Patents by Inventor Tetsushi Muromachi

Tetsushi Muromachi 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).

  • Webbing for restraining a vehicle occupant
    Patent number: 5547223
    Abstract: A webbing for restraining a vehicle occupant, having a webbing length increasing device which is folded over and sewn together along a transverse direction of the webbing, and when a load applied between a vehicle occupant and the webbing length increasing device exceeds a sewing strength of the webbing length increasing device, stitching of the webbing length increasing device comes undone, the webbing length increasing device having at least a first sewn-together portion and a second sewn-together portion, the second sewn-together portion being provided at a webbing fold tip end side of the first sewn-together portion and having a sewing strength which is smaller than a sewing strength of the first sewn-together portion. Load applied between the vehicle occupant and the webbing, when a length of the webbing is increased at a time of sudden deceleration of a vehicle, is reduced gradually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho, Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiji Koketsu, Koki Sato, Tetsushi Muromachi, Mutsumu Haraoka, Toshio Nagata, Michihiro Yanagihara, Kuniaki Oma