Patents by Inventor Teruaki Yamamoto

Teruaki Yamamoto 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: 9944320
    Abstract: A vehicle including: left and right bottom frames, extending in a front-rear direction, supporting a floor plate; a rear-gear support; a bottom rear frame coupling rear ends of the bottom frames, extending in a width direction, to which the rear-gear support is welded; left and right upper frames, extending in the front-rear direction, supporting a cargo bed; a rear lateral frame, coupling rear ends of the upper frames extending in the width direction; left and right rear vertical frames, extending in a top-bottom direction, coupling the upper frames and the bottom rear frames; left and right rear L-shape frames, extending in the front-rear direction and the width direction, coupling the rear vertical frames and the rear lateral frame; and left and right arm supports, supporting rear-wheel support arms, and having upper ends coupled to the rear L shape frames and lower ends coupled to the rear gear support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9896052
    Abstract: A cargo bed of a utility vehicle includes a front wall, a left wall, a right wall, a rear wall, and a partition member configured to partition a storage space that is surrounded by the front wall, the left wall, the right wall, and the rear wall. The left wall and the right wall are each provided with a first groove configured to be engaged with the partition member to fix the same, and a second groove configured to store the partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180045826
    Abstract: An illumination device to be mounted on a vehicle, includes a light source; a sensor configured to acquire information outside the vehicle based on invisible light; and a cover including a first portion covering the light source and a second portion covering the sensor. The second portion has a lower visible light transmittance than the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kasaba, Takashi Hori, Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170343173
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle lamp including a projection lens, a first light source arranged at a rear of the projection lens and configured to emit light for forming a predetermined light distribution pattern, a reflector configured to reflect the light emitted from the first light source towards the projection lens, a first array light source arranged at the rear of the projection lens and including a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements aligned in at least one row, and a second array light source arranged at the rear of the projection lens and including a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements aligned in at least one row. The first array light source and the second array light source are arranged in an upper-lower direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKADA, Tatsuma KITAZAWA, Teruaki YAMAMOTO, Hiroki KAWAI, Akira HANADA
  • Patent number: 9789753
    Abstract: A door of a utility vehicle includes a door body including a grip portion utilized for opening and closing the door, an attachment portion provided to the door body, and a replaceable portion detachably attached to the attachment portion and enabling visual recognition from inside to outside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruaki Yamamoto, Kazumasa Hisada
  • Patent number: 9724984
    Abstract: A door for utility vehicle including a door body part provided with a grip part used for opening and closing the door. The door body part is supported by a vehicle body frame in a manner of being capable of being set at a plurality of closed states each having a different gap between the door body part and the vehicle body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9561754
    Abstract: In a utility vehicle, a storage space is formed by a first extension part of a front floor board and a second extension part of a rear floor board and by a sitting part of a seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160363283
    Abstract: An illumination device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a light source, an optical member, a holder, a first reflector, a first shade, a driving source, a power feeding member, a second reflector, a second shade, and a third shade. The second reflector is disposed between the optical member and the first shade and configured to reflect a part of the light reflected by the first reflector toward the optical member. The second shade is disposed between the optical member and the first shade so as to block a part of the light which is not blocked by the first shade. The third shade disposed to block sunlight which passes through the optical member and reaches at least one of the holder and the power feeding member. The second reflector, the second shade and the third shade are parts of one-piece component formed of the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160341391
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp unit which includes an optical system configured to form a light distribution pattern ahead of a vehicle; and a rotary light shielding member configured to block at least a part of light of a light source. The rotary light shielding member includes a spiral light shielding portion formed to change a blocked quantity of light of the light source as the rotary light shielding member rotates around a rotating axis. The light shielding portion is configured to form a plurality of light distribution patterns such that a position of a cutoff line extending in a direction crossing a horizontal direction changes in the horizontal direction. Further, the light shielding portion is configured such that a change of a position of an edge portion projected as a cutoff line becomes nonlinear in relation to a change of a rotational position of the rotary light shielding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Teruaki YAMAMOTO, Akinori MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9499037
    Abstract: A mounting structure for a power unit of a utility vehicle. The power unit includes: a body part; an output shaft extending in frontward and rearward directions through the body part; a first attaching member provided with a first damper and attaching a lower end part of the body part to a vehicle body frame of the utility vehicle; and a torque rod located in an upper part of the body part and constructed between the body part and the vehicle body frame so as to restrict rolling of the body part in vehicle width directions. A body side attaching part of the torque rod, attached to the body part, is located on an extension line of a compression axis direction of the first damper in side view of the power unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruaki Yamamoto, Akiyuki Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20160288637
