Patents by Inventor Takuya Higashiura

Takuya Higashiura 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).

  • Publication number: 20230098551
    Abstract: A coupler cylinder is driven between a locked state and an unlocked state of a bucket by being supplied with hydraulic oil. A main pump supplies the hydraulic oil to the coupler cylinder. A pressure increasing valve controls the supply of the hydraulic oil to the coupler cylinder. A controller controls drive of the pressure increasing valve. The controller instructs the pressure increasing valve to stop the supply of the hydraulic oil to the coupler cylinder based on pressure in an oil passage between the main pump and the coupler cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka NINOMIYA, Koji SATO, Takuya HIGASHIURA, Yuji FUKUDA, Akihiro KOYAMA
  • Patent number: 6796894
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle in which an engine room (14) and a passenger compartment (15) are separated by a dash panel (1), the vehicular air-conditioning apparatus having a conditioned air blowout opening (4) and a passenger compartment internal air suction opening (5) that are opened at a side of the passenger compartment (15), the passenger compartment internal air suction opening (5) being provided in an upper portion of an instrument panel (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Matsuno, Yoshinori Okuno, Yasushi Kato, Takuya Higashiura
  • Patent number: 6322101
    Abstract: An instrument panel of a division type, which has distinctly divided portions, reduces restrictions on designing freedom resulting from a break line and a parting line of an air bag door portion and prevents the overall quality of the outward appearance from deteriorating. The instrument panel is of a type that is divided into upper and lower panels, and the lower panel is divided into a passenger-side lower panel and a driver-side lower panel. The parting line of the instrument panel coincides with a cleavage line defined by an upper air bag door portion and a lower air bag door portion. In a lower door insert of the lower air bag door portion, a free end thereof is set wider than a fixed end thereof. The passenger-side lower panel including the lower air bag door portion is entirely covered with a single skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Suizu, Toshihiko Nakamura, Kazuo Kobayashi, Takuya Higashiura, Atsushi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5975567
    Abstract: A seat structure having an side impact air bag apparatus which can reduce costs, and can be assembled with improved workability. The air bag apparatus, which extends in the longitudinal direction of a seat back, is disposed in a side portion provided on the outer side of the seat back in the widthwise direction of the vehicle. An air bag of the air bag apparatus is folded and the folded air bag is integrated with a seat back pad during a foaming process, and is fixed to a seat back frame together with other structural components of the air bag apparatus. When the seat back pad is made by foaming, the air bag in the folded state is placed within a molding die, and a foaming material is foamed to obtain the seat back pad integrated with the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Higashiura
  • Patent number: 5868420
    Abstract: The present invention is a side impact air bag apparatus which is incorporated into a vehicle seat and is mounted to an outer side of a side portion of a seat back frame of the vehicle seat, comprising: an air bag body which is provided in the air bag apparatus and which is rectangular when viewed in the transverse direction of the vehicle in an unfolded state, an unfolding direction distal end lower portion of the air bag body, which is provided at a distal end of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body and at a lower side portion of the distal end portion, being folded in a diagonally upward direction of the vehicle, and thereafter, the air bag body being folded from the distal end side of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body to a proximal end side of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Higashiura, Mutsumu Haraoka
  • Patent number: 5816610
    Abstract: A seat structure having an side impact air bag apparatus which can reduce costs, and can be assembled with improved workability. The air bag apparatus, which extends in the longitudinal direction of a seat back, is disposed in a side portion provided on the outer side of the seat back in the widthwise direction of the vehicle. An air bag of the air bag apparatus is folded and the folded air bag is integrated with a seat back pad during a foaming process, and is fixed to a seat back frame together with other structural components of the air bag apparatus. When the seat back pad is made by foaming, the air bag in the folded state is placed within a molding die, and a foaming material is foamed to obtain the seat back pad integrated with the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Higashiura, Haruhiko Tsutsumi