Patents by Inventor Shunji Shibata
Shunji Shibata 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).
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Publication number: 20230311795Abstract: A vehicle may include a vehicle body including a floor panel, a battery pack located below the floor panel and an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body. A support that protrudes downwardly may be disposed on a lower wall of the battery pack. The energy absorption member may include a protrusion that protrudes inwardly in the vehicle width direction toward the support. A tip end of the protrusion may include a contact surface being in contact with a side surface of the support in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHInventors: Yuuki MUKAIGAWA, Naoki TANI, Ryuma OSAKA, Shungo IIZUKA, Shunji SHIBATA, Kyohei MIYAOKA, Masanori KODERA, Takashi IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20230311794Abstract: A vehicle may include a vehicle body including a floor panel, a battery pack located below the floor panel, and an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body. The energy absorption member may be a hollow member extending along a vehicle longitudinal direction and having a constant cross section along the vehicle longitudinal direction. An inner sidewall of the energy absorption member that faces the battery pack may incline downwardly in a vehicle height direction as it extends inwardly in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuuki MUKAIGAWA, Kyohei Miyaoka, Shunji Shibata
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Patent number: 11752851Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body provided with each of a pair of rockers on each side of a floor panel in a right-left direction, a battery pack that stores electric power to be supplied to a traction motor, and a pair of fixing members that fixes the battery pack to the rockers. The battery pack and the fixing members are joined by a plurality of adhesion members. The adhesion members are intermittently laid out along a vehicle length direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Takahashi, Takuya Hirota, Shunji Shibata
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Patent number: 11485415Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a hollow rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; a power source arranged adjacent to the rocker; an energy absorbing member connected to the power source and arranged under the rocker; and a collar arranged between the rocker and the energy absorbing member. The rocker may be provided with a flange extending downward from a bottom plate of the rocker. A height of the collar above the energy absorbing member may be greater than a height of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shunji Shibata
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Patent number: 11440593Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a rocker; an energy absorbing member (an EA member) arranged under the rocker, the EA member being a hollow beam; and a collar penetrating an upper plate of the EA member and welded to the upper plate. The collar is arranged between the rocker and a lower plate of the EA member. The EA member includes a first/a second/a third vertical plates and a diagonal brace, these plates connect the upper plate and the lower plate of the EA member to each other. The second vertical plate is positioned between the first and the third vertical plates. The collar passes between the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate. The diagonal brace connects a first inner corner where the second vertical plate meets the upper plate and a second inner corner where the third vertical plate meets the lower plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shunji Shibata
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Patent number: 11383766Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a rocker; a power source; an energy absorbing member (EA member) arranged under the rocker; and a collar penetrating an upper plate of the EA member. The EA member includes a first vertical plate, a second vertical plate, and a diagonal brace; the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate connect the upper and lower plates to each other, the first vertical plate is arranged adjacent to the collar, the second vertical plate is arranged adjacent to the first vertical plate on an opposite side from the collar, and the diagonal brace connects a first inner corner where the first vertical plate meets the lower plate and a second inner corner where the second vertical plate meets the upper plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shunji Shibata
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Publication number: 20220080820Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body provided with each of a pair of rockers on each side of a floor panel in a right-left direction, a battery pack that stores electric power to be supplied to a traction motor, and a pair of fixing members that fixes the battery pack to the rockers. The battery pack and the fixing members are joined by a plurality of adhesion members. The adhesion members are intermittently laid out along a vehicle length direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Takahashi, Takuya Hirota, Shunji Shibata
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Publication number: 20210284243Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a rocker; an energy absorbing member (an EA member) arranged under the rocker, the EA member being a hollow beam; and a collar penetrating an upper plate of the EA member and welded to the upper plate. The collar is arranged between the rocker and a lower plate of the EA member. The EA member includes a first/a second/a third vertical plates and a diagonal brace, these plates connect the upper plate and the lower plate of the EA member to each other. The second vertical plate is positioned between the first and the third vertical plates. The collar passes between the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate. The diagonal brace connects a first inner corner where the second vertical plate meets the upper plate and a second inner corner where the third vertical plate meets the lower plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Shunji SHIBATA
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Patent number: 11104283Abstract: A vehicular energy absorbing member that is disposed between a bumper reinforcement and a framework of a vehicle includes an energy absorbing portion that has a tubular shape and is configured to absorb impact energy by being plastically deformed to be compressed in an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the energy absorbing portion has a circular tubular shape and an inner circumferential surface of the energy absorbing portion includes a ridge portion having a shape extending in the axial direction of the energy absorbing portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Keikinzoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Yatsunami, Shunji Shibata, Kiyoichi Kita, Kyosuke Matsui, Jun Shobo
