Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nagata
Atsushi Nagata 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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Patent number: 7744118Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Takimoto, Yoshio Mizuno, Toru Koyama, Kazumasa Suzuki, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20100140906Abstract: A check valve 60 is formed by a pair of the valve body portions 61. Ends of the valve body portions 61 that are close to an upper inflation portion EU are joined to a communication passage wall 51 by an outflow-side joint portion 41. Each valve body portion 61 includes a flexible portion 64 that is located in the vicinity of the outflow-side joint portion 41 and between the outflow-side joint portion 41 and a lower inflation portion EL. The front edges of the valve body portions 61 are joined to the communication passage wall 51 by a first edge joint portion 67. The first edge joint portion 67 also functions as a wall joint portion 63 that joins the communication passage walls 51 to each other. The rear ends of the valve body portions 61 are joined to each other by a second edge joint portion 68, which extends along the flowing direction of inflation gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensaku Honda, Yuji Sato, Koji Shibayama, Atsushi Nagata
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Patent number: 7669888Abstract: In a vehicle to which a side airbag apparatus is applied, a rear frame portion of a seat frame is arranged near a rear end of an intermediate portion in a seat back, and an intermediate pad portion of a seat pad is arranged near a front end of the intermediate portion. An airbag is provided with a main airbag and an auxiliary airbag. The main airbag is inflated between a body side portion of the vehicle and an occupant by shooting out forward from an outer side portion of the seat back by a gas jetted out of an inflator. The auxiliary airbag presses a position near the outer side portion of the intermediate pad portion forward by being inflated between the rear frame portion and the intermediate pad portion by the gas jetted out of the inflator.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Sato, Michio Inoue, Toshinori Tanase, Atsushi Nagata, Takashi Naito
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Publication number: 20100014897Abstract: A transfer and fixing device as means for heating a recording medium prior to transfer and fixing, without risk of fire, superior in energy efficiency, and able to stably heat irrespective of the thickness of the recording medium; and an imaging forming apparatus comprising such a transfer and fixing device comprising: a transfer and fixing member by which an image is transferred; a pressurizing member that forms a nip by pressure contact with the transfer and fixing member and pressurizes and fixes the image on the recording medium that passes through the aforementioned nip; a radiant heat source that is arranged on the upstream side of the nip in the direction of transport of the recording medium; and a thermoconductive member that is heated by the radiant heat source and heats the recording medium when in contact, wherein a radiant heat region is provided, between the nip and the thermoconductive member, where the recording medium is heated by radiant heat from the radiant heat source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Takashi Seto, Takashi Fujita, Atsushi Nagata, Hiromitsu Takagaki
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Publication number: 20100014903Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member to bear an electrostatic latent image on the surface thereof, a transfer-fixing member disposed adjacent to the image baring member, including a transfer surface onto which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member, a first pressure member to meet and press against the transfer-fixing member to form a nip therebetween, a heating member to heat a recording medium, provided upstream of the nip in a direction of transport of the recording medium, and a transport guide member to change a contact area of the recording medium and the heating member in accordance with a thickness or a resilience of the recording medium. When the recording medium passes the nip, the toner image is pressed and fixed on the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Takashi SETO, Takashi Fujita, Hiromitsu Takagaki, Atsushi Nagata, Kazuya Saito
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Patent number: 7614656Abstract: The airbag apparatus includes an airbag having a tether including an occupant side tether belt and a vehicle body side tether belt. An intermediate portion of the vehicle body side tether belt is held at the side of a housing of the airbag by a retaining mechanism. At full inflation of the airbag, the clearance between the side of the housing and the occupant side tether belt is reduced when the vehicle body side belt is retained by the retaining mechanism whereas the clearance is enlarged when the vehicle body side tether belt is released from the retaining mechanism. The occupant side tether belt and the vehicle body side tether belt are linked with each other so that a central area of a protection plane of an occupant side wall of the airbag in the former case is generally parallel to the central area in the latter.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohiko Ishiguro, Hitoshi Iida, Atsushi Nagata
