Patents by Inventor Akihiro Tamaoki

Akihiro Tamaoki 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: 20140361560
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, a crush box axially compression-deforms and a bumper extending portion of a bumper reinforcement bends toward a vehicle body rear side when an impact load is input to the bumper extending portion from a vehicle body front side. As a result, a rear end of the bumper extending portion abuts against a front surface of a gusset. This gusset is provided protruding toward a vehicle body width direction outside from a front end portion of a main body portion of a front side member, so the impact load on the bumper extending portion is able to be nicely transmitted to the main body portion via the gusset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20140361561
    Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a front side member that is arranged on a side portion of a vehicle body front portion and extends in a vehicle body front-rearward direction; an extending portion that extends farther toward an outside in a vehicle width direction than the front side member; and a load transmitting member that connects the extending portion and the front side member together, and is configured such that a pushing portion on a front end side is guided toward a receiving portion on a rear end side by an intermediate portion deforming in response to a frontal collision load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Kosuke Sakakibara, Akihiro Tamaoki, Masanobu Omi
  • Publication number: 20140361559
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, a crash box provided in a front part of a front side member is broken by applying pressure due to a collision load, so that a second load transmission member moves backward toward a first load transmission member. This allows the second load transmission member to abut with the first load transmission member, thereby making it possible to transmit the collision load input into the second load transmission member, to a body portion of the front side member via the first load transmission member. Besides, since the second load transmission member is not provided in a bumper reinforcement, it is possible to replace the bumper reinforcement separately from the second load transmission member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20140354008
    Abstract: A vehicle body front portion structure includes a front side member arranged such that its lengthwise direction coincides with a vehicle front-rearward direction, the front side member being arranged to offset to a vehicle width directional one side; a bumper reinforcement arranged such that its lengthwise direction coincides with the vehicle-width direction and arranged in front of the front side member in the vehicle front-rearward direction such that one side end portion of the bumper reinforcement in the vehicle-width direction extends outwardly in the vehicle width-direction from the front side member; and a crash box interposed between a front end portion of the front side member and the bumper reinforcement and configured such that a vehicle-width directional outer side of the crash box is lower in strength against a load from a frontward direction of the vehicle than a vehicle width directional inner side of the crash box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Patent number: 8451341
    Abstract: An image capture device includes: a digital processing unit that performs predetermined processing on pixel data containing first, second, and third digital signals obtained from pixel units having a valid pixel area for generating the first digital signals through photoelectrical conversion of incident image light, an optical black pixel area for generating the second digital signals, and a dummy pixel area for generating the third digital signals; an adding unit that adds the second-and-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data or the third-digital-signal-containing pixel data a predetermined number of times; a dividing unit that divides the added pixel data by the predetermined number of times, to determine an average value of levels of the digital signals; a delay unit that delays output of the first-to-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data by a predetermined amount of time; and a multiplexer that selects and outputs the first-to-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data or pixel data having the av
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Publication number: 20120110793
    Abstract: A fastener with which an operator can get a click feeling (tactile feedback) when a mounting member is mounted to a mounted member is obtained. If a door trim (60) is pressed toward a door inner panel (62), locking claws are locked to a hole edge portion (64A) of a mounting hole (64) and, as a result, a leg portion (16) is fixed to the door inner panel (62). Moreover, an outer peripheral edge (46) of a flange member (14) contacts the door inner panel (62) and the flange member (14) is pressed by a first disc portion (20) toward the door inner panel (62). Then, plate chips (52) formed on the flange member (14) contact protruding portions (40) formed on the leg portion (16) and are elastically deformed and bent. When the plate chips (52) surmount the protruding portions (40), the plate chips (52) elastically recover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Watanabe, Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Patent number: 8115838
