Patents Assigned to Piolax, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240100939
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device including: a housing; and a float valve. The float valve includes a main float, a sub-float held at an upper portion of the main float to be able to ascend and descend by a predetermined distance with respect to the main float, and a sub-float biasing spring disposed between the main float and the sub-float and configured to bias the sub-float upward with respect to the main float. The sub-float includes a spring support portion configured to support an upper end of the sub-float biasing spring and a seal portion that is configured to come into contact with and separate from an opening portion. The main float is movable further upward with respect to the sub-float by compressing the sub-float biasing spring in a state where the float valve ascends and the opening portion is closed by the sub-float.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro SAKAI, Atsuki TERAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11932100
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device including: a housing in which a valve chamber is provided on a lower side and a ventilation chamber is provided on an upper side via a partition wall, the partition wall being formed with a valve hole; a float valve; and a pressure adjusting valve. An accommodation portion is provided in a protruding manner from a surface of the partition wall. An accommodating space configured to accommodate the pressure adjusting valve is formed on an inner side of the accommodation portion, and an outer space is formed on an outer side of the accommodating space. The accommodation portion is formed with an opening through which the accommodating space and the outer space communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuki Yajima
  • Patent number: 11932101
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device including: a housing; a float valve; and a pressure adjusting valve. A first valve seat is formed from a peripheral edge of a valve hole. An accommodation portion is provided in a protruding manner from a surface of a partition wall. An inner periphery of the accommodation portion is provided with a reduced diameter portion and an increased diameter portion. A height of an upper end of the reduced diameter portion is equal to or greater than a front surface of the pressure adjusting valve in a state where the pressure adjusting valve is in contact with the first valve seat. The pressure adjusting valve is configured to be beyond the upper end of the reduced diameter portion when the pressure adjusting valve is raised to a maximum due to an increase in pressure in a fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Kenta Mihara, Kazuki Yajima
  • Patent number: 11913263
    Abstract: Provided is a lock device for an opening/closing body, the device having a reduced number of parts and enabling a key cylinder to be removed with greater ease. The lock device comprises a lock part, a lock member which is operated via a manipulation member, a base member, and a key cylinder, wherein: the manipulation member comprises a cylinder housing part; the base member comprises a cylinder arrangement space in which the cylinder housing part is arranged, a wall part located at the tip side of the manipulation member, and an opening formed in the wall part; the key cylinder comprises a key plate; the key plate comprises a pressing surface; and the pressing surface is exposed inside the cylinder arrangement space and disposed further to the base end part side of the manipulation member than the edge part of the opening in the wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Publication number: 20240044189
    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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuya TORIUMI
  • Publication number: 20240001759
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device for a fuel tank including: a housing; a first float valve accommodated in a first valve chamber; and a second float valve accommodated in a second valve chamber. The housing includes a housing body and a lower cap. The housing body has a housing body peripheral wall. The housing body peripheral wall has a first valve chamber forming wall that forms an outer periphery of the first valve chamber, and a second valve chamber forming wall that has a contour shape different from that of the first valve chamber forming wall and that forms an outer periphery of the second valve chamber. The lower cap has a cap peripheral wall having a shape fitting to the housing body peripheral wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta MIHARA
  • Patent number: 11845332
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device, including: a housing; a float valve; and a seal member. An opening portion includes a first region, and a second region. The seal member includes a first cover portion, and a second cover portion. The second cover portion includes a support portion, a wide portion, and a narrow portion. In a state where the seal member is retained and supported by the support portion with respect to the float valve, a width of the wide portion is set such that a tip end of the second region is covered, and that the second region of the opening portion is not exposed out of the seal member even in a state where the seal member is maximally displaced in a radial direction and; or a peripheral direction of the housing with respect to the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Yajima, Kenta Mihara
  • Patent number: 11841064
    Abstract: An air damper is provided. A piston member includes a stopper portion configured to come into contact with a cap in a state that a rod is pulled out to a maximum extent, and a deflection regulating portion configured to be positioned inside the engagement claw in the state to regulate an inward deflection of the engagement claw. An attachment portion rotatably attached to an attachment target portion is provided at an end portion of the rod. A contact surface is formed on the inner side of the engagement claw when viewed in an axial direction of the cylinder, the contact surface being capable of coming into contact with the deflection regulating portion when the rod swings in a direction of a rotation axis of the attachment portion with respect to the attachment target portion or in a direction intersecting the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Jung Hyung Cho, Nobuhiro Tamai
  • Patent number: 11827084
    Abstract: A sun visor holder includes a base portion and leg portion. The leg portion includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion that are vertically disposed from the base portion and face each other. The first wall portion includes a first engaging piece provided with a release portion. The second wall portion includes a pair of second engaging pieces whose base end portions are connected to a tip end side of the second wall portion, and a vertical wall that is disposed between the pair of second engaging pieces and extends in a vertical direction of the second wall portion. Groove portions that extend in the vertical direction of the second wall portion and thin the second wall portion are formed on the second wall portion between each of the second engaging pieces and the vertical wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Sotome, Hikaru Kiyota
