Patents Assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11214219
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, an inflator and an attachment base. The airbag includes a body portion, and an inflow port portion, into which the distal end side of the inflator is inserted. The attachment base includes a holding plate portion including a pressing portion and a support portion that are provided at positions displaced around an axial center of the inflator so as to surround a periphery of the inflow port portion into which the distal end side of the inflator is inserted. The pressing portion is plastically deformable so as to approach a side of the support portion by being crimped, and the distal end side of the inflator inserted between the pressing portion and the support portion and the inflow port portion are sandwiched between the crimped pressing portion and the support portion, and are held by the attachment base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Ono, Tetsuya Ogata, Naoki Hotta
  • Patent number: 11203320
    Abstract: An airbag uses a rear surface side when inflated as an occupant protection section. The occupant protection section includes a frontal collision restriction surface, oblique collision restriction surfaces on left and right sides of the frontal collision restriction surface, and restriction recessed portions between the frontal collision restriction surface and each oblique collision restriction surface. A recessed portion tether links a tip end side of a recess of the restriction recessed portions and a front end side of the airbag to each other to the inside thereof, and when inflated, at the time of dividing the region into two in the left-right direction around the vicinity of the attachment center to the storage part, provides a remote side region on a side away from a driver seat and a driver seat side region. The capacity of the remote side region is smaller than the driver seat side region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamada, Motoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11203321
    Abstract: An occupant protection device for protecting an occupant sitting in a front seat of a vehicle. The occupant protection device includes a front airbag device that is adapted to be mounted in front of the front seat and a roof airbag device that is adapted to be mounted on a roof of the vehicle. The front airbag device includes a front airbag that is inflatable and deployable for protecting an upper body of the occupant when an impact is applied to the vehicle from forward. The roof airbag includes a roof airbag that is inflatable and deployable downwardly between the front airbag and the front seat for protecting a head of the occupant when an impact is applied to the vehicle from forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Tanaka, Masashi Hotta, Koji Kawamura, Yuji Sato, Hajime Kitte, Kenichi Fukurono
  • Publication number: 20210387589
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion in which a front panel extends between front parts of right and left side frames and a front rod extends between the front parts of the right and left side frames at a position rearward of the front panel in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a cushion airbag device mounted in a front part of the seat cushion and configured to inflate and deploy a cushion airbag when a frontal collision of the vehicle occurs; and a bag support fixed to the front rod, the cushion airbag being fixed to the bag support at a position rearward of the front rod in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Hiroyuki Tomita, Satoshi Nonoyama, Takashi Iida, Shigemi Mase, Yusuke Kojima, Masashi Hotta
  • Patent number: 11199610
    Abstract: An onboard sensor cover includes a cover body that includes front and rear bases and a decorative layer. The front base is made of a transparent plastic material that permits passage of an infrared ray and a millimeter wave and includes a rear surface in the transmission directions of the infrared ray and the millimeter wave that is configured by a first uneven surface. The rear base is made of a plastic material that permits passage of the infrared ray and the millimeter wave and includes a front surface in the transmission directions that is configured by a second uneven surface. The decorative layer is made of a material that reflects visible light and permits passage of the infrared ray and the millimeter wave and is in contact with the first and second uneven surfaces. The front and rear bases are made of the same type of plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takahashi, Masashi Otoyo, Akihiro Misawa, Hitoshi Uchida, Yasushi Nimi, Shintaro Okawa
  • Patent number: 11198944
    Abstract: A black plated resin part includes a resin substrate, an underlying plating layer formed on the resin substrate, and a black chromium plating layer formed of trivalent chromium and having a thickness of 0.15 ?m or more. The black chromium plating layer is formed on the underlying plating layer. The chromium in the black chromium plating layer is present in the form of metallic chromium, chromium oxide, and chromium hydroxide, and the black chromium plating layer exhibits a b* value of 3.0 or less based on the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hotta, Koji Nakatani, Hiroaki Ono, Shiho Fujii, Noritake Isomura
