Patents Assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12036938
    Abstract: An occupant protection device has a folded airbag in a holding body in front of a hip portion of an occupant. The airbag protrudes from the holding body when an inflating gas flows, inflates to cover a region in front of the occupant, and includes an occupant side wall portion on the occupant side when inflation completes, and restrains an upper body of the occupant. The occupant side wall portion has a lower side restraining face, which restrains a range from an abdominal portion to a chest portion of the occupant, and an upper side restraining face, which restrains a head portion or a shoulder portion of the occupant, on a rear face side when inflation completes, and a bended portion is in a boundary region between the upper side restraining face and the lower side restraining face, and the upper side restraining face protrudes to the occupant side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Motoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12031675
    Abstract: A high-pressure tank includes: a liner having a hollow liner body, a metal cap, a sealing member, and a reinforcing portion. The hollow liner body has an opening in an end portion in an axial direction, and a tubular insert ring harder than the liner body and integrated with the liner body to surround the opening. The metal cap is inserted into the opening. The sealing member seals between the insert ring and the metal cap. The reinforcing portion covers an outer side of the liner, and the insert ring extends to a front side in the axial direction with respect to the liner body and is mounted on the metal cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yokoi, Masayoshi Takami
  • Patent number: 12029019
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmissive cover is configured to be employed in a vehicle to which a sensor device is attached. The electromagnetic wave transmissive cover includes a cover body that is attached to the vehicle and covers the sensor device from a front side in an emission direction of the electromagnetic waves, and a seal member that provides a seal between the sensor device and the cover body. The seal member includes an attachment base portion that is attached to the cover body while surrounding the electromagnetic wave transmissive portion, and an annular hollow seal portion that is coupled to the attachment base portion and is in contact with the sensor device while surrounding the electromagnetic wave transmissive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Tsuchiya, Koji Fukagawa, Risa Hirano
  • Patent number: 12023982
    Abstract: A proximity air conditioner is capable of performing energy-saving and efficient air-conditioning. A proximity air-conditioning unit for vehicles includes: a housing; a temperature adjustment unit including a temperature adjuster and a blower; and ducts, wherein upper ends of blowout ports of ducts are located above seat surfaces of seats, end portions in a long-side direction of the blowout ports are located on a front side with respect to other end portions thereof in a front-back direction of the seats, and the temperature adjustment unit is disposed between both end portions in the long-side direction of each of the blowout ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Terai, Chiharu Totani, Yoshinori Masatsugu, Naoyuki Fukui, Hiroto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12024226
    Abstract: A steering device adapted to be rotated about a steering central axis for maneuvering a vehicle, the steering device including a central portion disposed in a vicinity of the steering central axis, and a rim connected with the central portion. The rim includes left and right grip portions that are respectively disposed in left and right regions of the rim apart from the steering central axis, a grip sensor disposed in each of the left and right grip portions, and four luminous portions each of which is configured to be lit under control of a control unit for prompting the driver to grip the grip portions. The four luminous portions are respectively disposed in a vicinity of a first end of and in a vicinity of a second end of each of the left and right grip portions, in an area out of the left and right grip portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sayaka Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 12027885
    Abstract: A power transmitting device performs power transmission to a power receiving device. The power receiving device is provided in a space that a person can enter or exit. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting unit, a processing circuitry, and a reception unit. The power transmitting unit is configured to perform power transmission to the power receiving device through contactless power supply. The processing circuitry is configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmitting unit between a normal-output mode and a limit mode in which a transmitted power is more limited than in the normal-output mode. The reception unit is configured to receive a limit instruction for the power transmission given by the person. The processing circuitry is configured to set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when the reception unit receives the limit instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Tokuyama, Shinichiro Fuki, Tomokazu Sakai, Atsushi Sugihara, Kazuhito Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12006104
    Abstract: A double opening storage device includes: a box body; a lid member; an open/close mechanism for opening/closing the lid member around a first or second rotation shaft; and an actuation device provided at the lid member and receiving power from the box body side via a wiring member. The open/close mechanism has a hinge member having one end supported swingably around the first rotation shaft by the lid member and another end supported swingably around the second rotation shaft by the box body. In opening/closing the lid member around the first rotation shaft, the hinge member stays at the box body without following the lid member, and in opening/closing the lid member around the second rotation shaft, the hinge member swings from the box body, following the lid member. The wiring member has a hinge wiring portion extending and wired along the hinge member between the one and other ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Sakakibara, Nobuhiro Terai
