Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Iida
Hitoshi Iida 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: 9205796Abstract: An airbag cover includes a ceiling wall portion provided on a steering wheel, and covered an airbag. The ceiling wall portion has an attaching door portion and a non-attaching door portion opened to the left and the right, causing a predetermined fracture portion to facture by the inflating airbag. The attaching door portion has an ornament retained on an attaching seat. In the predetermined fracture portion, the common portion positioned at the center of the right and left door portions has a bypass portion on the circumference of the attaching seat. The attaching door portion is slightly opened toward the rear.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Nonoyama, Hitoshi Iida, Yoshiteru Banno
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Patent number: 9050942Abstract: An airbag of an airbag apparatus includes a vent mechanism. The vent mechanism includes a vent hole, a belt member including a cover portion for covering the vent hole and two connecting sections extending from both sides of the cover portion and serving as tethers, an outer panel located on an outer side of the cover portion, an inner panel located on an inner side of the cover portion and provided with an inner opening. The vent hole is formed on the outer panel. The connecting sections are run through the guide section so as to move toward the vent hole and let the cover portion loosen and open the vent hole when an occupant side wall of the airbag catches an occupant and moves toward a vehicle body side wall. The guide section also holds the connecting sections such that the connecting sections serve as the tethers.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naohiko Ishiguro, Hitoshi Iida, Mikine Hayashi
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Publication number: 20150091277Abstract: An airbag cover includes a ceiling wall portion provided on a steering wheel, and covered an airbag. The ceiling wall portion has an attaching door portion and a non-attaching door portion opened to the left and the right, causing a predetermined fracture portion to facture by the inflating airbag. The attaching door portion has an ornament retained on an attaching seat. In the predetermined fracture portion, the common portion positioned at the center of the right and left door portions has a bypass portion on the circumference of the attaching seat. The attaching door portion is slightly opened toward the rear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Yoshinori NONOYAMA, Hitoshi IIDA, Yoshiteru BANNO
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Publication number: 20150041170Abstract: An impact tool performs a processing operation on a workpiece by carrying out an impact operation on a tool bit in a longitudinal axis direction. The impact tool includes a motor having a rotor and a stator, a tool main body housing the motor, a drive shaft parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tool bit and rotatably driven by the motor, and an oscillating member that is supported by the drive shaft and that carries out an oscillating movement in the axial direction of the drive shaft based on the rotational motion of the drive shaft. A tool drive mechanism is coupled to the oscillating member so that the oscillating movement of the oscillating member linearly moves the tool bit in the longitudinal axis direction. The motor is an outer rotor motor in which the rotor is disposed on an radially outer side of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyunobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida, Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi Iida
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Patent number: 8827306Abstract: An airbag apparatus, which is incorporated in a steering wheel, includes a bag holder in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel. An inflator is elastically supported by the bag holder with elastic support portions. A retainer includes an annular bag attachment portion. The retainer is fastened to the bag holder such that the periphery of the airbag opening is held between the bag attachment portion and the bag holder. The retainer further includes arch portions and bag encompassing portions. The arch portions extend rearward in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and surround the inflator. The bag encompassing portions extend inward in a radial direction of the steering shaft from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and encompass the periphery of the airbag opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Iida, Tsutomu Ishii, Norio Umemura, Kosuke Shigeta, Mikine Hayashi
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Patent number: 8752503Abstract: To generate plasma inside a tube of a small opening diameter and perform plasma processing inside the tube. A plasma processing device 2 is formed by a chamber (4) and a microwave generation device (6). A microwave is introduced into the chamber via a quartz tube (16). A tube holder (18) is arranged inside the quartz tube (16). Two holes are formed in the side surface of the tube holder (18). A tube (20) of a small opening diameter is fixed to the end of the tube holder (18).Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya UniversityInventors: Hiroyuki Kousaka, Hitoshi Iida, Noritsugu Umehara
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Publication number: 20140062071Abstract: An airbag of an airbag apparatus includes a vent mechanism. The vent mechanism includes a vent hole, a belt member including a cover portion for covering the vent hole and two connecting sections extending from both sides of the cover portion and serving as tethers, an outer panel located on an outer side of the cover portion, an inner panel located on an inner side of the cover portion and provided with an inner opening. The vent hole is formed on the outer panel. The connecting sections are run through the guide section so as to move toward the vent hole and let the cover portion loosen and open the vent hole when an occupant side wall of the airbag catches an occupant and moves toward a vehicle body side wall. The guide section also holds the connecting sections such that the connecting sections serve as the tethers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTDInventors: Naohiko ISHIGURO, Hitoshi IIDA, Mikine HAYASHI
