Patents by Inventor Takashi Saso
Takashi Saso 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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Patent number: 11453360Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes: a frame member that is tiltable along a seat back of a vehicle seat; and a bag body that is embedded in the frame member, that is inflated and expanded to a front of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat at a time of an impact input, and that prevents a body of the occupant from being separated from the seat back.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso
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Patent number: 11285903Abstract: An airbag includes: a first inflatable section that is inflated and deployed forward from the upper portion of a seat back through the left side of a head of an occupant; a second inflatable section that is inflated and deployed forward from the upper portion of the seat back through the right side of the head of the occupant; and a third inflatable section that is continuous with lower portions of front portions of the first inflatable section and the second inflatable section and that is inflated and deployed in front of the chest of the occupant. The front portions of the first and second inflatable sections extend in directions intersecting the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be closer to each other toward the front side. The front portions meet each other at a front end of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Joyson Safety Systems Japan K.K.Inventors: Akira Kokeguchi, Shinichi Takeuchi, Norihisa Okada, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso, Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11173865Abstract: An airbag system includes a front airbag device that is provided in front of an occupant and that includes a front bag body configured to be deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a door-side guide device that is provided on a door, and that includes a door-side guide member which displaces laterally toward the occupant from an inner side surface of the door during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front, and a console-side guide device provided on a console, and that includes a console-side guide member which displaces upward from an upper surface of the console during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso, Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11161474Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes: a bag body that is provided on a vehicle seat and that is inflated and expanded at a time of an impact input and prevents at least an upper part of a body of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat from being separated from a seat back of the vehicle seat; an inflator that supplies a gas to the bag body at a time of an impact input; a body size detection part that detects a body size of the occupant seated on the vehicle seat; and an expansion degree adjustment part that adjusts a degree of an inflation expansion of the bag body in accordance with the body size of the occupant detected by the body size detection part.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso
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Patent number: 11124146Abstract: An airbag system includes a main airbag device provided in front of an occupant and having a first bag body deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a seat airbag device provided in a seat back of a vehicle seat and having a second bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including a front of a torso of the occupant at behind the first bag body by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, and a screen airbag device having a third bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including behind the first bag body and above the second bag body.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11091115Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes an inflator that generates a gas at a time of an impact input; and a bag body that is inflated and expanded from a seat back of a vehicle seat upon supply of the gas from the inflator, wherein the bag body includes a pair of front extension parts each of which extends in a vehicle frontward direction from each of both sides in a width direction of the seat back, and a front bag that is provided continuously to the front extension part, that is expanded to a vehicle frontward side of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat, and that comes into contact with an upper part of a body of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11059444Abstract: An airbag system includes a main airbag device that is provided in front of an occupant and that includes a first bag body, a seat airbag device that is provided in the vehicle seat and that includes a second bag body which is configured to be deployed by being inflated toward at least sides and a front of a torso of the occupant at behind the first bag body and which is configured to restrict the occupant to the vehicle seat, and a seat displacement mechanism that is configured to release restriction by a lock section that restricts movement of the vehicle seat and that is configured to displace the occupant toward the first bag body in front in a case an input impact is equal to or larger than a predetermined strength.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200290548Abstract: An airbag includes: a first inflatable section that is inflated and deployed forward from the upper portion of a seat back through the left side of a head of an occupant; a second inflatable section that is inflated and deployed forward from the upper portion of the seat back through the right side of the head of the occupant; and a third inflatable section that is continuous with lower portions of front portions of the first inflatable section and the second inflatable section and that is inflated and deployed in front of the chest of the occupant. The front portions of the first and second inflatable sections extend in directions intersecting the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be closer to each other toward the front side. The front portions meet each other at a front end of the airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Akira Kokeguchi, Shinichi Takeuchi, Norihisa Okada, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200290551Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes: a frame member that is tiltable along a seat back of a vehicle seat; and a bag body that is embedded in the frame member, that is inflated and expanded to a front of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat at a time of an impact input, and that prevents a body of the occupant from being separated from the seat back.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso
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Publication number: 20200290547Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes: a bag body that is provided on a vehicle seat and that is inflated and expanded at a time of an impact input and prevents at least an upper part of a body of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat from being separated from a seat back of the vehicle seat; an inflator that supplies a gas to the bag body at a time of an impact input; a body size detection part that detects a body size of the occupant seated on the vehicle seat; and an expansion degree adjustment part that adjusts a degree of an inflation expansion of the bag body in accordance with the body size of the occupant detected by the body size detection part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso
