Patents by Inventor Tadayuki Atoh

Tadayuki Atoh 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: 5664805
    Abstract: An air bag is structured by superposing a lower panel and an upper panel and sewing up the peripheral portions of the panels. The air bag is provided with an opening for an inflator at its rear portion. Flaps are extended from a peripheral portion of the opening for the inflator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yoshida, Noriyuki Kosugi, Eiji Yanagi, Yoshihiko Tanaka, Akira Kokeguchi, Tadayuki Atoh, Yoshihiko Minami
  • Patent number: 5584508
    Abstract: The invention is a combination of an air bag device and a vehicle. An air bag for the air bag device for a passenger seat or a rear seat is structured by superposing a lower panel and an upper panel and sewing up the peripheral portions of the panels. The lower panel is longer than the upper panel. Portions of the lower panel are superposed each other and extended out of the air bag so as to form elongated portions. A protrusion of the air bag is formed by sewing up side edges of the elongated portions with threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Maruyama, Tadayuki Atoh, Yoshihiko Minami, Ryoichi Yoshida, Noriyuki Kosugi, Eiji Yanagi, Yoshihiko Tanaka, Akira Kokeguchi
  • Patent number: 5566972
    Abstract: An air bag for a passenger seat or a rear seat which is produced by easy sewing and is assembled into an air bag device easily is structured by superposing a lower panel and an upper panel and sewing up the peripheral portions of the panels. The lower panel is provided with an opening for an inflator and vent holes. The opening is provided with a cloth sewed on the outside of the periphery thereof. The rod-shaped inflator is inserted between the cloth and the opening. The both ends of the inflator are fixed to a casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yoshida, Noriyuki Kosugi, Yoshihiko Tanaka, Eiji Yanagi, Tadayuki Atoh, Akira Kokeguchi, Yoshihiko Minami
  • Patent number: 5324070
    Abstract: An air bag device for a knee of an occupant includes an air bag adapted to be extended in front of a seat of a vehicle including a zone at a height of the seat, a casing which holds the air bag therein in a folded state, and a gas generator mounted on the casing, the casing being located in a position offset to one of the righthand and lefthand sides of the front of the center of the seat, and the air bag having such a volume as to be extended to the other side by the gas generator. An air bag device for a knee of an occupant includes an air bag adapted to be extended in front of a seat of a vehicle including a zone at a height of the seat, the air bag having a shape when it is extended fully, in which its two end sides in the widthwise direction of the seat have projections toward the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Motonobu Kitagawa, Akira Kokeguchi, Misao Kamiyama, Tadayuki Atoh
  • Patent number: 5312131
    Abstract: An air bag device for a knee of an occupant, includes an air bag to be extended in front of a seat of a vehicle and in a zone at a height of the seat. The air bag device is arranged at a widthwise center portion of the vehicle. The air bag includes a first air bag to be extended in a zone in front of the righthand seat of the vehicle, and a second air bag to be extended in a zone in front of the lefthand seat of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Motonobu Kitagawa, Akira Kokeguchi, Misao Kamiyama, Tadayuki Atoh