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Patent number: 8579043Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for bringing a center of gravity of a battery-powered power tool closer to a working axis of a tool bit in the battery-powered power tool. The battery-powered power tool performs an operation by movement of a tool bit 119 in an axial direction of the tool bit. The power tool includes a battery 110, a motor 111 that is driven by power supply from the battery 110, a mechanical arrangement 113, 115, 117 that drives the tool bit 119 by rotative power transmitted from the motor 111, and a tool body 103 that houses the motor 111 and the mechanical arrangement 113, 115, 117 and has a front end region in which the tool bit 119 is disposed. A sum of weights of the motor 111 and the battery 110 is smaller than a weight of the mechanical arrangement 113, 115, 117.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Toshiro Hirayama, Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi Iida, Kenji Abe, Munetoshi Goto
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Publication number: 20130257024Abstract: An airbag apparatus, which is incorporated in a steering wheel, includes a bag holder in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel. An inflator is elastically supported by the bag holder with elastic support portions. A retainer includes an annular bag attachment portion. The retainer is fastened to the bag holder such that the periphery of the airbag opening is held between the bag attachment portion and the bag holder. The retainer further includes arch portions and bag encompassing portions. The arch portions extend rearward in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and surround the inflator. The bag encompassing portions extend inward in a radial direction of the steering shaft from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and encompass the periphery of the airbag opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi IIDA, Tsutomu ISHII, Norio UMEMURA, Kosuke SHIGETA, Mikine HAYASHI
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Patent number: 8517415Abstract: The invention provides an airbag apparatus including an airbag that is folded toward an inflator attaching part and that is accommodated within a pad functioning as a case such that the airbag is provided with first and second folded parts arranged on a cabin side from an inflator. A tear line is formed on the pad at a position deviated from a center of the inflator toward the first folded part and divides the case into a first door and a second door. In the airbag apparatus, the second folded part that is covered by the first door is folded in a bellows shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Iida, Nobuaki Okamura, Mikine Hayashi
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Patent number: 8465048Abstract: An airbag cover including a front door located in a front area of the airbag cover so as to be openable forward and an ornament located on a top face of the front door. The front door includes a mounting section for mounting the ornament thereon, and the mounting section partially protrudes rearward from the rear edge of the front door. The front door further includes an auxiliary breakable portion that is located at the front edge of the mounting section so as to be breakable when an obstacle contacts with the ornament, and a pair of second hinges located at left and right ends of the auxiliary breakable portion. The mounting section bends about the second hinges relative to the front door in an opposite direction to an opening direction of the front door at breakage of the auxiliary breakable portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mikine Hayashi, Hitoshi Iida
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Patent number: 8459686Abstract: A horn switch mechanism 15 has a securing pin 31 serving as a support member, a movable member 32 serving as an insulating portion, a compression coil spring 35 serving as an urging member, and a contact terminal 34 serving as a movable contact. The securing pin 31 is fixed to a metal core 12 of a steering wheel body 11 and supports a bag holder 21 in such a manner that the bag holder 21 selectively proceeds toward and retreats from the metal core 12. The movable member 32 is arranged between the securing pin 31 and the bag holder 21 and electrically insulates the securing pin 31 and the bag holder 21 from each other. The coil spring 35 urges the bag holder 21 away from the metal core 12. The contact terminal 34 moves together with the bag holder 21. When the bag holder 21 moves toward the metal core 12 against the urging force of the compression coil spring 35, the contact terminal 34 contacts the securing pin 31 and permits conduction between the contact terminal 34 and the securing pin 31.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Matsuo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Norio Suzuki, Kenji Sasaki, Koji Sakurai, Hitoshi Iida, Osamu Hirose, Akira Urayama
