Patents by Inventor Takanori Kawazu

Takanori Kawazu 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: 8429895
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: an exhaust heat collector, in which exhaust gas exchanges heat with engine coolant, that heats the engine coolant; an EGR mechanism that recirculates a part of the exhaust gas to an intake passage through an EGR passage that branches from an exhaust passage; and an EGR cooler that cools the exhaust gas flowing through the EGR passage through heat exchange with the engine coolant supplied from the exhaust heat collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanori Kawazu, Toshihiro Kawai, Kiyoshi Naiki, Takashi Tsukiyama
  • Patent number: 8011352
    Abstract: A gas introducing structure of an intake path includes a gas introducing path introducing a gas into an intake airflow in the intake path of an internal combustion engine, wherein an inner peripheral surface of the gas introducing path is made of a bottom surface appearing as a straight line at a lower side of a perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface and a curved wall surface appearing as a convex curved line, connecting with each end of the straight line at an angle, at an upper side of the perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumihiro Shinkai, Koichi Maruyama, Toshihiro Kawai, Kiyoshi Naiki, Takanori Kawazu, Takeshi Murakami, Takashi Tsukiyama
  • Patent number: 7975677
    Abstract: A gas introducing structure of an intake path includes a gas introducing path introducing a gas into an intake airflow in the intake path of an internal combustion engine, wherein an inner peripheral surface of the gas introducing path is made of a bottom surface appearing as a straight line at a lower side of a perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface and a curved wall surface appearing as a convex curved line, connecting with each end of the straight line at an angle, at an upper side of the perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumihiro Shinkai, Koichi Maruyama, Toshihiro Kawai, Kiyoshi Naiki, Takanori Kawazu, Takeshi Murakami, Takashi Tsukiyama
  • Publication number: 20100242452
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: an exhaust heat collector, in which exhaust gas exchanges heat with engine coolant, that heats the engine coolant; an EGR mechanism that recirculates a part of the exhaust gas to an intake passage through an EGR passage that branches from an exhaust passage; and an EGR cooler that cools the exhaust gas flowing through the EGR passage through heat exchange with the engine coolant supplied from the exhaust heat collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori Kawazu, Toshihiro Kawai, Kiyoshi Naiki, Takashi Tsukiyama
  • Publication number: 20090235878
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a cooling water path that extends in the direction of a row of cylinders is provided between left and right banks. A communication port that communicates with a discharge port of the water pump is provided at a position on the front side between the left and right banks in the direction of the row of cylinders, and first to third and fourth to sixth introduction ports that introduce cooling water to a water jacket of the left and right banks of the cylinder block from the rear side in the direction of the row of cylinders, are formed in the cooling water path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tooru Kitamura, Kouichi Hiratsuka, Takanori Kawazu, Satoshi Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20090223476
    Abstract: A gas introducing structure of an intake path includes a gas introducing path introducing a gas into an intake airflow in the intake path of an internal combustion engine, wherein an inner peripheral surface of the gas introducing path is made of a bottom surface appearing as a straight line at a lower side of a perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface and a curved wall surface appearing as a convex curved line, connecting with each end of the straight line at an angle, at an upper side of the perpendicular cross section of the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Fumihiro Shinkai, Koichi Maruyama, Toshihiro Kawai, Kiyoshi Naiki, Takanori Kawazu, Takeshi Murakami, Takashi Tsukiyama