Patents by Inventor Yasuhide Kawabe

Yasuhide Kawabe 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).

  • Outer shell unit and method of manufacturing the unit
    Patent number: 7022932
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an outer shell unit (10) provided with a cylindrical outer shell (3) housing a damping force generating mechanism and a knuckle bracket (7) mounted on the outer shell (3) to connect a knuckle. The knuckle bracket (7) is fixed by welding to the outer shell (3) after closing the bottom (31) of the outer shell (3) with a closing process. Consequently productivity is increased due to the fact that the number of processing operations for cutting an inlay and the number of operations for assembling the lower cap are reduced because the bottom is formed using a closing process. Furthermore productivity is increased since it is not necessary to seal the bottom by welding since the sealing characteristics of the bottom of the outer shell are ensured by the closing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hatakeyama, Yoshio Ariura, Shinji Owaki, Yasuhide Kawabe
  • Outer shell unit and method of manufacturing the unit
    Publication number: 20040045778
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an outer shell unit (10) provided with a cylindrical outer shell (3) housing a damping force generating mechanism and a knuckle bracket (7) mounted on the outer shell (3) to connect a knuckle. The knuckle bracket (7) is fixed by welding to the outer shell (3) after closing the bottom (31) of the outer shell (3) with a closing process. Consequently productivity is increased due to the fact that the number of processing operations for cutting an inlay and the number of operations for assembling the lower cap are reduced because the bottom is formed using a closing process. Furthermore productivity is increased since it is not necessary to seal the bottom by welding since the sealing characteristics of the bottom of the outer shell are ensured by the closing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hatakeyama, Yoshio Ariura, Shinji Owaki, Yasuhide Kawabe