Patents by Inventor Koji Kawamura

Koji Kawamura 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: 20240092307
    Abstract: An actuator of an airbag device includes a main body portion, which is attached to an attachment base, and a cap including a fitting protruding portion that is inserted into a fitting recessed portion of the main body portion. The fitting protruding portion has a holding portion, which is inserted into a holding hole of a coupling member when fitted to the main body portion and holds a leading end portion of the coupling member, and a movement permitting unit that, when a ceiling portion of the cap is subjected to pressure of a combustion gas of a squib, causes the ceiling portion to move, and causes the holding portion to move from a holding position, wherein the holding portion is inserted into the holding hole of the coupling member, to a holding released position, wherein the holding portion is removed from the holding hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke KAWAMURA, Keigo KIMURA, Koji KAWAMURA, Hajime KITTE, Yoshio ONO
  • Patent number: 11865997
    Abstract: An actuator of an airbag device includes a main body portion, which is attached to an attachment base, and a cap including a fitting protruding portion that is inserted into a fitting recessed portion of the main body portion. The fitting protruding portion has a holding portion, which is inserted into a holding hole of a coupling member when fitted to the main body portion and holds a leading end portion of the coupling member, and a movement permitting unit that, when a ceiling portion of the cap is subjected to pressure of a combustion gas of a squib, causes the ceiling portion to move, and causes the holding portion to move from a holding position, wherein the holding portion is inserted into the holding hole of the coupling member, to a holding released position, wherein the holding portion is removed from the holding hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawamura, Keigo Kimura, Koji Kawamura, Hajime Kitte, Yoshio Ono
  • Patent number: 11820313
    Abstract: An airbag includes a main inflation portion to be deployed and inflated at an outer side of the upper body of an occupant, and an auxiliary inflation portion disposed at a position adjacent to an inner side of the main inflation portion and to be deployed and inflated at an obliquely front outer side of a head portion. In the airbag whose deployment and inflation are completed, a maximum dimension in a facing direction in which an outer main body portion and an inner main body portion of the auxiliary inflation portion face each other is smaller than a dimension in a direction orthogonal to the facing direction. The auxiliary inflation portion has the outer main body portion as a joining area, and is joined to the main inflation portion in the joining area, in a state of being in communication with the main inflation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Yamamoto, Koji Kawamura, Takenori Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20230348222
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacking unit configured to stack a plurality of sheets, an alignment unit including a supporting portion on which the sheets are loaded, the alignment unit being configured to align positions of the sheets loaded on the supporting portion, and a bonding unit configured to bond the sheets loaded on the supporting portion to each other. The alignment unit is configured to align a position of the second sheet stack with the first sheet stack. The bonding unit is configured to heat and pressurize the second sheet stack aligned by the alignment unit such that sheets of the second sheet stack are bonded to each other with the adhesive and the first sheet stack and the second sheet stack are bonded to each other with the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: KOJI KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11760301
    Abstract: A steering wheel airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator. The airbag includes: a bag body; and a rectifying member rectifies expansion gas discharged from the inflator. The rectifying member is provided with three gas outlet ports so that the expansion gas can flow out substantially along a ring surface of the ring portion and to left, right, and rear three sides. The rectifying member is configured by partially joining outer peripheral edges of a vehicle body side panel and a driver side panel. The vehicle body side panel is configured to have three joining portions which are joined to corresponding outer peripheral edges of the driver side panel and three non-joining regions between the joining portions arranged on an outer peripheral edge side of the flat surface portion. The gas outlet port is configured by a portion of the non-joining region between the joining portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Koji Kawamura, Yuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11760299
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus is configured to be used for a vehicle seat including an accommodation portion. The airbag apparatus includes an airbag. The airbag is configured such that a portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position rearward of the seat back, and is inflated and deployed away from the accommodation portion in the width direction in a position rearward of the headrest, and that another portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position forward of the seat back, and is deployed and inflated in a position forward of a head of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat and away from the accommodation portion in the width direction, so as to wrap around the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Yamamoto, Koji Kawamura, Motoyuki Tanaka, Toshihito Yanagisawa, Yusuke Kojima, Yusuke Kawamura, Yuto Hiraiwa, Yuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11718256
