Patents by Inventor Hironori AKABANE

Hironori AKABANE 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: 9889778
    Abstract: An armrest structure for door trim has an armrest lower, an armrest upper, and a joining component that joins the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, wherein the joining component is provided with a strap portion, and an anchor portion, and wherein the attachment hole has a wider portion through which the anchor portion can be inserted, and a narrower portion through which the anchor portion cannot be inserted, and during a process to assemble the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, the anchor portion is inserted through the wider portion, and once the armrest upper and the armrest lower are in an assembled state, the anchor portion is located at a position underneath the narrower portion of the attachment hole that is formed in the armrest lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: NIFCO INC., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanako Mizuno, Yuji Sasaki, Fumitaka Hirose, Kazumi Kojima, Hironori Akabane, Yasuo Saida, Yuji Ito, Iwao Udatsu
  • Publication number: 20160288674
    Abstract: An armrest structure for door trim has an armrest lower, an armrest upper, and a ioining component that loins the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, wherein the ioining component is provided with a strap portion, and an anchor portion, and wherein the attachment hole has a wider portion through which the anchor portion can be inserted, and a narrower portion through which the anchor portion cannot be inserted, and during a process to assemble the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, the anchor portion is inserted through the wider portion, and once the armrest upper and the armrest lower are in an assembled state, the anchor portion is located at a position underneath the narrower portion of the attachment hole that is formed in the armrest lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kanako MIZUNO, Yuji SASAKI, Fumitaka HIROSE, Kazumi KOJIMA, Hironori AKABANE, Yasuo SAIDA, Yuji ITO, Iwao UDATSU