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Publication number: 20210221442Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a rocker; a power source; an energy absorbing member (EA member) arranged under the rocker; and a collar penetrating an upper plate of the EA member. The EA member includes a first vertical plate, a second vertical plate, and a diagonal brace; the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate connect the upper and lower plates to each other, the first vertical plate is arranged adjacent to the collar, the second vertical plate is arranged adjacent to the first vertical plate on an opposite side from the collar, and the diagonal brace connects a first inner corner where the first vertical plate meets the lower plate and a second inner corner where the second vertical plate meets the upper plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Shunji SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20210214012Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may include: a hollow rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; a power source arranged adjacent to the rocker; an energy absorbing member connected to the power source and arranged under the rocker; and a collar arranged between the rocker and the energy absorbing member. The rocker may be provided with a flange extending downward from a bottom plate of the rocker. A height of the collar above the energy absorbing member may be greater than a height of the flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shunji Shibata
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Publication number: 20210070370Abstract: An impact absorption device includes: a pair of an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and placed to face each other; and a plurality of ribs extending in the vehicle front-rear direction between the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion, the ribs being arranged at predetermined intervals in the vehicle width direction so as to divide a space between the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion into a plurality of sections extending in the vehicle front-rear direction. Among the sections, three consecutive sections in an arrangement direction of the sections are configured such that an interval between ribs constituting a central section in the arrangement direction is smaller than an interval between ribs constituting each of sections adjacently placed on both sides of the central section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN KEIKINZOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Syunji MORI, Shunji SHIBATA, Masaaki YOSHIMURA, Kenji TAMAKI, Kiyoichi KITA, Jun SYOBO
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Publication number: 20210070376Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may comprise: a rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; a power supply package arranged under a floor panel of the vehicle body; and a hollow beam extending along the front-rear direction and fixed to the power supply package, the hollow beam including an upper plate, a lower plate, and a vertical plate, and the vertical plate connecting the upper plate and the lower plate. The hollow beam may be fixed to the rocker by a bolt penetrating the upper plate and the lower plate, and a head of the bolt may overlap the vertical plate in an axial direction of the bolt, and/or a washer through which the bolt extends overlaps the vertical plate in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Shin INOUE, Shunji SHIBATA
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Patent number: 10661740Abstract: A bumper reinforcement includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a connection wall. Intermediate portions, in an extending direction, of the front wall and the rear wall are parallel to each other. An end portion, in the extending direction, of the front wall is bent toward the rear wall when viewed from the intermediate portion of the front wall. An end portion, in the extending direction, of the connection wall includes a front part and a rear part, and each of the front and rear parts extends from an inside to an outside in the vehicle width direction. A distance between a front end of the rear part and the rear wall gradually decreases in a direction from a base end of the rear part toward a distal end thereof. The front part is provided so as to extend along the front end of the rear part.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Keikinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunji Shibata, Kiyoichi Kita, Jun Shobo, Kyosuke Matsui, Tamaki Obayashi, Yuta Takanami, Hirofumi Shibata, Koji Saeki
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Publication number: 20200156575Abstract: A vehicular energy absorbing member that is disposed between a bumper reinforcement and a framework of a vehicle includes an energy absorbing portion that has a tubular shape and is configured to absorb impact energy by being plastically deformed to be compressed in an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the energy absorbing portion has a circular tubular shape and an inner circumferential surface of the energy absorbing portion includes a ridge portion having a shape extending in the axial direction of the energy absorbing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN KEIKINZOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki YATSUNAMI, Shunji SHIBATA, Kiyoichi KITA, Kyosuke MATSUI, Jun SHOBO
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Publication number: 20180370469Abstract: A bumper reinforcement includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a connection wall. Intermediate portions, in an extending direction, of the front wall and the rear wall are parallel to each other. An end portion, in the extending direction, of the front wall is bent toward the rear wall when viewed from the intermediate portion of the front wall. An end portion, in the extending direction, of the connection wall includes a front part and a rear part, and each of the front and rear parts extends from an inside to an outside in the vehicle width direction. A distance between a front end of the rear part and the rear wall gradually decreases in a direction from a base end of the rear part toward a distal end thereof. The front part is provided so as to extend along the front end of the rear part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN KEIKINZOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunji SHIBATA, Kiyoichi KITA, Jun SHOBO, Kyosuke MATSUI, Tamaki OBAYASHI, Yuta TAKANAMI, Hirofumi SHIBATA, Koji SAEKI
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Patent number: 5306682Abstract: A crystalline silicate catalyst having deposited coke thereon is regenerated by being contacted with an oxygen-containing gas having a moisture content of 0.2% by volume or less at a temperature of 400.degree.-600.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Research Association for the Utilization of Light OilInventors: Masaaki Ueda, Teruo Murakami, Shunji Shibata, Kazuo Hirabayashi, Tadami Kondoh, Kohji Adachi, Nobuko Hoshino, Shinichi Inoue