Patents by Inventor Kazuki FURUKAWA
Kazuki FURUKAWA 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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Publication number: 20220293381Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, and a support portion supporting the fixed terminal. The fixed terminal includes a fixed contact, a first terminal portion on which the fixed contact is disposed, a second terminal portion extending from one of both ends of the first terminal portion, a first protrusion disposed on the second terminal portion. The fixed terminal is bent between the first and second terminal portions. The first terminal portion has a first terminal surface opposite to the movable contact piece. The second terminal portion has a second terminal surface connected to the first terminal surface. The support portion has a contact surface contacting the first terminal surface of the first terminal portion, and a first side surface including a first groove where the first protrusion is fitted. The first protrusion is disposed on the second terminal surface of the second terminal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Takeshi NISHIDA, Kazuki FURUKAWA, Naoki KAWAGUCHI, Takashi TSUKADA
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Publication number: 20220293373Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member, a contact spring, and an electromagnet block. The movable member is configured to move in a moving direction including a first direction and a second direction. The contact spring biases the movable contact piece in the first direction. The electromagnet block includes a movable iron piece and moves the movable member in the moving direction. The movable contact piece and the contact spring are disposed in the movable member by insertion from a side opposite to a side where the electromagnet block is located. The movable member includes a first member constituted by a single member. The first member includes a press portion to be pressed by the movable iron piece in accordance with rotation of the movable iron piece, and a support portion configured to support the movable contact piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Takeshi NISHIDA, Kazuki FURUKAWA, Naoki KAWAGUCHI, Takashi TSUKADA
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Publication number: 20220293374Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a support member, a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member. The support member is made of an insulating material. The first fixed terminal includes a first fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The second fixed terminal includes the second fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The movable contact piece includes a first movable contact and a second movable contact. The movable member is connected to the movable contact piece and includes a first overlapping portion made of an insulating material. The first overlapping portion is disposed between the first fixed terminal and the second fixed terminal. The first overlapping portion overlaps with the support member when viewed from a longitudinal direction of the movable contact piece in an open state where the first movable contact is separated from the first fixed contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Takashi TSUKADA, Takeshi NISHIDA, Kazuki FURUKAWA, Naoki KAWAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220285674Abstract: An all-solid-state battery having excellent output characteristics, and a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery that can be used in the all-solid-state battery are provided. A negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery according to the present invention includes a molded body made of a negative-electrode mixture that contains a negative-electrode active material, a solid electrolyte, and a conductive assistant, and lithium titanium oxide particles in which a ratio Dp/D50 of a primary particle diameter Dp to a particle diameter D50 is greater than 0.6 and a specific surface area is 2 m2/g or more are contained as the negative-electrode active material. Also, an all-solid-state battery according to the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery according to the present invention is used as the negative electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki FURUKAWA, Yuta SATO, Masaki NISHIMURA, Haruki KAMIZORI
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Patent number: 11427259Abstract: A vehicle pillar structure is provided including a pillar outer, a pillar inner, a front join section, and a rear join section. The pillar outer and pillar inner includes a first open cross-section and a second open cross-section having an open cross-section profile opening toward a vehicle width direction inner side in cross-section sectioned perpendicular to an extension direction of the pillar outer and the pillar inner. The pillar inner is second open cross-section disposed inside the first open cross-section so as to form a closed cross-section together with the first open cross-section. At the front join section, front walls configuring vehicle front side walls of the first open cross-section of the pillar outer and the second open cross-section of the pillar inner are joined together. At the rear join section, vehicle rear side end portions of the pillar outer and the pillar inner are joined together.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sayaka Ishikawa, Kazuki Furukawa
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Publication number: 20220246365Abstract: A power relay having terminal tabs includes an on-off contact element having at least one movable contact and at least one stationary contact, an on-off drive element, at least two pairs of input/output terminal tabs, and at least one pair of control terminal tabs. The on-off drive element makes the movable contact come into contact with or separated from the stationary contact. The two pairs of input/output terminal tabs are electrically connected to at least one pair of input/output portions of the on-off contact element. The one pair of control terminal tabs is electrically connected to control terminal portions of the on/off drive element. Each of the input/output portions is electrically connected to two of the input/output terminal tabs, which are arranged side-by-side in their thickness direction and in vicinity with each other. The input/output terminal tabs and the control terminal tabs have a same thickness and width.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASAKA, Kazuki FURUKAWA, Shinichi OGAWA, Hiroyuki HARIMOCHI, Ayata HORIE
