Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Fujimura
Yoshihiro Fujimura 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: 20240088588Abstract: A power converter includes first and second components on which male and female fitting members of each of a plurality of pairs of fitting members are arranged, with a pair of first alignment keys formed in the first and second components as reference positions. The first and second components are coupled to each other by the female fitting member clamping an insertion portion of the male fitting member inserted between first and second clamping portions of the female fitting member arranged so as to face each other in a state where the pair of first alignment keys are positionally aligned. The first and second clamping portions are each bent so as to form one of protrusions toward one of surfaces thereof facing each other. A gap is formed in a distal end portion of each of the first and second clamping portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Motohiko FUJIMURA, Hiroshi OGURA, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KAWAKITA, Hidetoshi KITAURA
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Publication number: 20240072476Abstract: An electric power converter includes a first board, a second board, and a first board-to-board connector that electrically and mechanically connects the first board and the second board. The first board-to-board connector includes a male fitting member and a female fitting member. Each of a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion of the female fitting member includes a first contact forming portion and a second contact forming portion that are curved in a protruding shape, and a first spring portion and a second spring portion that are connected to the first contact forming portion and the second contact portion, respectively, and that are curved in corrugated shapes. An insert clamped between the first contact forming portion and the second contact forming portion forms an electrical contact, and the first spring portion and the second spring portion are independently deformable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: HIDETOSHI KITAURA, HIROSHI OGURA, MOTOHIKO FUJIMURA, KAZUHIRO NISHIKAWA, YOSHIHIRO KAWAKITA
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Patent number: 11820211Abstract: A door beam structure includes a door beam attached to a side door so as to extend along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle. The door beam has a curved shape extending outwardly along a transverse axis of the vehicle and is spaced apart from a door skin in an inward direction along the transverse axis as the door beam extends to opposite end portions, along the longitudinal axis, of the door beam. The door beam includes a first end portion located in a frontward direction along the longitudinal axis, the first end portion being opposite to a center pillar. The first end portion is provided with a crush box.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Yasuhisa Egawa, Yumi Saito
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Publication number: 20230302882Abstract: An inner panel of a door body includes an inner wall extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body on an inner side in a vehicle width direction, a connection wall extending toward an outer side in the vehicle width direction from the inner wall, and an outer wall extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body from an outer end of the connection wall in the vehicle width direction and joined to an outer panel. A door beam includes an arch-shaped beam body and a stay located on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to an end of the beam body in a longitudinal direction. The rear end of the beam body is fixed to the inner wall. The stay has a front end fixed to the beam body and a rear end fixed to the outer wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhisa EGAWA, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Atsushi Hasegawa, Ryota Taniwaki
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Publication number: 20230302883Abstract: A door structure for a vehicle is provided. A door beam includes an arch-shaped beam body in which a center in a longitudinal direction bulges more outward in a vehicle width direction than a front end part and a rear end part attached to an inner panel, and a bracket interposed between the front end part of the beam body and the inner panel. A rigidity of the bracket is lower than a rigidity of the beam body. At least a portion of the inner panel to which the rear end part of the beam body is attached is opposed to a member on a vehicle body side located on the inner side in the vehicle width direction, with a gap in the vehicle width direction being present therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhisa EGAWA, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Atsushi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11697329Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes: a horizontal beam arranged inside a door of a vehicle to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a vertical beam arranged inside the door to extend in a vehicle up-down direction, wherein a vehicle front-side end and a vehicle rear-side end of the horizontal beam are each fixed to a door frame, and the vertical beam is fixed in a cantilever fashion to an intermediate portion of the horizontal beam in an axial direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Yasuhisa Egawa, Takuro Nishida, Yumi Saito
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Publication number: 20220314755Abstract: A door beam structure includes a door beam attached to a side door so as to extend along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle. The door beam has a curved shape extending outwardly along a transverse axis of the vehicle and is spaced apart from a door skin in an inward direction along the transverse axis as the door beam extends to opposite end portions, along the longitudinal axis, of the door beam. The door beam includes a first end portion located in a frontward direction along the longitudinal axis, the first end portion being opposite to a center pillar. The first end portion is provided with a crush box.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Atsushi HASEGAWA, Yoshihiro FUJIMURA, Yasuhisa EGAWA, Yumi Saito
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Publication number: 20220314756Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes: a horizontal beam arranged inside a door of a vehicle to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a vertical beam arranged inside the door to extend in a vehicle up-down direction, wherein a vehicle front-side end and a vehicle rear-side end of the horizontal beam are each fixed to a door frame, and the vertical beam is fixed in a cantilever fashion to an intermediate portion of the horizontal beam in an axial direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Atsushi HASEGAWA, Yoshihiro FUJIMURA, Yasuhisa EGAWA, Takuro NISHIDA, Yumi Saito
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Patent number: 8593161Abstract: A contact detection apparatus that allows faster detection and a pinch prevention apparatus equipped with such a detection apparatus are provided. The contact detection apparatus includes a first electrode (430) made of a flexible conductive material and extending throughout a contact detection range, a second electrode (440) apart from the first electrode and extending on the back side of the first electrode, and detection means for detecting contact of an object with the first electrode based on the capacitance of the first electrode. The first electrode is made of a conductive resin containing an embedded conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignees: Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida, Naoki Sumiya, Kenji Kato
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Patent number: 8217607Abstract: An opening/closing control method for a window regulator, which is a method of performing opening/closing control with a pinching prevention function while determining a detection signal from a sensor based on a threshold value. The method includes setting the threshold value as a value offset from a reference value for control, and updating the reference value in correspondence to a value of the detection signal from the sensor in an initial stage of control, and each time when the value of the detection signal from the sensor continuously changes in a certain time within a range where the value of the detection signal from the sensor does not exceed the threshold value, the reference value is modified by a value corresponding to such a changed value.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida, Takashi Inoue
