Patents by Inventor Nobumi Yokoyama

Nobumi Yokoyama 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).

  • Patent number: 6428196
    Abstract: A beam angle adjusting device for a vehicular headlamp having a reduced size, especially a reduced thickness of the case body of the device. The beam angle adjusting device is provided with a case body, a motor disposed inside the case body, and a shaft which moves in the front/rear direction in response to rotation of the motor, wherein the motor and a circuit member which has a terminal for supplying power are arranged in symmetrical positions in relation to a plane containing the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Deguchi, Nobumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 4968896
    Abstract: A light projecting angle adjusting apparatus for a vehicle headlamp, where the division voltage points of a resistor device, across which a supply voltage is applied, are selected one at a time, to provide different division voltages as set voltages. A division voltage provided by a reference resistor device across which the supply voltage is applied is defined as a reference voltage which is compared with the selected set voltage. An output signal is generated according to the result of comparison and the light projecting angle of the headlamp is adjusted to a value which is determined from the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Shibata, Masahiro Kusaya, Nobumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 4916587
    Abstract: A tilting device of a vehicle headlight having a tiltable member defining the direction of the light beam and being tiltably supported on a supporting member. The tilting device comprises an adjust rod being rotatable and displaceable in the fore and aft directions and supported on the supporting member with the front end being connected to the tiltable member and the rear end projecting rearward of the supporting member, and a drive mechanism for rotating the adjust rod and being mounted on the rear surface of the supporting member. The drive mechanism comprises an output shaft slidably and irrotatably connected to the rear end of the adjust rod, a detecting device for detecting the position of the adjust rod and disposed coaxially with the output shaft, a drive mechanism for rotating the output shaft and a transmit mechanism for trasmitting the rotation of the output shaft to a rotatable portion of the detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Koito Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hirose, Masahiro Kusagaya, Nobumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 4598237
    Abstract: A power window control apparatus has a transmitter, detachably mounted to a fixed member in a compartment, for transmitting coded infrared ray signals corresponding to opening/closing operations of right and left windows of a vehicle and a receiver fixed in the compartment, the receiver being provided with a manual switch for driving the relay circuit independently of the signal from the transmitter, a reset circuit for resetting the decoder for a predetermined period of time after an ignition switch is turned on, and a braking circuit for braking a corresponding one of motors when a driver releases a transmitter switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Wada, Hitoshi Takeda, Hiroki Shibata, Atsushi Toda, Nobumi Yokoyama, Naohiro Yamada