Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nakashima
Atsushi Nakashima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10040416Abstract: A vehicle airbag system including: a first airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed at a front face towards a vehicle front of a seat; and a second airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed adjacent, in a vehicle width direction, to the first airbag, and that includes an overhanging deployment section that is positioned at a vehicle rear side of the first airbag and that is inflated and deployed jutting out beside the first airbag so as to cover a vehicle width direction end portion of the first airbag from the vehicle rear.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 10000178Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device that includes: front and rear main chambers that receive gas supplied from an inflator, and that inflate and deploy between respective positions of heads of a front seat occupant and a rear seat occupant, and a side section of a vehicle body; and a delay chamber that is provided spanning between the front and rear main chambers, and that is only supplied with gas through a gas supply opening formed at a boundary between the delay chamber and the main chamber on a front side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 9994186Abstract: An automobile occupant protection device is provided including: a driver's seat airbag; and a curtain airbag that is configured including a main chamber, an auxiliary chamber that is provided at a vehicle front side of the main chamber and that is disposed at a position bent toward the vehicle width direction inner side with respect to the main chamber as viewed along a vehicle up-down direction from inside the vehicle cabin, a non-inflating portion that is disposed between the main chamber and the auxiliary chamber, and a first gas supply path that is capable of supplying gas from the main chamber to the auxiliary chamber. The non-inflating portion is disposed at a position facing, in the vehicle width direction, a maximum external diameter portion of the driver's seat airbag where an external diameter of the driver's seat airbag is largest.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 9969351Abstract: A side airbag device-installed vehicle seat including: a side frame; a side airbag main body that is partitioned into a front bag section and a rear bag section, and in which a front portion of the rear bag section is positioned further toward the seat front side than the front flange portion at least in an inflated and deployed state; and an inner bag section that extends out from the front portion of the rear bag section, past a seat front of the front flange portion, and to a seat width direction inner side of the side frame, and in which an internal portion of the inner bag section in communication with the inside of the front portion of the rear bag section is supplied with gas from the inflator and inflates within the side section.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Hiroyuki Nagura, Masato Kunisada, Yusuke Fujiwara, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 9924777Abstract: The liquid substance advancing container is constructed such that the piston is formed of a sealing part in a front part of the piston that comes in sliding contact with an inner wall of a reservoir of the barrel body and a bar member in the rear part of the piston that has a threaded section on the inner or outer periphery, is movable in a axial direction and is restrained form moving with respect to the rotational direction, a front bar-like part extended forward from the handle is formed with a threaded section that is directly or indirectly screw-fitted to the threaded section of the bar member in the rear part of the piston, and, as the handle is rotated relative to the barrel body, the piston advances and then after full advance of the piston the front bar-like part can extend and retract by multiple stages.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Mitsuru Endou, Atsushi Nakashima, Nobuyuki Nakajima, Yuusuke Kyogoku, Tetsuaki Akaishi, Hiroshi Satou, Yukako Shinmura, Hisami Tamano
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Patent number: 9862349Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device has a curtain airbag. The curtain airbag is configured such that: a front end side is Z-folded toward a vehicle width direction inner side, the curtain airbag is further folded top-to-bottom, and, in the stowed state, a front end portion at the Z-folded region is covered by a rear end portion of a front pillar garnish; a corner portion at a front end side and an upper end side of the front side sub chamber is formed in a circular arc shape; and in a mid-deployment state, a front end side and an upper end side of the Z-folded region are covered, the corner portion overlaps a vehicle width direction outer side of the rear end portion, and a rear end of the corner portion is positioned further to a vehicle rear side than a rear end of the front pillar garnish.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Fujiwara, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 9796352Abstract: A vehicle airbag system including: a first airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed at a front face towards a vehicle front of a seat; and a second airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed adjacent, in a vehicle width direction, to the first airbag, and that includes an overhanging deployment section that is positioned at a vehicle rear side of the first airbag and that is inflated and deployed jutting out beside the first airbag so as to cover a vehicle width direction end portion of the first airbag from the vehicle rear.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 9782199Abstract: To provide a puncture device which prevents components constituting a puncture device from being damaged by buckling (bending) etc., secures safety, and can be handled by a weak user easily. A puncture device is provided with an outer needle, an outer needle hub for retaining a base portion of the outer needle, an inner needle whose tip portion is inserted in the outer needle, an inner needle hub for retaining a base portion of the inner needle, an outer pipe fitted inside the inner needle hub so as to be moveable to and fro, and an inner pipe having a gripping device for gripping the outer needle hub and fitted inside the outer pipe so as to be moveable to and fro, and at least the outer pipe is formed of a soft synthetic resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisami Tamano, Satoru Sumiyoshi, Atsushi Nakashima, Yuusuke Kyogoku
