Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Takatsuka
Kazuhiro Takatsuka 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).
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Patent number: 10363774Abstract: A tubeless spoked wheel including a rim and a hub connected with wire spokes includes a rim that has no through-hole and is narrow in the vehicle width direction. A plurality of internal threads are aligned circumferentially in an annular raised portion arranged along the centerline of a rim. A connecting member that is hollow and has an external thread on its outer periphery is screwed into each internal thread. Each connecting member is pre-engaged with a distal end of a spoke in a rotatable manner. Each spoke bends at a position outward from the connecting member, tilts toward a hub, and has its basal end connected to a right or left flange of the hub with a nipple. The spokes are connected to the annular raised portion to narrow the rim in the vehicle width direction. The spokes are rotatably supported on the connecting members.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Gogo, Kazuhiro Takatsuka
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Patent number: 10288639Abstract: A wheel hub, a pulsar ring, and a magnetic sensor are provided. The wheel hub supports an axle. A brake disc is secured to the wheel hub. The pulsar ring is secured to the wheel hub. The magnetic sensor is configured to detect a passing of a pulsar hole disposed on the pulsar ring. The wheel hub forms a cylindrical outer peripheral surface as an outer peripheral side spigot portion. The brake disc includes a disc-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The pulsar ring includes a ring-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The brake disc and the pulsar ring are co-clamped and secured to a hub-side flange formed at the wheel hub.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takatsuka, Yoshihiro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10093385Abstract: A straddle-type vehicle includes a steering stem, a top bridge, a first front fork, a second front fork, a front wheel braking unit, an ABS modulator, a supporter, and a brake pipe. The front wheel braking unit is provided at the first front fork. The ABS modulator is disposed rearward with respect to the top bridge. The supporter is provided at the second front fork forward with respect to the top bridge. The brake pipe extends from the ABS modulator to the front wheel braking unit through the supporter. The brake pipe between the ABS modulator and the supporter passes through a space between the head pipe and the second front fork below the top bridge. The brake pipe between the supporter and the front wheel braking unit passes through a position higher than the top bridge to be connected to the front wheel braking unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takatsuka, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Kosuke Inase
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Publication number: 20170282639Abstract: A tubeless spoked wheel including a rim and a hub connected with wire spokes includes a rim that has no through-hole and is narrow in the vehicle width direction. A plurality of internal threads are aligned circumferentially in an annular raised portion arranged along the centerline of a rim. A connecting member that is hollow and has an external thread on its outer periphery is screwed into each internal thread. Each connecting member is pre-engaged with a distal end of a spoke in a rotatable manner. Each spoke bends at a position outward from the connecting member, tilts toward a hub, and has its basal end connected to a right or left flange of the hub with a nipple. The spokes are connected to the annular raised portion to narrow the rim in the vehicle width direction. The spokes are rotatably supported on the connecting members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Kazuhiko GOGO, Kazuhiro TAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20170269116Abstract: A wheel hub, a pulsar ring, and a magnetic sensor are provided. The wheel hub supports an axle. A brake disc is secured to the wheel hub. The pulsar ring is secured to the wheel hub. The magnetic sensor is configured to detect a passing of a pulsar hole disposed on the pulsar ring. The wheel hub forms a cylindrical outer peripheral surface as an outer peripheral side spigot portion. The brake disc includes a disc-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The pulsar ring includes a ring-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The brake disc and the pulsar ring are co-clamped and secured to a hub-side flange formed at the wheel hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKATSUKA, Yoshihiro HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170029063Abstract: A straddle-type vehicle includes a steering stem, a top bridge, a first front fork, a second front fork, a front wheel braking unit, an ABS modulator, a supporter, and a brake pipe. The front wheel braking unit is provided at the first front fork. The ABS modulator is disposed rearward with respect to the top bridge. The supporter is provided at the second front fork forward with respect to the top bridge. The brake pipe extends from the ABS modulator to the front wheel braking unit through the supporter. The brake pipe between the ABS modulator and the supporter passes through a space between the head pipe and the second front fork below the top bridge. The brake pipe between the supporter and the front wheel braking unit passes through a position higher than the top bridge to be connected to the front wheel braking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKATSUKA, Yoshihiro HASHIMOTO, Kosuke INASE
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Patent number: 9511622Abstract: A wheel is provided which makes the removal of sand easy at the time of manufacturing the wheel by casting, while realizing the reduction of a weight of the wheel of the vehicle. The wheel of a vehicle includes boss portions which extend in the wheel axial direction from intermediate portions of spoke portions, in the wheel radial direction, and on which a brake disc is mountable. The boss portions are formed with boss inner hollow portions which are continuously formed with spoke inner hollow portions of the spoke portions. Through opening portions which penetrate the spoke portions in the wheel circumferential direction are formed on a portion of the spoke portions on which the boss portions are formed, at the position outside the boss portions, in the wheel radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryotaro Urano, Kazuhiro Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9199687Abstract: A wheel speed sensor is provided between a front wheel and a front fork. The wheel speed sensor includes a sensor body to be supported by the front side of the front fork. A front fender includes a downward extending portion extending downward along the front side of the front fork. The downward extending portion covers the sensor body. As such, the influence of an arrangement of a sensor body on the design in a saddle-type vehicle provided with a wheel speed sensor between a front fork and a wheel is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9156453Abstract: In a motorcycle including a vehicle body frame, an engine supported by the vehicle body frame, an air cleaner box arranged above of the engine, and an ABS module capable of decompressing brake pressures of front and rear wheels, the ABS module is arranged at a position above the engine, rearward of the air cleaner box, in proximity to the left inlet port and a right inlet port of the air cleaner box for sucking outside air, and in suction routes of the left inlet port and the right inlet port. Therefore, a cooling effect with respect to an ABS module to suppress a thermal influence on the ABS module can be secured.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takatsuka, Yoshihiro Inoue, Kazuya Sawasaki, Mitsuya Kawamura
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Publication number: 20150069817Abstract: A wheel is provided which makes the removal of sand easy at the time of manufacturing the wheel by casting, while realizing the reduction of a weight of the wheel of the vehicle. The wheel of a vehicle includes boss portions which extend in the wheel axial direction from intermediate portions of spoke portions, in the wheel radial direction, and on which a brake disc is mountable. The boss portions are formed with boss inner hollow portions which are continuously formed with spoke inner hollow portions of the spoke portions. Through opening portions which penetrate the spoke portions in the wheel circumferential direction are formed on a portion of the spoke portions on which the boss portions are formed, at the position outside the boss portions, in the wheel radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryotaro Urano, Kazuhiro Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20150041232Abstract: In a motorcycle including a vehicle body frame, an engine supported by the vehicle body frame, an air cleaner box arranged above of the engine, and an ABS module capable of decompressing brake pressures of front and rear wheels, the ABS module is arranged at a position above the engine, rearward of the air cleaner box, in proximity to the left inlet port and a right inlet port of the air cleaner box for sucking outside air, and in suction routes of the left inlet port and the right inlet port. Therefore, a cooling effect with respect to an ABS module to suppress a thermal influence on the ABS module can be secured.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takatsuka, Yoshihiro Inoue, Kazuya Sawasaki, Mitsuya Kawamura
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Publication number: 20150042062Abstract: A wheel speed sensor is provided between a front wheel and a front fork. The wheel speed sensor includes a sensor body to be supported by the front side of the front fork. A front fender includes a downward extending portion extending downward along the front side of the front fork. The downward extending portion covers the sensor body. As such, the influence of an arrangement of a sensor body on the design in a saddle-type vehicle provided with a wheel speed sensor between a front fork and a wheel is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Takatsuka