    Abstract: A mounting structure for a power unit of a utility vehicle. The power unit includes: a body part; an output shaft extending in frontward and rearward directions through the body part; a first attaching member provided with a first damper and attaching a lower end part of the body part to a vehicle body frame of the utility vehicle; and a torque rod located in an upper part of the body part and constructed between the body part and the vehicle body frame so as to restrict rolling of the body part in vehicle width directions. A body side attaching part of the torque rod, attached to the body part, is located on an extension line of a compression axis direction of the first damper in side view of the power unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Teruaki YAMAMOTO, Akiyuki YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160280049
    Abstract: A door for utility vehicle, wherein: the door includes a door body part provided with a grip part used for opening and closing the door; and the door body part is supported by a vehicle body frame in a manner of being capable of being set at a plurality of closed states each having a different gap between the door body part and the vehicle body frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Teruaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160280142
    Abstract: In a utility vehicle according to the present invention, a storage space is formed by a first extension part of a front floor board and a second extension part of a rear floor board and by a sitting part of a seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Teruaki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9453629
    Abstract: At least a part of light emitted from a light source passes through a projection lens. A rotary shade is disposed at the rear side of the projection lens to block a part of the light emitted from the light source. The rotary shade includes a twist end surface. A swivel actuator changes an optical axis direction of the projection lens. A shade driving mechanism rotates the rotary shade around the rotary axis. A first information acquisition unit acquires first information on a rudder angle of the vehicle. A second information acquisition unit acquires second information on the front area of the vehicle. A first control unit controls the swivel actuator to determine the optical axis direction based on the first information. A second control unit controls the shade driving mechanism to determine the position of the twist end surface based on the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Mochizuki, Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9441806
    Abstract: A rotary shade is disposed behind a projection lens to block a portion of light emitted from a light source. The rotary shade has a twisted end surface to form an edge projected as a peripheral edge of a light distribution pattern which changes position in relation to the rotation of the shade. The twisted end surface is arranged so that the closer the twisted end surface is to the projection lens the more the twisted end surface approaches the optical axis. The twisted end surface moves from the front to the back of a rear focal point in relation to the rotation of the rotary shade in the direction in which the illumination area of the light distribution pattern increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruaki Yamamoto, Akinori Matsumoto, Kiyotaka Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9403513
    Abstract: A parking brake apparatus includes a base plate, a brake lever supported by the base plate, a pair of left and right brake actuating units, and left and right brake cables connecting between the brake lever and the left and right brake actuating units, respectively. The base plate has an elongated hole extended from a corresponding position to a cable connecting portion of the brake lever toward the outer cable holding portion, left and right inner cables of the pair of left and right brake cables are connected to a common inner cable by an equalizer, and the common inner cable is extended inside the elongated hole from the cable connecting portion toward the outer cable holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma Nozaki, Teruaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160200374
    Abstract: A panel locking device for a vehicle cargo bed is configured to retain an openable gate-shaped panel (18) upstanding at a closed position. The panel locking device includes a locking lever (24) rotatably supported by a lever support portion (22) provided at a first one of the gate-shaped panel (18) and a cargo bed panel (16) adjacent to the gate-shaped panel (18), a movable hook (25) rotatably coupled to a halfway portion of the locking lever (24), a first fixed hook (21) provided to a second one of the gate-shaped panel (18) and the cargo bed panel (16) and configured to engage with the movable hook (25) when the gate-shaped panel (18) is located at the closed position, and at least one second fixed hook (26) provided to the first one of the panels and configured to engage with the movable hook (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Teruaki YAMAMOTO, Itsuo TAKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20160185192
    Abstract: A door of a utility vehicle includes a door body including a grip portion utilized for opening and closing the door, an attachment portion provided to the door body, and a replaceable portion detachably attached to the attachment portion and enabling visual recognition from inside to outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Teruaki YAMAMOTO, Kazumasa HISADA
  • Publication number: 20160185398
    Abstract: A cargo bed of a utility vehicle according to the present invention includes a front wall, a left wall, a right wall, a rear wall, and a partition member configured to partition a storage space that is surrounded with the front wall, the left wall, the right wall, and the rear wall. The left wall and the right wall are each provided with a first groove configured to be engaged with the partition member to fix the same, and a second groove configured to store the partition member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Teruaki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9333846
    Abstract: A utility vehicle has a body frame, a source of power arranged in the body frame, and an under cover for covering a lower surface of the body frame. Both ends of the under cover in the vehicle width direction or the vehicle front and rear direction are fixed to lower surfaces of a plurality of bottom frame members forming a bottom part of the body frame, and a region of the under cover facing the source of power from the lower side is raised upward. A vertically sectional shape of the raised and designated region is formed in for example an arch shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruaki Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Maeda