Patents Assigned to Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 10870939Abstract: There is provided a sewing machine needle 10 including: a shank portion 11 that is attached to a sewing machine; and a shaft portion 12 that is provided on a front end side of the shank portion 11; wherein: a needle eye 13 is formed to penetrate the shaft portion 12, and a long groove 14 for guiding a thread from a position of the needle eye 13 toward the shank portion 11 is formed in the shaft portion 12; and a suppression portion 16 for suppressing movement of a needle thread 21 is provided in an intermediate portion of the long groove 14. Thus, it is possible to provide a sewing machine needle by which a loop can be formed stably and that causes few damage to a needle thread and can be also manufactured easily.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: ORGAN NEEDLE CO., LTD., TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chie Hasegawa, Yuji Ichikawa, Mai Mitsuya, Kazutaka Hakoyama, Kenji Kato, Yoshikazu Kohara
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Patent number: 9450253Abstract: In a fuel cell having a cell structure in which a gas flow passage is formed by an expanded metal, a bond portion connecting a mesh of the expanded metal stands partially upright in a position where a bond length is shortened so as to form a part of a strand portion. Hence, in an opening formed by the mesh of the expanded metal, a surface area on which front and rear openings overlap in a direction increases when seen from an direction. Thus, a sectional area of gas flow passages constituted by a continuum in the direction of the openings overlapping in the direction increases. As a result, a gas flow flows without making repeated narrow turns, leading to a reduction in gas pressure loss.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Hayashi, Naotoshi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8864187Abstract: The invention provides a vehicle door opening and closing system for making a notice before opening and closing a door by using a motor to enhance the safety. The inventive is a door opening and closing system mounted on a vehicle including a controller generating and sending a first instruction and a second instruction, a motor controlled by the controller so as to open or close the door and an announce mechanism controlled by the controller. The first instruction instructs the motor to drive after a predetermined wait time from the generation of the first instruction; and the second instruction instructs the announce mechanism to announce generation of the first instruction for a predetermined notice time before starting to drive the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norifumi Jitsuishi, Hironori Matsumoto, Takahiro Kan
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Publication number: 20130181512Abstract: The wiring-harness routing device 1 includes two wiring harness 10, a support body 3 mounted slidably at a rail 2 and supporting a seat, and a protector 4 sliding interlockingly with the support body 3 and leading the two wiring harnesses 10 to the seat. The protector 4 includes a pair of wiring-harness hold portion 43 holding the two wiring harnesses 10 led through an opening 20 into the rail 2 to be arranged in parallel; portion arranged between the pair of wiring-harness hold portions 43, and passing the two wiring harnesses 10 therethrough, and extending with a cylindrical shape so as to go through the slit and be led to an outside of the rail 2; and a mount portion 68 attached at the support body 3 so as to have a gap allowing motion in the widthwise direction of the rail 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicants: TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD., YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Masaki Yokoyama, Shinji Kato, Fumiaki Sato, Yasuhiro Sakakibara, Yasunori Takenaka, Toshio Araki, Ryuya Ishimaru, Tetsuya Kaisaku
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Patent number: 8444189Abstract: A door open/close system for a vehicle includes: a plurality of door open/close devices 11, 11? having a latch mechanism 14 including a latch 13 for engaging with an engaging member 12, a motor 16a (16a?) for driving the latch mechanism 14, and a latch state detecting member 21 (21?); and a control member 4 for starting to drive the motor of any one of all the door open/close device when the latch state detecting member of the one door open/close devices detects that the latch mechanism is in the half-latch state, said control member driving synchronously the motors of all the door open/close devices except the one door open/close device to change the latch mechanisms from the half-latch state to the full-latch state when the latch state detecting members of all the door open/close devices except the one door open/close device detect that the latch mechanisms are in the half-latch state in a case that the door of the vehicle is changed from a fully opened state to a fully closed state.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norifumi Jitsuishi, Hironori Matsumoto, Takahiro Kan, Takashi Adachi, Motomu Imaizumi