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Patent number: 9738243Abstract: An airbag device for a driver's seat, includes: a steering wheel; a wheel pad portion; a main body airbag that is configured to receive a supply of gas and to be inflated and deployed at a vehicle rear side of the steering wheel; a side portion chamber that is provided at a side portion in a vehicle transverse direction of the main body airbag, and that is configured to receive a supply of gas from the main body airbag and to be inflated and deployed from the side portion of the main body airbag toward the vehicle rear side; and a regulating tether that connects the main body airbag to a rear portion or a front-rear direction intermediate portion of the side portion chamber, and that restricts the side portion chamber from collapsing toward a side removed from a center of the main body airbag in the vehicle transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20170174174Abstract: A side airbag device-installed vehicle seat including: a side frame; a side airbag main body that is partitioned into a front bag section and a rear bag section, and in which a front portion of the rear bag section is positioned further toward the seat front side than the front flange portion at least in an inflated and deployed state; and an inner bag section that extends out from the front portion of the rear bag section, past a seat front of the front flange portion, and to a seat width direction inner side of the side frame, and in which an internal portion of the inner bag section in communication with the inside of the front portion of the rear bag section is supplied with gas from the inflator and inflates within the side section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Hiroyuki NAGURA, Masato KUNISADA, Yusuke FUJIWARA, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20170136981Abstract: An airbag device, comprising: a gas generation device that is operable to generate gas; and an airbag that includes: a first chamber portion that is disposed at a vehicle front side of a vehicle seat on which a vehicle occupant sits, the first chamber portion being inflated due to gas generated by the gas generation device being supplied into the first chamber portion, a second chamber portion that is inflated due to gas generated by the gas generation device being supplied into the second chamber portion and that is disposed adjacent to the first chamber portion in a vehicle width direction, and a connection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20170129444Abstract: An airbag device for a driver's seat, includes: a steering wheel; a wheel pad portion; a main body airbag that is configured to receive a supply of gas and to be inflated and deployed at a vehicle rear side of the steering wheel; a side portion chamber that is provided at a side portion in a vehicle transverse direction of the main body airbag, and that is configured to receive a supply of gas from the main body airbag and to be inflated and deployed from the side portion of the main body airbag toward the vehicle rear side; and a regulating tether that connects the main body airbag to a rear portion or a front-rear direction intermediate portion of the side portion chamber, and that restricts the side portion chamber from collapsing toward a side removed from a center of the main body airbag in the vehicle transverse direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu FUKAWATASE, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20170120854Abstract: An airbag device for a driver's seat, includes: an inflator; a main body airbag that receives a supply of gas from the inflator and is inflated and expanded at a vehicle rear side of a steering wheel; and an annular airbag that is connected to an outer peripheral portion of a rear surface at a vehicle rear side of the main body airbag, and that receives a supply of gas from the main body airbag and is inflated and expanded from the outer peripheral portion toward a vehicle rear side, and whose inflated and expanded state, as seen from the axial direction rear side of the steering wheel, is formed in an annular shape having an outer diameter that is larger than an outer diameter of the main body airbag and having an inner diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of the main body airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu FUKAWATASE, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20170072896Abstract: An automobile occupant protection device is provided including: a driver's seat airbag; and a curtain airbag that is configured including a main chamber, an auxiliary chamber that is provided at a vehicle front side of the main chamber and that is disposed at a position bent toward the vehicle width direction inner side with respect to the main chamber as viewed along a vehicle up-down direction from inside the vehicle cabin, a non-inflating portion that is disposed between the main chamber and the auxiliary chamber, and a