Patents by Inventor Osamu Fukawatase

Osamu Fukawatase 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).

  • VEHICLE AIRBAG SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160297393
    Abstract: A vehicle airbag system including: a first airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed at a front face towards a vehicle front of a seat; and a second airbag that is supplied with gas and inflated and deployed adjacent, in a vehicle width direction, to the first airbag, and that includes an overhanging deployment section that is positioned at a vehicle rear side of the first airbag and that is inflated and deployed jutting out beside the first airbag so as to cover a vehicle width direction end portion of the first airbag from the vehicle rear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu FUKAWATASE, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
  • Curtain airbag device and occupant protecting device
    Patent number: 9463764
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device comprising: a main deploying portion that, at a time when at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact arises, receives a supply of gas and expands, and is deployed in a shape of a curtain along a side window glass; an auxiliary deploying portion that is provided at a front side with respect to the main deploying portion, and that, at a time of at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact, receives a supply of gas and is expanded and deployed; and a tension structure that connects a front end side portion of a front pillar and a rear end side portion of the front pillar, and that is deployed while receiving tension such that an intermediate portion of the tension structure passes by a vehicle width direction outer side of the auxiliary deploying portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Front passenger seat airbag device
    Patent number: 9434344
    Abstract: There is provided a front passenger seat airbag device including a front passenger seat airbag that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys in front of a front passenger seat, and that is formed with a vehicle rear-facing first head contact face at a vehicle up-down direction upper portion in an inflated and deployed state, and a center airbag that is integrally formed to the front passenger seat airbag, that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys on a vehicle width direction center side of the front passenger seat airbag, and that is formed in an inflated and deployed state with a second head contact face extending from a vehicle width direction center side end portion of the first head contact face toward the vehicle rear, and facing both the vehicle rear and the vehicle width direction outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase
  • Vehicle airbag device
    Patent number: 9421935
    Abstract: A vehicle airbag device included: an airbag that is disposed at an inner side of an instrument panel, that receives a supply of gas from an inflator and inflates and deploys to an outer side of the instrument panel, and that comprises a first bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle front side of an occupant, and a second bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle width direction center side of the first bag; and a recess that is formed at a lower face of the second bag when inflated and deployed, that is open toward a vehicle lower side, and that covers an interior component installed at a vehicle width direction central portion of the instrument panel from a vehicle upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Shinichi Ishida
  • Vehicular seat
    Patent number: 9376040
    Abstract: To obtain a vehicular seat with which the expansion and deployment of expanding portions can be completed in a short amount of time. A vehicular seat has: a seat cushion; a first expanding portion that is provided in the seat cushion on one side thereof with respect to a seat width direction center and which, upon receiving a supply of gas, is expanded and deployed; a second expanding portion that is provided in the seat cushion on the other side thereof with respect to the seat width direction center and which, upon receiving a supply of gas, is expanded and deployed in such a way as to oppose the first expanding portion across a central space portion in the seat width direction; and gas supplying device which, when actuated at the time of a frontal impact of the vehicle, supplies gas to the first expanding portion and second expanding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Aya Yamamoto
  • Vehicle side airbag device
    Patent number: 9327673
    Abstract: A vehicle side airbag device with a decreased load on the chest of passenger and an increased initial restraining performance resulting from a side airbag. In the side airbag device, a vent hole portion is formed from the stitching portion between a main panel and a side face panel being interrupted at a portion thereof. Flaps provided to the main panel and the side face panel are inserted from the vent hole portion into the chest chamber. The flaps close off the vent hole portion by means of the internal pressure of the chest chamber until the side airbag inflated and deployed between an occupant and a door trim. When the internal pressure of the chest chamber rise by means of chest chamber being compressed between the occupant and the door trim, the flaps are pushed out of an airbag main body portion, and the vent hole portion is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Yusuke Fujiwara
  • Driver seat airbag system
    Patent number: 9321421
