Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Okazaki
Hiroyuki Okazaki 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: 6953178Abstract: A seat slide device which includes a lower rail fixed to a vehicle floor, an upper rail fitted into the lower rail to be slidable relative to the lower rail for supporting a seat, a lock device for fixing the upper rail at an arbitrary position of the lower rail, a lock lever provided in the lock device and rotatably supported on the upper rail, a lock bore formed on the lower rail, a pawl provided on the lock lever for being able to be inserted into the lock bore, and an energy absorbing bore provided on the lower rail and arranged in series with the lock bore and separated from the lock bore by a predetermined distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukifumi Yamada, Takami Terada, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hideki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20050218063Abstract: A catchment header allowing a plurality of membrane modules to be connected thereto, having a tubular catchment part with a Young's modulus of 4.0 GPa or less for collecting and taking out filtrated liquid from the membrane modules, wherein at least a part of the tubular catchment part is covered with a reinforcement member with a Young's modulus of 4.0 to 250 GPa, the tubular catchment part of the catchment header is preferably formed of a synthetic resin, and the cross sectional area thereof perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the tubular catchment part is preferably 4 to 36 cm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Hiroyuki Okazaki, masumi Kobayashi, Kenji Honjou, Katsuyuki Yanone, Manabu Yanou
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Patent number: 6926443Abstract: A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail assembled to a vehicle seat, an upper rail slidably engaging with the corresponding upper rail for supporting the vehicle seat, a loop-shaped release handle supported by the upper rail on its end portion for releasing the engagement between the upper rail and the lower rail, and a bracket fixed to the upper rail for detachably supporting the release handle, an opening portion formed on the bracket allowing the end portion of the release handle to pass there through, and a flexible tongue formed on the bracket and adapted to be flexibly movable in vertical direction for engaging with a stopper piece provided at the end portion of the release handle. The current invention uses a technical device for detaching the end portion of the release handle from the bracket fixed to the upper rail for supporting the end portion of the release handle.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Niimi, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shin Shiraki
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Patent number: 6863330Abstract: A seat device adapted to be fixed to engagement members on a vehicle floor includes a first engagement member supporting a front portion of the seat device, a second engagement member supporting a rear portion of the seat, a first lock engagable with the first engagement member, a second lock engagable with the second engagement member. The first lock is supported on the seat device and includes a bracket rotatably supported relative to the seat device and being engagable with the first engagement member and a hook member supported on the bracket and being able to maintain an engagement of the bracket with the first engagement member. A contact portion is provided on the hook member for contacting on a portion of the seat device to prevent a release operation of the hook member when the bracket is out of a predetermined position range relative to the seat device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yukifumi Yamada
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Patent number: 6799801Abstract: A seat device equips a walk-in mechanism and a fold down mechanism (a seatback is turned down with large angle so as to attain the flat condition). These mechanisms can be operated selectively using a simple operation without using plural levers. A base bracket of the seat device is fixed to a lower arm. The base bracket has a stopper and pivotally supports the first link member and the second member in a freely turning way. An upper arm has a contact portion. If the upper arm is turned down in the forward direction for the walk-in operation, the contact portion gets in contact with an intervening member of the first link member so as not to turn further down in the forward direction. In the case that the seatback is turned to the flat condition, the intervening member is moved towards the outside portion of the locus of movement of the contact portion. Consequently, the contact portion of the upper arm can be turned down on a large scale without getting in contact with the intervening member.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Gifu Shatai Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Niimi, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shin Shiraki
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Publication number: 20040131291Abstract: A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail assembled to a vehicle seat, an upper rail slidably engaging with the corresponding upper rail for supporting the vehicle seat, a loop-shaped release handle supported by the upper rail on its end portion for releasing the engagement between the upper rail and the lower rail, and a bracket fixed to the upper rail for detachably supporting the release handle, an opening portion formed on the bracket allowing the end portion of the release handle to pass there through, and a flexible tongue formed on the bracket and adapted to be flexibly movable in vertical direction for engaging with a stopper piece provided at the end portion of the release handle. The current invention uses a technical device for detaching the end portion of the release handle from the bracket fixed to the upper rail for supporting the end portion of the release handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Niimi, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shin Shiraki
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Publication number: 20040104589Abstract: A seat device adapted to be fixed to engagement members on a vehicle floor includes a first engagement member supporting a front portion of the seat device, a second engagement member supporting a rear portion of the seat, a first lock engagable with the first engagement member, a second lock engagable with the second engagement member. The first lock is supported on the seat device and includes a bracket rotatably supported relative to the seat device and being engagable with the first engagement member and a hook member supported on the bracket and being able to maintain an engagement of the bracket with the first engagement member. A contact portion is provided on the hook member for contacting on a portion of the seat device to prevent a release operation of the hook member when the bracket is out of a predetermined position range relative to the seat device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yukifumi Yamada
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Patent number: 6729366Abstract: A rotary and flow meter type liquid filling apparatus including a liquid reservoir tank that stores and supplies liquid to filling nozzles, and air supply paths for different amount of air supply and air discharge paths for different amount of air discharge being connected to the liquid reservoir tank. An air compressor is connected to the air supply paths, and the air discharge paths open into the atmosphere. A liquid pressure sensor disposed near the filling nozzles sense the increase or decrease of the liquid pressure inside a pipe that connects the liquid reservoir tank and liquid filling nozzles, and the electromagnetic valves provided on the air supply and air discharge paths are opened or closed, thus supplying air to and discharging air from the liquid reservoir tank so as to control the air pressure inside the liquid reservoir tank and the liquid pressure near the liquid filling nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Namiyoshi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shoichi Koga
