Patents by Inventor Katsunori Kawai
Katsunori Kawai 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: 9319397Abstract: An on-vehicle gateway apparatus that carries out authentication of an external apparatus at a time of connection between the external apparatus and a vehicle, and relays communications between the external apparatus and in-vehicle communication when the authentication is successful, operates due to power supply from the external apparatus at a time of connection between the external apparatus and the vehicle, and carries out authentication of the external apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Hirashima, Yuusuke Satoh, Katsunori Kawai, Masahiro Makino, Koutarou Hara
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Patent number: 8992483Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly and protector. The indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle, an inner needle hub, an outer needle, an outer needle hub, and a protector for protecting the needle point of the inner needle arranged on the outer periphery of the inner needle so as to be slidable in the axial direction. The protector includes a protecting member in which the needle point of the inner needle is stored and a closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the protecting member so as to be capable of sliding, a displaceable side wall which is capable of being displaced inward so as to close a distal opening of the protecting member, the displaceable side wall being displaced inwardly by the closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the distal end portion of the protecting member.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 8978109Abstract: An electronic control device for a vehicle configured to be able to rewrite a program related to vehicle control by connecting an external device with the vehicle and by accessing an in-vehicle LAN includes a portable authentication terminal separated from the external device; an in-vehicle authentication system connected with the in-vehicle LAN, configured to authenticate the portable authentication terminal and to be able to transmit a authentication result to the in-vehicle LAN; a repeater configured to relay communications between the external device and the in-vehicle LAN; and a communication authorization unit connected to the in-vehicle LAN and configured to authorize the communications between the external device and the in-vehicle LAN through the repeater if receiving the authentication result of a successful authentication of the portable authentication terminal by the in-vehicle authentication system.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Hirashima, Yuusuke Satoh, Katsunori Kawai, Masahiro Makino, Koutarou Hara
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Patent number: 8900199Abstract: A needle tip protector is configured in such a manner that a flexible plate is provided to a protector main body over which an action ring is mounted and that the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation when the action ring is moved to a predetermined position relative to the protector main body. When the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation, a needle tip of an inner needle to which the protector main body is mounted is protected by a protection part placed at a distal end of the flexible plate. The needle tip protector is also provided with a slip-stop mechanism for preventing the action ring from slipping out of the protector main body in an axial direction of the needle.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Katsunori Kawai, Tatsuya Kudo, Hiroyuki Nakagami
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Publication number: 20140226673Abstract: An on-vehicle gateway apparatus that carries out authentication of an external apparatus at a time of connection between the external apparatus and a vehicle, and relays communications between the external apparatus and in-vehicle communication when the authentication is successful, operates due to power supply from the external apparatus at a time of connection between the external apparatus and the vehicle, and carries out authentication of the external apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Osamu Hirashima, Yuusuke Satoh, Katsunori Kawai, Masahiro Makino, Koutarou Hara
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Publication number: 20140196114Abstract: An electronic control device for a vehicle configured to be able to rewrite a program related to vehicle control by connecting an external device with the vehicle and by accessing an in-vehicle LAN includes a portable authentication terminal separated from the external device; an in-vehicle authentication system connected with the in-vehicle LAN, configured to authenticate the portable authentication terminal and to be able to transmit a authentication result to the in-vehicle LAN; a repeater configured to relay communications between the external device and the in-vehicle LAN; and a communication authorization unit connected to the in-vehicle LAN and configured to authorize the communications between the external device and the in-vehicle LAN through the repeater if receiving the authentication result of a successful authentication of the portable authentication terminal by the in-vehicle authentication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Hirashima, Yuusuke Satoh, Katsunori Kawai, Masahiro Makino, Koutarou Hara
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Publication number: 20110213307Abstract: A needle tip protector is configured in such a manner that a flexible plate is provided to a protector main body over which an action ring is mounted and that the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation when the action ring is moved to a predetermined position relative to the protector main body. When the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation, a needle tip of an inner needle to which the protector main body is mounted is protected by a protection part placed at a distal end of the flexible plate. The needle tip protector is also provided with a slip-stop mechanism for preventing the action ring from slipping out of the protector main body in an axial direction of the needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsunori Kawai, Tatsuya Kudo, Hiroyuki Nakagami
