Patents by Inventor Kouhei Sagawa

Kouhei Sagawa 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: 8028780
    Abstract: To ensure that an energy supply operation can be performed safely and smoothly on a vehicle having a plurality of energy ports such as a charging port, charging ports for supplying electric energy to a high voltage battery and a fuel supply port for supplying fuel to a fuel tank are provided in a vehicle body as energy supply ports. The fuel supply port and charging ports are respectively provided with lid members that are switched between a closed state and an open state by respective lock mechanisms. When closure of one lid member is released, all of the other lid members are prohibited from being switched to the open state, and therefore the number of energy supply ports having an open lid member is limited to one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouhei Sagawa, Naoki Watabe, Takahito Shiina, Nobuhisa Yamaguchi, Takashi Tamura, Shingo Ishida
  • Publication number: 20090242291
    Abstract: To ensure that an energy supply operation can be performed safely and smoothly on a vehicle having a plurality of energy ports such as a charging port, charging ports for supplying electric energy to a high voltage battery and a fuel supply port for supplying fuel to a fuel tank are provided in a vehicle body as energy supply ports. The fuel supply port and charging ports are respectively provided with lid members that are switched between a closed state and an open state by respective lock mechanisms. When closure of one lid member is released, all of the other lid members are prohibited from being switched to the open state, and therefore the number of energy supply ports having an open lid member is limited to one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouhei Sagawa, Naoki Watabe, Takahito Shiina, Nobuhisa Yamaguchi, Takashi Tamura, Shingo Ishida