Patents by Inventor Mikio Yamagata

Mikio Yamagata 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: 11577587
    Abstract: A vehicle door support device includes a support member and a support member that hold a door at an open position. Each of these support members includes: a cylindrical accommodating portion; a cylindrical cover connected to the accommodating portion; a cylindrical movable member movable relative to the cover in an axial direction; a gear mechanism arranged in the accommodating portion; a spindle connected to a first connecting portion of the gear mechanism; a rotation mechanism that rotates the spindle by movement of the movable member relative to the cover; and a coil spring that biases the movable member so as to advance with respect to the cover. At least the support member includes a magnetoresistive mechanism that is arranged in the accommodating portion, is connected to the second connecting portion of the gear mechanism, and applies a load to the spindle via the gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventor: Mikio Yamagata
  • Patent number: 11499357
    Abstract: A door opening and closing device for vehicles of the present invention includes: a motor drive mechanism; a first housing that accommodates the motor drive mechanism; a spindle drive mechanism connected to the motor drive mechanism; and a second housing that is arranged coaxially with the first housing and relatively moves with respect to the first housing by the spindle drive mechanism. The spindle drive mechanism includes: a spindle connected to the motor drive mechanism; a spindle nut screwed with the spindle; a push rod fixed so as not to rotate relative to the spindle nut and provided with a protrusion on its outer periphery; and a guide tube in which a guide groove guiding the protrusion of the push rod in an axial direction is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Motoharu Amano
  • Patent number: 10920473
    Abstract: The present invention prevents or suppresses a grommet from detaching from a ball socket. The grommet that has a cover for covering a harness led and extended outside a cap of the ball socket is configured by including a boot part that covers the harness inside the cap and that is formed into a bottomed cylindrical shape opened to an electric motor side, a connection cylindrical part that is disposed inside a harness insertion hole that connects the boot part and the cover and in which the harness is inserted, and a falling-out prevention part that is formed in the boot part that engages the cap and that restricts the movement of the boot part toward the harness insertion hole side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Hideaki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20200376940
    Abstract: A vehicle door support device includes a support member and a support member that hold a door at an open position. Each of these support members includes: a cylindrical accommodating portion; a cylindrical cover connected to the accommodating portion; a cylindrical movable member movable relative to the cover in an axial direction; a gear mechanism arranged in the accommodating portion; a spindle connected to a first connecting portion of the gear mechanism; a rotation mechanism that rotates the spindle by movement of the movable member relative to the cover; and a coil spring that biases the movable member so as to advance with respect to the cover. At least the support member includes a magnetoresistive mechanism that is arranged in the accommodating portion, is connected to the second connecting portion of the gear mechanism, and applies a load to the spindle via the gear mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Mikio YAMAGATA
  • Publication number: 20200277816
    Abstract: A door opening and closing device for vehicles of the present invention includes: a motor drive mechanism; a first housing that accommodates the motor drive mechanism; a spindle drive mechanism connected to the motor drive mechanism; and a second housing that is arranged coaxially with the first housing and relatively moves with respect to the first housing by the spindle drive mechanism. The spindle drive mechanism includes: a spindle connected to the motor drive mechanism; a spindle nut screwed with the spindle; a push rod fixed so as not to rotate relative to the spindle nut and provided with a protrusion on its outer periphery; and a guide tube in which a guide groove guiding the protrusion of the push rod in an axial direction is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGATA, Motoharu AMANO
  • Patent number: 10745958
    Abstract: A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle includes a support member interposed between a body and a door of the vehicle and expandable and shrinkable so as to enable holding of the door at an open position. The support member includes a first housing unit having an electric motor driving mechanism and a second housing unit integrally joined to the first housing unit. The second housing unit includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder disposed concentrically in the outer cylinder and engaged with the outer cylinder by fitting engagement in a movable manner relative to the outer cylinder, a spindle connected to the electric motor driving mechanism, and a spindle driving mechanism for moving the inner cylinder relative to the outer cylinder in an axial direction due to rotation of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Hideaki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20190169901
