Patents by Inventor Masami UEHATA

Masami UEHATA 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: 11807086
    Abstract: A back door attached to a rear of a vehicle body includes an inner panel, an outer panel facing the inner panel, a first reinforcing member laid on an outer side of the vehicle body and fixed to the inner panel together with a hinge, and a second reinforcing member including a porous portion and arranged to fill a first space between the first reinforcing member and the outer panel on an outer side in a width direction of the vehicle body from a hinge support that supports the hinge to overlap at least a part of a glass upper edge of a back window glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Uehata, Hirofumi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 11660944
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door panel, a corner piece that is disposed at a door waist portion of the door panel and that includes a protrusion, a weather strip that is disposed to extend along an outer peripheral edge of the door panel and that has a hole portion with which the protrusion is engaged, and a door trim that is disposed to cover the corner piece. The protrusion has a hollow structure and includes an outer peripheral side wall, and an opening is provided in a part of the outer peripheral side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masami Uehata
  • Publication number: 20220314761
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door panel, a corner piece that is disposed at a door waist portion of the door panel and that includes a protrusion, a weather strip that is disposed to extend along an outer peripheral edge of the door panel and that has a hole portion with which the protrusion is engaged, and a door trim that is disposed to cover the corner piece. The protrusion has a hollow structure and includes an outer peripheral side wall, and an opening is provided in a part of the outer peripheral side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Masami UEHATA
  • Publication number: 20220305889
    Abstract: A back door attached to a rear of a vehicle body includes an inner panel, an outer panel facing the inner panel, a first reinforcing member laid on an outer side of the vehicle body and fixed to the inner panel together with a hinge, and a second reinforcing member including a porous portion and arranged to fill a first space between the first reinforcing member and the outer panel on an outer side in a width direction of the vehicle body from a hinge support that supports the hinge to overlap at least a part of a glass upper edge of a back window glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Masami Uehata, Hirofumi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20210284099
    Abstract: The disclosure herein provides a door for a vehicle in which an antenna is arranged such that signal waves from a device outside the vehicle are favorably received and effects of in-vehicle noise waves are diminished. A door for a vehicle may include: a window frame surrounding a window glass and including a vertical plate extending along a side edge of the window glass; an outer garnish constituted of resin and covering the vertical plate from outside of the vehicle; and an antenna arranged between the outer garnish and the vertical plate. The resin outer garnish allows radio waves to pass therethrough well, thus the antenna can favorably receive the radio waves. On the other hand, the vertical plate of the window frame is constituted of metal, and hence radio waves are less likely to pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Masami UEHATA, Sho TSUMITA, Mitsuru FUKUSHIMA, Naoyuki OTA
  • Patent number: 10710636
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle front portion structure including: front side members that are disposed at right and left side portions of a vehicle front portion and extend in the vehicle front and rear direction; suspension towers that are disposed so as to project in the vehicle upward direction from the front side members; front joining portions that are provided on the suspension towers, join the suspension towers and the front side members to each other, and at which joining between the suspension towers and the front side members are cancelled at the time of a frontal impact; and rear joining portions that are provided on the vehicle rear sides of the front joining portions in the suspension towers and join the suspension towers and the front side members to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masami Uehata
  • Patent number: 10689037
    Abstract: A vehicle lower portion structure includes rockers and front wheel anchoring portions. The rockers are configured to be disposed at vehicle transverse direction outer sides of a battery pack that is installed at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel, and the rockers extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The front wheel anchoring portions are provided at regions, that face front wheels in the vehicle longitudinal direction, of front ends of the rockers, and the front wheel anchoring portions are configured such that a wheel of one or the other of the front wheels, that moves toward a vehicle transverse direction inner side at a time of a front collision of a vehicle, anchors at one of the front wheel anchoring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masami Uehata
  • Publication number: 20190031240
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle front portion structure including: front side members that are disposed at right and left side portions of a vehicle front portion and extend in the vehicle front and rear direction; suspension towers that are disposed so as to project in the vehicle upward direction from the front side members; front joining portions that are provided on the suspension towers, join the suspension towers and the front side members to each other, and at which joining between the suspension towers and the front side members are cancelled at the time of a frontal impact; and rear joining portions that are provided on the vehicle rear sides of the front joining portions in the suspension towers and join the suspension towers and the front side members to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masami UEHATA
  • Publication number: 20190023323
    Abstract: A vehicle lower portion structure includes rockers and front wheel anchoring portions. The rockers are configured to be disposed at vehicle transverse direction outer sides of a battery pack that is installed at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel, and the rockers extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The front wheel anchoring portions are provided at regions, that face front wheels in the vehicle longitudinal direction, of front ends of the rockers, and the front wheel anchoring portions are configured such that a wheel of one or the other of the front wheels, that moves toward a vehicle transverse direction inner side at a time of a front collision of a vehicle, anchors at one of the front wheel anchoring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masami UEHATA