Patents by Inventor Takefumi Morio

Takefumi Morio 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: 11320011
    Abstract: A caliper for an opposed-piston disc brake, includes a pair of bodies provided at two sides of a rotor that rotates with a wheel, each of the bodies including five cylinders. A central cylinder among the five cylinders provided on each of the bodies, which is surrounded by four of the cylinders, has a center which is located in a region on a radially inner side relative to an outer reference circle and on a radially outer side relative to an inner reference line. The outer reference circle passes through a center of a cylinder provided on a radially outermost side among the four of the cylinders and has a center thereof on a center of the rotor. The inner reference line passes through centers of two of the cylinders provided on a radially inner side among the four of the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takefumi Morio, Ryo Otake, Razif Muhammad Zainudin
  • Patent number: 11162550
    Abstract: A belt-like rib that extends in a peripheral direction is provided to the outer surface, in the axial direction, of an outer body. The inner diameter side sections of the bottoms of outer cylinders at the outer diameter side and the outer diameter side sections of the bottoms of outer cylinders at the inner diameter side, all the cylinders being provided to the outer body so as to be separated into two stages in the radial direction, are covered with the belt-like rib from outside in the axial direction so as to traverse along the peripheral direction. The outer diameter side sections of the bottoms of the outer cylinders at the outer diameter side and the inner diameter side sections of the bottoms of the outer cylinders at the inner diameter side are made to protrude from the belt-like rib in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takefumi Morio
  • Publication number: 20200408266
    Abstract: A caliper for an opposed-piston disc brake, includes a pair of bodies provided at two sides of a rotor that rotates with a wheel, each of the bodies including five cylinders. A central cylinder among the five cylinders provided on each of the bodies, which is surrounded by four of the cylinders, has a center which is located in a region on a radially inner side relative to an outer reference circle and on a radially outer side relative to an inner reference line. The outer reference circle passes through a center of a cylinder provided on a radially outermost side among the four of the cylinders and has a center thereof on a center of the rotor. The inner reference line passes through centers of two of the cylinders provided on a radially inner side among the four of the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takefumi MORIO, Ryo OTAKE, Razif Muhammad ZAINUDIN
  • Publication number: 20190316641
    Abstract: A belt-like rib that extends in a peripheral direction is provided to the outer surface, in the axial direction, of an outer body. The inner diameter side sections of the bottoms of outer cylinders at the outer diameter side and the outer diameter side sections of the bottoms of outer cylinders at the inner diameter side, all the cylinders being provided to the outer body so as to be separated into two stages in the radial direction, are covered with the belt-like rib from outside in the axial direction so as to traverse along the peripheral direction. The outer diameter side sections of the bottoms of the outer cylinders at the outer diameter side and the inner diameter side sections of the bottoms of the outer cylinders at the inner diameter side are made to protrude from the belt-like rib in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takefumi MORIO
  • Publication number: 20180106314
    Abstract: An interior reinforcement body (14) is provide inside a piston (16) so as to continue to an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical wall portion (17) and an inner surface of a bottom wall portion (18). A plurality of reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) which make up a radially outward portion of the interior reinforcement body (14) are not arranged in a radial direction but are arranged so as to be inclined relative to the radial direction. In particular, a pair of circumferentially adjacent reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) are arranged so as to be inclined reversely relative to the radial direction, and radially inward end portions of the pair of reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) are connected together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUZUKI, Takefumi MORIO
  • Patent number: 9746042
    Abstract: In an opposed-piston disc brake caliper, a pair of reinforcement bridge portions, which are inclined relative to an axial direction, are provided on outside of a rotor in a radial direction of the rotor so as to define corner opening portions in an opening portion which is defined by an inner body portion, an outer body portion, and an entry-side connection portion and an exit-side connection portion connecting the inner body portion and the outer body portion. A torque receiving portion of one of the entry-side torque receiving portion and the exit-side torque receiving portion is exposed toward an outside in the radial direction via the corner opening portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takefumi Morio, Tetsuya Noguchi, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Yoshio Totsuka
