Patents by Inventor Hiroyasu Shiromura

Hiroyasu Shiromura 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: 9308805
    Abstract: A vehicle rear structure protects a battery unit in a rear-end collision. The vehicle rear structure has a battery unit positioned behind a torsion beam; first and second cross members spanning between side members; a frame member that supports the battery unit; a bridge member spanning from the first cross member to the second cross member, and connected at a rear flange to the second cross member; and reinforcements that are respectively disposed to the side members and reinforce the side members from the front edge to the rear edge of the second cross member. The torsion beam is positioned near directly below the second cross member. The side members slope down to the front from the front end part of the reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Shiromura, Hideyuki Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20140008137
    Abstract: A vehicle rear structure protects a battery unit in a rear-end collision. The vehicle rear structure has a battery unit positioned behind a torsion beam; first and second cross members spanning between side members; a frame member that supports the battery unit; a bridge member spanning from the first cross member to the second cross member, and connected at a rear flange to the second cross member; and reinforcements that are respectively disposed to the side members and reinforce the side members from the front edge to the rear edge of the second cross member. The torsion beam is positioned near directly below the second cross member. The side members slope down to the front from the front end part of the reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroyasu SHIROMURA, Hideyuki TAMAKI
  • Patent number: 8276966
    Abstract: A structure is in a lower part of a rear vehicle body 1. In this structure, each rear side member 2 is divided into a rear side member front part 10 and a rear side member rear part 11 in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle, a cross member 26 below a spare tire housing is joined to the rear side member rear part 11, and a central part in a vehicle width direction 26a of the cross member 26 below the spare tire housing extends rearward in the vehicle and is curved obliquely downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Souma, Hiroyasu Shiromura, Katsunori Tannai
  • Publication number: 20110290838
    Abstract: A structure is in a lower part of a rear vehicle body 1. In this structure, each rear side member 2 is divided into a rear side member front part 10 and a rear side member rear part 11 in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle, a cross member 26 below a spare tire housing is joined to the rear side member rear part 11, and a central part in a vehicle width direction 26a of the cross member 26 below the spare tire housing extends rearward in the vehicle and is curved obliquely downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Souma, Hiroyasu Shiromura, Katsunori Tannai
  • Patent number: 6068326
    Abstract: There is provided a support structure for a canvas top bow on a canvas top automobile in which the upper part of a rear seat is made open, and a canvas top bow whose base portions are rotatably supported is erected on both sides of a vehicle body of the open portion to spread a canvas top, characterized in that an adjusting device 8 configured so that the tip end position of the canvas top bow 7 is movable at the stage of spreading the canvas top 3 and at the stage of loosening the canvas top 3 is provided at the base support portions of the canvas top bow 7, and a locking device 13 for keeping the canvas top bow 7 position at the stage of spreading the canvas top 7 bow is provided, whereby the attachment and detachment of the canvas top can be performed easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Shiromura