Patents by Inventor Hideya Nakanou

Hideya Nakanou 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).

  • Patent number: 6546598
    Abstract: A vehicle luggage compartment structure, facilitating the putting in and taking out of small articles from a tray provided in a luggage compartment, and enabling the luggage compartment to be partitioned by the tray by fixing a box to a floor surface of the luggage compartment. A first protruding portion and a second protruding portion for engagement of the tray are engaged with a first guide groove and a first anchor hole of the box, respectively, to hold the tray in the box. By sliding the first protruding portion for engagement along the first guide groove to pull the tray out to the rear of the vehicle, a top wall of the luggage compartment no longer covers an open top side of the tray, thereby enabling small articles to be easily placed into and taken out from the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya Nakanou, Toshimitsu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6505874
    Abstract: A luggage compartment structure allows a tray to be detachably placed on a floor surface of the luggage compartment on which a luggage mat is spread, or detachably placed on the undersurface of an upper back panel of the luggage compartment. Further, the luggage compartment structure allows the tray to be accommodated in a recessed storage portion provided in a floorboard member. As a result, the tray can be effectively placed on, over or under the luggage mat of the luggage compartment as required to accommodate various luggage loading configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Hideya Nakanou, Toshimitsu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20010022451
    Abstract: A luggage compartment structure allows detachable placement of a tray on any of a floor surface of the luggage compartment on which a luggage mat is spread, hung from the undersurface of an upper back panel of the luggage compartment, or accommodated in a recessed storage portion provided in a floorboard member. As a result, the tray can be effectively placed on, over or under the luggage mat of the luggage compartment as required to accommodate various luggage loading configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: TOYODA BOSHOKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Hideya Nakanou, Toshimitsu Watanabe