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Patent number: 7604250Abstract: In an airbag device of the invention, by making use of a retainer which is made up of a retaining part which is provided on an outside of an inflator and bolt parts, an airbag and the inflator are fixed to a fixing wall portion of a case by fastening nuts onto the bolt parts which are caused to protrude from the fixing wall portion of the case in such a state the retaining part is housed within the airbag. A support projection is formed on the fixing wall portion in such a manner as to protrude therefrom toward the inflator side. When the nuts are fastened, the retainer moves the retaining part toward the fixing wall portion side, so that the inflator is held between and retained by abutment portions formed on the retaining part and the support projection.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hotta, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20090257326Abstract: A medium management method is disclosed. A removable medium is conveyed to a drive section when the removable medium is inserted into a medium accommodation section. The drive section reproduces and reads information from the medium and determines whether the medium is a first medium or a second medium on which data externally or internally created have been recorded according to the information read by the drive section. A partial reproduction operation is performed according to an edit list recorded on the first medium and the reproduced data are transferred to a pre-designated host system when the inserted medium is the first medium. The second medium is registered to a database when the determined result denotes that the inserted medium is the second medium. The medium is returned to the medium accommodation section after one of the partial reproduction operation and the database registration process has been completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagata
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Patent number: 7600782Abstract: The airbag apparatus includes an airbag having an exhaust hole for discharging part of inflation gas, an open/close controller for controlling opening and closing operations of the exhaust hole, and a flap element releasably joined to the open/close controller and being joined to a periphery of the exhaust hole in an outer side of the airbag which periphery is in a side facing away from the open/close controller, for opening and closing the exhaust hole. The apparatus further includes an open/close means arranged in the periphery of the exhaust hole. Upon airbag inflation, if the flap element is retained by the open/close controller, the open/close means is held down at its outer side by the flap element and keeps the exhaust hole closed. If the flap element is released from the open/close controller, the open/close means opens by the pressure of inflation gas to expand an opening area of the exhaust hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohiko Ishiguro, Atsushi Nagata, Kazuaki Bito
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Publication number: 20090212539Abstract: A side impact protection airbag system includes an inflator, a retainer and an airbag. An interior space of the airbag is divided into a pelvis portion protecting chamber and a chest portion protecting chamber by a dividing part. A gas ejecting part of the inflator and an opening in the retainer are provided between a fixing end portion of the airbag and an end portion (a connecting portion) of the dividing part which lies a side facing the fixing end portion. A circumferential portion on a wall part which is separate from the opening is made to constitute an interruption wall which interrupts the passage of an inflation gas to the dividing part side, and the interruption wall is provided between the gas ejecting part and the connecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensaku Honda, Koji Shibayama, Yuji Sato, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20090200776Abstract: A side airbag apparatus includes a flat airbag formed of a pair of base fabric sheets, which are stacked in the widthwise direction of a vehicle. The airbag is stored in an outer side portion of a seat back portion of a vehicle seat. Inflation gas is supplied to the airbag in response to an impact from the exterior. This inflates and deploys the airbag between a body side portion of the vehicle and the vehicle seat. A pair of tucked portions are located rearward of a center of the airbag. The tucked portions are formed by folding parts of the airbag. The tucked portions are joined to each other while being vertically stacked. Further, the width of the airbag along the widthwise direction of the vehicle in the vicinity of the tucked portions when the airbag is inflated is larger than the width of a rear portion of an airbag having no tucked portion along the widthwise direction of the vehicle when the airbag is inflated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Sato, Kensaku Honda, Koji Shibayama, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20090184498Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Takimoto, Yoshio Mizuno, Toru Koyama, Kazumasa Suzuki, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20090116880Abstract: A transfer fixation apparatus includes: a fixing member that carries the toner image; a pressurizing member that becomes in contact with the fixing member with pressure to form a nip through which the recording target medium is transported; and a plurality of heating members that are provided at relatively upstream positions when viewed from the relatively downstream nip and apply heat to the surface of the recording target medium that is transported toward the nip, wherein the number of heating members that apply heat to the surface of the recording target medium is changed depending on whether the transfer of the toner image is performed only