Patents by Inventor Kentarou Nagai

Kentarou Nagai 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: 9162618
    Abstract: It has a sun visor 10 arranged in the vehicle roof portion so that it can be rotated between the working position and the stored position, a room lamp 20 arranged in the vehicle roof portion and covered by the sun visor 10 stored at the stored position, and a lamp-turning-on/off switch (lens) 20L of the room lamp arranged on the room lamp itself or near it; the lens 20L can be turned between the on position and the off position and, when the lens 20L is in the on position (inclined posture) 20n, if the sun visor 10 is in the stored position, the sun visor 10 drives the lens 20L physically from the on position to the off position (horizontal posture) 20h.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kentarou Nagai, Haruhito Ohtsuka, Ryouhei Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20130003395
    Abstract: It has a sun visor 10 arranged in the vehicle roof portion so that it can be rotated between the working position and the stored position, a room lamp 20 arranged in the vehicle roof portion and covered by the sun visor 10 stored at the stored position, and a lamp-turning-on/off switch (lens) 20L of the room lamp arranged on the room lamp itself or near it; the lens 20L can be turned between the on position and the off position and, when the lens 20L is in the on position (inclined posture) 20n, if the sun visor 10 is in the stored position, the sun visor 10 drives the lens 20L physically from the on position to the off position (horizontal posture) 20h.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentarou NAGAI, Haruhito OHTSUKA, Ryouhei OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 7576293
    Abstract: An interior illumination device includes a receiving housing of a design part having swinging shafts; a switching knob of a design part having swinging holes, said switching knob being swingably supported by the swinging shafts and the swinging holes; a switching unit of a functional part swingably supporting a switching lever; and a rotation regulating member interposed between the switching knob and the swinging shafts of the design part for regulating a swinging range of the switching knob. When the design part and the functional part are assembled with each other, the switching knob and the switching lever are connected to each other, and the switching lever is swung in conjunction with a swing of the switching knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kentarou Nagai, Masayuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20080302646
    Abstract: An interior illumination device includes a receiving housing of a design part having swinging shafts; a switching knob of a design part having swinging holes, said switching knob being swingably supported by the swinging shafts and the swinging holes; a switching unit of a functional part swingably supporting a switching lever; and a rotation regulating member interposed between the switching knob and the swinging shafts of the design part for regulating a swinging range of the switching knob. When the design part and the functional part are assembled with each other, the switching knob and the switching lever are connected to each other, and the switching lever is swung in conjunction with a swing of the switching knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kentarou Nagai, Masayuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 6083056
    Abstract: A combined-type connector of a multi-stage construction in which a main housing and an auxiliary housing each having metal terminals are combined together. In the combined-type connector, a fitting hood of the main housing is formed by a rear wall and a peripheral wall defining four side walls, and a combination-purpose insertion port is formed in the rear wall of the fitting hood, and is directed and leads to a region disposed over one side of rear end portions of terminal receiving chambers. A fitting hood of the auxiliary housing is formed by three walls, that is, a wall, disposed forwardly of a press-connection opening, and two walls disposed respectively at opposite sides of this wall, and is inserted into the fitting hood of the main housing through the insertion port, and the thus inserted fitting hood of the auxiliary housing has such a size that the three walls thereof are disposed in contiguous relation to an inner peripheral surface of the fitting hood of the main housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Okabe, Kentarou Nagai
  • Patent number: 5941728
    Abstract: A cover member of a press-connecting connector for covering an opening portion of terminal receiving chambers formed in a connector housing, includes a plurality of sandwiching plates, for sandwiching wires, arranged side by side and in parallel to each other on a closed side surface of the cover member, and the sandwiching plates having thick portions formed so that a distance between the sandwiching plates is substantially equal to a outer diameter of the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Okabe, Kentarou Nagai
  • Patent number: 5934927
    Abstract: There is disclosed a terminal retaining construction of a press-connecting connector which can positively retain a press-connecting terminal on terminal retaining portions of a housing, without reducing the strength of that portion of the press-connecting terminal where press-connecting blades for press-connection to a wire are formed. Each of press-connecting terminals 13 can be retained by terminal retaining portions 15 in a corresponding terminal receiving chamber 12 in a housing 11, the terminal having press-connecting blades 16 to which a wire can be press-connected. The press-connecting blades 16 are formed by stamping on each of opposite side walls 13b of the press-connecting terminal 13 to thereby form a window 17 through the side wall 13b, and the window 17 can be retainingly engaged with the associated terminal retaining portion 15 of the housing 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kentarou Nagai