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).
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Publication number: 20140361560Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140361561Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Kosuke Sakakibara, Akihiro Tamaoki, Masanobu Omi
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Publication number: 20140361559Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140354008Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kosuke Sakakibara, Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Masanobu Omi, Akihiro Tamaoki
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Patent number: 8451341Abstract: 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 avType: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20120110793Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Watanabe, Akihiro Tamaoki
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Patent number: 8115838Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20110025874Abstract: 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 avType: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventor: Akihiro TAMAOKI
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Publication number: 20090096887Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
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Patent number: 6966601Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuaki Nagai, Akihiro Tamaoki, Yuji Hisada
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Publication number: 20040094989Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Applicant: TOKAI KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuaki Nagai, Akihiro Tamaoki, Yuji Hisada
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Patent number: 5093515Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 1990Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., Katayama Seiyakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki, Ryonosuke Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Murakami
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Patent number: 5068449Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 1990Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki
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Patent number: 4994610Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 1989Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.Inventors: Seisaku Kumai, Osamu Yokokoji, Akihiro Tamaoki