Patents by Inventor Masami Kosuge
Masami Kosuge 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: 6974156Abstract: A fuel tank structure for a vehicle using gaseous fuel, has a plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies communicating from one another. The plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies are disposed at a fuel tank mount portion in a state of being adjoined from one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Mitsuo Sugiyama, Mitsuru Sayama, Morio Kuroki, Nagatsugu Mukaibo, Hiroshi Ogasa
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Patent number: 6820882Abstract: A vehicle rear body structure has left and right gussets for coupling left and right damper mounting portions and a floor cross member. The left and right damper portions serve as component parts on which left and right dampers are mounted to mitigate impacts transmitted from left and right rear wheels and hence is required to have increased strength. The left and right damper mounting portions are coupled to the floor cross member with high rigidity via the left and right gussets and are so reinforced.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masami Kosuge
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Patent number: 6672639Abstract: A vehicle rear body structure is disclosed having a flat portion formed on a rear floor panel, a bottom portion of a spare tire resting concave portion lower in height than the flat portion, and a front wall connecting the flat portion and the bottom portion to one another and sloped downwardly rearwardly. A front wall reinforcing member for reinforcing the front wall is mounted along an inclined surface of the front wall. The front wall reinforcing member limits deformation of the front wall by guiding the spare tire along the inclined surface when the spare tire is moved forward. As a result, a distance between the front wall and a fuel tank disposed below the front wall and the flat portion is reduced for thereby enabling the fuel tank to have an increased volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Hiroshi Ito, Hiroyuki Isayama, Takenobu Haga
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Publication number: 20030178422Abstract: A fuel tank structure for a vehicle using gaseous fuel, has a plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies communicating from one another. The plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies are disposed at a fuel tank mount portion in a state of being adjoined from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masami Kosuge, Mitsuo Sugiyama, Mitsuru Sayama, Morio Kuroki, Nagatsugu Mukaibo, Hiroshi Ogasa
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Publication number: 20030178423Abstract: A fuel tank structure has a plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies (4), a piping (36) arranged to communicate the end portions of the tank main bodies 4 from one another and a block-shaped connector portion (35) provided at the outside of the end portion of the tank main body (4). The piping (36) couples the corresponding connector portions (35) to each other and is entirely disposed to the tank main body side with respect to an end surface of the connector portion (35), which is on the opposite side to the tank main body (4) with respect to the connector portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Sugiyama, Masami Kosuge, Mitsuru Sayama, Morio Kuroki, Nagatsugu Mukaibo
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Patent number: 6568745Abstract: An automobile body structure having a crossbeam connecting left and right center pillars. The crossbeam has a pipe-like beam body and gussets mounted to the opposite ends of the beam body. A load inputted to one of the center pillars is transmitted via the crossbeam to the other center pillar. The inputted load is dispersed through those two center pillars to prevent the center pillar from deformation having received the input load.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Rei Sakamoto, Masakazu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20020185881Abstract: A vehicle rear body structure is disclosed having a flat portion formed on a rear floor panel, a bottom portion of a spare tire resting concave portion lower in height than the flat portion, and a front wall connecting the flat portion and the bottom portion to one another and sloped downwardly rearwardly. A front wall reinforcing member for reinforcing the front wall is mounted along an inclined surface of the front wall. The front wall reinforcing member limits deformation of the front wall by guiding the spare tire along the inclined surface when the spare tire is moved forward. As a result, a distance between the front wall and a fuel tank disposed below the front wall and the flat portion is reduced for thereby enabling the fuel tank to have an increased volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Hiroshi Ito, Hiroyuki Isayama, Takenobu Haga
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Publication number: 20020180244Abstract: An automobile body structure having a crossbeam connecting left and right center pillars. The crossbeam has a pipe-like beam body and gussets mounted to the opposite ends of the beam body. A load inputted to one of the center pillars is transmitted via the crossbeam to the other center pillar. The inputted load is dispersed through those two center pillars to prevent the center pillar having received the input load from deformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Rei Sakamoto, Masakazu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20020180243Abstract: A vehicle rear body structure has left and right gussets for coupling left and right damper mounting portions and a floor cross member. The left and right damper portions serve as component parts on which left and right dampers are mounted to mitigate impacts transmitted from left and right rear wheels and hence is required to have increased strength. The left and right damper mounting portions are coupled to the floor cross member with high rigidity via the left and right gussets and are so reinforced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masami Kosuge
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Patent number: 5567005Abstract: A car frame consisting of right and left side members which are disposed in a longitudinal direction of a car body work and a cross member which is spanned between the side members in a breadth direction of the body work; and a bracket secured to the joint sections of the side members and the cross member. The bracket is connected to the side members and the cross member, and a sub-frame, to which suspensions and others are fitted, is connected to the bracket. A fitting position of the sub-frame is arbitrarily selected for securing the suspensions. Therefore, the position of a nut member for supporting the sub-frame by a rear frame including the cross member can be adjusted and changed. As a result, when different models are produced using the same car body frame, the positions of the suspensions can be changed easily, the same frame can be used for different models, and different types of suspensions can be used while using the same frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kosuge, Satoshi Takemoto, Masami Suzuki