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Publication number: 20040060442Abstract: In a hollow fiber membrane flat module according to the present invention, both ends of hollow fiber membrane bundle which are formed by bundling a plurality of hollow fiber membrane as a sheet are fixed to two housing separately by a fixing resin while maintaining an opening condition in an opening end section in the follow fiber membrane. Furthermore, a maximum width in an orthogonal direction to a longitudinal direction of the hollow fiber membrane is no longer than 25 mm in a cross section which is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the housings, and a maximum deflection in the housings which are measured according to a method for measuring the deflection according to the present invention is not more than 1% of a distance between the two housings.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventors: Yoshihito Nakahara, Tetsuya Torichigai, Masatoshi Kamata, Masanori Ito, Kenji Honjou, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yoshihiro Kakumoto
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Patent number: 6691971Abstract: A seat slide device for a vehicle includes a lower rail, an upper rail and a shoe. The shoe includes a base portion attached to an engaging portion of one of the rails and a slide portion slidable along an engaged portion of the other rail. The slide portion and the base portion are integrally formed with one another. The slide portion contacts the base portion when a load equal to or greater than a predetermined load is applied, and the base portion has a surface possessing a shape which increases the contact area with the slide portion when the load increases.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukifumi Yamada, Takami Terada, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hideki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6688574Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding device includes a lower rail adapted to be fixed to the floor of the vehicle, an upper rail adapted to be fixed to the vehicle seat and mounted on the lower rail for forward and rearward movement, and a releasable lock mechanism disposed between the lower rail and the upper rail for locking the upper rail. The lock mechanism has a lock lever disposed within sections of the upper and lower rails and extending forward and rearward, with the lock lever being movably mounted on the upper rail. A nail portion is formed on the lock lever and is adapted to be selectively fitted into engaging holes formed on the upper and lower rails from inside the upper and lower rails toward outside. An urging mechanism is positioned within the sections of the lower and upper rails for urging the lock lever toward its locking condition, and an operating mechanism operates the lock lever.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Gifu Shatai Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yukifumi Yamada, Hideo Nihonmatsu, Yasuhiko Mori, Takuo Yanagihara
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Patent number: 6688144Abstract: A knit design system comprising grading line directing device (24) for directing grading lines (48, 90) at locations of size changes with respect to a design (34, 86) displayed on a monitor (8); grading line setting device (28) for setting information on design modification (34, 86) with respect to the grading lines (48, 90); operating device (26) for making size changes of the design (34, 86) with reference to the grading line (48, 90) directed by the grading line directing device (24) and the modification data set by the grading line setting device (28).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.Inventors: Fumihiro Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Akira Ueno
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Publication number: 20030230696Abstract: A seat slide device which includes a lower rail fixed to a vehicle floor, an upper rail fitted into the lower rail to be slidable relative to the lower rail for supporting a seat, a lock device for fixing the upper rail at an arbitrary position of the lower rail, a lock lever provided in the lock device and rotatably supported on the upper rail, a lock bore formed on the lower rail, a pawl provided on the lock lever for being able to be inserted into the lock bore, and an energy absorbing bore provided on the lower rail and arranged in series with the lock bore and separated from the lock bore by a predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukifumi Yamada, Takami Terada, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hideki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20030191552Abstract: A knit design system comprising grading line directing means (24) for directing grading lines (48, 90) at locations of size changes with respect to a design (34, 86) displayed on a monitor (8); grading line setting means (28) for setting information on design modification (34, 86) with respect to the grading lines (48, 90); operating means (26) for making size changes of the design (34, 86) with reference to the grading line (48, 90) directed by the grading line directing means (24) and the modification data set by the grading line setting means (28).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Fumihiro Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Akira Ueno
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Patent number: 6626495Abstract: A seat reclining device has a first arm member adapted to be secured to the seat cushion frame or the seat back frame, a second arm member rotatably supported by the first arm member and adapted to be secured to the other of the seat cushion frame and the seat back frame, and a plurality of pawls for locking an adjusted angle of the seat back. The pawls are disposed on the first arm member and include at least a first pawl and a second pawl. Only one of the first and second pawls is provided with an engaging portion. The second arm member is provided with a receiving portion for preventing the engagement of the outer gear with the inner gear when the engaging portion contacts the receiving portion during relative rotational movement of the first and second arm members.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yukifumi Yamada, Naoaki Hoshihara, Sadao Ito, Hideo Nihonmatsu
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Publication number: 20030180597Abstract: 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Arata Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Okazaki
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Publication number: 20030127898Abstract: A seat device equips a walk-in mechanism and a fold down mechanism (a seatback is turned down with large angle so as to attain the flat condition). These mechanisms can be operated selectively using a simple operation without using plural levers. A base bracket of the seat device is fixed to a lower arm. The base bracket has a stopper and pivotally supports the first link member and the second member in a freely turning way. An upper arm has a contact portion. If the upper arm is turned down in the forward direction for the walk-in operation, the contact portion gets in contact with an intervening member of the first link member so as not to turn further down in the forward direction. In the case that the seatback is turned to the flat condition, the intervening member is moved towards the outside portion of the locus of movement of the contact portion. Consequently, the contact portion of the upper arm can be turned down on a large scale without getting in contact with the intervening member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Inventors: Naoki Niimi, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shin Shiraki
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Patent number: D481782Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Okazaki
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Patent number: D490497Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okazaki, Tetsuhiko Nakahara, Manabu Yanou
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Patent number: D490876Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2003Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okazaki, Tetsuhiko Nakahara, Manabu Yanou