Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Kawaminami

Mitsuhiro Kawaminami 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).

  • Vibration damping device
    Patent number: 8602184
    Abstract: A vibration damping device for a vibration damping target has a linear member that includes a plurality of wires, which are held so that each of the plurality of wires is relatively displaced in a state that the wires are in contact with one another, and a cover member that covers a peripheries of the plurality of the wires, wherein the plurality of the wires and part of the cover member are fixed to the vibration damping target, and a region of the linear member that flexes through plastic deformation of the linear member is located near each point where the linear member is fixed to the vibration damping target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Tamura, Mitsuhiro Kawaminami
  • VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110132706
    Abstract: A vibration damping device for a vibration damping target has a linear member that includes a plurality of wires, which are held so that each of the plurality of wires is relatively displaced in a state that the wires are in contact with one another, and a cover member that covers a peripheries of the plurality of the wires, wherein the plurality of the wires and part of the cover member are fixed to the vibration damping target, and a region of the linear member that flexes through plastic deformation of the linear member is located near each point where the linear member is fixed to the vibration damping target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Tamura, Mitsuhiro Kawaminami