Patents by Inventor Akihiko Kuribayashi
Akihiko Kuribayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8020928Abstract: A seal attachment assembly for a vehicle sunroof comprises a seal including one of an outward extending protrusion and hook and a deflector body including the other of the protrusion and the hook. A cooperative relationship between the protrusion and the hook resists a movement of the seal away from the vehicle body. A double-sided adhesive tape secures a planar base portion of the seal to the vehicle body. A resilient lip extends outward from the seal in a direction away from the sunroof opening along an outer edge of the planar base portion. This resilient lip maintains an elastic engagement with the vehicle body to shelter the double-sided tape from exposure to elements. The protrusion extends outward from the seal along an inner edge of the planar portion in a direction toward the sunroof opening. A terminal end of the protrusion includes a rounded bulb section. An outer leg of the deflector body extends beyond the planar base portion of the seal.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kuribayashi, Brent Nathaniel Gaertner
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Patent number: 7887126Abstract: A seal assembly includes a vehicle frame, a moveable panel connected with and moveable with respect to the vehicle frame, and a seal connected with the vehicle frame. The moveable panel is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The seal includes a seal body having an external surface including an ambient-contacting section that is in contact with ambient when the moveable panel is in the closed position. The external surface of the seal body also includes a moveable-panel-contacting section that is in contact with the moveable panel when the moveable panel is in the closed position. The ambient-contacting section can move from a first orientation when the moveable panel is in the closed position toward a second orientation as the moveable panel contacts the moveable-panel-contacting section and moves toward the closed position. A seal for a vehicle and a roof assembly are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: David B. Grummett, Brent Nathaniel Gaertner, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Kenneth M. Hartlaub, Brock Jared Stull
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Publication number: 20100313486Abstract: A seal attachment assembly for a vehicle sunroof comprises a seal including one of an outward extending protrusion and hook and a deflector body including the other of the protrusion and the hook. A cooperative relationship between the protrusion and the hook resists a movement of the seal away from the vehicle body. A double-sided adhesive tape secures a planar base portion of the seal to the vehicle body. A resilient lip extends outward from the seal in a direction away from the sunroof opening along an outer edge of the planar base portion. This resilient lip maintains an elastic engagement with the vehicle body to shelter the double-sided tape from exposure to elements. The protrusion extends outward from the seal along an inner edge of the planar portion in a direction toward the sunroof opening. A terminal end of the protrusion includes a rounded bulb section. An outer leg of the deflector body extends beyond the planar base portion of the seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Akihiko Kuribayashi, Brent Nathaniel Gaertner
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Publication number: 20100308626Abstract: A seal assembly includes a vehicle frame, a moveable panel connected with and moveable with respect to the vehicle frame, and a seal connected with the vehicle frame. The moveable panel is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The seal includes a seal body having an external surface including an ambient-contacting section that is in contact with ambient when the moveable panel is in the closed position. The external surface of the seal body also includes a moveable-panel-contacting section that is in contact with the moveable panel when the moveable panel is in the closed position. The ambient-contacting section can move from a first orientation when the moveable panel is in the closed position toward a second orientation as the moveable panel contacts the moveable-panel-contacting section and moves toward the closed position. A seal for a vehicle and a roof assembly are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: David B. Grummett, Brent Nathaniel Gaertner, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Kenneth M. Hartlaub, Brock Jared Stull
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Patent number: 7837251Abstract: A seal assembly for an automotive vehicle is provided that includes a seal and a molding whereby the seal is attached to the molding and the molding is attached to a rear-quarter window. The seal includes a pair of perpendicular bases and a resilient arc portion joining the perpendicular bases. The molding includes a U-shaped base, which receives the rear-quarter window and a support member. The support member is attached to the seal in such a manner to prevent excessive deformation of the seal when the door is in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Stewart Rich, Brock Stull, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7810872Abstract: A roof structure for a vehicle body includes a roof having a roof opening that is closed by a cover member. The roof structure comprises a frame member, a left side panel member and a right side panel member. The frame member is configured to frame the roof opening. The frame member supports the cover member. Each side panel member forms a part of the vehicle body and is adhesively secured to the frame member. A peripheral edge portion of each side panel member includes at least one channel adapted to allow escape of an adhesive disposed between the side panel member and the frame member for ease of assembly of the roof structure to the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kuribayashi, Brent Nathaniel Gaertner, Michael E. Franz, Yan Beaudoin
