Patents Assigned to Piolax, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20260152978
    Abstract: A lock device for an opening and closing body includes: a base member; and an operating member. The operating member includes an operating plate portion, an operating portion, a first load transmission wall portion, a stopper portion, and a second load transmission wall portion. The second load transmission wall portion has a base end connected to the first load transmission wall portion and/or the stopper portion, and includes an extension portion including a portion obliquely extending toward the operating plate portion and a connecting portion that connects the extension portion to the operating plate portion. A gap is formed between the first load transmission wall portion, the extension portion and the connecting portion of the second load transmission wall portion, and the operating plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi NAKASONE
  • Publication number: 20260138540
    Abstract: There is provided a bracket for attaching, to a vehicle, a detection device including a main body and first protruding portions. The bracket includes: an opening; first holding portions; and a locking portion. Each of the first holding portions includes: a first seating surface; and a retaining portion forming an insertion port. The first seating surface includes an edge portion forming a part of the insertion port. The edge portion is configured to guide an insertion of one of the first protruding portions when the detection device is attached, and configured to serve as a rotation pivot for rotating the one of the first protruding portions in a direction of seating the one of the first protruding portions on the first seating surface after guiding the insertion of the one of the first protruding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi KUMAKAWA, Atsushi SOGABE
  • Patent number: 12560000
    Abstract: An electric lock device for an opening and closing member includes: a lock portion; a rod; a biasing member; and an actuator. The actuator includes a case, a motor, a wheel, and a rotor. The wheel is provided with a pressing portion that is configured to engage with a receiving portion provided on the rotor or the rod when the wheel rotates in a predetermined direction to move the rod. When a rotation force is applied to the rotor in a direction against a biasing force of the biasing member via the rod in a state where the rod is biased by the biasing member in a direction in which the rod is engaged with the lock portion, the rotor is capable of rotating independently of the wheel in a direction in which the receiving portion is separated from the pressing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • Patent number: 12509933
    Abstract: A damper device includes: a cylinder having a vent hole and a valve seat; and a piston. An elastically deformable valve body abuts against the valve seat before and when the piston moves in a damper braking direction. The valve seat is formed with a vent groove. A protrusion amount of an inclined surface gradually decreases from a side of an outer periphery of the valve seat toward the vent hole. The vent groove includes a first groove that extends from an outer periphery of the inclined surface toward the vent hole such that a depth thereof with respect to the inclined surface gradually decreases. When the piston moves in the damper braking direction, the valve body comes into contact with the inclined surface and is elastically deformed, and a contact area with the inclined surface widens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Shogo Kurihara
  • Patent number: 12485829
    Abstract: There is provided a locking device for an opening and closing body, including: a locking portion; a base; a rotation body that includes a protruding portion on a part of an outer periphery thereof; a locking member; and an elastic member that includes a base portion, and a stopper portion configured to restrict a maximum rotation position of the rotation body in a predetermined direction by abutting against the protruding portion of the rotation body. The stopper portion is disposed in a manner of being biased in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction relative to the base portion. A part of the outer periphery of the rotation body is provided with a sliding contact portion that is configured to come into sliding contact with the elastic member in a process in which the protruding portion approaches the stopper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuya Toriumi
  • Patent number: 12480341
    Abstract: A lock device attached to a stationary body so that an opening and closing body is locked in a closed state with respect to the stationary body includes a driving member that is driven in response to movement of an operation member, and a rod movable in a longitudinal direction. The driving member includes a coupling portion coupled to the rod. The rod includes a lock portion engageable with and disengageable from a lock hole of the opening and closing body, and a holding portion holding the coupling portion so that the coupling portion is slidable in a moving direction of the rod. When the rod is moved in a lock releasing direction in which lock of the lock portion is released by the driving member, the holding portion and the coupling portion move in the lock releasing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • Patent number: 12473998
