Patents by Inventor Kouji Furukawa

Kouji Furukawa 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: 11970098
    Abstract: The center console structure for a vehicle includes a console body; an armrest; and a power supply section that wirelessly transmits electric power to the mobile terminal via a placement surface on which the mobile terminal is placed. The console body includes a top plate section serving as an upper surface; a terminal accommodation section having the placement surface and arranged on a vehicle rear side of the top plate section and on a vehicle lower side of the armrest; and a right and left pair of console side surface sections arranged to oppose each other in a vehicle width direction with the terminal accommodation section being interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Sera, Osamu Ueda, Narumi Nahara, Kouji Furukawa, Shohei Kuroda, Hiroshi Ohno
  • Publication number: 20220194283
    Abstract: A center console structure for the vehicle includes a console body; an armrest; and a power supply section that wirelessly transmits electric power to the mobile terminal via a placement surface where the mobile terminal is placed. An upper surface of the console body includes a terminal accommodation section having the placement surface and arranged on a vehicle lower side of the armrest; and a top plate section provided with an operation section accepting an occupant's operation and arranged on a vehicle front side of the terminal accommodation section. The terminal accommodation section includes a rear wall portion positioning the mobile terminal where, in a perpendicular cross section along a vehicle front-rear direction, a front end of the mobile terminal is located in a virtual area, the mobile terminal having a terminal width that is equal to or longer than 67 mm and equal to or shorter than 84 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro SERA, Osamu UEDA, Narumi NAHARA, Kouji FURUKAWA, Shohei KURODA, Hiroshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20220194279
    Abstract: The center console structure for a vehicle includes a console body; an armrest; and a power supply section that wirelessly transmits electric power to the mobile terminal via a placement surface on which the mobile terminal is placed. The console body includes a top plate section serving as an upper surface; a terminal accommodation section having the placement surface and arranged on a vehicle rear side of the top plate section and on a vehicle lower side of the armrest; and a right and left pair of console side surface sections arranged to oppose each other in a vehicle width direction with the terminal accommodation section being interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro SERA, Osamu UEDA, Narumi NAHARA, Kouji FURUKAWA, Shohei KURODA, Hiroshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20150207104
    Abstract: A laminate is described, including a substrate, an undercoat layer on the substrate, and an inorganic film on the undercoat layer. The material of the inorganic film is at least one material of a conductive metal oxide and a metal nitride. In an image obtained by Fourier transforming an image obtained by using an atomic force microscope to take a picture of a surface of the inorganic film, the azimuth angle of the image obtained from the Fourier transformation from the center of the image toward the direction of 12 o'clock is set to 0°. In approximate curves of 36 brightness value plots obtained by radially plotting the brightness values every 10° from 0°, a maximum value is observed in 18 or more of the approximate curves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Kazunori Mukunoki, Yumiko Saeki, Toshiaki Hattori, Yukichi Konami, Kouji Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20130186467
    Abstract: A mold having an uneven structure is provided, wherein surface roughness Ra of the uneven structure, a maximum value Ra?(max) and a minimum value Ra?(min) of line roughness Ra? satisfy the following Expression (1). 0.13?(Ra?(max)?Ra?(min))/Ra?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yumiko Saeki, Kuniaki Endo, Toshiaki Hattori, Yukichi Konami, Kouji Furukawa
  • Patent number: 7131347
    Abstract: A manual gearshift device for an automotive automatic transmission operative in an automatic shift mode in which a gear ratio is automatically varied according to driving conditions and a manual mode in which a gear ratio is manually changed is disclosed. The manual gear shift device, that is installed to spokes of a steering wheel extending in substantially diametrically opposite horizontal directions, comprises a first gearshift switch which is installed to one of the spokes at an obverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal and a second gearshift switch, desirably different in shape and operative direction from the first gearshift switch, which is installed to one of the spokes at a reverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Ohtsubo, Yasuyuki Inai, Kouji Furukawa, Akira Nakayama, Shingo Kunihiro, Akiko Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20060150032
    Abstract: There are provided a state monitoring device and a state management system which monitor a use state of a PC by a user by utilizing detecting results of the human detection sensor effectively. The state monitoring device (10) for detecting whether a user is present at an operative position of PC (20), is connected to the PC (20) on a LAN (30). The information provided for the PC (20) by the state monitoring device (10), is shared with all the PCs (20) on the LAN (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Kouji Furukawa, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yasuhiko Handa, Naomi Yoshida, Jun Shinano, Jun Kaida
