Patents by Inventor Michio Tamura
Michio Tamura 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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Publication number: 20240162078Abstract: There is provided a diode including an anode electrode provided on a side of a front surface of a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer dielectric film disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the anode electrode, a first anode region of a first conductivity type provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second anode region of a second conductivity type, which is different from the first conductivity type, provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first contact hole provided in the interlayer dielectric film, causing the anode electrode to be in Schottky contact with the first anode region, and a second contact hole provided in the interlayer dielectric film and different from the first contact hole, causing the anode electrode to be in ohmic contact with the second anode region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Takahiro TAMURA, Michio NEMOTO
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Patent number: 7854475Abstract: The present invention provides a sliding roof for a vehicle including a plurality of roof panels separately mounted on an opening of a fixed roof of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a guide frame attached at a lower portion of each side edge of the opening, and an anchor installed into the guide frame to engage with at least part of the roof panel, so as to assist open-close operations of the plurality of the roof panels in the vicinity of a closed state thereof. Sliding of sliders attached to the each guide frame allows the plurality of the roof panels to open or close in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle. The sliding roof for a vehicle further includes a guide member installed into the guide frame to guide a movement of engagement portions of the plurality of the roof panels adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The anchor and the guide member are installed into an identical groove formed on the guide frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignees: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kouichi Hotta, Michio Tamura
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Patent number: 7850231Abstract: A vehicular sunroof apparatus includes a sunroof panel having a front panel and a rear panel configured to open and close an opening formed in a vehicle roof. A first drive mechanism effects rising/lowering and opening/closing movements of the front panel relative to the opening of the vehicle roof. A second drive mechanism effects rising/lowering and opening/closing movements of the rear panel relative to the opening of the vehicle roof. The second drive mechanism comprises a rear panel support stay that supports the rear panel, a stay extension connected to the rear panel support stay and mounted to undergo sliding and vertical swinging movement relative to the vehicle roof, and a stopper member that is mounted on the vehicle roof and that provides an upper limit of vertical swing of the stay extension.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignees: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kouichi Hotta, Michio Tamura
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Patent number: 7708337Abstract: A vehicular sunroof apparatus includes a front panel, a rear panel, a linking rod, a rod-locking part, and a slider linking part. The linking rod is connected to a rear slider provided for opening the rear panel. The rod-locking part is disposed on a vehicle roof for locking a distal end of the linking rod when the rear panel is in a fully closed state. The slider linking part is provided on a front slider provided for opening/closing the front panel. The slider linking part is designed to engage with the distal end part and to release the distal end part from the locking engagement with the rod-locking part when the front slider moves from a fully closed position to a half-open position.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignees: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kouichi Hotta, Michio Tamura
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Patent number: 7600806Abstract: An attachment structure for a window glass and a glass molding in which the window glass and the glass molding are attached to a glass fitting section of a vehicle body via a molding clip having a glass holding section and a molding attachment section, wherein: the glass holding section is engaged with a peripheral edge of the window glass such that relative movement between the window glass and the glass molding is possible only in a direction along the peripheral edge; the molding attachment section is attached to the glass molding; and the relative movement is restricted along an inside-outside direction of the vehicle body but is allowed in a direction along the surface of the window glass.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Arai, Michio Tamura
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Publication number: 20090127890Abstract: The present invention provides a sliding roof for a vehicle including a plurality of roof panels separately mounted on an opening of a fixed roof of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a guide frame attached at a lower portion of each side edge of the opening, and an anchor installed into the guide frame to engage with at least part of the roof panel, so as to assist open-close operations of the plurality of the roof panels in the vicinity of a closed state thereof. Sliding of sliders attached to the each guide frame allows the plurality of the roof panels to open or close in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle. The sliding roof for a vehicle further includes a guide member installed into the guide frame to guide a movement of engagement portions of the plurality of the roof panels adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The anchor and the guide member are installed into an identical groove formed on the guide frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu ITO, Hiroyuki TSUKAMOTO, Kouichi HOTTA, Michio TAMURA
