Patents by Inventor Ryuji Tsuchiya

Ryuji Tsuchiya 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).

  • Publication number: 20170089237
    Abstract: A breather chamber structure for an internal combustion engine wherein the breather chamber can be disposed compactly and the degree of freedom in the layout of the parts of the internal combustion engine can be raised. The breather chamber structure includes a crankcase, a cylinder body provided upwardly on the crankcase, and a breather chamber configured to separate oil from oil mist in the crankcase. The breather chamber includes a crankcase side breather chamber provided in the crankcase and open to a joining plane between the crankcase and the cylinder body, and a cylinder side breather chamber provided in the cylinder body and open to the joining plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka INOMOTO, Koji KOBAYASHI, Masazumi NAITO, Keita SHIGEMATSU, Ryuji TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20170023201
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting device for vehicle includes a socket including a base portion, and a first protrusion portion which protrudes from one face of the base portion; and a light emitting module which is provided at the first protrusion portion, and includes a light emitting element. The socket contains a heat conductive resin of which heat conductivity is 7 W/(m•K) or more and 11 W/(m•K) or less. When a maximum dimension of the base portion in a direction orthogonal to a center axis of the lighting device for vehicle is set to A1 (mm), a maximum dimension of the first protrusion portion in a direction orthogonal to the center axis is set to A2 (mm), and power which is applied to the light emitting module is set to W (watt), (A1-A2)/W becomes 1.0 (mm/W) or more and 6.5 (mm/W) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Hino, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Toshihiro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 9512981
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a luminaire including a light-emitting element and a cover provided on an irradiation side of the light-emitting element. The cover includes a first light transmitting section provided on the center side of the cover and a second light transmitting section provided at the peripheral edge of the first light transmitting section and having light transmittance higher than the light transmittance of the first light transmitting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Tsuchiya, Youhei Matsuda, Junichiro Yamamoto, Kazufumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9409514
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes: a light emitting section that has a light emitting element and a switch for controlling a lighting state of the light emitting element; a housing that stores the light emitting section and has one end section which is open; a translucent cover that covers the opening of the housing; and a frame that is provided between the housing and the cover. The frame includes an edge section that presents a frame shape and a holding section having one end provided in the edge section and the other end protruding from the edge section. The holding section holds an operation section operating the switch and is exposed from the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Shiraishi, Yohei Matsuda, Ryuji Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9291326
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes a light emitting unit, a holding unit, a light guide, a cover and an attachment unit. The light emitting unit has one or more light emitting elements. The holding unit holds the light emitting unit. The light guide guides light emitted from the light emitting unit and emits the light from a tip which is on a tip side opposite to a light emitting unit side. The cover has a first fixation unit to be fixed to the holding unit and a second fixation unit which has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first fixation unit and internally fixes the light guide thereto in a state of exposing the tip. The attachment unit is formed in the second fixation unit in a shape attachable to a reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kosugi, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Toshihiro Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20160061424
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting device for a moving body includes a substrate that has a base body having a plurality of connection sections on a side surface and a wiring pattern provided on at least one main surface of the base body; a light emitting element that is electrically connected to the wiring pattern; and an adhesive section that is provided between the base body and a body section. The connection sections are at least one of groove sections, concave sections, and convex sections. The adhesive section covers at least a part of the plurality of connection sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Kiyokazu Hino, Hiromitsu Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20160061404
    Abstract: A lighting device according to an embodiment includes a socket unit, a light emitting unit, and a lid unit. The light emitting unit is provided in an accommodation unit of the socket unit, and includes a light emitting element. The lid unit closes the accommodation unit of the socket unit, and is formed with an opening portion which causes light radiated from the light emitting element to pass through. An end face of the light emitting unit on the opening portion side overlaps with the opening portion in the thickness direction of the lid unit, and is located on the light emitting unit side rather than an end face of the lid unit on a side opposite to the light emitting unit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke KOSUGI, Ryuji TSUCHIYA, Toshihiro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150285470