first gas supply path that is capable of supplying gas from the main chamber to the auxiliary chamber. The non-inflating portion is disposed at a position facing, in the vehicle width direction, a maximum external diameter portion of the driver's seat airbag where an external diameter of the driver's seat airbag is largest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20170036633Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a vehicle seat including a pair of side supports each provided on a seat cushion so as to be capable of supporting a seated occupant from a side, a seatbelt including a lap belt for waist restraint of the occupant, and an airbag that is provided at the seat cushion, that is capable of receiving a supply of gas and inflating, that is disposed in a position such that, at a time of inflation, at least a portion of the airbag overlaps with the lap belt in an occupant-worn state thereof, in a side view of the seat, and that, by inflating, causes the side support to be displaced and applies tension to the lap belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ippei KOBAYASHI, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20170028960Abstract: A passenger protecting device 10 for a vehicle has: a side airbag portion 20 that is accommodated at an interior of a side support portion 14B, and that, by receiving a supply of gas and inflating at a time of an oblique side collision of a vehicle, causes the side support portion 14B to bulge-out toward the seat upper side; and a seat cushion airbag portion 22 that is accommodated at an interior of the seat portion 14A, and that, by receiving a supply of gas and inflating at a time of an oblique side collision of the vehicle, causes the seat portion 14A to bulge-out toward the seat upper side and raises the femoral region D of the passenger P, and whose inflation is completed later than the side airbag portion 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ippei KOBAYASHI, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 9487180Abstract: A vehicular curtain airbag apparatus and an attachment structure configured not to interfere with a driver seat airbag and being able to appropriately provide occupant protection performance either in normal and small overlap collision modes, and the curtain airbag having a simple configuration. The apparatus includes a main chamber having a front end to be deployed and inflated at a position near a front pillar, and an additional chamber further toward a vehicle front side and to be deployed and inflated, and separated from the main chamber by a partition portion between the front pillar and an inflation area of a driver seat airbag. The additional chamber is folded back near the partition portion toward the vehicle interior and a rear of the vehicle to overlap the main chamber, and parts of a resultant overlapping portion corresponding to upper portions of the main and additional chambers or vicinities of the parts are coupled together to form a chamber coupling portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventor: Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20160297393Abstract: A vehicle airbag system including: a first airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed at a front face towards a vehicle front of a seat; and a second airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed adjacent, in a vehicle width direction, to the first airbag, and that includes an overhanging deployment section that is positioned at a vehicle rear side of the first airbag and that is inflated and deployed jutting out beside the first airbag so as to cover a vehicle width direction end portion of the first airbag from the vehicle rear.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu FUKAWATASE, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20160297394Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device has a curtain airbag. The curtain airbag is configured such that: a front end side is Z-folded toward a vehicle width direction inner side, the curtain airbag is further folded top-to-bottom, and, in the stowed state, a front end portion at the Z-folded region is covered by a rear end portion of a front pillar garnish; a corner portion at a front end side and an upper end side of the front side sub chamber is formed in a circular arc shape; and in a mid-deployment state, a front end side and an upper end side of the Z-folded region are covered, the corner portion overlaps a vehicle width direction outer side of the rear end portion, and a rear end of the corner portion is positioned further to a vehicle rear side than a rear end of the front pillar garnish.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Yusuke Fujiwara, Atsushi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20160107602Abstract: A vehicular curtain airbag apparatus and an attachment structure configured not to interfere with a driver seat airbag and being able to appropriately provide occupant protection performance either in normal and small overlap collision modes, and the curtain airbag having a simple configuration. The apparatus includes a main chamber having a front end to be deployed and inflated at a position near a front pillar, and an additional chamber further toward a vehicle front side and to be deployed and inflated, and separated from the main chamber by a partition portion between the front pillar and an inflation area of a driver seat airbag. The additional chamber is folded back near the partition portion toward the vehicle interior and a rear of the vehicle to overlap the main chamber, and parts of a resultant overlapping portion corresponding to upper portions of the main and additional chambers or vicinities of the parts are coupled together to form a chamber coupling portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventor: Atsushi NAKASHIMA