Patents by Inventor Koutarou Hirata

Koutarou Hirata 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: 20080230002
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a sealer gun in which even an operator having no expert skill can easily conduct application by optionally setting the bead width, and keep the application uniform from the initial stage to the final stage. In the sealer gun, the needle valve is moved backward by predetermined strokes by operating the trigger, and a sealer is spouted from the gap between the valve seat and the needle valve. In this instance, with the adjusting knob of the notch portion provided in the base portion of the gun body, the position-adjusting member is moved back and forth, and the moving-backward stroke of the needle valve is controlled. The tapered portion 8b is formed at the tip of the needle valve, and the orifice member is provided in the sealer passage in the downstream of the valve seat so as to absorb the pulsating pressure variation of the sealer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koutarou Hirata, Souichi Kokubu
  • Patent number: 6238746
    Abstract: A painting method and a painting apparatus are disclosed, in which a few kinds of five to eight primary color paints are transferred along corresponding paint-transferring lines, and at a primary color paint selecting/extracting unit 6 provided at an intermediate of the painting apparatus 1 necessary primary color paints are selected and extracted for a certain amount and transferred into a paint-transferring passage 5, and then the extracted primary color paints are mixed at an agitating unit 7 provided at an intermediate of the paint-transferring passage 5 such that a suitable color paint having a certain viscosity is prepared. The suitable color paint thus prepared is then transferred to a spray gun G. A washing unit C is provided at the beginning end of the paint-transferring passage 5. When changing the color paint, the common paint-transferring passage 5 is cleaned by washing liquid ejected from the washing unit C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidemoto Fukuoka, Emitsu Tajima, Koutarou Hirata, Tetsuya Yasuda