Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Fukui
Tsutomu Fukui 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: 9741516Abstract: In an electromagnetic relay, terminal slits into which a coil terminal connected to a coil, a fixed contact terminal to which a fixed contact is attached, and a movable contact terminal electrically connected to a movable contact are inserted into is formed in a base, and the base is formed with ventilation holes used to discharge gas generated in an internal space and discharge vapor generated in the internal space. The ventilation holes are formed so as to be connected with the terminal slits.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: MITSUBA CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Takahashi, Hiroyuki Mori, Yoshiki Noro, Tsutomu Fukui
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Publication number: 20140306790Abstract: A choke coil includes a core that is formed to have a ring shape and a winding member that is provided with an electrically conductive wire wound around the core. A housing member, interposed between the core and the winding member, is formed of a material having non-magnetic and non-conductive properties, has a ring shape corresponding to the core, and covers the core. The housing member is formed in such a manner that a separation distance along a radial direction between an outer surface of the housing member and an outer surface of the core becomes uniform over a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Fukui, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Satoshi Ueno, Takanori Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20140232505Abstract: A coil structure according to one embodiment of the present invention includes, but is not limited to: a plurality of core members having impedances with different frequency characteristics; and a winding wire member wound around the plurality of core members.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Ueno, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Fukui
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Publication number: 20140118097Abstract: In an electromagnetic relay, terminal slits into which a coil terminal connected to a coil, a fixed contact terminal to which a fixed contact is attached, and a movable contact terminal electrically connected to a movable contact are inserted into is formed in a base, and the base is formed with ventilation holes used to discharge gas generated in an internal space and discharge vapor generated in the internal space. The ventilation holes are formed so as to be connected with the terminal slits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., MITSUBA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Takahashi, Hiroyuki Mori, Yoshiki Noro, Tsutomu Fukui
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Patent number: 7942477Abstract: There is disclosed a seat that comprises a trim cover including a sheet of covering material and a wadding layer, a padding member covered with the cover, a seating surface section formed by a portion of the cover and a portion of the padding member, and electric or electronic equipment, the equipment including planar equipment bodies and accessories, the wadding layer including a first wadding member laminated onto the entire sheet, and second wadding members formed separately from the first wadding member and mounted to predetermined regions of the portion of the padding member which forms the seating surface section in cooperation with the portion of the cover, the bodies being disposed on the second wadding members, and the padding member being covered by the cover in such a manner that the second wadding members having the bodies disposed thereon are combined with the first wadding member.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignees: TS TECH Co., Ltd., HONDA MOTOR Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Toba, Masaaki Yasuda, Shigeru Endo, Kazutomo Isonaga, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inoh
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Patent number: 7278876Abstract: A connector includes two housings coupled with each other to hold a cable therebetween. One of the housings includes a cable receiving portion for receiving the cable, a restricting portion adjacent to the cable receiving portion, a first wall portion formed outside the restricting portion and defining a space between the first wall portion and the restricting portion, and a first engaging portion inwardly protruding from the first wall portion. Another of the housings includes a cable pressing portion for pressing the cable towards the cable receiving portion and the restricting portion, and a second wall portion formed adjacent to the cable pressing portion and inserted into the space. The second wall portion has a second engaging portion extending outward from the second wall portion. The first and the second engaging potions are engaged with each other to prevent the housings from separating from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiichi Hara, Kiminobu Tabata, Takeshi Kai, Tsutomu Fukui, Masaru Shinmura, Tadashi Inazu, Shigeki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20070167066Abstract: A connector includes two housings coupled with each other to hold a cable therebetween. One of the housings includes a cable receiving portion for receiving the cable, a restricting portion adjacent to the cable receiving portion, a first wall portion formed outside the restricting portion and defining a space between the first wall portion and the restricting portion, and a first engaging portion inwardly protruding from the first wall portion. Another of the housings includes a cable pressing portion for pressing the cable towards the cable receiving portion and the restricting portion, and a second wall portion formed adjacent to the cable pressing portion and inserted into the space. The second wall portion has a second engaging portion extending outward from the second wall portion. The first and the second engaging potions are engaged with each other to prevent the housings from separating from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Seiichi Hara, Kiminobu Tabata, Takeshi Kai, Tsutomu Fukui, Masaru Shinmura, Tadashi Inazu, Shigeki Takahashi
