Patents by Inventor Fumitoshi Yasuhara
Fumitoshi Yasuhara 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).
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Patent number: 7946616Abstract: A side airbag apparatus deployed between a vehicle compartment sidewall and a vehicle occupant. The airbag has an upper chamber, a lower chamber, and a middle chamber formed between the upper and lower chambers. The middle chamber is deployed prior to the timing of deployment of the upper and lower chambers.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Tadashi Hirakawa
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Publication number: 20100295277Abstract: A side airbag apparatus deployed between a vehicle compartment sidewall and a vehicle occupant. The airbag has an upper chamber, a lower chamber, and a middle chamber formed between the upper and lower chambers. The middle chamber is deployed prior to the timing of deployment of the upper and lower chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Tadashi Hirakawa
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Patent number: 7661702Abstract: Airbag apparatus includes an airbag having at least two bag body sections superposed on each other. Gas flow-in portion for connection to an inflator is formed in one of the bag body sections adjacent to one edge of the one bag body section. Communicating hole is formed in the plurality of bag body sections adjacent to the other edge of the one bag body section. Upon activation of the inflator, gas is supplied into the one bag body section, through the gas flow-in portion, to develop the one bag body section. After that, the other bag body section superposed on the one bag body section is developed by the gas supplied through the communicating hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara
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Patent number: 7597349Abstract: This air bag device includes: an air bag which is arranged between an under-window panel and a lining that covers a cabin interior side thereof, and develops upward along an inner surface of a window; and a pressing member which presses a bottom portion of the air bag toward the under-window panel while developing the air bag. The bottom portion of the air bag and the under-window panel overlap with each other at a predetermined length along a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Atsushi Nakajima
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Patent number: 7581751Abstract: An air bag device comprising an air bag that is disposed between an under-window panel and a lining that covers a cabin interior side thereof and deploys upward along an inside surface of the window; and an impact absorption member that interposes between the air bag and the lining.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Autoliv Development ABInventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Yusuke Nishida, Satoshi Kobayashi, Makoto Higano
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Patent number: 7578518Abstract: An occupant protection device that is provided in a door on the side of a vehicle, including an inflator that has an end portion at which a fluid delivery port is formed and delivers a fluid during a vehicle collision, and an expanding body that expands by the fluid fed by the inflator to cover the inside surface of a window provided in the door, with the end portion of the inflator being directly inserted in the expanding body, and the inflator being provided on the side of the door to be mounted to the vehicle body in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Tohru Kawamura, Yusuke Nishida
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Publication number: 20070145726Abstract: Airbag apparatus includes an airbag having at least two bag body sections superposed on each other. Gas flow-in portion for connection to an inflator is formed in one of the bag body sections adjacent to one edge of the one bag body section. Communicating hole is formed in the plurality of bag body sections adjacent to the other edge of the one bag body section. Upon activation of the inflator, gas is supplied into the one bag body section, through the gas flow-in portion, to develop the one bag body section. After that, the other bag body section superposed on the one bag body section is developed by the gas supplied through the communicating hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara
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Publication number: 20070108746Abstract: An occupant protection device that is provided in a door on the side of a vehicle, including an inflator that has an end portion at which a fluid delivery port is formed and delivers a fluid during a vehicle collision, and an expanding body that expands by the fluid fed by the inflator to cover the inside surface of a window provided in the door, with the end portion of the inflator being directly inserted in the expanding body, and the inflator being provided on the side of the door to be mounted to the vehicle body in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 17, 2007Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Tohru Kawamura, Yusuke Nishida
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Publication number: 20070029764Abstract: This air bag device includes: an air bag which is arranged between an under-window panel and a lining that covers a cabin interior side thereof, and develops upward along an inner surface of a window; and a pressing member which presses a bottom portion of the air bag toward the under-window panel while developing the air bag. The bottom portion of the air bag and the under-window panel overlap with each other at a predetermined length along a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Atsushi Nakajima
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Publication number: 20070029765Abstract: An air bag device comprising an air bag that is disposed between an under-window panel and a lining that covers a cabin interior side thereof and deploys upward along an inside surface of the window; and an impact absorption member that interposes between the air bag and the lining.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Yusuke Nishida, Satoshi Kobayashi, Makoto Higano
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Patent number: 6974151Abstract: A passenger protecting apparatus is composed so that an airbag is provided above a door opening of a vehicle body in a folded situation, is inflated and unfurled downward in gas inflow, is fixed to said vehicle body by a fitting through a bracket and the bracket positions a through-hole, through which the fitting to fix the bracket to the vehicle body is inserted, below the airbag attached to and housed in the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Koji Ikeda, Fumitoshi Yasuhara
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Patent number: 6932386Abstract: An occupant restraint system includes an airbag having at least one vent hole and an inflator. The airbag is inflated by a gas generated by the inflator when there is a vehicle collision, and deploys into a curtain shape along an inner side face of an occupant compartment. Since the vent holes, through which gas is discharged from an inflatable part of the airbag, are made to open downward at the lower edge of the airbag, not only is it possible to reliably prevent the inflatable part from being excessively inflated, and thereby from becoming hard resulting in a failure to gently restrain an occupant, but also it is possible to prevent the vent holes from being blocked by the vehicle body or an occupant, thus reliably exhibiting a gas discharge function and preventing the gas discharged though the vent holes from directly impinging on the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Ikeda, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Fumiharu Ochiai
