Patents by Inventor Chikanori Honda

Chikanori Honda 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: 12172563
    Abstract: A headrest includes a first configuration section comprising a hard urethane and formed with an indentation in a front face, the indentation enabling entry of a supported portion, and the supported portion being a location corresponding to an occipital bone of the head of the seated occupant; and a second configuration section comprising a soft urethane having a lower rigidity than the hard urethane, the second configuration section being provided at the indentation so as to be deformed by the supported portion. Part of the first configuration section, which is a bottom face of the indentation, is configured by a left-right pair of head support faces that support the supported portion and that are connected together at a connection location having a straight line shape. An angle formed between cross-sections of the left and right head support faces when sectioned along a plane perpendicular to the connection location is a first angle that is from 37.2° to 143°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikanori Honda, Kousuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12145488
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seatback, a headrest, and a head support section. The seat cushion is configured so as to support the buttocks of a seated occupant from a seat lower side. The seatback is configured so as to support the back of the seated occupant from a seat rear side. The headrest is configured so as to support the head of the seated occupant from the seat rear side. The head support section is provided to the headrest and is configured so as to support a location corresponding the occipital bone of the head of the seated occupant from a seat left-right direction, and is also configured so as to support the location in a forward direction and in a seat obliquely upward direction from the seat rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Kousuke Suzuki, Chikanori Honda
  • Publication number: 20240123886
    Abstract: A hand rest device, including: a hand rest that is disposed at a front side of a seat of a vehicle, the hand rest being disposed at a usage position for supporting a hand of a vehicle occupant seated at the seat and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a height of the usage position of the hand rest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Chikanori HONDA, Kousuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230382281
    Abstract: The armrest of a vehicle seat is provided with a first armrest and a second armrest. The first armrest includes a first end portion rotatably supported by a side portion of a seatback, and selectively adopts a not-in-use position in which the first armrest is positioned so as to extend toward a seat upper side at the seatback side portion, and an in-use position in which the first armrest is positioned so as to be rotated from the seatback side portion toward a seat front side, so as to extend toward the seat front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhito KATO, Kousuke SUZUKI, Chikanori HONDA
  • Publication number: 20230302979
    Abstract: A headrest includes a first configuration section comprising a hard urethane and formed with an indentation in a front face, the indentation enabling entry of a supported portion, and the supported portion being a location corresponding to an occipital bone of the head of the seated occupant; and a second configuration section comprising a soft urethane having a lower rigidity than the hard urethane, the second configuration section being provided at the indentation so as to be deformed by the supported portion. Part of the first configuration section, which is a bottom face of the indentation, is configured by a left-right pair of head support faces that support the supported portion and that are connected together at a connection location having a straight line shape. An angle formed between cross-sections of the left and right head support faces when sectioned along a plane perpendicular to the connection location is a first angle that is from 37.2° to 143°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Chikanori HONDA, Kousuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11377008
    Abstract: At a vehicle seat, resistance to relative displacement of a passenger in a left-right direction is larger at both left-right direction side portions of a front surface of an upper portion of a backrest than at a left-right direction central portion. Further, a seat cushion has left and right side reinforcing portions that reinforce portions of a cushion pad from outer sides in a left-right direction, and from obliquely lower sides, of front-rear direction central portions of thigh portions of the passenger, and left and right lower surface reinforcing portions that reinforce portions of a lower surface of the cushion pad at outer sides in a left-right direction, and at obliquely lower sides, of buttock portions of the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Kousuke Suzuki, Chikanori Honda
  • Publication number: 20220185159
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seatback, a headrest, and a head support section. The seat cushion is configured so as to support the buttocks of a seated occupant from a seat lower side. The seatback is configured so as to support the back of the seated occupant from a seat rear side. The headrest is configured so as to support the head of the seated occupant from the seat rear side. The head support section is provided to the headrest and is configured so as to support a location corresponding the occipital bone of the head of the seated occupant from a seat left-right direction, and is also configured so as to support the location in a forward direction and in a seat obliquely upward direction from the seat rear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Kousuke Suzuki, Chikanori Honda
  • Publication number: 20200207248
    Abstract: At a vehicle seat, resistance to relative displacement of a passenger in a left-right direction is larger at both left-right direction side portions of a front surface of an upper portion of a backrest than at a left-right direction central portion. Further, a seat cushion has left and right side reinforcing portions that reinforce portions of a cushion pad from outer sides in a left-right direction, and from obliquely lower sides, of front-rear direction central portions of thigh portions of the passenger, and left and right lower surface reinforcing portions that reinforce portions of a lower surface of the cushion pad at outer sides in a left-right direction, and at obliquely lower sides, of buttock portions of the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Kousuke Suzuki, Chikanori Honda