Patents Assigned to Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
  • HOOD LOCK APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180298652
    Abstract: A hood lock apparatus includes: a primary lock portion holding a hood in a fully closed state; and a secondary lock portion holding the hood in a half open state and including a catcher attached to a vehicle body, a base attached to the hood, and a latch supported on the base, rotatable between a latching position and an unlatching position and including a hook portion locking the catcher when the hood is opened to the half open state with the latch being at the latching position, an operating portion operating the latch to rotate toward the unlatching position, and an abutment portion abutting the catcher when the hood is fully closed state with the latch being at the unlatching position. The latch is rotated to the latching position by the abutment of the abutment portion with the catcher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki KOZAKI, Toshihisa NISHIJO, Shunsuke TAMURA
  • Control device of electric step for vehicle
    Patent number: 10077002
    Abstract: An electric step control device for a vehicle having a step provided movably by power of a motor from a retraction position where the step is retracted under a vehicle body to an overhang position where the step appears from the vehicle body or vice versa according to an opening and closure operation of a door, has a control unit. The control unit executes an overhang drive control that moves the step from the retraction position to the overhang position according to an occurrence of the opening operation of the door having been at a closure position. And the control unit starts a retraction drive control that moves the step from the overhang position to the retraction position according to an occurrence of the closure operation of the door having been at a full open position at a predetermined timing before the door reaches the closure position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichiro Okuyama
  • HOOD LOCK APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180230719
    Abstract: A hood lock apparatus includes a base plate having a striker groove into which a striker enters in response to a closing operation of a hood, a latch locking the striker entered into the striker groove, a locking plate locking the latch that locks the striker, a rattle lever supporting the striker locked by the latch with the latch, and a rattle spring biasing the rattle lever holding the striker with the latch towards the striker. The rattle spring is disposed to straddle a first center line passing through a rotational shaft of the rattle lever and extending in a direction at right angles to a direction in which the striker groove extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru OGAWASE, Toshihisa NISHIJO
  • VEHICLE DOOR LATCH DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180195318
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door latch device capable of shortening of energization time to an electrical drive source while a moving member is restrained by abutting against a stopper portion and improvement of durability of the electrical drive source. A control unit of the door latch device controls an electric motor for driving a sector gear in a release direction based on a door operation of an operation switch, and controls to stop a power supply to the electric motor when the latch is rotated from the full-latch position to the open position and a full-latch detecting switch is activated while the moving member is brought into abutment with the stopper portion and is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
    Inventors: Minetaka Katagawa, Shintaro Okawa, Akifumi Omori
  • Motor vehicle door latch device
    Patent number: 10017970
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door latch device which comprises a body, a latch and a pawl. The pawl engages with the latch to prevent the latch from turning. The pawl comprises a core and a synthetic-resin portion. A releasing portion is disposed on a basic axial portion of a core. The releasing portion is formed together with the core or the synthetic-resin portion in order to reduce the associated manufacturing costs and weight of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Shimura, Hajime Yoneyama
  • VEHICLE DOOR LATCHING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180187457
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door latching device that can be assembled in a door more easily. A hole to be engaged is provided in a portion of a housing that faces an inner panel to which a cover plate is fixed, wherein the hole to be engaged allows an engaging unit and an operating unit to be suspended in a door by way of engaging with an engaging part of the inner panel in a state in which the engaging unit is not anchored to the inner panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nagaoka, Hideaki Nozawa
  • Vehicle door latch device
    Patent number: 9982466
    Abstract: A vehicle door latch device includes: a base fixed to a door; a latch pivotally supported on the base, and configured to be rotatable in association with opening and closing of the door, the latch having a cam portion on an outer periphery thereof; a detection lever pivotally supported on the base by a shaft, the detection lever having a detecting portion, which slides along the cam portion in association with rotation of the latch, and a cam surface, the detection lever being configured to be rotatable, by the detecting portion sliding along the cam portion, to a position corresponding to a rotational position of the latch; and a detection switch configured to detect open and closed states of the door by being turned ON and OFF by coming into contact with and separating from the cam surface in association with rotation of the detection lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION, GECOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Enomoto, Brian Kepler
