Patents by Inventor Shigeyuki Suzuki
Shigeyuki Suzuki 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: 20200122610Abstract: An occupant protection device, for a vehicle which protects an occupant seated on a seating surface of a seat, includes: a first push-up mechanism which pushes up a waist portion of the occupant by raising a rear portion of the seating surface; a second push-up mechanism which pushes up a thigh portion of the occupant by raising a front portion of the seating surface; and a control unit which controls operations of the first push-up mechanism and the second push-up mechanism. The control unit operates the first push-up mechanism and then operates the second push-up mechanism when an impact applied to the vehicle from the front of the seat is detected or predicted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Koki TANAKA, Takashi IIDA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Tadashi YAMADA, Shigemi MASE
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Publication number: 20200091524Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle comprises a fuel cell, a hydrogen tank, a driving motor, a power feeder and a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji UMAYAHARA, Shigeki TAKAIWA, Masahiro YAMAKAWA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Takao OZAWA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200082681Abstract: An energy generation system using biomass includes a first information generation unit that generates the first information indicating that a distributor handling food has disposed of food waste biomass, an energy generation device that generates energy and the like using biomass collected from the distributor, a second information generation unit that generates the second information indicating that energy and the like have been generated using biomass collected from the distributor, a third information generation unit that obtains the first information and the second information and generates the third information indicating generation of at least one of energy and energy sources by collecting biomass disposed by the distributor, and a display unit that displays the third information generated by the third information generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji UMAYAHARA, Shigeki TAKAIWA, Masahiro YAMAKAWA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Takao OZAWA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200067114Abstract: A hydrogen supply system comprises a hydrogen station placed near a railroad track and configured to supply hydrogen to a moving body that is driven with a fuel cell used as an electric power source; and a train provided with a hydrogen tank and configured to run along the railroad track and transport hydrogen to the hydrogen station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Shigeki TAKAIWA, Masahiro YAMAKAWA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Kenji UMAYAHARA, Takao OZAWA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200039459Abstract: A seat cushion airbag apparatus is applied to a vehicle seat in which a seat cushion includes a cushion part and a support portion. An airbag, including an inflatable portion, is disposed between the support portion and the cushion part. The inflatable portion includes: a rear inflatable portion that inflates on a lower side of buttocks of an occupant; a front inflatable portion that inflates on a lower side of a femur of the occupant; and a connection portion that connects the rear inflatable portion and the front inflatable portion. A tilting plate is disposed between the support portion and the cushion part and is supported to be tiltable in an upper-lower direction by a shaft provided rearward of the front inflatable portion, the tilting plate including a flat pressure receiving portion that receives pressure of inflation gas from a lower side through at least the front inflatable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Koki TANAKA, Takashi IIDA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Tadashi YAMADA, Yasushi MASUDA, Hajime KITTE, Motoyuki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20190389414Abstract: A seat device for a vehicle includes a seat for supporting a lower body of a vehicle occupant, and a backrest for supporting an upper body of the occupant. The seat device further includes an arresting portion that is stored in a storage position disposed in the seat. The arresting portion is configured to be deployed from the storage position and restrain a part of the lower body of the occupant from moving forward in the event of a collision of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Yasushi MASUDA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Shigemi MASE, Hiroaki YAMADA, Tadashi YAMADA, Yuji SATO, Kenichi FUKURONO, Keisaku YOKOI, Takafumi NAKANISHI, Takenori OZAKI
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Patent number: 10434970Abstract: A vehicle side section structure capable of stabilizing the deployment behavior of an airbag that inflates and deploys from a side door toward a vehicle width direction outer side is obtained. An impact beam is attached to a door inner panel. The impact beam includes a support portion that supports an inflator and that includes a side-wall portion disposed at the vehicle width direction inner side of the inflator. Accordingly, reaction force from the deployment of the airbag is able to be supported by the support portion of the impact beam when the airbag inflates and deploys.