Patents by Inventor Norio Kubota

Norio Kubota 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: 7007993
    Abstract: A center console at a walk-through between seats which is held to be parallel to a horizontal surface in use, and is rotatable to be vertical to the horizontal surface when not in use, has: a storing part having an opening at an upper portion; a cover for closably covering the opening; rail members to support the cover to be slidable; and frame bodies for supporting the rail members, wherein the frame body has: a side surface portion which covers a side surface of the rail member; and an extending portion which extends inwardly from an upper end of the side surface portion and a tip end portion of which is bent downward, the side surface portion including a lower engaging piece engaging with a lower portion of the rail member, and the portion bent downward including an upper engaging piece engaging with an upper portion of the rail member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 7007994
    Abstract: A center console which is provided at a walk-through between right and left vehicle seats, and is held to be parallel to a horizontal surface in use and is rotatable so as to be vertical to the horizontal surface when not in use, has: a storing part having an opening at an upper portion; a front cover part for closably covering a front side of the opening; a rear cover part for closably covering a rear side of the opening; a first projecting part projecting upward from an rear end of the front cover part; and a second projecting part projecting upward from an front-end of the rear cover part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Kubota, Rikiya Oyama, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20050082861
    Abstract: A center console which is provided at a walk-through between right and left vehicle seats, and is held to be parallel to a horizontal surface in use and is rotatable so as to be vertical to the horizontal surface when not in use, has: a storing part having an opening at an upper portion; a front cover part for closably covering a front side of the opening; a rear cover part for closably covering a rear side of the opening; a first projecting part projecting upward from an rear end of the front cover part; and a second projecting part projecting upward from an front-end of the rear cover part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicants: TS TECH CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Norio Kubota, Rikiya Oyama, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20050082860
    Abstract: A center console at a walk-through between seats which is held to be parallel to a horizontal surface in use, and is rotatable to be vertical to the horizontal surface when not in use, has: a storing part having an opening at an upper portion; a cover for closably covering the opening; rail members to support the cover to be slidable; and frame bodies for supporting the rail members, wherein the frame body has: a side surface portion which covers a side surface of the rail member; and an extending portion which extends inwardly from an upper end of the side surface portion and a tip end portion of which is bent downward, the side surface portion including a lower engaging piece engaging with a lower portion of the rail member, and the portion bent downward including an upper engaging piece engaging with an upper portion of the rail member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 6425546
    Abstract: Although many conventional ribbon winding preventing methods have substantially solved a ribbon winding problem in terms of the appearance of a package, there is still a large difference between a ribbon winding layer and the other layers in, for example, unwinding performance for fast unwinding during a postprocess. In a configuration for using a traverse groove 11 formed in a traverse drum 6 to traverse and wind a yarn into a package 3, the traverse drum 6 has a plurality of continuous traverse grooves 11 for different winding values formed therein. This configuration also has means 24 for switching a yarn path to determine which of the plurality of continuous traverse grooves 11 for different winding values used to traverse the yarn. Means for detecting a diameter at which ribbon winding may occur is also provided to effect such control that the winding number for the traverse drum 6 is changed when a package diameter is close to the ribbon winding diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ohashi, Ichiro Hidaka, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 5499772
    Abstract: A yarn tension control device of an automatic winder which includes a variably controlled tensioning device for each of a multitude of spindles of a winding unit; a tension detecting device for specific one of the multitude of spindles; and control devices for controlling the tensioning device for the specific spindle by the tension detecting device and for controlling the tensioning device for other multitude of spindles on the basis of an output value to the tensioning device for this specific spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Maeda, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 5470203
    Abstract: A blower blade assembly has a plurality of blades, at least one of which is provided with a counterbalancer. The counterbalancer is of one-piece construction and includes a first arm having two contact areas spaced apart from each other and adapted to contact the first surface of the fan blade when the counterbalancer is mounted on the fan blade, a second arm having one contact area adapted to contact the second surface of the fan blade when the counterbalancer is mounted on the fan blade, and an elastic connecting bridge connecting the first and second arms together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masukazu Mori, Hiroyoshi Yamanaka, Norio Kubota, Naoki Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 5279729
    Abstract: A bobbin sorting device including a color sensor for distinguishing trays on which different kinds of bobbins are conveyed, characterized in that a metal plate is attached to each tray having one of different colors, and a detector is provided near the color sensor for detecting the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Tone, Shinji Noshi, Norio Kubota, Noboru Sekitani, Osamu Nakayama
  • Patent number: 5118958
    Abstract: A bobbin discharge apparatus having a device for detecting a remaining yarn of a bobbin. A non-contact type sensor such as a photo sensor for detecting the presence or absence of the remaining yarn on a bobbin is arranged on a carrier passage of bobbins, and the bobbin and the sensor are provided relatively movably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Noshi, Norio Kubota, Hiroshi Uchida, Yasunobu Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 5024392
    Abstract: A kink preventing device for preventing occurrence of a kink in a yarn drawn out from a yarn supply bobbin of a winder includes a pair of kink bars supported for opening and closing movement with the yarn supply bobbin interposed therebetween and each having a contacting portion which is arcuately opened along an outer peripheral portion of the bobbin, and a kink bar opening and closing means for moving the kink bars to close until the contacting portions thereof are abutted with each other to connect the kink bars in a ring-like configuration to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 4858836
    Abstract: A device for finding an end of a yarn whereby an end of a yarn connecting to a layer of the yarn on a bobbin is found and is inserted into a center hole of a bobbin. The device includes an air flow controlling plate located near an outer periphery of a layer of a yarn on a spinning bobbin and a compressed air injection nozzle located in a gap between the air flow controlling plate and the yarn layer of the spinning bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Tone, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 4848688
    Abstract: A found yarn end at a predetermined position of a spinning bobbin is detected after completion of a yarn end finding operation, whereby discrimination between success and failure in yarn end finding is made through detection of the presence or absence of the found yarn end after the actual yarn end finding treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: 4512526
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a doffing control system in an automatic winder. When a signal for turning off a drum motor for stopping a traversing drum is put out to stop rotation of the drum due to a full-winding signal and then the yarn is wound up on a package by an inertia rotation of the drum, the detecting action of the slub catcher is maintained even after emission of the full-winding signal until the yarn speed is reduced to a level corresponding to the critical limit of sensing yarn breakage by the slub catcher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisa
    Inventors: Syoiti Tone, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: D532913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sonoda, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: D533820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sonoda, Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: D534668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Kubota, Mitsunori Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D616335
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: D668592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Kubota
  • Patent number: D672688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Kubota, Yeong Jae Yi
  • Patent number: D672689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Kubota, Yeong Jae Yi