Patents by Inventor Hitoshi TOBA

Hitoshi TOBA 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: 20240084849
    Abstract: A rolling guide device includes a track member, a moving member, and a plurality of rolling bodies. Rolling-body rolling surfaces that come into contact with an rolling-body outer circumferential surface of a rolling body are respectively formed in wall surfaces of a pair of wall portions included in the track member facing each other, a scraper including a pressing portion that presses the rolling-body rolling surfaces is turnably installed in the moving member, the scraper includes at least an attachment portion and a pressing portion, and is formed such that a frictional force of the pressing portion with respect to the rolling-body rolling surfaces is smaller than a frictional force of the attachment portion with respect to an attachment shaft formed in the moving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ando, Hitoshi Aoyagi, Yuki Toba
  • Patent number: 11414041
    Abstract: A vehicle seat including: an outside cover; an inside cover; a side airbag module; a side frame; an outside reinforcement cloth that covers a seat width direction outer side of the side airbag module; and an inside reinforcement cloth that is disposed between the side frame and the side airbag module, that covers a seat width direction inner side of the side airbag module, that includes one seat front-rear direction end portion separated into seat upper and lower sides and fixed to the side frame in a manner that avoids the fixing portion, that includes another seat front-rear direction end portion joined to the inside cover at the join portion, and that is configured to transmit tension to the join portion during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Toba, Kazuhito Kashima, Kensuke Yoshiga, Yukinori Mikita, Shota Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210107428
    Abstract: A vehicle seat including: an outside cover; an inside cover; a side airbag module; a side frame; an outside reinforcement cloth that covers a seat width direction outer side of the side airbag module; and an inside reinforcement cloth that is disposed between the side frame and the side airbag module, that covers a seat width direction inner side of the side airbag module, that includes one seat front-rear direction end portion separated into seat upper and lower sides and fixed to the side frame in a manner that avoids the fixing portion, that includes another seat front-rear direction end portion joined to the inside cover at the join portion, and that is configured to transmit tension to the join portion during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hitoshi TOBA, Kazuhito KASHIMA, Kensuke YOSHIGA, Yukinori MIKITA, Shota NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: D1020827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ando, Hitoshi Aoyagi, Yuki Toba