Patents by Inventor Masahiro Aketa

Masahiro Aketa 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: 9347351
    Abstract: A diesel engine exhaust treatment device includes an exhaust flow divider in an exhaust path. The flow divider causes exhaust to flow EGR gas with PM unevenly distributed and remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. EGR gas is recirculated to a combustion chamber, and the discharged gas is atmospherically discharged. First and second corona discharge passages are provided at the exhaust flow divider. Corona discharge in the first discharge passage causes the PM, water vapor, and oxygen in the exhaust to generate electron attachment. Electrostatic force causes the exhaust to flow the EGR gas with the electron-attached PM, water vapor, and oxygen unevenly distributed and the remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. The discharged gas is guided to the second discharge passage. Corona discharge in the second discharge passage causes gas molecules in the discharged gas to dissociate, and NOx in the discharged gas is reduced to nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Yosuke Matsukawa, Satoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150033708
    Abstract: A diesel engine exhaust treatment device includes an exhaust flow divider in an exhaust path. The flow divider causes exhaust to flow EGR gas with PM unevenly distributed and remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. EGR gas is recirculated to a combustion chamber, and the discharged gas is atmospherically discharged. First and second corona discharge passages are provided at the exhaust flow divider. Corona discharge in the first discharge passage causes the PM, water vapor, and oxygen in the exhaust to generate electron attachment. Electrostatic force causes the exhaust to flow the EGR gas with the electron-attached PM, water vapor, and oxygen unevenly distributed and the remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. The discharged gas is guided to the second discharge passage. Corona discharge in the second discharge passage causes gas molecules in the discharged gas to dissociate, and NOx in the discharged gas is reduced to nitrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Yosuke Matsukawa, Satoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8793974
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment device of a diesel engine that is capable of increasing the concentration of PM in the EGR gas, wherein an exhaust gas separator 2 has electrodes 12 and 13 having different polarities from each other to allow the PM in the exhaust gas 3 to be charged to a given polarity by means of corona discharge between the electrodes 12 and 13 and thus to permit a peripheral wall 14 surrounding the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 to have the electrode 13 having the opposite polarity to the charged PM, and the charged PM in the exhaust gas 3 swirling the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 is localizedly positioned around the peripheral wall 14 of the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 through a centrifugal force and an electrostatic force to allow the exhaust gas 3 containing the localizedly positioned PM to be separated as the EGR gas 4 and sent to a terminal end portion 15 of the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9, while the exhaust gas 3 around the central cylinder 7 is being separated a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Satoshi Sugimoto, Masato Ueda, Yuki Yoshita, Takuya Yanagimoto, Masayuki Tochimoto
  • Publication number: 20120000186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment device of a diesel engine that is capable of increasing the concentration of PM in the EGR gas, wherein an exhaust gas separator 2 has electrodes 12 and 13 having different polarities from each other to allow the PM in the exhaust gas 3 to be charged to a given polarity by means of corona discharge between the electrodes 12 and 13 and thus to permit a peripheral wall 14 surrounding the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 to have the electrode 13 having the opposite polarity to the charged PM, and the charged PM in the exhaust gas 3 swirling the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 is localizedly positioned around the peripheral wall 14 of the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9 through a centrifugal force and an electrostatic force to allow the exhaust gas 3 containing the localizedly positioned PM to be separated as the EGR gas 4 and sent to a terminal end portion 15 of the exhaust gas swirl chamber 9, while the exhaust gas 3 around the central cylinder 7 is being separated a
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Satoshi Sugimoto, Masato Ueda, Yuki Yoshita, Takuya Yanagimoto, Masayuki Tochimoto
  • Patent number: 7814746
    Abstract: An exhaust device for a diesel engine supplies liquid fuel (6) from a supply source (5) of the liquid fuel (6) to a gas generator (3) which converts the liquid fuel (6) to flammable gas (7) and from which a flammable-gas supply passage (8) is conducted, the flammable-gas supply passage (8) having a flammable-gas outlet (9) communicated with an exhaust-gas route (1) upstream of a diesel-particulate-filter (2), the flammable gas (7) flowed out of the flammable-gas outlet (9) being burnt in exhaust gas (10) to generate combustion heat which can burn fine particles of the exhaust gas (10) remaining at the filter (2). In this exhaust device for a diesel engine, a case (11) for containing the filter (2) accommodates at least part of the gas generator (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Shuichi Yamada, Toshio Nakahira, Masahiko Sugimoto, Katsushi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20080202106
    Abstract: An exhaust device for a diesel engine supplies liquid fuel (6) from a supply source (5) of the liquid fuel (6) to a gas generator (3) which converts the liquid fuel (6) to flammable gas (7) and from which a flammable-gas supply passage (8) is conducted, the flammable-gas supply passage (8) having a flammable-gas outlet (9) communicated with an exhaust-gas route (1) upstream of a diesel-particulate-filter (2), the flammable gas (7) flowed out of the flammable-gas outlet (9) being burnt in exhaust gas (10) to generate combustion heat which can burn fine particles of the exhaust gas (10) remaining at the filter (2). In this exhaust device for a diesel engine, a case (11) for containing the filter (2) accommodates at least part of the gas generator (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro AKETA, Shuichi YAMADA, Toshio NAKAHIRA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Katsushi INOUE
