Patents by Inventor Akihiro Misawa

Akihiro Misawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20100246205
    Abstract: A vehicle head lamp comprising a first low beam member including a first light source part; a second low beam member including a second light source part, wherein the first low beam member and the second low beam member are arranged in a vertical direction and are both reflective type; a first frame including a partition, the first frame supporting the first low beam member and the second low beam member, and the partition separating the first low beam member and the second low beam member; and a storage provided in a rear side of the partition, the storage accommodating the first and the second light source parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Akihiro Misawa, Tetsuya Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20100232174
    Abstract: A vehicle front grill includes a grill main body and lamp housings that are integrally formed. A surface of the grill main body and surfaces of the lamp housings are coated with a single plating film, and light originating from the lamps accommodated in the lamp housings is reflected by the plating films of the lamp housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Arakawa, Akihiro Misawa, Yoshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7781787
    Abstract: An LED light comprising a light-emitting device provided to power supply means, encapsulating means for encapsulating the light-emitting device with a light-transmitting material, a reflective surface for reflecting the light emitted from the light-emitting device to a direction perpendicular to the center axis of the light-emitting device or at a large angle to the center axis, opposed to the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting device, a light-emitting diode having a side directing surface for directing sideways the light reflected from the reflective surface to a direction perpendicular to the center axis of the light-emitting device or at a large angle to the center axis, and a reflecting mirror disposed around the light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Suehiro, Akihiro Misawa, Toshinori Takahashi, Hisatoshi Ota, Koichi Ota, Junko Okano
  • Patent number: 7752791
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a display device that presents great decorative effects. For a display device that provides a luminous display consisting of characters, numbers, symbols or figures, or arbitrary combinations of them, having a desired form, a half mirror layer is formed above a mirror surface, through a translucent layer, and a desired form is luminously displayed at a location between the mirror surface and the half mirror layer and at a distance from the mirror surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Kazuo Takeda, Tatsuya Oba
  • Patent number: 7607809
    Abstract: The exterior handle configuration of the present invention includes a panel having a recess portion and a handle that covers the upper periphery of the recess portion. An inside surface of the handle is finished with a mirror treatment that reflects and diffuses light. At least one light source fixed at the panel emits light that is directed between the recess portion and the handle. A reflecting surface reflects light emitted from the light source to the inside surface of the handle. The handle configuration of the present invention improves the visibility of the exterior handle during nighttime in a visually pleasing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Misawa
  • Patent number: 7537364
    Abstract: A door handle portion illumination system for illuminating a door handle portion including a door handle, and a concave portion that is formed on a vehicle body in a position which lies at the rear of the door handle, the door handle portion illumination system including a light transmitting element that is incorporated in the door handle and which includes a luminous surface including, in turn, an area which is exposed on a front side of the door handle and an area which faces an edge portion of the concave portion, and a light source which emits a light that is introduced into the light transmitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Mitsuhiro Nawashiro
  • Publication number: 20090027911
    Abstract: The invention is constituted by a vehicular lamp characterized in a lens having a first light source, a second light source, a front light emitting face, a side end face to which the first light source is opposed, and a rear face, wherein the rear face includes a lens having pluralities of reflecting portions and transmitting portions consecutively aligned alternately in a direction of being remote from the side end face, and a reflecting face arranged on a rear side of the lens, light of the first light source is incident on the lens from the side end face of the lens, reflected by an interface of the reflecting portion, thereafter, radiated from the front light emitting face, and light of the second light source is reflected by the reflecting portion, thereafter, incident on the lens from the transmitting portion and radiated from the front light emitting face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Arakawa, Akihiko Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080291685
    Abstract: A vehicle-purpose lighting tool is featured by comprising: a light-conducting member having a front light-emitting plane, a rear plane having a concave/convex shape, and a side edge plane; and a light source arranged at a position opposite to the side edge plane; in which within external light which is entered via the front light-emitting plane into the light-conducting member, a portion of the external light which is directly traveled to the side edge plane is totally reflected on a boundary plane of the side edge plane portion; a plurality of reflecting portions are formed on the rear plane and are coupled to each other via a coupling portion in such a direction that the reflecting portions are separated apart from the side edge plane side; and distances between the plurality of reflecting portions and the front light-emitting plane are changed in a discontinuous manner along the separating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Tetsuya Arakawa, Tatsuya Oba
  • Publication number: 20080259620
    Abstract: A light guide unit which includes a front light emitting surface, a rear surface to which a light reflecting treatment is applied and a side end face which constitutes a light introducing plane and which is formed solid of a light transmissive material as a whole is divided by a vertical slit which reaches the rear reflecting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Akihiro Misawa, Tetsuya Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20080247177
    Abstract: A luminescent device includes: a light source; a housing for accommodating the light source, a heat discharging member including a heat transfer portion and a heat dissipation portion and passed through the housing, the heat transfer portion being mounted on the light source and the heat dissipation portion being located outside the housing; a seal portion for sealing a gap between the heat discharging member and the housing; and optical axis adjusting device for adjusting an optical axis of the light source, wherein the heat transfer portion or the seal portion is deformed so as to follow an angular change of the optical axis of the light source by the optical axis adjusting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Takao Adachi, Akihiro Misawa, Shigeru Yabuya, Minoru Shibata
  • Publication number: 20080180967