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Patent number: 7510237Abstract: To provide a stopper structure of a sun roof device, in which the sun roof device has a front slider (20) and a driving slider (30) attached on a roof panel (4), a connecting link (40) attached to the front slider (20) and engaging with the driving slider (30), and a stopper member (60) adapted to stop the driving slider (30). When the roof panel (4) performs tilting operation, a first engaging portion (42) and a second engaging portion (43) of the connecting link (40) respectively engage with the a first cam (61) and a second cam (62) respectively formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the stopper member (60), so that the movement of the front slider (20) in both the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vertical direction is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisya, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Masaharu Ohnishi, Keisuke Takayama, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20090072589Abstract: A vehicular sunroof apparatus includes a front panel, a rear panel, a linking rod, a rod-locking part, and a slider linking part. The linking rod is connected to a rear slider provided for opening the rear panel. The rod-locking part is disposed on a vehicle roof for locking a distal end of the linking rod when the rear panel is in a fully closed state. The slider linking part is provided on a front slider provided for opening/closing the front panel. The slider linking part is designed to engage with the distal end part and to release the distal end part from the locking engagement with the rod-locking part when the front slider moves from a fully closed position to a half-open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kouichi Hotta, Michio Tamura
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Publication number: 20090039682Abstract: A vehicular sunroof apparatus in which a sunroof panel for opening and closing an opening in a vehicle roof has a front panel and a rear panel. The sunroof apparatus also includes a rear panel drive mechanism for effecting rising/lowering and opening/closing movements of the rear panel relative to the opening. A restricting part provided in the rear panel drive mechanism restricts a front end part of the rear panel from rising when a rear end part of the fully closed rear panel is lowered.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kouichi Hotta, Michio Tamura
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Patent number: 7438353Abstract: In a guide tube-fixing structure for sunroof device 1 that includes cables C1, C2 for opening and closing a roof panel 4 by push-pull operation; guide rails 5, 5 for guiding opening/closing of the roof panel 4; sunshade rails 20, 20 for opening/closing of a sunshade panel, guide tubes P1-P4 for the cables C1, C2 are disposed along a rear portion of the sunshade rails 20, 20 each extending further rearward from the rear end portion of the guide rail 5 and the guide tubes P1-P4 are fixed to the rear portion of the sunshade rail 20.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki KaisyaInventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7364227Abstract: A movable roof opening-closing structure rotatively opening and closing a movable roof toward backward at an outside of a vehicle body through a linkage equipped with a first link bar and a second link bar, wherein the linkage is configured with an inequilateral four-bar linkage having a fixed bar at a vehicle body side, and wherein an instant center of the movable roof against the vehicle body when the movable roof is at an entirely closing position is located at one of positions where is ahead of a front end of the movable roof and behind of a rear end of the movable roof.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Akio Kobori, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20080073939Abstract: An attachment structure for a window glass and a glass molding in which the window glass and the glass molding are attached to a glass fitting section of a vehicle body via a molding clip having a glass holding section and a molding attachment section, wherein: the glass holding section is engaged with a peripheral edge of the window glass such that relative movement between the window glass and the glass molding is possible only in a direction along the peripheral edge; the molding attachment section is attached to the glass molding; and the relative movement is restricted along an inside-outside direction of the vehicle body but is allowed in a direction along the surface of the window glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Arai, Michio Tamura