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Publication number: 20220017067Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce the burden on a user in vehicle testing while maintaining precision of vehicle testing, and is a vehicle testing system for testing, on a test bench, a vehicle or a test piece that is a portion of a vehicle, the vehicle testing system being provided with a camera for capturing an image of a portion of a test piece, and a control device for controlling vehicle testing on the basis of the image captured by the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Kazuki FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 11097783Abstract: A front pillar structure is provided with a pillar frame component that forms part of a front pillar, and with a pillar garnish that forms part of the front pillar, and that has a surface covering portion that extends substantially in the vehicle vertical direction and covers the pillar frame component from the vehicle cabin inner side, and an elastic body that is joined to a wall surface facing the pillar frame component of the surface covering portion, and that firmly grips inside itself the vehicle cabin inner-side flange portions of the first component and the second component.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koki Ikeda, Shinya Kamimura, Kazuki Furukawa
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Publication number: 20210188361Abstract: A vehicle pillar structure is provided including a pillar outer, a pillar inner, a front join section, and a rear join section. The pillar outer and pillar inner includes a first open cross-section and a second open cross-section having an open cross-section profile opening toward a vehicle width direction inner side in cross-section sectioned perpendicular to an extension direction of the pillar outer and the pillar inner. The pillar inner is second open cross-section disposed inside the first open cross-section so as to form a closed cross-section together with the first open cross-section. At the front join section, front walls configuring vehicle front side walls of the first open cross-section of the pillar outer and the second open cross-section of the pillar inner are joined together. At the rear join section, vehicle rear side end portions of the pillar outer and the pillar inner are joined together.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Kazuki FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 10994664Abstract: A holding apparatus is adapted for holding a vehicle test device to be used for testing a test sample that is a vehicle or a part of the vehicle on a seat of the test sample, and includes: a mounting stand on which the vehicle test device is mounted; and a fixing a mechanism configured to be connected to an ISOFIX anchor provided in the test sample to fix the mounting stand to the seat.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Matsubara, Kazuki Furukawa
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Patent number: 10976370Abstract: An SOC estimation device 50 of an energy storage device includes a storage unit 73 and a data processing unit 71. The energy storage device 100 has a characteristic including a first deterioration mode in which a capacity drop with respect to time indicates a first transition, and a second deterioration mode in which a capacity drop indicates a second transition. The storage unit 73 holds first correlation data M1 indicating a correlation between SOC and OCV of the energy storage device in the first deterioration mode, and second correlation data M2 indicating a correlation between SOC and OCV of the energy storage device in the second deterioration mode. The data processing unit 71 executes a mode determination process of determining a deterioration mode of the energy storage device, and an estimation process of selecting correlation data corresponding to the deterioration mode from the storage unit, to estimate SOC of the energy storage device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Furukawa, Tsubasa Matsuyoshi, Suguru Kozono
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Patent number: 10857859Abstract: A vehicle pillar structure includes a plurality of pillar frame structure portions, a transparent member, and a connection member. The pillar frame structure portions are disposed on an edge side of an upper half of a door opening as a portion of a columnar pillar. The pillar frame structure portions are provided in parallel with an interval, and have upper and lower end portions fixed to a frame member of the vehicle side portion. The transparent member is formed of a transparent material and is bridged between the pillar frame structure portions. The connection member is formed separately from the pillar frame structure portions, the frame member, and the transparent member, and connects the pillar frame structure portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koki Ikeda, Motoya Sakabe, Takuya Miura, Kazuki Furukawa
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Publication number: 20200364956Abstract: An automated-driving device causes a test body which is either a vehicle or part of a vehicle to perform automated-driving using a plurality of types of actuators. This automated-driving device includes a plurality of connectors to which the actuators are connected, and a control device that controls movements of the actuators that are connected to the connectors. When one of the actuators is connected to one of the connectors, the control device identifies the type of actuator that is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takuma HACHIKEN, Yoshiaki MATSUBARA, Kazuki FURUKAWA, Susumu TOGAWA, Kazunori KURIAKI, Yasutaka KAWAKITA, Kosuke OI
