Patents by Inventor Masanobu Fukushima
Masanobu Fukushima 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).
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Patent number: 12122238Abstract: A bulge portion bulging rearward is provided at a dash panel. A reinforcement is fixed to an inner surface of the bulge portion. A rear end wall portion of the bulge portion is positioned at the rear of a center portion of a rear end portion of a cowl panel in a vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Isao Toda, Haruo Ohe, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda
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Patent number: 11993141Abstract: A vehicle structure includes side sills, pillars, a first battery arrangement portion provided inside the vicinity of the pillars in a vehicle width direction below a floor panel, and a second battery arrangement portion provided at a center portion in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel in a region inside an outer portion of the first battery arrangement portion in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Toda, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Patent number: 11858333Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel provided on a vehicle front side and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A first battery arrangement portion is provided long in a vehicle front-rear direction at a center portion of the front floor panel in the vehicle width direction. A second battery arrangement portion is provided outside the first battery arrangement portion in a vehicle width direction below the front floor panel. An upper portion of the first battery arrangement portion is positioned higher than an upper portion of the second battery arrangement portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Toda, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Patent number: 11850933Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A front battery that supplies electric power to the traction motor is arranged below the front floor panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Toda, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Patent number: 11738809Abstract: The vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel positioned lower than the front floor panel, and a connection panel extending from a rear portion of the front floor panel to a front portion of the rear floor panel and inclined or curved so as to be positioned downward toward a rear side. At least the front portion of the connection panel is positioned at the front of the front portion of the front seat.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Toda, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Publication number: 20220315130Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel for placing a heel of a pedal operator, a rear floor panel attached to a rear seat, and a middle floor panel extending from the front floor panel to the rear floor panel. The front floor panel and the rear floor panel are positioned higher than the middle floor panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20220314774Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A front battery that supplies electric power to the traction motor is arranged below the front floor panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20220315128Abstract: The vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel positioned lower than the front floor panel, and a connection panel extending from a rear portion of the front floor panel to a front portion of the rear floor panel and inclined or curved so as to be positioned downward toward a rear side. At least the front portion of the connection panel is positioned at the front of the front portion of the front seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Publication number: 20220314770Abstract: A vehicle structure includes side sills, pillars, a first battery arrangement portion provided inside the vicinity of the pillars in a vehicle width direction below a floor panel, and a second battery arrangement portion provided at a center portion in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel in a region inside an outer portion of the first battery arrangement portion in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20220315127Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel on which a heel of a pedal operator is placed, and a rear floor panel attached to a front seat. The rear floor panel is positioned lower than the front floor panel. At least part of a seat frame of the front seat is positioned lower than an upper surface of the front floor panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
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Publication number: 20220314771Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel provided on a vehicle front side and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A first battery arrangement portion is provided long in a vehicle front-rear direction at a center portion of the front floor panel in the vehicle width direction. A second battery arrangement portion is provided outside the first battery arrangement portion in a vehicle width direction below the front floor panel. An upper portion of the first battery arrangement portion is positioned higher than an upper portion of the second battery arrangement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20220305915Abstract: A bulge portion bulging rearward is provided at a dash panel. A reinforcement is fixed to an inner surface of the bulge portion. A rear end wall portion of the bulge portion is positioned at the rear of a center portion of a rear end portion of a cowl panel in a vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Isao TODA, Haruo OHE, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA
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Patent number: 10196625Abstract: Provided herein is a means for increasing protein retention in blood. The protein retention in blood is increased by forming a conjugate of a protein and chondroitin produced by a microorganism having chondroitin-producing capability and/or chondroitin synthesized with a chondroitin synthase.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SEIKAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Takatsu, Masanobu Fukushima
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Publication number: 20160235857Abstract: Provided herein is a means for increasing protein retention in blood. The protein retention in blood is increased by forming a conjugate of a protein and chondroitin produced by a microorganism having chondroitin-producing capability and/or chondroitin synthesized with a chondroitin synthase.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: SEIKAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro TAKATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 8950778Abstract: The strength of an instrument panel member (12) at a portion thereof between a steering shaft support part (16) and a linking part (13) on the side near a steering shaft (11) is set lower than the strength of the instrument panel member (12) at a portion thereof between the steering shaft support part (16) and a linking part (14) on the far side from the steering shaft (11), with respect to a load input through the linking part (13) on the side near the steering shaft (11) in the vehicle body front-rear direction. The above configuration makes it possible to suppress movement of a steering wheel inward in the vehicle width direction to thereby securely restrain a vehicle occupant by an airbag at the time of a vehicle frontal collision.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Masanobu Fukushima, Hiroto Kido, Hiromasa Honji
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Patent number: 8899662Abstract: A rear apron panel is provided between a suspension tower and a dash panel. A vertical branch brace is provided to extend upwardly from a front side frame along an inner face of a suspension tower to form a closed cross section with a rear portion of the suspension tower. A deformation restraint member interconnects the apron frame and the vertical branch brace. Accordingly, there is provided a vehicle-body front structure which can restrain the apron frame from deforming outwardly in the vehicle width direction in the vehicle frontal collision to prevent the dash panel from moving back into the vehicle compartment too much.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroto Kido, Masanobu Fukushima, Isamu Kizaki, Satoshi Nakamura, Keizo Kawasaki, Manabu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140319812Abstract: The strength of an instrument panel member (12) at a portion thereof between a steering shaft support part (16) and a linking part (13) on the side near a steering shaft (11) is set lower than the strength of the instrument panel member (12) at a portion thereof between the steering shaft support part (16) and a linking part (14) on the far side from the steering shaft (11), with respect to a load input through the linking part (13) on the side near the steering shaft (11) in the vehicle body front-rear direction. The above configuration makes it possible to suppress movement of a steering wheel inward in the vehicle width direction to thereby securely restrain a vehicle occupant by an airbag at the time of a vehicle frontal collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Fukushima, Hiroto Kido, Hiromasa Honji
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Patent number: 8746718Abstract: An object of the present invention is to effectively ensure the rigidity of supporting a front suspension with a simple configuration, without increasing the weight of a vehicle body. In a suspension mounting structure for a vehicle in which a front suspension is supported by sub frames 3, the sub frames 3 have a pair of right and left side sub frames 9 that extend in a front-rear direction of a vehicle in lower parts of front side frames 2; and a rear sub cross member 11 that couples rear end parts of the right and left side frames 9 to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Takahiro Otani, Masanobu Fukushima, Hiroaki Takeshita
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Patent number: 8690227Abstract: A gusset member which is provided in back of a front wheel and connects a dash panel and a hinge pillar is provided. A first reinforcing member which is connected to the gusset member to reinforce a lower portion of the hinge pillar is provided. Accordingly, a cabin deformation of a vehicle side portion as a whole can be properly restrained, thereby ensuring a sufficient space of a vehicle compartment.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hidenori Matsuoka, Akiyoshi Masuda, Keizo Kawasaki, Masanobu Fukushima, Atsushi Kawamoto, Hiromasa Honji
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Patent number: 8490988Abstract: A suspension cross member comprises a middle-portion attaching member which extends upwardly from a suspension cross member body, and a pipe-shaped attaching member which is supported at a support portion provided at an upper portion of the middle-portion attaching member. A side portion, in a vehicle width direction, a front portion and a rear portion, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of a side face portion of the attaching member are supported at the support portion. A lower portion of the attaching member is supported at the support portion with a specified support rigidity, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, which is lower than that of the supporting of the side portion, the front portion or the rear portion of the side face portion of the attaching member.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takeshita, Takahiro Otani, Masanobu Fukushima