Patents by Inventor Kimihiko Ikeda

Kimihiko Ikeda 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: 5887616
    Abstract: A liquid tank includes a tank body forming a reservoir for gasoline G, a flexible partition film 1 arranged in the tank body 1 to divide a space in the tank body into two vertical spaces, a float positioned on the gasoline G, an arm 3 for converting a high and low position of the float 3 into a rotational position of the arm 5, and a potentiometer 5 for detecting a position of the flexible partition film. Since the gasoline G is covered with the partition film, the gasoline G does not vaporize into the air in the tank body an. Even if the gasoline surface is slanted to the tank body an by an acceleration of the vehicle, the flexible partition film serves to restrict the inclination of the surface. Therefore, it is possible to precisely a residual amounts of the gasoline G irrespective of the inclination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Ikeda, Kazuyuki Sasaki, Ichiro Kataoka, Kunimitsu Aoki, Shozo Ashizawa, Shinji Narama
  • Patent number: 4884058
    Abstract: A combination indicator apparatus including an indicator assembly having plural analog indicators of the same type for independently indicating different information, plural driver circuits of the same type for independently driving the analog indicators; and a single controller containing a CPU and an instruction set, which controller may be disposed remote from the indicator assembly, for receiving various sensor information and transmitting various drive data to the driver circuits in time sharing data transmission mode, to independently indicate various information through the analog indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kimihiko Ikeda