Patents by Inventor Kenichiro SAKURAI
Kenichiro SAKURAI 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: 11912217Abstract: A vehicle is positively charged with static electricity due to an external factor. The vehicle includes a battery, a static eliminator sheet, and a holding member. The battery includes at least one cell, an electrolyte, a resin case, and negative and positive terminals. The resin case accommodates the components and electrolyte of each cell. The negative terminal is grounded to the vehicle body. The positive terminal is supplied with electric power from a charger. The static eliminator sheet is made of a material on a positive side of a triboelectric series with respect to a material of the resin case. The holding member holds the static eliminator sheet and the resin case in contact with each other. The holding member holds the battery at a predetermined location of the vehicle body in a state where the resin case and the static eliminator sheet are slidable due to vehicle body vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koushi Yamada, Junichi Sudo, Kenichiro Sakurai, Kazuhiro Maeda, Toshio Tanahashi
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Patent number: 11912956Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a sliding member. The sliding member includes: a first sliding portion having a first lubricant placed between first parts of a first friction sliding mechanism; and a second sliding portion having a second lubricant placed between second parts of a second friction sliding mechanism. The first sliding portion has a lubricant feed port from which the first lubricant is fed, and the second sliding portion has no lubricant feed port from which the second lubricant is fed. The first lubricant contains base oil and an additive. The second lubricant contains base oil and an additive containing conductive carbon. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of conductive carbon than the first lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Sudo, Youji Kanehara, Koushi Yamada, Kenichiro Sakurai, Ko Tanimura, Tomonobu Komoriya
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Publication number: 20230356679Abstract: A vehicle is positively charged with static electricity due to an external factor. The vehicle includes a battery, a static eliminator sheet, and a holding member. The battery includes at least one cell, an electrolyte, a resin case, and negative and positive terminals. The resin case accommodates the components and electrolyte of each cell. The negative terminal is grounded to the vehicle body. The positive terminal is supplied with electric power from a charger. The static eliminator sheet is made of a material on a positive side of a triboelectric series with respect to a material of the resin case. The holding member holds the static eliminator sheet and the resin case in contact with each other. The holding member holds the battery at a predetermined location of the vehicle body in a state where the resin case and the static eliminator sheet are slidable due to vehicle body vibrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koushi YAMADA, Junichi SUDO, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Kazuhiro MAEDA, Toshio TANAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230304632Abstract: In a vehicle having a microscopic dynamics friction mechanism formed of at least two parts and charged to a positive potential due to traveling, a lubricant in which first additive fine particles made of a resin that generates a negative potential are uniformly mixed with an electrically insulating base oil is disposed in a clearance between members of the friction mechanism. While the first additive fine particles are in frictional contact with the member, neutralization and elimination of the positive potential of the member are started. The first additive fine particles are attracted by a Coulomb force to the positive potential of the surface of the member other than a frictional contact part of the member when floating in the electrically insulating base oil and moving and circulating. The neutralization and elimination of the positive potential of the member are continued.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Junichi SUDO, Youji KANEHARA, Koushi YAMADA, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Toshio TANAHASHI, Ko TANIMURA, Tomonobu KOMORIYA
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Patent number: 11713432Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automotive slide member including a first slide portion having a first lubricant applied between first portions of a first friction slide mechanism, and a second slide portion having a second lubricant applied between second portions of a second friction slide mechanism. The first slide portion is arranged at a part to be touched by an operator who attaches the automotive slide member to an automobile or a user of the automobile. The second slide portion is arranged at a part that is not touched by the operator who attaches the automotive slide member to the automobile or the user of the automobile. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of conductive carbon than that of the first lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Sudo, Youji Kanehara, Koushi Yamada, Kenichiro Sakurai, Ko Tanimura, Tomonobu Komoriya
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Publication number: 20230174015Abstract: A key system for an automobile according to the present disclosure includes an on-vehicle device configured to transmit and receive a radio signal to and from an electronic key, and a resin panel through which the on-vehicle device is fixed to and held by a body of the automobile. The on-vehicle device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a search signal to the electronic key, a receiver configured to receive a response signal transmitted from the electronic key in response to the search signal, a control unit configured to control the transmission of the search signal, and a resin case. The smart key system for the automobile according to the present disclosure removes electrostatic charging generated by the search signal transmitted from the transmitter in either or both of the resin case and the resin panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koushi YAMADA, Junichi SUDO, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Toshio TANAHASHI