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Patent number: 7906927Abstract: It is intended to realize a signal input method which makes it possible to add another method to an existing method later in a simple manner as well as an opening/closing controller which employs two methods and can be constructed by adding another method to an existing method in a simple manner. A signal processing circuit (5) is inserted in an auto signal path of a control circuit (1) which performs opening/closing control with a pinch preventing function on the basis of an auto signal (AUTO), a close signal (UP), and an open signal (DOWN) which are input via respective signal paths. The auto signal and a detection signal of an additional pinch sensor are input to the control circuit via the signal processing circuit in the form of serial signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignees: Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida
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Patent number: 7833726Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to provide a useful antibody for measuring ADAMTS13 activity, in particular, a monoclonal antibody and a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity. Further, another subject of the present invention also is to provide a monoclonal antibody which has specific reactivity to an antigenic determinant site produced by reacting ADAMTS13 with VWF that is a substrate or a partial peptide of VWF that is a potential substrate, but has no specific reactivity to the complete VWF molecule, and a use of the antibody of interest. Those subjects were achieved by succeeding in obtaining a monoclonal antibody (anti-N-10 monoclonal antibody) which has specific reactivity to a cleavage site that is cleavable by ADAMTS13 in the partial peptide of VWF, and further by finding a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity using the monoclonal antibody of interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Alfresa Pharma CorporationInventors: Seiji Kato, Hisahide Hiura, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Masanori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7830107Abstract: A safety device for power window comprises a storage unit for storing the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by a pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at a reference timing, a calculation unit for calculating the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by the pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at an operational timing and a control unit for comparing the stored value of a pulse width change rate with the calculated value of a pulse width change rate and driving a motor for raising/lowering window glass in a window opening direction when a total of differences between the both pulse change rates exceeds an allowable value.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignees: Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tachibana ELETECH Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Takao Koba, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Hiroki Nishida, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20090295556Abstract: A safety device for a power window is achieved, which considers variation in capacitance during raising of a window glass, and considers variation in capacitance due to a use situation so as to reduce a possibility of false operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20090218978Abstract: A contact detection apparatus that allows faster detection and a pinch prevention apparatus equipped with such a detection apparatus are provided. The contact detection apparatus includes a first electrode (430) made of a flexible conductive material and extending throughout a contact detection range, a second electrode (440) apart from the first electrode and extending on the back side of the first electrode, and detection means for detecting contact of an object with the first electrode based on the capacitance of the first electrode. The first electrode is made of a conductive resin containing an embedded conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2006Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida, Naoki Sumiya, Kenji Kato
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Publication number: 20090206784Abstract: A safety device for power window, which generates pulses by rotation of a raising/lowering motor for raising or lowering a window glass of a power window for vehicle, and determines occurrence of pinching of a foreign substance from change in pulse width during closing operation of a window, and thus reverses window operation into window opening operation, is obtained, wherein false determination due to variation in voltage of a battery hardly occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2006Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Takao Koba, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Hiroki Nishida, Takashi Inoue
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Patent number: 7572591Abstract: The present invention provides an epitope recognized by an antibody (hereinafter, also referred to as an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody) against a cleaving protease (hereinafter, also referred to as ADAMTS-13) specific to von Willebrand factor (hereinafter, also referred to as vWF), and a polypeptide comprising the epitope region. The present invention also provides a polypeptide located in a region from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence composing the ADAMTS-13, which is recognized by the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody, or a peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: The Juridical Foundation Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research InstituteInventors: Kenji Soejima, Tomohiro Nakagaki, Masanori Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Fujimura
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Publication number: 20090142776Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to provide a useful antibody for measuring ADAMTS13 activity, in particular, a monoclonal antibody and a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity. Further, another subject of the present invention also is to provide a monoclonal antibody which has specific reactivity to an antigenic determinant site produced by reacting ADAMTS13 with VWF that is a substrate or a partial peptide of VWF that is a potential substrate, but has no specific reactivity to the complete VWF molecule, and a use of the antibody of interest. Those subjects were achieved by succeeding in obtaining a monoclonal antibody (anti-N-10 monoclonal antibody) which has specific reactivity to a cleavage site that is cleavable by ADAMTS13 in the partial peptide of VWF, and further by finding a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity using the monoclonal antibody of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Seiji Kato, Hisahide Hiura, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Masanori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20090009120Abstract: It is intended to realize a signal input method which makes it possible to add another method to an existing method later in a simple manner as well as an opening/closing controller which employs two methods and can be constructed by adding another method to an existing method in a simple manner. A signal processing circuit (5) is inserted in an auto signal path of a control circuit (1) which performs opening/closing control with a pinch preventing function on the basis of an auto signal (AUTO), a close signal (UP), and an open signal (DOWN) which are input via respective signal paths. The auto signal and a detection signal of an additional pinch sensor are input to the control circuit via the signal processing circuit in the form of serial signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Kazushi Hirose, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Minoru Tanaka, Takao Koba, Hiroki Nishida
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Patent number: 5238919Abstract: This invention provides a peptide fragment of human von Willebrand Factor (vWF) and sub-fragment thereof isolated as enzymtic digestion products from naturally occurring human vWF, or isolated from synthetic peptide mixtures or isolated from lysates of organisms capable of producing recombinant human vWF. The fragments and sub-fragments are useful in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disorders by virtue of their ability to inhibit the binding of vWF to platelets, heparin and/or collagen.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1990Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: Scipps Clinic and Research FoundationInventors: Theodore S. Zimmerman, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Richard A. Houghten, Zaverio M. Ruggeri