  • Patent number: 11821244
    Abstract: A lock device for an opening and closing body attached to a fixed body, includes a rotary member includes a rotary shaft and a lock member connecting portion rotatably connected to a lock member. A rotary member attaching part includes an upright wall erected from a lock member arrangement surface, which is a surface of the opening and closing body or the fixed body facing the lock member, and a rotation support wall continuously provided to the upright wall and arranged spaced from the lock member arrangement surface, and is provided integrally with the opening and closing body or the fixed body. The rotation support wall is formed with a bearing hole in which the rotary shaft is inserted. A retainer preventing the rotary shaft inserted in the bearing hole from coming off is provided between the bearing hole and the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Nakasone
  • Patent number: 11821552
    Abstract: There is provided a hose clamp, including a plate spring body and a pair of tab portions. The plate spring body has a base portion, and arm portions. A first overlap portion and a second overlap portion are formed at the arm portions, and in a state where a diameter of the plate spring body is reduced, the first overlap portion and the second overlap portion overlap with each other in the circumferential direction of the plate spring body. Engagement portions are provided on facing surfaces of the pair of tab portions respectively, the engagement portions holding the plate spring body in a state where the diameter of the plate spring body is expanded. The engagement portions are provided at positions closer to side edge portions being opposite to facing side edge portions of the overlap portions than to the facing side edge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Ken Sodeyama, Ryosuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20230313560
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230304333
    Abstract: As shown in FIG. 5B, the pushing portion 44 of the operation member 22 pushes the sliding surface 46 of the driving member 30, and the driving member 30 is retracted. In this way, the driving member 30 is driven by an operation of the user. 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun SAITO
  • Patent number: 11761505
    Abstract: There is provided a damper device including: a cylinder; a piston; and a seal ring. The piston includes: a column portion wound around the seal ring; and a first restricting portion and a second restricting portion that are configured to restrict movement of the seal ring in a axial direction. The column portion has a protruding portion protruding outward in a radial direction. The first restricting portion has a cutout portion. The seal ring is capable of taking a deformed state where the seal ring is deformed so as to partially enter the cutout portion by movement of the piston. In a case where the seal ring is in the deformed state, and in a normal state where the seal ring does not enter the cutout portion, the seal ring is pressed against an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder by the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • Publication number: 20230278502
    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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuya TORIUMI
  • Patent number: 11739808
    Abstract: Provided is a damper capable of securely assembling a cap on an outer circumference of a rod while reducing a diameter of the cap and reducing an outer diameter of a cylinder. A damper has a cylinder, a rod, and a cap attached to an opening of the cylinder. The rod has a piston on its tip side and a mounting portion mounted on the other of a pair of members on its base end side, the cap has a main body that extends in an axial direction of the rod, and the main body is formed with a receiving opening that can receive the rod from an outside in a radial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kouichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11733718
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device, including: a housing in which, via a partition wall, a valve chamber is provided below the partition wall and a vent chamber is provided above the partition wall, and a vent hole through which the valve chamber and the vent chamber communicate with each other is provided in the partition wall; and a float valve. A valve seat is formed on a side of the valve chamber of the partition wall, and an opening is provided on an inner side of the valve seat. The opening includes a first opening and a second opening extending outward in a slit shape from an outer periphery of the first opening. A seal part having elasticity that contacts with and separates from the valve seat to close and open the first opening and the second opening, is disposed above the float valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Mihara
  • Publication number: 20230249543
    Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing; a float valve; and a float valve support portion. The float valve support portion includes a support wall, a side wall, a first slit formed in the support wall, a second slit formed in the side wall, and an elastic piece defined by the first slit and the second slit. The elastic piece includes a first extending portion extending along the side wall, and a second extending portion extending from the first extending portion and capable of coming into contact with a bottom surface of the float valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki YAJIMA, Takuma KON
  • Publication number: 20230191903
    Abstract: There is provided a valve device, including: a housing; a float valve; and a seal member. An opening portion includes a first region, and a second region. The seal member includes a first cover portion, and a second cover portion. The second cover portion includes a support portion, a wide portion, and a narrow portion. In a state where the seal member is retained and supported by the support portion with respect to the float valve, a width of the wide portion is set such that a tip end of the second region is covered, and that the second region of the opening portion is not exposed out of the seal member even in a state where the seal member is maximally displaced in a radial direction and/or a peripheral direction of the housing with respect to the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki YAJIMA, Kenta MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230184280
    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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke OZAKI