Patents by Inventor Masaki Nakaura

Masaki Nakaura 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: 11177529
    Abstract: A battery container device includes a battery container that removably contains a battery that supplies power to a driver, and a stopper member provided at a removal port for the battery in the battery container. In the battery container device, the stopper member includes an opening part that allows a first wheel provided on the removal port side in the battery to pass through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container, and a restrictor that restricts a second wheel provided on a side opposite to the removal port in the battery from passing through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Nakaura
  • Patent number: 11072357
    Abstract: A moving body includes a travel drive section, and a transporting section that is disposed above the travel drive section (a drive housing and a power housing). In the moving body, the transporting section has a substantially rectangular shape and is provided with a vertical bumper at any of corner portions in top view, the vertical bumper extending in a height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Nakaura
  • Publication number: 20200266400
    Abstract: A battery container device includes a battery container that removably contains a battery that supplies power to a driver, and a stopper member provided at a removal port for the battery in the battery container. In the battery container device, the stopper member includes an opening part that allows a first wheel provided on the removal port side in the battery to pass through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container, and a restrictor that restricts a second wheel provided. on a side opposite to the removal port in the battery from passing through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: MASAKI NAKAURA
  • Publication number: 20190291760
    Abstract: A moving body includes a travel drive section, and a transporting section that is disposed above the travel drive section (a drive housing and a power housing). In the moving body, the transporting section has a substantially rectangular shape and is provided with a vertical bumper at any of corner portions in top view, the vertical bumper extending in a height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: MASAKI NAKAURA
  • Publication number: 20190293790
    Abstract: A moving body includes lower structural bodies (a drive housing and a power housing), upper structural bodies (a first transporting housing and a second transporting housing) that are disposed above the lower structural bodies, a wide-area sensor that detects an object in a vicinity of the wide-area sensor by applying light towards the vicinity of the wide-area sensor, and a sensor accommodating section that is interposed between an upper surface of one of the lower structural bodies and a lower surface of one of the upper structural bodies. In the moving body, a side surface of the sensor accommodating section is provided with an emission window portion (for example, a left opening portion) facing an outside, and the emission window portion allows the light applied from the wide-area sensor to be emitted towards the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: MASAKI NAKAURA
  • Patent number: 8534410
    Abstract: A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle-body front portion which comprises an engine room, a cowl box provided at an upper portion of a dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, and an engine hood pivotally supported at the vehicle body via a first hinge provided at a rear end portion so as to cover over the engine room. An engine-hood guide mechanism guides the engine hood upwardly and rearwardly so as to cover at least part of the cowl box when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face is detected or predicted, and lowers the engine hood downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood exceeds a specified load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nakaura, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Masatoshi Takayama, Tadashi Ioka
  • Patent number: 8287036
    Abstract: A front body structure of a vehicle comprises a pair of front side frames, a bumper reinforcement, a bumper face, a leg-part sweeping-away member which is provided below the bumper reinforcement and extends in a vehicle width direction, a front end of which is positioned in front of the bumper reinforcement, and a support member which supports the leg-part sweeping-away member at the front side frame. The support member has a specified length in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and comprises beads which absorb an impact load inputted in the vehicle longitudinal direction through their deformation in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nakaura, Tadashi Ioka, Masatoshi Takayama
  • Patent number: 8028375
    Abstract: A slide door is provided to be movable between a closed position to cover a side opening formed at a vehicle-body side face and an open position. The slide door is configured to move outward and subsequently slide rearward along a rear vehicle-body outer face when the slide door moves from the closed position to the open position. There is provided a detection sensor to detect a foreign matter in coming into a gap from a vehicle-compartment inside. A drive of the slide door is stopped in case the detection sensor detects the foreign matter in coming into the gap when the slide door moves toward the open position. Thereby, any foreign matter can be prevented from being pinched in the gap formed between the slide door and the rear edge portion of the side opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nakaura, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Yuzo JP Sato, Hirotaka Kusu
  • Publication number: 20110062750
    Abstract: A front body structure of a vehicle comprises a pair of front side frames, a bumper reinforcement, a bumper face, a leg-part sweeping-away member which is provided below the bumper reinforcement and extends in a vehicle width direction, a front end of which is positioned in front of the bumper reinforcement, and a support member which supports the leg-part sweeping-away member at the front side frame. The support member has a specified length in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and comprises beads which absorb an impact load inputted in the vehicle longitudinal direction through their deformation in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki NAKAURA, Tadashi IOKA, Masatoshi TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100244484
    Abstract: A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle-body front portion which comprises an engine room, a cowl box provided at an upper portion of a dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, and an engine hood pivotally supported at the vehicle body via a first hinge provided at a rear end portion so as to cover over the engine room. An engine-hood guide mechanism guides the engine hood upwardly and rearwardly so as to cover at least part of the cowl box when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face is detected or predicted, and lowers the engine hood downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood exceeds a specified load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki NAKAURA, Kazuhiro TANAKA, Masatoshi TAKAYAMA, Tadashi IOKA
  • Publication number: 20090000059
    Abstract: A slide door is provided to be movable between a closed position to cover a side opening formed at a vehicle-body side face and an open position. The slide door is configured to move outward and subsequently slide rearward along a rear vehicle-body outer face when the slide door moves from the closed position to the open position. There is provided a detection sensor to detect a foreign matter in coming into a gap from a vehicle-compartment inside. A drive of the slide door is stopped in case the detection sensor detects the foreign matter in coming into the gap when the slide door moves toward the open position. Thereby, any foreign matter can be prevented from being pinched in the gap formed between the slide door and the rear edge portion of the side opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Nakaura, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Yuzo Sato, Hirotaka Kusu
  • Patent number: 7393047
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automobile roof structure, which comprises a pair of right and left roof side rails 1, a transparent roof panel 4 attached to cover a space between the roof side rails 1, a sun shade 5 disposed slidably along a bottom surface of the transparent roof panel 4, and a shade support member 6 for supporting the sun shade 5 in a slidingly movable manner. Each of the roof side rails 1 includes a rail outer panel 7 and a rail inner panel 8 formed, respectively, with roof flanges 14, 15 which are oriented to protrude in a laterally inward direction of an automobile body and joined together. The roof flanges 14, 15, a lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panel 4, and the shade support member 6, are disposed within a given positioning zone where they overlap each other in top plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Hirotani, Katsumi Sakane, Shingo Kunihiro, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Asami Iwamoto, Masaki Nakaura
  • Publication number: 20060255627
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automobile roof structure, which comprises a pair of right and left roof side rails 1, a transparent roof panel 4 attached to cover a space between the roof side rails 1, a sun shade 5 disposed slidably along a bottom surface of the transparent roof panel 4, and a shade support member 6 for supporting the sun shade 5 in a slidingly movable manner. Each of the roof side rails 1 includes a rail outer panel 7 and a rail inner panel 8 formed, respectively, with roof flanges 14, 15 which are oriented to protrude in a laterally inward direction of an automobile body and joined together. The roof flanges 14, 15, a lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panel 4, and the shade support member 6, are disposed within a given positioning zone where they overlap each other in top plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunari Hirotani, Katsumi Sakane, Shingo Kunihiro, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Asami Iwamoto, Masaki Nakaura