Patents by Inventor Hideki Sugawa

Hideki Sugawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240001903
    Abstract: A front structure of a body-on-frame vehicle includes: a pair of left and right side rails extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; cross-members extending in a vehicle width direction and coupling the side rails together; a motor for traveling disposed between the cross-members; and a brake actuator disposed on a vehicle rear side relative to the cross-member and disposed on an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to the side rail. The front structure is configured such that, when the motor is removed, a worker is able to access the brake actuator from a space between the cross-members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki SUGAWA
  • Patent number: 10744988
    Abstract: The reservoir tank includes a reservoir body which reserves a fluid in an inner portion thereof formed to be in a hollow box shape. The reservoir body includes a port extending outward, a reservoir chamber which reserves the fluid and a port chamber which volume is smaller than that of the reservoir chamber and is in fluid communication with the port and a first communication passage positioned at a portion lower than a changeable liquid surface of the fluid reserved in the reservoir chamber in a vertical direction and provided at the first partition portion to allow the fluid communication between the reservoir chamber and the port chamber and wherein the port chamber and the port are kept being a state in which they are filled with the fluid supplied from the reservoir chamber via the first communication passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Sekine, Ryosuke Sakakibara, Jun Matsushima, Akira Omizu, Koji Masuda, Akira Sakai, Hideki Sugawa
  • Publication number: 20190084541
    Abstract: The reservoir tank includes a reservoir body which reserves a fluid in an inner portion thereof formed to be in a hollow box shape. The reservoir body includes a port extending outward, a reservoir chamber which reserves the fluid and a port chamber which volume is smaller than that of the reservoir chamber and is in fluid communication with the port and a first communication passage positioned at a portion lower than a changeable liquid surface of the fluid reserved in the reservoir chamber in a vertical direction and provided at the first partition portion to allow the fluid communication between the reservoir chamber and the port chamber and wherein the port chamber and the port are kept being a state in which they are filled with the fluid supplied from the reservoir chamber via the first communication passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Sekine, Ryosuke Sakakibara, Jun Matsushima, Akira Omizu, Koji Masuda, Akira Sakai, Hideki Sugawa