Patents by Inventor Atsuo Ando

Atsuo Ando 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: 4421343
    Abstract: A knee panel for a front seat of a vehicle, located under an instrument panel for protecting a driver and a passenger riding on the front seat, and a knee panel mounting structure which minimizes the deformation and displacement of the knee panel and its supporting member, when the driver's and/or passenger's knees make contact with the inner surface of the knee panel, by bearing the impact force on a front pillar side through a side bracket and on a floor side thereof through an L-shaped bracket, thereby directing the impact force as a load toward both the ends of the L-shaped bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritada Yoshitsugu, Atsuo Ando