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle includes: a light source; a light guide member that has a light-introducing part provided in a back surface side through which the light of the light source is introduced and finally emits the light from a front surface side; a part near the light-introducing part being thicker than an edge part of the light guide member, a plurality of reflecting parts and connecting parts being alternately formed continuously toward a direction separate from the light-introducing part in the back surface side, the reflecting parts respectively reflecting on interfaces the introduced light reaching there to form the light in the direction of the front surface of the light guide member; and a housing that is connected to a position between the edge part of the back surface of the light guide member and the light-introducing part and attached to the back surface side of the light guide member to house the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiharu Totani, Akihiro Misawa, Tatsuya Oba, Tetsuya Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20080165548
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle lighting assembly, which includes a plurality of light sources, and a light guiding body having a light incident portion and a reflecting portion corresponding to the light sources on a back surface side, for emitting a light generated when a light being incident from the light incident portion is reflected by the reflecting portion from a front portion, wherein the light guiding body is divided into a plurality of blocks whose emergent light modes are different, and a reflection and diffusion area is formed on a boundary portion between two adjacent blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Chiharu Totani, Tatsuya Oba
  • Publication number: 20080094848
    Abstract: In an LED lamp device including a surface mount device type of LED lamp, an LED lighting circuit protecting part, a resistive element, a circuit part, and a case part, the circuit part has a metal plate which is embedded in the case part in a state where the metal plate is partially exposed, the LED lamp is mounted on the exposed portion on a front side of the metal plate, and the resistive element is mounted on the exposed portion on a rear side of the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Inagaki, Hiroshi Ito, Akihiro Misawa, Yukiko Marui
  • Publication number: 20080066355
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a display device that presents great decorative effects. For a display device that provides a luminous display consisting of characters, numbers, symbols or figures, or arbitrary combinations of them, having a desired form, a half mirror layer is formed above a mirror surface, through a translucent layer, and a desired form is luminously displayed at a location between the mirror surface and the half mirror layer and at a distance from the mirror surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Kazuo Takeda, Tatsuya Oba
  • Patent number: 7334923
    Abstract: A vehicle rearview mirror including a housing, a mirror, an LED that has a light emitting element and plane-radiates light in a direction nearly vertical to the optical axis of the light emitting element, and a light-guiding member in which at least the one LED is incorporated at a predetermined position. The light-guiding member has a light reflection surface that reflects light to be plane-radiated from the LED and that allows the reflected light to be radiated in a desired direction, and a light radiation surface that allows direct light to be directly emitted from the LED and the reflected light to be externally radiated by the light radiation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Akihiro Misawa, Toshinori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070206388
    Abstract: A door handle portion illumination system for illuminating a door handle portion including a door handle, and a concave portion that is formed on a vehicle body in a position which lies at the rear of the door handle, the door handle portion illumination system including a light transmitting element that is incorporated in the door handle and which includes a luminous surface including, in turn, an area which is exposed on a front side of the door handle and an area which faces an edge portion of the concave portion, and a light source which emits a light that is introduced into the light transmitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Mitsuhiro Nawashiro
  • Publication number: 20070195540
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system having: a light guiding member having a front face as a light emitting surface, a rear face having a plurality of reflecting portions inclined to the front face, and a side face; and a light source disposed opposite to the side face. An angle ? defined between the front face and the side face is designed such that, of external lights to enter into the light guiding member, a light to travel directly to the side face can be totally reflected on an interface of the side face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Misawa, Yoshiharu Tanaka, Tatsuya Oba
  • Patent number: 7249869
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a mark body, a substrate arranged in back of the mark body, an LED mounted on an opposite surface of the substrate to the mark body, and a light guide arranged on a closer side of the substrate to the LED and having an upper surface serving as a light introducing surface for introducing LED-based light, a side surface serving as a light emitting surface and a backside subjected to a light diffuse reflection process to cause diffuse reflection by the backside. Incidentally, there can be provided a light emitting device that includes a light guide arranged on a closer side of the substrate to the LED and having an upper surface serving as a light introducing surface for introducing LED-based light, a side surface serving as a light emitting surface and a backside having a plurality of protrusions in a rib form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Takahashi, Akihiro Misawa, Yoshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7229197
    Abstract: A vehicle side mirror apparatus for looking backward circumstances of a vehicle has: a housing that is of a transparent or semitransparent material with a cross section having a predetermined thickness, the housing having a light entering end into which light enters, and a light radiating end that faces the back of the vehicle; and an LED lamp that is disposed in the vicinity of the light entering end. Light emitted from the LED lamp enters into the light entering end of the housing, passing through within the cross section, being radiated to the back of the vehicle from the light radiating end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Akihiro Misawa
  • Patent number: 7163322
    Abstract: In an illumination device for license plate which illuminates the license plate from the front side thereof, at least one light source consist of a white LED is arranged at a position upward or obliquely upward of the license plate in such a manner that optical axes thereof traverse with a lower range than the center of the license plate, and a reflector is arranged at a position obliquely downward seen from an observer's side of the light source, receiving a light directing to the observer's side from a portion of a light emitted from the light source, and converting the light into a light irradiating the center or the lower part of the license plate. Further, a garnish for accommodating the light source and having a light transmitting part can be provided to the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Tatewaki, Toshinori Takahashi, Yoshiharu Tanaka, Akihiro Misawa, Kazutoshi Ikeda, Takao Adachi, Katsumi Esaka, Tatsuya Oba