Patents by Inventor Futoshi Miyakawa
Futoshi Miyakawa 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: 11279429Abstract: To be able to compactly dispose an airbag device for a riding type vehicle provided with an airbag deployable upward. An airbag device for a riding type vehicle that is compactly disposed and can be deployed upward, includes: an inflator; an airbag adapted to be expanded by gas discharged from the inflator; and a retainer accommodating the airbag. The airbag is deployed upward from an opening of the retainer. The retainer is provided below a meter provided in front of a handle for steering.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Futoshi Miyakawa
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Patent number: 11173978Abstract: To be able to compactly dispose an airbag device for a saddle-type vehicle provided with an airbag deployable upward. An airbag device for a saddle-type vehicle includes: an inflator; an airbag adapted to be expanded by gas discharged from the inflator; and a retainer accommodating the airbag. The airbag is deployed upward from an opening of the retainer. The retainer is disposed in front of a head pipe adapted to support a handle for steering. A wind screen is disposed above the retainer. The wind screen openably and closably covers the opening of the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kuroki, Futoshi Miyakawa, Yuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20210171145Abstract: To be able to compactly dispose an airbag device for a saddle-type vehicle provided with an airbag deployable upward. An airbag device for a saddle-type vehicle includes: an inflator; an airbag adapted to be expanded by gas discharged from the inflator; and a retainer accommodating the airbag. The airbag is deployed upward from an opening of the retainer. The retainer is disposed in front of a head pipe adapted to support a handle for steering. A wind screen is disposed above the retainer. The wind screen openably and closably covers the opening of the retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kuroki, Futoshi Miyakawa, Yuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20210170976Abstract: To be able to compactly dispose an airbag device for a riding type vehicle provided with an airbag deployable upward. An airbag device for a riding type vehicle that is compactly disposed and can be deployed upward, includes: an inflator; an airbag adapted to be expanded by gas discharged from the inflator; and a retainer accommodating the airbag. The airbag is deployed upward from an opening of the retainer. The retainer is provided below a meter provided in front of a handle for steering.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventor: Futoshi Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10576925Abstract: Gas is properly fed into a head facing portion while upsizing of an inflator is prevented. Throttle portions are provided for coupling between a frontal side and a backside of an airbag between a neck portion and a head facing portion. Seams are formed as contours of the throttle portions positioned outermost the airbag in a width direction. The seams are parallel to side edge portions, of the airbag positioned outside the seams in the width direction. Seams are formed as contours opposed to the throttle portions arranged adjacent to each other. The seams are approximately parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sato, Futoshi Miyakawa, Kyosuke Korenaga, Kohei Oshima, Yuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10549713Abstract: Control for airbag deployment and/or the like is facilitated in a simple configuration. An airbag includes upper vent holes and lower vent holes. The upper vent holes are placed upward of the head facing portion and are open to an occupant side. The lower vent holes are placed downward of the upper vent holes and are open to the opposite side from an occupant.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sato, Futoshi Miyakawa, Kyosuke Korenaga, Kohei Oshima, Yuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20180208145Abstract: Gas is properly fed into a head facing portion while upsizing of an inflator is prevented. Throttle portions are provided for coupling between a frontal side and a backside of an airbag between a neck portion and a head facing portion. Seams are formed as contours of the throttle portions positioned outermost the airbag in a width direction. The seams are parallel to side edge portions, of the airbag positioned outside the seams in the width direction. Seams are formed as contours opposed to the throttle portions arranged adjacent to each other. The seams are approximately parallel to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Takashi SATO, Futoshi MIYAKAWA, Kyosuke KORENAGA, Kohei OSHIMA, Yuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20180208148Abstract: Control for airbag deployment and/or the like is facilitated in a simple configuration. An airbag includes upper vent holes and lower vent holes. The upper vent holes are placed upward of the head facing portion and are open to an occupant side. The lower vent holes are placed downward of the upper vent holes and are open to the opposite side from an occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Takashi SATO, Futoshi MIYAKAWA, Kyosuke KORENAGA, Kohei OSHIMA, Yuki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9004220Abstract: A strut suspension is disposed on a vehicle front side of a rotation center of a front wheel. A rack and pinion mechanism is disposed on a vehicle front side of the strut suspension. Since the strut suspension and the rack and pinion mechanism are disposed on the vehicle front side of the rotation center of the front wheel, a foot space can be moved forward to a position where the foot space overlaps the front wheel. A vehicle cabin space can be thereby increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kawaguchi, Masayuki Fujita, Yohei Kawasaki, Futoshi Miyakawa, Tatsuya Shiokawa
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Patent number: 8911002Abstract: A driver seat is disposed at a position offset by a predetermined distance to the left from a vehicle width center line and an ingress-egress opening through which a driver gets on and off the vehicle is provided on a lateral side of the driver seat. A door is attached to a left upper frame via a door hinge and the ingress-egress opening is opened and closed by using the door. A parking brake lever is disposed near the left upper frame and the door hinge is provided on the same left upper frame. Since the door hinge and the parking brake lever are disposed close to each other, there is no possibility of the parking brake lever hindering ingress and egress.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki Takahashi, Futoshi Miyakawa, Yukinori Kurakawa
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Publication number: 20130277137Abstract: A strut suspension is disposed on a vehicle front side of a rotation center of a front wheel. A rack and pinion mechanism is disposed on a vehicle front side of the strut suspension. Since the strut suspension and the rack and pinion mechanism are disposed on the vehicle front side of the rotation center of the front wheel, a foot space can be moved forward to a position where the foot space overlaps the front wheel. A vehicle cabin space can be thereby increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Atsushi KAWAGUCHI, Masayuki FUJITA, Yohei KAWASAKI, Futoshi MIYAKAWA, Tatsuya SHIOKAWA
