Patents by Inventor Akinori Kato

Akinori Kato 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: 20240128733
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a flat wire harness includes: an attachment target member; a flat wire harness; and an attachment part. In the flat wire harness, a through hole is formed in a part of a base material where a plurality of electrical wires are not disposed. The attachment part includes a rod-like part passing through the through hole, a fixing part provided to a first end portion of the rod-like part to fix the rod-like part to the attachment target member, and a retaining part provided to a second end portion of the rod-like part to prevent the rod-like part from coming out of the through hole. An outer size of the retaining part is larger than a dimension of the through hole, and the dimension of the through hole is equal to or larger than a thickness of the rod-like part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Hirozumi OKANIWA, Tomohiko TATEISHI, Tatsuya AIDA, Mitsuhiro KATO, Akinori ISHIKAWA, Kazuhiro KUSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10472000
    Abstract: A carpet supporting member mounting structure for mounting a carpet supporting member to an instrument panel assembly to support a floor carpet including a portion to cover a tunnel portion of a floor panel of a vehicle includes a mounting portion of the instrument panel assembly and a carpet supporting member. The carpet supporting member includes a supporting member body disposed to project from an upper edge of a sidewall of the tunnel portion and a mounting protrusion protruding from a front edge of the supporting member body and including a base portion and a distal end portion. The base portion is inserted in a mounting hole of the mounting portion. The distal end portion extends from a distal end of the base portion toward a front of the vehicle and is pressed against a hole edge of the mounting hole in the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akinori Kato
  • Publication number: 20180127033
    Abstract: A carpet supporting member mounting structure for mounting a carpet supporting member to an instrument panel assembly to support a floor carpet including a portion to cover a tunnel portion of a floor panel of a vehicle includes a mounting portion of the instrument panel assembly and a carpet supporting member. The carpet supporting member includes a supporting member body disposed to project from an upper edge of a sidewall of the tunnel portion and a mounting protrusion protruding from a front edge of the supporting member body and including a base portion and a distal end portion. The base portion is inserted in a mounting hole of the mounting portion. The distal end portion extends from a distal end of the base portion toward a front of the vehicle and is pressed against a hole edge of the mounting hole in the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akinori KATO
  • Patent number: 4478508
    Abstract: An automatic continuous medium setting device includes a delivery means for feeding a continuous medium along a delivery passage, a medium treating means arranged on the delivery passage, a medium accumulating means arranged at the terminal end portion of the delivery passage and a setting means for temporarily setting the continuous medium in a temporary setting position in relation to the medium treating zone, arranged before the medium treating zone on the delivery passage. A medium feed quantity determining means determines the feed quantity of the continuous medium during the delivery when the continuous medium is fed from the temporary position to the accumulating zone. The medium feed quantity determining means being connected to said delivery means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Kato, Yoshihiro Chujo
  • Patent number: 4005392
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for controlling spinning machines comprising circulating a working machine having a detector along a rail for monitoring the running conditions of the spinning machines in which a transmitter provided in the working machine transmits a first information signal indicating the nature of possible abnormal conditions of each spinning machine to a remote station having a receiver and a computer. In the receiver, a second information signal is generated and successively stored in registers depending on the nature of the abnormal conditions in accordance with the first information signal received. The computer reads the contents of the registers only when an interrupt signal is generated which indicates that an abnormal condition has occurred in a particular spinning machine. The computer memory tabulates these data and updates the data each time the working machine circulates around the spinning machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeaki Akatsuka, Akinori Kato, Teiryo Kojima, Sinji Inaba, Kohichi Higashino
  • Patent number: 3940332
    Abstract: A waste water effluent containing nitriles and cyanides is treated by passing through an acclimated, activated sludge containing a microorganism capable of degrading nitriles and cyanides and being selected from the genus Nocardia, for example, Nocardia rubropertincta ATCC 21930 thereby to purify the waste water effluent. The waste water effluent containing 50 ppm to 250 ppm of nitriles and 10 to 50 ppm of cyanide and 500 to 2,000 ppm of COD (Potassium Dichromate Method) can be purified with a high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1976
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Kato, Kenji Yamamura