Patents by Inventor Akihito Kouketsu

Akihito Kouketsu 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).

  • Patent number: 11108218
    Abstract: A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and an electric wire guide body projecting toward an outside of the protector accommodating chamber from the protector body. The electric wire guide body is bent such that an intermediate position between a support portion on a side of the protector body and a tip portion is lower than heights of both the support portion and the tip portion with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Kazuyuki Kumoi, Akihito Kouketsu, Masanori Suzumura, Kiyotsugu Miura
  • Patent number: 10994674
    Abstract: A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body. The protector body includes a rib on an outer surface of the protector body. The rib projects toward an inner surface of the protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and extends along a direction toward a lower side from an upper side with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Kazuyuki Kumoi, Akihito Kouketsu, Masanori Suzumura, Kiyotsugu Miura
  • Publication number: 20190393687
    Abstract: A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and an electric wire guide body projecting toward an outside of the protector accommodating chamber from the protector body. The electric wire guide body is bent such that an intermediate position between a support portion on a side of the protector body and a tip portion is lower than heights of both the support portion and the tip portion with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOYAMA, Kazuyuki Kumoi, Akihito Kouketsu, Masanori Suzumura, Kiyotsugu Miura
  • Publication number: 20190389403
    Abstract: A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body. The protector body includes a rib on an outer surface of the protector body. The rib projects toward an inner surface of the protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and extends along a direction toward a lower side from an upper side with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOYAMA, Kazuyuki KUMOI, Akihito KOUKETSU, Masanori SUZUMURA, Kiyotsugu MIURA
  • Patent number: 10026363
    Abstract: A window display device includes a display screen provided in a transparent rear window glass pane of a vehicle, an operating device adapted to detect an action for operating the display screen, and a control device, which displays a shade on the display screen. The shade is movable to selectively open and close the display screen based on an action performed on the operating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakawa, Akihito Kouketsu
  • Publication number: 20160104437
    Abstract: A window display device includes a display screen provided in a transparent rear window glass pane of a vehicle, an operating device adapted to detect an action for operating the display screen, and a control device, which displays a shade on the display screen. The shade is movable to selectively open and close the display screen based on an action performed on the operating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakawa, Akihito Kouketsu
  • Patent number: 8247694
    Abstract: A curved wall portion along which a wiring harness is bendably extended has a foreign-matter-escape side opening, at one wall continuing to a top opening of an upward guiding cylinder of a protector. A foreign-matter-escape side opening on the other wall of the cylinder proximate to the opening is opposed to the curved wall portion. A projection on the other wall in the guiding cylinder and below the side opening of the wall has an upwardly sloping surface continuing thereto. A projection in the guiding cylinder is above the side opening of the other wall, traversing the cylinder. The protector includes one separate protector member and the other separate protector member, the former having a projection extending toward the latter to cover a joining area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketsu, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Ryuuya Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20100089609
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD., tOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketsu, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Ryuuya Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Nakahama