Patents Assigned to Piolax, Inc.
  • Locking device for opening/closing member
    Patent number: 10435921
    Abstract: A locking device includes: a rotating member having a support shaft and a protrusion provided at a position deviated with respect to the support shaft; a sliding rod that connects to the rotating member due to the protrusion being fit into a recess provided at a base end side; and an unlocking member that unlocks by causing the rotating member to rotate. The recess includes: a pair of restricting walls facing each other in a length direction of the sliding rod; a pair of elastic side walls facing each other in a width direction of the sliding rod having hook portions that engage with the base end side of the head of the protrusion; and an elastic bottom wall that receives the leading end side of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Locking device and locking device mounting method
    Patent number: 10400486
    Abstract: A rotor member in a locking device is rotatably supported in a base member, is connected to a locking member by projecting to the back side from an opening portion formed in a mounting seat face, and drives the locking member in accordance with the operation of an operating member. A first locating portion of the base member abuts or is near an edge portion of the opening. A second locating portion is inserted into a locating hole formed in an opening and closing member. The first locating portion projects further toward the back side than the second locating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Hook apparatus
    Patent number: 10384616
    Abstract: There is provided a hook apparatus. A metal bracket is fixed to a vehicle body with a resin case mounted thereon. A shaft is supported by the bracket. A hook including a pair of opposed surfaces and a pair of shaft hole parts formed in the opposed surfaces and is capable of inserting the shaft therethrough. The hook is supported rotatably on the bracket through the shaft. The case includes an elastic piece extending along the rotation shaft direction and capable of coming into elastic contact with the hook. The elastic piece includes radial-direction contact parts capable of coming into contact with sliding contact surfaces respectively formed in the hook around the shaft hole parts in a radially inward direction from outside in a radial direction; and axial-direction contact parts coming into contact with the opposed surfaces of the hook formed around the shaft hole parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sotome
  • Valve case mounting structure
    Patent number: 10369882
    Abstract: A valve case mounting structure includes a mount base and a valve case. The mount base includes a valve case support portion and a retainer piece having a first engagement opening and a second engagement opening. The valve case includes an engaging projection portion, and a holder portion. When the engaging projection portion is positioned at a front end side of the first engagement opening, the retainer piece does not reach the holder portion. When the engaging projection portion is moved from the front end side of the first engagement opening toward the second engagement opening, a front end portion of the retainer piece is inserted into the holding space before becoming unable to be inserted into the holder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Mihara
  • Flap valve apparatus
    Patent number: 10344879
    Abstract: A flap valve apparatus includes a main body; a valve body; and a spring member. The main body includes support shafts, and the valve body includes bearing portions. When viewed from the axial direction of the support shaft, the bearing portions has a bearing hole with an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the support shaft; and an introduction groove being in communication with the bearing hole from the seal surface side of the valve body. A width of the introduction groove is smaller than the outer diameter of the support shaft, but is expandable to receive the support shaft. When viewed from the axial direction of the support shaft, an opening portion of the introduction grove is positioned near the axial center of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Tomotaka Masaki
  • Pipe fitting
    Patent number: 10309567
    Abstract: Provided is a pipe fitting, which is capable of preventing unintended release of a connection between pipes due to an external manipulation and is capable of releasing the connection between the pipes when necessary. This pipe fitting has a housing, a first retainer, and a second retainer. The first retainer has first elastic pieces as well as being slidably disposed inside the housing and being configured so that when the first retainer is located on the connecting section side of the housing, the first elastic pieces are expandable and when the first retainer is located on the inserting section side of the housing, expansion of the first elastic pieces is restricted. An operating pipe section, which can be held at the connecting section end only through an opening in the connecting section of the housing is provided on the second retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshie Sato
  • Fastener
    Patent number: 10308406
