Patents Assigned to Johnan Manufacturing Inc.
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Patent number: 11952811Abstract: A vehicle lock device includes a base including an entry groove for entry of a striker, a latch that pivots between a restraining position to restrain the striker and a release position to release the striker and also to allow entry of the striker, a locking lever engaging the latch and holding the latch in the restraining position, and a torsion spring that presses the striker rearward in an entry direction when a first arm portion comes into contact with the striker, and that applies an elastic force to the latch toward the release position when the first arm portion engages the latch. The first arm portion of the torsion spring is disengaged from the latch when the first arm portion is pushed down in the entry direction by the striker.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Naoki Ide, Mayu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11739581Abstract: A window regulator includes a carrier plate to support a window glass of a vehicle, a guide rail along an ascending/descending direction of the window glass to slidably support the carrier plate, a wire to pull the carrier plate, a driving portion arranged at one end of the guide rail in the ascending/descending direction to drive the wire, and a turnaround portion arranged at an other end of the guide rail in the ascending/descending direction to turn the wire around. The wire arranged between the turnaround portion and the carrier plate is positioned shifted from the guide rail. The wire arranged between the driving portion and the turnaround portion is positioned on the guide rail to push and contact the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventor: Hideaki Kashiwagi
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Patent number: 11719031Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail, a carrier plate, and a raising/lowering means to raise/lower the carrier plate along the guide rail. The carrier plate includes a front surface sliding member configured to slide on a front surface of a flange portion of the guide rail and a back surface sliding member configured to slide on a back surface of the flange portion. The back surface sliding member includes a contact portion coming into contact with the back surface and a base portion that presses the contact portion against the back surface by a restoring force of elastic deformation. The contact portion extends toward the back surface and is elastically deformed and bent on the end side to allow the flange portion to enter from a lateral side in an extending direction thereof when assembling the carrier plate to the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventor: Wataru Murata
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Patent number: 11505972Abstract: A vehicle hood lock device includes a base including a groove for entry of a striker, a latch that pivots between a restraining position and a release position, a locking lever engaging the latch, a torsion spring causing the latch to pivot in a direction toward the release position, and a sub-plate fixed to the base by a latch pin supporting the latch and a locking pin supporting the locking lever. The torsion spring includes a cylindrical portion. The sub-plate integrally includes a basal portion, a circumferential wall portion rising up from the basal portion in a pivot axis direction of the latch, facing the cylindrical portion in a radial direction thereof and restricting movement of the torsion spring in the radial direction, and a brim portion protruding outward in the radial direction from the circumferential wall portion and restricting movement of the torsion spring in the pivot axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Naoki Ide, Harumitsu Nakamura, Koji Sasaki
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Publication number: 20220307299Abstract: A vehicle lock device includes a base including an entry groove for entry of a striker, a latch that pivots between a restraining position to restrain the striker and a release position to release the striker and also to allow entry of the striker, a locking lever engaging the latch and holding the latch in the restraining position, and a torsion spring that presses the striker rearward in an entry direction when a first arm portion comes into contact with the striker, and that applies an elastic force to the latch toward the release position when the first arm portion engages the latch. The first arm portion of the torsion spring is disengaged from the latch when the first arm portion is pushed down in the entry direction by the striker.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Naoki IDE, Mayu KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220307298Abstract: A vehicle lock device includes a base including an entry groove for entry of a striker, a latch that is supported on the base and pivots between a restraining position to restrain the striker and a release position to release the striker, a locking lever that is supported on the base, engages the latch and holds the latch in the restraining position, and a torsion spring that is arranged adjacent to the latch so that a first arm portion is located on the latch side, and that presses the striker rearward in an entry direction when the first arm portion comes into contact with the striker. The first arm portion of the torsion spring is bent or curved in an axial direction of a coiled portion so that a tip portion of the first arm portion is located on an inner side of the coiled portion in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Naoki IDE, Mayu KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11326381Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window glass of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and travels together with the window glass, cables that pull the carrier plate, a drum on which the cables are partially wound, a motor rotationally driving the drum, and a drum housing provided at a lower end of the guide rail and having a housing space for housing the drum, wherein the drum housing has a wall section provided on an outer side of the drum that is housed in the housing space, and a contact surface of the drum housing coming into contact with the carrier plate is provided at a lower position than an upper end of the wall section in a vertical direction that the window glass travels when the window glass is fully opened.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Shugo Tanaka, Tetsuya Kubota
