Patents by Inventor Toshiteru Yoshimura
Toshiteru Yoshimura 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: 10604016Abstract: An interior structure for a vehicle includes: an instrument panel disposed below a front window; an instrument panel reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle at a position below the instrument panel; a head-up display device having a housing structure including a front surface and a lower surface, and configured to project information onto the front window; and a support member mounted in the instrument panel, and configured to fixedly support the head-up display device. The support member includes a front wall facing the front surface of the head-up display device and a lower wall facing the lower surface, a first fixing portion serving as a fixing portion to the instrument panel, and a second fixing portion serving as a fixing portion to the instrument panel reinforcement.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignees: DaikyoNishikawa Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Masato Sadano
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Patent number: 10583739Abstract: An interior structure for a vehicle includes an instrument panel disposed below a windshield, an air conditioning duct provided inside the instrument panel, and a head-up display device having a housing structure and mounted to the instrument panel, the head-up display device being configured to project information on the windshield. The head-up display device has a heat dissipating portion on an outer peripheral face of the housing. The air conditioning duct has a facing portion that faces the heat dissipating portion so as to be able to exchange heat with the heat dissipating portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Masato Sadano
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Publication number: 20190047418Abstract: An interior structure for a vehicle includes an instrument panel disposed below a windshield, an air conditioning duct provided inside the instrument panel, and a head-up display device having a housing structure and mounted to the instrument panel, the head-up display device being configured to project information on the windshield. The head-up display device has a heat dissipating portion on an outer peripheral face of the housing. The air conditioning duct has a facing portion that faces the heat dissipating portion so as to be able to exchange heat with the heat dissipating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru YOSHIMURA, Masato SADANO
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Patent number: 10173606Abstract: A structure is for attaching an in-vehicle device including a display 20 standing on a dashboard 1 of a vehicle, and a controller 30 placed inside the dashboard 1. The structure includes a connecting bracket 40. The controller 30 is fixed to the dashboard 1. The controller 30 and the display 20 are connected together via the connecting bracket 40. The connecting bracket 40 is attachable to and detachable from the controller 30 and the display 20 independently.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Yasuhiro Hidaka, Masaki Matsumoto, Masato Sadano, Masao Tanimoto, Takashi Fukumaru, Keizo Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180354366Abstract: An interior structure for a vehicle includes: an instrument panel disposed below a front window; an instrument panel reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle at a position below the instrument panel; a head-up display device having a housing structure including a front surface and a lower surface, and configured to project information onto the front window; and a support member mounted in the instrument panel, and configured to fixedly support the head-up display device. The support member includes a front wall facing the front surface of the head-up display device and a lower wall facing the lower surface, a first fixing portion serving as a fixing portion to the instrument panel, and a second fixing portion serving as a fixing portion to the instrument panel reinforcement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicants: DaikyoNishikawa Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru YOSHIMURA, Masato SADANO
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Publication number: 20170282812Abstract: A structure is for attaching an in-vehicle device including a display 20 standing on a dashboard 1 of a vehicle, and a controller 30 placed inside the dashboard 1. The structure includes a connecting bracket 40. The controller 30 is fixed to the dashboard 1. The controller 30 and the display 20 are connected together via the connecting bracket 40. The connecting bracket 40 is attachable to and detachable from the controller 30 and the display 20 independently.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru YOSHIMURA, Yasuhiro HIDAKA, Masaki MATSUMOTO, Masato SADANO, Masao TANIMOTO, Takashi FUKUMARU, Keizo TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160121852Abstract: A defroster structure for a vehicle includes a duct guiding conditioned air sent out of an air conditioning unit to an outlet. The outlet is provided at a center of an upper surface of an instrument panel in a vehicle width direction along a lower end of a windshield. The duct includes an upstream portion, a downstream portion, and a curved portion curved and connecting the upstream and downstream portions together. An air passage in the duct has a partition dividing the air passage in a vehicle longitudinal direction into central and side air supply passages, which distribute air to a center and right and left sides of the windshield in the vehicle width direction. The partition extends from a point upstream of the curved portion of the duct to the downstream portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicants: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, DAIKYONISHIKAWA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru YOSHIMURA, Masato SADANO, Masao TANIMOTO
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Patent number: 8690184Abstract: A back plate 7 is provided to a backside of a case 8 which accommodates an airbag 11 of an airbag module 5 to reduce the deformation of the case 8 toward a back side in the event of airbag deployment. The back plate 7 is supported on a steering member or the case 8, and an upper portion of the back plate 7 is held on a back support 19 protruding from the instrument panel 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignees: DaikyoNishikawa Corporation, Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi Shimono, Daisuke Matsuoka, Yamehito Tamura, Koji Kuwabara, Masayoshi Ono, Hiroyuki Kawai, Kazuhiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130076010Abstract: A back plate 7 is provided to a backside of a case 8 which accommodates an airbag 11 of an airbag module 5 to reduce the deformation of the case 8 toward a back side in the event of airbag deployment. The back plate 7 is supported on a steering member or the case 8, and an upper portion of the back plate 7 is held on a back support 19 protruding from the instrument panel 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicants: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, DAIKYONISHIKAWA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiteru YOSHIMURA, Tsuyoshi SHIMONO, Daisuke MATSUOKA, Yumehito TAMURA, Koji KUWABARA, Masayoshi ONO, Hiroyuki KAWAI, Kazuhiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 7913790Abstract: A structure of a vehicle instrument panel area, which is capable of sufficiently ensuring a frontward displacement of a steering column adapted to be displaced frontwardly in response to an impact load applied thereto frontwardly, even under a condition that a column cover is disposed to overlap with a meter unit when viewed in an axial direction of the steering column. A meter unit 3 is attached to an instrument panel 1 through brittles portions 31g, 31g, 33g, 33g, in such a manner as to allow the attachment therebetween to be released when a column cover 5 is brought into contact with the meter unit 3.