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Patent number: 6816767Abstract: A vehicle collision decision apparatus determines whether or not an occupant-protecting apparatus should be started in a collision by an occupant moving characteristics determining device. Also, whether or not the collision continues is determined in an acceleration change determining section. A determining threshold for a frequency component which indicates damage to the vehicle which is calculated in a frequency component calculating device is selected. The occupant-protecting apparatus is activated appropriately by monitoring the damage to the vehicle in the frequency component determining device by using the frequency component. By doing this, a vehicle collision decision apparatus which can determine the condition in the vehicle collision appropriately is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignees: Keihin Corporation, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masatoshi Hayasaka, Fang Yuan, Yukio Hiruta, Tsutomu Fukui
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Publication number: 20030127271Abstract: A vehicle collision decision apparatus determines whether or not an occupant-protecting apparatus should be started in a collision by an occupant moving characteristics determining device. Also, whether or not the collision continues is determined in an acceleration change determining section. A determining threshold for a frequency component which indicates a damage to the vehicle which is calculated in a frequency component calculating device is selected. The occupant-protecting apparatus is activated appropriately by monitoring the damage to the vehicle in the frequency component determining device 19 by using the frequency component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Applicant: Keihin CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Hayasaka, Fang Yuan, Yukio Hiruta, Tsutomu Fukui
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Patent number: 6509747Abstract: An apparatus for detecting seated condition detects whether a passenger is seated on a seat and the location of the passenger if seated. In the apparatus for detecting seated condition, antenna electrodes are provided in the inside the seat so that the electric field generates between the ground and the antenna electrodes. A detecting unit detects a first out put of the electric field in a case that a passenger is not seated and a second output of the electric field in a case that a passenger is seated. A data processing unit corrects the second output based on the first output. Accordingly, the seated condition whether the passenger is seated can accurately be detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Nagai, Kouichi Kamiji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Tsutomu Fukui
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Patent number: 6466849Abstract: An occupant position detection system includes a distance sensor 4 located on a seat back 3 of a seat of a vehicle, an angle sensor 5 for sensing an inclined angle of the seat back 3, and a sliding displacement sensor 6 for sensing a sliding displacement value of the seat in fore and aft directions, wherein an occupant position is detected on the basis of sensed values of the distance sensor 4, the angle sensor 5 and the sliding displacement sensor 6.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouichi Kamiji, Kazutomo Isonaga, Makoto Nagai, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Naotaka Kumakiri
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Patent number: 6424268Abstract: A sheet-shaped sensor body includes a first protective layer formed of a resist paste layer, an antenna film formed of a PET film, a first conductive layer formed of a silver layer, a second conductive layer formed of a carbon layer, a second protective layer formed of a resist paste layer and a hot-melt film, which are laminated one on another in sequence. When the hot-melt film of the sensor body is brought into abutment against a front surface of a wadding previously adhered to a pad of a seat back and is then heat-pressed, the sensor body is fixed firmly and reliably to the wadding by an adhesive force generated by the melted hot-melt film once it again cools and solidified. Thus, the sensor of an occupant detecting system for detecting the physical constitution and the attitude of an occupant sitting on a seat can be fixed easily and reliably to the seat back.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutomo Isonaga, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Naoto Ishii, Koichi Kamiji
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Patent number: 6404074Abstract: A passenger detecting system includes a plurality of antenna electrodes provided in a seat, a signal generating section, a detecting section, a switching circuit and a control unit. The signal generating section generates an electrode signal. The switching circuit sequentially supplies the electrode signal to the plurality of antenna electrodes one by one in response to a switching control signal. The detecting section detects change of the electrode signal to generate a detection signal when the electrode signal is supplied to each of the plurality of antenna electrodes. The control unit outputs the switching control signal to the switching circuit and generates a passenger data associated with a passenger on the seat based on the detection signal for each of the plurality of antenna electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2001Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi Saito, Kenji Kumagai, Kazunori Jinno, Satoshi Baba, Masahiro Ofuji, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inou, Kazutomo Isonaga, Makoto Nagai
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Patent number: 6356194Abstract: A high-frequency generating circuit is connected to six electrode fabrics embedded in a seat back of an assistant driver's seat. Output current flowing at the time when a human body approaches the electrode fabrics is detected. It is determined whether an occupant is an adult or a child, by comparing patterns of the output current which correspond to the six electrode fabrics with a first threshold value and a second threshold value to detect the positions of the head, neck and shoulder of the occupant. When the occupant is a child having a short sitting height, the operation of an air bag device is prohibited upon collision of a vehicle, and a warning lamp is lit to move the occupant to a rear seat.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inoh, Kazutomo Isonaga
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Publication number: 20020000754Abstract: A passenger detecting system includes a plurality of antenna electrodes provided in a seat, a signal generating section, a detecting section, a switching circuit and a control unit. The signal generating section generates an electrode signal. The switching circuit sequentially supplies the electrode signal to the plurality of antenna electrodes one by one in response to a switching control signal. The detecting section detects change of the electrode signal to generate a detection signal when the electrode signal is supplied to each of the plurality of antenna electrodes. The control unit outputs the switching control signal to the switching circuit and generates a passenger data associated with a passenger on the seat based on the detection signal for each of the plurality of antenna electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: Takashi Saito, Kenji Kumagai, Kazunori Jinno, Satoshi Baba, Masahiro Ofuji, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inou, Kazutomo Isonaga, Makoto Nagai
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Patent number: 6310407Abstract: A passenger detecting system includes a plurality of antenna electrodes provided in a seat, a signal generating section, a detecting section, a switching circuit and a control unit. The signal generating section generates an electrode signal. The switching circuit sequentially supplies the electrode signal to the plurality of antenna electrodes one by one in response to a switching control signal. The detecting section detects change of the electrode signal to generate a detection signal when the electrode signal is supplied to each of the plurality of antenna electrodes. The control unit outputs the switching control signal to the switching circuit and generates a passenger data associated with a passenger on the seat based on the detection signal for each of the plurality of antenna electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignees: NEC Corporation, Hon-da Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Saito, Kenji Kumagai, Kazunori Jinno, Satoshi Baba, Masahiro Ofuji, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inou, Kazutomo Isonaga, Makoto Nagai
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Publication number: 20010026162Abstract: An apparatus for detecting seated condition detects whether a passenger is seated on a seat and the location of the passenger if seated. In the apparatus for detecting seated condition, antenna electrodes are provided in the inside the seat so that the electric field generates between the ground and the antenna electrodes. A detecting unit detects a first output of the electric field in a case that a passenger is not seated and a second output of the electric field in a case that a passenger is seated. A data processing unit corrects the second output based on the first output. Accordingly, the seated condition whether the passenger is seated can accurately be detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Nagai, Kouichi Kamiji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Tsutomu Fukui
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Publication number: 20010025214Abstract: An occupant position detection system includes a distance sensor 4 located on a seat back 3 of a seat of a vehicle, an angle sensor 5 for sensing an inclined angle of the seat back 3, and a sliding displacement sensor 6 for sensing a sliding displacement value of the seat in fore and aft directions, wherein an occupant position is detected on the basis of sensed values of the distance sensor 4, the angle sensor 5 and the sliding displacement sensor 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutomo Isonaga, Makoto Nagai, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Naotaka Kumakiri
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Patent number: 6263271Abstract: A passenger detection system for precisely detecting the sitting condition of a passenger occupying a seat, who leans against the seat supporting section, and for suitably controlling the deployment/non-deployment of the side airbag based on the results of the detection process. The system comprises a seat having a seat supporting section in which an antenna electrode is provided; a voltage generation device for generating a high-frequency and low-voltage signal which induces a weak electric field around the antenna electrode; a current detection section for detecting a current which flows according to the generated weak electric field; and a control circuit for detecting a leaning condition of the passenger against the seat supporting section, based on a signal output from the current detection section; and an airbag apparatus including a side airbag unit positioned close to a door, the apparatus having a function of deploying the side airbag unit when a collision occurs.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignees: NEC Corporation, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitaka Oka, Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Takashi Inou, Kazutomo Isonaga
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Patent number: 6169947Abstract: If a seat belt is not fastened, then a first switch is turned on and a second switch is turned off, and a fastened status detector outputs an impact decision level signal to a switch, which selects a signal from a first impact decision level output unit. Thus, when the speed of a motor vehicle is about 16 km/h or higher immediately prior to a collision, an air bag is inflated upon the collision. If the seat belt is fastened, then the first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on, and the fastened status detector outputs an impact decision level signal, selecting a signal from a second impact decision level output unit. Thus, when the speed of the motor vehicle is about 24 km/h or higher immediately prior to a collision, the air bag is inflated upon the collision.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Fukui, Nobuhiro Koyota, Kazutomo Isonaga, Koichi Kamiji