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Patent number: 11162283Abstract: A vehicle lid lock device includes a locking member for locking a lid provided on a vehicle, a housing member in which an insertion hole is formed into which the locking member is inserted and which houses the locking member enabled to move backward and forward; and an annular seal member that is housed in a housing portion of the housing member and that seals a gap between an inner surface of the insertion hole of the housing member and an outer surface of the locking member. The seal member includes a main body including an inner peripheral surface with an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the locking member, and a lip portion that protrudes radially inward from the inner peripheral surface of the main body and that is in slide contact with the outer surface of the locking member.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Yuta Sakurai, Koji Sasaki
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Patent number: 10982478Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window for a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, a window power feed wire for supplying power to the window, a swing bar arranged to be swingable about the rotational axis thereof that is along a width direction of the vehicle, an elastic member that generates an elastic force for swinging the swing bar in a predetermined direction, and a temporary holding mechanism for temporarily holding the swing bar so that the swing bar extends along the longitudinal direction of the guide rail. The window power feed wire is hung over the swing bar.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideaki Kashiwagi, Hideaki Takehara
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Patent number: 10975604Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window for a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, a window power feed wire for supplying power to the window, a swing bar arranged to be swingable about the rotational axis thereof that is along a width direction of the vehicle, and an elastic member that generates an elastic force for oscillation the swing bar in a predetermined direction. The window power feed wire is hung over the swing bar, and a tension is applied to the window power feed wire by oscillation of the swing bar due to the elastic force of the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideaki Kashiwagi, Hideaki Takehara
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Patent number: 10975606Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, and an ascending-side cable that pulls the carrier plate in the ascending direction and a descending-side cable that pulls the carrier plate in the descending direction. The carrier plate includes an ascending-side spring housing hole, a descending-side spring housing hole and a holding hole, the ascending-side spring housing hole housing an end of the ascending-side cable and an ascending-side spring, the descending-side spring housing hole housing an end of the descending-side cable and a descending-side spring. The holding hole and the descending-side spring housing hole are aligned in a vertical direction. A portion of the holding hole overlaps the descending-side spring housing hole in a vehicle longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideo Kashiwabara, Takeshi Nishizawa, Hiroki Shimizu, Yukihide Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20210102411Abstract: A vehicle hood lock device includes a base including a groove for entry of a striker, a latch that pivots between a restraining position and a release position, a locking lever engaging the latch, a torsion spring causing the latch to pivot in a direction toward the release position, and a sub-plate fixed to the base by a latch pin supporting the latch and a locking pin supporting the locking lever. The torsion spring includes a cylindrical portion. The sub-plate integrally includes a basal portion, a circumferential wall portion rising up from the basal portion in a pivot axis direction of the latch, facing the cylindrical portion in a radial direction thereof and restricting movement of the torsion spring in the radial direction, and a brim portion protruding outward in the radial direction from the circumferential wall portion and restricting movement of the torsion spring in the pivot axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventors: Naoki IDE, Harumitsu NAKAMURA, Koji SASAKI
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Patent number: 10927588Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, cables that pulls the carrier plate, a drum that is rotationally driven by a motor, and a housing that includes a drum housing accommodating the drum and a motor housing fixed to the drum housing and accommodating a portion of the motor. The drum housing includes a fitting portion including a fitting hole to insert a lower end of the guide rail and a fastening hole used to fasten the motor housing. The fastening hole of the drum housing is provided at a position overlapping the guide rail in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideo Kashiwabara, Hiroki Shimizu, Yukihide Yamazaki, Wataru Murata