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Publication number: 20080054684Abstract: In a guide tube-fixing structure for sunroof device 1 that includes cables C1, C2 for opening and closing a roof panel 4 by push-pull operation; guide rails 5, 5 for guiding opening/closing of the roof panel 4; sunshade rails 20, 20 for opening/closing of a sunshade panel, guide tubes P1-P4 for the cables C1, C2 are disposed along a rear portion of the sunshade rails 20, 20 each extending further rearward from the rear end portion of the guide rail 5 and the guide tubes P1-P4 are fixed to the rear portion of the sunshade rail 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicants: YACHIYO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISYA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20080036246Abstract: To provide a stopper structure of a sun roof device, in which the sun roof device has a front slider (20) and a driving slider (30) attached on a roof panel (4), a connecting link (40) attached to the front slider (20) and engaging with the driving slider (30), and a stopper member (60) adapted to stop the driving slider (30). When the roof panel (4) performs tilting operation, a first engaging portion (42) and a second engaging portion (43) of the connecting link (40) respectively engage with the a first cam (61) and a second cam (62) respectively formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the stopper member (60), so that the movement of the front slider (20) in both the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vertical direction is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Masaharu Ohnishi, Keisuke Takayama, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7118239Abstract: A sunroof panel apparatus for a vehicle includes a pair of sheets of transparent glass, a pair of transparent interlayers, and a plurality of electro-luminescent (EL) sheets. The transparent interlayers are enclosed between the sheets of transparent glass. The EL sheets are enclosed between the transparent interlayers and each EL sheet has electrode layers with terminals. The terminals are electrically connected through a variable resister and a power supply.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisya, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Itoh, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Michio Tamura
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Patent number: 7108317Abstract: A tilt sunroof unit has a sunroof panel provided tiltably with respect to a plane of an opening provided in a vehicular roof, an annular frame formed so as to extend continuously along an entire periphery of the opening, the annular frame being formed of a single parts in which a peripheral gutter continuing along an entire periphery thereof is integrally formed, and a lifting mechanism for connecting the sunroof panel and the annular frame, wherein the tilt sunroof unit in a subassembled state with the sunroof panel assembled thereto is assembled to the roofType: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michio Tamura, Yoshitaka Higuchi
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Publication number: 20060119143Abstract: A movable roof opening-closing structure rotatively opening and closing a movable roof toward backward at an outside of a vehicle body through a linkage equipped with a first link bar and a second link bar, wherein the linkage is configured with an inequilateral four-bar linkage having a fixed bar at a vehicle body side, and wherein an instant center of the movable roof against the vehicle body when the movable roof is at an entirely closing position is located at one of positions where is ahead of a front end of the movable roof and behind of a rear end of the movable roof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicants: YACHIYO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISYA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Akio Kobori, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7048328Abstract: The present invention provides a panel seal structure having a seal mounted around the outer circumferential edge of a panel body, such as glass panel, covering an opening formed in a vehicle body. An upper face of the seal is set to be substantially flush with an upper face of the panel body. A lip to be contactable with an edge of the panel body is formed along the upper face of the seal, and the edge of the lip is deformed downward upon contact with the edge of the panel body. Thereby, since the edge of the lip is deformed downward, a dimensional error of the panel body is accommodated for, and the continuity between the upper face of the seal and the upper face of the panel body is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Honda Giken Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michio Tamura, Masaharu Ohnishi, Tatsuya Ohara, Tatsuaki Uehara, Yoshitaka Higuchi
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Patent number: 6962391Abstract: An open roof structure for opening and closing a roof of a vehicle includes a pair of link members that support the roof such that the roof is movable forward and backward relative to the vehicle body, the link members being provided in spaced relation in a width direction of the vehicle body; and a link rod that connects the link members such that the link members rotate with rotation of the link rod. The need for a space for storing the roof is eliminated and the roof is opened and closed with a simple structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2004Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Homda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Tamura
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Publication number: 20050225124Abstract: An open roof structure for opening and closing a roof of a vehicle includes a pair of link members that support the roof such that the roof is movable forward and backward relative to the vehicle body, the link members being provided in spaced relation in a width direction of the vehicle body; and a link rod that connects the link members such that the link members rotate with rotation of the link rod. The need for a space for storing the roof is eliminated and the roof is opened and closed with a simple structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2004Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Michio Tamura