Patents by Inventor Shouji Akutsu

Shouji Akutsu 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: 4835533
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle use, wireless signal controlled locking and unlocking system. This system includes a user-carriable, userside controller and a vehicle side controller. The former controller takes the form of a card. Both these controllers are mutually communicatable by way of wireless communication and adapted for control of door-locking and unlocking operations. Switches are provided at the vehicle outside door handle and trunk, while a buzzer and a timer are provided within the vehicle interior. The buzzer is operated for a predetermined short time period, for instance 5 seconds, when the door has been brought to its locked position under such a condition that when the userside controller had been left in the vehicle with carelessness. In this case, however, the door can be opened by simple manipulation of the handle switch so far as the buzzer is kept in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Kokusan Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shouji Akutsu
  • Patent number: 4827744
    Abstract: A vehicle enabling lock system that is wireless signal controlled, includes a vehicle side main controller and external controller which is formed into a card. These controllers are in two way communication with each other via wireless signals. There is provided further a vehicle side lock controller which is in communication with said vehicle side main controller through signal-conveyable conductors. The steering lock controller is united rigidly with the conventional steering lock for the purpose of preventing car theft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Kokusan Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Namazue, Shouji Akutsu
  • Patent number: 4811013
    Abstract: An external controller embodied in a portable card communicates by wireless signal with a controller mounted internally of a vehicle to control locking and unlocking operations of the vehicle doors in response to coincidence between codes respectively stored in the internal vehicle controller and the external controller, and manually entered through door switches mounted externally of the vehicle. Such door opening operation may be performed even with the portable card unintentionally left in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Kokusan Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shouji Akutsu