Patents by Inventor Masahiko Yanagihara

Masahiko Yanagihara 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: 20230132204
    Abstract: Each mixed main body of a plurality of mixed members is formed from a pulverized raw material of a steric shape, of a plurality of pulverized raw materials obtained by pulverizing a layered composite raw material into various shapes including the steric shape and a linear shape. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is formed by a plurality of glass fibers extending by the pulverization from a portion of the mixed main body corresponding to a glass fiber layer. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is located in a labyrinthine path formed between mixed main bodies facing each other among the plurality of mixed members in a stirred mixture body including the plurality of mixed members stirred and mixed in a binder and the binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Kosuke UEDA
  • Patent number: 8275518
    Abstract: A target parking position setting section (23) is adapted to temporarily set a target parking position (p31, p32, p33) for the vehicle for each parking mode in a predetermined stop position. A parking mode determining section (25) is adapted to determine the parking mode and the target parking position corresponding to the parking mode based on an operation of a steering wheel performed by a driver after the target parking position (p31, p32, p33) is set. A guiding section (29) is adapted to guide the vehicle (1) to the determined target parking position (P3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Jun Kadowaki, Tsuyoshi Kuboyama, Yu Tanaka, Yoichi Iwata, Tetsunori Haraguchi, Masahiko Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 8265827
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus (1) has: an identifying portion (2a) that identifies a target parking position when the vehicle is at a temporary stop position having a predetermined positional relation with the target parking position; a parking-assisting portion (2b) that assists steering operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the target parking position when parking the vehicle. For facilitating the driver to visually confirm a positional relation between a specific portion of the target parking position and the vehicle, the parking assist apparatus includes at least one of a polarizing film (8), auxiliary mirror (12), member (22,32) provided on a vehicle mirror and extending in the vehicle lateral direction, transparent portion (42) provided in a passenger-side door, adjusting device (53) that adjusts the direction of the lower edge of the vehicle mirror, irradiating device (74) that radiates a laser, optical-axis adjusting portion (83) that adjusts an optical axis of a headlight of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Iwata, Tetsunori Haraguchi, Masahiko Yanagihara, Kazuya Watanabe, Yu Tanaka, Jun Kadowaki
  • Publication number: 20100235050
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus (1) has: an identifying portion (2a) that identifies a target parking position when the vehicle is at a temporary stop position having a predetermined positional relation with the target parking position; a parking-assisting portion (2b) that assists steering operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the target parking position when parking the vehicle. For facilitating the driver to visually confirm a positional relation between a specific portion of the target parking position and the vehicle, the parking assist apparatus includes at least one of a polarizing film (8), auxiliary mirror (12), member (22,32) provided on a vehicle mirror and extending in the vehicle lateral direction, transparent portion (42) provided in a passenger-side door, adjusting device (53) that adjusts the direction of the lower edge of the vehicle mirror, irradiating device (74) that radiates a laser, optical-axis adjusting portion (83) that adjusts an optical axis of a headlight of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Iwata, Tetsunori Haraguchi, Masahiko Yanagihara, Kazuya Watanabe, Yu Tanaka, Jun Kadowaki
  • Publication number: 20100211265
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus (1) has: an identifying portion (2a) that identifies a target parking position when the vehicle is at a temporary stop position having a predetermined positional relation with the target parking position; a parking-assisting portion (2b) that assists steering operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the target parking position when parking the vehicle. For facilitating the driver to visually confirm a positional relation between a specific portion of the target parking position and the vehicle, the parking assist apparatus includes at least one of a polarizing film (8), auxiliary mirror (12), member (22,32) provided on a vehicle mirror and extending in the vehicle lateral direction, transparent portion (42) provided in a passenger-side door, adjusting device (53) that adjusts the direction of the lower edge of the vehicle mirror, irradiating device (74) that radiates a laser, optical-axis adjusting portion (83) that adjusts an optical axis of a headlight of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Iwata, Tetsunori Haraguchi, Masahiko Yanagihara, Kazuya Watanabe, Yu Tanaka, Jun Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 6065771
    Abstract: In order to reconcile the cleaving performance and the quality of appearance of an instrument panel for an bag, an instrument panel is provided having a skin member of a single layer structure, a cleaving section formed by a groove provided on the back of the skin member is composed of a longitudinal cleaving section which is substantially linear and a pair of "V " shaped lateral cleaving sections which are ramified respectively from both ends of the longitudinal cleaving section and which open forward and extend obliquely with respect to the direction of extension of the longitudinal cleaving section. Furthermore, where a skin member of a double-layered structure in which at least a cushion layer is disposed on the back of a skin layer, a door member is formed on the back of a skin member, in which a brittle section is created, as one body there with by injection-molding a resin material and a brittle section of the door member facing the brittle section of the skin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kawakubo, Takeshi Yamaji, Kazuhiko Yoshioka, Shiro Ozaki, Masahiko Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 5980379
    Abstract: A defroster nozzle is provided inside an instrument panel below a front glass plate, and its length in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from a suck-in opening to a blow-out opening. The suck-in opening is connected to an air conditioning unit, and has a bent portion at the middle thereof. The inside of the defroster nozzle is divided by partition walls into a central chamber and side chambers. The length of the central chamber as viewed in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from the suck-in opening to the blow-out opening, and the opening areas of the suck-in opening and the blow-out opening of the central chamber are equal to each other. The central portion of the side wall of each of the side chambers has a bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Fumitake Kobayashi, Takahiro Komori, Masahiko Yanagihara, Hidekazu Otowa, Makoto Mimoto