Patents by Inventor Kenta Kuwayama

Kenta Kuwayama 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).

  • Publication number: 20230025882
    Abstract: A fluid limit vent valve assembly includes a lower case having a base portion and an outer wall extending from the base portion to define a lower case interior cavity and an opening at an end of the lower case opposite the base portion. A first slot extends through the outer wall. A fuel flow diverter is positioned in the interior cavity directly opposite first slot and extends along a path between the first slot and a vapor exit passage of the valve assembly. The flow diverter prevents splashing of liquid fuel into a vapor exit passage of the valve assembly. A second slot also extends through the lower case outer wall and is angularly spaced apart from the first slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Caleb S. Bauer, Kenta Kuwayama, Yasushi Tashiro, Steven Yurgalonis
  • Patent number: 10962131
    Abstract: A fill limit vent valve includes a float valve, a housing, and a lid. The housing includes a cylindrical outer wall and a tubular portion. The outer wall has a central axis. The tubular portion accommodates the float valve. The lid is placed on the upper end of the tubular portion and has a communicating opening. The housing includes a fuel passage that has an inlet and a discharge port. The discharge port is connected to the communicating opening. A section of the tubular portion that faces the fuel passage is constituted by a curved surface. A guide wall that has at least one guide surface is provided between the fuel passage and the inlet. A straight line on the curved surface that is parallel with the central axis is defined as a generatrix. The guide surface extends along the curved surface while being inclined relative to the generatrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Kuwayama, Caleb Bauer, Steven Yurgalonis, Pierre Grypinich
  • Publication number: 20210062928
    Abstract: A fill limit vent valve includes a float valve, a housing, and a lid. The housing includes a cylindrical outer wall and a tubular portion. The outer wall has a central axis. The tubular portion accommodates the float valve. The lid is placed on the upper end of the tubular portion and has a communicating opening. The housing includes a fuel passage that has an inlet and a discharge port. The discharge port is connected to the communicating opening. A section of the tubular portion that faces the fuel passage is constituted by a curved surface. A guide wall that has at least one guide surface is provided between the fuel passage and the inlet. A straight line on the curved surface that is parallel with the central axis is defined as a generatrix. The guide surface extends along the curved surface while being inclined relative to the generatrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta KUWAYAMA, Caleb BAUER, Steven YURGALONIS, Pierre GRYPINICH
  • Patent number: 10919380
    Abstract: A fuel shut-off valve includes a housing, a float valve, and a tubular fuel inflow portion. The housing includes a communicating opening that communicates with the outside of the fuel tank, a tubular portion that extends in a vertical direction, and an inlet for liquid fuel located in the tubular portion at a position below the communicating opening. The float valve selectively closes and opens the communicating opening by moving vertically. The fuel inflow portion is provided outside the tubular portion and has a first end having an inflow port for liquid fuel and a second end connected to the inlet. The inflow port is opened at a position that is above the inlet and spaced outward in a radial direction from the tubular portion. The housing includes a discharge port for discharging liquid fuel in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Kuwayama, Caleb Bauer, Steven Yurgalonis
  • Patent number: 10851747
    Abstract: The mounting structure of a fuel device is for mounting the fuel device, which includes a plurality of components, on a baffle plate for suppressing waving of liquid fuel stored in a fuel tank. One of the components of the fuel device is integrally formed, as a mounting portion, with the baffle plate. The remaining components of the fuel device are mounted, as a mounted portion, on the mounting portion of the baffle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ismael Solano, Kenta Kuwayama, Steven Yurgalonis
  • Publication number: 20200238821
    Abstract: A fuel shut-off valve includes a housing, a float valve, and a tubular fuel inflow portion. The housing includes a communicating opening that communicates with the outside of the fuel tank, a tubular portion that extends in a vertical direction, and an inlet for liquid fuel located in the tubular portion at a position below the communicating opening. The float valve selectively closes and opens the communicating opening by moving vertically. The fuel inflow portion is provided outside the tubular portion and has a first end having an inflow port for liquid fuel and a second end connected to the inlet. The inflow port is opened at a position that is above the inlet and spaced outward in a radial direction from the tubular portion. The housing includes a discharge port for discharging liquid fuel in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kenta KUWAYAMA, Caleb BAUER, Steven YURGALONIS
  • Publication number: 20200032748
    Abstract: The mounting structure of a fuel device is for mounting the fuel device, which includes a plurality of components, on a baffle plate for suppressing waving of liquid fuel stored in a fuel tank. One of the components of the fuel device is integrally formed, as a mounting portion, with the baffle plate. The remaining components of the fuel device are mounted, as a mounted portion, on the mounting portion of the baffle plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ismael SOLANO, Kenta KUWAYAMA, Steven YURGALONIS
  • Patent number: 10106031
    Abstract: A fuel tank joint includes a tubular joint body and an entry restriction member. The joint body includes a support portion. The entry restriction member includes a body tube, a groove, a guide, and an engagement hook. The body tube has opposite open ends in the flow direction of fuel. The groove extends upstream from the downstream end of the body tube and is engaged with the support portion. The guide is formed in part of the body tube that includes the downstream end of the body tube and guides the groove to the support portion by contacting the support portion when the body tube is inserted into the joint body. The engagement hook is formed in a downstream end section of the body tube and engaged with the support portion, from a downstream side, in a state in which the groove is engaged with the support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sobajima, Kenta Kuwayama
