Patents by Inventor Masanari Sakamoto

Masanari Sakamoto 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).

  • Steering wheel
    Patent number: 7475902
    Abstract: The steering wheel includes a wheel body and an airbag apparatus disposed on top of a boss. The wheel body is divided into a shaft side division joined to the steering shaft, and a ring side division disposed proximate the ring. The ring side division is rotatable with respect to the shaft side division such that a ring plane is aligned generally vertically. The boss includes an actuator that rotates and moves the ring side division to align the ring plane generally vertically. The actuator completes its operation to align the ring plane generally vertically by the time a driver contacts the inflated airbag in the course of forward motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichizo Shiga, Michihisa Asaoka, Naohiko Ishiguro, Masanari Sakamoto, Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshinori Masatsugu, Akira Tomita
  • Steering wheel
    Publication number: 20070235995
    Abstract: The steering wheel includes a wheel body and an airbag apparatus disposed on top of a boss. The wheel body is divided into a shaft side division joined to the steering shaft, and a ring side division disposed proximate the ring. The ring side division is rotatable with respect to the shaft side division such that a ring plane is aligned generally vertically. The boss includes an actuator that rotates and moves the ring side division to align the ring plane generally vertically. The actuator completes its operation to align the ring plane generally vertically by the time a driver contacts the inflated airbag in the course of forward motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichizo Shiga, Michihisa Asaoka, Naohiko Ishiguro, Masanari Sakamoto, Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshinori Masatsugu, Akira Tomita
  • Air bag device
    Patent number: 5865466
    Abstract: The air bag device comprises a folded air bag which can be expanded by gas. The air bag is wrapped with a breakable band during folding. Thus, amount, rate and direction of expansion of the air bag can be regulated and controlled during the initial stages of deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamamoto, Masanari Sakamoto, Kenji Mori, Chisato Masuya
  • Air bag device
    Patent number: 5368327
    Abstract: An air bag device having the need of only four securing bolts, one at each corner of the retaining and mounting plates, since in between corners there are two protrusions extending from one of those plates into holding holes in the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Shiraki, Masanari Sakamoto