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Patent number: 10927589Abstract: A window regulator includes a metal guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, a drum rotationally driven by a motor, a cable that is routed between the drum and the carrier plate via a direction changing member provided at an upper end of the guide rail and pulls the carrier plate, and a cable support that supports the cable between the drum and the direction changing member. The cable support includes a resin slide member allowing the cable to slide thereon and an attached-member receiving portion to which the slide member is attached. The attached-member receiving portion is integrated with the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideo Kashiwabara, Hiroki Shimizu, Yukihide Yamazaki, Wataru Murata
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Patent number: 10822859Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided on a door of a vehicle and arranged along an ascending/descending direction of a window on the door, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, a drive unit including a drum rotationally driven by a motor, cables coupled to the carrier plate at one end and coupled to the drum at an other end, and a stopper that contacts with a contact portion of the carrier plate at a position where the carrier plate is located when the window is fully closed. The stopper and the guide rail are placed side by side in a front-back direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventor: Tomotaka Shiroma
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Patent number: 10604981Abstract: A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, and an ascending-side cable for pulling the carrier plate in the ascending direction and a descending-side cable for pulling the carrier plate in the descending direction. The carrier plate includes a descending-side housing portion and a pressing portion. The descending-side housing portion houses an end of the descending-side cable and a spring provided to apply a tensile force to the descending-side cable. The pressing portion is configured to press toward the guide rail the descending-side cable extending out of the descending-side housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventor: Tomotaka Shiroma
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Patent number: 10472876Abstract: A window regulator (1) provided in a door (9) of a vehicle to raise and lower a windowpane (90) in the door (9) includes a guide rail (20) arranged along the travel direction of the windowpane (90), a wire (3) extending along the longitudinal direction of the guide rail (20), and a traveling body (4) that is guided by the guide rail (20) and travels together with the windowpane (90). The traveling body (4) includes a drum (40) with a part of the wire (3) wound thereon, a motor (5) generating a drive force that rotates and drives the drum (40), and a housing (6) that holds the drum (40) and the motor (5). The motor (5) is more outwardly situated in a vehicle width direction than the guide rail (20) in the door (9).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hiroki Shimizu, Manabu Shimomura, Seiichi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10329824Abstract: A vehicle door glass lifting device includes a lifting and lowering mechanism by which a door glass is lifted or lowered relative to a window frame of a vehicle door, a contact sensor that is arranged on a top end surface of the door glass and extended along a longitudinal direction of the top end surface of the door glass, and a control part that controls the lifting and lowering mechanism. The contact sensor can detect a contact state including a contact length with a contact object. The control part determines whether or not the contact object is a foreign object based on the contact state detected by the contact sensor, and the control part lowers the door glass when the contact object is determined as the foreign object.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Hideaki Takehara, Masakane Yoshizawa, Yasuhiro Saito
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Patent number: 10329825Abstract: A window regulator includes a carrier plate holding a windowpane, a drum rotated by driving a motor that generates a driving force, a wire whose one end is connected to the carrier plate and whose other end is connected to the drum, a wire end fixed to an end on a side of the one end of the wire, and a housing member that is formed of a synthetic resin and houses the wire end. The housing member is configured to define a housing hole that is surrounded by a base in which an inserting hole to insert the wire is formed, and a sidewall that is formed extending from an outer edge of the base. The wire end is housed in the housing hole while being pressed against a protrusion that protrudes from the sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: JOHNAN MANUFACTURING INC.Inventors: Yuka Koike, Yusuke Yamazaki, Manabu Shimomura
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Publication number: 20190093399Abstract: A fuel lid actuator includes a motor, a gear member that rotates within a predetermined angular range associated with the operation of the motor, a moving member that includes a shaft-shaped rod part and is disposed so as to be able to advance and retreat in an axial direction in associated with the rotation of the gear member, and a housing member which includes first and second housing members that house the motor, the gear member and the moving member and in which a cylindrical rod support part for supporting the rod part is installed. The rod support part is in formed into a tubular shape and includes a semi-cylindrical first rod support part installed in the first housing member and a semi-cylindrical second rod support part installed in the second housing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Johnan Manufacturing Inc.Inventor: Yuta SAKURAI