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag including: an outer bag; and an inner bag disposed so as to inflate inside the outer bag and having supply ports through which the inflation gas is supplied to the outer bag, the outer hag and the inner hag sharing the inflow opening and the attachment portion. At least one of the supply ports is provided as a lower side supply port disposed in the lower side wall portion, and a gas guide tether that connects a vicinity of an outer edge side of the lower side supply port and the vehicle body side wall portion so as to be able to guide the inflation gas supplied from the lower side supply port to the vehicle body side wall portion side in an inner peripheral surface of the outer bag along a radial direction centered on the inflow opening is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Koji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11708047
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, a blocking member that can adjust an exhaust hole of the airbag to a blocked state and an opened state, a coupling member, and a holding and releasing unit, which maintains a state of blocking the exhaust hole by holding the coupling member. When the holding and releasing unit releases the holding of the coupling member, the blocking member inverts in such a way as to be fed out from an inner peripheral face side of the airbag to an outer peripheral face side through the exhaust hole owing to being pressed by inflating gas, and causes inflating gas to be discharged from a through hole formed between leading end regions of outer peripheral edges of a first panel portion and a second panel portion in the blocking member and a communication hole communicating with the exhaust hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Suzuki, Koji Kawamura, Takenori Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20230208225
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of core portions. The rotor core includes an annular portion and a plurality of coupling portions. Each of the plurality of coupling portions couples the annular portion and a first core portion of each of the plurality of core portions to each other. Each of the plurality of coupling portions has at least one coupling path. A sum of a width of a portion having the smallest width in at least one coupling path is smaller than a length of a joining boundary between the annular portion and each of the plurality of coupling portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori SASAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Shohei FUJIKURA, Hiroko IKEDA, Koji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230192026
    Abstract: An actuator of an airbag device includes a main body portion, which is attached to an attachment base, and a cap including a fitting protruding portion that is inserted into a fitting recessed portion of the main body portion. The fitting protruding portion has a holding portion, which is inserted into a holding hole of a coupling member when fitted to the main body portion and holds a leading end portion of the coupling member, and a movement permitting unit that, when a ceiling portion of the cap is subjected to pressure of a combustion gas of a squib, causes the ceiling portion to move, and causes the holding portion to move from a holding position, wherein the holding portion is inserted into the holding hole of the coupling member, to a holding released position, wherein the holding portion is removed from the holding hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke KAWAMURA, Keigo KIMURA, Koji KAWAMURA, Hajime KITTE, Yoshio ONO
  • Publication number: 20230174011
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, a blocking member that can adjust an exhaust hole of the airbag to a blocked state and an opened state, a coupling member, and a holding and releasing unit, which maintains a state of blocking the exhaust hole by holding the coupling member. When the holding and releasing unit releases the holding of the coupling member, the blocking member inverts in such a way as to be fed out from an inner peripheral face side of the airbag to an outer peripheral face side through the exhaust hole owing to being pressed by inflating gas, and causes inflating gas to be discharged from a through hole formed between leading end regions of outer peripheral edges of a first panel portion and a second panel portion in the blocking member and a communication hole communicating with the exhaust hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yuya SUZUKI, Koji KAWAMURA, Takenori OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230174012
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag having an exhaust hole and a flap member that can close off the exhaust hole. The flap member includes a flap main body and a coupling member. The leading end of the coupling member is coupled with an opening/closing control device. The flap main body closes off the exhaust hole from an inner peripheral face side of the airbag. A width on the base portion side is set to be greater than a width of the exhaust hole. Whole of the base portion side is joined to the peripheral edge of the exhaust hole in the airbag. The flap main body covers the exhaust hole in a region between straight lines that connect one end each of a joint region on the base portion and a region on the leading end to which the coupling member is caused to be coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yuya SUZUKI, Koji KAWAMURA, Takenori OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230143871
    Abstract: An airbag includes a main inflation portion to be deployed and inflated at an outer side of the upper body of an occupant, and an auxiliary inflation portion disposed at a position adjacent to an inner side of the main inflation portion and to be deployed and inflated at an obliquely front outer side of a head portion. In the airbag whose deployment and inflation are completed, a maximum dimension in a facing direction in which an outer main body portion and an inner main body portion of the auxiliary inflation portion face each other is smaller than a dimension in a direction orthogonal to the facing direction. The auxiliary inflation portion has the outer main body portion as a joining area, and is joined to the main inflation portion in the joining area, in a state of being in communication with the main inflation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Shuji YAMAMOTO, Koji KAWAMURA, Takenori OZAKI
  • Patent number: 11635722
