Patents by Inventor Toyoaki Sagawa

Toyoaki Sagawa 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: 7388489
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for tracking repairs or servicing of various products/devices at a service center using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that are attached to the product upon receipt at the service center and that remain on the product for use in subsequent repairs and servicing. Technicians may record symptoms, repairs made, quality control information, and/or other data (while the product is in their possession) into a service database. This information may then be transmitted to the attached RFID tag. Technician workstations may include transmitters. Information regarding status of repairs may be shared with the customer via user interface applications. Thus, the customer can know the repair status of their product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: GSK Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Toyoaki Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20060290500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for tracking repairs or servicing of various products/devices at a service center using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that are attached to the product upon receipt at the service center and that remain on the product for use in subsequent repairs and servicing. Technicians may record symptoms, repairs made, quality control information, and/or other data (while the product is in their possession) into a service database. This information may then be transmitted to the attached RFID tag. Technician workstations may include transmitters. Information regarding status of repairs may be shared with the customer via user interface applications. Thus, the customer can know the repair status of their product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventor: Toyoaki Sagawa
  • Patent number: 6845702
    Abstract: The present invention intends to improve a hydraulic control unit and prevent the occurrence of hunting as well as to reduce the size of the hydraulic control unit. The hydraulic control unit is used in a several-directional-control-valves-assembled-type hydraulic control system 1 having a load sensing function. The hydraulic control unit has a PLS port. The PLS port is supplied with a maximum load pressure in the hydraulic control system. The compensator of the hydraulic control unit includes a metering orifice imparted with a function equivalent to a check valve. The compensator is imparted with the function of a shuttle valve (directional control valve), and by allowing the shuttle valve to operate independently of the compensator the pressure PLS is adjusted constantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Kazuto Fujiyama, Kimihiko Murase
  • Publication number: 20040040294
    Abstract: The present invention intends to improve a hydraulic control unit and prevent the occurrence of hunting as well as to reduce the size of the hydraulic control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Kazuto Fujiyama, Kimihiko Murase
  • Patent number: 6142176
    Abstract: A relief valve, including a case having an inner bore, and an opening defining an outlet; a valve seat adjacent to a forward end of the case, the valve seat defining an inlet, a plunger slidably disposed within the case and pressed forward by a spring to shut off fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet, a piston slidably disposed within the case, and slidably receiving the plunger, the piston being configured for pushing forward a rear end of the spring, and which piston moves forward with the increase in the pressure at the inlet to compress the spring, thereby regulating a relief pressure, wherein the piston further comprises a first sliding portion configured for sliding with liquidtightness in the inner bore of case, and a sliding bore formed along a central axis of the piston, a rear portion of the plunger slidably inserted and fitted in the sliding bore formed along a central axis of the piston, and the plunger further comprising a through hole configured for feeding a pressurized liquid fr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Masahiro Matsuo, Ryo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6125886
    Abstract: In order to obtain great damper effects with a comparatively simple structure and fully control a hunting phenomenon, a pilot valve comprises push rods attached to a valve body, spools attached to spools holes of the valve body, spring bearing members provided in spring chambers of the valve body, first spring members provided between the valve body and the spring bearing members, second spring members provided between the spring bearing members and the spools, and an operation level for pressing the push rods. A fluid chamber is provided on an outside of one of ends of each of the spool holes. The fluid chamber communicates with a drain passage through a throttle passage having a throttle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Koji Sakashita, Yoshio Togashi, Kazuto Fujiyama
  • Patent number: 5222064
    Abstract: A bridge apparatus which judges whether a destination address of a frame relayed to a trunk line LAN is registered in other bridge apparatus or not using a control apparatus provided therein, relays the frame with a proper destination address in accordance with the result of the judgment, and allows the relaying to be carried out securely even if an address of a destination terminal has not been registered in the bridge apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyoaki Sagawa
  • Patent number: 5050637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to relief valves, and is drawn to a relief valve that alleviates the rise in the relief pressure, by the compression of a main spring via a moving spring receiving member, due to the introduction of hydraulic pressure at the supply side into a fluid chamber at the rear of a movable spring member. Moreover, an adjustment spring to urge the moving body and to assist the main spring is provided within a fluid chamber, and the urging force of this adjustment spring can be adjusted by the operation of a changing member provided externally of the valve. Thus, the set pressure of the relief valve can be easily and readily changed, and also a fine adjustment of the set pressure can be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyoaki Sagawa
  • Patent number: 5050636
    Abstract: A relief valve to be disposed in a hydraulic circuit, for example an absolute circuit, such as in an industrial construction machine, comprises a casing of substantially cylindrical structure having one end and another end, the casing including a casing body, a pressure regulating plug and a lid member. The relief valve further comprises a valve seat fitted into one end of the casing and provided with an inflow hole through which a pressurized fluid is flown, a plunger disposed in the casing and having one flanged end slidably engaged with an inner surface of the one end of the casing, the plunger having a central through hole, a stepped piston member disposed in the casing to be slidable therein and having an outwardly stepped one end and a spring member disposed between another end of the stepped piston member and the flanged one end of the plunger. A fluid chamber is defined between another end of the casing and the one end of the stepped piston member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Toshiyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5011377
    Abstract: A swash-plate type piston pump motor has a housing assembly comprising: an end plate for rotatably supporting a cylinder rotor against thrust loads in its axial direction and also rotatably supporting the upper end of an output shaft; a cylinder side peripheral wall encompassing the cylinder rotor; an inner peripheral wall which is joined contiguously to the cylinder side peripheral wall and extends downward toward the lower end of the output shaft. The inner peripheral wall encloses and supports a swash plate in an inclined state. A downwardly extending outer peripheral wall is also joined contiguously to the cylinder side peripheral wall and is flared outward toward the lower end of the output shaft, an annular space being formed between the inner and outer peripheral walls. The maximum flare angle of the outer peripheral wall relative to the axial direction of the output shaft is 30 degrees. The outer peripheral wall has at its open flare extremity a motor mounting flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Makoto Sonoda, Tokihiko Umeda
  • Patent number: D450702
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Yoshio Togashi