Patents by Inventor Kenji Nonaka
Kenji Nonaka 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: 20120033141Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television includes a display panel, a flat plate-shaped cover further includes a margin portion around four sides of the cover, such as to extrude outward from the display panel, a pin extending from the margin portion in a direction crossing the cover and includes a groove portion, and a first metal fitting further includes an opening portion includes a first part and a second part, and a fitting main body which defines surroundings of the opening portion, the display panel being interposed between the cover and the first metal fitting. The first metal fitting is movable between a first position where the pin is put into the first part and a second position where the pin is put into the second part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20120033364Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a rectangular front glass panel, a mounting fitting bonded to an inner surface of the front glass panel, arranged along a peripheral edge portion of the front glass panel, and including engaging pieces, a display panel superposed on the inner surface of the front glass panel and having a peripheral edge portion thereof held by the mounting fitting, and a decorative frame fitted to the mounting fitting to be mounted on the inner surface of the front glass panel and enclose the display panel. The decorative frame includes an engagement groove in engagement with the engaging pieces of the mounting fittings, an engaging protrusion configured to engage with the mounting fitting, and a slit formed at a bottom of the engagement groove so as to adjoin the engaging protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kenji NONAKA
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Publication number: 20120033143Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a glass panel, a first fixing portion including a first portion attached to the glass panel and a second portion configured to face the glass panel, and a display panel configured to be slid up to a position where a portion of the display panel is interposed between the glass panel and the second portion of the first fixing portion and to overlap the glass panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20110168276Abstract: An oil control valve mounting arrangement includes a resin cover 5 with a metal cylindrical body 4 insert-molded therein, a valve sleeve 3 housed within the cylindrical body 4, and a spool 2 inserted in the valve sleeve 3. In at least at one end portion 14 of the cylindrical body 4 in the axial direction of the valve sleeve 3, the cover 5 includes an engaging portion 19 engageable with an interior-facing face 15b of the cylindrical body 4 facing the radially inner side of the valve sleeve 3 at an end of the cylindrical body 4 in the axis direction of the valve sleeve 3 so as to restrict displacement of the cover 5 away from the cylindrical body 4 in the radial direction of the valve sleeve 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Naoki Kira, Takahiro Inokuchi, Atsushi Nishigaki, Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20110088792Abstract: A fluid control valve is provided. The fluid control valve is interposed in a fluid flow passage, and includes a temperature sensing part which is provided in a fluid of the fluid flow passage, and which is configured to operate based on a temperature of the fluid; a heating element which is configured to heat the temperature sensing part; and a shielding part which is capable of shielding the temperature sensing part from the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshikuni ITO, Shoichi Sakai, Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20110073055Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes: a driving side rotational member synchronously rotatable with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotational member arranged coaxially with the driving side rotational member and synchronously rotatable with a camshaft that opens and closes any one of intake and exhaust valves of the internal combustion engine; a phase converting mechanism displacing a relative phase between the driving side rotational member and the driven side rotational member to an advanced angle phase side or a retarded angle phase side by distributing an operating fluid to each of two kinds of pressure chambers, the volume of which is complementarily varied by a movable partition; and a biasing member biasing the relative phase toward a predetermined phase suitable for a start-up of the internal combustion engine except for a most advanced angle phase and a most retarded angle phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Kenji Nonaka
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Patent number: 7857372Abstract: A tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile including a baggage compartment, a baggage compartment opening, and a gate which covers the baggage compartment opening to be openable is provided. The tonneau cover apparatus includes a cover member extending from a position spaced apart from the baggage compartment opening toward the baggage compartment opening to cover the baggage compartment, and a guide portion which is formed at a portion of the baggage compartment opening to be covered by the gate and guides vertical movement of the cover distal end of the cover member.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Madza Motor CorporationInventors: Yoshio Fukushima, Shingo Kunihiro, Masatoshi Takayama, Yoji Yatsushiro, Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20100315797Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an assembly of a frame and a sub frame provided on a rear side of a display panel, and respective circuit boards provided inside the frame and the sub frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventor: Kenji Nonaka
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Patent number: 7651158Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle body structure which has a sub-window plate and a front fender each disposed at the rear of a headlamp lens on a sidewall of a vehicle body. In the vehicle body structure, a longitudinally-extending concave portion 60 is defined between the front fender 4 and a combination of a front pillar 52 and a hood 2. The concave portion 60 has at least a frontward region partly receiving therein a headlamp lens 10 and a rearward region receiving therein the sub-window plate 30 at the rear of the headlamp lens 10, whereby a plurality of components including at least the headlamp lens 10 and the sub-window plate 30 are received in the concave portion 60 to form a belt-line surface module F which continuously covers the concave portion 60 to define a transparent or semi-transparent exterior surface on the sidewall of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2007Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Iwao Koizumi, Kenji Nonaka, Kouji Kishino, Masayoshi Sannomiya, Tsuneaki Zenitani