on the front side of the recording target medium or the transfer of the toner image is performed also on the reverse side of the recording target medium after the transfer of the toner image on the front side of the recording target medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Hiromitsu Takagaki, Takashi Fujita, Shin Kayahara, Takashi Seto, Atsushi Nagata, Takeshi Takemoto, Kazumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090107093Abstract: A dust collector includes turbofans with inducers fixed to the shafts of electric motors. The electric motors are fixed to the rectangular body with mounting legs. The dust collector further includes a single dust collecting filter under the turbofans. The turbofans have a diameter ranging from 40% to 50% of the length of the short side of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Ogino, Atsushi Nagata, Hitoshi Nozu
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Publication number: 20090020988Abstract: In a vehicle to which a side airbag apparatus is applied, a rear frame portion of a seat frame is arranged near a rear end of an intermediate portion in a seat back, and an intermediate pad portion of a seat pad is arranged near a front end of the intermediate portion. An airbag is provided with a main airbag and an auxiliary airbag. The main airbag is inflated between a body side portion of the vehicle and an occupant by shooting out forward from an outer side portion of the seat back by a gas jetted out of an inflator. The auxiliary airbag presses a position near the outer side portion of the intermediate pad portion forward by being inflated between the rear frame portion and the intermediate pad portion by the gas jetted out of the inflator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Yuji Sato, Michio Inoue, Toshinori Tanase, Atsushi Nagata, Takashi Naito
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Publication number: 20090016786Abstract: A transfer fixing member containing a base, and an outermost surface layer composed of an elastic material in which a conductive material is dispersed, wherein when a pressure applied to a surface of the transfer fixing member by making a toner image bearing member in contact with the transfer fixing member upon transferring of a toner image on the toner image bearing member onto the transfer fixing member is 0.2 kg/cm2 to 2.0 kg/cm2, the transfer fixing member has a volume resistance of 106?·cm or more to less than 1012?· cm, and when a pressure applied to the surface of the transfer fixing member by making the transfer fixing member in contact with the recording medium located between the transfer fixing member and a pressurizing member upon transfer-fixing of the toner image onto the recording medium is 3.0 kg/cm2 to 20 kg/cm2, the transfer fixing is member has a volume resistance of less than 106?·cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Kazumi Suzuki, Takashi Fujita, Hiromitsu Takagaki, Takashi Seto, Shin Kayahara, Atsushi Nagata
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Publication number: 20090003898Abstract: A cleaning device including a cleaning member that moves in a predetermined direction and is in contact with a cleaning target that moves in a predetermined direction and which is directly or indirectly heated by a heater, to remove toner particles on a surface of the cleaning target. A contact surface of the cleaning member with the cleaning target includes a plurality of regions of different toner-releasing ability.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Shin Kayahara, Takashi Fujita, Takeshi Takemoto, Hiromitsu Takagaki, Takashi Seto, Kazumi Suzuki, Atsushi Nagata
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Patent number: 7438310Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Takimoto, Yoshio Mizuno, Toru Koyama, Kazumasa Suzuki, Atsushi Nagata
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Patent number: 7434837Abstract: The knee-protecting airbag device includes an airbag that protrudes rearward from a housing and deploys upward when fed with inflation gas. The airbag includes an upstream part located toward lower end of the completely inflated airbag and located upstream of inflation gas, and a downstream part located toward upper end of the completely inflated airbag and located downstream of inflation gas. The downstream part is adapted to protect an area from shins to knees of an occupant when the airbag is completely inflated. In the course of airbag inflation, internal pressure of a shin-protecting area, which is part of the downstream part for protecting shins, peaks 5 to 15 ms later than a peak time of internal pressure of the upstream part.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hotta, Yoshio Mizuno, Atsushi Nagata, Hiroki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7370879Abstract: The knee protecting airbag device is assembled such that a retainer and an attachment bracket clamp the peripheral portion of a gas inlet opening of an airbag, bag holding wall parts of a case, and a gas providing inflator. This inflator is provided with a diffuser for covering the gas discharge port of a body. The retainer and the attachment bracket are connected by inserting bolts and connecting members through the airbag and the case, by retaining retaining portions on the retaining portions of the connecting members, and by inserting the bolts into through holes and fastening them with nuts. At this connecting time, guide portions of the retainer and the diffuser are fitted on each other to form a guide passage for guiding the gas into the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hotta, Atsushi Nagata, Masahiro Takimoto, Masakazu Hashimoto