Patents by Inventor Nobuharu MUTOU

Nobuharu MUTOU 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: 9494325
    Abstract: A fuel tank structure comprising a fuel tank; a canister that adsorbs evaporated fuel within the fuel tank, and that releases vapor after adsorption of evaporated fuel; a full tank regulating valve within the fuel tank that becomes a closed state due to a float floating in fuel when a fuel liquid surface reaches a full tank liquid level that is set in advance; a communication pipe that communicates the fuel tank and the canister via the full tank regulating valve, a cross-sectional area varying valve that, when tank internal pressure that is applied from inside of the fuel tank increases, reduces a cross-sectional area of a flow path of vapor that flows toward the float; and a suppressing member that is positioned between the cross-sectional area varying valve and the float, and that suppresses airflow from the cross-sectional area varying valve from directly abutting the float.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Shimokawa, Nobuharu Mutou, Yasuo Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20140230920
    Abstract: A fuel tank structure comprising a fuel tank; a canister that adsorbs evaporated fuel within the fuel tank, and that releases vapor after adsorption of evaporated fuel; a full tank regulating valve within the fuel tank that becomes a closed state due to a float floating in fuel when a fuel liquid surface reaches a full tank liquid level that is set in advance; a communication pipe that communicates the fuel tank and the canister via the full tank regulating valve, a cross-sectional area varying valve that, when tank internal pressure that is applied from inside of the fuel tank increases, reduces a cross-sectional area of a flow path of vapor that flows toward the float; and a suppressing member that is positioned between the cross-sectional area varying valve and the float, and that suppresses airflow from the cross-sectional area varying valve from directly abutting the float.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji SHIMOKAWA, Nobuharu MUTOU, Yasuo AKIMOTO