Patents Assigned to Nifco Inc.
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Patent number: 12199302Abstract: A pressure relief valve for a battery pack is attached to a port formed in a pack case of a battery pack. The pressure relief valve has a casing including a discharge hole and a valve mechanism configured to open and close the discharge hole. The discharge hole is connected to the port when the pressure relief valve is attached to the port. The pressure relief valve includes a cover attached to the casing. A passage is formed between the cover and the casing to release gas that is discharged from the discharge hole. The valve mechanism includes a valve member configured to close the discharge hole and a biasing portion that biases the valve member to a closed position where the valve member closes the discharge hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Shunsuke Okabayashi
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Patent number: 12194929Abstract: An imaging device for a mounting device includes a bracket supporting a camera unit having a light receiving unit, and configured to be mounted on an attachment subject, and a hood having a surface expanding in a direction away from the light receiving unit in front of the light receiving unit, and mounted on the bracket so that the surface faces the attachment subject, wherein the hood can be removed from the bracket along the attachment subject while the camera unit is being supported by the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Daisuke Mori, Takahiro Saito
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Patent number: 12179704Abstract: The lid device includes a latch body for a latch receiver provided in an opening forming body, an urging device that urges the latch body to always be in a position of being engaged with the latch receiver, and a switching member that is movably provided on a lid lower and that disengages the latch body and the latch receiver in a forward portion. A lid upper is combined with the lid lower so as to be able to slidably move in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the rotation center axis of the lid cover. Also provided is a linking member that links the lid upper and the lid lower so that the switching member is moved to the forward position when the lid upper is movably operated toward the rotation center axis of the lid lower.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Tomoharu Izume, Atsushi Doi
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Patent number: 12151412Abstract: A mesh for insert molding is formed from a single mesh sheet. The mesh for insert molding includes a side wall part that has a band shape extending along the longitudinal direction and includes two joining margins at the longitudinal end parts thereof, a bottom part positioned in the width direction of the side wall part, and a connecting part for connecting the bottom part to the side wall part. The mesh for insert molding is configured so as to be arranged in a die in a state of being molded into a cylindrical shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Norio Saito
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Patent number: 12122276Abstract: A skin locking clip that is firmly supported by a pad is provided. The skin locking clip (10) is disposed in a groove (8) of a pad (5) of a vehicle seat or the like, and fixes a locked portion (6c) attached to a skin material. The skin locking clip (10) includes a base plate (11), a locking piece (12) erected on the base plate (11) to lock the locked portion (6c), and an overhanging piece (13) erected on the base plate. Since the overhanging piece (13) is supported by the pad (5), the skin locking clip (10) is firmly supported by the pad (5).Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignees: NIFCO INC., TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuhei Chinomi, Kazuya Aoki, Kenta Kikuchi, Kei Okuma
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Publication number: 20240280129Abstract: A clip structure and a pin member that have a high shear strength are provided. A grommet member includes a projecting portion, which has a ring shape or a cylindrical shape where an insertion hole is centered and which projects, around the periphery of the insertion hole, from the opposite side of a seat portion from leg portions. On the other hand, a pin member includes a recessed groove portion, which has a ring shape whose part is formed by a support portion, which has a ring shape or a cylindrical shape and is connected, on an extension of a shaft portion, between a middle portion of the shaft portion and a flange portion. The projecting portion is inserted into the recessed groove portion behind the seat portion. In the recessed groove portion, the side of the support portion faces the projecting portion behind the seat portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Jemin HWANG
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Patent number: 12044283Abstract: A damper device for providing a braking force includes a cylinder member having an inner wall, and a piston member slidably disposed in the cylinder member, the braking force being generated by movement or relative movement of the piston member. The piston member includes a seal member having an attachment base, and a lip portion extending from the attachment base and contacting the inner wall of the cylinder member, and a bending regulation portion assembled with the seal member for regulating an outer surface of the attachment base of the seal member.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Yasuhiko Seto
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Patent number: 12017595Abstract: A bumper attachment device for attaching a bumper face to a vehicle body includes a main portion, a vehicle body connection portion provided at the main portion and adapted to be connected to the vehicle body, and an elastic claw provided at the main portion and adapted to engage an engaging hole formed at the bumper face. The elastic claw extends from the main portion, and includes a beam having elasticity and a claw portion projecting from a tip portion of the beam to a side portion. The claw portion includes a check surface engaging a hole wall of the engagement hole, and the check surface has a dent and projection shape.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Naoyuki Masuda
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Patent number: 12016093Abstract: A sheet heater comprises a sheet form heating unit configured from a wire heater. The heating unit comprises a first heating unit positioned along a peripheral edge of the area subject to heating, and a second heating unit positioned at an area surrounded by the first heating unit. The second heating unit comprises a plurality of meandering parts, with mutually adjacent meandering parts overlapping each other in the meandering direction. In the heating unit, the width (WL) of the wire heater is greater than the width (WP) between mutually adjacent wire heaters.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignees: NIFCO INC., KURABE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuki Kasetani, Toshikazu Nagai, Tatsunori Suzuki
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Patent number: 11981269Abstract: Provided is a vehicle interior member that can suppress the reflection of light to the outside, and that can reduce glare from whatever angle a passenger views the interior member. A cross-section of a groove 6 formed in a vehicle interior member 4 is substantially V-shaped, and is constituted by two flat surfaces, a first reflection surface 7 and a second reflection surface 8. The groove 6 has a groove angle ? of 32 degrees, and the reflectance at a light receiving surface 5 is no more than 2.0%.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Kenji Umeda