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Publication number: 20090243321Abstract: A tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile including a baggage compartment, a baggage compartment opening, and a gate which covers the baggage compartment opening to be openable is provided. The tonneau cover apparatus includes a cover member extending from a position spaced apart from the baggage compartment opening toward the baggage compartment opening to cover the baggage compartment, and a guide portion which is formed at a portion of the baggage compartment opening to be covered by the gate and guides vertical movement of the cover distal end of the cover member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Fukushima, Shingo Kunihiro, Masatoshi Takayama, Yoji Yatsushiro, Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20090121096Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an assembly of a frame and a sub frame provided on a rear side of a display panel, and respective circuit boards provided inside the frame and the sub frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kenji Nonaka
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Publication number: 20070262615Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle body structure which has a sub-window plate and a front fender each disposed at the rear of a headlamp lens on a sidewall of a vehicle body. In the vehicle body structure, a longitudinally-extending concave portion 60 is defined between the front fender 4 and a combination of a front pillar 52 and a hood 2. The concave portion 60 has at least a frontward region partly receiving therein a headlamp lens 10 and a rearward region receiving therein the sub-window plate 30 at the rear of the headlamp lens 10, whereby a plurality of components including at least the headlamp lens 10 and the sub-window plate 30 are received in the concave portion 60 to form a belt-line surface module F which continuously covers the concave portion 60 to define a transparent or semi-transparent exterior surface on the sidewall of the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Iwao Koizumi, Kenji Nonaka, Kouji Kishino, Masayoshi Sannomiya, Tsuneaki Zenitani
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Publication number: 20060292361Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 ?m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Takashi Iwasaki, Takuya Yashuhara, Kenji Nonaka, Sadatoshi Igaue
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Publication number: 20060147754Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 ?m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventors: Takashi Iwasaki, Takuya Yashuhara, Kenji Nonaka, Sadatoshi Igaue
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Patent number: 7070856Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 ?m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignees: A-Son Enterprise, Inc., Tocom CorporationInventors: Takashi Iwasaki, Takuya Yashuhara, Kenji Nonaka, Sadatoshi Igaue
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Publication number: 20060093858Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 ?m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicants: TOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Iwasaki, Takuya Yashuhara, Kenji Nonaka, Sadatoshi Igaue
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Patent number: 6698813Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle-seat storing structure having in combination an instrument panel disposed in the front end zone of a cabin space of a vehicle along the width direction of the vehicle, and a seat disposed opposed to the instrument panel. A concave portion is formed in the surface of the instrument panel opposed to the seat so as to receive therein at least a part of the seat in a seat position where a seat cushion is slidingly moved to a given position in the front end zone of the cabin space and a seatback is inclined frontwardly by a given angle. Further, the instrument panel defines an inside space having a given zone containing an air-conditioning unit for controllably adjusting cabin air and outside air to provide a desired cabin-air condition.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kenji Nonaka, Keiichiro Shibata, Yoshinobu Nishida, Toshimine Morino
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Publication number: 20030170457Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 &mgr;m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Applicant: A Son Enterprise IncInventors: Takashi Iwasaki, Takuya Yashuhara, Kenji Nonaka, Sadatoshi Igaue
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Publication number: 20030127880Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle-seat storing structure having in combination an instrument panel disposed in the front end zone of a cabin space of a vehicle along the width direction of the vehicle, and a seat disposed opposed to the instrument panel. A concave portion is formed in the surface of the instrument panel opposed to the seat so as to receive therein at least a part of the seat in a seat position where a seat cushion is slidingly moved to a given position in the front end zone of the cabin space and a seatback is inclined frontwardly by a given angle. Further, the instrument panel defines an inside space having a given zone containing an air-conditioning unit for controllably adjusting cabin air and outside air to provide a desired cabin-air condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kenji Nonaka, Keiichiro Shibata, Yoshinobu Nishida, Toshimine Morino
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Patent number: 6361074Abstract: A steering structure of a vehicle is provided in which when a load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is applied from outside to a flexible transmitting member which connects to a steering unit and an operation detecting unit which detects an operation of a steering wheel, a portio of the transmitting member is separated (including both a structure for cutting and separating the transmitting member itself, and a structure for cutting a coupling of the like provided on the transmitting member), so that when the transmitting member is varied at the time of collision, the steering wheel angle is prevented from being varied to enhance safety at the time of collision.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kenji Nonaka, Kohji Noma