Patents by Inventor Toyohisa Amagai

Toyohisa Amagai 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: 11085210
    Abstract: A door structure for a vehicle, comprising: a latch connected to a cable portion extending from an inner handle and configured to fix a door to a vehicle body; and a bracket attached to a door inner panel, wherein at least a part of the bracket overlaps the latch in a vehicle width direction and is located toward the outside of the vehicle with respect to the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Suguru Akaki
  • Patent number: 10654349
    Abstract: A sealing structure for an automobile door includes a roll sash with a projection on an inner-cabin side surface of an upper end periphery thereof, a press sash without a projection and joined to the roll sash, and a decorative molding which covers the sashes. An installation base member of a weather strip is configured to operably couple to an outer circumferential edge on an upper side of the door sash. The weather strip includes a hollow seal member and an outer seal lip. An outer-cabin side end of the installation base member and a rib-shaped protrusion which extends outwardly toward an exterior of an automobile are configured to clasp the projection. An upper part protrusion which extends outwardly toward the exterior of the automobile from an upper side relative to the rib-shaped protrusion is configured to make close contact with an upper part of the decorative molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Toshifumi Matsuura, Akiyoshi Kubota, Toyohisa Amagai
  • Patent number: 10626665
    Abstract: A vehicle weather strip according to the present invention includes a base that is attached to a door, a protrusion (a first elastic contact section) that comes into elastic contact with a sash of the door further in a door outer side direction than the base, a protrusion (a second elastic contact section) that comes into elastic contact with the sash further in the door outer side direction than the protrusion (the first elastic contact section). The protrusion (the second elastic contact section) is in contact with at least a molding in the sash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Kazutaka Imamura, Akiyoshi Kubota, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10507714
    Abstract: The present disclosure can reduce a force required for the attachment of a sealing member to a flange of a body of an automobile, thereby facilitating the attachment, and can reduce the separation of the attached sealing member from the flange to ensure good seal. An outer foam 25 which comes into contact with an exterior face of a flange 110 facing the outside of a cabin is provided for an inner face of an outer wall 20. A flexible seal lip 21a is provided for an inner face of an inner wall 21. A bottom foam 26 bulges from an inner face of a bottom wall 22. A distance between the outer and bottom foams 25 and 26 in a width direction of the automobile is smaller than a thickness of a thinnest portion of the flange 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Matsuura, Akiyoshi Kubota, Toyohisa Amagai, Takayuki Doi, Masato Saito
  • Publication number: 20190017297
    Abstract: A door structure for a vehicle, comprising: a latch connected to a cable portion extending from an inner handle and configured to fix a door to a vehicle body; and a bracket attached to a door inner panel, wherein at least a part of the bracket overlaps the latch in a vehicle width direction and is located toward the outside of the vehicle with respect to the latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Suguru Akaki
  • Publication number: 20190017300
    Abstract: A handle device comprising: a handle base portion on which an operation handle that operates opening/closing of a door of a vehicle can be mounted; a cable portion that can be fitted in the handle base portion; and a cable holding member configured to hold the cable portion, wherein the cable holding member includes an interference portion that interferes with the cable portion in a case in which the cable portion is not located at a fitting position, and does not interfere with the cable portion in a case in which the cable portion is located at the fitting position at a time of holding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Kazutaka Imamura, Katsuya Ashizawa, Hiroaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190016203
    Abstract: The present disclosure can reduce a force required for the attachment of a sealing member to a flange of a body of an automobile, thereby facilitating the attachment, and can reduce the separation of the attached sealing member from the flange to ensure good seal. An outer foam 25 which comes into contact with an exterior face of a flange 110 facing the outside of a cabin is provided for an inner face of an outer wall 20. A flexible seal lip 21a is provided for an inner face of an inner wall 21. A bottom foam 26 bulges from an inner face of a bottom wall 22. A distance between the outer and bottom foams 25 and 26 in a width direction of the automobile is smaller than a thickness of a thinnest portion of the flange 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi MATSUURA, Akiyoshi KUBOTA, Toyohisa AMAGAI, Takayuki DOI, Masato SAITO