  • Vehicle door latch device
    Patent number: 9976323
    Abstract: A vehicle door latch device includes: a body which is provided in one of a door of a vehicle or a vehicle body, a striker advancing groove being formed on one surface of the body; a latch configured to be meshed with the advanced striker to hold the door at a closed position; a cover plate installed on the surface of the body on which the striker advancing groove is formed; and a back plate fixed to the cover plate with the body placed therebetween. One of the cover plate or the back plate includes a projected part which is projected in an inside-outside direction of the vehicle. Other one of the cover plate or the back plate includes an engagement hole into which the projected part advances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Nozawa, Tomoharu Nagaoka
  • Vehicle door latch device
    Patent number: 9970220
    Abstract: A vehicle door latch device includes: a latch unit configured to keep a vehicle door in a door-closed state by engaging with a striker of a vehicle body; a power release mechanism configured to make the vehicle door openable by releasing engagement between the latch unit and the striker; a disengagement mechanism installed in a path coupling the power release mechanism with the latch unit, the disengagement mechanism being configured to be switched between a connected state and a disconnected state; and a lever configured to switch the disengagement mechanism from the connected state to the disconnected state. The lever is configured to be connectable to both of a full-open position holder, operating when the vehicle door reaches a full-open position by door-opening slide, and a disengagement operating unit for manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Hiramoto, Naoki Hanaki, Kohei Yamashita
  • WINDOW GLASS OPENING/CLOSING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180112452
    Abstract: On the basis that a ratchet detection switch detects the releasing operation of a ratchet, and a door opening and closing detection switch detects the opened state of a door, the drive of a motor for a window regulator is controlled so as to open a window glass to a predetermined slight opening position. In addition, on the basis that the door opening and closing detection switch detects the closed state of the door, and the ratchet detection switch detects the engagement of the ratchet to a latch, the drive of the motor for the window regulator is controlled to close the window glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuntaro KIMURA
  • DOOR LOCK APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180112442
    Abstract: A door lock apparatus includes an inside lever, an opening member for switching a latch mechanism to an unlatching state by a rotation of the inside lever, a child lever translated between set and unset positions; and a bush translated together with the child lever. The bush engages with the inside lever and transmits the rotation of the inside lever to the opening member when the child lever is disposed in the unset position and is released from the engagement with the inside lever when the child lever is disposed in the set position. A movable range of the child lever and the bush is confined inside a circle centered at a rotation shaft of the inside lever and whose radius corresponds to a distance from the rotation shaft to a farthest point of the inside lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke ENOMOTO
  • Vehicle door opening device
    Patent number: 9932763
    Abstract: A vehicle door opening device opens and closes a door with a motor. In the vehicle door opening device, an opening reversible member on which an opening cable is wound is disposed on a top surface of a center guide rail, and a closing reversible member on which a closing cable is wound is disposed under a lower surface of the center guide rail. A moving member moves along the center guide rail and comprises a closing coupling portion to which the closing cable is coupled and an opening coupling portion to which the opening cable coupled. The closing cable moves along the lower surface of the center guide rail, and the opening cable moves along the top surface of the center guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Seto, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Shuntaro Kimura, Hiroshi Ishigaki
  • Switch assembly of vehicle door latch device
    Patent number: 9903143
    Abstract: A switch assembly of a vehicle door latch device, the switch assembly includes: a latch switch detecting a position of a latch, the latch being pivotally supported by a latch shaft to be engaged with a striker; a ratchet switch that detecting a position of a ratchet, the ratchet being pivotally supported by a ratchet shaft to be engaged with the latch and prevented reverse rotation of the latch; and a one common switch case that the latch switch and the ratchet switch are installed in the one common switch case. The latch shaft and the ratchet shaft are arranged to be isolated across a striker moving trajectory of the striker. The one common switch case is arranged on a latch body on one side of a striker moving trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigenori Hiramoto
  • CONTROL DEVICE OF ELECTRIC STEP FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180043832
