Patents by Inventor Mitsuyoshi Ohno
Mitsuyoshi Ohno 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: 12697861Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector electrically connectable to the battery side connector and a holding portion that holds the vehicle body side connector. The holding portion holds the vehicle body side connector as being movable along a fitting direction in which the vehicle body side connector and the battery side connector are fitted to each other while the battery side connector is connected to the vehicle body side connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 12697934Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint device includes a seat belt, a belt support airbag, and a belt covering member. The seat belt restrains the occupant seated on a seat cushion of a vehicle seat to the vehicle seat. The belt support airbag is provided in a folded state in a lap belt or a shoulder belt of the seat belt and is inflated and deployed by gas supplied in an event of a frontal collision of a vehicle. The belt covering member covers at least a predetermined region of the lap belt on a belt anchor side and urges the lap belt downward when the seat belt is released.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2025Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Katsuya Shimazu, Tatsuya Hashido
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Publication number: 20260217213Abstract: Provided are a vehicle occupant restraint device including: a rotating seat changeable between a forward-facing posture and a rearward-facing posture; a first buckle and a second buckle that are provided on both left and right sides of the rotating seat, respectively; a first seat belt device that is provided on a B pillar side and includes a first tongue attachable to and detachable from the first buckle that is located on an inner side in a vehicle-width direction in a case where the rotating seat is in the forward-facing posture; and a second seat belt device that is provided on an instrument panel side and includes a second tongue attachable to and detachable from the second buckle that is located on the inner side in the vehicle-width direction in a case where the rotating seat is in the rearward-facing posture, and a vehicle including the vehicle occupant restraint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2025Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsuyoshi OHNO
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Patent number: 12691744Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery-side connector and a cover that protects the battery-side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body-side connector electrically connectable to the battery-side connector. The cover exposes the battery-side connector when the battery-side connector is fit to the vehicle body-side connector in a fitting direction in which the vehicle body-side connector and the battery-side connector are fit to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 12691845Abstract: A seat-mounted airbag device including an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that ejects gas during a vehicle collision; and an airbag including an airbag body that, by being supplied with gas ejected from the inflator, moves toward a seat front side through between a head of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat and a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and is expanded and deployed, so as to be disposed at the seat front side of the passenger, wherein the airbag is housed in the headrest with both seat width direction end portions fold-bent toward a seat downward side, so as to follow an external profile of a headrest of the vehicle seat in face-on view seen from the seat front side.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2024Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Toshiki Iwama, Tatsuya Hashido, Yu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20260208689Abstract: A seatbelt device for a pillarless vehicle is provided, the seatbelt device including a shoulder anchor of which an upper portion is turnably attached to a roof rail and that also includes a buckle at a lower portion, a seatbelt including a tongue that is detachably attachable to the buckle, and a turning restriction member that links the shoulder anchor and a portion of a roof rail that is rearward of the upper portion of the shoulder anchor in a vehicle front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2025Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Katsuya Shimazu
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Patent number: 12600312Abstract: A seat-mounted airbag device is provided with an airbag including front-and-rear chambers and an airbag main body. At a time of collision of a vehicle, gas jetted out from an inflator is supplied to the front-and-rear chambers, which inflate and expand to a front side along left and right sides of the head of a vehicle occupant. In association with the inflation and expansion of the front-and-rear chambers, the airbag main body moves to the front side, passing between the head of the vehicle occupant and a vehicle cabin ceiling. The gas is supplied from the front-and-rear chambers to the airbag main body, which inflates and expands and is disposed at the front side of the vehicle occupant.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2024Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki Iwama, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yu Suzuki, Tatsuya Hashido
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Patent number: 12589710Abstract: A left-right pair of rear tethers is configured such that one-end portions thereof are anchored to a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions, other-end portions thereof are anchored to a seatback or to the vehicle body, and during passenger restraint each of a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions is pulled relatively in a seat diagonally rearward and downward direction such that a coupling portion approaches a femur area of a passenger.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki Iwama, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yu Suzuki, Tatsuya Hashido
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Patent number: 12583407Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed in a side portion at an outer side of a seatback of a vehicle seat, and inflating and expanding toward an outer side of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of a vehicle; and a curtain airbag installed in at least a roof side rail, and inflating and expanding toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The curtain airbag has an enlarged inflating portion that overlaps a center of a head of the passenger as seen in a side view, when the vehicle seat has been slid to a predetermined position at a vehicle rear side and the seatback has been set in a relaxed posture of being reclined to a recommended limit position.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2025Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Akira Kaneko, Tatsuya Hashido
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Patent number: 12565171Abstract: The occupant restraint device for a vehicle includes a seatbelt, which restrains an occupant P sitting on a vehicle seat at the vehicle seat, and a belt backing airbag. When gas is supplied to the belt backing airbag from an inflator at a time of frontal collision of the vehicle, the belt backing airbag inflates and expands between at least the shoulder belt of the seatbelt and the shoulder area of the occupant. Together with moving to a vehicle front side to follow the occupant moving to the vehicle front side due to inertial force, the belt backing airbag moves along the shoulder belt and maintains the state in which the belt backing airbag is interposed between at least the shoulder area of the occupant and the shoulder belt.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2025Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Katsuya Shimazu, Daiki Furukawa, Kaname Tanaka
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Patent number: 12522168Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed at least in a vehicle transverse direction outer side end portion of a headrest of a vehicle seat, and configured to, due to gas supplied at a time of a side collision, inflate and expand toward a vehicle front side at least at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a head of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat; and a curtain airbag that is installed in at least a roof side rail of the vehicle, and that inflates and expands toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied thereto at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The side airbag for a head is configured so as to inflate and expand only in a case in which a seatback of the vehicle seat has been reclined by a predetermined angle or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2025Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Akira Kaneko, Tatsuya Hashido
