Patents by Inventor Yasuo Asaga

Yasuo Asaga 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: 10647360
    Abstract: A vehicular structural element that includes: a plurality of elongated tube-shaped members; and a retaining member that retains the plurality of elongated tube-shaped members, such that they are disposed alongside each other in a circumferential direction with respect to a predetermined central axis. A tubular assembly configured by an assembly of the plurality of elongated tube-shaped members has inner locations disposed at an inner region viewed along an axial direction set with a lower rigidity in the axial direction than outer locations disposed at an outer region viewed along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Hidekazu Nishigaki, Yasuo Asaga, Ichiro Aoi
  • Publication number: 20180281864
    Abstract: A vehicular structural element that includes: a plurality of elongated tube-shaped members; and a retaining member that retains the plurality of elongated tube-shaped members, such that they are disposed alongside each other in a circumferential direction with respect to a predetermined central axis. A tubular assembly configured by an assembly of the plurality of elongated tube-shaped members has inner locations disposed at an inner region viewed along an axial direction set with a lower rigidity in the axial direction than outer locations disposed at an outer region viewed along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Hidekazu NISHIGAKI, Yasuo ASAGA, Ichiro AOI
  • Patent number: 8851558
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure of the present invention includes an elastic base frame formed in a ring shape; and three elastic upper frames each formed in a ring shape, the three upper frames being disposed on the base frame so as to configure a tetrahedron with the base frame, the three upper frames being connected to the base frame, and the upper frames that are adjacent to each other in a peripheral direction of the base frame being connected to each other. A vehicle body structure is hence provided capable of exhibiting high impact absorption properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Yasuo Asaga, Hidekazu Nishigaki, Sadayuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8191666
    Abstract: A safety device for a vehicle, capable of relaxing a collision load acting on a colliding body. The safety device (10) for a vehicle has colliding body receiving sections (24), and opposite longitudinal ends of each colliding body receiving section (24) are bent to form legs (26) having ends (26A). The ends (26A) are fixed to side frames (16) on the vehicle body side to form impact absorption members (22). The safety device (10) is adapted so that, while supporting a collision load, the impact absorption members (22) are displaced to absorb collision energy of the colliding body. The impact absorption members (22) can produce displacement regions that acts against an increase in the displacement in the direction of collision to suppress an increase in supporting load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Hidekazu Nishigaki, Atsushi Kawaguchi, Yasuo Asaga, Daisuke Yamada, Tomoko Abe, Yoshikatsu Kisanuki
  • Publication number: 20110285170
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure of the present invention includes an elastic base frame formed in a ring shape; and three elastic upper frames each formed in a ring shape, the three upper frames being disposed on the base frame so as to configure a tetrahedron with the base frame, the three upper frames being connected to the base frame, and the upper frames that are adjacent to each other in a peripheral direction of the base frame being connected to each other. A vehicle body structure is hence provided capable of exhibiting high impact absorption properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Yasuo ASAGA, Hidekazu NISHIGAKI, Sadayuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20100108424
    Abstract: A safety device for a vehicle, capable of relaxing a collision load acting on a colliding body. The safety device (10) for a vehicle has colliding body receiving sections (24), and opposite longitudinal ends of each colliding body receiving section (24) are bent to form legs (26) having ends (26A). The ends (26A) are fixed to side frames (16) on the vehicle body side to form impact absorption members (22). The safety device (10) is adapted so that, while supporting a collision load, the impact absorption members (22) are displaced to absorb collision energy of the colliding body. The impact absorption members (22) can produce displacement regions that acts against an increase in the displacement in the direction of collision to suppress an increase in supporting load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Hidekazu Nishigaki, Atsushi Kawaguchi, Yasuo Asaga, Daisuke Yamada, Tomoko Abe, Yoshikatsu Kisanuki
  • Patent number: 6433675
    Abstract: A receiver for an anti-theft device provided in a motor cycle or the like includes a small radius pole 2 which is integrated and extends in the same direction, coaxial direction, on an upper face of a pole 3 provided on a bottom face of a storage case 41 of an electronic circuit board 42. A plurality of protrusions 5 engaged by press fitting with holes provided in the electrical circuit board radiate along a peripheral longitudinal direction of the small radius pole. An electronic circuit board 42 is resin molded in a storage case 41.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Suda, Yasuo Asaga
  • Publication number: 20020067247
    Abstract: A receiver for an anti-theft device provided in a motor cycle or the like includes a small radius pole 2 which is integrated and extends in the same direction, coaxial direction, on an upper face of a pole 3 provided on a bottom face of a storage case 41 of an electronic circuit board 42. A plurality of protrusions 5 engaged by press fitting with holes provided in the electrical circuit board radiate along a peripheral longitudinal direction of the small radius pole. An electronic circuit board 42 is resin molded in a storage case 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Suda, Yasuo Asaga