Patents by Inventor Yasushi Itou

Yasushi Itou 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: 9874802
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a transparent board that transmits visible light; a screen that is provided on one surface of the transparent board; a projector that projects an image toward the screen from the other surface side of the transparent board; and a support unit that supports the transparent board from the other surface side. The projector is disposed outside of the space that is enclosed by the transparent board and the support unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Itou, Yoshinobu Moriya
  • Publication number: 20160116829
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a transparent board that transmits visible light; a screen that is provided on one surface of the transparent board; a projector that projects an image toward the screen from the other surface side of the transparent board; and a support unit that supports the transparent board from the other surface side. The projector is disposed outside of the space that is enclosed by the transparent board and the support unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi ITOU, Yoshinobu MORIYA
  • Patent number: 8746900
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sliding lens cover mechanism for a projector, which enables enhancement in operability and prevention of noise, and the sliding lens cover mechanism includes: a front panel that allows the projection lens to be exposed from a part thereof; a lens cover that moves over said front panel, from fully-open state in which the projection lens is exposed and a fully-closed state in which said lens cover covers the projection lens; and a slide device unit that biases the lens cover to move to a fully-open state or to a fully-closed state or to an intermediate state, wherein the lens cover includes a pin that protrudes toward the front panel; and wherein the front panel includes a slide plate that abuts against the pin only in the fully open state or in the fully closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Akio Morita, Yasushi Itou
  • Publication number: 20130342923
    Abstract: A lens attaching/detaching device includes a lever holding plate that has an elastic piece which presses a lock releasing lever in a direction away from a locking mechanism and holds the lock releasing lever while the lock releasing lever is guided by a lower case. The lock releasing lever includes a first sliding part and a second sliding part which are guided by the lower case. The first sliding part and the second sliding part are arranged at different positions in a Z direction and an X direction orthogonal to a Y direction. An operation part is disposed at the same position as that of the first sliding part in the Z direction. An actuation part is disposed at the same position as that of the second sliding part in the Z direction. The lower case includes a first guiding part which guides the first sliding part and the second guiding part which guides the second sliding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Display Solutions, LTD
    Inventors: Yasushi Itou, Takahisa Yamada, Kazuya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130343679
    Abstract: A bag-like flexible package is provided which is made of a flexible sheet capable of preventing unintended breakage, has good packing operation workability and a good stability of holding shock-absorbing materials, and exhibits a good workability for operations of suspended ceiling installation and wall mounting installation. The flexible package is made of flexible sheet and has a bag-like configuration having opening at one end thereof whereby it can receive goods therein that are inserted through opening. The flexible package has outwardly convex ridges, outwardly concave valleys, and notches formed on opening. Ridges and valleys are alternately arranged on flexible sheet , and extend in a direction that is orthogonal to or that is oblique to opening .
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Display Solutions, LTD
    Inventors: Yasushi Itou, Takahisa Yamada, Kazuya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130335998
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided which is capable of reducing variations in the brightness of lights emitted from the light emitting parts. The electronic device has: a housing; a plurality of light sources provided within the housing, each light source emitting light along a light axis, the light axes of the light sources being directed in the same direction; and plurality of light guide plates provided within the housing, the light guide plates guiding the lights emitted from the light sources, respectively. Each light guide plate has a light incident plane on which the light emitted from the light source is incident and a light emitting part that is exposed at an outer surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuya Inoue, Yasushi Itou, Takahisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 8408589
    Abstract: A knee airbag device for a vehicle, configured in such a manner that, when a knee airbag is inflated and expanded with the knees of a vehicle occupant located close to an airbag door, a load to the lower legs is reduced. A first tear section (100) for expanding a first airbag door (108) in the vehicle's top-bottom direction and a second tear section (102) for expanding a second airbag door (112) in the vehicle's lateral direction are formed on the rear surface side of a glove-box-door outer member (24). The first tear section (100) is composed of a left and right pair of vertical tear sections (104) and a first horizontal tear section (106). The second tear section (102) is composed of second lateral tear sections (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushika Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hitoshi Matsushima, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yasushi Itou, Tomoko Kurata
  • Patent number: 8393639
    Abstract: A disc inflator having gas cooling and mist removal functions, and reduced in weight and in size in a radial direction. An inflator case (40) has an upper case (36) at an occupant side and a lower case (38) at a side opposite an occupant. A tubular holding member (60) having a separation wall (64) at a base portion thereof is provided in the inflator case. A gas flow path (74) is formed at a periphery of the holding member (60), and communication holes (80) communicating with the gas flow path (74) are formed in the separation wall (64). At a peripheral wall portion (36B) of the upper case (36) is formed a gas ejection hole (76) at a position offset towards an occupant side only by a distance ? from a central position P of a combustion chamber (68). Accordingly, a length (L1) of a flow path from the starting end of the flow path to the gas ejection hole (76) increases, enabling effective heat exchange of a high temperature gas and removal of mist (82). Thereby, a conventionally used filter may be disposed of.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei co., Ltd., Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Yasushi Itou, Takaki Fukuyama, Hiroki Murase, Naoki Matsuda, Tomoharu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120327513
