Patents by Inventor Kazunori Harima

Kazunori Harima 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: 20220147951
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for remote servicing of vehicles. A network connected servicing vehicle can include a communications component through which the vehicle: negotiate one or more service agreement for servicing a serviced vehicle; receives a location of the serviced vehicle to which the servicing vehicle travels to perform the servicing of the serviced vehicle; authenticates the presence of the servicing vehicle when proximate to the serviced vehicle; and receives one or more instructions for the servicing of the serviced vehicle at the location of the serviced vehicle. Methods can include arranging for a performance of a service on a first vehicle according to a service agreement; providing one or more instructions relating to the service to a second vehicle; and receiving a confirmation of performance of at least one aspect of the service at the location of the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: GEOFFREY D. GAITHER, KAZUNORI HARIMA
  • Patent number: 11052805
    Abstract: A console bin assembly for a vehicle includes a bin surface having a perimeter and a wall extending upward relative to the bin surface. A channel having a first end and a second end is located adjacent to the perimeter of the bin surface and the first wall. A drainage hole located near the first end of the channel. The channel is sloped such that the channel guides liquid entering the channel to the drainage hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori Harima
  • Publication number: 20210061153
    Abstract: A console bin assembly for a vehicle includes a bin surface having a perimeter and a wall extending upward relative to the bin surface. A channel having a first end and a second end is located adjacent to the perimeter of the bin surface and the first wall. A drainage hole located near the first end of the channel. The channel is sloped such that the channel guides liquid entering the channel to the drainage hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Kazunori Harima
  • Patent number: 10794456
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission is configured such that a transmission ratio continuously changes by continuously changing widths of belt winding grooves of a primary pulley and a secondary pulley, and includes: the primary pulley including a first fixed sheave and a first moving sheave provided in a primary shaft; the secondary pulley including a second fixed sheave and a second moving sheave provided in a secondary shaft; a metal transmission belt wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; and a moving apparatus configured to integrally move the secondary shaft and a secondary bearing supporting the secondary shaft such that a relative positional relationship between the first fixed sheave and the second fixed sheave changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiya Kaji, Hideaki Takahara, Keisuke Ninomiya, Kazunori Harima, Yu Inase
  • Patent number: 10486607
    Abstract: A hole for handle placement penetrates through an outer door, and a handle attached to a fascia face side of a base of a handle unit is placed in the hole in the outer door. An engagement claw is formed at a position on the back-face side of the outer door. An engagement hole to engage with the engagement claw penetrates the base of the handle unit. A pair of left and right hooks are formed at the base of the handle unit, and a pair of left and right hook anchors are formed to the back-face side of the outer door, with the pair of left and right hooks anchoring into the pair of left and right hook anchors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Harima, Naoko Shimizu, Kenji Ushida, Masanori Mizuno, Kimitoshi Imura
  • Publication number: 20180251075
    Abstract: A hole for handle placement penetrates through an outer door, and a handle attached to a fascia face side of a base of a handle unit is placed in the hole in the outer door. An engagement claw is formed at a position on the back-face side of the outer door. An engagement hole to engage with the engagement claw penetrates the base of the handle unit. A pair of left and right hooks are formed at the base of the handle unit, and a pair of left and right hook anchors are formed to the back-face side of the outer door, with the pair of left and right hooks anchoring into the pair of left and right hook anchors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kazunori Harima, Naoko Shimizu, Kenji Ushida, Masanori Mizuno, Kimitoshi Imura
  • Publication number: 20180163827
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission is configured such that a transmission ratio continuously changes by continuously changing widths of belt winding grooves of a primary pulley and a secondary pulley, and includes: the primary pulley including a first fixed sheave and a first moving sheave provided in a primary shaft; the secondary pulley including a second fixed sheave and a second moving sheave provided in a secondary shaft; a metal transmission belt wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; and a moving apparatus configured to integrally move the secondary shaft and a secondary bearing supporting the secondary shaft such that a relative positional relationship between the first fixed sheave and the second fixed sheave changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiya KAJI, Hideaki TAKAHARA, Keisuke NINOMIYA, Kazunori HARIMA, Yu INASE
  • Publication number: 20160243986
    Abstract: A display device includes a front pillar having a curved surface that is convex toward a vehicle cabin side, a curvature of the curved surface being smaller at a lower side in a vehicle vertical direction than at an upper side. The display device also includes a display portion provided at least at a lower portion in the vehicle vertical direction at the curved surface of the front pillar, an image being displayed on the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoko ISHIGURO, Kazunori HARIMA
  • Patent number: 9182017
    Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission adapted to prevent a tilting motion of a sheave under high temperature. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is comprised of a pair of pulleys individually comprised of a fixed sheave rotated integrally with a rotary shaft and a movable sheave fitted onto the rotary shaft while being allowed to reciprocate thereon, and a driving belt applied to the pulleys to transmit power therebetween. a stopper member is disposed on an outer circumferential side and in a side where the driving belt is not contacted with the movable sheave so as to prevent the movable sheave from being tilted to widen a width between the fixed sheave and the movable sheave holding the driving belt by a load from the driving belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michio Yoshida, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida, Kazunori Harima
  • Patent number: 9080639
    Abstract: A driving belt comprising plate elements juxtaposed in its thickness direction and a flat ring fastening the elements annularly. The elements includes at least one adjuster element configured to adjust an endplay as a total of clearances between the adjacent elements in the elements fastened annularly by the ring. The adjuster element comprises an insertion groove opening toward the endplay, and an inserting member inserted into the insertion groove and configured to protrude partially from the insertion groove thereby adjusting the endplay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunori Harima, Yuji Hattori, Michio Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140106919
    Abstract: A driving belt comprising plate elements juxtaposed in its thickness direction and a flat ring fastening the elements annularly. The elements includes at least one adjuster element configured to adjust an endplay as a total of clearances between the adjacent elements in the elements fastened annularly by the ring. The adjuster element comprises an insertion groove opening toward the endplay, and an inserting member inserted into the insertion groove and configured to protrude partially from the insertion groove thereby adjusting the endplay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Kazunori Harima, Yuji Hattori, Michio Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140031154
    Abstract: A belt-driven continuously variable transmission adapted to prevent a tilting motion of a sheave under high temperature. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission is comprised of a pair of pulleys individually comprised of a fixed sheave rotated integrally with a rotary shaft and a movable sheave fitted onto the rotary shaft while being allowed to reciprocate thereon, and a driving belt applied to the pulleys to transmit power therebetween. a stopper member is disposed on an outer circumferential side and in a side where the driving belt is not contacted with the movable sheave so as to prevent the movable sheave from being tilted to widen a width between the fixed sheave and the movable sheave holding the driving belt by a load from the driving belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michio Yoshida, Yuji Hattori, Tomoaki Yanagida, Kazunori Harima