    Abstract: A drive transmitting device includes a first gear; a second gear in engagement with the first gear; wherein a first tooth which is at least one of teeth of the first gear has a tooth surface contacting a tooth of the second gear, wherein the tooth surface has such a shape that a contact point of the first tooth of the first gear to the tooth of the second gear is in a region of a first gear side with respect to a line of action which is formed by movement of a contact point between a tooth of the second gear and a second tooth of the first gear immediately before the first tooth with respect to a rotational moving direction of the first gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Kawamura, Seiji Hara
  • Publication number: 20230061257
    Abstract: A steering wheel airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator. The airbag includes: a bag body; and a rectifying member rectifies expansion gas discharged from the inflator. The rectifying member is provided with three gas outlet ports so that the expansion gas can flow out substantially along a ring surface of the ring portion and to left, right, and rear three sides. The rectifying member is configured by partially joining outer peripheral edges of a vehicle body side panel and a driver side panel. The vehicle body side panel is configured to have three joining portions which are joined to corresponding outer peripheral edges of the driver side panel and three non-joining regions between the joining portions arranged on an outer peripheral edge side of the flat surface portion. The gas outlet port is configured by a portion of the non-joining region between the joining portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tsutomu ISHII, Koji KAWAMURA, Yuya SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11508555
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus 100 is equipped with a shower head 16 and a placing table 2 facing each other. A first RF power supply 10a is configured to apply a RF power to any one of the shower head 16 or the placing table 2 without igniting plasma. A measuring device 204 is configured to measure a physical quantity of the RF power applied by the first RF power supply 10a. A process controller 91 is configured to acquire an inter-electrode distance by using the measured physical quantity of the RF power in a correlation function of the inter-electrode distance and the physical quantity of the RF power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Koji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11501976
    Abstract: A substrate processing method performed in a chamber of a substrate processing apparatus is provided. The chamber includes a substrate support, an upper electrode, and a gas supply port. The substrate processing method includes (a) providing the substrate on the substrate support; (b) supplying a first processing gas into the chamber; (c) continuously supplying an RF signal into the chamber while continuously supplying a negative DC voltage to the upper electrode, to generate plasma from the first processing gas in the chamber; and (d) supplying a pulsed RF signal while continuously supplying the negative DC voltage to the upper electrode, to generate plasma from the first processing gas in the chamber. The process further includes repeating alternately repeating the steps (c) and (d), and a time for performing the step (c) once is 30 second or shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiichi Watanabe, Kazuki Narishige, Xinhe Jerry Lim, Jianfeng Xu, Yi Hao Ng, Zhenkang Max Liang, Yujun Nicholas Loo, Chiew Wah Yap, Bin Zhao, Chai Jin Chua, Takehito Watanabe, Koji Kawamura, Kenji Komatsu, Li Jin, Wee Teck Tan, Dali Liu
  • Publication number: 20220306037
    Abstract: An airbag includes a plurality of base materials made of a sheet body. The base materials include: an occupant side panel; a vehicle body side panel; a front side panel; and a rear side panel. Corresponding edge portions of the occupant side panel, the vehicle body side panel, the front side panel and the rear side panel are configured to be joined to each other by a planar joining operation. Outer peripheral edges of the front side panel and the rear side panel are joined to corresponding edge portions of the vehicle body side panel and the occupant side panel, respectively. The front side panel and the rear side panel are separated from each other on a front-rear direction side, when the inflation is completed, by joining corresponding left and right edges of the vehicle body side panel and the occupant side panel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya SUZUKI, Tsutomu ISHII, Koji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220306034
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag including: an outer bag; and an inner bag disposed so as to inflate inside the outer bag and having supply ports through which the inflation gas is supplied to the outer bag, the outer hag and the inner hag sharing the inflow opening and the attachment portion. At least one of the supply ports is provided as a lower side supply port disposed in the lower side wall portion, and a gas guide tether that connects a vicinity of an outer edge side of the lower side supply port and the vehicle body side wall portion so as to be able to guide the inflation gas supplied from the lower side supply port to the vehicle body side wall portion side in an inner peripheral surface of the outer bag along a radial direction centered on the inflow opening is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tsutomu ISHII, Koji KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11390312
    Abstract: A steering wheel includes an annular rim portion, a boss section, one or more spokes interconnecting the rim portion and boss section, and a core member interconnecting these portions, the core member including a wheel portion disposed in the rim portion. The steering wheel further includes a cladding layer disposed around the wheel portion, a skin layer disposed on a front surface of the rim portion, and a sensor layer disposed between the cladding layer and the skin layer for detecting the driver's grip. The sensor layer includes a sheet-shaped substrate having stretch properties, a sensor composed of a conductive ink having stretch properties and applied to a front surface of the substrate, and an insulation sheet covering the sensor and having stretch properties. The sensor layer is generally formed into an annular band and mounted on an outer circumferential portion of the cladding layer by being stretched and expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Hotta, Koji Kawamura, Wataru Miura, Norio Umemura, Masaaki Okuhara