  • Patent number: 7275526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-cylinder engine capable of inhibiting an EGR cooler from being damaged and at the same time making the EGR cooler compact. On the assumption that a direction where a crank shaft spans is taken as a front and rear direction and a widthwise direction of a cylinder head perpendicular to this front and rear direction is deemed as a lateral direction, an intake-air distributing passage wall is attached to one lateral side surface of the cylinder head and an exhaust-gas converging passage wall ached to the other lateral side of the cylinder head, the exhaust-gas converging passage wall having an interior area communicated with an interior area of the intake-air distributing passage wall through the EGR cooler. In this multi-cylinder engine, an intake-air inlet pipe is made to stand up at an upper portion of the intake air distributing passage wall and the EGR cooler is above the intake-air distributing passage wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugimoto, Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Yukimasa Kabe, Shuichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070068497
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-cylinder engine capable of inhibiting an EGR cooler from being damaged and at the same time making the EGR cooler compact. On the assumption that a direction where a crank shaft spans is taken as a front and rear direction and a widthwise direction of a cylinder head (2) perpendicular to this front and rear direction is deemed as a lateral direction, an intake-air distributing passage wall (3) is attached to one lateral side surface of the cylinder head (2) and an exhaust-gas converging passage wall (4) is attached to the other lateral side of the cylinder head (2), the exhaust-gas converging passage wall (4) having an interior area communicated with an interior area of the intake-air distributing passage wall (3) through the EGR cooler (6). In this multi-cylinder engine, an intake-air inlet pipe (5) is made to stand up at an upper portion of the intake-air distributing passage wall (3) and the EGR cooler (6) spans above the intake-air distributing passage wall (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugimoto, Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Yukimasa Kabe, Shuichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7047929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an engine and a method for producing the engine. The engine is constructed as follows. The engine interlockingly operates a pump (39, 139) for feeding fuel under pressure, by power of a crank shaft (1). A pair of gears (32a) and (32b) are arranged to be attached to a gear attaching shaft (32). The paired gears (32a) and (32b) are attached to the gear attaching shaft (32). At least one gear (32a) of the paired gears (32a) and (32b) constitutes a gear train (14, 114) through which the power of the crank shaft (1) is transmitted to the pump (39, 139). The method for producing the engine is constructed as follows. The method uses a common part for each of the gear trains (14) and (114) so as to produce engines of an injection pump specification and a common rail specification and alternatively manufactures the gear trains (14) and (114) through the common part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda
  • Patent number: 7044088
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder engine comprises a cylinder block (1) provided with a side water passage (3) oriented in a front and rear direction and passing by each of cylinder walls 12 so as to introduce cooling water from a radiator into a cylinder jacket 4 laterally through the side water passage (3). The side water passage (3) has front and rear end portions provided with front and rear openings (3a), (3b) which communicate the side water passage (3) with a water pump (10). Thus even if the water pump (10) is arranged at either of the front and rear end portions, the opening of the side water passage 3 near the end portion where the water pump (10) is arranged can communicate the side water passage (3) with the water pump (10). And a method for alternatively producing multi-cylinder engines, uses the cylinder block (1) as a common part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Patent number: 6971363
    Abstract: The present invention relates to such an engine as mentioned below. The engine comprises a belt transmission device (2) which interlockingly operates a cooling fan (1) and a timing transmission device (4) which interlockingly actuates a fuel injection pump (3). The belt transmission device (2) and the timing transmission device (4) are dividedly arranged at a front end and a rear end of a cylinder block (6), respectively. The fuel injection pump (3) is arranged on one horizontal side of the cylinder block (6) and a belt tensioner (7) of the belt transmission device (2) is disposed in front of the fuel injection pump (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Akira Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 6962131
    Abstract: A water cooling device of a vertical multi-cylinder engine includes a cylinder block (1) one side wall of which is provided with a side water passage (3) running along a longitudinal direction of the cylinder block (1). The cylinder block (1) has an interior area provided with a cylinder jacket (4). Cooling water from a radiator is introduced into the cylinder jacket (4) through the side water passage (3). The side water passage (3) has an outlet (5) toward a lower portion of the cylinder jacket (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Shigeyoshi Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20040187807
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder engine comprises a cylinder block (1) provided with a side water passage (3) oriented in a front and rear direction and passing by each of cylinder walls 12 so as to introduce cooling water from a radiator into a cylinder jacket 4 laterally through the side water passage (3). The side water passage (3) has front and rear end portions provided with front and rear openings (3a), (3b) which communicate the side water passage (3) with a water pump (10). Thus even if the water pump (10) is arranged at either of the front and rear end portions, the opening of the side water passage 3 near the end portion where the water pump (10) is arranged can communicate the side water passage (3) with the water pump (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Publication number: 20040159303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an engine and a method for producing the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Applicant: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda
  • Patent number: D529513
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Patent number: D494191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Patent number: D499741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Patent number: D619149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga
  • Patent number: D649978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda, Hiroyuki Anami
  • Patent number: D719977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Wataru Iwanaga, Yuzo Umeda, Hiroyuki Anami