Patents by Inventor Akira Yasuda

Akira Yasuda 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: 20240355789
    Abstract: Provided are a light emitting element array, a light emitting device, an electronic device, and a photonic crystal structure which are improved in stray light suppression, high luminance, and low power consumption. A light emitting element array includes a plurality of a light emitting element including a light emitting surface, in which a plurality of a light emitting unit is formed including at least one of the light emitting element and capable of controlling light emission from the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, and the plurality of the light emitting unit is provided with an optical adjustment layer at least partially including a periodic structure portion in which a refractive index periodically changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro TOMODA, Kazuya UEDA, Atsushi YASUDA, Goshi BIWA, Hiroki NAITO, Ippei NISHINAKA, Akira OHMAE
  • Patent number: 12126776
    Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Takuma Tachibana, Yuya Yasuda, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12090951
    Abstract: A pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a cowl cover portion and two pillar cover portions. The inflator includes a main body portion having a substantially columnar outer shape, and a mounting bolt disposed to protrude from an outer peripheral surface of the main body portion in an axis orthogonal direction of the main body portion. The main body portion is mounted on an accommodation site side by using the mounting bolt in a state where the main body portion is inserted into the cowl cover portion while an axial direction is disposed to substantially extend along a left-right direction. A gas flow regulating member suppressing a rearward outflow of an inflating gas discharged from the main body portion is disposed at a position on a rear side of the main body portion inside the cowl cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ozeki, Akira Yasuda, Taizo Suemitsu
  • Patent number: 12090944
    Abstract: An occupant protection device protects an occupant seated on a seat, in which an airbag is held in a holding body disposed in a periphery of a hip portion of the occupant. The airbag has a bag main body, and a conduit portion that causes an inflating gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the bag main body. The bag main body is held in the holding body as a completely folded body, folded using a front-rear reduction folding such that a width dimension in a front-rear direction is reduced from a preliminary folded bag. The completely folded body is formed by a lower side rolled region, formed by a lower side region of the preliminary folded bag being wound from a lower edge side, being stacked on an upper side rolled region, formed by an upper side region of the preliminary folded bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Motoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12083978
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seatbelt, an inflator, an airbag and a tether. The seatbelt has a lap belt portion that restrains a waist portion of an occupant. The inflator discharges an inflating gas. The airbag is provided in the lap belt portion, and includes a bag main body portion, which receives the occupant by inflating owing to the inflating gas being supplied, and a conduit portion, which is connected to the inflator, guides the inflating gas discharged from the inflator to the bag main body portion, and causes the inflating gas to flow into the bag main body The tether links the conduit portion and a side wall portion, of a left side wall portion and a right side wall portion of the bag main body portion when inflation is completed, on a side separated from the inflator in a left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Takuya Kusumura
  • Publication number: 20240294354
    Abstract: A multilayer structured spun yarn (20) includes core component fibers (21) and sheath component fibers (24). The core component fibers (21) are a multifilament yarn. The sheath component fibers (24) include inner layer fibers (22) and outer layer fibers (23). The inner layer fibers (22) are untwisted and entirely bundled by the outer layer fibers (23) wound therearound in one direction. The sheath component fibers (24) are a blend of short fibers A with an average fiber length of 10 to 25 mm and short fibers B with an average fiber length of longer than 25 mm and 51 mm or shorter. The multifilament yarn of the core component fibers serves as a connecting yarn. The blending proportion of the short fibers A is preferably 0.1 to 20 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the multilayer structured spun yarn (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Tomonori YASUDA, Akira OKADA, Hideaki MOGAMI, Takuya TAKATA
  • Patent number: 12060022
    Abstract: An occupant protection device for protecting an occupant seated in a seat includes a seatbelt having at least a tongue, a buckle, and a lap belt portion, an inflator, and an airbag provided in the lap belt portion. In a state where a main body portion of the airbag is inflated, an end portion on a tongue side of a conduit portion of the airbag in a left-right direction of the seat extends as far as a position equivalent to that of an end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion, or nearer than the end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion to the tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Takuya Kusumura
  • Patent number: 12049160