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naohiro Saito, Junichi Takayanagi, Masato Kunisada, Takashi Sasaki, Takaki Fukuyama, Shigeyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 10315607Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection device includes an airbag constructed as an integrated bag body that is deployable in an area including a front side of a head portion of a vehicle occupant, and in an area including both left and right sides of the head portion of the vehicle occupant, and an airbag case. The airbag case includes a box-shaped case main body provided on a seat rear side of a headrest main body, in which the airbag is housed in a folded state, and that inflates and deploys the airbag from an upper portion of the case main body during an inflation and deployment of the airbag, and a reaction force plate that is provided in a lower portion side of the case main body and inside the case main body, and that supports the airbag from the seat rear side during the inflation and deployment of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Shinichi Ishida, Takenori Ozaki
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Patent number: 10243113Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device which includes a light emitting element having a peak emission wavelength in a range of 400 nm to 500 nm, and a fluorescent member containing a fluorescent material having a peak emission wavelength in a range of 630 nm to 670 nm, and a composition represented by the formula. CasSrtEuuSivAlwNx. In the formula, s, t, u, v, w, and x satisfy 0.25?s?0.5, 0.4?t?0.75, 0.01?u?0.04, 0.8?s+t+u?1.1, 0.8?v?1.2, 0.8?w?1.2, 1.8?v+w?2.2, and 2.5?x?3.2. The light emitting device emits light having an x value of CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinates of 0.640 or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeyuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Shoji Hosokawa
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Patent number: 10138670Abstract: A lifting device lifting and lowering a window glass of a door, the lifting device including a drive mechanism for lifting and lowering the window glass, a support plate supporting the drive mechanism, and a carrier attached to the support plate in a slidable manner, and lifted and lowered by the drive mechanism, wherein the support plate includes a through hole, and a stopper which is provided at an inner panel of the door and stops of the carrier is inserted through the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidefumi Katayama, Hirokazu Suzumura, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Katsumi Chono, Takayuki Ueno
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Patent number: 10112571Abstract: An airbag of an occupant protection device as fully deployed includes a front panel section deployable in front of the head of an occupant for catching the head when the head moves forward, a left panel section deployable on a left side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the left, and a right panel section deployable on a right side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the right. The front panel section includes a main panel region that is deployable in such a manner as to be opposed to a front face of the head and an extended panel region that extends downwardly from the main panel region so as to catch at least an upper part of a thorax of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Yasushi Masuda
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Patent number: 10053044Abstract: A far-side airbag apparatus includes: an airbag which is fixed via a fixed portion set in a rear end portion of the airbag, and protects an upper body of an occupant, who sits on a vehicle seat positioned apart from a side wall portion of a vehicle in which multiple vehicle seats are provided side by side in a width direction, by deploying and inflating the airbag diagonally forward and upward from the fixed portion between adjacent vehicle seats via inflating gas which is supplied from a gas generator according to a side impact applied to the side wall portion of the vehicle, wherein a rear lower portion of the airbag is formed as a support portion that has a high rigidity and supports an upper portion positioned higher than the rear lower portion of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Akira Endo, Yuji Matsuzaki, Takayuki Umeyama
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Publication number: 20180201221Abstract: An airbag of an occupant protection device as fully deployed includes a front panel section deployable in front of the head of an occupant for catching the head when the head moves forward, a left panel section deployable on a left side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the left, and a right panel section deployable on a right side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the right. The front panel section includes a main panel region that is deployable in such a manner as to be opposed to a front face of the head and an extended panel region that extends downwardly from the main panel region so as to catch at least an upper part of a thorax of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi KATO, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Yasushi MASUDA
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Patent number: 10005417Abstract: An occupant protection device configured as an integral bag body including an airbag, the airbag including: a frame duct that includes an upper duct inflated and deployed at a seat upper side of the head of an occupant with a seat front end of the upper duct reaching a seat front side of the head of the occupant in an inflated and deployed state; a front inflating portion that receives gas supplied from a portion of the frame duct that has reached in front of the head, and is that inflated and deployed at the seat front side of the head of the occupant; and a pair of lateral inflating portions that receive gas supplied from the frame duct or the front inflating portion, or both, and that are inflated and deployed at both seat width direction sides of the head of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Kato, Shinichi Ishida
