Patents by Inventor Tatsumi Nishida

Tatsumi Nishida 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: 7996135
    Abstract: The present invention provides a starter capable of keeping a state where a pinion and a ring gear maintain meshing with each other when an engine stops without providing a plunger stopper using a solenoid or the like. The state where the pinion and the ring gear maintain meshing with each other in the engine stop mode continues by movement resistance which occurs when a torque transmission member moves. Concretely, an inclination angle of a helical spline in a helical spline engagement part is set so that the above state continues. The helical spline engagement part is a part where a helical spline on the outer periphery of an output shaft of a starter motor and a helical spline on the inner periphery of the torque transmission member mesh with each. Consequently, the above state continues without a plunger stopper using a solenoid or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Ishii, Tatsumi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20080162007
    Abstract: The present invention provides as tarter capable of keeping a state where a pinion and a ring gear maintain meshing with each other when an engine stops without providing a plunger stopper using a solenoid or the like. The state where the pinion and the ring gear maintain meshing with each other in the engine stop mode continues by movement resistance which occurs when a torque transmission member moves. Concretely, an inclination angle of a helical spline in a helical spline engagement part is set so that the above state continues. The helical spline engagement part is a part where a helical spline on the outer periphery of an output shaft of a starter motor and a helical spline on the inner periphery of the torque transmission member mesh with each. Consequently, the above state continues without a plunger stopper using a solenoid or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji ISHII, Tatsumi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20030230271
    Abstract: The major object of the invention is to provide an internal combustion engine stating device capable of improving cost effectiveness and quality assurance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicants: HITACHI, LTD., HITACHI CAR ENGINEERNG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Maruhashi, Tatsumi Nishida, Shigenori Nakazato, Rikio Goto, Tadashi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 5617758
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet starter, a pinion clutch is smoothly engaged with a rotating shaft of an electric motor through a helical spline. A rotation restraint member is arranged at an outer periphery portion and this rotation restraint member is forcibly arranged by a magnetic field coil which is controlled from an outside portion. In a permanent magnet type motor having no magnetic field coil for exciting the motor, it is unnecessary to alter a motor unit. By the rotation force of an armature a pinion gear of the pinion clutch is moved, accordingly the permanent magnet starter for reducing the collision force during the meshing time of the pinion gear to a ring gear can be obtained. Further the permanent magnet starter having a superior gear meshing withstanding property and further without the lowering in the sealing property in the motor unit can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsumi Nishida, Koki Ueta, Yasuhiko Maruhashi