    Abstract: The present invention prevents or suppresses a grommet from detaching from a ball socket. The grommet that has a cover for covering a harness led and extended outside a cap of the ball socket is configured by including a boot part that covers the harness inside the cap and that is formed into a bottomed cylindrical shape opened to an electric motor side, a connection cylindrical part that is disposed inside a harness insertion hole that connects the boot part and the cover and in which the harness is inserted, and a falling-out prevention part that is formed in the boot part that engages the cap and that restricts the movement of the boot part toward the harness insertion hole side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Hideaki Nagata
  • Patent number: 10273724
    Abstract: A door lock device includes a latch mechanism which is releasably engaged with a striker and which has an operation receiving part for releasing engagement of the striker, a link movable between an unlock position where the engagement of the striker can be released and a lock position where the engagement cannot be released, and a lock plate for positioning the link into the unlock position or the lock position. A push lever 60, upon operation of the door handle, releases engagement of the striker by the latch mechanism 11 via the link 30 positioned in the unlock position and the operation receiving part 28. A bearing part 64 of the push lever 60 is rotatably supported by a bearing part 70 integrally formed in a main case 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Tetsuya Shimosawa
  • Patent number: 9746058
    Abstract: An actuator for vehicles has a motor having an output gear, a gear member, a slide member, and an accommodation member. The gear member has a first gear part meshed with the output gear and a second gear part provided coaxial with the first gear part on a rotational plane identical to that of the first gear part and has a shape different from a shape of the first gear part. The slide member has an input gear meshed with the second gear part. The accommodation member accommodates the motor and the gear member and accommodates a part of the slide member where the input gear is provided so that the slide member is driven by the motor to be linearly moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Tetsuya Shimosawa
  • Publication number: 20170145727
    Abstract: A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle includes a support member interposed between a body and a door of the vehicle and expandable and shrinkable so as to enable holding of the door at an open position. The support member includes a first housing unit having an electric motor driving mechanism and a second housing unit integrally joined to the first housing unit. The second housing unit includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder disposed concentrically in the outer cylinder and engaged with the outer cylinder by fitting engagement in a movable manner relative to the outer cylinder, a spindle connected to the electric motor driving mechanism, and a spindle driving mechanism for moving the inner cylinder relative to the outer cylinder in an axial direction due to rotation of the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGATA, Hideaki NAGATA
  • Patent number: 9249605
    Abstract: A door lock apparatus includes: a latch mechanism; a lock mechanism having a link that can move the latch mechanism to an unlock position and a lock position, and a lock plate that moves the link; a key-operation-force transfer mechanism that transfers an operation force of a key cylinder to the lock plate of the lock mechanism; and a housing in which at least the lock mechanism and the key-operation-force transfer mechanism are accommodated. The door lock apparatus further includes a positioning portion and an engaging portion that position the key-operation-force transfer mechanism in a neutral state corresponding to a neutral position of the key cylinder with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Nobuya Akagi
  • Publication number: 20150368939
    Abstract: A door lock device includes a latch mechanism which is releasably engaged with a striker and which has an operation receiving part for releasing engagement of the striker, a link movable between an unlock position where the engagement of the striker can be released and a lock position where the engagement cannot be released, and a lock plate for positioning the link into the unlock position or the lock position. A push lever 60, upon operation of the door handle, releases engagement of the striker by the latch mechanism 11 via the link 30 positioned in the unlock position and the operation receiving part 28. A bearing part 64 of the push lever 60 is rotatably supported by a bearing part 70 integrally formed in a main case 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGATA, Tetsuya SHIMOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20150330483
    Abstract: An actuator for vehicles has a motor having an output gear, a gear member, a slide member, and an accommodation member. The gear member has a first gear part meshed with the output gear and a second gear part provided coaxial with the first gear part on a rotational plane identical to that of the first gear part and has a shape different from a shape of the first gear part. The slide member has an input gear meshed with the second gear part. The accommodation member accommodates the motor and the gear member and accommodates a part of the slide member where the input gear is provided so that the slide member is driven by the motor to be linearly moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGATA, Tetsuya SHIMOSAWA
  • Patent number: 8979145
    Abstract: A door lock apparatus includes with a latch mechanism (a fork and a claw) which engages with a striker so as to be capable of engaging and disengaging, a link which can move between an unlock position capable of engaging with an operation receiving portion of the latch mechanism and a lock position incapable of engaging therewith, a lock plate which moves the link, and open levers which interlock with a door handle provided inside a vehicle or outside the vehicle of a door, and cancel a lock of the striker by the latch mechanism via the link. The lock plate or the link is provided with an energizing member (a link energizing spring) which couples them so as to be relatively movable and energizes the link toward the unlock position with respect to the lock plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Yamagata