    Abstract: A vehicle seat that can suppress damage to an on-board object is provided. In each side frame of a cushion frame, an eccentric portion is eccentric outward in a right-left direction with respect to a base portion, and in each side frame of a back frame, an eccentric portion is eccentric inward in the right-left direction with respect to a base portion. Thus, when the load at the time of rear collision acts, each side frame of the cushion frame easily becomes deformed outward in the right-left direction, and each side frame of the back frame easily becomes deformed inward in the right-left direction. Accordingly, the deformation direction of each side frame of the cushion frame and the deformation direction of each side frame of the back frame can be easily made opposite to each other, and the deformations of the respective side frames and can be inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI JIDOUSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kijima, Akira Ogiso, Yutaka Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12036938
    Abstract: An occupant protection device has a folded airbag in a holding body in front of a hip portion of an occupant. The airbag protrudes from the holding body when an inflating gas flows, inflates to cover a region in front of the occupant, and includes an occupant side wall portion on the occupant side when inflation completes, and restrains an upper body of the occupant. The occupant side wall portion has a lower side restraining face, which restrains a range from an abdominal portion to a chest portion of the occupant, and an upper side restraining face, which restrains a head portion or a shoulder portion of the occupant, on a rear face side when inflation completes, and a bended portion is in a boundary region between the upper side restraining face and the lower side restraining face, and the upper side restraining face protrudes to the occupant side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Motoyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240067118
    Abstract: An occupant protection device of a configuration that protects an occupant seated on a seat, in which an airbag is held in a holding body disposed in a periphery of a hip portion of the occupant. The airbag has a bag main body, and a conduit portion that causes an inflating gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the bag main body. The bag main body is held in the holding body in a state of a completely folded body folded using a front-rear reduction folding such that a width dimension in front-rear direction is reduced from a state of a preliminary folded bag. The completely folded body is formed by a lower side rolled region which is formed by a lower side region of the preliminary folded bag being wound from a lower edge side, being stacked on an upper side rolled region which is formed by an upper side region of the preliminary folded bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Motoyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240059240
    Abstract: An occupant protection device for protecting an occupant seated in a seat includes the following: a seatbelt having at least a tongue, a buckle, and a lap belt portion, an inflator, and an airbag provided in the lap belt portion, wherein, in a state where a main body portion of the airbag is inflated, an end portion on a tongue side of a conduit portion of the airbag in a left-right direction of the seat extends as far as a position equivalent to that of an end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion, or nearer than the end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion to the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Takuya KUSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240059241
    Abstract: An occupant protection device is for protecting an occupant seated on a seat, and includes an airbag, a holding body in which the folded airbag is housed and held, and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. The airbag is configured to inflate in such a way as to cover a front of the occupant, and includes an occupant side wall portion which can restrain an upper body of the occupant by being disposed on the occupant side when inflation is completed. The occupant side wall portion has a chest portion restraining region that can restrain a chest portion of the occupant by being disposed in an intermediate region in up-down direction sides when inflation is completed. The chest portion restraining region is configured to be narrow in left-right direction sides in comparison with an upper side region and a lower side region disposed one each on upper and lower sides of the chest portion restraining region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Takuya KUSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240059239
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes the following: a seatbelt having a lap belt portion that restrains a waist portion of an occupant; an inflator that discharges an inflating gas; an airbag that is provided in the lap belt portion, the airbag including a bag main body portion, which receives the occupant by inflating owing to the inflating gas being supplied, and a conduit portion, which is connected to the inflator, guides the inflating gas discharged from the inflator to the bag main body portion, and causes the inflating gas to flow into the bag main body portion; and a tether that links the conduit portion and a side wall portion, of a left side wall portion and a right side wall portion of the bag main body portion when inflation is completed, on a side separated from the inflator in a left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Takuya KUSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240059243