    Abstract: A driver seat airbag system includes: an airbag that is housed in a pad section of a steering wheel, receives a supply of gas for inflation during a collision of a vehicle, and is inflated and deployed between the steering wheel and an occupant in a driver seat; and an inflator that generates the gas. The airbag includes an auxiliary inflated section that is inflated to a front of the vehicle in conjunction with inflation and deployment of the airbag, so as to enter a space between a rim and a spoke of the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Vehicle seat provided with side airbag device
    Patent number: 9296352
    Abstract: A seat back board made from resin is fitted to side frames of a seatback frame from a seat rear side. A seat width direction outer side portion of the seat back board is integrally formed with a case portion that houses a side airbag device that is fixed to an outside face of the side frame. The presence of a side wall portion of the case portion suppresses a side airbag from expanding towards the seatback outside in a ball shape during initial inflation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujiwara, Osamu Fukawatase
  • VEHICLE CURTAIN AIRBAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160039384
    Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device that includes: front and rear main chambers that receive gas supplied from an inflator, and that inflate and deploy between respective positions of heads of a front seat occupant and a rear seat occupant, and a side section of a vehicle body; and a delay chamber that is provided spanning between the front and rear main chambers, and that is only supplied with gas through a gas supply opening formed at a boundary between the delay chamber and the main chamber on a front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Osamu FUKAWATASE, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
  • VEHICLE CURTAIN AIRBAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160031402
    Abstract: There is provides a vehicle curtain airbag device including a curtain airbag, having: a front main chamber and a rear main chamber that protect occupants from a side collision, a front oblique collision chamber that is disposed at a vehicle front side, and that protects the occupant from an oblique collision, and a rollover chamber that is disposed between the front main chamber and the rear main chamber, and that protects the occupant from a rollover, wherein the curtain airbag is configured such that, during inflation and deployment of the front main chamber, the rear main chamber, the front oblique collision chamber, and the rollover chamber on receipt of gas supplied from an inflator, an internal pressure of each chamber rises in the sequence: (i) the front main chamber and the rear main chamber, (ii) the front oblique collision chamber, and (iii) the rollover chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Osamu Fukawatase
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: 9238425
    Abstract: A vehicle seat that can effectively restrain a passenger from moving outward in a vehicle width direction in the event of a collision of a vehicle is obtained. The vehicle seat disclosed is equipped with a pop-up bar that is supported displaceably upward, an MGG that is operated to displace the pop-up bar upward, a tension cloth that is connected on an upper end side thereof to the pop-up bar and on a lower end side thereof to a front end side of a seat cushion, and a lateral collision ECU that operates the MGG in a case where a lateral collision of the vehicle is detected or predicted. The tension cloth is deployed such that a tensile force is applied between a connection portion thereof to the pop-up bar and a connection portion thereof to the seat cushion as the pop-up bar is displaced to a popped-up position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase
  • FRONT PASSENGER SEAT AIRBAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160009242
    Abstract: There is provided a front passenger seat airbag device including a front passenger seat airbag that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys in front of a front passenger seat, and that is formed with a vehicle rear-facing first head contact face at a vehicle up-down direction upper portion in an inflated and deployed state, and a center airbag that is integrally formed to the front passenger seat airbag, that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys on a vehicle width direction center side of the front passenger seat airbag, and that is formed in an inflated and deployed state with a second head contact face extending from a vehicle width direction center side end portion of the first head contact face toward the vehicle rear, and facing both the vehicle rear and the vehicle width direction outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase
  • VEHICLE AIRBAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150367802
    Abstract: A vehicle airbag device included: an airbag that is disposed at an inner side of an instrument panel, that receives a supply of gas from an inflator and inflates and deploys to an outer side of the instrument panel, and that comprises a first bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle front side of an occupant, and a second bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle width direction center side of the first bag; and a recess that is formed at a lower face of the second bag when inflated and deployed, that is open toward a vehicle lower side, and that covers an interior component installed at a vehicle width direction central portion of the instrument panel from a vehicle upper side
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Shinichi Ishida
  • Occupant protection device
    Patent number: 9193326
