Patents Assigned to U-Shin Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20120096981
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a dial control device having a maneuverability of a control knob improved by making this in cylindrical shape and downsized by disposing another control knob installed within the first-mentioned cylindrical control knob. A dial control device comprising: a cylindrical control knob, a sun gear rotating integrally with said control knob for transmission of a driving force from said control knob, a planet gear interlocking with said sun gear, an internal gear cooperating with said sun gear to guide said planet gear in a direction of its movement, and a control cable coupled to said planet gear so as to operate an external device, wherein said driving force generated by rotational operation of said control knob is transmitted via said sun gear, said planet gear and said control cable to the external device to control operation of said external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD
    Inventors: Kazunori MORIZONO, Makito FUKAZAWA, Yasuo NEMOTO
  • Patent number: 8128137
    Abstract: To provide a supporting structure of a rotating section which offers not only facilitated mounting but also resistance to dropout. There are provided a handle base 1 for rotatably supporting one end side of a handle grip 2, and a lever 3 which has a shaft section 23 rotatably supported by a bearing section 11 of the handle base 1 and which is rotated upon pulling of the handle grip 2. The lever 3 includes a first shaft tip section 27 projecting from the shaft section 23 to a shaft tip side and having a part cut away so as to form a circular face, and a second shaft tip section 28 projecting from the first shaft tip section 27 to a shaft tip side and having a width smaller than that of the first shaft tip section 27.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takaya, Tsuyoshi Muneta
  • Patent number: 8104371
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a dial control device having a maneuverability of a control knob improved by making this in cylindrical shape and downsized by disposing another control knob installed within the first-mentioned cylindrical control knob. A dial control device comprising: a cylindrical control knob, a sun gear rotating integrally with said control knob for transmission of a driving force from said control knob, a planet gear interlocking with said sun gear, an internal gear cooperating with said sun gear to guide said planet gear in a direction of its movement, and a control cable coupled to said planet gear so as to operate an external device, wherein said driving force generated by rotational operation of said control knob is transmitted via said sun gear, said planet gear and said control cable to the external device to control operation of said external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Morizono, Makito Fukazawa, Yasuo Nemoto
  • Patent number: 7982334
    Abstract: The invention provides a motor-driven steering lock apparatus which can improve a reliability of locking and unlocking operations, with a simple circuit structure. A power supply line from a battery and a driving means are connected by a switching means only at a time when a feed signal from a host first control means to a drive control means (CPU), a power supply-enabling signal from the host first control means and a power supply-enabling signal from a host second control means are input to the switching means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Kumano
  • Patent number: 7906867
    Abstract: A power steering lock apparatus provides high reliability and can be actuated using minimal control parts. In a power steering lock apparatus including a lock bolt, an actuator, an actuator driving part, position detecting part, and a slave control part, and being structured such that the slave control part executes a control in accordance with a control signal output by a host control part, the host control part outputs an integrity confirmation code signal to the slave control part, the slave control part executes a computing process by using the input integrity confirmation code signal as a parameter, and outputs a result of computation as an integrity confirmation information to the host control part, and the host control part outputs an engine start signal when the host control part determines that the slave control part is normally activated, and the lock bolt indicates an unlock position state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Kudou, Takashi Fujita, Osamu Michihira, Takuji Oka, Izumi Dohi, Makoto Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7870768
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses rattle and assembly inaccuracies of a magnet and magnet detection sensor, and detects with certainty the position of a lock bolt. The power steering lock unit includes a lock bolt, which is movable between lock and unlock positions, an actuator for causing the lock bolt to move; a transmission mechanism for transmitting the drive force of the actuator to the lock bolt; and position detection sensor for detecting the movement position of the lock bolt. The position detection sensor includes a movable member to which a magnet is fixed, a base plate on which a magnetic detection sensor for detecting the magnetic force of the magnet is disposed, and a holder for movably holding the movable member at a prescribed spacing from the base plate. A linking mechanism is provided for operating the movable member in response to operation of the lock bolt or the transmission mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanioka, Hideki Noma
  • Patent number: 7854139
    Abstract: The invention can securely carry out an operation by a reduced number of the parts. The invention is provided with a base member having a gear lever arranged portion and a pinion member arranged portion, and provided with a communication hole communicating with the gear lever arranged portion in a closed wall portion of the pinion member arranged portion, a gear lever rotatably arranged in a bearing portion, having a gear portion and driving an output member (a control wire) based on a rotation, a pinion member rotatably arranged in the pinion member arranged portion and having a pinion portion engaging with the gear portion via the communication hole, a holder having a retention portion retaining the pinion member in one end, and having a fixing portion fixing to the base member in the other end, and an operation knob arranged so as to be outside fitted to the pinion member and integrally rotating the pinion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Naka
  • Patent number: 7762110
    Abstract: A steering lock unit in which it is possible to place priority on the operating speed or the extracting force of the lock member according to the engagement state of the lock member in the movable member. In a steering lock unit (10) including a transmission mechanism which transmits a power of an electric motor (22) to the lock shaft (30) which holds and releases engagement with a steering shaft. The transmission mechanism includes: a shaft portion (24a) which is adapted to rotate in response to operation of the electric motor (22); and a winder (26) which engages with the shaft portion (24a) and transmits the operation of the electric motor (22) to the lock shaft (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: U-Shin, Ltd.
