Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nakashima

Atsushi Nakashima 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: 8857849
    Abstract: A bracket for fastening a tightening strap of a curtain airbag to a vehicle part includes a base plate and a support surface for fastening the bracket to the vehicle part. A retaining web, fastenable to the tightening strap, is located on the bracket in such a way that the retaining web can be moved to a fastening position by performing a swivel motion with the bracket being supported on the vehicle part via the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Autoliv Development Ab
    Inventors: Jonas Malmenstam, Per Lindberg, HÃ¥kan Jaconelli, Atsushi Nakashima, Tetsuya Matsushita
  • Patent number: 8814202
    Abstract: A curtain airbag mitigating possible occupant ejection from a vehicle. The curtain airbag includes a serial main chamber that is capable of being inflated and deployed along a vehicle cabin side face; a delay chamber that is positioned at a front end section of the serial main chamber and that is inflated and deployed so as to overlap an A1 impact point below an A-pillar of the vehicle; and an ace tab that fixes the upper edge of the delay chamber to the A-pillar. The ace tab is provided at a position overlapping a straight line LS that is provided on the shortest way from the A1 impact point to the A-pillar, as viewed from inside the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsushita, Atsushi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20140054879
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device that can be applied to a small-width pillar. The curtain airbag device is accommodated in a region extending from at least an A-pillar to an upper portion of a window frame, and includes an airbag that is deployed in a curtain form near a side window of a vehicle interior in order to protect an occupant; and a gas generator that supplies inflation gas to the airbag. The accommodated airbag is formed in a rod shape by being folded in a roll form. When the airbag is accommodated, the airbag is partially compressed toward the center of the airbag at a narrow portion where an installation area of the A-pillar is narrow, in order to partially decrease a diameter of the airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Atsushi Nakashima, Yuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140035265
    Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device capable of improving an occupant ejection preventing performance at an end of a vehicle in the longitudinal direction and providing an excellent impact absorbing function when receiving an occupant in a vehicle interior. A front strap is provided between a seam portion that divides a front chamber positioned at an end of a vehicle longitudinal direction from an adjacent main chamber, and a front pillar positioned at the end of the vehicle longitudinal direction so as to connect the seam portion to the front pillar, on an outer surface of the front chamber. A height position of a first connecting portion (P) between the front pillar and the front strap is set to be higher than a height position of a second connecting portion (Q) between the seam portion and the front strap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakashima, Tetsuya Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20140020702
    Abstract: A method for providing highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein an applicator filled with a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/W type emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used to coat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optional shapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried; a transfer foil is pressed to contact with the coated drawn lines endowed with tackiness; and the foil is peeled off, whereby highly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are transferred, or wherein coloring material powders are pressed to contact with the foregoing coated drawn lines endowed with tackiness without using a transfer foil, and the powders left outside the coated drawn lines are brushed off, whereby highly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Tamotsu Eguchi, Hisami Tamano, Junya Uehara, Hiroshi Sato, Atsushi Nakashima, Satoru Sumiyoshi, Yuya Nagasaka
  • Publication number: 20130341894
    Abstract: A curtain airbag capable of preventing a partial decrease in internal pressure to improve ejection prevention performance. The airbag includes: a main chamber, which inflates first; a delay chamber that is inflated with gas from the main chamber; a linear seam portion where front and back base fabrics are joined to partition the main chamber from the delay chamber; a planar seam portion formed at a lower end of the linear seam portion to define a non-inflation region in a range of the front and back base fabrics; and a gas inflow channel provided between the planar seam portion and the lower edge of the airbag to allow gas to flow from the main chamber into the delay chamber. The front and back base fabrics of the gas inflow channel sag upon completion of inflation and deployment to form a wrinkled portion that blocks or narrows the gas inflow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Autoliv Developement AB
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakashima, Tsukasa Yoshihara, Hikaru Takahashi, Akifumi Hanawa
  • Publication number: 20130328375
