Patents by Inventor Taro Nakajima
Taro Nakajima 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: 11987318Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, a lean brake mechanism, a steering handle, a left grip, a throttle grip, a lean brake manipulator. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes the leaning operation by the lean mechanism while the leaning vehicle is traveling. The lean brake manipulator is positioned at a first side in the vehicle width direction, changes a position integrally with the left grip, and for performing an operation of actuating the lean brake mechanism to brake.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11975795Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a plurality of wheels, a lean mechanism, and a lean stopper mechanism. The wheels include a left front wheel and a right front wheel. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean stopper mechanism prevents a lean angle from exceeding a limit angle. in a plan view, an area bounded by lines connecting contact positions of ground and tires of the plurality of wheels is referred to as a grounding surface inner area, and a gravity center is positioned in the grounding surface inner area in a state where the lean angle reaches the limit angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11932345Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left wheel, a right wheel, left and right bearings, left and right axle, left arm, right arm, and lean mechanism. The left arm supports the left wheel from inside in a vehicle width direction. The right arm supports the right wheel from inside in the vehicle width direction. The lean mechanism causes the left wheel and the right wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the left wheel. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the right wheel.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11926388Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake caliper and a brake disc. The brake caliper is attached to the lean mechanism and has a brake pad. The brake disc is attached to the lower arm of the upper arm and the lower arm that is farther from the brake pad in the front view, has a contact portion that generates braking force by being pressed by the brake pad.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Taro Iwamoto, Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11919604Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake disc and brake pads. The brake disc is attached to an upper arm or a lower arm. The brake pads, which are attached such that their position relative to the brake disc changes in the leaning operation, produce a frictional force against the brake disc in the leaning operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 8375040Abstract: A content explaining apparatus and method computes the degrees of similarity between a specified content and the other contents than the specified content of multiple contents based on content information stored in content information database means, computes a user realization degree for each of the other contents based on user information stored in user management database means or the content information stored in the content information database means, computes an explanation accuracy degree of each of the other contents for the specified content from the similarity degree and user realization degree of said each of the other contents, and presents content explaining information for the specified content according to the explanation accuracy degrees.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Taro Nakajima, Naoaki Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20100064217Abstract: A content explaining apparatus and method computes the degrees of similarity between a specified content and the other contents than the specified content of multiple contents based on content information stored in content information database means, computes a user realization degree for each of the other contents based on user information stored in user management database means or the content information stored in the content information database means, computes an explanation accuracy degree of each of the other contents for the specified content from the similarity degree and user realization degree of said each of the other contents, and presents content explaining information for the specified content according to the explanation accuracy degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Taro Nakajima, Naoaki Horiuchi
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Patent number: 7317472Abstract: A display apparatus is provided with a plurality of display device, at least one of which is a semitransparent display; and a fixing device for fixing the plurality of display devices to be placed along a front-rear direction on a viewer's line of sight each other, wherein a relationship between the spacing L(mm) between image planes of adjacent of the plurality of display devices and the length S(mm) of diagonal lines of the two display devices satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Isao Tomisawa, Satoshi Sugiura, Taro Nakajima, Takehisa Okuyama
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Publication number: 20040125202Abstract: A display apparatus is provided with a plurality of display device, at least one of which is a semitransparent display; and a fixing device for fixing the plurality of display devices to be placed along a front-rear direction on a viewer's line of sight each other, wherein a relationship between the spacing L(mm) between image planes of adjacent of the plurality of display devices and the length S(mm) of diagonal lines of the two display devices satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Tomisawa, Satoshi Sugiura, Taro Nakajima, Takehisa Okuyama