Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Funahashi
Nobuhiro Funahashi 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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Publication number: 20220397148Abstract: An outer casing attachment structure includes a cables extending in a same direction, outer casings to which the inner cables is respectively inserted, a connecting member to which ends of the outer casings are connected, and a holding member including a holding part configured to hold the connecting member, wherein an installation space where the connecting member is disposed, and an opening provided in a direction perpendicular to an axis direction of the inner cables and configured to communicate between the installation space and outside are formed in the holding part, wherein the holding part includes a first retainer part and a second retainer part formed on both sides of the opening in an arrangement direction of the inner cables, and the connecting member includes a first engaging part configured to engage with the first retainer part, and a second engaging part configured to engage with the second retainer part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Nobuhiro FUNAHASHI, Yoshihiro WADA, Ryochi KURIBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10589622Abstract: A fuel tank includes: a tank body including a bottom wall, a lateral wall and an upper wall, the tank body storing fuel in an interior surrounded by the bottom wall, the lateral wall and the upper wall; and a sub-tank storing a part of the fuel, the sub-tank including a wall portion, an opening portion and a post portion, the wall portion standing on the bottom wall and extending toward the upper wall. The opening portion is provided in the wall portion and is a portion in which the fuel flows. The post portion is provided integrally with the wall portion. The post portion is extended along a height direction of the wall portion from the bottom wall and is joined to the bottom wall and the upper wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinsuke Amano, Nobuhiro Funahashi
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Publication number: 20180118018Abstract: A fuel tank includes: a tank body including a bottom wall, a lateral wall and an upper wall, the tank body storing fuel in an interior surrounded by the bottom wall, the lateral wall and the upper wall; and a sub-tank storing a part of the fuel, the sub-tank including a wall portion, an opening portion and a post portion, the wall portion standing on the bottom wall and extending toward the upper wall. The opening portion is provided in the wall portion and is a portion in which the fuel flows. The post portion is provided integrally with the wall portion. The post portion is extended along a height direction of the wall portion from the bottom wall and is joined to the bottom wall and the upper wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinsuke AMANO, Nobuhiro FUNAHASHI
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Patent number: 6709049Abstract: A opening and closing device 10 for sunroofs of an automobile, which has a pair of rails 17a and 17b, a lid 13 for opening and closing an opening 12, right and left cables 26 engaged to a lid 14 and arranged along the rails 17a and 17b, and a drive mechanism 36 for driving the cables in a reciprocating manner. The cables 26 construct a closed loop arrangement with bypassing the opening 12 of the loof of the automobile. One of the cable 26 coming out of the drive mechanism 36 is arranged to the right-side rails 17b, bridged to the left side lail 17b, reversed at the base end of the left side lail 17a and returned along the same route to the drive mechanism 36.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Nippon Cable System Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Iwao Ujita
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Publication number: 20030107245Abstract: A opening and closing device 10 for sunroofs of an automobile, which has a pair of rails 17a and 17b, a lid 13 for opening and closing an opening 12, right and left cables 26 engaged to a lid 14 and arranged along the rails 17a and 17b, and a drive mechanism 36 for driving the cables in a reciprocating manner. The cables 26 construct a closed loop arrangement with bypassing the opening 12 of the loof of the automobile. One of the cable 26 coming out of the drive mechanism 36 is arranged to the right-side rails 17b, bridged to the left side lail 17b, reversed at the base end of the left side lail 17a and returned along the same route to the drive mechanism 36.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: June 12, 2003Inventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Iwao Ujita
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Patent number: 6078010Abstract: A inner cable for push-pull control cable includes a core and N pieces of strands spirally wound around the core, wherein a diameter of the core is larger than a diameter of the each of the N pieces of strands, wherein the N pieces of strands includes M piece(s) thereof wherein each diameter of M piece(s) of the N pieces of strands is larger than each diameter the remaining of (N-M) pieces of strands of the N pieces of strands, and wherein N and M are integers satisfying the following relation of 1.ltoreq.M.ltoreq.0.3N, and N.gtoreq.4.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Nippon Cable System Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Hiroaki Furukawa
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Patent number: 6023026Abstract: A stranded wire rope of the present invention is composed of a plurality of wires. The stranded wire rope is subjected to swaging. A mean wire diameter ratio of the plurality of wires is at most 5%, and a wire gap ratio is in a range between 20% and 35% due to sujecting the stranded wire rope to swaging. The mean wire diameter ratio and the wire gap ratio are defined as:mean wire diameter ratio=(d/D).times.100(%)wire gap ratio=(1-(S/A)).times.100(%)whered: mean diameter of each wire,D: diameter of the wire rope before subjecting the wire rope to swaging,S: summation of sectional areas of each of the wires constituting the stranded wire rope, andA: area of circumscribed circle of the wire rope after subjecting the wire rope to swaging.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1997Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Nippon Cable Systems Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Hiroaki Furukawa
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Patent number: 4990857Abstract: In the self testing refrigerator disclosed, a controller normally controls the operation of various electrical devices, such as a compressor, a blower, and an electric heater by actuating and deactuating separate relays from the power source to each of the devices. During self testing, a switch arrangement disconnects the power source supply and substitutes a high voltage dc generator having a series resistor. The same controller that controls the refrigeration operation of the devices automatically actuates the aforementioned relays separately and successively to apply the high voltage across the terminals of the electric devices and ground. The voltage across the resistor indicates the current flow through, and hence the integrity of, the insulation in each of the devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1990Date of Patent: February 5, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Juko Gyo k.k.Inventors: Kanji Isomichi, Hiroshi Ogawa, Nobuhiro Funahashi, Toshio Yamashita
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Patent number: 4958502Abstract: A controller which controls a refrigerating unit so that a temperature detected by a controlled temperature detector is equal to a setting temperature, includes a memory for storing the temperature detected by the detector, a card data input-output unit for reading data from a card and writing data in the card, a reading unit of the card data from the input-output unit, and a discriminator for discriminating whether the card is a setting card or a recording card on the basis of the card data read from the reading unit, whereby (a) when the discriminator discriminates that the card is the setting card, the setting temperature is set on the basis of the card data, and (b) when the discriminator discriminates that the card is the recording card, the temperature data stored in the memory is read to be written in the recording card through card data input-output unit, so that administration of data such as the setting temperature and the controlled temperature by a computer is attained and wrong setting of the temType: GrantFiled: October 10, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo K.K.Inventors: Shinji Satoh, Kanji Isomichi, Hiroshi Ogawa, Toshio Yamashita, Nobuhiro Funahashi
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Patent number: 4928500Abstract: A control device for a freezer in which a compressor whose operation has been stopped due to low lubricating oil pressure may be automatically restarted. This control device eliminates manual restarting of the compressor repeatedly until it becomes fully operational and facilitates discovery of the true malfunctioning of lubrication mechanisms for bearings in freezer compressors, by prohibiting automatic restarting once the compressor has been operating at normal oil pressure for a preset amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1988Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Toshio Yamashita, Hiroshi Ogawa
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Patent number: 4848096Abstract: A refrigeration systems diagnoses its pressure sensors by turning the system off, determining whether the pressure sensors on the high-pressure-side and on the low-pressure-side of a refrigeration circuit detect unvarying pressures, and comparing the pressure values detected by a high pressure sensor and a low pressure sensor with each other. The high pressure sensor or the low pressure sensor is regarded as defective when the difference between the two pressures detected falls outside a tolerance range. In one embodiment an analyzer compares the pressures to produce a signal indicating failure when the pressure difference falls outside the tolerance range.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1987Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo K.K.Inventors: Nobuhiro Funahashi, Toshio Yamashita