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Publication number: 20200264238Abstract: A deterioration amount estimation device includes a calculation unit (CPU33) that calculates a deterioration amount of an energy storage device and an estimation unit (CPU33) that estimates a transient deterioration amount based on a deterioration amount calculated by the calculation unit and a continuous deterioration amount that does not decrease with time and continues. The transient deterioration amount is estimated, and the input/output of the energy storage device is limited to suppress an increase in the continuous deterioration amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Kazuki FURUKAWA, Hiroki MATSUI
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Patent number: 10737731Abstract: A vehicle front pillar structure includes: a pillar lower portion that configures a lower portion of a front pillar; a first pillar frame that extends along an outer edge of a windshield of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction; a second pillar frame that extends in an extending direction of the first pillar frame; a transparent member straddling between the first pillar frame and the second pillar frame; and a load transmission member that can transmit a load applied from a vehicle front side to a front side portion of the upper portion of the pillar lower portion in a vehicle longitudinal direction, to the second pillar frame, wherein a top surface of the second pillar frame is disposed continuously from a top surface of the load transmission member, and the top surface of the second pillar frame linearly extends in a vehicle rearward and upward direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Miura, Motoya Sakabe, Kazuki Furukawa
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Patent number: 10710641Abstract: A vehicle pillar structure includes: a pair of frame components that extends in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle pillar; and a transparent component that is formed so as to be transparent, and that bridges a gap between the pair of frame components. Each of the pair of frame components is in a cylindrical shape having no seams in a cross-section thereof, and a planar transparent component joining surface to which the transparent component is joined is included as part of an outer peripheral surface of each of the pair of frame components.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koki Ikeda, Motoya Sakabe, Kazuki Furukawa
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Publication number: 20200189483Abstract: A holding apparatus is adapted for holding a vehicle test device to be used for testing a test sample that is a vehicle or a part of the vehicle on a seat of the test sample, and includes: a mounting stand on which the vehicle test device is mounted; and a fixing a mechanism configured to be connected to an ISOFIX anchor provided in the test sample to fix the mounting stand to the seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki MATSUBARA, Kazuki FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20200172169Abstract: A front pillar structure is provided with a pillar frame component that forms part of a front pillar, and with a pillar garnish that forms part of the front pillar, and that has a surface covering portion that extends substantially in the vehicle vertical direction and covers the pillar frame component from the vehicle cabin inner side, and an elastic body that is joined to a wall surface facing the pillar frame component of the surface covering portion, and that firmly grips inside itself the vehicle cabin inner-side flange portions of the first component and the second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Koki IKEDA, Shinya KAMIMURA, Kazuki FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 10589793Abstract: A pillar structure for a vehicle including: a pillar main body portion that is provided at a vehicle front portion and extends in a vehicle vertical direction, the pillar main body portion including a pair of pillar framework portions with chamber structures and a plate-shaped transparent member, the pair of pillar framework portions being disposed spaced apart in a vehicle front-and-rear direction, and the transparent member being attached to vehicle outer sides of the pair of pillar framework portions and isolating a vehicle cabin interior from a vehicle cabin exterior; and a reinforcing member provided with a pair of base portions and a transparent bridging portion, the base portions being respectively attached to vehicle inner sides of the pair of pillar framework portions and extending in the vehicle vertical direction along the pillar framework portions, and the bridging portion partially bridging between the pair of base portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motoya Sakabe, Takuya Miura, Koki Ikeda, Kazuki Furukawa
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Publication number: 20200033415Abstract: An SOC estimation device 50 of an energy storage device includes a storage unit 73 and a data processing unit 71. The energy storage device 100 has a characteristic including a first deterioration mode in which a capacity drop with respect to time indicates a first transition, and a second deterioration mode in which a capacity drop indicates a second transition. The storage unit 73 holds first correlation data M1 indicating a correlation between SOC and OCV of the energy storage device in the first deterioration mode, and second correlation data M2 indicating a correlation between SOC and OCV of the energy storage device in the second deterioration mode. The data processing unit 71 executes a mode determination process of determining a deterioration mode of the energy storage device, and an estimation process of selecting correlation data corresponding to the deterioration mode from the storage unit, to estimate SOC of the energy storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Kazuki FURUKAWA, Tsubasa MATSUYOSHI, Suguru KOZONO