Patents by Inventor Eiji Hirano

Eiji Hirano 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: 11890919
    Abstract: A door beam structure for a vehicle side door includes a door beam having a hollow cross section, wherein the door beam includes: an outside portion forming a hollow flange of the door beam arranged to face a door skin, and an inside portion forming a hollow door beam body of the door beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Soma, Eiji Hirano, Yu Iemura, Hiroyuki Kumeno, Kozaburo Sakamaki, Masanori Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11628711
    Abstract: Aside door structure for a vehicle includes a door beam that has hollow sections which are open at two ends in a longitudinal direction, and a hinge reinforcement member including a bent plate body in a crank shape that is joined to one of a front end and a rear end of the door beam. The hinge reinforcement member forms the crank shape by integrally forming a middle portion that closes an opening in the one of the front end and the rear end of the door beam and is joined to a stepped vertical wall of an inner panel of a side door, an outer end portion that is joined to a stepped outer side wall of the inner panel and an outer wall of the door beam, and an inner end portion that is joined to an inner wall of the door beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Soma, Eiji Hirano, Yu Iemura
  • Publication number: 20230097220
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a determination unit for determining, based on an image captured by a first camera with a first resolution, whether an object around a vehicle is a person or not; and a camera activation unit for activating a second camera when an image of the person as the object enters within a first area corresponding to a range of a first predetermined distance from the vehicle on the captured image, the second camera having a second resolution higher than the first resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Haisong Liu, Ryo Morosawa, Seonghun Lee, Masahiro Tanigawa, Kenya Sakurai, Eiji Hirano, Yuki Kagiya, Koji Nomura, Yuji Tsuchiya, Mitsunori Nishino, Toshihiro Kaneda, Kenji Okuma
  • Publication number: 20230083306
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle side structure. The vehicle side structure is for being mounted near a door, and includes: an electric motor disposed inside the door to drive a door glass up and down; a fitting member, fitting the door and a vehicle body; and a connecting member, connecting the fitting member and the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji HIRANO, Takayuki SOMA, Masahiro TANIGAWA, Takeshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20220314754
    Abstract: Aside door structure for a vehicle includes a door beam that has hollow sections which are open at two ends in a longitudinal direction, and a hinge reinforcement member including a bent plate body in a crank shape that is joined to one of a front end and a rear end of the door beam. The hinge reinforcement member forms the crank shape by integrally forming a middle portion that closes an opening in the one of the front end and the rear end of the door beam and is joined to a stepped vertical wall of an inner panel of a side door, an outer end portion that is joined to a stepped outer side wall of the inner panel and an outer wall of the door beam, and an inner end portion that is joined to an inner wall of the door beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki SOMA, Eiji HIRANO, Yu IEMURA
  • Publication number: 20220314757
    Abstract: A door beam structure for a vehicle side door includes a door beam having a hollow cross section, wherein the door beam includes: an outside portion forming a hollow flange of the door beam arranged to face a door skin, and an inside portion forming a hollow door beam body of the door beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki Soma, Eiji Hirano, Yu Iemura, Hiroyuki Kumeno, Kozaburo Sakamaki, Masanori Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220289010
    Abstract: A door structure includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel is formed from a panel inner member located on an inner side of a vehicle interior and a panel outer member located on an outer side of the vehicle interior. A sealing member which comes into contact with an A pillar serving as a body side member and isolates the inner side of the vehicle interior from the outer side of the vehicle interior is attached to the panel inner member at an overlap portion serving as a junction between the panel outer member and the panel inner member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Eiji HIRANO, Takayuki SOMA, Masahiro TANIGAWA
  • Patent number: 11427066
    Abstract: A door structure includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel is formed from a panel inner member located on an inner side of a vehicle interior and a panel outer member located on an outer side of the vehicle interior. A sealing member which comes into contact with an A pillar serving as a body side member and isolates the inner side of the vehicle interior from the outer side of the vehicle interior is attached to the panel inner member at an overlap portion serving as a junction between the panel outer member and the panel inner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Hirano, Takayuki Soma, Masahiro Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220266909
