Patents by Inventor Ken TORIYAMA

Ken TORIYAMA 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: 11986854
    Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide an automobile part capable of improving fuel consumption by weight reduction of the part because the impact resistance that can be sufficiently used even in cold regions can be given to a part made of a thinner plastic. An automobile part obtained by forming a coating film layer on a plastic material comprising a polypropylene resin composition modified with an elastomer component having a thickness of 1.5 to 2.5 mm, wherein said coating film layer is a multilayer coating film obtained by coating and baking the following coating compositions in this order; (a) a primer coating composition having a single film tensile elongation of 5 to 35% at ?20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Takata, Yumiko Hayashi, Emi Toriyama, Ken Nakane
  • Patent number: 11872877
    Abstract: A fuel lid opener-has: a heart cam mechanism that is structured so as to, each time a lifter is push-operated via a fuel lid, cause the lifter to alternately repeat advancing-out and withdrawing, and so as to push the fuel lid open due to advancing-out of the lifter; and a locking mechanism-that can restrict operation of the heart cam mechanism. At the locking mechanism, a time when a stopper is moved by operation of a motor, and the aforementioned restricting is released, the aforementioned stopper engages with the heart cam mechanism and operates the heart cam mechanism. Due thereto, the lifter advances-out, and the fuel lid is pushed open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tani, Ken Toriyama, Akinori Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240001760
    Abstract: When a fuel lid goes from an open state to a closed state and a pressed state and then returns to the closed state, a contact/non-contact switching mechanism switches a signal outputted from a microswitch from an ON signal to an OFF signal by performing a first operation. When the fuel lid goes from the closed state to the pressed state and then returns to the closed state, the contact/non-contact switching mechanism switches the signal outputted from the microswitch from the OFF signal to the ON signal and the OFF signal in that order by performing a second operation. Under a condition at least of the signal outputted from the microswitch switching from the OFF signal to the ON signal and the OFF signal in that order within a prescribed time, a control unit controls a lifter to rotate to another side around an axis line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshihisa TANI, Akinori SASAKI, Ken TORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210237560
    Abstract: A fuel lid opener has: a case that is mounted to an outer peripheral surface of a side wall of a lid box at which a fuel lid is pivotally supported so as to be able to open and close; a lifter that is supported at the case so as to be able to rotate around an axis that runs along a plate surface direction of the fuel lid that is in a closed state, and that has an arm portion that extends in a rotation radial direction within the lid box, and a distal end portion of the arm portion engages with the fuel lid that is in the closed state from a reverse surface side; and a heart cam mechanism that is provided within the case, and that, each time the arm portion of the lifter is push-operated in one direction around the axis via the fuel lid, causes the lifter to alternately repeat rotation in one direction and in another direction around the axis, and that pushes the fuel lid open due to rotation of the lifter in the another direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihisa TANI, Ken TORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210206258
    Abstract: A fuel lid opener-has: a heart cam mechanism that is structured so as to, each time a lifter is push-operated via a fuel lid, cause the lifter to alternately repeat advancing-out and withdrawing, and so as to push the fuel lid open due to advancing-out of the lifter; and a locking mechanism-that can restrict operation of the heart cam mechanism. At the locking mechanism, a time when a stopper is moved by operation of a motor, and the aforementioned restricting is released, the aforementioned stopper engages with the heart cam mechanism and operates the heart cam mechanism. Due thereto, the lifter advances-out, and the fuel lid is pushed open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihisa TANI, Ken TORIYAMA, Akinori SASAKI