Patents by Inventor Yasuo Ochiai

Yasuo Ochiai 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: 20060138756
    Abstract: The head-protecting airbag according to the present invention is formed by hollow-weaving method, and includes a gas admissive portion inflatable with inflation gas to separate its vehicle's inner wall and vehicle's outer wall, and a non-admissive portion admitting no inflation gas. The non-admissive portion includes mounting portions arranged in the upper edge of the airbag, and a marginal portion located around the gas admissive portion. The non-admissive portion partially has a two-ply structure where the hollow-woven cloth material separates into vehicle's inner cloth part and outer cloth part from the marginal portion having a one-ply structure. At least one of the mounting portions is formed by folding back a region of the two-ply cloth part to have a four-ply structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: c/o TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Ochiai, Takanobu Ikeda, Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060131849
    Abstract: The head-protecting airbag apparatus of the present invention includes an airbag and a guide bracket. The guide bracket includes two guide walls and a joint wall, thereby has a generally U-shaped cross section, and accommodates the folded airbag between the two guide walls. The guide bracket is located above a pillar portion while being covered by an airbag cover, and serves to guide the inflating airbag toward vehicle's inner side and prevent the airbag from entering vehicle's outer side of the pillar garnish. The dimension of a clearance between the two guide walls is set such that: a gap arises between the housed airbag and at least one of the guide walls, thereby the airbag is allowed to inflate in the gap in the initial stage of airbag inflation; and that the deployment direction of the airbag is controlled by the guide walls, toward vehicle's inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20060108778
    Abstract: A head protecting airbag apparatus of the invention which is folded up so as to be mounted in a accommodating position of a vehicle, wherein an inflating gas that is discharged from an inflator toward the front and rear of the vehicle is guided obliquely downward into an inflating shield portion of an airbag main body by a gas inlet port portion of the airbag main body and an inlet side portion of a regulator cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Ochiai, Takanobu Ikeda, Masao Kino, Tadashi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20050067823
    Abstract: In the airbag device of the present invention, a cylinder-shaped inflator includes a discharge side end portion having a plurality of gas discharge ports. The discharge side end is connected with the airbag utilizing a clamp by being inserted into a tubular gas inlet port of the airbag. Each of gas discharge ports includes a circumferential opening and an end face opening. The end face opening emits inflation gas in an axial direction of the inflator when the inflator is connected with the gas inlet port. Between each of the circumferential openings is a supporting plane for supporting an inner surface of the gas inlet port. The discharge side end includes a guide portion for redirecting inflation gas flowing from inside to directions perpendicular to the axis of the inflator when the gas inlet port is not connected with the inflator, such that inflation gas is discharged from the circumferential openings of the gas discharge ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Hayashi, Tadashi Yamamoto, Takashi Sasaki, Yasuo Ochiai, Masakazu Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20050067814
    Abstract: An inflator, in which a mounting work to a vehicle is improved, is provided. One or more first fixing members 21 which is a mounting means to a vehicle are fixed by welding to a circumferential surface of the housing 11 of an inflator 10. As to the first fixing member 21, part of a surface 25 is fixed along the circumferential surface of the tubular housing 11, the remaining surface 26 is radially extended, not contacting with the circumferential surface of the tubular housing 11, and the radial length a1 of the remaining surface is 0.5 to 1.5 times the diameter 2r of the housing 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Hayashi, Tadashi Yamamoto, Yasuo Ochiai, Michiyasu Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Yuzo Gotoh, Masakazu Tokuda
  • Patent number: 6479011
    Abstract: A solidified residual iron within a blast furnace is suspended up by employing a shell suspending device fixed to a tuyere arranged in a lower end portion of an upper portion of a furnace body suspended by a lift jack and a solidified residual iron suspending band, thereafter is descended by employing the lift jack and is mounted on a horizontally moving table. Subsequently, the horizontally moving table mounting the solidified residual iron thereon is moved onto a furnace outer truck rail from a furnace inner truck rail so as to be taken out of the furnace by operating a center hole jack arranged near the furnace outer truck rail, whereby an operation of taking out the solidified residual iron within the blast furnace out of the furnace is economically performed for a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Sankyu Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kojima, Masao Fujita, Mitsuru Kiguchi, Hiroyuki Yasuhara, Yasuo Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20020101066