    Abstract: A one-piece back frame including an upper portion, a lower portion and a pair of vertical portions. The upper portion includes a first flange bent downwardly and a second flange bent upwardly to enclose the upper portion. The first and second flanges are brazed or welded to one another, which has the effect of strengthening the upper portion of the back frame and increasing its resistance to forces and moments during front or rear impact. Additionally, a pair of tubes extend through and are connected to upper portion. The tubes are designed for receiving a head restraint, but also serve the additional purpose of further strengthening the upper portion to increase its resistance to forces and moments during front or rear impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Ornela Zekavica, Miodrag Mitch Petrovich, Atsushi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8556332
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door main body having a hollow portion, a work hole, a door hole seal that covers the work hole, a door trim, a protruding member provided so as to protrude from the door trim toward the vehicle interior side surface, and a harness routed through the door hole seal to the door trim side. The door hole seal is provided with a general surface, a bulging portion facing the protruding member and bulging from the general surface toward the inside of the hollow portion, and a harness pull-out hole through which the harness is passed. The bulging portion has an inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakashima, Hitoshi Ohki
  • Publication number: 20130133678
    Abstract: An applicator including an applying part of a liquid absorber impregnated with an application liquid. An indicator portion having a jagged configuration that varies in reflectance of light depending on the quantity of the application liquid in the liquid absorber is formed adjacent to the liquid absorber, and the formed area of the indicator portion of an application liquid feeder can be visually observed from the outside so that the quantity of the application liquid can be displayed by the reflected light of indicator portion. The applicator allows a visual check on whether the application liquid is full or less when the applicator is unused or when the application liquid is decreased after use, from the change of the reflectance of light in indicator. The applicator permits easy confirmation of the liquid quantity and can easily avoid liquid blobbing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20130134694
    Abstract: A curtain airbag mitigating possible occupant ejection from a vehicle. The curtain airbag includes a serial main chamber that is capable of being inflated and deployed along a vehicle cabin side face; a delay chamber that is positioned at a front end section of the serial main chamber and that is inflated and deployed so as to overlap an A1 impact point below an A-pillar of the vehicle; and an ace tab that fixes the upper edge of the delay chamber to the A-pillar. The ace tab is provided at a position overlapping a straight line LS that is provided on the shortest way from the A1 impact point to the A-pillar, as viewed from inside the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsushita, Atsushi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20130076060
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door main body having a hollow portion, a work hole, a door hole seal that covers the work hole, a door trim, a protruding member provided so as to protrude from the door trim toward the vehicle interior side surface, and a harness routed through the door hole seal to the door trim side. The door hole seal is provided with a general surface, a bulging portion facing the protruding member and bulging from the general surface toward the inside of the hollow portion, and a harness pull-out hole through which the harness is passed. The bulging portion has an inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakashima, Hitoshi Ohki
  • Publication number: 20120025502
    Abstract: A curtain airbag capable for preventing occupant ejection from a vehicle, particularly in the vicinity of a rearmost seat, while reducing the output required of an inflator associated with the airbag. The curtain airbag is stored at an upper position on a side surface portion of the occupant compartment of the vehicle, so as to be inflated and deployed along the side surface portion. The curtain airbag includes an inflation region and a wide portion in the form of non-inflatable cloth. The wide portion is attached to a rear edge portion of the inflation region and also attached to at least one point of the vehicle rearward of a front-side pillar, the front-side pillar being located forward of rearmost side window. The wide portion has a shape that allows it to be strained, by the inflated and deployed inflation region, into a generally planar configuration over an assumed strike area of the rearmost side window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsushita, Atsushi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 5097841
    Abstract: A disposable pressure transducer for measuring fluid pressure, which includes a sensor assembly in a housing. The housing includes a fluid chamber and a sensor-accommodating chamber which are formed integrally with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignees: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho, Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yousuke Moriuchi, Fumihisa Hirose, Hazime Inagaki, Atsushi Nakashima, Isemi Igarashi, Masashi Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Goto, Katsuhiro Minami, Ritsuo Suzuki