Patents by Inventor Katsuaki Shibuki

Katsuaki Shibuki 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: 11333089
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a supercharging pressure control device for an internal combustion engine that may suppress misfires of the internal combustion engine caused by a large amount of condensed water and freezing of an intercooler and suppress the decrease in supercharging response under the conditions that such problems are unlikely to occur. The supercharging pressure control device for the internal combustion engine includes a supercharger (turbocharger), an intercooler, a supercharging pressure control part controlling a supercharging pressure based on a target supercharging pressure, and an intake air temperature acquisition part (intake air temperature sensor) acquiring a temperature of the intake air as an intake air temperature, and executes a supercharging pressure reduction control when the intake air temperature is greater than or equal to a specified first threshold temperature or less than or equal to a specified second threshold temperature less than the first threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Shibuki, Katsushi Hashimoto, Satoshi Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20210293192
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a supercharging pressure control device for an internal combustion engine that may suppress misfires of the internal combustion engine caused by a large amount of condensed water and freezing of an intercooler and suppress the decrease in supercharging response under the conditions that such problems are unlikely to occur. The supercharging pressure control device for the internal combustion engine includes a supercharger (turbocharger), an intercooler, a supercharging pressure control part controlling a supercharging pressure based on a target supercharging pressure, and an intake air temperature acquisition part (intake air temperature sensor) acquiring a temperature of the intake air as an intake air temperature, and executes a supercharging pressure reduction control when the intake air temperature is greater than or equal to a specified first threshold temperature or less than or equal to a specified second threshold temperature less than the first threshold temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki SHIBUKI, Katsushi HASHIMOTO, Satoshi MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10995709
    Abstract: An engine peripheral structure includes an engine body mounted in an engine room, an intake system connected to the engine body, and a supercharger provided in the middle of the intake system. The intake system includes a low-pressure intake passage connected upstream in an intake direction of the supercharger, and a high-pressure intake passage connected downstream in the intake direction of the supercharger. The intake system has the high-pressure intake passage turned back at the supercharger with respect to the low-pressure intake passage, and has the low-pressure intake passage and the high-pressure intake passage extended on a left side surface of the engine body so as to be at least partly overlapped with each other in the up-down direction V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsushi Hashimoto, Katsuaki Shibuki
  • Publication number: 20200232427
    Abstract: An engine peripheral structure includes an engine body mounted in an engine room, an intake system connected to the engine body, and a supercharger provided in the middle of the intake system. The intake system includes a low-pressure intake passage connected upstream in an intake direction of the supercharger, and a high-pressure intake passage connected downstream in the intake direction of the supercharger. The intake system has the high-pressure intake passage turned back at the supercharger with respect to the low-pressure intake passage, and has the low-pressure intake passage and the high-pressure intake passage extended on a left side surface of the engine body so as to be at least partly overlapped with each other in the up-down direction V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Katsushi HASHIMOTO, Katsuaki SHIBUKI
  • Patent number: 9683475
    Abstract: To elongate an exhaust tail pipe wherein a muffler is covered by a rear cowl. An exhaust structure of a vehicle including a rear cowl covering a vehicle rear portion, a rear bank-muffler including a first and second expansion chamber partitioned by a partition, a first and second connecting pipe connecting the expansion chambers, and a tail pipe configured to discharge exhaust air from the rear bank-muffler. The rear bank-muffler is covered by the rear cowl, wherein outlines of the rear bank-muffler and the rear cowl are each formed such that the width decreases toward the vehicle rear. The tail pipe, the first connecting pipe, and the second connecting pipe are provided so as to penetrate the partition. A position where the tail pipe penetrates the partition and positions where the first connecting pipe and second connecting pipe penetrate the partition are offset from each other in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Shibuki, Masaya Yazaki, Satoru Nojima
  • Publication number: 20170159531
    Abstract: To elongate an exhaust tail pipe wherein a muffler is covered by a rear cowl. An exhaust structure of a vehicle including a rear cowl covering a vehicle rear portion, a rear bank-muffler including a first and second expansion chamber partitioned by a partition, a first and second connecting pipe connecting the expansion chambers, and a tail pipe configured to discharge exhaust air from the rear bank-muffler. The rear bank-muffler is covered by the rear cowl, wherein outlines of the rear bank-muffler and the rear cowl are each formed such that the width decreases toward the vehicle rear. The tail pipe, the first connecting pipe, and the second connecting pipe are provided so as to penetrate the partition. A position where the tail pipe penetrates the partition and positions where the first connecting pipe and second connecting pipe penetrate the partition are offset from each other in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuaki SHIBUKI, Masaya YAZAKI, Satoru NOJIMA
  • Patent number: 9316138
    Abstract: A secondary air supply system is arranged efficiently and compactly, in a V-type engine including a front-side cylinder and a rear-side cylinder. A motorcycle has a secondary air supply system which is provided between an air cleaner and an exhaust passage of an engine. The secondary air is supplied from the air cleaner into the exhaust passage of the engine. The secondary air supply system has a reed valve in a position for being exposed to the exhaust passage. The reed valve includes a front-side reed valve used for a front-side cylinder and a rear-side reed valve used for a rear-side cylinder. The front-side reed valve is disposed at a front portion of the air cleaner, with the longitudinal direction of the front-side reed valve set along the height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Nishimura, Katsuaki Shibuki
  • Patent number: 9303541
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a motorcycle having a catalyzer casing that is accommodated in an exhaust muffler. The exhaust muffler is provided at opposite sides thereof in the vehicle width direction with lateral walls that are inclined so as to come closer to each other as they extend downward. A bent section is formed in an intermediate portion, within the exhaust muffler, of an exhaust gas conduit passing through a front end wall of the exhaust muffler and changes the flow direction of exhaust gas from the forward and rearward direction of the vehicle to the vehicle width direction. The catalyzer casing has one end connected to a downstream end portion of the exhaust gas conduit and is arranged in an inclined condition to be lowered as it approaches one side of the muffler in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Shibuki, Masaya Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20150252713
    Abstract: A secondary air supply system is arranged efficiently and compactly, in a V-type engine including a front-side cylinder and a rear-side cylinder. A motorcycle has a secondary air supply system which is provided between an air cleaner and an exhaust passage of an engine. The secondary air is supplied from the air cleaner into the exhaust passage of the engine. The secondary air supply system has a reed valve in a position for being exposed to the exhaust passage. The reed valve includes a front-side reed valve used for a front-side cylinder and a rear-side reed valve used for a rear-side cylinder. The front-side reed valve is disposed at a front portion of the air cleaner, with the longitudinal direction of the front-side reed valve set along the height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin NISHIMURA, Katsuaki SHIBUKI
  • Publication number: 20150152773
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a motorcycle having a catalyzer casing that is accommodated in an exhaust muffler. The exhaust muffler is provided at opposite sides thereof in the vehicle width direction with lateral walls that are inclined so as to come closer to each other as they extend downward. A bent section is formed in an intermediate portion, within the exhaust muffler, of an exhaust gas conduit passing through a front end wall of the exhaust muffler and changes the flow direction of exhaust gas from the forward and rearward direction of the vehicle to the vehicle width direction. The catalyzer casing has one end connected to a downstream end portion of the exhaust gas conduit and is arranged in an inclined condition to be lowered as it approaches one side of the muffler in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuaki Shibuki, Masaya Yazaki