    Abstract: An air bag for a head protection air bag system has an air bag main body and an inner tube disposed along an upper edge side within the air bag main body. The inner tube has supply ports which are made to open on a lower side of a circumferential wall thereof for supplying the inflating gas into the air bag main body, and the supply ports are disposed in such a manner as to be made to open downwardly at a substantially transverse center of the folded air bag main body when the air bag main body has been folded up. At least the supply port of the inner tube disposed in the vicinity of the inflator is offset closer to the inflator side than the transverse center of an inlet port portion communicating with the supply port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanase, Ikuo Yamada, Yasuo Ochiai, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20020014724
    Abstract: A solidified residual iron within a blast furnace is suspended up by employing a shell suspending device fixed to a tuyere arranged in a lower end portion of an upper portion of a furnace body suspended by a lift jack and a solidified residual iron suspending band, thereafter is descended by employing the lift jack and is mounted on a horizontally moving table. Subsequently, the horizontally moving table mounting the solidified residual iron thereon is moved onto a furnace outer truck rail from a furnace inner truck rail so as to be taken out of the furnace by operating a center hole jack arranged near the furnace outer truck rail, whereby an operation of taking out the solidified residual iron within the blast furnace out of the furnace is economically performed for a short time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: Kawasaki Steel Corporation AND Sankyu Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kojima, Masao Fujita, Mitsuru Kiguchi, Hiroyuki Yasuhara, Yasuo Ochiai
  • Patent number: 6279941
    Abstract: Mounting portions of an air bag body are respectively nipped by positioning plates which are each fastened and fixed to a pillar inner panel by a weld nut and a bolt via the plates. Caulking portions are formed on the plates so that the mounting portions of the air bag device are in advance fixed between the plates. A convex portion is formed on the plate, and with the convex portion being engaged with a hole formed in the pillar inner panel, relative rotation of the plate and a vehicle body is prevented. As a result, rotation of the air bag body in a direction in which the mounting portions are fastened, which occurs during mounting of the air bag body to the vehicle body, can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignees: Toyota-Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishiyama, Toshinori Tanase, Yasuo Ochiai
  • Patent number: 6129377
    Abstract: An air bag (11) for a side air bag device capable of reducing the size and weight of the device (M1) while retaining a tension line (L--L) when expanded is mounted on the peripheral edge of a door opening (W) at the inside of a compartment, and is formed into a generally rectangular bag shape for covering the door opening when expanded, while being equipped with a gas inlet (19) for introducing an expanding gas. The air bag is provided with joints (22) jointing an inner side wall (12) and an outer side wall (13) partially so as to form a tension line L--L when expanded. The individual joints (22) are juxtaposed in plurality along the tension line so as to cross the tension line, and are arranged generally at vertically middle portions so as to form one expansion chamber (18) having upper and lower spaces (18a and 18b) for the expanding gas to flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Okumura, Toshinori Tanase, Eisiti Nakamura, Takashi Yamamoto, Choko Terazawa, Yasuo Ochiai, Hideyuki Fujiwara, Shinji Kondo, Yasushi Kubota, Hiroki Nakajima, Shuji Miura
  • Patent number: 6082761
    Abstract: A side air bag device has an air bag and a substantially cylindrical inflator for supplying inflation gas to the air bag. The air bag includes a cloth bag and is installed in a vehicle interior in a folded state along the edge of a door opening. The air bag deploys so as to cover the door opening when it inflates. The air bag has a substantially cylindrical tubular gas inflow portion. This gas inflow portion is connected to the inflator so that it covers the inflator. The gas inflow portion is clamped to the outer circumferential surface of the inflator. With a side air bag device according to the invention it is not necessary to use a long pipe that from the inflator and it is possible to increase the freedom of installation of the device and also reduce its weight and cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisaaki Kato, Toshinori Tanase, Yasuo Ochiai, Hiroshi Yasuda, Hiroki Nakajima