Patents by Inventor Keiji Amano

Keiji Amano 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: 11913517
    Abstract: A vibration damper that damp vibrations transmitted between a drive unit and a support body. The vibration damper comprises: an elastic member interposed between the drive unit and the support body; a rotor supported by the drive unit or the support body; and a vibration translating mechanism that rotates the rotor and reciprocates the rotor between the drive unit and the support body, in response to the vibrations acting in a vibrating direction to isolate the drive unit and the support body away from each other and bring the drive unit and the support body closer together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Yoeda, Hiroyuki Amano, Shingo Okaya
  • Publication number: 20120243240
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a light source apparatus including a small case housing therein a circuit unit including a tall electronic part and a wide mounting substrate. A light source apparatus 1 comprises: a light emitting module 20 as a light source; a circuit unit 60 including a plurality of electronic parts 61a-61f for lighting the light emitting module 20 and a mounting substrate 62 on which the electronic parts 61a-61f are mounted; and a case 70 that is tubular and has an opening at one end thereof, the case 70 housing therein the circuit unit 60. The mounting substrate 62 is held by the case 70 so as to be slanted with respect to a tube axis of the case 70 and not to intersect the tube axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Naotaka Hashimoto, Shinya Kawagoe, Toshikazu Endo, Kazuhiko Itoh, Keiji Amano
  • Patent number: 6893062
    Abstract: A bumper beam for automobiles is composed in cross section of a top wall, a bottom wall opposed to the top wall, a pair of lateral walls connecting the top and bottom walls at opposite ends, one of the lateral walls being a collision side lateral wall and the other a vehicle-mounted side lateral wall, and a connection rib provided intermediate between the top and bottom walls and connecting the lateral walls. The collision side lateral wall is thicker than the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall, and both corners at opposite ends of the collision side lateral wall are curved with a radius of curvature R of 0.1-0.3 of the length of the collision side lateral wall and both corners at opposite ends of the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall are curved with a radius of curvature of 0.6-2.0 of the thickness of the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall. Alternatively, radius of curvature R may be 0.2-0.6 of the length of the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd., Unipres Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Amano, Yoshiya Suzuki, Hideo Kozuma
  • Publication number: 20040084910
    Abstract: A bumper beam for automobiles is composed in cross section of a top wall, a bottom wall opposed to the top wall, a pair of lateral walls connecting the top and bottom walls at opposite ends, one of the lateral walls being a collision side lateral wall and the other a vehicle-mounted side lateral wall, and a connection rib provided intermediate between the top and bottom walls and connecting the lateral walls. The collision side lateral wall is thicker than the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall, and both corners at opposite ends of the collision side lateral wall are curved with a radius of curvature R of 0.1-0.3 of the length of the collision side lateral wall and both corners at opposite ends of the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall are curved with a radius of curvature of 0.6-2.0 of the thickness of the vehicle-mounted side lateral wall. Alternatively, radius of curvature R may be 0.2-0.6 of the length of the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ALUMINUM CO., LTD., Unipres Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Amano, Yoshiya Suzuki, Hideo Kozuma