Patents by Inventor Daisuke Tone

Daisuke Tone 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: 10493871
    Abstract: A lock device is provided with: a latch unit having a slit which allows a striker to enter and exit and configured to engage with and to be disengaged from the striker; and a support member for supporting a spring member outside the latch unit in such a manner that the spring member extends in the width direction of the slit. The spring member is elastically deformed when in contact with the striker having entered the slit, and as a result, the spring member applies pressing force to the striker, the pressing force acting in the direction in which the striker exits the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Tone
  • Publication number: 20180290565
    Abstract: A seat lock device includes a base, a case, a rotatable hook, a rotatable pawl, and a rotatable cam. The base is arranged in one of a seat and a vehicle body and includes a groove configured to receive a striker arranged on the other one of the seat and the vehicle body. The case is opposed to the base. The case includes a groove configured to receive the striker. The hook cooperates with at least the groove of the case to hold the striker in a locked state. The pawl is engaged with a peripheral surface of the hook to hold the hook in the locked state. The cam presses the hook held in the locked state in a lock direction. A portion of the hook and a portion of the pawl are overlapped with each other in an axial direction of the hook and the pawl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke TONE, Kazuya IWASA
  • Publication number: 20170008427
    Abstract: A lock device is provided with: a latch unit having a slit which allows a striker to enter and exit and configured to engage with and to be disengaged from the striker; and a support member for supporting a spring member outside the latch unit in such a manner that the spring member extends in the width direction of the slit. The spring member is elastically deformed when in contact with the striker having entered the slit, and as a result, the spring member applies pressing force to the striker, the pressing force acting in the direction in which the striker exits the slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke TONE
  • Patent number: 9381837
    Abstract: A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes: an unlocking lever that is operated so as to unfix a seat from a vehicle floor; and a control switch that is operated in order for the seat to switch between a deployed state in which the seat is supported on the vehicle floor and a folded state in which the seat is retracted in a concave retraction portion of the vehicle floor, when a support member of the seat is driven via the driving of an actuator, wherein the unlocking lever is provided in a back surface of a seatback which is disposed at an opening end of the concave retraction portion when the seatback is folded forward and the seat is retracted, and the control switch is provided integrally with the unlocking lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Tone, Masahiro Takezaki, Kazuya Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20150217662
    Abstract: A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes: an unlocking lever that is operated so as to unfix a seat from a vehicle floor; and a control switch that is operated in order for the seat to switch between a deployed state in which the seat is supported on the vehicle floor and a folded state in which the seat is retracted in a concave retraction portion of the vehicle floor, when a support member of the seat is driven via the driving of an actuator, wherein the unlocking lever is provided in a back surface of a seatback which is disposed at an opening end of the concave retraction portion when the seatback is folded forward and the seat is retracted, and the control switch is provided integrally with the unlocking lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Tone, Masahiro Takezaki, Kazuya Iwasa