Patents by Inventor Seiichiro Komatsu

Seiichiro Komatsu 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: 10330170
    Abstract: A rod guide includes a housing portion and a depressed portion formed toward an outer periphery from a starting point located apart from a piston rod by ½ or more of a distance in an axial direction between a bottom surface of the housing portion and a flat portion of an oil seal in a radial direction closest to the piston rod, and a bush is disposed to be flush with the bottom surface or disposed to project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: KYB CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohito Kato, Seiichiro Komatsu, Yuusuke Furuta, Hirofumi Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20170350464
    Abstract: A rod guide includes a housing portion and a depressed portion formed toward an outer periphery from a starting point located apart from a piston rod by ½ or more of a distance in an axial direction between a bottom surface of the housing portion and a flat portion of an oil seal in a radial direction closest to the piston rod, and a bush is disposed to be flush with the bottom surface or disposed to project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Hirohito KATO, Seiichiro KOMATSU, Yuusuke FURUTA, Hirofumi MORINAGA
  • Patent number: 9644703
    Abstract: A shock absorber includes a damping passage that connects an expanding-side chamber with a contracting-side chamber inside a cylinder, a housing that forms a pressurizing chamber, a free piston that partitions the pressurizing chamber into an expanding-side pressurizing chamber and a contracting-side pressurizing chamber, an expanding-side passage that connects the expanding-side chamber with the expanding-side pressurizing chamber, a contracting-side passage that connects the contracting-side chamber with the contracting-side pressurizing chamber, a spring element configured to suppress displacement of the free piston, a cushion configured to collide with the free piston to suppress displacement of the free piston thereover when the free piston is displaced from the neutral position with respect to the housing by a predetermined displacement amount or more; and a cushion fixing member fixed to the housing, the cushion fixing member holding the cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Komatsu, Tetsuo Arahata, Yuusuke Furuta, Hirohito Kato
  • Publication number: 20150354660
    Abstract: A shock absorber includes a damping passage that connects an expanding-side chamber with a contracting-side chamber inside a cylinder, a housing that forms a pressurizing chamber, a free piston that partitions the pressurizing chamber into an expanding-side pressurizing chamber and a contracting-side pressurizing chamber, an expanding-side passage that connects the expanding-side chamber with the expanding-side pressurizing chamber, a contracting-side passage that connects the contracting-side chamber with the contracting-side pressurizing chamber, a spring element configured to suppress displacement of the free piston, a cushion configured to collide with the free piston to suppress displacement of the free piston thereover when the free piston is displaced from the neutral position with respect to the housing by a predetermined displacement amount or more; and a cushion fixing member fixed to the housing, the cushion fixing member holding the cushion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Seiichiro KOMATSU, Tetsuo ARAHATA, Yuusuke FURUTA, Hirohito KATO
  • Patent number: 5988655
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a vehicular height adjusting device capable of diminishing a shock caused by a sudden change in pressure of an accumulator oil chamber at the time of adjusting the vehicular height to adjust the vehicular height in a gentle manner and capable of diminishing a beat noise of an opening/closing valve generated by the vehicular height adjusting operation, thereby improving the comfortableness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Kayaba Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shizuka Sakai, Seiichiro Komatsu