Patents by Inventor Yuji KARIYA

Yuji KARIYA 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: 11072226
    Abstract: A vehicle sun visor device includes a base (a support), a sliding base (a sliding body), a visor body, and a torque hinge (a hinge) configured to connect the visor body to the sliding base in a rotatable manner in the up-down direction. The torque hinge includes a connecting member to which the visor body is connected. The connecting member includes a hole portion and a first fastening member (a first connecting portion). The visor body includes a projecting portion. The projecting portion is set to have a strength with which the projecting portion does not break even when an operation load to rotate the visor body around a hinge shaft is applied to the visor body, but the projecting portion breaks when a deployment load of an airbag is applied to the visor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yusuke Takei, Yuji Kariya
  • Patent number: 10876745
    Abstract: An air conditioning register includes a tube and a blade. An inner side of the tube functions as a duct. The blade is located at an outer side of the tube. The blade moves to change a distance from the blade to a center axis of the tube. Movement of the blade presses a portion of the tube between two ends in an axial direction of the center axis from the outer side with the blade and changes the duct in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Misako Mochizuki, Yuji Kariya
  • Publication number: 20200122556
    Abstract: A vehicle sun visor device includes a base (a support), a sliding base (a sliding body), a visor body, and a torque hinge (a hinge) configured to connect the visor body to the sliding base in a rotatable manner in the up-down direction. The torque hinge includes a connecting member to which the visor body is connected. The connecting member includes a hole portion and a first fastening member (a first connecting portion). The visor body includes a projecting portion. The projecting portion is set to have a strength with which the projecting portion does not break even when an operation load to rotate the visor body around a hinge shaft is applied to the visor body, but the projecting portion breaks when a deployment load of an airbag is applied to the visor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro SUZUKI, Yusuke TAKEI, Yuji KARIYA
  • Patent number: 10612280
    Abstract: An inside door handle structure according to technology of the present disclosure includes: an opening recess formed in a recessed shape in an armrest of a door trim at a side door of a vehicle, the opening recess opening toward a vehicle upper side, and a part of the armrest acting as a door gripping section when fingers are inserted into the opening recess in a case in which the side door is opened or closed; and an inside door handle provided in the door trim at the vehicle upper side of the opening recess, an end section of the inside door handle at a vehicle front side being configured as a rotational fulcrum, and the inside door handle releasing a door lock of the side door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshimatsu, Yuji Kariya
  • Publication number: 20190160919
    Abstract: In a register, a ventilation passage is provided inside a retainer so as to communicate with an air outlet of a bezel, and inside the air outlet, a front movable louver and a rear movable louver constituting a cross fin type register are provided by disposing fins orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Misako Hayashima, Yuji Kariya, Hidekazu Makimura
  • Patent number: 10023126
    Abstract: A vehicular storage unit that includes: an elongated shaped storage unit main body that is formed with an opening open toward a vehicle cabin inner side; and a lid that is provided at the vehicle cabin inner side of the opening, and that is supported by the storage unit main body so as to be capable of moving along a length direction of the storage unit main body. An opening width of the opening increases from a specific position on progression from one side toward another side of the storage unit main body in a length direction, and a width of the lid is increased so as to follow the opening width of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Kariya
  • Publication number: 20180128503
    Abstract: An air conditioning register includes a tube and a blade. An inner side of the tube functions as a duct. The blade is located at an outer side of the tube. The blade moves to change a distance from the blade to a center axis of the tube. Movement of the blade presses a portion of the tube between two ends in an axial direction of the center axis from the outer side with the blade and changes the duct in shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Misako MOCHIZUKI, Yuji KARIYA
  • Publication number: 20180112446
    Abstract: An inside door handle structure according to technology of the present disclosure includes: an opening recess formed in a recessed shape in an armrest of a door trim at a side door of a vehicle, the opening recess opening toward a vehicle upper side, and a part of the armrest acting as a door gripping section when fingers are inserted into the opening recess in a case in which the side door is opened or closed; and an inside door handle provided in the door trim at the vehicle upper side of the opening recess, an end section of the inside door handle at a vehicle front side being configured as a rotational fulcrum, and the inside door handle releasing a door lock of the side door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi YOSHIMATSU, Yuji KARIYA
  • Publication number: 20170072861
    Abstract: A vehicular storage unit that includes: an elongated shaped storage unit main body that is formed with an opening open toward a vehicle cabin inner side; and a lid that is provided at the vehicle cabin inner side of the opening, and that is supported by the storage unit main body so as to be capable of moving along a length direction of the storage unit main body. An opening width of the opening increases from a specific position on progression from one side toward another side of the storage unit main body in a length direction, and a width of the lid is increased so as to follow the opening width of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji KARIYA