  • Patent number: 11198410
    Abstract: A side airbag device includes a main bag which is an airbag deployed between a passenger seated on a seat and a side wall portion of a vehicle. The airbag expands by gas supply when a vehicle side collision occurs. The side airbag device also includes a sub bag deployed between a side frame on a vehicle outer side in a seat back of the seat and the passenger. The sub bag expands by supplying gas and pushes a waist portion of the passenger forward from backward, prior to deployment of the main bag, when the vehicle side collision occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Tanaka, Takashi Iida, Kenichi Fukurono, Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 11198409
    Abstract: A passenger seat airbag device includes an airbag including a front collision restraining surface, and an oblique collision restraining portion including a protruding portion in which a surface is set as an oblique collision restraining surface, and a restraining recess portion whose facing surfaces are able to restrain the head of the occupant. The rear wall main portion has the front collision restraining surface. The rear wall end edge portion has the oblique collision restraining surface. The upper edge of the rear wall end edge portion is coupled to a rear edge of the upper wall portion. The lower edge of the rear wall end edge portion is coupled to a rear edge of the lower wall portion. An entire edge of the separation edge of the rear wall end edge portion is coupled to a rear edge of the rear edge side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Hiraiwa, Shinichi Ishida, Koji Hosoe, Masashi Baba, Ryo Kumazaki, Hiromi Kondo
  • Patent number: 11193831
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover includes a film setting step. The film setting step includes setting a heater film on a first molding die and setting a hard coating film on a second molding die. The method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover further includes a base molding step for molding a base including clamping a mold, injecting molten plastic into a gap between the heater film and the hard coating film, and curing the molten plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Okumura, Koji Fukagawa, Hiroyuki Konishi, Tatsuo Ito
  • Patent number: 11186248
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes an airbag which is deployed and inflated with an amount of protrusion from a storage position to a rear side in an inflation completed state in a large protrusion amount mode and a small protrusion amount mode, and the airbag includes a bag body and a tether. The tether is connected to a length adjustment unit. The bag body has a tubular inflation portion curved in a substantially U shape from the storage position toward the tether connection portion. A shape of the bag body in the large protrusion amount mode is defined such that the tether connection portion is further moved rearward with respect to the inlet port on the inner peripheral surface side, as compared with the case of the small protrusion amount mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Tanaka, Hajime Kitte, Kenichi Fukurono, Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 11180108
    Abstract: A preparatory folded form is a form of an airbag in an initial stage in a folding process which has not yet been reduced in size for storage in a steering wheel. The airbag includes a driver-side wall, and a vehicle-side wall which includes an inlet port in a vicinity of the center, and a plurality of taken-in portions towards the outer edge for reducing a length of the outer edge of the vehicle-side wall. The preparatory folded form includes an upper-surface portion composed of a central portion of the driver-side wall, a lower-surface portion composed of a peripheral portion of the inlet port in the vehicle-side wall, and at least one invaginated portion that is composed of a portion of the airbag located between the upper- and lower-surface portions including the taken-in portions, and is invaginated in between the upper- and lower-surface portions towards the inlet port. The upper-surface portion, invaginated portion and lower-surface portion lie over one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nonoyama, Takanori Komatsu, Masashi Hotta
  • Patent number: 11173770
    Abstract: A register for air conditioning, includes: a tubular body forming a ventilation flue and an outlet of air for air conditioning; a damper plate including an upstream piece and a downstream piece; and an adjustment mechanism including: a rotatable operation part; a dia shaft fixed to the damper plate; and a link connected to the dia shaft and the operation part to transmit the rotation of the operation part to the dia shaft. The damper plate rotates from an open position to an closed position in a direction where the upstream piece rotates to the downstream side and the downstream piece rotates to the upstream side by an operation of the operation part, and a rotation torque generated when a wind of the air acts on the upstream piece is greater than a torque generated in the downstream piece at least in the vicinity of the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ito, Masaki Otake, Akihiro Yonese
  • Patent number: 11173867