    Abstract: There is provided a fastener including a band, a band fastening portion and a mounting portion. The band fastening portion includes a passage hole, a locking claw, a supporting wall portion, and a pair of side wall portions. The supporting wall portion extends in a direction from an inlet opening towards an outlet opening and has end faces. The band has a proximal end portion extending from the end face of the supporting wall portion. The pair of side wall portions are disposed so as to define a gap in a widthwise direction between the proximal end portion and themselves. End faces of the pair of side wall portions project further in a passing direction of the band through the passage hole than the end face of the supporting wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Koike
  • Holding device
    Patent number: 10300862
    Abstract: There is provided a holding device mounted in a mounting hole in a mount member to hold a predetermined member. A base member is mounted in the mounting hole. A bag hooking member is supported rotatably on the base member. The bag hooking member has a holding portion that takes, depending on its rotational positions, a protruding state and a stowed state and that holds the predetermined member in the protruding state. The base member has a frame portion surrounding the bag hooking member, a claw portion extending from one side of the frame portion to be locked on a rear side portion of the mount member, and an erect portion erected from the one side of the frame portion to be locked on the rear side portion in a position lying nearer to the mounting hole than a distal end of the claw portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sotome
  • Check valve
    Patent number: 10295074
    Abstract: A check valve includes a valve case, a positive pressure valve, a spring, and a negative pressure valve. The positive pressure valve is slidably disposed in a valve chamber of the valve case. The spring urges the positive pressure valve to abut on a positive pressure valve seat of the valve case. The negative pressure valve is on the positive pressure valve to abut on a negative pressure valve seat of the positive pressure valve. The negative pressure valve closes a communicating passage in the positive pressure valve in a normal state, and opens it when a pressure in the fuel tank falls to a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kosei Yamaguchi
  • Valve device for fuel tank
    Patent number: 10267275
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a valve device for fuel tank. The valve device includes: a housing in which a valve chamber and a ventilation chamber are divided by a partition wall having a first and second openings; a vapor discharge outlet communicating with the ventilation chamber; first and second float valves vertically movably housed in the valve chamber to close the first and second openings, respectively; and a recess portion defined in a part of the ventilation chamber correspondingly with the first opening. A passage is provided to communicate the discharge outlet with the recess portion. And, a first wall portion is provided around an end of the passage on a side of the recess portion so as to block the fuel that flows out of the second opening into the first opening from heading to the third opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: PIOLAX, INC., YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Mihara, Kazunari Nakaya, Masato Shinozaki, Masaru Sawano
  • Damper device
    Patent number: 10233994
    Abstract: A damper device includes a cylinder, a piston, a seal ring member, and a transmitting portion. The piston includes an annular outer circumferential portion, a first stopper portion, a second stopper portion, and a projecting portion. The projecting portion has an inclined surface which is inclined radially outwards form a side of the second stopper portion towards a side of the first stopper portion. The seal ring member is configured to allow a first chamber to communicate with a second chamber when a portion of the seal ring member which is not restricted by the first stopper portion is deformed in a direction away from the second stopper portion due to friction caused between the seal ring member and the cylinder or a fluid pressure from the second chamber to ride on the inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Inoue
  • Valve device
    Patent number: 10221955
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a valve device. The valve device includes: a valve case; a valve element slidably disposed within a valve chamber defined in the valve case; and a positive pressure spring configured to urge the valve element toward a valve seat in the valve case. The valve element includes an outer circumferential portion having a predetermined length extending along an inner circumference of the valve chamber. The outer circumferential portion includes plural opening portions. And, ribs project from the inner circumference of the valve chamber to enter into the opening portions, thereby limiting movement of the positive pressure spring in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kosei Yamaguchi
  • Component mounting structure
    Patent number: 10220791
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a mounting structure including a hook member to be mounted on a mount member, and a mounting member. A base part of the hook member protrudes from the front side of the mount member. In the mounted state, a locking part of the hook member locks with a back rim of a mounting hole. An operation part of the mounting member is operated during the mounting on the mount member. An engaging part of the mounting member can engage with the locking part at the back side of the mount member. The mounted state is achieved by sliding, via an operation applied to the operation part, the mounting member substantially parallel to a front surface or a back surface of the mounting hole, such that the engaging part engages with the locking part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sotome