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Patent number: 11635109Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a sliding member. The sliding member includes: a first sliding portion having a first lubricant placed between first parts of a first friction sliding mechanism; a second sliding portion having a second lubricant placed between second parts of a second friction sliding mechanism; and a third sliding portion having a third lubricant placed between third parts of a third friction sliding mechanism. The first sliding portion is in contact with the third lubricant, and the second sliding portion is not in contact with the third lubricant. The second lubricant contains an additive containing conductive carbon, and the third lubricant contains no conductive carbon. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of the conductive carbon than the first lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Sudo, Youji Kanehara, Koushi Yamada, Kenichiro Sakurai, Ko Tanimura, Tomonobu Komoriya
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Patent number: 11608859Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a sliding member. The sliding member includes: a first sliding portion having a first lubricant placed between first parts of a first friction sliding mechanism; a second sliding portion having a second lubricant placed between second parts of a second friction sliding mechanism; and a third sliding portion having a third lubricant placed between third parts of a third friction sliding mechanism. The first sliding portion is in contact with the third lubricant, and the second sliding portion is not in contact with the third lubricant. The second lubricant contains an additive containing conductive carbon, and the third lubricant contains no conductive carbon. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of the conductive carbon than the first lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Sudo, Youji Kanehara, Koushi Yamada, Kenichiro Sakurai, Ko Tanimura, Tomonobu Komoriya
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Patent number: 11447083Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides a vehicle which includes: an electrostatic eliminator that reduces a positive charge of a specific portion or that charges the specific portion with a negative charge, the specific portion being defined as a portion to be positively charged at which a positively charged air flow that flows around a vehicle body during travel starts to vary from a flow along a surface of the positively charged vehicle body to a flow separated from the surface as negative charges are accumulated because of the external factors. The specific portion is constituted from a conductive material with a surface resistance value that is less than a surface resistance value of the electrostatic eliminator. The electrostatic eliminator is constituted from a conductive resin with a surface resistance value in a range of 102? or more and less than 1011?.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichiro Sakurai, Yoshiaki Kajikawa, Junichi Sudo, Koushi Yamada
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Publication number: 20220073022Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides a vehicle which includes: an electrostatic eliminator that reduces a positive charge of a specific portion or that charges the specific portion with a negative charge, the specific portion being defined as a portion to be positively charged at which a positively charged air flow that flows around a vehicle body during travel starts to vary from a flow along a surface of the positively charged vehicle body to a flow separated from the surface as negative charges are accumulated because of the external factors. The specific portion is constituted from a conductive material with a surface resistance value that is less than a surface resistance value of the electrostatic eliminator. The electrostatic eliminator is constituted from a conductive resin with a surface resistance value in a range of 102? or more and less than 1011?.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichiro SAKURAI, Yoshiaki KAJIKAWA, Junichi SUDO, Koushi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20220017834Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automotive slide member including a first slide portion having a first lubricant applied between first portions of a first friction slide mechanism, and a second slide portion having a second lubricant applied between second portions of a second friction slide mechanism. The first slide portion is arranged at a part to be touched by an operator who attaches the automotive slide member to an automobile or a user of the automobile. The second slide portion is arranged at a part that is not touched by the operator who attaches the automotive slide member to the automobile or the user of the automobile. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of conductive carbon than that of the first lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Junichi SUDO, Youji KANEHARA, Koushi YAMADA, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Ko TANIMURA, Tomonobu KOMORIYA
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Publication number: 20220018398Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a sliding member. The sliding member includes: a first sliding portion having a first lubricant placed between first parts of a first friction sliding mechanism; a second sliding portion having a second lubricant placed between second parts of a second friction sliding mechanism; and a third sliding portion having a third lubricant placed between third parts of a third friction sliding mechanism. The first sliding portion is in contact with the third lubricant, and the second sliding portion is not in contact with the third lubricant. The second lubricant contains an additive containing conductive carbon, and the third lubricant contains no conductive carbon. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of the conductive carbon than the first lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Junichi SUDO, Youji KANEHARA, Koushi YAMADA, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Ko TANIMURA, Tomonobu KOMORIYA
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Publication number: 20220017837Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a sliding member. The sliding member includes: a first sliding portion having a first lubricant placed between first parts of a first friction sliding mechanism; and a second sliding portion having a second lubricant placed between second parts of a second friction sliding mechanism. The first sliding portion has a lubricant feed port from which the first lubricant is fed, and the second sliding portion has no lubricant feed port from which the second lubricant is fed. The first lubricant contains base oil and an additive. The second lubricant contains base oil and an additive containing conductive carbon. The second lubricant contains a relatively larger amount of conductive carbon than the first lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Junichi SUDO, Youji KANEHARA, Koushi YAMADA, Kenichiro SAKURAI, Ko TANIMURA, Tomonobu KOMORIYA