    Abstract: An airbag for a passenger seat adapted to be stored in a storage which is disposed in an instrument panel in front of a passenger seat is disclosed. The airbag includes a passenger-side wall which is disposed in a rear portion of the airbag as deployed for arresting a passenger, and a vehicle-side wall that extends from an outer circumferential edge of the passenger-side wall towards a front end of the airbag as deployed in a narrowing fashion for mounting on the storage by the front end. The vehicle-side wall includes a recessed area for circumventing an adjoining object disposed in the vehicle when deployed. The recessed area is composed of a tuck formed in a base member of the vehicle-side wall. The tuck is formed by jointing one or more pair of tuck jointing portions that are distant from one another in the base member as laid flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Hosoe
  • Patent number: 11173834
    Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting device includes a light-emitting portion, a case that includes a side wall surrounding the light-emitting portion and houses the light-emitting portion, and a plate-shaped lens fixed to the case so as to cover an opening of the case and an open end of the side wall defining the opening. Light emitted from the light-emitting portion can be extracted from the entire region of a light extraction surface of the lens including an edge without being reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiki Kawano, Kenjo Matsui
  • Patent number: 11171269
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element mounted on the substrate, an uninterrupted annular sealing member installed in such a manner as to surround the light emitting element, a waterproof sheet installed in such a manner as to cover an upper side of the light emitting element and the sealing member, and transmit light emitted from the light emitting element, and an uninterrupted annular cover installed on the waterproof sheet, with a region of the cover being open above the light emitting element. The waterproof sheet is being fixed by sandwiching the waterproof sheet between the sealing member and the cover. A mounting region for the light emitting element on the substrate, which is being laterally surrounded by the sealing member while being covered by the waterproof sheet, is being hermetically sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Ao, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11167624
    Abstract: A back door handle device includes a switch to output a signal for unlocking or locking the back door, a switch knob to supplement actuating force of the switch, a housing for receiving the switch and the switch knob, and an outer cover that covers the housing. The switch knob includes an operating portion that is moved from an initial position to a switch position, a spring section that, when the operating portion is moved from the initial position toward the switch position, is elastically deformed to produce elastic force in such a direction as to return the operating portion to the initial position, and a temporary fixing portion that prevents such movement of the switch knob that the operating portion is moved from the initial position to the opposite side to the switch position. The signal is output from the switch when the operating portion reaches the switch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukui, Koji Tatematsu
  • Patent number: 11167636
    Abstract: A grille shutter control device is employed for a grille shutter that includes a frame, which is provided in a front grille of a vehicle and has an outside air inlet, and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the outside air inlet. The grille shutter control device controls an opening-closing operation of the opening-closing unit such that the outside air inlet is opened or closed in accordance with a condition of the vehicle. The grille shutter controller includes an actuator and a controlling section. The actuator performs an anti-sticking operation for preventing the opening-closing unit from being stuck. The controlling section controls the actuator such that the anti-sticking operation is periodically performed by the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bunpei Morita
  • Patent number: 11164950
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Group III nitride semiconductor device in which current concentration at the corners of the trench is suppressed. The semiconductor device has a pattern in which regular hexagonal unit cells are arranged in a honeycomb pattern. The semiconductor layer is sectionalized into regular hexagonal patterns by the trench. The recess has a small regular hexagonal pattern contained in the regular hexagonal pattern of the semiconductor layer sectionalized by the trench, which is obtained by reducing the regular hexagon of the semiconductor layer with the same center. Moreover, the regular hexagonal pattern of the recess is rotated by 30° with respect to the regular hexagon of the semiconductor layer. The Mg activation ratio is lower in the vicinity of corners of the trench than that in other regions in the vicinity of side walls of the trench of the p-type layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junya Nishii
  • Patent number: D934139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satomi Akehi
  • Patent number: D934475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Umeda, Shinichi Ogawa