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Patent number: 6863332Abstract: In the automobile sun visor of the present invention, a body of the sun visor is placed on a shaft connected to a bracket fitted to a ceiling surface of a cabin of the automobile body in a rotatable manner. A bearing member into which the shaft is inserted is provided on an end portion of the body. On the bearing member, a communicating member coming into contact with a stopper provided on the shaft is provided. A key shaped groove which can pass through the stopper is engaged with the stopper at a place deviating from the rotation range of the body to insert the shaft into the bearing member.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Fumiharu Ochiai, Koji Ikeda
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Patent number: 6848710Abstract: An airbag system includes an airbag arrangement being expanded at a side of a vehicle compartment by igniting an inflator based on a signal from a collision-detecting sensor arrangement in the event of a collision of the vehicle, wherein the airbag arrangement includes a front seat-protecting airbag and a rear seat-protecting airbag, the collision-detecting sensor arrangement includes at least a front seat-detecting sensor for detecting a side impact occurring near a front seat and a rear seat-detecting sensor for detecting a side impact occurring near a rear seat, and the front seat-protecting airbag is expanded when the front seat-detecting sensor detects a side impact, the rear seat-protecting airbag is expanded when the rear seat-detecting sensor detects a side impact.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Koji Ikeda, Naoki Kawajiri, Takeru Otsuka, Kazuaki Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6786506Abstract: An occupant restraint system includes an airbag and an inflator. The front end of a gas supply pipe, which extends from the inflator housed in a rear pillar to the interior of the airbag and guides the gas generated by the inflator to the airbag, is substantially vertically aligned with front portion of a rear wheel wheelhouse of the vehicle. Since the gas supply pipe can be positioned in an area in which the vehicle body rigidity has been increased by the rear pillar and the wheelhouse, it can be effectively prevented from being damaged due to the impact of a side collision of the vehicle. Moreover, since the inflator is housed in the rear pillar, which is wider and more rigid than a front pillar, it is possible to minimize or effectively prevent damage to the inflator.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Koji Ikeda, Takeru Otsuka, Naoki Kawajiri, Kazuaki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20040090080Abstract: In the automobile sun visor 8 of the present invention, a body 10 of the sun visor is placed on a shaft 9 connected to a bracket fitted to a ceiling surface of a cabin of the automobile body in a rotable manner. A bearing member into which the shaft 9 is inserted is provided on an end portion of the body 10. On the bearing member 13, a communicating member 14 coming into contact with a stopper provided on the shaft is provided. A key shaped groove which can pass through the stopper 9e is engaged with the stopper at a place deviating from the rotation range of the body 10 to insert the shaft 9 into the bearing member 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Fumiharu Ochiai, Koji Ikeda
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Patent number: 6719321Abstract: A vehicular occupant restraint system is provided with an airbag and an inflator. A front end of the folded airbag is housed within a front pillar garnish covering a side face on the occupant compartment side of a front pillar, and impact absorbing ribs are formed on the inner face of the front pillar garnish only in a section(s) that receives little deformation when the airbag is deployed. Since the front pillar garnish can be easily flexed when the air bag is deployed, there is neither inhibition to the smooth deployment of the airbag nor splitting and scattering of a part of the front pillar garnish. Moreover, since the impact absorbing ribs are formed on the front pillar garnish in the section(s) that receives little deformation, the impact of a secondary collision to an occupant can be absorbed effectively by the impact absorbing ribs.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Koji Ikeda, Takeru Otsuka, Naoki Kawajiri, Kazuaki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20040056456Abstract: An occupant restraint system includes an airbag having at least one vent hole and an inflator. The airbag is inflated by a gas generated by the inflator when there is a vehicle collision, and deploys into a curtain shape along an inner side face of an occupant compartment. Since the vent holes, through which gas is discharged from an inflatable part of the airbag, are made to open downward at the lower edge of the airbag, not only is it possible to reliably prevent the inflatable part from being excessively inflated, and thereby from becoming hard resulting in a failure to gently restrain an occupant, but also it is possible to prevent the vent holes from being blocked by the vehicle body or an occupant, thus reliably exhibiting a gas discharge function and preventing the gas discharged though the vent holes from directly impinging on the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Ikeda, Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Fumiharu Ochiai
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Publication number: 20040046366Abstract: A passenger protecting apparatus is composed so that an airbag is provided above a door opening of a vehicle body in a folded situation, is inflated and unfurled downward in gas inflow, is fixed to said vehicle body by a fitting through a bracket and the bracket positions a through-hole, through which the fitting to fix the bracket to the vehicle body is inserted, below the airbag attached to and housed in the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiharu Ochiai, Koji Ikeda, Fumitoshi Yasuhara
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Publication number: 20030011177Abstract: The airbag system 1 and 2 (a front seat-inflator double curtain system and a rear seat-inflator double curtain system) comprises an airbag being expanded at a side of a vehicle compartment by igniting the inflator 11, 12 based on a signal from a collision-detecting sensor in the event of a collision of the vehicle, wherein the airbag includes a front seat-protecting airbag 10 and a rear seat-protecting airbag 20, wherein the collision-detecting sensor includes at least a front seat-detecting sensor 14 for detecting a side impact occurred at a front seat and a rear seat-detecting sensor 24 for detecting a side impact occurred at a rear seat, and wherein the front seat-protecting airbag 10 is expanded when the front seat-detecting sensor 14 detects a side impact, the rear seat-protecting airbag 20 is expanded when the rear seat-detecting sensor 24 detects a side impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitoshi Yasuhara, Koji Ikeda, Naoki Kawajiri, Takeru Otsuka, Kazuaki Miyamoto