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Publication number: 20180162316Abstract: A vehicle side section structure capable of stabilizing the deployment behavior of an airbag that inflates and deploys from a side door toward a vehicle width direction outer side is obtained. An impact beam is attached to a door inner panel. The impact beam includes a support portion that supports an inflator and that includes a side-wall portion disposed at the vehicle width direction inner side of the inflator. Accordingly, reaction force from the deployment of the airbag is able to be supported by the support portion of the impact beam when the airbag inflates and deploys.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naohiro SAITO, Junichi TAKAYANAGI, Masato KUNISADA, Takashi SASAKI, Takaki FUKUYAMA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180126942Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection device includes an airbag constructed as an integrated bag body that is deployable in an area including a front side of a head portion of a vehicle occupant, and in an area including both left and right sides of the head portion of the vehicle occupant, and an airbag case. The airbag case includes a box-shaped case main body provided on a seat rear side of a headrest main body, in which the airbag is housed in a folded state, and that inflates and deploys the airbag from an upper portion of the case main body during an inflation and deployment of the airbag, and a reaction force plate that is provided in a lower portion side of the case main body and inside the case main body, and that supports the airbag from the seat rear side during the inflation and deployment of the airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Yasushi MASUDA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Shinichi ISHIDA, Takenori OZAKI
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Publication number: 20180123000Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device which includes a light emitting element having a peak emission wavelength in a range of 400 nm to 500 nm, and a fluorescent member containing a fluorescent material having a peak emission wavelength in a range of 630 nm to 670 nm, and a composition represented by the formula. CasSrtEuuSivAlwNx. In the formula, s, t, u, v, w, and x satisfy 0.25?s?0.5, 0.4?t?0.75, 0.01?u?0.04, 0.8?s+t+u?1.1, 0.8?v?1.2, 0.8?w?1.2, 1.8?v+w?2.2, and 2.5?x?3.2. The light emitting device emits light having an x value of CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinates of 0.640 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Shoji HOSOKAWA
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Patent number: 9950687Abstract: An airbag of an occupant protection device as fully deployed includes a front panel section deployable in front of the head of an occupant for catching the head when the head moves forward, a left panel section deployable on a left side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the left, and a right panel section deployable on a right side of the head for catching the head when the head moves towards the right. The front panel section includes a main panel region that is deployable in such a manner as to be opposed to a front face of the head and an extended panel region that extends downwardly from the main panel region so as to catch at least an upper part of a thorax of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Yasushi Masuda
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Patent number: 9944246Abstract: An occupant protection device, including an airbag that is inflated and deployed on being supplied with gas, the airbag configuring an integral bag body including a front inflating portion that is inflated and deployed at a seat front side of the head of an occupant and that limits movement of the head toward a seat front side, and a pair of lateral inflating portions that are inflated and deployed at both seat width direction sides of the head of the occupant and that limit movement of the head toward a seat side, wherein an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by at least the lateral inflating portion, from out of the pair of lateral inflating portions, positioned at a vehicle width direction outside is greater than an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by the front inflating portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Shinichi Ishida, Takenori Ozaki
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Patent number: 9925943Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection device including: an airbag constructed as an integrated bag body that is deployed in an area including a front side of a head portion of a vehicle occupant, and in an area including both left and right sides of the head portion of the vehicle occupant; and an airbag case that includes a box-shaped case main body provided on a seat rear side of a headrest main body, in which the airbag is housed in a folded state, and whose upper portion opens up during an inflation and deployment of the airbag, and a reaction force plate that is provided in a lower portion side of the case main body, and is formed by a component having greater rigidity than the case main body, and that supports the airbag from the seat rear side during the inflation and deployment of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Shinichi Ishida, Takenori Ozaki