  • Publication number: 20050284248
    Abstract: A manual gearshift device for an automotive automatic transmission operative in an automatic shift mode in which a gear ratio is automatically varied according to driving conditions and a manual mode in which a gear ratio is manually changed is disclosed. The manual gear shift device, that is installed to spokes of a steering wheel extending in substantially diametrically opposite horizontal directions, comprises a first gearshift switch which is installed to one of the spokes at an obverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal and a second gearshift switch, desirably different in shape and operative direction from the first gearshift switch, which is installed to one of the spokes at a reverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Ohtsubo, Yasuyuki Inai, Kouji Furukawa, Akira Nakayama, Shingo Kunihiro, Akiko Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 6948399
    Abstract: A manual gearshift device for an automotive automatic transmission operative in an automatic shift mode in which a gear ratio is automatically varied according to driving conditions and a manual mode in which a gear ratio is manually changed is disclosed. The manual gear shift device, that is installed to spokes of a steering wheel extending in substantially diametrically opposite horizontal directions, comprises a first gearshift switch which is installed to one of the spokes at an obverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal and a second gearshift switch, desirably different in shape and operative direction from the first gearshift switch, which is installed to one of the spokes at a reverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Ohtsubo, Yasuyuki Inai, Kouji Furukawa, Akira Nakayama, Shingo Kunihiro, Akiko Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20030101840
    Abstract: A manual gearshift device for an automotive automatic transmission operative in an automatic shift mode in which a gear ratio is automatically varied according to driving conditions and a manual mode in which a gear ratio is manually changed is disclosed. The manual gear shift device, that is installed to spokes of a steering wheel extending in substantially diametrically opposite horizontal directions, comprises a first gearshift switch which is installed to one of the spokes at an obverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal and a second gearshift switch, desirably different in shape and operative direction from the first gearshift switch, which is installed to one of the spokes at a reverse side of the steering wheel and provides a shift-up command signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Ohtsubo, Yasuyuki Inai, Kouji Furukawa, Akira Nakayama, Shingo Kunihiro, Akiko Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 6520776
    Abstract: A portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus in which accompanying melody data and character data such as lyrics, etc. are written into a first memory that consists of an EEPROM such as a flash memory, etc. This first memory is detachably connected to a first memory connector of a microphone device. An acoustic signal is created by synthesizing accompanying melody data from the first memory and a voice electrical signal from a microphone element. Furthermore, a composite video signal is created using background image data from an internal second memory. The creation of acoustic and video outputs is accomplished by the acoustic signal and composite video signal using a household television set. Alternately, a carrier wave with a television broadcast channel frequency may be modulated with the acoustic signal and composite video signal, and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: U's BMB Entertainment Corp.
    Inventor: Kouji Furukawa
  • Patent number: 6296916
    Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a mixture of (meth)acrylic acid ester monomers, (B) from 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a surfactant having a perfluoroalkyl group and represented by the general formula (1) CF3(CF2)nAM  (1) wherein A represents —CO2— or —SO3—, M represents an alkali metal, and n is an integer of 3 to 9, and (C) from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator, and a plastic optical disk provided with a cured coating of the photopolymerizable composition on at least one side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Inventors: Juichi Fujimoto, Kouji Furukawa, Takashi Mita, Makoto Tokumizu
  • Patent number: 6066684
    Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition comprising(A) 100 parts by weight of a mixture of (meth)acrylic acid ester monomers,(B) from 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a surfactant having a perfluoroalkyl group and represented by the general formula (1)CF.sub.3 (CF.sub.2).sub.n AM (1)wherein A represents --CO.sub.2 -- or --SO.sub.3 --, M represents an alkali metal, and n is an integer of 3 to 9, and(C) from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator, and a plastic optical disk provided with a cured coating of the photopolymerizable composition on at least one side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juichi Fujimoto, Kouji Furukawa, Takashi Mita, Makoto Tokumizu