    Abstract: A holder for a long member includes: a holding member that includes a frame-shaped body portion; an anti-vibration member that includes a frame-shaped portion; and a fixing member that is provided with an insertion portion, and a flange. The anti-vibration member includes a pair of extension pieces that protrude in a state where the frame-shaped portion is inserted into the frame-shaped body portion, and that are sandwiched between the frame-shaped body portion and the flange when the insertion portion is inserted into the frame-shaped portion. Clearance is provided between an inner surface of a frame-shaped body portion side wall that faces a first wall in which the pair of extension pieces of the anti-vibration member are not provided in the frame-shaped body portion, and an outer edge of the flange facing the frame-shaped body portion side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Matsumoto, Masatoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 12427856
    Abstract: A valve device for a fuel tank includes: a housing in which an opening is formed in a partition wall, and a fuel vapor discharge port is provided; and a float valve. A ventilation chamber is provided with a tubular wall that is configured to communicate with the fuel vapor discharge port, and a notch is formed in a lower portion of a tip portion in an extending direction of the tubular wall. The partition wall includes a ceiling wall in which the opening is formed, and a peripheral wall extends downward from a peripheral edge of the ceiling wall. A part of the peripheral edge of the ceiling wall and a part of the peripheral wall are positioned inside the tubular wall through the notch when viewed in an axial direction of the tubular wall and a valve axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuki Yajima
  • Publication number: 20250283359
    Abstract: A lock device for an opening-closing body includes: a base member; and an operating member. The operating member has an operating plate portion, an operating portion, an operating load transmission wall portion protruding, the shaft portions disposed so as to protrude from both sides of the operating load transmission wall portion or the shaft support portions, and a stopper portion connected to the operating load transmission wall portion on a side of the operating portion with respect to the shaft portions or the shaft support portions. The base member has a pair of deformation restriction wall portions disposed outside portions of the operating load transmission wall portion where the shaft portions or the shaft support portions are provided, the shaft support portions or the shaft portions, and a stopper receiving portion that is configured to restrict rotation of the operating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi NAKASONE
  • Patent number: 12371932
    Abstract: There is provided a connecting structure of a rotating member. One of the rotating support member and the rotating member includes a support shaft. The other of the rotating support member and the rotating member includes a holding portion. The support shaft includes a regulating portion, and a sliding contact portion that is configured to be in sliding contact with an inner periphery of the holding portion. The rotating support member and the rotating member are made of materials that do not join each other when molded from the resin materials. The inner periphery of the holding portion has a shape in which a portion in close contact with the sliding contact portion is continuously formed in a circumferential direction, so that the rotating support member and the rotating member are molded in a state of being connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Patent number: 12352097
    Abstract: A stopper device includes: a base member; a shaft member; a rotary member; a gear member disposed inside the rotary member; a temporary fixing portion configured to temporarily fix the gear member to the shaft member; and a cam mechanism including a cam slope and a cam abutting portion. When the gear member rotates in conjunction with a rotation of the rotary member, the shaft member is ascended by the cam mechanism. The gear member further includes a permanent fixing portion configured to restrict an ascending and descending motion of the shaft member in an ascended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Miyamae
  • Publication number: 20250180087
    Abstract: A damper device includes: a cylinder; a rod; a piston having an annular groove; a seal ring; and a friction member. A seal portion is formed between the cylinder and the piston. When the piston moves in a damper braking direction, the seal ring is configured to press the friction member to expand the friction member in diameter, and an outer peripheral surface of the friction member is configured to be brought into pressure contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder. The friction member is formed to be smaller than a size of the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder when no pressing force is applied from the seal ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun SAITO
  • Publication number: 20250180088
    Abstract: Provided is a damper device which can restrict the swinging of a rod in the width direction and thickness direction thereof with a simple structure. This damper device 10 has a cylinder 20, a piston rod 30, and a guide cap 70, and the piston rod 30 has a rod 40 and a piston 60. The rod 40 is of a plate shape. The guide cap 70 has an insertion wall part 71 inserted inside an opening 23 of the cylinder 20, an insertion hole 73 into which the rod 40 is inserted, and an elastic piece 77 that is elastically deformable. A convex curved surface 80 and a concave curved surface 50 are formed between the rod 40 and the elastic piece 77, and the concave curved surface 50 provided to the rod 40 extends in the axial direction and is configured to guide the axial direction movement of the piston rod 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kouichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20250163990
