Patents by Inventor Yasuhiko Ootani

Yasuhiko Ootani 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).

  • Publication number: 20200017928
    Abstract: A heating device of a torpedo car which heats an inside of the torpedo car under a state where a torpedo car main body is turned in such a manner that a mouth is located at a lateral side of the torpedo car main body, the heating device comprising: a burner which is inserted into the inside of the torpedo car from the mouth; and a lid which partially covers a lower side of the mouth so that an opening of the mouth has an open area ratio set in advance in a side view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohsuke MORIOKA, Hiroki TSUKIGASE, Yasuhiko OOTANI
  • Patent number: 5668528
    Abstract: An apparatus for actuating a plurality of safety devices equipped in a vehicle for protecting occupants from an impact of a collision has a plurality of squibs (4,5) connected in series with each other so as to form a series circuit (6) and ignited by a current flowing through and conformed to one and the same standard. A power source (3) supplies electrical energy to the series circuit (6), and a collision detector (7) allows a current to flow from the power source (3) to said series circuit (6) when detecting a collision. A required energy for igniting all of the squibs (4,5) is thus supplied before the series circuit (6) opens electrically at one squib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignees: Sensor Technology Co. Ltd., Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetaka Kitao, Ayumu Kimura, Yasuhiko Ootani, Isamu Hitomi, Akihiko Kuroiwa