  • Publication number: 20180298678
    Abstract: A vehicle weather strip according to the present invention includes a base that is attached to a door, a protrusion (a first elastic contact section) that comes into elastic contact with a sash of the door further in a door outer side direction than the base, a protrusion (a second elastic contact section) that comes into elastic contact with the sash further in the door outer side direction than the protrusion (the first elastic contact section). The protrusion (the second elastic contact section) is in contact with at least a molding in the sash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Toyohisa AMAGAI, Kazutaka IMAMURA, Akiyoshi KUBOTA, Toshifumi MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20180298679
    Abstract: A sealing structure for an automobile door includes a roll sash with a projection on an inner-cabin side surface of an upper end periphery thereof, a press sash without a projection and joined to the roll sash, and a decorative molding which covers the sashes. An installation base member of a weather strip is configured to operably couple to an outer circumferential edge on an upper side of the door sash. The weather strip includes a hollow seal member and an outer seal lip. An outer-cabin side end of the installation base member and a rib-shaped protrusion which extends outwardly toward an exterior of an automobile are configured to clasp the projection. An upper part protrusion which extends outwardly toward the exterior of the automobile from an upper side relative to the rib-shaped protrusion is configured to make close contact with an upper part of the decorative molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Toshifumi MATSUURA, Akiyoshi KUBOTA, Toyohisa AMAGAI
  • Patent number: 9649922
    Abstract: A vehicle structure with a door seal includes an upper-edge seal member which is attached to a vehicle body along an upper edge of a front door opening and a vertical seal member which is attached to a rear end portion of a front side door (door body) in a state of being separated from the upper-edge seal member in a vertical direction. The vertical seal member includes a hollow portion which is formed downward in a hollow shape, an upper-end opening which is open upward in communication with an upper end of the hollow portion, and an enlarged portion which is interposed between the upper-end opening and the hollow portion and is enlarged larger than the hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Futoshi Kobayashi, Kinji Hoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20160368356
    Abstract: A vehicle structure with a door seal includes an upper-edge seal member which is attached to a vehicle body along an upper edge of a front door opening and a vertical seal member which is attached to a rear end portion of a front side door (door body) in a state of being separated from the upper-edge seal member in a vertical direction. The vertical seal member includes a hollow portion which is formed downward in a hollow shape, an upper-end opening which is open upward in communication with an upper end of the hollow portion, and an enlarged portion which is interposed between the upper-end opening and the hollow portion and is enlarged larger than the hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Toyohisa AMAGAI, Futoshi KOBAYASHI, Kinji HOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9290971
    Abstract: A door device for a vehicle includes a cable for connecting a handle device and a lock unit. A cable holding member mounted to the handle device is displaced between an engagement position in which the cable holding member engages with the cable and a non-engagement position in which the cable holding member does not engage with the cable. A contact portion of a door panel is configured such that when the handle device is being mounted to the door panel, the contact portion contacts the cable holding member in the non-engagement position and interferes with the assembly of the handle device to the door panel and the contact portion does not contact the cable holding member in the engagement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Kinji Hoshikawa, Hiromu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140013667
    Abstract: A door device for a vehicle includes: a cable for connecting a handle device, which is mounted to the door panel of the door body covering a door opening of the vehicle body in an openable and closable manner, and a lock unit, with which the door body is engaged. A cable holding member mounted to the handle device is displaced between an engagement position at which the cable holding member engages with the cable and a non-engagement position at which the cable holding member does not engage with the cable. An interference section, which is provided to the door panel, is configured such that, in a state in which the handle device is mounted to the door panel, the interference section interferes with the cable holding member located at the non-engagement position and does not interfere with the cable holding member located at the engagement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Amagai, Kinji Hoshikawa, Hiromu Inoue