  • Patent number: 9777876
    Abstract: The connector comprises a housing having a connection hole where a pipe with a flange is inserted, a retainer having a latching portion that retains the pipe by being arranged at a location facing the connection hole and engaged with the flange, and a checker that is supported by the housing at the retaining position and is movable from the retaining position to the connection confirmation position when the pipe is inserted into the connection hole up to the normal connection position. The checker is configured to release the engagement between the latching portion and the flange, when at the connection confirmation position, by having the retainer that is engaged with the flange of the pipe at the normal connection position pushed to expand the distance of the retainer so that the pipe can be pulled out from the connection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kaneko, Naoki Mori, Kenta Kuwayama, Yoshikazu Kaneyasu, Masaru Tomimatsu, Shoji Uhara
  • Patent number: 9096122
    Abstract: A fuel cutoff valve is equipped with a casing main body having a valve chamber that forms a connection hole that is an opening to the valve chamber side on an upper wall, a cover that forms a pipe which forms a pipe passage, and a float housed inside the valve chamber. The cover is equipped with a pipe extended part which is provided extending inside the linking chamber from the pipe in a tube shape facing the connection hole and on an substantially straight line, the pipe extended part has an extended passage 45 connected to the pipe passage, the extended passage has an inflow port that opens to the linking chamber, and the inflow port is provided on the side opposite the pipe with the connection hole as the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kaneko, Kenta Kuwayama
  • Patent number: 8720472
    Abstract: A fuel cutoff valve comprises a casing main body with a connecting hole and a valve chamber, a cover forming the tube member, and the float housed in the valve chamber. The valve comprises, above the casing main body, the liquid closure member forming the retaining chamber for temporarily retaining liquid fuel flown out of the connecting hole and the partition member formed in plurality in a ridge form on the upper surface of the upper wall within the retaining chamber. Each partition member is arranged radially so as to be connected to the liquid closure member from the near center of the connecting hole, and configured in such a way that the retaining chamber is divided into multiple divided chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kito, Kenichiro Kaneko, Kenta Kuwayama, Toru Matsuzaki, Kazunari Nakaya
  • Patent number: 8490603
    Abstract: A fuel tank valve device equipped with a casing, and a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism has a first valve unit having a first valve connecting hole, and a second valve unit that opens and closes the first valve connecting hole. The first valve unit completely closes the valve flow path by moving by the force in the valve closing direction when the pressure of the second communication path exceeds a preset first pressure value. In a state when the first valve unit is closing the valve flow path, when the pressure of the second communication path exceeds a preset second pressure value that is greater than the first pressure value, the second valve unit receives the pressure from the first valve connecting hole and moves to open the first valve connecting hole, communicating with the valve flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Kuwayama, Natsushi Miura
  • Publication number: 20130025700
    Abstract: A fuel cutoff valve comprises a casing main body with a connecting hole and a valve chamber, a cover forming the tube member, and the float housed in the valve chamber. The valve comprises, above the casing main body, the liquid closure member forming the retaining chamber for temporarily retaining liquid fuel flown out of the connecting hole and the partition member formed in plurality in a ridge form on the upper surface of the upper wall within the retaining chamber. Each partition member is arranged radially so as to be connected to the liquid closure member from the near center of the connecting hole, and configured in such a way that the retaining chamber is divided into multiple divided chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicants: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd., TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki KITO, Kenichiro KANEKO, Kenta KUWAYAMA, Toru MATSUZAKI, Kazunari NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20120024853
    Abstract: A fuel tank valve device equipped with a casing, and a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism has a first valve unit having a first valve connecting hole, and a second valve unit that opens and closes the first valve connecting hole. The first valve unit completely closes the valve flow path by moving by the force in the valve closing direction when the pressure of the second communication path exceeds a preset first pressure value. In a state when the first valve unit is closing the valve flow path, when the pressure of the second communication path exceeds a preset second pressure value that is greater than the first pressure value, the second valve unit receives the pressure from the first valve connecting hole and moves to open the first valve connecting hole, communicating with the valve flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Kuwayama, Natsushi Miura
  • Patent number: 4432937
    Abstract: An alloy comprising more than 0.01% of gallium and more than 0.01% of indium added to zinc which is usable, as conventional zinc dust or zinc can, for the electrode of a dry cell and shows a high hydrogen overvoltage and evolves less hydrogen gas during storage of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Toho Aen Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Kuwayama, Junzo Nakagawa, Keishi Tomii, Kenji Hagimori