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Publication number: 20200290552Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes an inflator that generates a gas at a time of an impact input; and a bag body that is inflated and expanded from a seat back of a vehicle seat upon supply of the gas from the inflator, wherein the bag body includes a pair of front extension parts each of which extends in a vehicle frontward direction from each of both sides in a width direction of the seat back, and a front bag that is provided continuously to the front extension part, that is expanded to a vehicle frontward side of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat, and that comes into contact with an upper part of a body of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200238941Abstract: An airbag system includes a main airbag device provided in front of an occupant and having a first bag body deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a seat airbag device provided in a seat back of a vehicle seat and having a second bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including a front of a torso of the occupant at behind the first bag body by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, and a screen airbag device having a third bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including behind the first bag body and above the second bag body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200238937Abstract: An airbag system includes a main airbag device that is provided in front of an occupant and that includes a first bag body, a seat airbag device that is provided in the vehicle seat and that includes a second bag body which is configured to be deployed by being inflated toward at least sides and a front of a torso of the occupant at behind the first bag body and which is configured to restrict the occupant to the vehicle seat, and a seat displacement mechanism that is configured to release restriction by a lock section that restricts movement of the vehicle seat and that is configured to displace the occupant toward the first bag body in front in a case an input impact is equal to or larger than a predetermined strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200238942Abstract: An airbag system includes a front airbag device that is provided in front of an occupant and that includes a front bag body configured to be deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a door-side guide device that is provided on a door, and that includes a door-side guide member which displaces laterally toward the occupant from an inner side surface of the door during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front, and a console-side guide device provided on a console, and that includes a console-side guide member which displaces upward from an upper surface of the console during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso, Takayuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20190016293Abstract: An air bag apparatus includes: an inflator that generates a gas when an impact is input; and a bag body that is supplied with the gas from the inflator and that is inflated and expanded from a seatback of a vehicle seat. The bag body includes: a trunk support part that is expanded to an opposite side of the seatback so as to support a trunk of an occupant who is seated on the vehicle seat; and a pair of head support parts each of which is expanded to each of both sides in a width direction of the vehicle seat so as to support a head part of the occupant and that is connected to the trunk support part. An escape part that penetrates in a vertical direction between the pair of head support parts and that avoids the head part of the occupant in an expansion state is formed on the bag body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventor: Takashi Saso
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Patent number: 7275764Abstract: The present invention relates to a knee protection device for protecting the knees of an occupant when a vehicle collides. The protection device includes a knee protecting member which has a hollow cross-section outer frame composed of a front plate, a load-bearing plate, an upper plate and a lower plate, and a hollow cross-section inner frame integrally formed within the outer frame. The inner frame is integrally formed with the outer frame by connecting adjacent middle portions of the front plate, upper plate, load-bearing plate and lower plate, using plate-shaped ribs.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Takashi Saso, Yasuyuki Otsuka
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Publication number: 20050194773Abstract: The present invention relates to a knee protection device for protecting the knees of an occupant when a vehicle collides. The protection device includes a knee protecting member which has a hollow cross-section outer frame composed of a front plate, a load-bearing plate, an upper plate and a lower plate, and a hollow cross-section inner frame integrally formed within the outer frame. The inner frame is integrally formed with the outer frame by connecting adjacent middle portions of the front plate, upper plate, load-bearing plate and lower plate, using plate-shaped ribs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Takashi Saso, Yasuyuki Otsuka
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Patent number: 6929284Abstract: A gas generator for slowly inflating an air bag at the early stage of the inflation and then rapidly inflating it or discharge a clean gas evenly around a housing. The gas generator includes a gas generating agent (6) and an squib (8,9) in the housing (1). The squib (9) is disposed eccentrically to the axis (a) of the housing (1). A high temperature gas is generated in a combustion chamber (4) because of the combustion of the gas generating agent (6) ignited by the squib (9). The permeability of the high temperature gas through inner cylindrical member (2) closest to the squib (9) is lower than that through the part other than the inner cylindrical member (2).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2000Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-KaishaInventors: Takashi Saso, Koji Tanaka
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Patent number: 6899351Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator for expanding and inflating a driver's seat airbag. The gas generator comprises two ignitor device 8, 9 for burning gas generants 7 packed in combustion chambers 3, 4, and enhancer device 10, 11 for allowing the flames from the ignitor device 8, 9 to be propagated circumferentially and radially of a housing 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-KaishaInventors: Takashi Saso, Fujio Tanabe, Koji Tanaka
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Patent number: 6890002Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a gas generator suitable for an organic-compound gas generating agent and excellent in heat resistance, pressure resistance, and sealing. In the gas generator, a housing (4) is formed by joining an iron- or steel-made upper lid (2), consisting of a top plate (2a) and a side cylinder (1a) extending downward from an entire circumferential edge thereof and provided with many gas discharge holes (8) with an iron- or steel-made lower lid (3), consisting of a bottom plate (3f), side cylinder (1b) extending upward from an entire circumferential edge thereof, and an ignitor holding portion (3a) formed integrally with the bottom plate (3f) and for fixing by caulking an ignitor (30). In the housing (4), the ignitor (30) and a gas generating agent (6) are arranged in the order mentioned from a center thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2000Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-KaishaInventors: Akihiko Suehiro, Koji Tanaka, Takashi Saso