Patents by Inventor Takahiro Osaki

Takahiro Osaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20140084098
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is obtained that is capable of reducing the load on a reduction balance spring without using special components, and without performing special processing on a spiral direction inside end of the reduction balance spring. When the reduction balance spring rotates in a take-up direction as winding of the reduction balance spring loosens, an inside engagement portion turns in the take-up direction inside an engagement groove. Accordingly, a load absorption portion which is further to a main body portion side of the reduction balance spring than the inside engagement portion curves into a concave shape that is open towards a pull-out direction as the load absorption portion stands up. In this state, when further load in the take-up direction acts on the reduction balance spring, this load is absorbed by the load absorption portion undergoing resilient deformation so as to curve further.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Atsushi TATSUMA, Takahiro OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20120048982
    Abstract: A difference in limiting torques of rotation between a spring and a rotary member is increased without increasing a number of coils of the spring. In a webbing winding device, an outer diameter of a clutch wall of a clutch wheel increases from a flange side to a stopping flange side of the clutch wall. When a clutch spring is tightly wound on the clutch wall, the clutch spring is subjected to a movement force toward the stopping flange side. Thus, a winding force of the clutch spring onto the clutch wall is effectively increased. Therefore, a difference in limiting torques of rotation between the clutch spring and the clutch wheel between when the clutch spring is not tightly wound on the clutch wall and when it is wound on the clutch wall is increased, without increasing a number of coils of the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Takahiro OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20110309180
    Abstract: When attempt is made to insert a fitting-shaft section into a fitting-hole section in a state where phases of the fitting-shaft section of a spring-screw and the fitting-hole section of an adapter about a central-axis line of a spool-body are not matched, shaft-section-side inclined-surfaces formed at shaft-section-side protrusions abut to hole-section-side inclined-surfaces formed at hole-section-side protrusions, so the shaft-section-side inclined-surfaces press the hole-section-side inclined-surfaces in such a direction inclined in a pull-out direction to a projecting-direction of a shaft-section body from a flange section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Nao SASAKI, Tomotaka SUZUKI, Takahiro HAMADA, Takahiro OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20110186675
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device with a small difference in a frictional force between an outermost layer portion of a spiral spring along a circumferential direction of a rotating body and an inner peripheral portion of the rotating body is obtained. A reduction sliding spring is formed in a curved shape, such that the radius of curvature becomes gradually larger in a predetermined ratio toward a longitudinal central portion from both longitudinal ends in a state where the reduction sliding spring has not been elastically deformed in a circular shape. The amount of elastic deformation accompanying a minute change in a position from the longitudinal central portion to both longitudinal ends becomes approximately equal in a state where the reduction sliding spring has been elastically deformed in the circular shape. Therefore, a radially outward elastic force having substantially a center of the reduction sliding spring as its center becomes approximately equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiro OSAKI, Shinji MORI
  • Publication number: 20110186676
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device which can improve the workability of the assembly work of a tension reducer is obtained. In this webbing take-up device, a take-up spring unit is arranged closer to the opening side of a case than a reduction spring unit within a case. For this reason, when a clutch is arranged inside the reduction balance spring and the inner end of the reduction balance spring in a spiral direction is locked to a spring case of the clutch, the clutch and the reduction balance spring can be easily and visually recognized from the opening side of the case. Thus, the other end of the reduction balance spring can be easily locked to the spring case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiro OSAKI, Shinji MORI
  • Patent number: 7322343
    Abstract: A fuel vapor storage canister for an automotive vehicle, includes a casing formed thereinside with charge, purge and drain ports connected to a gas passage. First, second, third and fourth adsorption layers are disposed in the gas passage and arranged in order of first, second, third and forth adsorption layers from side of the charge port along a longitudinal direction of the gas passage. Each adsorption layer includes a fuel vapor adsorbent. Additionally, a first space section is formed between the first and second adsorption layers. A second space section is formed between the second and third adsorption sections. A third space section is formed between the third and fourth adsorption sections. Each space section has a width in the longitudinal direction of the gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Mahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Yamada, Masaru Nakano, Masashi Uchino, Takahiro Osaki
  • Publication number: 20070119306
    Abstract: A fuel vapor storage canister for an automotive vehicle, includes a casing formed thereinside with charge, purge and drain ports connected to a gas passage. First, second, third and fourth adsorption layers are disposed in the gas passage and arranged in order of first, second, third and forth adsorption layers from side of the charge port along a longitudinal direction of the gas passage. Each adsorption layer includes a fuel vapor adsorbent. Additionally, a first space section is formed between the first and second adsorption layers. A second space section is formed between the second and third adsorption sections. A third space section is formed between the third and fourth adsorption sections. Each space section has a width in the longitudinal direction of the gas passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Eiji Yamada, Masaru Nakano, Masashi Uchino, Takahiro Osaki