  • Patent number: 12009206
    Abstract: A vapor phase epitaxial growth device comprises a reactor vessel and a wafer holder arranged within the reactor vessel. The wafer holder includes a wafer holding surface configured to hold a wafer with a wafer surface oriented substantially vertically downward. The device comprises a first material gas supply pipe configured to supply a first material gas and arranged below the wafer holding surface. The device comprises a second material gas supply pipe configured to supply a second material gas and arranged below the wafer holding surface. The device comprises a gas exhaust pipe configured to exhaust gases and arranged below the wafer holding surface. A distance between the gas exhaust pipe and an axis line passing through a center of the wafer holding surface is greater than distances between the axis line and each of the first material gas supply pipe and the second material gas supply pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: National University Corporation Nagoya University, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shugo Nitta, Yoshio Honda, Kentaro Nagamatsu, Hiroshi Amano, Naoki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 12005848
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seat having a seat portion and a backrest portion, a first restraining member configured to restrain a left shoulder of an occupant, a second restraining member configured to restrain a right shoulder of the occupant, a take-up unit that holds and takes up the first restraining member and the second restraining member, and a lifting unit, wherein the first restraining member and the second restraining member are fed out from a housing portion of the seat owing to being taken up by the take-up unit, and restrain the left and right shoulders, and wherein the lifting unit causes a front edge side of a seat face of the seat portion to rise when the take-up unit takes up the first restraining member and the second restraining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitomi Takahashi, Wataru Miura, Yasushi Masuda
  • Patent number: 12002853
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device in which the contact resistance of the body electrode is reduced without reducing the channel mobility. The p-type layer is a Mg-doped p-GaN layer deposited on the first re-type layer. The p-type layer has a two-layer structure in which a first p-type layer and a second p-type layer are sequentially deposited. The second p-type layer has a Mg concentration higher than the Mg concentration of the first p-type layer. The recess is formed in a predetermined position on the surface of the second n-type layer, and has a depth passing through the second n-type layer and reaching the second p-type layer. The body electrode is formed on the bottom surface of the recess in contact with the p-type layer exposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Oka, Tsutomu Ina
  • Patent number: 11974616
    Abstract: A wearable airbag device for protecting the hip of a wearer includes an airbag adapted to be worn around the pelvis and inflatable with an inflation gas. The airbag includes: an inner wall configured to face the wearer at airbag deployment; an outer wall opposite the inner wall and having a circumferential edge jointed with that of the inner wall so that the airbag has a substantially board shape when inflated; a contact portion disposed in an upper reach of a stream of inflation gas and configured to be deployed at a side of the pelvis; a protecting portion configured to be deployed in such a manner as to extend downward from the contact portion for covering an outer side of the trochanter of femur at airbag deployment; and a float-preventing means for preventing the protecting portion from floating away from the body of the wearer at airbag deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Yanagisawa, Wataru Miura, Yusuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11975677
    Abstract: The airbag device includes an airbag and a gas generator. The gas generator includes a body containing inflation gas and sealed with an unsealable lid, and a discharge portion that includes a housing, an outlet that is formed in the housing and allows outflow of gas to the airbag when the body is unsealed, a piercing pin for unsealing the lid, a spring for moving the pin, a retaining member that retains the spring, and a sliding mechanism that shifts the retaining member to a release position. The sliding mechanism includes a drive source and a connecting member that shifts the retaining member to the release position by a driving force of the drive source. The piercing pin, spring, lid and a portion of the retaining member retaining the spring are housed in the housing. The drive source and connecting member are partitioned from a gas channel inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Yanagisawa, Wataru Miura, Yusuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11971164
    Abstract: A steering device includes a rotary part rotatably attached to a mobile body, and a grip part connected to the rotary part, wherein the rotary part includes a light irradiation part configured to emit light toward at least a portion of the grip part, the light irradiation part includes a light emitting element configured to emit light at an angle range that is determined in advance, and a lens configured to narrow the angle range of the light emitted by the light emitting element, and when an extension direction of the at least the portion of the grip part to which the light is emitted is assumed as a first direction, a direction perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the light emitted by the light irradiation part and to the first direction is assumed as a second direction, a plane including the optical axis and the first direction is assumed as a first plane, and a plane including the optical axis and the second direction is assumed as a second plane, the lens narrows the angle range of the ligh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiyasu Kojima, Takanori Yamada
  • Patent number: 11967838
