Patents by Inventor Kensuke YOSHIGA

Kensuke YOSHIGA 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: 20240116407
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a hinge cover that is disposed at aside portion of a seat cushion and has an opening through which a recliner shaft of a recliner provided between the seat cushion and a seat back passes, and a reclining lever that is disposed at an outer side in a seat width direction with respect to the hinge cover and is rotatable about the recliner shaft to unlock the recliner. A part of an edge portion of the opening of the hinge cover is provided with a facing portion that protrudes further toward the recliner shaft side than another portion of the edge portion and faces the recliner shaft in proximity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yukinori MIKITA, Kensuke YOSHIGA, Fumito KITANAKA, Masafumi TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240116408
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a hinge cover and a reclining lever. The hinge cover is disposed at a side portion of a seat cushion, and has an opening through which a recliner shaft of a recliner provided between the seat cushion and a seat back passes. The reclining lever is disposed at an outer side in a seat width direction with respect to the hinge cover, is rotatable about the recliner shaft to unlock the recliner, and has a protrusion protruding inward in the seat width direction, the protrusion facing an edge portion of the opening in a radial direction of the recliner shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yukinori MIKITA, Kensuke YOSHIGA, Jun SHIRAI, Fumito KITANAKA, Masafumi TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230202359
    Abstract: A seatback frame including left and right side frames, a lower frame, and a sacrum support section. The left and right side frames extend in a seat up-down direction inside left and right side portions of a seatback of a vehicle seat. The lower frame spans between lower end portions of the left and right side frames. The sacrum support section extends from a lower end portion of the lower frame toward a seat front side and supports a sacral region of a seated occupant from a seat rear side. A weakened portion that is weakened by a load from the seat front side is provided to the sacrum support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Kensuke YOSHIGA, Akihiko MIZUNO, Fumito KITANAKA, Kenji NAGUMO
  • Patent number: 11414041
    Abstract: A vehicle seat including: an outside cover; an inside cover; a side airbag module; a side frame; an outside reinforcement cloth that covers a seat width direction outer side of the side airbag module; and an inside reinforcement cloth that is disposed between the side frame and the side airbag module, that covers a seat width direction inner side of the side airbag module, that includes one seat front-rear direction end portion separated into seat upper and lower sides and fixed to the side frame in a manner that avoids the fixing portion, that includes another seat front-rear direction end portion joined to the inside cover at the join portion, and that is configured to transmit tension to the join portion during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Toba, Kazuhito Kashima, Kensuke Yoshiga, Yukinori Mikita, Shota Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210107428
    Abstract: A vehicle seat including: an outside cover; an inside cover; a side airbag module; a side frame; an outside reinforcement cloth that covers a seat width direction outer side of the side airbag module; and an inside reinforcement cloth that is disposed between the side frame and the side airbag module, that covers a seat width direction inner side of the side airbag module, that includes one seat front-rear direction end portion separated into seat upper and lower sides and fixed to the side frame in a manner that avoids the fixing portion, that includes another seat front-rear direction end portion joined to the inside cover at the join portion, and that is configured to transmit tension to the join portion during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hitoshi TOBA, Kazuhito KASHIMA, Kensuke YOSHIGA, Yukinori MIKITA, Shota NAKAJIMA