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Patent number: 7673928Abstract: An integrated rear spoiler and hinge cover that covers a flip-glass window hinge that is not attached to the flip glass window hinge and rotates from a fully closed position to a fully open position substantially simultaneously with the flip-glass window hinge.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher Walker, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Takuji Ohara, Ryo Inoue, Bob Tamarapoo, Joshua Morrow
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Patent number: 7658441Abstract: A seal assembly for a sunroof of an automotive vehicle is provided that includes a seal and a bracket. The seal includes a front base and a separate rear base, both of which are attached to a bottom surface of the sunroof. The front base includes a lip integrally joined to a front portion of the front base that extends at an angle in the forward and downward direction. The bracket part is attached to both the front base and the rear base and includes a flange that extends in the angled forward and downward direction similar to that of the lip. The vertical length of the lip is longer than the vertical length of the flange such that the flange is adjacent to and behind the lip.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Stewart Rich, Brock Stull, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20090167053Abstract: An integrated rear spoiler and hinge cover that covers a flip-glass window hinge that is not attached to the flip glass window hinge and rotates from a fully closed position to a fully open position substantially simultaneously with the flip-glass window hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Christopher Walker, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Takuji Ohara, Ryo Inoue, Bob Tamarapoo, Joshua Morrow
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Publication number: 20090092841Abstract: A laminated glass for a vehicle window, comprises a plurality of glass sheets and an interlayer interposed between adjacent glass sheets to bond the adjacent glass sheets, wherein the interlayer satisfies the following conditions: 1) when a specimen of dumbbell No. 7 prescribed in JIS K6251 is employed to conduct a high speed tensile test at 23° C. and at 1 m/sec, a load for an extension of 15 mm is 10 N or below; or when a specimen of dumbbell No. 7 prescribed in JIS K6251 is employed to conduct a high speed tensile test at 23° C. and at 1 m/sec, an extension amount, which is obtained when work required for extension is 0.3 J, is 30 mm or above; and 2) when the interlayer is sandwiched between two glass sheets having a thickness of 2 mm to form a laminated glass having dimensions of 100 mm×300 mm, and when the laminated glass is left for 300 hrs under an atmosphere of 80° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicants: Asahi Glass Company, Limited, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Okamoto, Yuji Kikuchi, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Jirou Nishihama, Kuniko Nagai, Yuuji Masaki
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Patent number: 7510237Abstract: To provide a stopper structure of a sun roof device, in which the sun roof device has a front slider (20) and a driving slider (30) attached on a roof panel (4), a connecting link (40) attached to the front slider (20) and engaging with the driving slider (30), and a stopper member (60) adapted to stop the driving slider (30). When the roof panel (4) performs tilting operation, a first engaging portion (42) and a second engaging portion (43) of the connecting link (40) respectively engage with the a first cam (61) and a second cam (62) respectively formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the stopper member (60), so that the movement of the front slider (20) in both the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vertical direction is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisya, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Masaharu Ohnishi, Keisuke Takayama, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20090072577Abstract: A seal assembly for a sunroof of an automotive vehicle is provided that includes a seal and a bracket. The seal includes a front base and a separate rear base, both of which are attached to a bottom surface of the sunroof. The front base includes a lip integrally joined to a front portion of the front base that extends at an angle in the forward and downward direction. The bracket part is attached to both the front base and the rear base and includes a flange that extends in the angled forward and downward direction similar to that of the lip. The vertical length of the lip is longer than the vertical length of the flange such that the flange is adjacent to and behind the lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Stewart Rich, Brock Stull, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20090072581Abstract: A seal assembly for an automotive vehicle is provided that includes a seal and a molding whereby the seal is attached to the molding and the molding is attached to a rear-quarter window. The seal includes a pair of perpendicular bases and a resilient arc portion joining the perpendicular bases. The molding includes a U-shaped base, which receives the rear-quarter window and a support member. The support member is attached to the seal in such a manner to prevent excessive deformation of the seal when the door is in a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Stewart Rich, Brock Stull, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7438353Abstract: In a guide tube-fixing structure for sunroof device 1 that includes cables C1, C2 for opening and closing a roof panel 4 by push-pull operation; guide rails 5, 5 for guiding opening/closing of the roof panel 4; sunshade rails 20, 20 for opening/closing of a sunshade panel, guide tubes P1-P4 for the cables C1, C2 are disposed along a rear portion of the sunshade rails 20, 20 each extending further rearward from the rear end portion of the guide rail 5 and the guide tubes P1-P4 are fixed to the rear portion of the sunshade rail 20.