Patents Assigned to PIAA
  • Patent number: 6079852
    Abstract: An auxiliary light is provided with a housing having a light element in an inside thereof and an axially supporting portion in a side portion, and a bracket having a stand portion which is axially supported to the side portion of the housing by the axially supporting portion and a base portion which can be suitably supported to the vehicle. In this structure, a circular arc portion having a center of substantially center portion of the housing in a right and left direction is formed in both of the stand portion of the bracket and the axially supporting portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Kamaya, Haruo Hyodo
  • Patent number: 5788363
    Abstract: A lamp unit attaching structure for attaching a head lamp to a bumper plate through a bracket in the present invention is constructed by a head lamp having an attaching portion in a position shifted from a central position of the head lamp in its height direction, and a bracket. The bracket has bent portions formed in both end portions of the bracket and bent in the same direction, assembling portions formed in end tip portions of said bent portions to assemble the bracket into said attaching portion, and an extending portion extending from said bent portions in one of a progressing direction of a light beam of said head lamp or a direction reverse to this progressing direction. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with various kinds of distances between the bumper plate and the ground on the basis of differences in kind of a car body by changing assembling directions of the head lamp and the bracket and attaching the head lamp and the bracket to the bumper plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Kamaya, Toshiyuki Terada
  • Patent number: 5611510
    Abstract: A device for fitting up an auxiliary lamp of the present invention includes a pair of brackets 2 opposite to each other and projecting from an auxiliary lamp body 1, a support plate 4 having one side surface adhered to a surface of an automobile, pivot members 5 for projecting from another side surface of the support plate 4 to be fitted loosely between the brackets 2, pivot members 5 interposing washer and nut members 6 and 7, arcuate members 8 and 9 on both sides of the brackets 2, arcuate members 10 and 11 at the surface of the washer and nut members 6 and 7, respectively, and the pivot, washer and nut members 5, 6 and 7 and brackets 2 that have a horizontally elongate recess 12, a through hole 13, a tapped hole 14 and a through hole 15 at the center, respectively and that are engaged by a bolt 16. Thereby, an illumination direction of an auxiliary lamp can be easily adjusted in the vertical or horizontal directions after the auxiliary lamp has been fitted to an automobile by an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5578893
    Abstract: The invention disclosed relates a bulb for use with vehicular lighting equipment and adapted for use therein. It comprises a glass bulb member having a multi-layered color layer, a non-color portion and light shield layer located thereon, a stem, a plurality of inner leads, a pair of filaments, a metallic shield member, a plug, etc. As combined with a reflector in vehicular lighting equipment, the bulb enables change of its beam in orientation and in color by selective operation of the filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D510636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D471302
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D482149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D570009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kani, Yukari Ishiwatari, Hideaki Shimada
  • Patent number: D574978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Hyodo, Yukari Ishiwatari
  • Patent number: D490172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D335479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Piaa Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D340020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Piaa Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D340021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Piaa Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D347901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D390979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D390980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D430684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: PIAA Design International Corporation
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D704125
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kani, Masatoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D708373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: PIAA Corporation
    Inventor: Gen Kani
  • Patent number: D739577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: PIAA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gen Kani