Patents by Inventor Mituo Masuda

Mituo Masuda 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).

  • Guard beam for automotive door structure
    Patent number: 5813718
    Abstract: A guard beam of an automotive door structure can be relatively light in weight and yet have sufficient impact load absorbing capacity with stable strength at low cost. The guard beam has a beam portion and palm portions at both ends of the beam portion integrally made of a high tension steel blank member. The beam portion has a substantially triangular cross section with a bottom plate portion, support plate portions extending from a peak of the triangular configuration remote from the bottom plate portion in a direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate portion and side plate portions each connecting each end of the support plate portions at the peak to the transverse edge of the bottom plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mituo Masuda, Takuo Sano