Patents by Inventor Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI

Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI 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: 10995693
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall and a block outer peripheral wall that define a water jacket, and a spacer housed in the water jacket. The block outer peripheral wall includes a coolant inlet for introducing a coolant into the water jacket at one end in a cylinder row direction. The spacer includes a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall, and a dividing wall and a distribution wall provided on the peripheral wall. The dividing wall is provided along a circumferential direction of the peripheral wall and protrudes outward from the peripheral wall between a lower end and an upper end of the coolant inlet. The distribution wall includes an upper distribution wall extending upward from the dividing wall and a lower distribution wall extending downward from the dividing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Tatsuya Takahata, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Keita Watanabe, Mikimasa Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10934968
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Tatsuya Takahata, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Keita Watanabe, Mikimasa Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10738730
    Abstract: A head-side jacket through which coolant flows is formed in a cylinder head. A main circulation path and a sub circulation path through which coolant fed from a coolant pump respectively circulates are formed. The head-side jacket is separated into an exhaust-port side jacket formed around an exhaust port, and a combustion-chamber-side jacket closer to a combustion chamber than the exhaust-port-side jacket. A heat exchanger is not formed in the main circulation path including the combustion-chamber-side jacket, but is formed in the sub circulation path excluding the combustion-chamber-side jacket and including the exhaust-port-side jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryotaro Nishida, Tomohiro Koguchi, Mikimasa Kawaguchi, Yuichi Ayukawa, Tatsuya Takahata, Takayuki Tominaga, Shinji Watanabe, Keita Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200232413
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200232412
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall and a block outer peripheral wall that define a water jacket, and a spacer housed in the water jacket. The block outer peripheral wall includes a coolant inlet for introducing a coolant into the water jacket at one end in a cylinder row direction. The spacer includes a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall, and a dividing wall and a distribution wall provided on the peripheral wall. The dividing wall is provided along a circumferential direction of the peripheral wall and protrudes outward from the peripheral wall between a lower end and an upper end of the coolant inlet. The distribution wall includes an upper distribution wall extending upward from the dividing wall and a lower distribution wall extending downward from the dividing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190040815
    Abstract: A head-side jacket through which coolant flows is formed in a cylinder head. A main circulation path and a sub circulation path through which coolant fed from a coolant pump respectively circulates are formed. The head-side jacket is separated into an exhaust-port side jacket formed around an exhaust port, and a combustion-chamber-side jacket closer to a combustion chamber than the exhaust-port-side jacket. A heat exchanger is not formed in the main circulation path including the combustion-chamber-side jacket, but is formed in the sub circulation path excluding the combustion-chamber-side jacket and including the exhaust-port-side jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ryotaro Nishida, Tomohiro Koguchi, Mikimasa Kawaguchi, Yuichi Ayukawa, Tatsuya Takahata, Takayuki Tominaga, Shinji Watanabe, Keita Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10156180
    Abstract: A cooling structure includes a block-side water jacket formed in a cylinder block, a head-side water jacket formed in a cylinder head, an introducing portion which introduces a cooling liquid from an end of the cylinder block to the block-side water jacket, a discharging portion which discharges a cooling liquid from the other end of the cylinder block to the head-side water jacket, and a spacer member accommodated in the block-side water jacket, and including a peripheral wall which forms an exhaust-side passage and an intake-side passage between a cylinder bore wall and the peripheral wall. The spacer member includes a distribution adjustment mechanism which distributes a cooling liquid introduced to the block-side water jacket between the exhaust-side passage and the intake-side passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Wakamoto, Mikimasa Kawaguchi, Tomohiro Koguchi
  • Publication number: 20170175611
    Abstract: A cooling structure includes a block-side water jacket formed in a cylinder block, a head-side water jacket formed in a cylinder head, an introducing portion which introduces a cooling liquid from an end of the cylinder block to the block-side water jacket, a discharging portion which discharges a cooling liquid from the other end of the cylinder block to the head-side water jacket, and a spacer member accommodated in the block-side water jacket, and including a peripheral wall which forms an exhaust-side passage and an intake-side passage between a cylinder bore wall and the peripheral wall. The spacer member includes a distribution adjustment mechanism which distributes a cooling liquid introduced to the block-side water jacket between the exhaust-side passage and the intake-side passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji WAKAMOTO, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI, Tomohiro KOGUCHI