Patents by Inventor Masaru Shibasawa
Masaru Shibasawa 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: 7004274Abstract: An installation structure allowing installation of a capacitor as a battery unit in a hybrid vehicle, even in a vehicle not having a luggage compartment, is provided. A rear pillar cross member is mounted behind the rear seat in the cross section of the vehicle, and both ends of the rear pillar cross member are joined to inner panels of a wheel housing through a bracket and a reinforcing bracket plate. A top portion of the capacitor, which is a battery unit, is fixed to the rear pillar cross member, and the bottom portion of the capacitor is joined to the floor cross member, such that the capacitor is installed in a standing state. In addition, a setting structure for reliably setting a rear seat body on the floor of the vehicle is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaru Shibasawa, Tohru Ono
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Patent number: 6983945Abstract: The disclosure relates to a vehicle body structure safeguarding a fuel tank from damage resulting from collisions without greatly increasing the weight of the vehicle. The vehicle body structure includes a front floor under which a fuel cell stack case accommodating a fuel cell stack is disposed, and side sills and floor frames which extend along the sides of the vehicle, and on which a sub-frame for housing a fuel tank is installed. The front face of the sub-frame and the rear face of the fuel cell stack case are flat and oppose each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2003Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Kawasaki, Hiroshi Ito, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Tohru Ono, Masaru Shibasawa
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Patent number: 6834688Abstract: A fuel gas filling system for a vehicle having a supply section and a fuel lid, which includes an opening operation section to which an opening operation for the fuel lid is applied, an operation wire, which is provided between the opening operation section and the fuel lid, for making the fuel lid respond to the opening operation applied to the opening operation section, and a locking device having a movable element, a fixed element, a lock pin, and an actuator. The actuator is adapted to make the lock pin to be engaged with the fixed element and the movable element when the vehicle is not in a stationary state.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Ono, Masahiro Kawazu, Masami Ogura, Hiroyuki Abe, Kimiaki Yamada, Ken Kumagai, Katsumi Saito, Masanori Hayashi, Masaru Shibasawa
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Patent number: 6824168Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes a rectangular support frame carrying thereon a cylindrical fuel tank and attached to left and right rear frames from below via left and right front brackets and left and right rear brackets so as to define therebetween a pair of laterally spaced openings generally corresponding in position to the axis of the fuel tank and receiving therein a pipe system of the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Kawazu, Hiroshi Osato, Toshiaki Shimizu, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Tohru Ono, Masaru Shibasawa
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Publication number: 20040094230Abstract: A fuel gas filling system for a vehicle having a supply section and a fuel lid, which includes an opening operation section to which an opening operation for the fuel lid is applied, an operation wire, which is provided between the opening operation section and the fuel lid, for making the fuel lid respond to the opening operation applied to the opening operation section, and a locking device having a movable element, a fixed element, a lock pin, and an actuator. The actuator is adapted to make the lock pin to be engaged with the fixed element and the movable element when the vehicle is not in a stationary state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Ono, Masahiro Kawazu, Masami Ogura, Hiroyuki Abe, Kimiaki Yamada, Ken Kumagai, Katsumi Saito, Masanori Hayashi, Masaru Shibasawa
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Patent number: 6672620Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes left and right rear frames extending longitudinally of the vehicle body, a plurality of parallel spaced cylindrical fuel tanks disposed horizontally between the left and right rear frames with the axes of the fuel tanks extending normal to the left and right rear frames and disposed below the center of a height of the rear frames, and a cross member disposed between two adjacent ones of the fuel tanks and extending between the left and right rear frames. The cross member reinforces the rear frames to such an extent that fuel tanks of larger capacity can be carried on the vehicle body rear part structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Kawazu, Hiroshi Osato, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Tohru Ono, Masanobu Yamashiro, Masaru Shibasawa
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Publication number: 20030189334Abstract: A vehicle body structure comprises a front floor under which a fuel cell stack case accommodating a fuel cell stack is disposed, and side sills and floor frames which extend along the sides of the vehicle, and on which a sub-frame having a fuel tank is installed. The front face of the sub-frame and the rear face of the fuel cell stack case are formed to be flat and oppose each other. According to the vehicle body structure, safety of the fuel tank against collision is greatly improved without a great increase in vehicle weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Kawasaki, Hiroshi Ito, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Tohru Ono, Masaru Shibasawa
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Publication number: 20030186115Abstract: An installation structure, allowing installation of a battery unit even in a vehicle not having a luggage compartment, is provided. A rear pillar cross member 14 is mounted behind the rear seat in the cross section of the vehicle, and both ends of the rear pillar cross member are joined to inner panels 14 of a wheel housing through a bracket 18 and a reinforcing bracket plate 19. A top portion of the capacitor 23, which is a battery unit, is fixed to the rear pillar cross member 14, and the bottom portion of the capacitor is joined to the floor cross member 10, such that the capacitor is installed in a standing state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Shibasawa, Tohru Ono
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Publication number: 20030047932Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes a rectangular support frame carrying thereon a cylindrical fuel tank and attached to left and right rear frames from below via left and right front brackets and left and right rear brackets so as to define therebetween a pair of laterally spaced openings generally corresponding in position to the axis of the fuel tank and receiving therein a pipe system of the fuel tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Kawazu, Hiroshi Osato, Toshiaki Shimizu, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Tohru Ono, Masaru Shibasawa
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Publication number: 20030042057Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes left and right rear frames extending longitudinally of the vehicle body, a plurality of parallel spaced cylindrical fuel tanks disposed horizontally between the left and right rear frames with the axes of the fuel tanks extending normal to the left and right rear frames and disposed below the center of a height of the rear frames, and a cross member disposed between two adjacent ones of the fuel tanks and extending between the left and right rear frames. The cross member reinforces the rear frames to such an extent that fuel tanks of larger capacity can be carried on the vehicle body rear part structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Kawazu, Hiroshi Osato, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Tohru Ono, Masanobu Yamashiro, Masaru Shibasawa