Patents by Inventor Sunao Chikamori

Sunao Chikamori 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: 4846496
    Abstract: Wheel suspension units each having fluid spring chambers are arranged in a vehicle suspension apparatus. A roll control quantity determined in accordance with the relationship between a vehicle velocity and a steering angular velocity, i.e., inlet solenoid valves and exhaust solenoid valves, are controlled in accordance with a solenoid ON/OFF time, thereby controlling the roll of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Shinichi Takeuchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 4730843
    Abstract: Wheel suspension units each having fluid spring chambers are arranged in a vehicle suspension apparatus. A roll control quantity determined in accordance with the relationship between a vehicle velocity and a steering angular velocity, i.e., inlet solenoid valves and exhaust solenoid valves, are controlled in accordance with a solenoid ON/OFF time, thereby controlling the roll of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Shinichi Takeuchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 4700933
    Abstract: A casing accommodating a liquid is divided by a partitioning member into two sections. The partitioning member is secured to either an engine or vehicle body,and the walls of the two sections facing the partitioning member are secured to the enging or vehicle body, to which the partitioning member is not secured. The partitioning member is provided with an orifice mechanism which can vary the state of communication between the two sections. When the engine is going to roll, the orifice mechanism is controlled to restrict the communication between the two sections to increase the damping force, whereby the rolling of the engine is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sunao Chikamori, Hideyuki Iwata
  • Patent number: 4640526
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension apparatus including suspension units each provided for each wheel and having an air spring chamber is disclosed, in which rolling control and vehicle height control are done through control of air to and from the air spring chambers. The driving of a reservoir tank for storing compressed air to be supplied to the air spring chambers, is inhibited until the engine operation has been stabilized after the start of the engine preset level. In this way, the problems in the engine lubrication and idling are solved, and the defficiencies of the starting property of the engine are overcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe, Shozo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 4639014
    Abstract: The characteristic of the suspension is held to be a soft one when the vehicle is running along a flat surface, while it is automatically switched by the switch unit to a hard one when the cycle period T of vertical vibration of the vehicle height becomes near the cycle of the natural vibration of sprung mass of the suspension at the time of running along a road having an irregular surface or jumping a projection, thereby suppressing the resonance of the vehicle body due to external force applied from the road to improve the comfortability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe, Shozo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 4625992
    Abstract: A suspension apparatus has suspension units which have individual fluid spring chambers and are arranged on the wheels. When a detected negative acceleration (deceleration) exceeds a reference negative deceleration, front wheel fluid supply valves are opened for a control time T to supply a predetermined amount of fluid to the front wheel spring chambers and rear wheel fluid extent valves are opened for the control time T to exhaust a predetermined amount of fluid from the rear wheel fluid spring chambers, thereby decreasing nose dive at the time of deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Shinichi Takeuchi, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 4625994
    Abstract: A suspension apparatus has suspension units mounted on wheels and each unit has a fluid spring chamber. Fluid is supplied to contracted fluid spring chambers and is exhausted from elongated fluid spring chambers to control the change in position of the vehicle. In the position control mode, a large-diameter path is selected to supply or exhaust a large amount of compressed fluid. In the height control mode, a small-diameter path is selected to supply or exhaust a small amount of compressed fluid. The required amounts of compressed fluid can be supplied to the fluid spring chambers in both the position and height control modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Shinichi Takeuchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 4624476
    Abstract: Wheel suspension units each having fluid spring chambers are arranged in a vehicle suspension apparatus. A roll control quantity, determined in accordance with the relationship between a vehicle velocity and a steering angle, i.e., inlet solenoid valves and exhaust solenoid valves are controlled in accordance with solenoid ON/OFF time, thereby controlling rolling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Shinichi Takeuchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 4605244
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension apparatus including suspension units each provided for each wheel and having an air spring chamber is disclosed. When steering wheel is quickly returned toward the center position at the time of a slalom running, it is detected from the steering angular velocity and vehicle velocity that the vehicle body has begun to be returned to a neutral state, and communication control valves are opened before the reaching of the center position, i.e., before the steering angle reaches an insensitive range. Rolling control thus can be improved without delay in the restoration of the position of the vehicle body even at the time of a high speed slalom running, at which time the steering wheel is repeatedly operated quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe, Shozo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 4602805
    Abstract: The front wheel exhaust valves and the rear wheel supply valves are opened for a predetermined period of time when rapid acceleration of the vehicle is detected by the accelerator pedal sensor and the gear position sensor, the absolute value of change in vehicle position and its velocity can be properly controlled. Therefore, comfort and steering stability can be improved as compared with vehicles mounting of the conventional apparatus. In addition, since an acceleration state is detected by the gear position sensor as well as the accelerator pedal sensor, rapid acceleration of the vehicle can be accurately detected, thereby preventing unnecessary position control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Sunao Chikamori, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Masanaga Suzumura, Minoru Tatemoto, Naotake Kumagai, Hiroki Abe