    Inventor: Manabu Tsukazaki
  • Patent number: 7597364
    Abstract: The invention provides a vehicle door handle device, which can fix a harness of an electric component to an arm of a grip without enlarging the arm. The invention also has a configuration in which an arm insertion hole which allows the arm of the grip to be inserted therethrough is formed in a base plate of a handle seat to be disposed between the grip and a door panel, a pair of frame plate parts are provided so as to protrude parallel to each other from an edge of the arm insertion hole, and the pair of frame plate parts are integrally provided with a holding part having formed therein a harness fastening hole which allows the harness of the electric component to be inserted therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Muneta
  • Publication number: 20090139285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a steering lock device for antitheft of vehicle and aims to assure the safety of the steering lock device against secondary collision, on one hand, and to improve visual impression of peripheral domain of the steering column by closing an apertural areas for insertion of tilt lever operating knob with a cover of the steering lock device. The steering lock device is provided a cover member with the buffering member interposed in order to surround the steering lock device and thereby to assure safety from the secondary collision. In addition, an insertion hole formed in the steering column for a knob used to control a tilt steering device is closed with the cover member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD
    Inventor: Daisuke Tanioka
  • Patent number: 7536887
    Abstract: A cylinder lock has a cylindrical sleeve in which lock grooves are formed on an inner circumferential surface, a cylindrical cylinder on which a plurality of tumbler insertion holes are formed, a plurality of tumblers which are engaged with the lock grooves in an advanced position and which are retracted and disengaged from the lock grooves with insertion of an authorized key, a rear rotor of which at least a portion is turnably placed in the cylinder and in which a container portion is formed in the portion placed in the cylinder, a connecting member which is placed in the container portion of the rear rotor and which is movable in radial directions between a connected position in which the rear rotor and the cylinder are connected to each other and a non-connected position, and a connection releasing member positioned on an outer circumference of the connecting member and is movable in radial directions relative to the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Makino
  • Publication number: 20090107274
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a motor-driven actuator that can prevent generation of hitting sound due to rattling of an output shaft of a motor. The motor-driven actuator is equipped with a motor with an output shaft, worm attached to the output shaft, and rotation member with a worm wheel engaging with the worm inside a case, wherein a bearing member equipped with a regulating face adjacent to a top end of said output shaft and intergrading by biasing force of a spring in a manner said regulating face pushes the top end of said output shaft into the direction of thrust is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD
    Inventors: Keisuke FUKUSHIMA, Hideki NOMA
  • Publication number: 20090084220
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a dial control device having a maneuverability of a control knob improved by making this in cylindrical shape and downsized by disposing another control knob installed within the first-mentioned cylindrical control knob. A dial control device comprising: a cylindrical control knob, a sun gear rotating integrally with said control knob for transmission of a driving force from said control knob, a planet gear interlocking with said sun gear, an internal gear cooperating with said sun gear to guide said planet gear in a direction of its movement, and a control cable coupled to said planet gear so as to operate an external device, wherein said driving force generated by rotational operation of said control knob is transmitted via said sun gear, said planet gear and said control cable to the external device to control operation of said external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD
    Inventors: Kazunori MORIZONO, Makito FUKAZAWA, Yasuo NEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20080168814
    Abstract: A cylinder lock has a cylindrical sleeve 17 in which lock grooves 18 are formed on an inner circumferential surface, a cylindrical cylinder 21 on which a plurality of tumbler insertion holes 23 are formed, a plurality of tumblers 27 which are engaged with the lock grooves 18 in an advanced position and which are retracted and disengaged from the lock grooves 18 with insertion of an authorized key, a rear rotor 32 of which an at least portion is turnably placed in the cylinder 21 and in which a container portion 35 is formed in the portion placed in the cylinder 21, a connecting member 40 which is placed in the container portion 35 of the rear rotor 32 and which is movable in radial directions between a connected position in which the rear rotor 32 and the cylinder 21 are connected to each other and a non-connected position, and a connection releasing member 44 which is provided so as to be positioned on an outer circumference of the connecting member 40 and so as to be movable in radial directions relative to
