Patents by Inventor Masami Yoshida

Masami Yoshida 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: 7798462
    Abstract: A sliding-type automobile seat comprising a seat cushion frame, a slide rail mechanism for allowing the seat to be slidingly moved, slide lock mechanisms for causing the seat to be releasably locked at predetermined positions, a substantially U-shaped operating lever for causing the seat to be released from a locked state, and connection mechanisms for causing both end portions of the substantially U-shaped operating lever to the slide lock mechanisms, the slide rail mechanism comprising a pair of parallel lower rails mounted on a floor surface of an automobile, and a pair of parallel upper rails attached to a lower portion of the seat cushion frame and slidably engaged with the pair of parallel lower rails, each of the slide lock mechanisms comprising a lock member swingably mounted to a corresponding upper rail and urged upward at one end portion thereof by a spring, the lock member including a first engaging member, and a second engaging member provided at a corresponding lower rail, the first engaging mem
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Yoshida, Kazuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 7753449
    Abstract: A reclining seat for an automobile is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: TS TECH Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100045089
    Abstract: A vehicle seat comprises a seat back, a seat bottom, a headrest mounted on an upper portion of the seat back. The headrest includes a reverse U-shaped support section having downwardly extending two pillars and a horizontal section which connects upper portions of the pillars with each other. A lock plate is fixed to the horizontal section. A headrest frame is provided with an engagement disk which is changed over between a lock position where the engagement disk engages with the lock plate to disable the headrest to rotate about the horizontal section, and an unlock position where the engagement disk disengages from the lock plate to enable the headrest to rotate around the horizontal section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7537283
    Abstract: In an automobile seat provided with a seatback having a metal-made seatback frame of a substantially quadrilateral shape, the seatback frame comprising a pair of spaced apart left and right side frame sections 10a, 10b, an upper frame section 11 interconnecting upper end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, and a lower frame section 12 interconnecting lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, the lower frame section comprises a horizontally extending body arranged between the lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, side bracket portions 12a, 12b provided at left and right ends of the horizontally extending body so as to project forward from the horizontally extending body, the side bracket portions 12a, 12b being applied and fixed to the lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, and a structure for serving to facilitate deformation of the seatback in the event of a car crash or the like in order to absorb impact caused by the car crash or the like, the stru
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Niitsuma, Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090127907
    Abstract: An automobile seat height adjuster includes a linkage base frame between the seat's side frames and seat brackets so as to be vertically swingable. The base frame has two pairs of linkage members interconnected by respective shafts. Each of the linkage members extends between one of the side frames and one of the brackets so as to be collapsable. A power transmission mechanism transmits to the linkage base frame power generated by operation of an operating knob and causes the linkage base frame to swing vertically, thereby causing the seat to move vertically. Stops on the linkage base frame abut the installation surfaces, limiting downward movement of the seat and keeping the seat in a lowermost position at which side frames of the seat are spaced from the installation surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: TS TECH Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshi, Shinji Sugiyama, Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7489907
    Abstract: A transmitter for averagedly suppressing the variation in input level of an amplifier according to variation in carrier level. The transmitter includes an input power calculation section for calculating mean input power of each carrier, an output power calculating section for calculating mean output power of each carrier after the carrier band is limited, a monitoring section for identifying a carrier having the maximum mean input power, acquiring the maximum value, acquiring the mean output power of the identified carrier, determining the ratio of the mean input power to the mean output power, and calculating level control information which is the ratio of the ratio determined above to a predetermined expected value, and a signal level adjusting section for adjusting the level of a multicarrier signal by multiplying the level control information outputted from the monitoring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Hasegawa, Tetsuhiko Miyatani, Hisashi Kawai, Masami Yoshida, Jun Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090032670