    Abstract: An electric step control device for a vehicle having a step provided movably by power of a motor from a retraction position where the step is retracted under a vehicle body to an overhang position where the step appears from the vehicle body or vice versa according to an opening and closure operation of a door, has a control unit. The control unit executes an overhang drive control that moves the step from the retraction position to the overhang position according to an occurrence of the opening operation of the door having been at a closure position. And the control unit starts a retraction drive control that moves the step from the overhang position to the retraction position according to an occurrence of the closure operation of the door having been at a full open position at a predetermined timing before the door reaches the closure position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichiro OKUYAMA
  • OPENING AND CLOSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180016835
    Abstract: An opening and closing system includes a drive unit which drives a closing openable member of a vehicle to be opened or closed, an opening and closing control unit which controls the drive unit to open or close the closing openable member, an image capturing unit which captures an image of a periphery of the closing openable member, and a detecting unit which detects an obstacle proximity to the closing openable member based on an image captured by the image capturing unit. When the detecting unit detects an obstacle, the opening and closing unit stops the closing openable member before it comes into contact with the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikio ICHINOSE
  • Lock device
    Patent number: 9855863
    Abstract: A lock device includes: a body having a striker insertion groove into which a striker is inserted; a hook lever shaft mounted to the body; and a hook lever rotatably mounted to the body via the hook lever shaft, and that moves to an engagement position where the hook lever is engaged with the striker inserted into the striker insertion groove, and that moves to a release position where the engagement with the striker is released. The lock device is rotatably supported by a support member so as to change an opening position of the striker insertion groove. The hook lever shaft is rotatably mounted to the body, and has a flange interposed between the body and the support member, and the body is supported by the support member so as to rotate about the hook lever shaft as a rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hanaki, Naoya Seto
  • Power-door opening and closing device and automobile provided with opening and closing device
    Patent number: 9845630
    Abstract: A power door opening device comprises a casing; a motor mounted to the casing; a planetary gear unit housed in the casing to reduce rotation speed of the motor; and an output mechanism that transmits reduced rotation from the planetary gear unit to a door to open and close the door. The planetary gear unit comprises a sun gear that rotates with a rotary shaft of the motor; a planetary carrier fixed in the casing; a planetary gear that is rotatably supported to the planetary carrier and meshes with the sun gear; and a ring gear that is rotatably supported in the casing and meshes with the planetary gear. Both ends of the sun gear are supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Sasaki
  • LOCK DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170350172
    Abstract: A lock device 1 includes a latch 10 that locks a striker 2, a ratchet 11 that is brought into engagement with the latch 10 to prevent the movement of the latch 10, a lever 12 that moves the ratchet 11 to a releasing position where the ratchet 11 releases the latch 10, an actuator 13 that includes a motor 23 that operates the lever 12, a base 14 that supports the latch 10, the ratchet 11, the lever 12 and the actuator 13, and a case 15 that is fixed to the base 14 and accommodates at least the actuator 13 between the base 14 and the case 15, and an attaching portion 44, to which an operating member 16 that is connected to the lever 12 so as to enable the lever 12 to be operated manually is attachable, is provided integrally on the case 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke TAMURA, Toshio TAKENAKA
  • Door opening and closing apparatus
    Patent number: 9834970
    Abstract: A door opening and closing apparatus includes a rail module including: a rail member extending along a front-and-rear direction; a drive device mounted on the rail member; and a supporting member coupled to one end portion of a closing cable the other end portion of which is connected to the drive device and one end portion of an opening cable the other end portion of which is connected to the drive device. The rail module is provided with the drive device fastened to an outside of a vehicle body such that a part of the drive device goes inside the vehicle body through an opening provided on the vehicle body. At least the opening inversion member is provided at an upper portion of the other end portion of the rail member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Seto, Shuntaro Kimura, Hiroshi Ishigaki
  • Door opening and closing apparatus
    Patent number: 9828796
    Abstract: A door opening and closing apparatus includes a rail module including: a rail member extending along a front-and-rear direction; a drive device mounted on the rail member; and a supporting member coupled to a closing cable a part of which is wound around the rotating drum and that is hung on a closing inversion member and an opening cable a part of which is wound around the rotating drum and that is hung on an opening inversion member. The rail module is provided with the drive device fastened to an outside of a vehicle body such that a part of the drive device goes inside the vehicle body through an opening provided on the vehicle body. An outer diameter of the rotating drum of the drive device is made smaller than a maximum diameter of a deceleration mechanism for making the rotating drum rotate forward and backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Seto, Hiroshi Ishigaki