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sliding lens cover mechanism for a projector, which enables enhancement in operability and prevention of noise, and the sliding lens cover mechanism includes: a front panel that allows the projection lens to be exposed from a part thereof; a lens cover that moves over said front panel, from fully-open state in which the projection lens is exposed and a fully-closed state in which said lens cover covers the projection lens; and a slide device unit that biases the lens cover to move to a fully-open state or to a fully-closed state or to an intermediate state, wherein the lens cover includes a pin that protrudes toward the front panel; and wherein the front panel includes a slide plate that abuts against the pin only in the fully open state or in the fully closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Akio Morita, Yasushi Itou
  • Patent number: 8333154
    Abstract: An inflator (1) comprised of an inner case (19) and an outer case (28). The inflator (1) includes a combustion chamber located inside the inner case (19), a plurality of gas discharge ports (16) formed on the outer case (28), a gas outlet port (11) formed on an outer surface of the inner case (19) and a gas guide section that guides the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) toward the gas discharge ports (16). The gas guide section includes between the outer case (28) and inner case (19) a guide wall (13a) provided with a guide plane that contacts with and redirects the inflation gas. The guide plane is formed into an arc face so as to swivel the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) in a swirl or helical fashion, guide the inflation gas toward the gas discharge ports (16) and capture residuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaki Fukuyama, Toru Ozaki, Hiroki Murase, Osamu Fukawatase, Yasushi Itou, Naoki Matsuda, Yusuke Komine, Tomoharu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120090493
    Abstract: An inflator (1) comprised of an inner case (19) and an outer case (28). The inflator (1) includes a combustion chamber located inside the inner case (19), a plurality of gas discharge ports (16) formed on the outer case (28), a gas outlet port (11) formed on an outer surface of the inner case (19) and a gas guide section that guides the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) toward the gas discharge ports (16). The gas guide section includes between the outer case (28) and inner case (19) a guide wall (13a) provided with a guide plane that contacts with and redirects the inflation gas. The guide plane is formed into an arc face so as to swivel the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) in a swirl or helical fashion, guide the inflation gas toward the gas discharge ports (16) and capture residuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Takaki Fukuyama, Toru Ozaki, Hiroki Murase, Osamu Fukawatase, Yasushi Itou, Naoki Matsuda, Yusuke Komine, Tomoharu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8146943
    Abstract: It is an object to ensure that, even when knee regions of an occupant are in a near state with respect to a storage section of a knee airbag at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicle, the knee regions can be restrained appropriately by the knee airbag. A knee airbag 14 stored in a folded state in a glove box door 22 (a storage section) receives a supply of a gas at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicle 18 and inflates and deploys toward knee regions 36K of an occupant 36 seated in a front passenger seat 12 (a vehicle seat). At this time, when the knee regions 36K of the occupant 36 are in a near state with respect to the glove box door 22, the gas inside the knee airbag 14 becomes ventable to the outside from a vent hole 16, The vent hole 16 appropriately vents this gas from the inside, of the knee airbag 14, and the reaction force of the knee airbag 14 with respect to the knee regions 36K are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Yasushi Itou, Tomoko Kurata
  • Publication number: 20110272929
    Abstract: A knee airbag device for a vehicle, configured in such a manner that, when a knee airbag is inflated and expanded with the knees of a vehicle occupant located close to an airbag door, a load to the lower legs is reduced. A first tear section (100) for expanding a first airbag door (108) in the vehicle's top-bottom direction and a second tear section (102) for expanding a second airbag door (112) in the vehicle's lateral direction are formed on the rear surface side of a glove-box-door outer member (24). The first tear section (100) is composed of a left and right pair of vertical tear sections (104) and a first horizontal tear section (106). The second tear section (102) is composed of second lateral tear sections (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hitoshi Matsushima, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yasushi Itou, Tomoko Kurata
  • Patent number: 7946618
    Abstract: An airbag device includes: a bag body that is deployed by internal pressure rising as a gas is supplied into the bag body; and a gas pressure adjustment portion that is provided on the bag body so as to be able to release the gas from the inside of the bag body during a deployed state of the bag body, and that is set so that the amount of the gas released from the bag body in the deployed state to an inward side in a vehicle width direction is larger than the amount of the gas released from the bag body in the deployed state to an outward side in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Shuji Yamada, Yasushi Itou, Akiyoshi Sanada, Tomotaka Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20110100247
    Abstract: An inflator (1) comprised of an inner case (19) and an outer case (28). The inflator (1) includes a combustion chamber located inside the inner case (19), a plurality of gas discharge ports (16) formed on the outer case (28), a gas outlet port (11) formed on an outer surface of the inner case (19) and a gas guide section that guides the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) toward the gas discharge ports (16). The gas guide section includes between the outer case (28) and inner case (19) a guide wall (13a) provided with a guide plane that contacts with and redirects the inflation gas. The guide plane is formed into an arc face so as to swivel the inflation gas exited the gas outlet port (11) in a swirl or helical fashion, guide the inflation gas toward the gas discharge ports (16) and capture residuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Takaki Fukuyama, Toru Ozaki, Hiroki Murase, Osamu Fukuwatase, Yasushi Itou, Naoki Matsuda, Yusuke Komine, Tomoharu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7743918
    Abstract: A package for a catheter that holds the distal part of the catheter in a natural state and the proximal part of the catheter in a curled state. The package is comprised of two trays that are bridged by the catheter and are held together by a slidable fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Itou, Jun Iwami, Shigeki Numata
  • Patent number: D659738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamada, Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yasushi Itou, Kazuya Inoue, Mitsuhiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: D667480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamada, Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yasushi Itou, Kazuya Inoue, Mitsuhiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: D667864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamada, Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yasushi Itou, Kazuya Inoue, Mitsuhiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: D668284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamada, Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yasushi Itou, Kazuya Inoue, Mitsuhiro Shimizu