Patents Represented by Law Firm Parkhust & Oliff
  • Patent number: 4634143
    Abstract: Present invention relates to an apparatus to improve the riding feel of the vehicle when the rear wheels pass over a sporadic hollows or protrusions of a ground by altering the rear suspension characteristic, i.e. the spring constant and the damping force of the shock absorbers after such hollows or protrusions are detected by front wheels of the vehicle passing thereover and the detected hollow or protrusion is judged to exceed a predetermined size. Besides that, the present invention has another control measures to give a priority to the maintenance of the vehicle posture when the driving condition is that need drivability and stability more than the riding comfort over the above-mentioned rear suspension characteristic alteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Asami, Kaoru Ohashi, Toshio Onuma, Shuuichi Buma
  • Patent number: 4574107
    Abstract: A method for producing a coated woven fabric, in which the support material comprises disintegrable chemical weft threads which are subsequently removed without the other threads being affected, method wherein:a first support fabric is produced of which only part of the weft threads are disintegrable, and in a weave in which said disintegrable weft thread is so arranged that, were it to be removed, the result would be, not a woven fabric any longer, but a superposition of three criss-crossed layers of parallel warp threads, one layer of weft threads being squeezed between two layers of warp threads, respectively;then, said support fabric is coated with a coating composition;and finally, the deposited coating is gelled in the right temperature conditions to remove the disintegrable weft thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: Tissage et Enduction Serge Ferrari S.A.
    Inventor: Serge Ferrari