    Abstract: A light emitting device according to an embodiment includes: a main body section; a light emitting section provided in the main body section and including a light emitting element; a cover provided on a side of the main body section where the light emitting section is provided; and an adhesive section provided between the main body section and the cover in a part of a region on the side of the main body section where the light emitting section is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Mizoguchi, Daisuke Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20150274070
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle interior lighting device including a plurality of light-emitting elements, a switch for switching an ON mode for lighting at least a part of the plurality of light-emitting elements and a DOOR mode for lighting at least a part of the plurality of light-emitting elements when a door of a vehicle is in an open state and extinguishing the plurality of light-emitting elements when doors of the vehicle are in a closed state, and a control section configured to control light-emitting states of the plurality of light-emitting elements to set an amount of light in the DOOR mode to be more than an amount of light in the ON mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Shiraishi, Masamitsu Nagano, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Yohei Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150062942
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a lighting device includes: a light emitting section that has a light emitting element and a switch for controlling a lighting state of the light emitting element; a housing that stores the light emitting section and of which one end section is open; a cover that covers the opening of the housing and has translucency; and a frame that is provided between the housing and the cover. The frame includes an edge section that presents a frame shape and a holding section of which one end is provided in the edge section and the other end protrudes from the edge section, and which holds an operation section operating the switch and is exposed from the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Shiraishi, Yohei Matsuda, Ryuji Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20150009705
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a light emitting device includes: a light emitting section that has a light emitting element; a wavelength conversion section that absorbs light radiated from the light emitting section and emits the light having a wavelength different from that of the light radiated from the light emitting section; and a light guide section that is provided between the light emitting section and the wavelength conversion section and to propagate the light radiated from the light emitting section, and includes a first irradiation surface which radiates the propagated light toward a position in which the wavelength conversion section is provided, and a second irradiation surface which radiates the propagated light toward a position different from the position in which the wavelength conversion section is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuji Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140369049
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a luminaire including a light-emitting element and a cover provided on an irradiation side of the light-emitting element. The cover includes a first light transmitting section provided on the center side of the cover and a second light transmitting section provided at the peripheral edge of the first light transmitting section and having light transmittance higher than the light transmittance of the first light transmitting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Tsuchiya, Youhei Matsuda, Junichiro Yamamoto, Kazufumi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140334172
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device according to embodiments includes a light emitting unit, a holding unit, a light guide, a cover and an attachment unit. The light emitting unit has one or more light emitting elements. The holding unit holds the light emitting unit. The light guide guides light emitted from the light emitting unit and emits the light from a tip which is an opposite side to the light emitting unit side. The cover has a first fixation unit to be fixed to the holding unit and a second fixation unit which has a diameter smaller than that of the first fixation unit and internally fixes the light guide thereto in a state of exposing the tip. The attachment unit attaches the vehicle lighting device to a light emitting object (lamp) to which the light guided from the light guide is emitted, and is formed in the second fixation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kosugi, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Toshihiro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 8840496
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cooling air intake structure for a V-belt drive continuously variable transmission, which is disposed beside the rear wheel of a small vehicle and which does not permit muddy water and dust to enter therein. A cooling air inlet through which cooling air is taken in is formed at a position beside a transmission case and above a cooling fan side opening formed in the transmission case opposite to a drive pulley. A cooling air passage extending from the cooling air inlet to the side opening is formed so as to surround the side opening. Cooling air taken in through the cooling air inlet is guided so as to flow upward first and then flows downward along a U-shaped cooling air passage to the side opening of the transmission case beside the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhide Yamanishi, Hirokazu Komuro, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Horii, Hideo Kashima