    Abstract: An auxiliary power receiving device includes a power receiving unit, a notification unit, and a notification controlling unit. The power receiving unit receives power from a power transfer signal, which is used to supply power from a power transmitting device to a power receiving device. The notification unit may be provided on a main surface of a plate-shaped member. The notification controlling unit controls a notification performed by the notification unit in accordance with a power reception condition of the power transfer signal at the power receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakai, Shinichiro Fuki, Teppei Abe, Shigeo Takeda, Yuki Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 11950645
    Abstract: A wearable airbag device includes a wearable member and an airbag held by the wearable member and inflatable with an inflation gas fed from a gas generator. The airbag includes a bag body that forms an outer shell of the airbag which includes an inner wall adapted to face the wearer when worn and an outer wall opposite to the inner wall, the bag body including one or more protecting inflatable portions for covering and protecting one or more targeted body parts respectively, and an inner bag that is disposed inside the bag body and configured to be inflated with the inflation gas from the gas generator. The inner bag includes one or more supply ports for forwarding the inflation gas to the bag body. Each of the supply ports is configured to emit the inflation gas toward one of the protecting inflatable portions and toward the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Yanagisawa, Yusuke Kawamura, Wataru Miura
  • Patent number: 11955581
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor device which can relax strain between a Group III nitride semiconductor layer containing In and a semiconductor layer adjacent thereto, and a production method therefor. The well layer is a Group III nitride semiconductor layer containing In. The barrier layer is a Group III nitride semiconductor layer. The well layer and the barrier layer are brought into contact with each other in at least one of growing a well layer and growing a barrier layer. A gas containing hydrogen gas as a carrier gas is used in growing a well layer and growing a barrier layer. In growing a barrier layer, the flow rate of hydrogen gas is higher than the flow rate of hydrogen gas in growing a well layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Okuno
  • Patent number: 11945372
    Abstract: A display panel is employed in a vehicle equipped with an external situation recognizing device that is configured to receive electromagnetic waves from outside to recognize an external situation. The external situation recognizing device is located at an end in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The display panel is provided at the end of the vehicle and extends in a direction intersecting with the front-rear direction of the vehicle. The display panel includes a display unit and a cover unit that is closer to an outside of the vehicle than the external situation recognizing device and is located at a position that corresponds to the external situation recognizing device. The cover unit is configured to allow the external situation recognizing device to receive the electromagnetic waves from outside through the cover unit. The display unit is located to be adjacent to the cover unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11945377
    Abstract: A vehicle exterior part includes a decorative body, a heater sheet, a connector pin. The decorative body includes a base material, and a transparent resin layer. The heater sheet includes a heat generating body, and an extending portion. A part of the heater wire in the extending portion is joined to the connector pin inside an outer periphery of the base material by a joining portion made of a conductive material. The outer periphery is formed with a window configured to join the heater wire to the connector pin by the joining portion in a state where a joining position is exposed to an outside of the outer periphery. The window is provided with a waterstop portion configured to restrict water from entering the joining position. The waterstop portion is formed by filling the window with a potting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozo Hirotani, Hiroyuki Nakano, Yasushi Niimi
  • Patent number: 11931715
    Abstract: In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by the decomposition reaction of water using photocatalyst, its miniaturization is achieved while suppressing the decrease of production efficiency of hydrogen gas as low as possible or improving the efficiency. The apparatus 1 comprises a container portion 2 receiving water W; a photocatalyst member 3 immersed in the water, having photocatalyst which generates excited electrons and positive holes when irradiated with light, causes a decomposition reaction of the water and generates hydrogen gas; a light source 4 emitting the light irradiated to the photocatalyst member; and a heat exchange device 7 conducting waste heat of the light source to the water in the container portion; wherein the water to be decomposed on the photocatalyst member in the container portion is warmed by the waste heat of the light source by the heat exchange device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Kenichi Okumura, Ryota Tomizawa, Atsuki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11919442
    Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting device includes a light source which is installed at an end of an instrument panel of a vehicle. Light emitted from the light source propagates from the instrument panel toward a door panel, and is projected on a surface of a door trim of the door panel. A decorative pattern element is installed on a light emitting side of the light source. As light from the light source passes through the decorative pattern element, the light can create a pattern on a surface of the door trim. Because the light source is installed on the instrument panel spaced from the door trim rather than on the door trim itself, light can be projected on a large area of the door trim. Furthermore, an impressive feature of a decorative pattern which changes in accordance with a door opening angle can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Fujita, Shunsuke Kurebayashi, Shizuo Sanjo, Masato Takeuchi, Shunya Nishimura, Ayaka Yagi