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Patent number: 11975783Abstract: To simplify the configuration, decrease the number of parts, and reduce the manufacturing cost, a windshield device for a saddle-ride type vehicle includes: a screen 5 whose height is adjustable; a holder 11 holding the screen; a bracket 12 fixed to a vehicle body side member 7 and having a guide hole 71; an arm 13 arranged between the holder and the bracket; a first shaft 51 rotatably coupling the holder and the bracket and configured to move along the guide hole; a second shaft 52 arranged parallel to the first shaft and coupling the holder and one end of the arm; a third shaft 53 arranged parallel to the first shaft and coupling the bracket and another end of the arm; and an operation member 15 provided at an end portion of the first shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: NIFCO INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Naoi, Shinichiro Ishida, Naoki Hara
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Patent number: 11976501Abstract: A lid urging structure includes a housing, a lid pivotally supported on the housing via a link member and switched among a closed position where the lid closes an opening in the housing, a first position in the middle of opening from the closed position, a second position located further in an opening direction, and a fully open position; and an urging member that urges the lid in a closing direction at the closed position and, when the lid is pivoted from the closing direction to the second position by overcoming the urging force, the urging direction is reversed, enables switching from the second position to the fully open position by the urging force. The urging member is formed of a plurality of springs disposed between the link member and the housing. The operating force and the urging force are adjusted by means of a balance between the springs.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Yasuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11970119Abstract: An attachment device for attaching an electronic device to a vehicle structure includes a base attached to the vehicle structure for supporting the electronic device, and a cover attached to the base by a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion. The first engagement portion includes an engagement concave formed in one of the base and the cover, and an engagement piece formed in the other of the base and the cover and inserting into the engagement concave. The engagement concave includes a first wall and a second wall facing each other in a first direction and opening toward a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The engagement piece includes a first portion abutting against one of the first wall and the second wall, and a second portion extending from the first portion and abutting against the other of the first wall and the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Tatsumi Yamada
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Publication number: 20240123922Abstract: A grommet includes: a pair of clamping bodies that clamp a wire harness; a hinge portion that openably and closably couples the pair of clamping bodies; and an engagement portion that is provided at the pair of clamping bodies and that engages with an attachment hole formed in an attachment panel in a state in which the wire harness and the hinge portion clamped by the pair of clamping bodies are inserted into the attachment hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Nifco Inc., Subaru CorporationInventors: Shohei TAKAHASHI, Satoshi KANOU
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Patent number: 11938501Abstract: A nozzle device 1 includes a main body 10 that is formed of a main-body first member 11 and a main-body second member 22 and that has an internal accommodation space 21 in which members are accommodated, a movable nozzle portion 30 that is accommodated in the accommodation space 21, and a coil spring 2 that is disposed between the movable nozzle portion 30 and the main body 10. When air is supplied to a main-body flow-path portion 23 from below, the flow path of the air is changed by the Coanda effect in an air guiding portion 27 such that the air flows along the air guiding portion 27, and the air flows into a gap between an air receiving portion 36 and the air guiding portion 27 and is guided to the air receiving portion 36. The air is pressurized in the air receiving portion 36 and pushes up the movable nozzle portion 30.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Mikio Nezu
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Patent number: 11933337Abstract: A clip includes a male member having a head part and a rod-shaped pin part; and a female member having a cylindrical part into which the pin part is inserted, a first engaging hook on the cylindrical part engaging the pin part at a first inserting position of the pin part and a second inserting position on a back side in an inserting direction, and a second engaging hook engaging an edge of the attaching hole when the cylindrical part is inserted into the attaching hole. The pin part includes a tolerance part allowing elastic deformation of the second engaging hook when the pin part is in the first inserting position, and a stopping part positioned on the head part side supporting the second engaging hook from inside the cylindrical part and stopping elastic deformation of the second engaging hook when the pin part is in the second inserting position.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Kota Sawano
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Patent number: 11920622Abstract: The clip includes a head part, a shaft part, a pin having first and second engaged parts at the shaft part, and a grommet having a flange part with an insertion hole, a leg part, and an engaging part engaging with/disengaging from the engaged part. The pin has the engaging part near the inner periphery of the insertion hole of the flange part. The pin has guide grooves between the first and second engaged parts to guide the movement of the pin while movably engaging the engaging part. Switching between a temporary fixing state and a permanent fixing state is conducted through movement of the shaft part associated with guiding by the guide grooves. When the pin in the permanent fixing state is rotated and moved in the pull-up direction associated with guiding by the guide grooves, engagement between the engaging part and the second engaged part is released.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Kenji Hattori
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Patent number: 11913615Abstract: An LED lighting device includes a transparent cover member arranged at an exterior member or an interior member and covering an LED element and a light emitting surface of the LED element mounted on a substrate, and a light transmission member receiving emission light from the light emitting surface of the LED element at a light inlet end and operating as a light transmission path. The light transmission member is integrated with the LED element mounted on the substrate together with the cover member using a transparent resin by insertion molding.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Kenji Umeda
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Publication number: 20240042922Abstract: A vehicle-light marking tool includes: an attachment part that is attached to a vehicle-constituting member; a first marking unit provided on a side of the attachment part opposite from an attachment side, the first marking unit containing a reflective material; and a second marking unit provided adjacent to the first marking unit and containing a light-emitting material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Nifco Inc.Inventor: Takehiro SATO
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Patent number: 11890994Abstract: There is provided an on-board-device bracket capable of appropriately mounting a front portion of an imaging means with respect to a windshield. An on-board-device bracket 10 is formed by a bracket body portion 11 and a front portion 16 connected to a front part of a center portion of the bracket body portion 11. Slits 17 along the front portion 16 are formed between the front portion 16 and the bracket body portion 11. The front portion 16 includes, at the front end thereof, a front bonding portion. The front portion 16 is bent by the slits 17 individually from the bracket body portion 11 and displaced with respect to a windshield 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Takanori Otake, Shohei Seko, Hideaki Hashimoto