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Publication number: 20250313169Abstract: At the time of the vehicle front collision, whether to deploy only the front-collision airbag or both the ceiling airbag and the front-collision airbag among the ceiling airbag accommodated above the occupant seated on the seat and the front-collision airbag accommodated in front of the occupant is switched according to the front-rear slide position and the seat back angle of the seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2024Publication date: October 9, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Katsuya SHIMAZU
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Publication number: 20250296523Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint device includes a seat belt, a belt support airbag, and a belt covering member. The seat belt restrains the occupant seated on a seat cushion of a vehicle seat to the vehicle seat. The belt support airbag is provided in a folded state in a lap belt or a shoulder belt of the seat belt and is inflated and deployed by gas supplied in an event of a frontal collision of a vehicle. The belt covering member covers at least a predetermined region of the lap belt on a belt anchor side and urges the lap belt downward when the seat belt is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2025Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Katsuya SHIMAZU, Tatsuya HASHIDO
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Publication number: 20250282318Abstract: The occupant restraint device for a vehicle includes a three-point seatbelt device, a front impact airbag and a belt backing airbag. The three-point seatbelt device restrains the occupant, who is sitting on a vehicle seat, at the vehicle seat. The front impact airbag inflates and expands from a vehicle front side toward the occupant when gas is supplied from an inflator at a time of frontal collision of the vehicle. When gas is supplied to the belt backing airbag from another inflator at a time of frontal collision of the vehicle, the belt backing airbag inflates and expands so as to extend in a seat width direction between the shoulder belt of a seatbelt of the seatbelt device and the shoulder areas of the occupant. The belt backing airbag restrains both of the shoulder areas of the occupant, including clavicles of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2025Publication date: September 11, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki FURUKAWA, Katsuya SHIMAZU, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Kaname TANAKA
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Publication number: 20250282317Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint device includes: a seat belt configured to restrain an occupant to the vehicle seat; a belt support airbag configured to inflate and deploy at least between a shoulder belt and a shoulder of the occupant by being supplied with gas from an inflator in an event of a frontal collision of a vehicle, to move toward a front side of the vehicle following the occupant, who moves toward the front side of the vehicle, and to restrain at least the shoulder of the occupant; and a gas supply pipe having a first end portion connected to the inflator, a second end portion connected to the belt support airbag, and a predetermined region on a second end portion side, the predetermined region being configured to extend following the movement of the belt support airbag toward the front side of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2025Publication date: September 11, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuya SHIMAZU, Daiki FURUKAWA, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Kaname TANAKA
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Publication number: 20250282321Abstract: The occupant restraint device for a vehicle includes a seatbelt, which restrains an occupant P sitting on a vehicle seat at the vehicle seat, and a belt backing airbag. When gas is supplied to the belt backing airbag from an inflator at a time of frontal collision of the vehicle, the belt backing airbag inflates and expands between at least the shoulder belt of the seatbelt and the shoulder area of the occupant. Together with moving to a vehicle front side to follow the occupant moving to the vehicle front side due to inertial force, the belt backing airbag moves along the shoulder belt and maintains the state in which the belt backing airbag is interposed between at least the shoulder area of the occupant and the shoulder belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2025Publication date: September 11, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Katsuya SHIMAZU, Daiki FURUKAWA, Kaname TANAKA
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Publication number: 20250263039Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed at least in a vehicle transverse direction outer side end portion of a headrest of a vehicle seat, and configured to, due to gas supplied at a time of a side collision, inflate and expand toward a vehicle front side at least at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a head of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat; and a curtain airbag that is installed in at least a roof side rail of the vehicle, and that inflates and expands toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied thereto at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The side airbag for a head is configured so as to inflate and expand only in a case in which a seatback of the vehicle seat has been reclined by a predetermined angle or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2025Publication date: August 21, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Akira KANEKO, Tatsuya HASHIDO
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Publication number: 20250263038Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed in a side portion at an outer side of a seatback of a vehicle seat, and inflating and expanding toward an outer side of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of a vehicle; and a curtain airbag installed in at least a roof side rail, and inflating and expanding toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The curtain airbag has an enlarged inflating portion that overlaps a center of a head of the passenger as seen in a side view, when the vehicle seat has been slid to a predetermined position at a vehicle rear side and the seatback has been set in a relaxed posture of being reclined to a recommended limit position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2025Publication date: August 21, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Akira KANEKO, Tatsuya HASHIDO
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Patent number: 12358455Abstract: An airbag device includes an inflator that is installed in an upper part of a vehicle seat, and that generates gas in an event of a vehicle collision, an airbag to which the gas from the inflator is supplied, and is inflated and deployed from the upper part of the vehicle seat toward a front side of the vehicle seat, and a diffuser that distributes the gas to the airbag. The diffuser includes a connecting portion that is connected to the inflator, and a plurality of branching portions that each branch from the connecting portion and connect to the airbag. The diffuser includes a silencing portion in at least the branching portions. The silencing portion reduces sound pressure of the gas.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki Iwama, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Yu Suzuki, Tatsuya Hashido
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Publication number: 20250222891Abstract: An airbag device includes: an inflator generating gas at a time of a collision of a vehicle; and an airbag to which the gas is supplied, and that inflates and expands from a seat rear side of an upper portion of a vehicle seat toward a seat front side, and slips-through between a ceiling of a vehicle cabin and a head of a passenger seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag has at least one gas supply path that is provided so as to be directed toward the seat front side and whose angle of incidence with respect to the ceiling in a side view seen from a seat transverse direction is set to be an acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2025Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Toshiki IWAMA, Tatsuya HASHIDO, Yu SUZUKI