    Abstract: A side-impact airbag system includes an inner airbag that is supplied with gas and inflates and deploys in an inner side in a vehicle width direction for a seating occupant on a driver's seat, and an ECU that instructs an inner inflator to supply gas to the inner airbag. The ECU activates the inner inflator of the driver's seat to supply gas to the inner airbag at a first timing in the event of the side impact collision on a passenger seat side and at second timing that is set to be later than the first timing in the event of the side impact collision on a driver's seat side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase
  • Knee airbag device for an automobile
    Patent number: 9180835
    Abstract: Axial forces on the shins of small-bodied occupants and medium-bodied occupants may be suppressed or prevented, and protective performance of the knee areas of large-bodied occupants is assured. A vehicle knee airbag device is equipped with a knee airbag main body portion that is formed in a thin bag shape and that inflates and expands from below to above along a design surface of an instrument panel floor when gas is supplied thereto. A protection portion of the knee airbag main body portion has a size capable of covering both knees of an occupant, from small-bodied occupants to large-bodied occupants. A U-shaped lower tether is disposed in an upper portion of the interior of the protection portion; vertical direction dividing portions of the lower tether extend to the upward side from portions that correspond with both knees of medium-bodied occupants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Makoto Ozeki
  • CURTAIN AIRBAG DEVICE AND OCCUPANT PROTECTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150307054
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device comprising: a main deploying portion that, at a time when at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact arises, receives a supply of gas and expands, and is deployed in a shape of a curtain along a side window glass; an auxiliary deploying portion that is provided at a front side with respect to the main deploying portion, and that, at a time of at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact, receives a supply of gas and is expanded and deployed; and a tension structure that connects a front end side portion of a front pillar and a rear end side portion of the front pillar, and that is deployed while receiving tension such that an intermediate portion of the tension structure passes by a vehicle width direction outer side of the auxiliary deploying portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Vehicle behavior control apparatus
    Patent number: 9156420
    Abstract: A vehicle behavior control apparatus includes: a pair of underbody airbags that is provided in a lower portion of a vehicle on both sides in a vehicle width direction, and is inflated and deployed toward a road surface when being supplied with gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase
  • Curtain airbag device and occupant protecting device
    Patent number: 9114777
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device comprising: a main deploying portion that, at a time when at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact arises, receives a supply of gas and expands, and is deployed in a shape of a curtain along a side window glass; an auxiliary deploying portion that is provided at a front side with respect to the main deploying portion, and that, at a time of at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact, receives a supply of gas and is expanded and deployed; and a tension structure that connects a front end side portion of a front pillar and a rear end side portion of the front pillar, and that is deployed while receiving tension such that an intermediate portion of the tension structure passes by a vehicle width direction outer side of the auxiliary deploying portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Curtain airbag device and occupant protecting device
    Patent number: 9108588
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device comprising: a main deploying portion that, at a time when at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact arises, receives a supply of gas and expands, and is deployed in a shape of a curtain; an auxiliary deploying portion that is provided at a front side of the main deploying portion, and that, at a time when at least one of a small overlap impact or an oblique impact arises, receives a supply of gas and is expanded and deployed; and a connecting portion that has an expanding portion that receives a supply of gas from the main deploying portion and is expanded at an outer side in a vehicle width direction of the auxiliary deploying portion, and the connecting portion connects a front end side portion of a front pillar, and a front end side portion of the main deploying portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kiasha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Side airbag device for vehicle
    Patent number: 9085279
    Abstract: At a side airbag, integrally provided are a waist portion protecting bag portion that is expanded between a waist portion of a seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion, and a chest portion/shoulder portion protecting bag portion that is expanded between a chest portion and shoulder portion of the seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion. A non-inflating portion, to which gas is not supplied, is provided so as to extend from a peripheral edge portion of a vehicle front side of the side airbag to outer peripheral portions of the waist portion protecting bag portion and the chest portion protecting bag portion, so that a front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion at a time of expansion is positioned at a lower side of a lap side webbing that restrains the waist portion of the seated passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Takehisa Shamoto