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Patent number: 8443914Abstract: A hammer drill is provided with a connector equipped with a female terminal, movably between a connection position where the female terminal is located inside a plug-in port and a non-connection position where the female terminal is in retreat from inside the plug-in port. The hammer drill is also provided with a torsion spring that urges the connector toward the non-connection position. The connector is provided with a shutter portion that is located inside the plug-in port to close the plug-in port at the non-connection position and is in retreat from inside the plug-in port at the connection position. A dust collecting device is provided with a press rail that comes into abutment on the connector to move the connector to the connection position against the urging of the torsion spring as the dust collecting device is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Shinya Bito, Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hitoshi Iida, Shinji Onoda, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20130000937Abstract: An impact tool in which a tool body can be effectively reduced in size is provided. The impact tool has a motor 111, a swinging member 129 that is driven by the motor 111 and swings in the axial direction of the tool bit, a striking mechanism 115 that is driven by components of linear motion in the axial direction of the tool bit in the swinging motion of the swinging member 129, a connecting part 124 that connects the swinging member 129 and the striking mechanism 115, a housing member 151 that houses at least the connecting part 124 in an internal space 156, and a counter weight 155 that is disposed within the internal space 156 of the housing member 151 and reduces vibration caused when the tool bit is driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji ONODA, Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hitoshi Iida
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Publication number: 20130000936Abstract: An impact comprising: a motor (20) defined as a brushless DC motor; a battery (130); a cooling fan (90); a driving current providing device (70) which provides current from the battery (130) to the motor (20); and a controller (60) which controls the driving current providing device (70). The motor (20), the controller (60) and the driving current providing device (70) are arranged adjacently to each other and are cooled by the cooling air generated by the cooling fan (90).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi IIDA
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Patent number: 8342567Abstract: In an airbag-equipped steering wheel, a plurality of horn switch mechanisms assembled to a bag holder each have a securing pin, which is inserted into a corresponding one of through holes formed in a metal core. A clip is engaged with a locking groove of each securing pin, so that each horn switch mechanism is fastened to the metal core. The through holes include one or more normal through holes that restrict inclination of the corresponding securing pins, and a special through hole that has an inclination permitting portion. The inclination permitting portion permits the corresponding securing pin to be inclined about the corresponding clip 13 serving as a fulcrum. In the special through hole, the securing pin is permitted to be inclined about the clip serving as a fulcrum only when the clips are disengaged from the securing pin in all the normal through holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Sasaki, Osamu Hirose, Norio Suzuki, Hitoshi Iida, Yoshiteru Banno, Tomoki Okada, Masakazu Asano
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Publication number: 20120242065Abstract: An airbag cover including a front door located in a front area of the airbag cover so as to be openable forward and an ornament located on a top face of the front door. The front door includes a mounting section for mounting the ornament thereon, and the mounting section partially protrudes rearward from the rear edge of the front door. The front door further includes an auxiliary breakable portion that is located at the front edge of the mounting section so as to be breakable when an obstacle contacts with the ornament, and a pair of second hinges located at left and right ends of the auxiliary breakable portion. The mounting section bends about the second hinges relative to the front door in an opposite direction to an opening direction of the front door at breakage of the auxiliary breakable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Mikine HAYASHI, Hitoshi IIDA
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Patent number: 8256797Abstract: A folded airbag is accommodated between a bag holder, to which horn switch mechanisms are secured, and a pad secured to the bag holder. The horn switch mechanisms are installed by being inserted in attachment holes formed in the bag holder. The pad has switch support portions for supporting the horn switch mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Sakurai, Osamu Hirose, Hitoshi Iida, Kenji Sasaki, Norio Suzuki
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Patent number: 8240704Abstract: A bag holder has a plurality of engagement holes about parts to which an airbag device is attached. Each engagement hole has a first long inner wall surface and a second long inner wall surface that extend along a substantially tangential direction of a circle the center of which coincides with the central axis of the bag holder, or of an opening. Engagement claws of a pad cover each include an insertion portion inserted into one of the engagement holes and a claw portion protruding from the lower end of the insertion portion toward the first long inner wall surface. The bag holder has integrally formed fastening pieces, each of which includes a support portion and a pair of coupling portions. The support portion is located in the vicinity of one of the engagement holes, and the coupling portions connect the support portion to the corresponding second long inner wall surface at several positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Iida, Osamu Hirose, Kenji Sasaki
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Patent number: D677138Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yuji Yamamoto, Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi Iida