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Patent number: 7833321Abstract: There is provided a protective filter 1 for an extracorporeal circulation circuit pressure monitor, having a dialysis device side housing 2, an extracorporeal circulation circuit side housing 3, and a hydrophobic filter 4 held between both the housings, which allows passage of a gas but does not allow passage of a liquid, characterized in that a plurality of ribs 27 and 38 capable of supporting the hydrophobic filter 4 are respectively provided in both housings, and a protective member 5 for preventing direct contact between the ribs 38 and the hydrophobic filter 4 is interposed between the ribs 38 provided in the extracorporeal circulation circuit side housing 3 and the hydrophobic filter 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Katsunori Kawai, Akinobu Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20080249478Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly and protector. The indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle, an inner needle hub, an outer needle, an outer needle hub, and a protector for protecting the needle point of the inner needle arranged on the outer periphery of the inner needle so as to be slidable in the axial direction. The protector includes a protecting member in which the needle point of the inner needle is stored and a closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the protecting member so as to be capable of sliding, a displaceable side wall which is capable of being displaced inward so as to close a distal opening of the protecting member, the displaceable side wall being displaced inwardly by the closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the distal end portion of the protecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai
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Publication number: 20080053906Abstract: There is provided a protective filter 1 for an extracorporeal circulation circuit pressure monitor, having a dialysis device side housing 2, an extracorporeal circulation circuit side housing 3, and a hydrophobic filter 4 held between both the housings, which allows passage of a gas but does not allow passage of a liquid, characterized in that a plurality of ribs 27 and 38 capable of supporting the hydrophobic filter 4 are respectively provided in both housings, and a protective member 5 for preventing direct contact between the ribs 38 and the hydrophobic filter 4 is interposed between the ribs 38 provided in the extracorporeal circulation circuit side housing 3 and the hydrophobic filter 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Katsunori Kawai, Akinobu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 6679003Abstract: A door frame structure of a vehicle, of which a door frame is covered with a frame molding. The door frame has a flat peripheral wall extending around a window opening of a vehicle door and a protrusion protruding from an inside end of the flat peripheral wall. The frame molding is composed of a synthetic resin or TPO and is attached to an outside end of the peripheral wall of the door frame. A pair of shelf projections are integrally formed on an inside surface of the frame molding from about a widthwise center thereof so as to be spaced from each other. By press-inserting the flat peripheral wall of the door frame between the shelf projections of the frame molding, the frame molding is secured to the door frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Yotoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 6655698Abstract: A sealing member to be attached along a periphery of a door with a continuous good sealing performance against a facing opening portion even in a corner of the periphery of the door. A bar-shaped magnet is provided in a tubular seal portion of the sealing member so as to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof in close contact with an inside surface of a contacting part of a seal wall, which contacts the facing opening portion. The bar-shaped magnet has a cross-sectional shape of which the width gradually decreases from the side of the contacting part of the seal wall inwardly of the tubular seal portion, thereby reducing the cross-sectional area of the magnet, and enabling the magnet to be readily bent along a corner of the periphery of the door. And the bar-shaped magnet has an outwardly curving contacting surface, which contacts the contacting part of the seal wall, thereby improving contacting properties between the sealing member and a corner of the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Takechi Kogyo Gomu Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 6647666Abstract: A door weather strip, which is of annular form as a whole, includes a base section and a hollow sealing section as its basic constituent elements. The portion of the door weather strip corresponding to the corner part of the upper portion on the center pillar side of the front door provides a molded section, and any other section provides a continuously formed extrusion section. On the portion other than the lower side portion in the peripheral portion of the opening section for the front door of a vehicle body, the ridge portion as along the peripheral portion thereof is provided. In the closed state of the front door, the sealing section is elastically deformed so as to be pressed and extended in opposite directions away from the top portion of the ridge portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsunori Kawai, Hisao Hanabusa, Takao Nakajima, Harumi Kogiso