    Abstract: A sliding-type automobile seat comprising a seat cushion frame, a slide rail mechanism for allowing the seat to be slidingly moved, slide lock mechanisms for causing the seat to be releasably locked at predetermined positions, a substantially U-shaped operating lever for causing the seat to be released from a locked state, and connection mechanisms for causing both end portions of the substantially U-shaped operating lever to the slide lock mechanisms, the slide rail mechanism comprising a pair of parallel lower rails mounted on a floor surface of an automobile, and a pair of parallel upper rails attached to a lower portion of the seat cushion frame and slidably engaged with the pair of parallel lower rails, each of the slide rock mechanisms comprising a lock member swingably mounted to a corresponding upper rail and urged upward at one end portion thereof by a spring, the lock member including a first engaging member, and a second engaging member provided at a corresponding lower rail, the first engaging mem
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Yoshida, Kazuyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090026824
    Abstract: A reclining seat for an automobile is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090015980
    Abstract: A current detection circuit generates a pulse signal Sd based on a voltage Vd corresponding to a current I flowing through a solenoid coil, and feeds the pulse signal Sd back to a PWM circuit of a switch controller. The PWM circuit generates a pulse signal Sr having a predetermined duty ratio, based on a comparison between the fed back pulse signal Sd and a voltage value corresponding to a first current value or a second current value, and supplies the pulse signal Sr to a pulse supplying unit. The pulse supplying unit supplies the pulse signal Sr as a first pulse signal S1 and/or a second pulse signal S2 to a gate terminal G of a MOSFET.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro FUKANO, Masami Yoshida, Yoshitada Doi, Shigeharu Oide
  • Publication number: 20090015979
    Abstract: A current detection circuit generates a pulse signal Sd based on a voltage Vd corresponding to a current I flowing through a solenoid coil, and feeds the pulse signal Sd back to a PWM circuit of a switch controller. The PWM circuit generates a pulse signal Sr having a predetermined duty ratio, based on a comparison between the fed back pulse signal Sd and a voltage value corresponding to a first current value or a second current value, and supplies the pulse signal Sr to a pulse supplying unit. The pulse supplying unit supplies the pulse signal Sr as a first pulse signal S1 and/or a second pulse signal S2 to a gate terminal G of a MOSFET.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro FUKANO, Masami Yoshida, Yoshitada Doi, Shigeharu Oide
  • Publication number: 20080308758
    Abstract: A movable iron core unit includes a movable iron core, which is attracted toward a fixed iron core under excitation of a coil, and a guide member made from a resin material and mounted on an outer circumferential side of the movable iron core. The guide member is constructed from a pair of ring members and connecting members that interconnect the ring members. The ring members and the connecting members are mounted in mounting grooves, which are formed on an outer circumferential surface of the movable iron core, and project only slightly from the outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro FUKANO, Masami YOSHIDA, Hideaki YASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20080307416
    Abstract: A management apparatus that promotes productivity of management of a plurality of devices and of a plurality of functions of the device. The management apparatus for managing a plurality of functions for use in a device by a user, wherein each function has one or more functional elements, the apparatus including a first memory module that stores correspondence data describing a relationship between a functional element and unit configuration information of the device, the unit configuration information indicating units of the device used by the functional element, a second memory module that stores use authority data corresponding to the user, a management module that selects an available function based on the correspondence data and the use authority data, and sends the functional elements corresponding to the selected function to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Motomi INOUE, Youhei Takeyama, Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20080258519
    Abstract: In an automobile seat provided with a seatback having a metal-made seatback frame of a substantially quadrilateral shape, the seatback frame comprising a pair of spaced apart left and right side frame sections 10a, 10b, an upper frame section 11 interconnecting upper end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, and a lower frame section 12 interconnecting lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, the lower frame section comprises a horizontally extending body arranged between the lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, side bracket portions 12a, 12b provided at left and right ends of the horizontally extending body so as to project forward from the horizontally extending body, the side bracket portions 12a, 12b being applied and fixed to the lower end portions of the side frame sections 10a, 10b, and a structure for serving to facilitate deformation of the seatback in the event of a car crash or the like in order to absorb impact caused by the car crash or the like, the stru
