Patents by Inventor Choko Tanabe

Choko Tanabe 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: 6655713
    Abstract: An air bag provided with linear joined portions in the inflation section is disclosed. The linear joined portions linearly join the opposing wall portions of the inflation section. Each of the linear joined portions includes a body portion and end portions. The end portions extend from the body portion and gradually become wider than the body portion. The periphery surrounds the end portions and is provided with at least three straight portions. This air bag restrains mesh spreading and inflating gas leakage from the vicinity of any of the end portions of the linear joined portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyoda Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Masayuki Kato
  • Patent number: 6616179
    Abstract: An air bag is stored in the upper fringe of the openings on the cabin-inside side, while being folded. The air bag includes a gas inflow part for flowing inflation gas into the air bag, and a main body that inflates when receiving the inflation gas. The main body includes front- and rear-seat inflation chambers, and a gas passage extending forwardly from the gas inflow part and allowing the inflation gas to flow from inflow ports opened in the upper parts of the front- and rear-seat inflation chambers to the front- and rear-seat inflation chambers per se. The inflow port of the rear-seat inflation chamber is opened in a direction substantially orthogonal to an axial direction of the gas passage. A front-side peripheral edge is disposed to be higher than a rear-side peripheral edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Norio Urushi
  • Patent number: 6488311
    Abstract: An integrally woven airbag includes a hollow portion with two opposing sides formed in a first weave pattern and a single-cloth portion where the two opposing sides are woven together as a single cloth. The single-cloth portion is formed by a 3/n basket weave, where n is one in the boundary portion and is an integer greater than one in a portion of the single-cloth portion excluding the boundary portion. A cover factor of the single-cloth portion is at least 4100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignees: Toyoda Boshoku Corporation, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Hiroyasu Saiki, Choko Tanabe
  • Patent number: 6460879
    Abstract: An air bag is stored along the peripheral edge of the upper fringe of an opening on the indoor side in a state that it is covered with a door of an air bag cover and folded. When receiving inflation gas, the air bag forcibly opens the door and develops and inflates downward so as to cover the opening. In a region of an inflating section to which gas for inflation flows, a plurality of thickness defining members, which couple the cabin-inside side wall with the cabin-outside side wall to make a thickness of the inflating section uniform, are arranged side by side in the front/rear direction, while extending in the vertical direction. The thickness defining member disposed near the unsmooth development part of the door is disposed such that the upper end thereof is located at a position lower than the upper end of the thickness defining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Norio Urushi
  • Patent number: 6460877
    Abstract: An airbag including an expansion part accommodating inflow of expansion gas to expand a peripheral wall, and linear joining portions arranged in a region of the expansion part and constituted by joining facing portions of the peripheral wall in a linear manner. The linear joining portions include a linear base, curved portions and swelling portions. Each of the curved portions is connected to the base and curvilinearly extends and bends toward the respective base thereof. The swelling portions are arranged at tip ends of the curved portions to smoothly connect outer peripheral edges thereof to outer peripheral edges of the curved portions. With this airbag, stress concentration is reduced around the swelling portions and the curved portions at the time of development and expansion. Thus, the linear joining portions can be arranged without causing breakage of the peripheral wall during development and expansion, and reduction in volume and expansion area held down as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Toyoda Goseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choko Tanabe, Eisiti Nakamura, Toshinori Tanase, Takashi Yamamoto, Mikihito Ishii, Yoshinari Takei
  • Patent number: 6382669
    Abstract: An airbag device is provided with a double-woven coated airbag in which average values of the number of warps and wefts per square inch in double-weaving are 49 to 50 in one embodiment or 51 or more in another embodiment. With the airbag, peak inner pressure values before and after completion of expansion are set corresponding to the coating weight of the coating agent on the basis of a straight-line formula for a relationship between peak inner pressure values and the coating agent at the time of inflowing of the expansion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choko Tanabe, Toshinori Tanase
  • Publication number: 20020020991
    Abstract: An air bag is stored in the upper fringe of the openings on the cabin-inside side, while being folded. The air bag includes a gas inflow part for flowing inflation gas into the air bag, and a main body which inflates when receiving the inflation gas. The main body includes front- and rear-seat inflation chambers, and a gas passage extending forward from the gas inflow part and allowing the inflation gas to flow from inflow ports opened in the upper parts of the front-and rear-seat inflation chambers to the front- and rear-seat inflation chambers per se. The inflow port of the rear-seat inflation chamber is opened in a direction substantially orthogonal to an axial direction of the gas passage. A front-side peripheral edge is disposed to be higher than a rear-side peripheral edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Norio Urushi
  • Publication number: 20020017775
    Abstract: An air bag is stored along the peripheral edge of the upper fringe of an opening on the indoor side in a state that it is covered with a door of an air bag cover and folded. When receiving inflation gas, the air bag forcibly opens the door and develops and inflates downward so as to cover the opening. In a region of an inflating section to which gas for inflation flows, a plurality of thickness defining members, which couple the cabin-inside side wall with the cabin-outside side wall to make a thickness of the inflating section uniform, are arranged side by side in the front/rear direction, while extending in the vertical direction. The thickness defining member disposed near the unsmooth development part of the door is disposed such that the upper end thereof is located at a position lower than the upper end of the thickness defining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD and JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Norio Urushi
  • Publication number: 20020000713
    Abstract: An air bag provided with linear joined portions in the inflation section is disclosed. The linear joined portions linearly join the opposing wall portions of the inflation section. Each of the linear joined portions includes a body portion and end portions. The end portions extend from the body portion and gradually become wider than the body portion. The periphery surrounds the end portions and is provided with at least three straight portions. This air bag restrains mesh spreading and inflating gas leakage from the vicinity of any of the end portions of the linear joined portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Choko Tanabe, Masayuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20010030416
    Abstract: An airbag device is provided with a double-woven coated airbag in which average values of the number of warps and wefts per square inch in double-weaving are 49 to 50 in one embodiment or 51 or more in another embodiment. With the airbag, peak inner pressure values before and after completion of expansion are set corresponding to the coating weight of the coating agent on the basis of a straight-line formula for a relationship between peak inner pressure values and the coating agent at the time of inflowing of the expansion gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Choko Tanabe, Toshinori Tanase
  • Publication number: 20010026066
    Abstract: An airbag including an expansion part accommodating inflow of expansion gas to expand a peripheral wall, and linear joining portions arranged in a region of the expansion part and constituted by joining facing portions of the peripheral wall in a linear manner. The linear joining portions include a linear base, curved portions and swelling portions. The curved portions are connected to the base to curvilinearly bend toward ends thereof. The swelling portions are arranged at tip ends of the curved portions to smoothly connect outer peripheral edges thereof to outer peripheral edges of the curved portions. With this airbag, stress concentration is reduced around the swelling portions and the curved portions at the time of development and expansion. Thus, the linear joining portions can be arranged without causing breakage of the peripheral wall during development and expansion, and reduction in volume and expansion area held down as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Choko Tanabe, Eisiti Nakamura, Toshinori Tanase, Takashi Yamamoto, Mikihito Ishii, Yoshinari Takei
  • Publication number: 20010020780
    Abstract: An integrally woven airbag includes a hollow portion with two opposing sides formed in a first weave pattern and a single-cloth portion where the two opposing sides are woven together as a single cloth. The single-cloth portion is formed by a 3/n basket weave, where n is one in the boundary portion and is an integer greater than one in a portion of the single-cloth portion excluding the boundary portion. A cover factor of the single-cloth portion is at least 4100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Masayuki Kato, Hiroyasu Saiki, Choko Tanabe