Patents by Inventor Katsuhisa Ishihara

Katsuhisa Ishihara 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: 7401832
    Abstract: An opening and closing apparatus of a vehicle includes, an opening and closing member for opening and closing an opening portion of a vehicle body; a lower hinge for pivotably supporting the opening and closing member from below; and a cover member disposed below the opening and closing member placed in a closed state for covering a pivot support portion of the lower hinge from behind, wherein when the opening and closing member is in an open state, a pivoting portion pivotably supported by the pivot support portion straddles the cover member, the opening and closing member is located rearwardly of the cover member, and an uppermost site of the pivoting portion is located at a position not higher than an upper surface of the opening and closing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Kenji Yui, Katsuhisa Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7384091
    Abstract: A vehicle door comprises a door panel member having an outer panel, the outer panel having a concave portion which receives a user's hand, a handle member which is provided outside the outer panel and extends to cross the concave portion, a base member which is fixed on an internal surface of the outer panel and supports end portions of the handle member on both sides of the concave portion, the base member being formed to have a shape of detouring around the concave portion and reaching from one end to the other end of the concave portion, within a range of a depth of the concave portion in a thickness direction of the door panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kensuke Fukuda, Toshiyuki Adachi, Katsuhisa Ishihara, Atsuhiko Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20070057525
    Abstract: An opening and closing apparatus of a vehicle, comprising: an opening and closing member for opening and closing an openingportion of avehicle body; a lower hinge forpivotably supporting the opening and closing member from below; and a cover member disposed below the opening and closing member placed in a closed state for covering a pivot support portion of the lower hinge from behind, wherein when the opening and closing member is in an open state, a pivoting portion pivotably supported by the pivot support portion straddles the cover member, the opening and closing member is located rearwardly of the cover member, and an uppermost site of the pivoting portion is located at a position not higher than an upper surface of the opening and closing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yui, Katsuhisa Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20070001479
    Abstract: A vehicle door comprises a door panel member having an outer panel, the outer panel having a concave portion which receives a user's hand, a handle member which is provided outside the outer panel and extends to cross the concave portion, a base member which is fixed on an internal surface of the outer panel and supports end portions of the handle member on both sides of the concave portion, the base member being formed to have a shape of detouring around the concave portion and reaching from one end to the other end of the concave portion, within a range of a depth of the concave portion in a thickness direction of the door panel member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Kensuke Fukuda, Toshiyuki Adachi, Katsuhisa Ishihara, Atsuhiko Furukawa
  • Patent number: 6226953
    Abstract: A weather strip retainer includes a first pillar mount section, a roof mount section, a center pillar mount section, and a drip molding integrally formed on the front pillar mount section and the roof mount section. The roof mount section and the center pillar mount section extends continuously. The center pillar mount section is oriented in a generally vertical direction by bending a boundary zone portion between the roof mount section and the center pillar mount section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Katayama Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Uno, Katsuhisa Ishihara, Kazumasa Ohashi
  • Patent number: 6189950
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing structure for a convertible, by which water used for washing, etc. is prevented from invading inside the compartment. In a sealing structure for a convertible, the roof of which is openable at a foldable hood portion 1, the attaching base 5a of weather strip 5 is fitted to a retainer 7 fixed at a link 6, the end portions 8a of elevating and lowering side glass 8 are resiliently engaged in the hollow sealing portion 5b of the weather strip 5 when the hood portion 1 is closed, and the hood sealing portion 10 is resiliently engaged in the hood portion 1 from inside the compartment; another hood sealing portion 15 corresponding to the folding portions X, Y and Z of the hood portion 1 is die-molded at the end portion of the hood sealing portion 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Kawazoe, Hideki Yoshioka, Katsuhisa Ishihara, Yoshihiro Aoi