Patents by Inventor Toshimitsu Yagi

Toshimitsu Yagi 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: 6976731
    Abstract: In a vehicle body structure, an accommodation concavity is provided in a floor panel. A pair of side members each having a nearly vertical first side surface portion extend bilaterally of the accommodation concavity. The floor panel is composed of a first floor panel having a first bottom surface portion serving as the bottom surface of the accommodation concavity, and second side surface portions erected in a nearly vertical direction from the first bottom surface portion and placed adjacent to the first side surface portions; and second floor panels each having a second bottom surface portion placed above the side member, and a third side surface portion erected in a nearly vertical direction from the second bottom surface portion and placed adjacent to and outwardly of the first side surface portion in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Metaltech Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shibata, Nobuhiro Oikawa, Yoshiyuki Koshita, Toshimitsu Yagi
  • Publication number: 20040201259
    Abstract: In a vehicle body structure, an accommodation concavity is provided in a floor panel. A pair of side members each having a nearly vertical first side surface portion extend bilaterally of the accommodation concavity. The floor panel is composed of a first floor panel having a first bottom surface portion serving as the bottom surface of the accommodation concavity, and second side surface portions erected in a nearly vertical direction from the first bottom surface portion and placed adjacent to the first side surface portions; and second floor panels each having a second bottom surface portion placed above the side member, and a third side surface portion erected in a nearly vertical direction from the second bottom surface portion and placed adjacent to and outwardly of the first side surface portion in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Keisuke Shibata, Nobuhiro Oikawa, Yoshiyuki Koshita, Toshimitsu Yagi