces of the pair of tab portions respectively, the engagement portions holding the plate spring body in a state where the diameter of the plate spring body is expanded. The engagement portions are provided at positions closer to side edge portions being opposite to facing side edge portions of the overlap portions than to the facing side edge portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Ken SODEYAMA, Ryosuke HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210157339
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device, including: a housing in which, via a partition wall, a valve chamber is provided below the partition wall and a vent chamber is provided above the partition wall, and a vent hole through which the valve chamber and the vent chamber communicate with each other is provided in the partition wall; and a float valve. A valve seat is formed on a side of the valve chamber of the partition wall, and an opening is provided on an inner side of the valve seat. The opening includes a first opening and a second opening extending outward in a slit shape from an outer periphery of the first opening. A seal part having elasticity that contacts with and separates from the valve seat to close and open the first opening and the second opening, is disposed above the float valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta MIHARA
  • Patent number: 11009147
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device for a fuel tank. A housing is provided with a valve chamber and a vent chamber defined via a partition wall. The partition wall is provided with an opening. A float valve is received in the valve chamber to be movable up and down. The float valve includes a lower member and an upper member. The upper member includes a top portion, an outside wall extending from the top portion, and an elastic engaging piece configured to engage with an engaged portion of the lower member. The elastic engaging piece extends from a location on the back surface of the top portion, which is located inward from the outside wall, and is configured to elastically return after being bent in an outward radial direction of the upper member and thus to engage with the engaged portion of the lower member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Mihara