    Abstract: A damper device includes: a cylinder; a rod; a piston having an annular groove; and a seal ring. A bottom portion of the annular groove is provided with a deep bottom portion, and a shallow bottom portion. The seal ring is provided with, on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a cylinder contact portion configured to come into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder, and is provided with, on an inner peripheral surface thereof, a shallow bottom portion contact portion configured to come into contact with the shallow bottom portion, a center of the cylinder contact portion and a center of the shallow bottom portion contact portion are offset in an axial direction, and the inner peripheral surface of the seal ring does not come into contact with the deep bottom portion when the piston moves in a damper braking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun SAITO
  • Patent number: 12276145
    Abstract: There is provided a lock device for an opening and closing body, including: a locking portion; a locking member; a case including a first case and a second case; a rotation body; and a biasing means. A cut-out is provided, and a retaining portion is provided, the retaining portion including a protruding portion and being configured to retain the rotation body relative to the first case. A first engaging surface and a second engaging surface are configured to engage with each other to form a temporary locking portion for temporarily locking the rotation body. A cam means and a stopper are provided between the second case and the rotation body, the stopper being configured to engage with the rotation body so as to hold the rotation body with the first engagement surface and the second engaging surface disengaged from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuya Toriumi
  • Patent number: 12276300
    Abstract: A fastener for attaching a component having a rail groove to an attachment member includes: a coupling portion that is configured to be coupled to the component; and a fixing portion that supports the coupling portion and that is configured to be fixed to the attachment member. The coupling portion includes an insertion portion to be inserted into the rail groove, and an elastic piece located at a position shifted from the insertion portion in an insertion direction. The elastic piece includes a locking portion that is configured to be locked to the component to restrict the insertion portion from coming out of the rail groove, the elastic piece configured to abut against and urge the component in a bent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hikaru Kiyota
  • Patent number: 12264694
    Abstract: A fastener made of a metal material and for attaching a component to an attachment hole of an attachment member includes first and second leg pieces facing each other, and a connecting portion connecting base ends of the first and second leg pieces. The first leg piece includes a locking portion configured to be locked to an edge of the attachment hole, and a claw portion configured to retain the fastener to the component. The claw portion extends from a tip end side of the first leg piece and is configured to be inserted into a hole portion formed in a boss portion of the component. The second leg piece does not include a claw portion configured to be inserted into the hole portion and to retain the fastener to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12241572
    Abstract: A holder for a long member includes: a holding member that includes a frame-shaped body portion; an anti-vibration member that is made of an elastic material and includes a frame-shaped portion; and a fixing member that is provided with an insertion portion. The insertion portion includes an extension portion extending in an insertion direction in which the insertion portion is inserted into the frame-shaped portion. A pressing protrusion protrudes on an outer surface of the extension portion, and when the frame-shaped portion is inserted into the frame-shaped body portion and the insertion portion is inserted into the frame-shaped portion, the pressing protrusion presses an inner surface of the frame-shaped portion and an outer surface of the frame-shaped portion comes into pressing contact with an inner surface of the frame-shaped body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20250067106
    Abstract: A damper device includes: a cylinder having a vent hole and a valve seat; and a piston. An elastically deformable valve body abuts against the valve seat before and when the piston moves in a damper braking direction. The valve seat is formed with a vent groove. A protrusion amount of an inclined surface gradually decreases from a side of an outer periphery of the valve seat toward the vent hole. The vent groove includes a first groove that extends from an outer periphery of the inclined surface toward the vent hole such that a depth thereof with respect to the inclined surface gradually decreases. When the piston moves in the damper braking direction, the valve body comes into contact with the inclined surface and is elastically deformed, and a contact area with the inclined surface widens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Shogo KURIHARA
  • Patent number: 12234676
    Abstract: There is provided a locking device including: a base member; a lock bar member; and a drive member. The base member includes a pair of facing surfaces sandwiching and supporting the lock bar member. The lock bar member includes a lock portion, a first bar portion extending in a sliding direction of the lock bar member, and a second bar portion extending in a direction intersecting the sliding direction and connecting the first bar portion and the lock portion. A first stepped portion is formed on the first bar portion, and a second stepped portion is formed on the second bar portion. Each of the facing surfaces is provided with step portions each of which faces the first stepped portion and the second stepped portion respectively in the direction intersecting the sliding direction at positions sandwiched between the first stepped portion and the second stepped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito