Patents by Inventor Kazuya Makiuchi
Kazuya Makiuchi 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: 9134002Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit can be configured such that it is difficult or impossible for an observer to visually recognize a light source, a light guide and the like through an outer lens and to suppress brightness unevenness. The vehicle lighting unit can project light outwardly through an opening portion formed in a mirror housing of a sideview mirror along a vehicle length direction and near an outer side of the sideview mirror in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a housing provided inside the mirror housing, an outer lens inside the mirror housing so as to close the opening portion, a light source disposed in a lighting chamber at a position vertically shifted from the position of the opening portion, and a light guide disposed in the lighting chamber while shifted from the position of the opening portion toward the light source.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetaka Okada, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kazuya Makiuchi
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Patent number: 8950916Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle light fitting unit that can include a plurality of light sources, a reflecting plane which diffusely reflects light emitted from the plurality of light sources, and a lens which emits the light, which is diffusely reflected by the reflecting plane, to a front direction. The plurality of light sources can each be provided so that a pitch between one light source and another light source adjacent to the one light source is shorter than a light path length from the one light source to the lens passing through the reflecting plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Makiuchi, Hidetaka Okada, Takuya Matsumaru, Takashi Futami, Koji Fukura, Michio Furukawa, Masanobu Shinoda, Hideto Hosoda, Masahiro Yamagiwa, Yuji Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Tsukada
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Patent number: 8752990Abstract: A vehicle light can allow light to be emitted more uniformly through an elongated area from a fewer number of light sources as compared with a conventional one. The vehicle light can include an outer lens, a plurality of light sources arranged along the outer edge of the outer lens for emitting light in an optical axis direction orthogonal to the arraying direction thereof, an inner lens including a light guide portion elongated in the arraying direction of the light sources and disposed along the optical axis of the light sources, for dispersing the light in a longitudinal direction of the lens and emitting in the optical axis direction, and a first diffusion reflector and second diffusion reflectors configured to be elongated in the longitudinal direction of the inner lens and disposed in the optical axis direction of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetaka Okada, Takuya Matsumaru, Kazuya Makiuchi
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Publication number: 20120294030Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit can be configured such that it is difficult or impossible for an observer to visually recognize a light source, a light guide and the like through an outer lens and to suppress brightness unevenness. The vehicle lighting unit can project light outwardly through an opening portion formed in a minor housing of a sideview mirror along a vehicle length direction and near an outer side of the sideview minor in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a housing provided inside the minor housing, an outer lens inside the mirror housing so as to close the opening portion, a light source disposed in a lighting chamber at a position vertically shifted from the position of the opening portion, and a light guide disposed in the lighting chamber while shifted from the position of the opening portion toward the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Hidetaka OKADA, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kazuya Makiuchi
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Publication number: 20120163031Abstract: A vehicle light can allow light to be emitted more uniformly through an elongated area from a fewer number of light sources as compared with a conventional one. The vehicle light can include an outer lens, a plurality of light sources arranged along the outer edge of the outer lens for emitting light in an optical axis direction orthogonal to the arraying direction thereof, an inner lens including a light guide portion elongated in the arraying direction of the light sources and disposed along the optical axis of the light sources, for dispersing the light in a longitudinal direction of the lens and emitting in the optical axis direction, and a first diffusion reflector and second diffusion reflectors configured to be elongated in the longitudinal direction of the inner lens and disposed in the optical axis direction of the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Hidetaka Okada, Takuya Matsumaru, Kazuya Makiuchi
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Publication number: 20110317442Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle light fitting unit that can include a plurality of light sources, a reflecting plane which diffusely reflects light emitted from the plurality of light sources, and a lens which emits the light, which is diffusely reflected by the reflecting plane, to a front direction. The plurality of light sources can each be provided so that a pitch between one light source and another light source adjacent to the one light source is shorter than a light path length from the one light source to the lens passing through the reflecting plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Kazuya Makiuchi, Hidetaka Okada, Takuya Matsumaru, Takashi Futami, Koji Fukura, Michio Furukawa, Masanobu Shinoda, Hideto Hosoda, Masahiro Yamagiwa, Yuji Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Tsukada
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Patent number: 6088965Abstract: A door and door window regulator which prevents the cable member from making contact with the door glass includes a door having inner and outer panels, a guide rail having one end connected to the outer panel and the other end connected to the inner panel, a window bracket slidably supported along the guide rail through a slide member and connected to a door window, and a guide bracket located on the guide rail and supporting a motor. A drum is supported on the guide bracket and is rotated through operation of the motor, and a pulley is supported on the guide rail at a position spaced from the drum. The cable member is wrapped around the drum and includes a pair of cable ends, one end of which is connected with the window bracket after passing through the pulley and the other end of which is directly connected with the window bracket from the drum. The portions of the cable member extending from the pulley are located generally parallel to the length of the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1998Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoichi Fukumoto, Kazuya Makiuchi, Mamoru Nishihira, Masakatsu Tsubouchi
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Patent number: 6032987Abstract: A sliding door locking device has a fully opened condition locking mechanism and a fully closed condition locking mechanism for locking a sliding door to a vehicle body when the sliding door is at its fully opened position and fully closed position, respectively. When an inside handle is rotated in one direction for closing the sliding door, the inside handle is connected only to the fully opened condition locking mechanism for releasing the fully opened condition locking mechanism. On the other hand, when the inside handle is rotated in the other direction for opening the sliding door, the inside handle is connected to both the fully opened condition locking mechanism and the fully closed condition locking mechanism for releasing both.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoichi Fukumoto, Kazuya Makiuchi, Mamoru Nishihira, Masakatsu Tsubouchi
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Patent number: 5992097Abstract: A sliding door structure for opening/closing a sliding door by guiding it to slide has a guide rail having a component for sliding the slide door upwardly and an insert hole for facilitating an insertion of a roller into an inside space of the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Makiuchi, Mamoru Nishihira, Kunihiko Hisamoto, Masaji Hirano, Masakatsu Tsubouchi, Ryoichi Fukumoto, Tsuyoshi Kamiya
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Patent number: 5975597Abstract: An outside handle of a vehicular sliding door to open/close an opening of a vehicle body, having a bell crank portion which is formed into an L-shape having a first joint and a second joint at its leading ends and is turnably supported at its L-shaped bent portion on a the base portion through a crank pin. A fixed link is formed between the handle pin of the handle portion and the crank pin of the bell crank portion to construct a four-point link mechanism together with the handle portion, the sub-link portion and the bell crank portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Makiuchi, Mamoru Nishihira, Kunihiko Hisamoto, Masaji Hirano, Ryoichi Fukumoto, Morihito Nomura, Masakatsu Tsubouchi