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Patent number: 8474857Abstract: An airbag device for a saddle-ride type vehicle can include an acceleration sensor for detecting impacts working on a body to actuate the airbag, a left-right pair of acceleration sensors in side frame members.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Kobayashi, Futoshi Miyakawa, Takumi Makabe
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Patent number: 7963354Abstract: To provide an air-inlet structure of a motorcycle in which air-inlet ducts can be connected to an air box without providing through holes for allowing passage of the air-inlet ducts on the main frame or bending the air-inlet ducts to bypass a main frame. An engine is supported on a pair of left and right front frames that extend from a head pipe that supports a front wheel rearward and downward. An air box supplies air to the engine and is arranged above the engine. Air-inlet ducts introduce air to the air box and extend on the outer sides of the front frames in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle body to be connected to an air-inlet port of the air box at the back of the front frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Miyakawa, Yukiya Ueda, Katsumi Koyama
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Publication number: 20110074139Abstract: An airbag device for a saddle-ride type vehicle can include an acceleration sensor for detecting impacts working on a body to actuate the airbag, a left-right pair of acceleration sensors in side frame members.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki KOBAYASHI, Futoshi MIYAKAWA, Takumi MAKABE
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Patent number: 7510040Abstract: A power transmission mechanism of a motorcycle includes a drive case which is disposed at the rear end of and outside of a rear swing arm, and which surrounds the axle of a rear wheel and incorporates a transmission device. In addition, the power transmission mechanism includes a drive shaft extending from an output shaft of an engine for transmitting power of the drive shaft to the rear wheel. The transmission device converts the direction of a driving force of the drive shaft and transmits it to the rear wheel. The drive shaft constituting part of the power transmission mechanism is disposed below the rear swing arm and the pivot shaft. The result is a motorcycle configuration that suppresses the vehicle width without expanding the rear swing arm.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Takayanagi, Osamu Suzuki, Yukinori Kurakawa, Futoshi Miyakawa, Naoki Inoue, Yukiya Ueda
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Patent number: 7387513Abstract: A riding simulation device allowing a rider to pseudoexperience the running state of a motorcycle, more specifically, to pseudoexperience an operating feeling similar to an actual braking, to be able to switch the operating feeling of an operating lever according to the types of transmissions, and to pseudoexperience roll feeling when the motorcycle is turned by tilting a motorcycle body in running when the device is installed on a pedestal member, comprising an elastic member pressingly deformed by the contact part of a stopper mechanism brought into contact with a rotating member rotated by the operation of a brake lever and a switching mechanism switching between the second stopper member of the stopper mechanism brought into contact with a rotating member rotated by the operation of the operating lever and the first stopper member thereof brought into contact with the rotating member through the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohei Makuta, Yukio Miyamaru, Futoshi Miyakawa, Sadanao Ichimi, Kyohei Ueda
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Publication number: 20070095591Abstract: A power transmission mechanism of a motorcycle includes a drive case which is disposed at the rear end of and outside of a rear swing arm, and which surrounds the axle of a rear wheel and incorporates a transmission device. In addition, the power transmission mechanism includes a drive shaft extending from an output shaft of an engine for transmitting power of the drive shaft to the rear wheel. The transmission device converts the direction of a driving force of the drive shaft and transmits it to the rear wheel. The drive shaft constituting part of the power transmission mechanism is disposed below the rear swing arm and the pivot shaft. The result is a motorcycle configuration that suppresses the vehicle width without expanding the rear swing arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Shinji Takayanagi, Osamu Suzuki, Yukinori Kurakawa, Futoshi Miyakawa, Naoki Inoue, Yukiya Ueda
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Patent number: 7188695Abstract: A body structure of a motorcycle. Lengths of front frames are reduced and a size of a cylinder head is reduced in a motorcycle having a form where an engine is used as part of a body frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Miyakawa, Yukiya Ueda, Katsumi Koyama
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Publication number: 20070004329Abstract: To provide an air-inlet structure of a motorcycle in which air-inlet ducts can be connected to an air box without providing through holes for allowing passage of the air-inlet ducts on the main frame or bending the air-inlet ducts to bypass a main frame. An engine is supported on a pair of left and right front frames that extend from a head pipe that supports a front wheel rearward and downward. An air box supplies air to the engine and is arranged above the engine. Air-inlet ducts introduce air to the air box and extend on the outer sides of the front frames in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle body to be connected to an air-inlet port of the air box at the back of the front frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2006Publication date: January 4, 2007Inventors: Futoshi Miyakawa, Yukiya Ueda, Katsumi Koyama
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Publication number: 20060136826Abstract: A riding simulation device allowing a rider to pseudoexperience the running state of a motorcycle, more specifically, to pseudoexperience an operating feeling similar to an actual braking, to be able to switch the operating feeling of an operating lever according to the types of transmissions, and to pseudoexperience roll feeling when the motorcycle is turned by tilting a motorcycle body in running when the device is installed on a pedestal member, comprising an elastic member pressingly deformed by the contact part of a stopper mechanism brought into contact with a rotating member rotated by the operation of a brake lever and a switching mechanism switching between the second stopper member of the stopper mechanism brought into contact with a rotating member rotated by the operation of the operating lever and the first stopper member thereof brought into contact with the rotating member through the elastic member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Yohei Makuta, Yukio Miyamaru, Futoshi Miyakawa, Sadanao Ichimi, Kyokei Ueda