  • Patent number: 8671892
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radiator cooling structure for cooling a radiator of a water-cooled power unit mounted on a small vehicle and disposed on a laterally outer side of the small vehicle, which radiator cooling structure improves the efficiency of cooling an internal combustion engine by using a head wind. The radiator is provided with a radiator cover having a louver for guiding cooling air to the radiator. The louver is formed such that a rear part thereof is more protruded laterally outward than a front part thereof. The louver of the radiator cover has parallel slats tilting forward, and a lower body cover is provided with a cooling air intake opening capable of guiding a head wind toward the louver positioned obliquely above and rearward of the cooling air intake opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhide Yamanishi, Nobutaka Horii, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Kiyotaka Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20120289370
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cooling air intake structure for a V-belt drive continuously variable transmission, which is disposed beside the rear wheel of a small vehicle and which does not permit muddy water and dust to enter therein. A cooling air inlet through which cooling air is taken in is formed at a position beside a transmission case and above a cooling fan side opening formed in the transmission case opposite to a drive pulley. A cooling air passage extending from the cooling air inlet to the side opening is formed so as to surround the side opening. Cooling air taken in through the cooling air inlet is guided so as to flow upward first and then flows downward along a U-shaped cooling air passage to the side opening of the transmission case beside the cooling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruhide Yamanishi, Hirokazu Komuro, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Horii, Hideo Kashima
  • Patent number: 8276553
    Abstract: A water pump attachment structure of a water-cooled internal combustion engine is provided to facilitate the maintenance of a valve train. A water pump attachment structure of a water-cooled internal combustion engine includes a semicircular cut-away surface of a water pump holder opposed to a semicircular surface of a cylinder head to form a water pump support circular hole. Screw members are passed through respective screw through-holes of the cylinder head and threadedly engaged with internal thread holes of the water pump holder. Thus, the water pump holder is fastened to the cylinder head. A water pump is fitted into and secured to the water pump support circular hole. A cylinder head cover is attached to the cylinder head by allowing their mating surfaces to conform with each other with the water pump holder liquid-tightly sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhide Yamanishi, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Kenji Oki, Yutaka Miyake
  • Publication number: 20120216984
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radiator cooling structure for cooling a radiator of a water-cooled power unit mounted on a small vehicle and disposed on a laterally outer side of the small vehicle, which radiator cooling structure improves the efficiency of cooling an internal combustion engine by using a head wind. The radiator is provided with a radiator cover having a louver for guiding cooling air to the radiator. The louver is formed such that a rear part thereof is more protruded laterally outward than a front part thereof. The louver of the radiator cover has parallel slats tilting forward, and a lower body cover is provided with a cooling air intake opening capable of guiding a head wind toward the louver positioned obliquely above and rearward of the cooling air intake opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruhide Yamanishi, Nobutaka Horii, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Kiyotaka Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20120199087
    Abstract: A rocker arm arranged between a camshaft and a valve which opens/closes an intake port or an exhaust port. A rolling bearing for supporting a support hole formed in a rocker arm is of a type of bearing wherein a plurality of needles are mounted on an inner side of an outer peripheral shell, and the outer peripheral shell is fixed to the support hole, the cam follower includes an outer ring which is supported on a periphery of a cam follower shaft which is held by a pair of left and right arm portions of the rocker arm by way of a plurality of rollers, a position of the outer ring and a position of the rollers in the lateral direction are restricted by the arm portion, and an outer diameter of the outer ring is set equal to or less than an inner diameter of the support hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Ryuji TSUCHIYA, Nobutaka HORII
  • Publication number: 20120177310
    Abstract: A crankshaft support structure including a bushing which allows a bearing member to be held firmly on a crankcase, the bearing member supporting a crankshaft rotatably on the crankcase wherein the holding strength of the crankcase for the bushing needs to be increased. The crankcase needs to have a lighter weight and the thermal expansion of the crankcase needs to be prevented from affecting a bearing. An outer circumferential surface of the bushing which is insert-cast in the crankcase has a cylindrical shape, and many small protrusions each having a constricted portion are formed on the outer circumferential surface. Accordingly, the holding strength of the crankcase for the bushing is increased, allowing a small thickness of a bushing holding portion of the crankcase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Ryuji TSUCHIYA, Yutaka INOMOTO, Kayoko YAMAZAKI