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki KaisyaInventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7364227Abstract: A movable roof opening-closing structure rotatively opening and closing a movable roof toward backward at an outside of a vehicle body through a linkage equipped with a first link bar and a second link bar, wherein the linkage is configured with an inequilateral four-bar linkage having a fixed bar at a vehicle body side, and wherein an instant center of the movable roof against the vehicle body when the movable roof is at an entirely closing position is located at one of positions where is ahead of a front end of the movable roof and behind of a rear end of the movable roof.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Akio Kobori, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20080054684Abstract: In a guide tube-fixing structure for sunroof device 1 that includes cables C1, C2 for opening and closing a roof panel 4 by push-pull operation; guide rails 5, 5 for guiding opening/closing of the roof panel 4; sunshade rails 20, 20 for opening/closing of a sunshade panel, guide tubes P1-P4 for the cables C1, C2 are disposed along a rear portion of the sunshade rails 20, 20 each extending further rearward from the rear end portion of the guide rail 5 and the guide tubes P1-P4 are fixed to the rear portion of the sunshade rail 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicants: YACHIYO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISYA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20080036246Abstract: To provide a stopper structure of a sun roof device, in which the sun roof device has a front slider (20) and a driving slider (30) attached on a roof panel (4), a connecting link (40) attached to the front slider (20) and engaging with the driving slider (30), and a stopper member (60) adapted to stop the driving slider (30). When the roof panel (4) performs tilting operation, a first engaging portion (42) and a second engaging portion (43) of the connecting link (40) respectively engage with the a first cam (61) and a second cam (62) respectively formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the stopper member (60), so that the movement of the front slider (20) in both the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vertical direction is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Sugimoto, Masaharu Ohnishi, Keisuke Takayama, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 7118239Abstract: A sunroof panel apparatus for a vehicle includes a pair of sheets of transparent glass, a pair of transparent interlayers, and a plurality of electro-luminescent (EL) sheets. The transparent interlayers are enclosed between the sheets of transparent glass. The EL sheets are enclosed between the transparent interlayers and each EL sheet has electrode layers with terminals. The terminals are electrically connected through a variable resister and a power supply.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignees: Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisya, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Itoh, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Michio Tamura
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Publication number: 20060119143Abstract: A movable roof opening-closing structure rotatively opening and closing a movable roof toward backward at an outside of a vehicle body through a linkage equipped with a first link bar and a second link bar, wherein the linkage is configured with an inequilateral four-bar linkage having a fixed bar at a vehicle body side, and wherein an instant center of the movable roof against the vehicle body when the movable roof is at an entirely closing position is located at one of positions where is ahead of a front end of the movable roof and behind of a rear end of the movable roof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicants: YACHIYO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISYA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Akio Kobori, Michio Tamura, Akihiko Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20050249959Abstract: A laminated glass for a vehicle window, comprises a plurality of glass sheets and an interlayer interposed between adjacent glass sheets to bond the adjacent glass sheets, wherein the interlayer satisfies the following conditions: 1) when a specimen of dumbbell No. 7 prescribed in JIS K6251 is employed to conduct a high speed tensile test at 23° C. and at 1 m/sec, a load for an extension of 15 mm is 10 N or below; or when a specimen of dumbbell No. 7 prescribed in JIS K6251 is employed to conduct a high speed tensile test at 23° C. and at 1 m/sec, an extension amount, which is obtained when work required for extension is 0.3 J, is 30 mm or above; and 2) when the interlayer is sandwiched between two glass sheets having a thickness of 2 mm to form a laminated glass having dimensions of 100 mm×300 mm, and when the laminated glass is left for 300 hrs under an atmosphere of 80° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Applicants: Asahi Glass Company, Limited, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Okamoto, Yuji Kikuchi, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Jirou Nishihama, Kuniko Nagai, Yuuji Masaki