Patents by Inventor Shinichi Tanba

Shinichi Tanba 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: 8240737
    Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided in front of and below the stationary bottom plate. The shared linkage mechanism also holds the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is above the stationary bottom plate and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned over the leg room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Takaya, Masafumi Inoue, Shinichi Tanba, Daisuke Takagi, Masahiro Koga, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Takao Kawabata, Dave Reinke
  • Publication number: 20110148146
    Abstract: The present invention is a pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided on the front lower side of the stationary bottom plate, and also for holding the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is placed out of the upper side of the leg room and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned on the upper side of the leg room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKAYA, Masafumi Inoue, Shinichi Tanba, Daisuke Takagi, Masahiro Koga, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Takao Kawabata, Dave Reinke
  • Patent number: 7363885
    Abstract: A combustion engine according to the present invention has a unitary fan-pulley assembly (F), in which a cooling fan (8) and a starter pulley (9) are formed integrally with each other. The cooling fan (8) is fixed to a crankshaft (1). The pulley (9) receives a starting force when engaged with engagement pawls 14b integral with a recoil starter (14). A bracket (11) is fixedly mounted on the crankshaft (1) together with the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F) for urging engagement grooves (92), each defined between neighboring engagement projections (91) of the starter pulley (9), in an axial direction of the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitomi Miyake, Shinichi Tanba, Ichiro Uemura, Tetsuhiro Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20060288970
    Abstract: A combustion engine according to the present invention has a unitary fan-pulley assembly (F), in which a cooling fan (8) and a starter pulley (9) are formed integrally with each other. The cooling fan (8) is fixed to a crankshaft (1). The pulley (9) receives a starting force when engaged with engagement pawls 14b integral with a recoil starter (14). A bracket (11) is fixedly mounted on the crankshaft (1) together with the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F) for urging engagement grooves (92), each defined between neighboring engagement projections (91) of the starter pulley (9), in an axial direction of the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Hitomi Miyake, Shinichi Tanba, Ichiro Uemura, Tetsuhiro Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 5970933
    Abstract: A valve structure is disclosed which is mechanically simple and is suited for use in an overhead-valve engine having a hemi-spherical combustion chamber. In the valve structure, inlet valve 3 and exhaust valve 2 are positioned in such a manner that they incline substantially like a "V" in front view to form an acute angle therebetween. Positioned on a first inclined plane U1 are the longitudinal center lines 2a, 4a and 1a of the inlet valve 2, the associated push rod 4 and the associated rocker arm 1, which connects these, respectively. Positioned on a second inclined plane U2 are the longitudinal center lines 3a, 4a and 1a of the exhaust valve 3, the associated push rod 4 and the associated rocker arm 1, which connects these, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Ueda, Tetsuhiro Yamakawa, Shinichi Tanba, Ichirou Uemura, Atsuhiro Yoshimatsu
  • Patent number: D392647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Ueda, Tetsuhiro Yamakawa, Shinichi Tanba, Ichiro Uemura, Atsuhiro Yoshimatsu, Keisuke Tomonaga