Patents by Inventor Kunihiro Fukuhara

Kunihiro Fukuhara 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: 5165833
    Abstract: A clip for attaching an ornamental member to a wall member such as a vehicle body panel. The clip has a head continuously connected with a portion locking the ornamental member. The head is pressed against one surface of the wall member. The clip also has a leg extending from the head and is inserted into a through hole in the wall member. Pawls are formed at a maximum diameter portion of the leg and pressed against the other surface of the wall member to fixedly hold the leg onto the wall member. Pliable thin-walled resin is coated through secondary forming around the respective outer peripheries of the pawls and the leg for preventing damage of an inner periphery of the through hole when the leg is inserted into the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Hiromichi Nakayama, Kunihiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 5035560
    Abstract: A clip for attaching an ornamental member to a wall member such as a vehicle body panel. The clip has a head continuously connected with a portion locking the ornamental member. The head is pressed against one surface of the wall member. The clip also has a leg extending from the head and is inserted into a through hole in the wall member. Pawls are formed at a maximum diameter portion of the leg and pressed against the other surface of the wall member to fixedly hold the leg onto the wall member. Pliable thin-walled resin is coated through secondary forming around the respective outer peripheries of the pawls and the leg for preventing damage of an inner periphery of the through hole when the leg is inserted into the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Nifco, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Hiromichi Nakayama, Kunihiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 4821381
    Abstract: A fastener made of synthetic resin is molded such that a leg portion of an insertion pin is integrally formed midway of its length with a wide diameter portion for widening a bush, and the bush is fitted on a part of the leg portion under the wide diameter portion. The leg portion is provided with two, axially separated engagement notches for engagement with a lower end inner diameter portion of the bush whereby the insertion pin is initially held at a first pre-assembled position within the bush and a second, final-assembled position within the bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Nifco, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kaneko, Kunihiro Fukuhara, Koji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4765036
    Abstract: There is disclosed a clip structure insertable through an apertured work piece for protecting coated surfaces of the work piece comprising a main clip body including resilient clip means adapted to be snapped through the aperture and a protecting cap having a dome into which the clip means may be inserted and further having lateral window means through which the clip means may at least partially project when in assembled relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Nifco, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iguchi, Kunihiro Fukuhara, Tsutomu Kadomiya, Moritoshi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 4743152
    Abstract: A screw grommet has a flange and a leg extending therefrom and has cantilever-like engagement projections extending tangentially with respect to the outer periphery of the leg. A panel can be held clamped between the flange and engagement projections. When inserting the leg through an opening in the panel, the engagement projections are easily flexed to facilitate the insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Nakayama, Kunihiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 4696128
    Abstract: A clip for securing a molding of an automobile door, being of a substantially channel-shaped downwardly open sectional profile, has an outer leg for extending over the outer side of an outer surface of a portion of an outer panel constituting the lower edge of a window and an inner leg integral with the outer leg for extending over the outer surface of an auxiliary member secured to the inner surface of the outer panel portion or over the outer surface of a downwardly open channel-shaped portion thereof, the inner leg in engagement with the outer surface of the auxiliary member or the other surface of the downwardly open channel-shaped portion being provided with a lock pawl to be click engaged with the auxiliary member or the downwardly open channel-shaped portion, the outer leg having an inner projection projecting obliquely outwardly from the inner surface thereof toward the inner leg, and the inner projection having a pawl-like portion extending from the upper end toward the inner surface of the outer leg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Nifco, Inc.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 4671717
    Abstract: A screw receiver made of a synthetic resin to be fitted in a mounting hole formed in a panel to receive a setscrew when screwed comprises a hollow main body portion having a receiving space and open at one end, the main body portion having a flange provided at the end at which the receiving space is open, and a plurality of screw receiving portions each formed on one side surface in the longitudinal direction thereof and also having a raised portion on the other side surface, a screw receiving section being formed in the receiving space of the main body portion by inserting the screw receiving portions into the receiving space along the wall surfaces thereof through the open end of the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: D291055
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Fukuhara, Masayuki Naruse
  • Patent number: D297613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Naoshi Yokoyama, Tutomu Kadomiya, Kunihiro Fukuhara, Yoshimi Kondo
  • Patent number: D297614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Naoshi Yokoyama, Tutomu Kadomiya, Kunihiro Fukuhara, Yoshimi Kondo