    Abstract: A signal processing device for a solid-state imaging device correcting inter-pixel color mixing in the solid-state imaging device in which color filters having a color component constituting a primary component among luminance components and other color components are disposed on a surface of a two-dimensional array of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element is disclosed. The signal processing device includes a parameter distribution unit two-dimensionally distributing correction parameters in a pixel array surface on which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a signal correcting unit correcting a signal for a pixel of interest using each of signals for a plurality of surrounding pixels adjacent to the pixel of interest in the pixel array surface and using two-dimensionally distributed correction parameters for each of the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Publication number: 20110025874
    Abstract: An image capture device includes: a digital processing unit that performs predetermined processing on pixel data containing first, second, and third digital signals obtained from pixel units having a valid pixel area for generating the first digital signals through photoelectrical conversion of incident image light, an optical black pixel area for generating the second digital signals, and a dummy pixel area for generating the third digital signals; an adding unit that adds the second-and-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data or the third-digital-signal-containing pixel data a predetermined number of times; a dividing unit that divides the added pixel data by the predetermined number of times, to determine an average value of levels of the digital signals; a delay unit that delays output of the first-to-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data by a predetermined amount of time; and a multiplexer that selects and outputs the first-to-third-digital-signal-containing pixel data or pixel data having the av
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventor: Akihiro TAMAOKI
  • Publication number: 20090096887
    Abstract: A signal processing device for a solid-state imaging device correcting inter-pixel color mixing in the solid-state imaging device in which color filters having a color component constituting a primary component among luminance components and other color components are disposed on a surface of a two-dimensional array of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element is disclosed. The signal processing device includes a parameter distribution unit two-dimensionally distributing correction parameters in a pixel array surface on which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a signal correcting unit correcting a signal for a pixel of interest using each of signals for a plurality of surrounding pixels adjacent to the pixel of interest in the pixel array surface and using two-dimensionally distributed correction parameters for each of the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Patent number: 6966601
    Abstract: A weather strip for a vehicle door for being fitted to an upper edge flange of a door inner panel forming a window opening edge of the vehicle door having a lifting/lowering window pane. The weather strip includes: a main body portion having an insertion groove to be fitted to the upper edge flange; a seal lip portion projecting from the main body portion to be in resilient contact with the lifting/lowering window pane; and a resilient retainer to be resiliently engaged with a door trim. The main body portion includes a fixing portion to be engaged with the upper edge flange. The resilient retainer is projected outward from the main body portion in a substantially horizontal direction and perpendicular to an attaching portion provided at an upper portion of the door trim, when the insertion groove is fitted to the upper edge flange substantially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuaki Nagai, Akihiro Tamaoki, Yuji Hisada
  • Publication number: 20040094989
    Abstract: A weather strip for a vehicle door for being fitted to an upper edge flange of a door inner panel forming a window opening edge of the vehicle door having a lifting/lowering window pane. The weather strip includes: a main body portion having an insertion groove to be fitted to the upper edge flange; a seal lip portion projecting from the main body portion to be in resilient contact with the lifting/lowering window pane; and a resilient retainer to be resiliently engaged with a door trim. The main body portion includes a fixing portion to be engaged with the upper edge flange. The resilient retainer is projected outward from the main body portion in a substantially horizontal direction and perpendicular to an attaching portion provided at an upper portion of the door trim, when the insertion groove is fitted to the upper edge flange substantially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: TOKAI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuaki Nagai, Akihiro Tamaoki, Yuji Hisada
  • Patent number: 5093515
    Abstract: A 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoyl compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.2 is a lower alkyl group, and R.sup.7 is a 2,4-difluorophenyl group or a 4-fluorophenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., Katayama Seiyakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki, Ryonosuke Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 5068449
    Abstract: Fluorinated benzoyl compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Q is a lower alkyl group, a halogen atom, --CH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 R.sup.1 wherein R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, or ##STR2## wherein each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is a lower alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki
  • Patent number: 4994610
    Abstract: Fluorinated benzoyl compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Q is a lower alkyl group, a halogen atom, --CH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 R.sup.1 wherein R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, or ##STR2## wherein each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is a lower alkyl group, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki