Patents by Inventor Wataru Yanagawa

Wataru Yanagawa 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: 11465584
    Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, a moving member is moved while being guided along a cylinder in order to rotate a spool in a take-up direction. A urging plate of a guide member urges a flange at an axial direction leading end portion of the cylinder toward a restricting direction side, and a leg plate of a frame restricts rotation of the flange toward the restricting direction side. This enables rattling of the axial direction leading end portion of the cylinder about the axial direction of the cylinder to be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shigeki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11325561
    Abstract: In a present webbing retractor, when a stopper is pushed and moved by a conical portion of a moving member, the stopper abuts a moving member main body of the moving member between a rotating member and an axial direction distal end of a cylinder, and moreover, is moved toward a side of a portion of engagement of the moving member main body with first teeth and second teeth of the rotating member, while deforming the moving member main body. Due thereto, expansion, toward a side in a direction orthogonal to an axis, of the moving member main body can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiro Tanaka, Shinichi Okubo, Wataru Yanagawa, Takanori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11292428
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool on which a webbing to be applied to a vehicle occupant is taken up, due to the spool rotating in a take-up direction. The webbing take-up device is also provided with a lock base and a connecting member that are integrally rotatable with the spool. The lock base and connecting member are provided with a lock base-side flange portion and a connecting member-side flange portion, which are disposed opposite to one another in a rotation axis direction of the spool, and with lock base-side second engaging teeth and connecting member-side second engaging teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Wataru Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 11066042
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool, a first rotor and a second rotor. A webbing to be applied to a vehicle occupant is taken up onto the spool by the spool rotating in a take-up direction. The first rotor is provided to be rotatable together with the spool, includes first engaging teeth with which a moving member that is moved engages, and is rotated when the moving member that is moved engages with the first engaging teeth. The second rotor is provided to be rotatable together with the spool, includes second engaging teeth with which the moving member that is moved engages, and is rotated when the moving member that is moved engages with the second engaging teeth. The second engaging teeth are disposed so as to overlap with the first engaging teeth in a rotation circumference direction of the first rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Patent number: 11007975
    Abstract: In a webbing retractor, due to a moving member being moved toward an axial direction distal end side, and first teeth and second teeth of a rotating member piercing the moving member, the rotating member is rotated in a take-up direction. Here, at the moving member, a sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to an axis, of a small diameter portion that is at an axial direction distal end side is made to be small as compared with a moving member main body that is at an axial direction proximal end side. Therefore, resistance to movement of the moving member can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiro Tanaka, Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo, Yuji Suga
  • Patent number: 11001226
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool that takes up a webbing, a lock base, and a cover plate that covers an outer periphery of the lock base. A tooth portion is formed at the outer periphery of the lock base. The lock base rotates the spool when a rack contacts the tooth portion. The webbing take-up device is further provided with a guide provided at the cover plate. The guide supports the lock base to be rotatable. Thus, contacting together of the ratchet teeth and the lock base is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo, Shigeki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210114549
    Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, a moving member is moved while being guided along a cylinder in order to rotate a spool in a take-up direction. A urging plate of a guide member urges a flange at an axial direction leading end portion of the cylinder toward a restricting direction side, and a leg plate of a frame restricts rotation of the flange toward the restricting direction side. This enables rattling of the axial direction leading end portion of the cylinder about the axial direction of the cylinder to be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Wataru YANAGAWA, Shigeki HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10919488
    Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, when a rotating member is rotated in a take-up direction in a state in which first engagement teeth and second engagement teeth of a rotating member are digging or biting into a moving member, the moving member is pressed by the first engagement teeth and the second engagement teeth of the rotating member. The moving member thus expands into a first deformation-permitting portion and a second deformation-permitting portion in a cover plate, and expanded portions of the moving member oppose a first restriction portion configured by an axial center direction leading end face of a cylinder, and a second restriction portion of the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Patent number: 10906503
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool. The webbing take-up device also includes a lock base and a coupling member that are provided so as to rotatable as an integral unit with the spool, and that engage with a rack so as to be rotated and to rotate the spool in a take-up direction when the rack is moved. The webbing take-up device further includes a rack housing section that includes a pair of wall spaced apart from each other in a rotation axis direction of the lock base and the coupling member so as to form a space in which the lock base and the coupling member are disposed. The rack housing section is provided with an abutted portion that is abutted by a part of the coupling member so as to restrict the lock base and the coupling member from moving in the rotation axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Patent number: 10899313
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with (i) a spool and (ii) a rotor rotatable integrally with the spool having a base portion and radially-extending engaging teeth. A webbing to be applied to a vehicle occupant is wound around the spool. Each engaging tooth protrudes from the base portion in a rotation axis direction of the spool, and is tapered along the rotation axis direction such that a thickness dimension in a rotation circumference direction of the spool of a portion of the engaging tooth at the opposite side thereof from the base portion becomes smaller toward the base portion side thereof. The axially-tapered shape of the engaging teeth reduces stresses and improves transmission efficiency between the rotor teeth and the teeth of a moving member engaged thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20200384946
    Abstract: In a present webbing retractor, when a stopper is pushed and moved by a conical portion of a moving member, the stopper abuts a moving member main body of the moving member between a rotating member and an axial direction distal end of a cylinder, and moreover, is moved toward a side of a portion of engagement of the moving member main body with first teeth and second teeth of the rotating member, while deforming the moving member main body. Due thereto, expansion, toward a side in a direction orthogonal to an axis, of the moving member main body can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro TANAKA, Shinichi OKUBO, Wataru YANAGAWA, Takanori TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10829086
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool that takes up webbing worn by an occupant by being rotated in a take-up direction, and a pretensioner mechanism. The pretensioner mechanism includes a gas generator that includes a gas-generating-agent-storing portion and an ignition-device-storing portion, and a cylinder to which the gas generator is attached and that includes a second tubular portion into which gas generated by the gas generator is supplied. A discharge hole, through which gas supplied to the second tubular portion is discharged, is formed in a portion of the cylinder where the ignition-device-storing portion is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo, Takahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200324733
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool on which a webbing to be applied to a vehicle occupant is taken up, due to the spool rotating in a take-up direction. The webbing take-up device is also provided with a lock base and a connecting member that are integrally rotatable with the spool. The lock base and connecting member are provided with a lock base-side flange portion and a connecting member-side flange portion, which are disposed opposite to one another in a rotation axis direction of the spool, and with lock base-side second engaging teeth and connecting member-side second engaging teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Wataru YANAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200324732
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool, a first rotor and a second rotor. A webbing to be applied to a vehicle occupant is taken up onto the spool by the spool rotating in a take-up direction. The first rotor is provided to be rotatable together with the spool, includes first engaging teeth with which a moving member that is moved engages, and is rotated when the moving member that is moved engages with the first engaging teeth. The second rotor is provided to be rotatable together with the spool, includes second engaging teeth with which the moving member that is moved engages, and is rotated when the moving member that is moved engages with the second engaging teeth. The second engaging teeth are disposed so as to overlap with the first engaging teeth in a rotation circumference direction of the first rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru YANAGAWA, Shinichi OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20200282948
    Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, when a rotating member is rotated in a take-up direction in a state in which first engagement teeth and second engagement teeth of a rotating member are digging or biting into a moving member, the moving member is pressed by the first engagement teeth and the second engagement teeth of the rotating member. The moving member thus expands into a first deformation-permitting portion and a second deformation-permitting portion in a cover plate, and expanded portions of the moving member oppose a first restriction portion configured by an axial center direction leading end face of a cylinder, and a second restriction portion of the cover plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru YANAGAWA, Shinichi OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20200276955
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool. The webbing take-up device also includes a lock base and a coupling member that are provided so as to rotatable as an integral unit with the spool, and that engage with a rack so as to be rotated and to rotate the spool in a take-up direction when the rack is moved. The webbing take-up device further includes a rack housing section that includes a pair of wall spaced apart from each other in a rotation axis direction of the lock base and the coupling member so as to form a space in which the lock base and the coupling member are disposed. The rack housing section is provided with an abutted portion that is abutted by a part of the coupling member so as to restrict the lock base and the coupling member from moving in the rotation axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru YANAGAWA, Shinichi OKUBO
  • Patent number: 10744975
    Abstract: Provided is a webbing take-up device including (i) a spool onto which webbing worn by an occupant is taken up as a result of the spool being rotated in a take-up direction, (ii) a rotating body that is provided so as to be integrally rotatable with the spool, has plural teeth disposed an interval apart from each other along a circumferential direction of rotation of the spool, and is rotated as a result of a moving member being moved and becoming engaged with the plural teeth so that the spool is rotated in the take-up direction, and (iii) a regulating portion that opposes the plural teeth in an axial direction of rotation of the spool, is provided so as to be integrally rotatable with the rotating body, and regulates movement, in a direction away from the plural teeth, of the moving member engaged with the plural teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Patent number: 10723311
    Abstract: In a vehicle emergency, rotation of a lock base in a pull-out direction opposite to a take-up direction is restricted. A first pinion-configuring portion formed at an outer circumferential portion of the lock base configures one width direction side of a pinion section that is rotated in the take-up direction by a rack that moves due to fluid pressure in a vehicle emergency. A coupling member disposed between the lock base and the torsion shaft is fixed to the lock base and to a torsion shaft. A second pinion-configuring portion that configures a width direction other side of the pinion section is formed alongside the first pinion-configuring portion at an outer circumferential portion of the coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Shinichi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20200231115
    Abstract: In a webbing retractor, due to a moving member being moved toward an axial direction distal end side, and first teeth and second teeth of a rotating member piercing the moving member, the rotating member is rotated in a take-up direction. Here, at the moving member, a sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to an axis, of a small diameter portion that is at an axial direction distal end side is made to be small as compared with a moving member main body that is at an axial direction proximal end side. Therefore, resistance to movement of the moving member can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro TANAKA, Wataru YANAGAWA, Shinichi OKUBO, Yuji SUGA
  • Publication number: 20200207305
    Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool that takes up webbing worn by an occupant by being rotated in a take-up direction, and a pretensioner mechanism. The pretensioner mechanism includes a gas generator that includes a gas-generating-agent-storing portion and an ignition-device-storing portion, and a cylinder to which the gas generator is attached and that includes a second tubular portion into which gas generated by the gas generator is supplied. A discharge hole, through which gas supplied to the second tubular portion is discharged, is formed in a portion of the cylinder where the ignition-device-storing portion is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru YANAGAWA, Shinichi OKUBO, Takahiro TANAKA