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Patent number: 8198533Abstract: A feeding device includes a case, which includes a body receiving a wire harness with extra length portion and a guide tube projecting from the body, a distal-end protector and an intermediary protector both of which are attached to the wire harness. The intermediary protector is inserted into the guide tube so as to be able to move forward and backward freely, and the distal-end protector is projected out of the guide tube, and a bendable portion of the wire harness is exposedly formed between the distal-end protector and the intermediary protector. A hood along a bending outer surface of the bendable portion is provided at the distal-end protector. The extra length portion of the wire harness is received in the body so as to be formed into a loop shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketu
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Publication number: 20110126470Abstract: The present invention is a touch sensor assembly for a closing panel of a frame member that at least partially defines an opening and is oppositely disposed from the closing panel. The touch sensor assembly can have an elongated housing dimensioned to attach to a leading edge of the closing panel or a trailing edge of the frame member. The touch sensor assembly can also have a wire harness with a first portion encapsulated within the housing and a second portion that extends a predetermined length from the housing and passes through an aperture in the closing panel or an aperture in the frame member. A wire harness protector is also provided, the protector being attached to the wire harness proximate to the elongated housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd., Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher Michael Higgins, Hideki Shimizu, Hironori Koeda, Yoshiteru Taniguichi
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Patent number: 7914300Abstract: A structure for screw-tightening and connecting a terminal to an electrical junction box is provided. The terminal mounting structure in the electrical junction box ensures mounting operation with an insertion direction of the terminal obliquely oriented, and prevents heating of the terminal due to power supply. The terminal is secured and connected to a busbar of the junction box by a bolt, with a head and a shaft of the bolt inserted into a vertical opening and a horizontal notched hole of the terminal, respectively. A pair of opposed guiding walls are provided on a junction box body at both sides of the bolt. The guiding wall includes an entrance's side sloping surface obliquely extending from top to bottom, and a straight horizontal surface continuing to the sloping surface. The terminal includes a pair of outward projecting pieces at an upper portion to be slid on the sloping surface and the horizontal surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Akahori, Masatoshi Egawa, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Yousuke Okamoto, Makoto Sunohara, Masahiro Komuro
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Publication number: 20100089609Abstract: A curved wall portion 31 along which a wiring harness 6 is bendably extended has a foreign-matter-escape side opening 32, at one wall 34 continuing to a top opening 30 of an upward guiding cylinder 4 of a protector 20. A foreign-matter-escape side opening 32? on the other wall 34? of the cylinder proximate to the opening 30 is opposed to the curved wall portion. A projection 12 on the other wall 8 in the guiding cylinder 4? and below the side opening 9 of the wall 8 has an upwardly sloping surface 12b continuing thereto. A projection 55 in the guiding cylinder 48 is above the side opening 53 of the other wall 50, traversing the cylinder. The protector 47 includes one separate protector member 47a and the other separate protector member 47b, the former having a projection 55 extending toward the latter to cover a joining area 57 thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD., tOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketsu, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Ryuuya Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Nakahama
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Patent number: 7538448Abstract: A power supply circuit structure includes: a first bus bar in which a power supply side terminal that is to be connected with a power supply post protruded from a DC/DC converter is disposed in one end side, a current sensor passing portion is disposed on another end side, and an output terminal portion is disposed at the tip end of the current sensor passing portion; and a second bus bar having an input terminal portion which is to be connected with the output terminal portion of the first bus bar, and an output terminal portion which is to be connected with a terminal of a power supply wire end, and which is on another end side.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshida, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Yosuke Okamoto
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Patent number: 7416779Abstract: To provide a fiberboard capable of reducing a load on the environment at all states of producing, using, and abolishing and moreover having a high degree of bending strength and a high bending-strength retention rate at high temperature and high humidity so as to be usable for an automobile interior material or building material and a fiber-board producing method. The fiberboard is formed by mixing natural fiber with polylactic acid resin serving as a binder and has an apparent density of 0.2 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignees: Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Co. Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Hashiba, Takehiro Kato, Kousuke Tamaki, Osamu Mito, Kazuya Matsumura, Tomomichi Fujiyama, Yuhei Maeda, Eiji Sugiyama, Takashi Inoh, Hiroshi Urayama, Hisashi Okuyama