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Niitsuma, Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7367603
    Abstract: In a bored headrest, a garnish includes a front garnish and a rear garnish that are attached to a through-hole of a skin member in front and rear directions of the through-hole to seal an opening. The front garnish has a first holding portion that can hold a first skin edge portion, and a first connecting portion formed at a near side to the rear garnish. The rear garnish has a second holding portion which can hold a second skin edge portion, and a second connecting portion formed at a near side to the front garnish. The rear garnish has a second connecting portion. Therefore, a bored headrest is provided having a high quality of appearance and whose quality of appearance can be kept constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Adachi, Shuichi Hashiguchi, Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7316454
    Abstract: Ends of each supporting pin are projected to both sides of each link plate. Each supporting shaft is fixed by welding to each link plate at a position near one end side of the plate. A pipe-like connecting shaft is axis-aligned to and fitted on an end portion of the supporting pin which projects inward from each link plate, so as to be supported between link plates. An end portion of the supporting pin which projects outward from each link plate is passed through a side frame section and fixedly riveted over. Further, each link plate is fixed by welding to both ends of the connecting shaft, and a link base frame is assembled between side frame sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7278686
    Abstract: A height adjusting device, wherein a pinion gear (8) rotated by an operating knob (7) for adjusting the height of the entire vehicle seat and a sector gear (9) are covered by a gear cover (12) and fixedly fitted to the inside of a seat side frame section (2), and a rotating shaft (7a) of the operating knob (7) and a supporting pin (9a) of the sector gear (9) are held by both the seat side frame section (2) and the gear cover (12) at their opposite ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20070158988
    Abstract: Ends of each supporting pin are projected to both sides of each link plate. Each supporting shaft is fixed by welding to each link plate at a position near one end side of the plate. A pipe-like connecting shaft is axis-aligned to and fitted on an end portion of the supporting pin which projects inward from each link plate, so as to be supported between link plates. An end portion of the supporting pin which projects outward from each link plate is passed through a side frame section and fixedly riveted over. Further, each link plate is fixed by welding to both ends of the connecting shaft, and a link base frame is assembled between side frame sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20070108804
    Abstract: In a bored headrest, a garnish includes a front garnish and a rear garnish that are attached to a through-hole of a skin member in front and rear directions of the through-hole to seal an opening. The front garnish has a first holding portion that can hold a first skin edge portion, and a first connecting portion formed at a near side to the rear garnish. The rear garnish has a second holding portion which can hold a second skin edge portion, and a second connecting portion formed at a near side to the front garnish. The rear garnish has a second connecting portion. Therefore, a bored headrest is provided having a high quality of appearance and whose quality of appearance can be kept constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Shigeru Adachi, Shuichi Hashiguchi, Masami Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7195261
    Abstract: A position sensor system is provided at a slidable vehicle seat for sensing seat position in zones and facilitating controlling of the operation of a vehicle passenger restraint device according to a position of the vehicle seat relative to the vehicle passenger restraint device. The vehicle seat includes a pair of substantially parallel slide rail mechanisms which comprise upper rail members and lower rail members mounted to a floor of a vehicle, the upper rail members being attached to lower portions of the vehicle seat and supported to the lower rail members so as to be movable along the lower rail members, so that the vehicle seat can be moved along the lower rail members. The upper rail members and the lower rail members are combined with each other, to thereby define inner spaces. The position sensor system is mounted within at least one of the inner spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Yoshida, Shigeru Endo
  • Publication number: 20070063570
    Abstract: A height adjusting device, wherein a pinion gear (8) rotated by an operating knob (7) for adjusting the height of the entire vehicle seat and a sector gear (9) are covered by a gear cover (12) and fixedly fitted to the inside of a seat side frame section (2), and a rotating shaft (7a) of the operating knob (7) and a supporting pin (9a) of the sector gear (9) are held by both the seat side frame section (2) and the gear cover (12) at their opposite ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Masami Yoshida