Patents by Inventor Motoyuki Sakurai

Motoyuki Sakurai 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: 8147371
    Abstract: A differential gear has a simple structure, is able to produce a difference of differential limiting force between a driving operation of a vehicle in which the differential gear is installed and a coasting operation of the vehicle, secures the strength of a thrust bearing adopted for the differential gear, and provides a stabilized differential limiting force, in the driving operation, helical side gears receive thrusting forces acting away from each other, the differential case has inward support faces to axially support the helical side gears, the helical side gear has an annular inward counter face and an annular outward counter face on the inner circumferential side of opposite ends of a teeth area, and between the inward counter faces, there is a thrust bearing having a plurality of circumferentially arranged rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Torque Technology KK
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Masahiko Asahi, Motoyuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20090105032
    Abstract: A differential gear has a simple structure, is able to produce a difference of differential limiting force between a driving operation of a vehicle in which the differential gear is installed and a coasting operation of the vehicle, secures the strength of a thrust bearing adopted for the differential gear, and provides a stabilized differential limiting force, in the driving operation, helical side gears receive thrusting forces acting away from each other, the differential case has inward support faces to axially support the helical side gears, the helical side gear has an annular inward counter face and an annular outward counter face on the inner circumferential side of opposite ends of a teeth area, and between the inward counter faces, there is a thrust bearing having a plurality of circumferentially arranged rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: GKN Driveline Torque Technology KK
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Masahiko Asahi, Motoyuki Sakurai