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignees: Mazda Motor Corporation, Daikyonishikawa CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Ochimizu, Shohei Kuroda, Go Aoyama, Hiroshi Kushida, Hideki Hayashi, Noriaki Igaki, Toshiteru Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20090085338Abstract: A structure of a vehicle instrument panel area, which is capable of sufficiently ensuring a frontward displacement of a steering column adapted to be displaced frontwardly in response to an impact load applied thereto frontwardly, even under a condition that a column cover is disposed to overlap with a meter unit when viewed in an axial direction of the steering column. A meter unit 3 is attached to an instrument panel 1 through brittles portions 31g, 31g, 33g, 33g, in such a manner as to allow the attachment therebetween to be released when a column cover 5 is brought into contact with the meter unit 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicants: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, DAIKYONISHIKAWA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Ochimizu, Shohei Kuroda, Go Aoyama, Hiroshi Kushida, Hideki Hayashi, Noriaki Igaki, Toshiteru Yoshimura
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Patent number: 5482319Abstract: A passenger protection device of an automotive vehicle which includes a steering support member for supporting a steering column and extending in the transverse direction of the vehicle in an instrument panel. A knee protector is disposed in the instrument panel corresponding to a position of the knees of the passenger. The knee protector has a receiving portion for receiving an impact from the knees of a passenger sitting on a front passenger seat. A deformable portion deforms when the receiving portion receives the impact from the knees of the passenger. Equipment is installed in the instrument panel in front of the knee protector, and a restricting member is provided on the steering support member and disposed between the equipment and the knee protector for restricting movement of the equipment backwardly.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1993Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Katsutoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 5431442Abstract: A passenger restraint structure for an automotive vehicle has a glove box which has at least one face that is able to be opened to a passenger compartment and is attached to an instrument panel so as to be opposed to the knees of a passenger. The glove box has an intermediate wall connecting a front wall and a rear wall of the glove box. A stiffener member is located between the glove box and a part of a vehicle body and is stiffer than the glove box for crash energy generated between the passenger and the vehicle body in the running direction of the vehicle. Upon impact, the weaker intermediate wall of the glove box is compressed, deformed and broken, thereby absorbing the crash energy.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1993Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Norihiro Tomita, Toshiteru Yoshimura
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Patent number: 5427411Abstract: A steering apparatus support structure includes a steering support member extending transversely in a vehicle body and secured to rigid side components of the vehicle body which are likely free from deformation during a frontal end collision and a support bracket device secured to and supported by the steering support member for supporting forward and rearward portions of the steering column. The support bracket device is releasably linked to a vehicle body part which can be deformed backward during a frontal end collision, and the vehicle body part is allowed to be disconnected from the support bracket device when backward deformation is caused in the vehicle body part.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1994Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yosuke Iwasaki, Toshiteru Yoshimura, Masashi Ohtsuka, Kiyoshi Hayashi, Keisuke Miyoshi, Toshiaki Ogawa
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Patent number: 4978136Abstract: A knee protector structure provided facing knees of a passenger seated in a front seat of a vehicle for stopping a forward movement of the passenger by the knees to lighten a collision impact applied to the passenger comprising front body means for mounting a knee protector, protecting panel provided in the knee protector for being brought into contact with the knees in case of collision. The protecting panel has an upper panel portion and a lower panel portion. The lower panel portion having a rigidity smaller than the lower panel portion so that the lower panel portion is deformed greater than the upper panel portion when the knees are brought into contact with the knee protector in case of the collision.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Norihiro Tomita, Toshiteru Yoshimura, Masayuki Kotoh, Masayosi Ono, Takayuki Kobayashi, Katsunori Monden
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Patent number: 4709943Abstract: A knee protector structure comprises a transverse frame member extending in the transverse direction of a vehicle body below an instrument panel provided in front of the front seat, a center bracket an upper portion of which is connected to a body panel in front of the front seat substantially at the middle between right and left sides and a lower portion of which is connected to the floor of the vehicle body. The frame member is connected to the cabside at an outer end portion and to the center bracket at an inner end portion. A knee pad is supported by a bracket member connected to the frame member at a front end portion and to the knee pad at a rear end portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1986Date of Patent: December 1, 1987Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Toshiteru Yoshimura, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masayoshi Ono
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Patent number: 4682788Abstract: A vehicle steering column support structure including a first support member made of a steel pipe. The first support member is from a substantially L-shaped configuration and has a first portion extending along the cowl inner panel and a second portion extending downward from a first portion. The first portion is connected at the end with the cowl side panel and the second portion is connected to the floor panel. A second support member made of a steel pipe is further provided and has a first portion extending along the first portion from the first support member, and a second portion extending forward from the first portion. The first portion of the second support member is connected with the cowl side panel and the second portion is connected with the cowl inner panel. The steering column is supported through a bracket by the first and second support member and the cowl inner panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1985Date of Patent: July 28, 1987Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Toshiteru Yoshimura
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Patent number: 4671536Abstract: A vehicle steering column support structure including a first support member made of a steel pipe extending between the cowl side panels substantially parallelly with the cowl inner panel. A second support member of a substantially L-shaped configuration is provided and has a first portion extending along the first support member and a second portion extending downward from the first portion. The first portion is connected at the end with the cowl side panel and the second portion is connected to the floor panel. The steering column is supported through a bracket by the first and second support member and the cowl inner panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1985Date of Patent: June 9, 1987Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Toshiteru Yoshimura