    Abstract: A door structure includes a safety device arranged on a surface of the door structure facing a pillar of a vehicle body, wherein the safety device includes: a case member having an opening which opens to the pillar; a slide pin configured to slide from an initial position to a protruded position, in a direction from the case member toward the pillar; and a stopper configured to fix the slide pin in the protruded position when the slide pin has slid to the protruded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Eiji HIRANO, Takayuki SOMA, Masahiro TANIGAWA
  • Patent number: 11420502
    Abstract: A door structure includes a safety device arranged on a surface of the door structure facing a pillar of a vehicle body, wherein the safety device includes: a case member having an opening which opens to the pillar; a slide pin configured to slide from an initial position to a protruded position, in a direction from the case member toward the pillar; and a stopper configured to fix the slide pin in the protruded position when the slide pin has slid to the protruded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Hirano, Takayuki Soma, Masahiro Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11407291
    Abstract: A door structure includes an outer panel and an inner panel. A panel outer member of the inner panel includes a front longitudinal side portion extending in an upper-lower direction at a front end portion of the panel outer member, a rear longitudinal side portion extending in the upper-lower direction at a rear end portion of the panel outer member, a lower side portion that joins a lower end portion of the front longitudinal side portion to a lower end portion of the rear longitudinal side portion, connecting members that connect the front longitudinal side portion to the rear longitudinal side portion in a front-rear direction, and reinforcement members provided separately from the connecting members and joined to the connecting members in such a way as to extend in the front-rear direction along the connecting members and to form closed cross-sections in spaces with the connecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Hirano, Takayuki Soma, Masahiro Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20160010368
    Abstract: A vehicle door handle device (20) is attached to a door panel of a vehicle door and a lining covering the cabin-interior side of the door panel. The vehicle door handle device (20) has a swing shaft (41) extending to the top and bottom of a base member (30), and a swingable handle part (42) attached to the swing shaft (41). Formed in the peripheral edge of the base member (30) are a panel attachment part (31-33) attached to the door panel (11), and a lining attachment part (34-36) attached to the lining (12). The panel attachment part (31-33) is configured to be capable of moving relative to the door panel (11) within a predetermined range, and the lining attachment part (34-36) is attached to the lining (12) via an elastic clip (74). The clip (74) urges the base member (30) toward the lining (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tanoguchi, Eiji Hirano, Katsuya Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20140354007
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a latch mechanism that is installed on the door body and is engaged with an engaging member, which is positioned on a vehicle body, when the door is closed, a rod member that connects the door outer handle and the latch mechanism such that the door outer handle operates simultaneously with and the latch mechanism, and a counterweight that is provided in the door outer handle and is disposed at a position at which the counterweight directly faces the sash member, at an outer side of the sash member in an in-out direction of the vehicle, and the counterweight transmitting an inertia force of the counterweight, which acts when an impact load applied from an outside of the vehicle is inputted, to the rod member as a load in a latch maintaining direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ogawa, Eiji Hirano, Kiyohito Kurokawa, Ryuichi Murai, Takenobu Haga, Hakurei Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5529655
    Abstract: This invention relates to a laminated safety pane, comprising a monolithic or laminated substrate of glass and/or of plastics material and a sheet of plastics material comprising at least one external polyurethane film providing desirable surface properties. According to the invention, the pane is provided, on at least one zone of the polyurethane film, with a gluing prefilm compatible with a film of adhesive deposited later, this prefilm being deposited after an electrical treatment applied to at least the zone of the polyurethane film which is to receive the prefilm, this electrical treatment being chosen from among the treatments of the corona discharge type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Vitrage International, Ashahi Glass Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bravet, Otto Jandeleit, Eiji Hirano, Seiichi Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 4999147
    Abstract: A process for making a glazing product which includes forming a gasket on a sheet of bilayer glass with a self healing transparent elastic plastic layer bonded to one side of the glass. A removable protective material is applied to the plastic layer. The assembly is placed in a mold cavity and a plastic material is injected into the mold cavity to form a gasket. The protective material is removed from the plastic layer after the gasket has formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima, Toshio Ichiki, Shigehito Shibata, Takeshi Harada, Eiji Hirano, Shoji Atsuta