  • Patent number: 8950791
    Abstract: A door lock device which can widely use common parts between one with an override function and one without an override function and can be constructed by a reduced number of parts. The door lock device includes a latch mechanism having an operation receiving portion for releasing an engaged state of a striker, a link being movable between an unlock position and a lock position, a lock plate positioning the link at the unlock position and the lock position, a knob lever actuating the lock plate to move the link to the lock position or the unlock position, and an inner lever releasing the engaged state of the striker by the latch mechanism via the link. The knob lever is provided with an engagement receiving portion. The inner lever is provided with an engaging portion engaging with the engagement receiving portion to move the link to the unlock position via the knob lever and the lock plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Yamagata
  • Patent number: 8870247
    Abstract: A door locking apparatus that can be used for both manual operating specifications and automatic operating specifications and that is capable of miniaturization and weight reduction in a use for the manual operating specifications includes a latch mechanism, a door opening mechanism and a manual locking mechanism wherein, a first housing (10) in which the door opening mechanism and the manual locking mechanism are disposed and a second housing (42) in which an automatic locking mechanism that moves the door opening mechanism to the unlocking position or the locking position based on an input of an electric signal is disposed are provided, and a second housing attaching portion (23) to which the second housing can be attached is provided on the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Nobuya Akagi
  • Publication number: 20120266639
    Abstract: The door lock apparatus of the invention includes: a latch mechanism; a lock mechanism having a link 35 that can move the latch mechanism to an unlock position and a lock position, and a lock plate 50 that moves the link 35; a key-operation-force transfer mechanism (55, 61, 68) that transfers an operation force of a key cylinder 58 to the lock plate 50 of the lock mechanism; and a housing (11, 21) in which at least the lock mechanism and the key-operation-force transfer mechanism are accommodated. The door lock apparatus further includes positioning means (15b, 66) that positions the key-operation-force transfer mechanism (55, 61, 68) in a neutral state corresponding to a neutral position of the key cylinder 58 with respect to the housing (11, 21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGATA, Nobuya AKAGI
  • Publication number: 20120096905
    Abstract: A door locking apparatus that can be used for both manual operating specifications and automatic operating specifications and that is capable of miniaturization and weight reduction in a use for the manual operating specifications includes a latch mechanism, a door opening mechanism and a manual locking mechanism wherein, a first housing (10) in which the door opening mechanism and the manual locking mechanism are disposed and a second housing (42) in which an automatic locking mechanism that moves the door opening mechanism to the unlocking position or the locking position based on an input of an electric signal is disposed are provided, and a second housing attaching portion (23) to which the second housing (42) can be attached is provided on the first housing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Mikio Yamagata, Nobuya Akagi
  • Publication number: 20100077806
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses an increase of parts to a minimum, and avoids a panic state by a simple structure. A door lock apparatus is provided with a latch mechanism (a fork and a claw) which engages with a striker so as to be capable of engaging and disengaging, a link which can move between an unlock position capable of engaging with an operation receiving portion of the latch mechanism and a lock position incapable of engaging therewith, a lock plate which moves the link, and open levers which interlock with a door handle provided inside a vehicle or outside the vehicle of a door, and cancel a lock of the striker by the latch mechanism via the link. The lock plate or the link is provided with an energizing member (a link energizing spring) which couples them so as to be relatively movable and energizes the link toward the unlock position with respect to the lock plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventor: Mikio YAMAGATA
  • Publication number: 20090218830
    Abstract: The present invention provides a door lock actuator which can widely use common parts between one with an override function and one without an override function and can be constructed by a reduced number of parts. The door lock actuator of the invention includes a latch mechanism having an operation receiving portion for releasing an engaged state of a striker, a link being movable between an unlock position and a lock position, a lock plate positioning the link at the unlock position and the lock position, a knob lever actuating the lock plate to move the link to the lock position or the unlock position, and an inner lever releasing the engaged state of the striker by the latch mechanism via the link. The knob lever is provided with an engagement receiving portion. The inner lever is provided with an engaging portion engaging with the engagement receiving portion to move the link to the unlock position via the knob lever and the lock plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventor: Mikio Yamagata