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Publication number: 20070285864Abstract: A power supply circuit structure includes: a first bus bar in which a power supply side terminal that is to be connected with a power supply post protruded from a DC/DC converter is disposed in one end side, a current sensor passing portion is disposed on another end side, and an output terminal portion is disposed at the tip end of the current sensor passing portion; and a second bus bar having an input terminal portion which is to be connected with the output terminal portion of the first bus bar, and an output terminal portion which is to be connected with a terminal of a power supply wire end, and which is on another end side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicants: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshida, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Yosuke Okamoto
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Publication number: 20050057651Abstract: An apparatus for visually confirming a vehicle periphery includes a camera device which is attached to a vehicle, and which picks up a image in at least one direction at the vehicle periphery and a display unit which displays the picked-up image in the at least one direction on a display unit installed in the vehicle. The camera device is attached to the vehicle while a position of the camera device is inclined, so that a vehicle is at least partially taken in the picked-image in the at least one direction, The image-processing device carries out a rotation process with respect to the picked-up image, in which a scene taken in the picked-up image is inclined due to an inclination resulting from the position of the camera device, so that an inclination of the scene is negated, and which displays the scene in the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayoshi Imoto, Kenichi Ohue, Hideyuki Ide, Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Naoki Sagara, Hideya Hori
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Publication number: 20050035622Abstract: A feeder assembly 1 of a sliding seat comprising a case 2 having a harness receiving section 6, a movable portion 3 moving along the case, and a wiring harness 4, bent in the harness receiving section, supported one end by the movable portion and other end by the case, wherein a slit 10 is formed in the case 2 for the insertion of the movable portion 3, a foreign substance invasion space 53 is formed between the case 2 and a case bottom 11, and the space is isolated from the harness receiving section by partition walls 14 and 15. A foreign substance discharge hole 12 is disposed at the case bottom 11. The movable portion comprises a harness pathway 21 to make each electric wire 4a of the wiring harness 4 arrange flatly in parallel, and a harness holder 22 which bundles each electric wire in circular cross-section following the harness pathway. A clearance is disposed between the movable portion and the case so that the movable portion 3 positions with non-contact or almost non-contact of the case 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Tsubaki, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Hirofumi Wada, Tadashi Muraoka
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Patent number: 6855446Abstract: A fuel cell composed of a plurality of cell function assemblies of each of which includes a set of spaced electrolytic membranes, two pairs of electrode plates in contact with opposite surfaces of each of the electrolytic membranes, a set of separators, and a set of six support frames assembled to retain the electrolytic membranes and separators in position. In the fuel cell, the separators each are in the form of a flat plate of synthetic resin integrally provided with a plurality of spaced projections made of pressed carbon powder and retained in contact with the electrode plates to form a pair of reaction chambers at opposite sides of each of the electrolytic membranes.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Hashimoto, Masanao Shiomi, Hirotaka Fukatsu, Kousuke Kawajiri, Seiken Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Morita
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Patent number: 5673767Abstract: A low profile cab-front-engine truck is converted by utilizing a normal chassis frame and a normal cab designed for a cab-over-engine truck in which an engine is arranged adjacent to a front axle and in which the cab is arranged over the engine. The cab is shifted to a front lower position in front of the engine. The low profile truck includes a frame extension provided on the forward end portion of the chassis frame, a front mount provided on the frame extension, and a rear mount provided on the frame extension or the chassis frame. The cab is supported at the front lower position by the front and rear mounts.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1995Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Uno, Yuji Aoyagi, Masamitsu Iwatani, Tadashi Takenoshita