Patents by Inventor Masanobu Omi

Masanobu Omi 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: 9561824
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure that is able to secure collision performance for a collision with a small overlap amount of a collision object with respect to a bumper frame portion is obtained. A vehicle-body front structure includes: paired frame members elongated in a vehicle front-rear direction and arranged side by side in a vehicle width direction; a bumper frame portion elongated in the vehicle width direction and provided over front ends of the paired frame members in the vehicle front-rear direction; and a load transmission member. The load transmission member is placed on an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to at least one of the frame members so as to be opposed to a load receiving portion placed between the paired frame members from at least one of a front side in the vehicle front-rear direction and an outer side in the vehicle width direction within a range where the load transmission member overlaps with the frame member in a vehicle up-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamaoki, Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Wataru Kawashima, Motoyuki Tanaka, Nobuaki Kitaura
  • Publication number: 20160121931
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure that is able to secure collision performance for a collision with a small overlap amount of a collision object with respect to a bumper frame portion is obtained. A vehicle-body front structure includes: paired frame members elongated in a vehicle front-rear direction and arranged side by side in a vehicle width direction; a bumper frame portion elongated in the vehicle width direction and provided over front ends of the paired frame members in the vehicle front-rear direction; and a load transmission member. The load transmission member is placed on an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to at least one of the frame members so as to be opposed to a load receiving portion placed between the paired frame members from at least one of a front side in the vehicle front-rear direction and an outer side in the vehicle width direction within a range where the load transmission member overlaps with the frame member in a vehicle up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro TAMAOKI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Masanobu OMI, Tomoyuki KURIYAMA, Wataru KAWASHIMA, Motoyuki TANAKA, Nobuaki KITAURA
  • Patent number: 9266485
    Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a front side member that is arranged on a side portion of a vehicle body front portion and extends in a vehicle body front-rearward direction; an extending portion that extends farther toward an outside in a vehicle width direction than the front side member; and a load transmitting member that connects the extending portion and the front side member together, and is configured such that a pushing portion on a front end side is guided toward a receiving portion on a rear end side by an intermediate portion deforming in response to a frontal collision load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Kosuke Sakakibara, Akihiro Tamaoki, Masanobu Omi
  • Patent number: 9180828
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, a crash box provided in a front part of a front side member is broken by applying pressure due to a collision load, so that a second load transmission member moves backward toward a first load transmission member. This allows the second load transmission member to abut with the first load transmission member, thereby making it possible to transmit the collision load input into the second load transmission member, to a body portion of the front side member via the first load transmission member. Besides, since the second load transmission member is not provided in a bumper reinforcement, it is possible to replace the bumper reinforcement separately from the second load transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20140375081
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes a front side member and a wheel house. The front side member is arranged at a side part of the vehicle-body front portion so as to extend in a vehicle front-rearward direction, and configured such that a front wheel is arranged at an outer side of the front side member in a vehicle width direction. The wheel house covers the front wheel from an upper side in a vehicle up-down direction, and is curved along a circumferential direction of the front wheel. The wheel house includes a closed-section portion having a closed-shaped section when viewed from the vehicle front-rearward direction, the closed-section portion being formed at least in an intermediate part of the wheel house in the vehicle front-rearward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Akihiro Tamaoki, Masanobu Omi, Kosuke Sakakibara
  • Publication number: 20140361560
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, a crush box axially compression-deforms and a bumper extending portion of a bumper reinforcement bends toward a vehicle body rear side when an impact load is input to the bumper extending portion from a vehicle body front side. As a result, a rear end of the bumper extending portion abuts against a front surface of a gusset. This gusset is provided protruding toward a vehicle body width direction outside from a front end portion of a main body portion of a front side member, so the impact load on the bumper extending portion is able to be nicely transmitted to the main body portion via the gusset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20140361561
    Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a front side member that is arranged on a side portion of a vehicle body front portion and extends in a vehicle body front-rearward direction; an extending portion that extends farther toward an outside in a vehicle width direction than the front side member; and a load transmitting member that connects the extending portion and the front side member together, and is configured such that a pushing portion on a front end side is guided toward a receiving portion on a rear end side by an intermediate portion deforming in response to a frontal collision load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Kosuke Sakakibara, Akihiro Tamaoki, Masanobu Omi
  • Publication number: 20140361559
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, a crash box provided in a front part of a front side member is broken by applying pressure due to a collision load, so that a second load transmission member moves backward toward a first load transmission member. This allows the second load transmission member to abut with the first load transmission member, thereby making it possible to transmit the collision load input into the second load transmission member, to a body portion of the front side member via the first load transmission member. Besides, since the second load transmission member is not provided in a bumper reinforcement, it is possible to replace the bumper reinforcement separately from the second load transmission member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20140354008
    Abstract: A vehicle body front portion structure includes a front side member arranged such that its lengthwise direction coincides with a vehicle front-rearward direction, the front side member being arranged to offset to a vehicle width directional one side; a bumper reinforcement arranged such that its lengthwise direction coincides with the vehicle-width direction and arranged in front of the front side member in the vehicle front-rearward direction such that one side end portion of the bumper reinforcement in the vehicle-width direction extends outwardly in the vehicle width-direction from the front side member; and a crash box interposed between a front end portion of the front side member and the bumper reinforcement and configured such that a vehicle-width directional outer side of the crash box is lower in strength against a load from a frontward direction of the vehicle than a vehicle width directional inner side of the crash box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki