Patents by Inventor Makoto Isomura

Makoto Isomura 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: 8299908
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system distinguishes a mounted tire from a non-mounted tire, and which automatically changes over IDs and tire-pressure thresholds without any exclusive apparatuses. A tire pressure monitoring unit stores an identification code of a tire pressure sensor unit and a tire-pressure set value as a pair. While a vehicle is traveling at a speed equal to or faster than a predetermined vehicle speed, if an identification code received within a predetermined time coincides with any one of identification codes of registered tires and the number of coinciding identification codes is equal to the number of tires, and, at least one of the coinciding identification codes is an identification code other than specified identification codes, the specified identification codes are replaced with those coinciding identification codes which are newly specified as respective identification codes of tire pressure sensor units mounted in tires mounted on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventors: Makoto Isomura, Makoto Bessho
  • Patent number: 8279055
    Abstract: After the running wheels 12FR, 12FL, 12RR and 12RL are replaced from the summer wheel set to the winter wheel set (non-mounted wheels 12), when the vehicle 10 is running at a speed more than a predetermined speed, and if all ID numbers contained in the data received within a predetermined time are entirely identical to the sensor IDs corresponding to the non-mounted wheels 12, the sensor IDs identified in the sensor ID identification portion 54 are automatically switched from the sensor IDs corresponding to the summer wheel set to the sensor IDs of the winter wheel set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Isomura
  • Publication number: 20100300192
    Abstract: After the running wheels 12FR, 12FL, 12RR and 12RL are replaced from the summer wheel set to the winter wheel set (non-mounted wheels 12), when the vehicle 10 is running at a speed more than a predetermined speed, and if all ID numbers contained in the data received within a predetermined time are entirely identical to the sensor IDs corresponding to the non-mounted wheels 12, the sensor IDs identified in the sensor ID identification portion 54 are automatically switched from the sensor IDs corresponding to the summer wheel set to the sensor IDs of the winter wheel set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto ISOMURA
  • Publication number: 20100302063
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system distinguishes a mounted tire from a non-mounted tire, and which automatically changes over IDs and tire-pressure thresholds without any exclusive apparatuses. A tire pressure monitoring unit stores an identification code of a tire pressure sensor unit and a tire-pressure set value as a pair. While a vehicle is traveling at a speed equal to or faster than a predetermined vehicle speed, if an identification code received within a predetermined time coincides with any one of identification codes of registered tires and the number of coinciding identification codes is equal to the number of tires, and, at least one of the coinciding identification codes is an identification code other than specified identification codes, the specified identification codes are replaced with those coinciding identification codes which are newly specified as respective identification codes of tire pressure sensor units mounted in tires mounted on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto ISOMURA, Makoto BESSHO
  • Patent number: 7515400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit breaker box and monitoring system. The circuit breaker box includes a circuit breaker panel and a door allowing the circuit breaker panel to be hidden from view. The circuit breaker monitoring system will inform the pilot if a circuit breaker has tripped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Healy, Makoto Isomura, Bassam Chamas, Garrick Talavera
  • Patent number: 7150433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bolster tray for an aircraft. A bolster tray provides a place for a pilot to keep papers and provides a writing surface during flight. In one implementation, the bolster tray may be extended, lifted, and rotated to provide for optimum paper storage and writing angles and so that the tray may be stowed when not needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Healy, Makoto Isomura, Garrick Talavera
  • Publication number: 20040228071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit breaker box and monitoring system. The circuit breaker box includes a circuit breaker panel and a door allowing the circuit breaker panel to be hidden from view. The circuit breaker monitoring system will inform the pilot if a circuit breaker has tripped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Brian Healy, Makoto Isomura, Bassam Chamas, Garrick Talavera
  • Publication number: 20040075024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bolster tray for an aircraft. A bolster tray provides a place for a pilot to keep papers and provides a writing surface during flight. In one implementation, the bolster tray may be extended, lifted, and rotated to provide for optimum paper storage and writing angles and so that the tray may be stowed when not needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Brian Healy, Makoto Isomura, Garrick Talavera
  • Patent number: 5529344
    Abstract: There is disclosed a seat belt device for an automobile including a seat belt anchor mounted on a center pillar for the automobile and composed of a plurality of parts, and a seat belt slidably supported by the seat belt anchor. A displacement permission space is defined between an anchor plate of the seat belt anchor and the center pillar, and a spacer constituted by a metallic bellows is disposed as an energy absorber in the displacement permission space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Yasui, Motonobu Sugiura, Makoto Isomura, Yasunori Suezawa, Takuya Nezaki, Toru Ito, Shuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 5480104
    Abstract: A deactivating device for a locking mechanism of a pretensioner. The deactivating device includes: an operation lever provided movably about a central axis of rotation and in a direction of the central axis of rotation, and adapted to set the locking mechanism in one of an activated state and a deactivated state; and an urging member for imparting an urging force to the operation lever, wherein the operation lever has a deactivation operation mode for setting the locking mechanism in the deactivated state as the operation lever moves continuously in stages about the central axis of rotation and in the direction of the central axis of rotation against the urging force of the urging member and a position of the operation lever is subsequently held, and an activation operation mode for setting the locking mechanism in the activated state as the operation lever is automatically made to undergo returning movement by the urging force of the urging member from the deactivation operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Keiichi Kato, Keisuke Imai, Masanori Oyabu, Yasuhiko Kouda, Makoto Isomura, Takuya Nezaki, Koh Watanabe