  • Power device for implant medical device and implant medical device
    Patent number: 10220218
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a power supply device for supplying power to a medical device main body implanted in a human body. The power supply device includes a power supply coil configured to supply power wirelessly to a power reception coil provided in the medical device main body from outside the human body through electromagnetic induction. And, the power supply coil includes: a cylindrical coil formed by winding a lead wire helically; and a ring-shaped member made of a magnetic material and is disposed so as to surround an outer circumference of the cylindrical coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Kimura
  • Damper device
    Patent number: 10221909
    Abstract: A damper device is configured so that a piston moves in a cylinder. A seal ring member is provided to the outer periphery of the piston to device the inside of the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber. A transmission member is connected to the piston and can transmit external force to the piston. A cutout section is formed with a predetermined circumferential width in a first stopper surface. A communication section has an opening in an annular outer peripheral section located closer to the second chamber than the cutout section. When the seal ring member is pressed toward the first stopper surface, the seal ring member is deformed so as to partially enter the cutout section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • DAMPER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190032388
    Abstract: A damper device provided between a fixed body having an opening portion and an openable and closable body mounted on the opening portion and configured to apply a braking force to the openable and closable body. An elastic resin member is mounted on a projecting portion provided on the openable and closable body. A receiving recess portion is provided on the fixed body to receive the elastic resin member. The elastic resin member has a base portion; a pair of arm portions; a bridge portion; and a stopper, which are formed integrally. The receiving recess portion has: an introducing portion configured to abut with the arm portions to bend them diametrically towards each other; and a restricting portion configured to abut with the stopper to restrict the openable and closable body from opening, when the openable and closable body opens to cause the elastic resin member to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Piolax, Inc.
    Inventor: Kouichi KATO
  • Lock device for opening/closing device
    Patent number: 10132108
    Abstract: A lock device for an opening/closing device, is provided with: lock sections located on both sides of the lid; a pair of link rods provided with hook sections provided at the front ends of the pair of link rods; pressing means for pressing the hook sections in the direction in which the hook sections engage with the lock sections; a pusher for sliding the hook sections in the direction in which the hook sections do not engage with the lock sections; pressing members disposed on both sides of an opening and pressing the lid in the direction in which the lid opens; and a holding lever and a holding protrusion which hold the hook sections in a state in which the hook sections do not engage with the lock sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shimizu, Hisashi Nakasone
  • Retaining device
    Patent number: 10080454
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a retaining device. The retaining device includes a retaining member and a case member. The retaining member has a base and a shaft that protrudes from the side of the base. The case member includes: a frame which forms an opening; a pair of side walls which are erected from both side edges of the frame; and an insertion opening which is formed between the pair of side walls for inserting the retaining member from the rear side of the case member. A shaft hole is formed in each side wall, and the shaft is inserted into the shaft holes. A first slit is formed in each side wall and located between the insertion opening and the shaft hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sotome
  • Tonneau cover device
    Patent number: 10071618
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a tonneau cover device. The tonneau cover device includes a tonneau cover and a fixing device to engage with a lock portion to thereby hold the tonneau cover in a pulled-out-and-held state. The fixing device includes: a slider provided in a slidable manner and a hook provided in a swingable manner. When a force is exerted on an engagement protruding portion of the hook as a result of pushing in the tonneau cover toward the winding direction from the pulled-out-and-held state, and the exerted force acting on the engagement protruding portion is larger than the normally-given urging force acting on the engagement protruding portion, the hook swings such that the engagement protruding portion retracts into the case while causing the slider to be pushed in away from the sidewall, thereby being disengaged from the locking portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Miyamae, Hiroaki Asai
  • Hose clamp
    Patent number: D848583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Takao Nagai, Ken Sodeyama