Patents by Inventor Shintarou Okawa

Shintarou Okawa 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: 11385176
    Abstract: In a cover device for a near-infrared sensor, a plate-shaped cover is arranged in a vehicle such that near-infrared light transmitted from a near-infrared sensor passes through the cover in the thickness direction. A part of the cover in the thickness direction is constituted by a bright decorative layer, which reflects part of incident visible light and allows near-infrared light to pass through. The cover is configured such that the near-infrared light transmittance is higher than the visible light transmittance. The vehicle further includes a light emitting portion, which emits visible light to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Okumura, Shintarou Okawa, Hiroaki Ando, Hirotaka Fukui, Yoshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11155924
    Abstract: A silver mirror film includes a plurality of silver particles arranged in a film surface direction, a plurality of interparticle silicon particles between the silver particles, and a plurality of surface silicon particles on surfaces of the silver particles so as to at least partially cover the surfaces. The interparticle silicon particles and the surface silicon particles are present as (SixO2y)n{x?1, y?1, and n?1}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miki Kitamoto, Shintarou Okawa, Hiroaki Ando
  • Publication number: 20200363329
    Abstract: In a cover device for a near-infrared sensor, a plate-shaped cover is arranged in a vehicle such that near-infrared light transmitted from a near-infrared sensor passes through the cover in the thickness direction. A part of the cover in the thickness direction is constituted by a bright decorative layer, which reflects part of incident visible light and allows near-infrared light to pass through. The cover is configured such that the near-infrared light transmittance is higher than the visible light transmittance. The vehicle further includes a light emitting portion, which emits visible light to the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Koji OKUMURA, Shintarou OKAWA, Hiroaki ANDO, Hirotaka FUKUI, Yoshiharu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200324570
    Abstract: A decorative product includes a decorative layer containing nickel, chromium, and molybdenum as constituent components. The molybdenum content in the decorative layer is 50 atm % or less. The total content of nickel, chromium, and molybdenum in the decorative layer is 95 atm % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Shintarou OKAWA, Hiroaki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200157685
    Abstract: A silver mirror film includes a plurality of silver particles arranged in a film surface direction, a plurality of interparticle silicon particles between the silver particles, and a plurality of surface silicon particles on surfaces of the silver particles so as to at least partially cover the surfaces. The interparticle silicon particles and the surface silicon particles are present as (SixO2y)n{x?1, y?1, and n?1}.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Miki KITAMOTO, Shintarou OKAWA, Hiroaki ANDO
  • Patent number: 10259197
    Abstract: A decorative product includes a transparent member formed from an acrylic resin and a decorative layer arranged on a rear surface of the transparent member. A processed layer is located between the transparent member and the decorative layer. The processed layer is formed by performing a plasma treatment on the rear surface of the transparent member. The decorative layer is a metal layer formed on the processed layer formed by performing sputtering. The processed layer has the thickness L of less than or equal to 260 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoshi Ogisu, Shintarou Okawa
  • Publication number: 20180029333
    Abstract: A decorative product includes a transparent member formed from an acrylic resin and a decorative layer arranged on a rear surface of the transparent member. A processed layer is located between the transparent member and the decorative layer. The processed layer is formed by performing a plasma treatment on the rear surface of the transparent member. The decorative layer is a metal layer formed on the processed layer formed by performing sputtering. The processed layer has the thickness L of less than or equal to 260 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Motoshi OGISU, Shintarou OKAWA
  • Patent number: 7540353
    Abstract: A resonator is arranged in an intake system including a pipe section for partitioning an intake port from an intake passage that communicates the intake port with a combustion chamber of an engine, the resonator including: a branch pipe having one end branching to the pipe section and the other end closed so that a silencing chamber is defined therein; and at least one partition wall for partitioning the silencing chamber into at least one pneumatic spring chamber, the partition wall having a natural frequency lower than the frequency of silencing target sound of intake noise propagated from the intake passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintarou Okawa, Tomoyuki Sawatari, Yoshikazu Hirose, Minoru Toyoda, Masaru Hattori, Tatsuo Suzuki, Hiroshi Iwao, Yutaka Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20080233856
    Abstract: An air conditioner duct connected to a downstream side of an air flow path of a vehicular air conditioning apparatus is provided with an outer pipe portion and an inner pipe portion formed at an inner portion of the outer pipe portion, a first inner end of the inner pipe portion is integrated to an inner peripheral face of the outer pipe portion, an outer peripheral face of a second inner end of the inner pipe portion and an inner peripheral face of the outer pipe portion are separated, a side branch type noise suppressing chamber is defined by the inner peripheral face of the outer pipe portion and the outer peripheral face of the inner pipe portion, and the outer pipe portion is provided with an adjusting portion continuous to an upstream side of an air flow path of the first inner end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintarou OKAWA, Nobuhiro TERAI, Takahiko SATO, Yoshikazu HIROSE, Katsuhiro KATAGIRI, Minoru SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20060065479
    Abstract: A resonator is arranged in an intake system including a pipe section for partitioning an intake port from an intake passage that communicates the intake port with a combustion chamber of an engine, the resonator including: a branch pipe having one end branching to the pipe section and the other end closed so that a silencing chamber is defined therein; and at least one partition wall for partitioning the silencing chamber into at least one pneumatic spring chamber, the partition wall having a natural frequency lower than the frequency of silencing target sound of intake noise propagated from the intake passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: c/o TOYODA GOSEI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintarou Okawa, Tomoyuki Sawatari, Yoshikazu Hirose, Minoru Toyoda, Masaru Hattori, Tatsuo Suzuki, Hiroshi Iwao, Yutaka Ogasawara