Kazuhiro Owada 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).
Abstract: There is provided an HST in which a hydraulic pump unit operatively driven by a driving power source and a hydraulic motor unit arranged spaced apart from the hydraulic pump unit and operatively driving a driving-wheel are fluidly connected by way of operation fluid lines so as to form a closed circuit; wherein the hydraulic motor unit is provided with motor-side operation fluid passages forming one part of the operation fluid lines; a motor-side charge fluid passage having a first end opened to an outside to form a motor-side charge port and a second end fluidly connected to at lease one of the motor-side operation fluid passages; and a check valve interposed in the motor-side charge fluid passage so as to allow the fluid to flow from the motor-side charge port to the one motor-side operation fluid passage while preventing the reverse flow.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 24, 2007
Publication date:
July 26, 2007
Inventors:
Yasuhisa MOCHIZUKI, Koji SAKATA, Kazuhiro OWADA