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Patent number: 6601345Abstract: A sealing structure for sealing between a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door, includes a channel which is formed in an inside surface of a doorframe along a periphery thereof, and a projection which is composed of a rubber elastic body and is provided in the door opening portion of the vehicle body so as to face the channel. When the vehicle door is closed, the projection enters the channel to provide a seal between the vehicle body and vehicle door. The channel may be provided in the vehicle body while the projection may be provided in the vehicle door. The channel may be formed with a rubber elastic body.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Katsunori Kawai
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Publication number: 20030111802Abstract: A sealing member to be attached along a periphery of a door with a continuous good sealing performance against a facing opening portion even in a corner of the periphery of the door. A bar-shaped magnet is provided in a tubular seal portion of the sealing member so as to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof in close contact with an inside surface of a contacting part of a seal wall, which contacts the facing opening portion. The bar-shaped magnet has a cross-sectional shape of which the width gradually decreases from the side of the contacting part of the seal wall inwardly of the tubular seal portion, thereby reducing the cross-sectional area of the magnet, and enabling the magnet to be readily bent along a corner of the periphery of the door. And the bar-shaped magnet has an outwardly curving contacting surface, which contacts the contacting part of the seal wall, thereby improving contacting properties between the sealing member and a corner of the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 6530618Abstract: A sealing structure for forming a seal between a weather strip attached to a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a base portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section for attachment to the door opening portion, and a tubular seal portion which expands from an outer side wall of the base portion. A projection is formed in the weather strip so as to project from the outer side wall of the base portion into an interior of the tubular seal portion so as to be spaced from an inner surface of a projecting top of a sealing wall of the tubular seal portion. When the vehicle door is closed, an inside surface of a periphery of a door panel contacts and presses the projecting top of the sealing wall, which faces the projecting end of the projection, while an inside surface of a door frame contacts and presses a side part of the sealing wall apart from the projecting top of the sealing wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Kiyotaka Tamaoki, Katsunori Kawai, Hidehiro Ito
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Patent number: 6506005Abstract: A method of machining seats of a compressor piston having an approximately hemispherical recess. A surface of a piston extending perpendicular to an axis of the piston is machined by annularly moving a cutting element while the cutting element is rotated with respect to the piston to form an annularly cut portion. The surface is further machined by moving the same cutting element in a direction toward the surface while the cutting element and the piston are relatively rotated to form a hemispherical recess in the surface. The firstly formed annularly cut portion becomes an annular chamfered portion on the periphery of the hemispherical recess. In this way, it is possible to form the hemispherical recess, and the annular chamfered portion on the periphery thereof, with the common cutting tool.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Katsunori Kawai, Wataru Mase, Tomotaka Sawa
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Publication number: 20020108313Abstract: A door frame structure of a vehicle, of which a door frame is covered with a frame molding. The door frame has a flat peripheral wall extending around a window opening of a vehicle door and a protrusion protruding from an inside end of the flat peripheral wall. The frame molding is composed of a synthetic resin or TPO and is attached to an outside end of the peripheral wall of the door frame. A pair of shelf-like projections are integrally formed on an inside surface of the frame molding from about a widthwise center thereof so as to be spaced from each other. By press-inserting the flat peripheral wall of the door frame between the shelf-like projections of the frame molding, the frame molding is secured to the door frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2002Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 6385839Abstract: A method for manufacturing a front door weather strip includes continuously forming one extrusion molding section by extrusion molding corresponding to a region from an upper section of the front door to the rear side section of the front door and forming a mold molding section corresponding to a corner of a rear side upper section of the front door used a mold so as to connect both ends of the extrusion molding section, thereby manufacturing the front door weather strip.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsunori Kawai, Hisao Hanabusa, Takao Nakajima
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Publication number: 20020036414Abstract: A sealing structure for forming a seal between a weather strip attached to a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a base portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section for attachment to the door opening portion, and a tubular seal portion which expands from an outer side wall of the base portion. A projection is formed in the weather strip so as to project from the outer side wall of the base portion into an interior of the tubular seal portion so as to be spaced from an inner surface of a projecting top of a sealing wall of the tubular seal portion. When the vehicle door is closed, an inside surface of a periphery of a door panel contacts and presses the projecting top of the sealing wall, which faces the projecting end of the projection, while an inside surface of a door frame contacts and presses a side part of the sealing wall apart from the projecting top of the sealing wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Kiyotaka Tamaoki, Katsunori Kawai, Hidehiro Ito