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Makino
  • Patent number: 7344168
    Abstract: A door handle device for vehicles is capable of preventing falling of the screw locking member and the screw and improving the assembling workability. In the door handle device (1) for vehicles including a handle base (3) to be fixed to a door panel (5) by screwing, the handle base (3) has a through hole (18) for inserting a screw (6) thereinto, and a screw locking member (14) into which a fore end of the screw (6) inserted into the through hole (18) is to be screwed, the screw locking member (14) being formed integrally with the handle base (3) so that the screw locking member (14) can be moved to a position corresponding to the through hole (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Matsubara, Tsuyoshi Muneta
  • Patent number: 7218224
    Abstract: A human body detection sensor includes two oscillation circuits, a tuning circuit which connects equivalent points of the two oscillation circuits to each other, an antenna electrode which is connected to any one of the oscillation circuits so that a change in circuit state occurs upon approach of a human body, and a wave detector circuit for detecting a shift of oscillation between the two oscillation circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Tokudome
  • Publication number: 20070046080
    Abstract: The invention provides a vehicle door handle device, which can fix a harness of an electric component to an arm of a grip without enlarging the arm. The invention also has a configuration in which an arm insertion hole which allows the arm of the grip to be inserted therethrough is formed in a base plate of a handle seat to be disposed between the grip and a door panel, a pair of frame plate parts are provided so as to protrude parallel to each other from an edge of the arm insertion hole, and the pair of frame plate parts are integrally provided with a holding part having formed therein a harness fastening hole which allows the harness of the electric component to be inserted therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Muneta
  • Patent number: 7065993
    Abstract: In the motor-driven steering lock device 10, cam grooves 50 inclined relative to a circumferential direction of a cylindrical part 46 of a lock bolt 44 are formed on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical part 46, a cylindrical rotator 26 that is driven to rotate by an electric motor 16 is provided, the cylindrical part 46 of the lock bolt 44 is disposed inside the rotator 26 so as to be movable in an axial direction of the rotator 26, and cam followers 32 held in longitudinal grooves 30 of the rotator 26 are moved in the cam grooves 50 so as to move the lock bolt 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6941781
    Abstract: An electrically-operated steering lock device includes a protrusion blocking mechanism that blocks protrusion of a lock shaft of a solenoid or the like, and is arranged to prevent malfunctions of the protrusion blocking mechanism even if current is passed through the protrusion blocking mechanism during running of the vehicle. A lock shaft is movable between a protrusion position where a steering shaft is locked and a retracted position where the steering shaft is unlocked, and a lock shaft moving mechanism is coupled to an electric motor and serves to move the lock shaft. The protrusion blocking mechanism is electrically driven and, when the lock shaft is placed at a retracted position, engages with an engagement portion formed in the lock shaft to block protrusion of the lock shaft. A holding device holds the protrusion blocking mechanism in a position where protrusion of the lock shaft is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6931896
    Abstract: A steering lock apparatus is composed of: a rotational member having an engagement member; an operating portion positioned on a front side of and connected to the rotational member; a holder for holding the rotational member rotatably in forward and backward directions, and for holding the same rotatably in a rear position; an actuator driven by a signal transmitted by a controller upon detection of the rotational member being operated toward a rear side; and a lock member that is operated by the actuator to be engaged with the engagement member of the rotational member in LOCK position for preventing rotation of the rotational member. The rotational member is held rotatably in a rear position and disabled from moving to a front position when the rotational member is operated to a rear position to release engagement between the engagement member of the rotational member and the lock member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Isao Ochi