  • Patent number: 9657794
    Abstract: A composite disc rotor includes a disc main body, a coupling bracket and coupling units. Each of the coupling units includes a bobbin, a clip and a coupling bolt. A head part of the bobbin includes a torque receiving portion inserted in the notch and a projection projected in a circumferential direction from an end of the torque receiving portion. A pipe part of the bobbin is extended from the head part and is fitted in a coupling through hole of the disc main body. The clip includes a connecting portion between the torque receiving portion and the notch and a pressing portion extended from the connecting portion between the head part and the coupling bracket. The coupling bolt is inserted into each of through hole of the bobbin to fix the coupling bracket to the coupling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takefumi Morio, Shinjiro Masuko, Takaaki Sasaki, Tomoki Yachi
  • Publication number: 20160208872
    Abstract: In an opposed-piston disc brake caliper, a pair of reinforcement bridge portions, which are inclined relative to an axial direction, are provided on outside of a rotor in a radial direction of the rotor so as to define corner opening portions in an opening portion which is defined by an inner body portion, an outer body portion, and an entry-side connection portion and an exit-side connection portion connecting the inner body portion and the outer body portion. A torque receiving portion of one of the entry-side torque receiving portion and the exit-side torque receiving portion is exposed toward an outside in the radial direction via the corner opening portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Takefumi MORIO, Tetsuya NOGUCHI, Tsuyoshi SUZUKI, Yoshio TOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 7958976
    Abstract: The pad clip 14d is arranged between pins 12, 12 made to bridge an outer body portion and an inner body portion constituting a caliper and the two pads 10b, 11b. An engaging plate portion 27 is engaged with the respective pins 12, 12 without play. Press pieces 28, 28 formed by folding to bend both end portions in a rotational direction of the engaging plate portion in directions in which the more proximate to the two pads 10b, 11b, the more directed to an outer side in a radial direction are brought into elastic contact with outer peripheral edges of both end portions in a rotational direction of pressure plates 13b, 13b of the two pads 10b, 11b. Thereby, amounts of projecting portions in correspondence with the respective press pieces 28, 28 in a state of a material plate before being folded to bend from the engaging plate portion 27 can be restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takefumi Morio, Takaaki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20080006489
    Abstract: The pad clip 14d is arranged between pins 12, 12 made to bridge an outer body portion and an inner body portion constituting a caliper and the two pads 10b, 11b. An engaging plate portion 27 is engaged with the respective pins 12, 12 without play. Press pieces 28, 28 formed by folding to bend both end portions in a rotational direction of the engaging plate portion in directions in which the more proximate to the two pads 10b, 11b, the more directed to an outer side in a radial direction are brought into elastic contact with outer peripheral edges of both end portions in a rotational direction of pressure plates 13b, 13b of the two pads 10b, 11b. Thereby, amounts of projecting portions in correspondence with the respective press pieces 28, 28 in a state of a material plate before being folded to bend from the engaging plate portion 27 can be restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Takefumi Morio, Takaaki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20060049008
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a floating caliper type disc brake which can effectively suppress the occurrence of uneven wear in linings of respective pads, and effectively suppress the occurrence of noise and judder during braking. In the present invention, a caliper is supported by a support member displaceably in an axial direction of a rotor. Pressed-side shim plates are respectively lined on reverse surfaces of back plates of pads supported by the support, while supporting-side shim plates are lined on an inner side surface of a claw portion and on a distal end face of a piston. The pressed-side shim plates and the pressing-side shim plates are respectively retained by mating members to be lined on by means of resilient retainers, and one surface of each of the mutually opposing pressed-side shim plates and one surface of each of the pressing-side shim plates are slidably abutted against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kinoshita, Hideaki Ikeda, Isao Wakabayashi, Takeshi Kashimura, Shinjiro Masuko, Takefumi Morio