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes the following: a seatbelt having a lap belt portion; a pretensioner mechanism that takes up the seatbelt; an inflator that discharges an inflating gas; and an airbag that is joined to the lap belt portion, the airbag including a bag main body portion, which is housed folded, inflates owing to the inflating gas being supplied, and receives an occupant, and a conduit portion, which guides the inflating gas discharged from the inflator to the bag main body portion, and causes the inflating gas to flow into the bag main body portion, wherein a length dimension along the lap belt portion of a joining region in which the airbag and the lap belt portion are joined is shorter than a length dimension along the lap belt portion of the bag main body portion in a folded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Takuya KUSUMURA, Hajime KITTE, Yuya SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11813999
    Abstract: An occupant protection device is such that an airbag is housed in a housing region of a lap belt portion that can be disposed on a front side of a waist portion of an occupant seated in a seat. The airbag can receive and protect an upper body of the occupant using a rear face side occupant restraining face when inflation is completed. The airbag includes an exhaust port that can discharge an inflating gas and a regulating valve mechanism that restricts a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port. The regulating valve mechanism permits a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port when a protrusion upward of the airbag from the housing portion is restricted, and restricts a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port when a protrusion upward of the airbag from the housing portion is not restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuzaki, Akira Yasuda, Yuto Noda, Motoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11745695
    Abstract: A pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag, which is housed folded in a vicinity of a rear end of a hood panel, and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a vehicle body side wall portion disposed on a body side when inflation is completed, and a pedestrian side wall portion disposed opposing the vehicle body side wall portion. An internal pressure maintenance chamber is enclosed by a peripheral wall coupled to the vehicle body side wall portion and the pedestrian side wall portion, and is configured such that an inflating gas discharged from the inflator can flow into an interior via a general inflating portion in the airbag. A check valve mechanism that prevents a backflow to the general inflating portion side of the inflating gas that has flowed into the interior is disposed in the internal pressure maintenance chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ozeki, Akira Yasuda, Taizo Suemitsu, Kimihiko Hyodo
  • Patent number: 11708048
    Abstract: A pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. In the airbag, an insertion opening portion for inserting the inflator into the airbag is disposed on the vehicle body side wall portion side. The insertion opening portion includes an insertion slit for inserting the main body portion of the inflator, and an insertion hole for causing the mounting bolt of the inflator to protrude. A guide tether for guiding when the inflator is inserted is disposed inside the airbag so that one end side is joined to the pedestrian side wall portion side, and the other end side is joined to a region on a side from the insertion hole in a peripheral edge of the insertion slit on the vehicle body side wall portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ozeki, Akira Yasuda, Taizo Suemitsu
  • Patent number: 11639150
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, a case in which the folded airbag is housed, and an airbag cover that covers the folded airbag. An attachment portion of the airbag cover is attached to a peripheral wall portion of the case by a rivet being caused to pass through. The case is such that a vicinity of a boundary region between the peripheral wall portion and a bottom wall portion is curved in an approximate arc in cross-section. The attachment portion includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the peripheral wall portion side in an end edge farther to a leading end side than a region of penetration of the rivet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ozeki, Akira Yasuda, Taizo Suemitsu
  • Publication number: 20230123318
    Abstract: An occupant protection device is of a configuration such that a folded airbag is housed and held in a holding body disposed in front of a hip portion of an occupant seated in a seat. The airbag is configured in such a way as to protrude from the holding body owing to an inflating gas being caused to flow into an interior, and inflate in such a way as to cover a region in front of the occupant, and includes an occupant side wall portion that is disposed on the occupant side when inflation is completed, and can restrain an upper body of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Motoyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230103417
    Abstract: An occupant protection device is such that an airbag is housed in a housing region of a lap belt portion that can be disposed on a front side of a waist portion of an occupant seated in a seat. The airbag can receive and protect an upper body of the occupant using a rear face side occupant restraining face when inflation is completed. The airbag includes an exhaust port that can discharge an inflating gas and a regulating valve mechanism that restricts a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port. The regulating valve mechanism permits a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port when a protrusion upward of the airbag from the housing portion is restricted, and restricts a discharge of the inflating gas from the exhaust port when a protrusion upward of the airbag from the housing portion is not restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Motoyuki TANAKA