Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Iwasa

Yoshiharu Iwasa 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: 8544829
    Abstract: An adjustment safeguard for a set screw that is rotatably held in a housing has a cap that is non-rotatably secured on the head of the set screw. The cap is received in a sleeve of the housing and surrounded with minimal radial play by the sleeve that is essentially coaxially positioned relative to the cap. The cap is received with its axial length in the sleeve. The cap has a projection and the sleeve has a stop arranged in the interior of the sleeve. Projection and stop interact with each other in a rotational direction of the set screw. The cap has a top part and a separate bottom part. The bottom part is secured axially and non-rotatably on the head of the set screw. The bottom part engages with form fit the top part in the rotational direction and is axially connected to the top part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Baumhauer, Alexander Kraus, Yoshiharu Iwasa, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120146250
    Abstract: An adjustment safeguard for a set screw that is rotatably held in a housing has a cap that is non-rotatably secured on the head of the set screw. The cap is received in a sleeve of the housing and surrounded with minimal radial play by the sleeve that is essentially coaxially positioned relative to the cap. The cap is received with its axial length in the sleeve. The cap has a projection and the sleeve has a stop arranged in the interior of the sleeve. Projection and stop interact with each other in a rotational direction of the set screw. The cap has a top part and a separate bottom part. The bottom part is secured axially and non-rotatably on the head of the set screw. The bottom part engages with form fit the top part in the rotational direction and is axially connected to the top part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Baumhauer, Alexander Kraus, Yoshiharu Iwasa, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7216856
    Abstract: The accelerator apparatus prevents air from remaining within a pump chamber and discharged fuel vapor from causing a pumping effect so as to a destabilize engine operation and increase of an exhaust gas content of harmful material, in an accelerator apparatus in which an accelerated fuel passage draws and discharges fuel to the pump chamber of an accelerator pump, which is connected to a main fuel passage. The pump chamber of the accelerator pump is mechanically coupled with a throttle valve and is connected to a fixed fuel chamber storing a fuel delivered to an intake passage at a fixed pressure by the accelerated fuel passage. Air remaining within the pump chamber and a fuel vapor generated within the pump chamber are discharged to the fixed fuel chamber, and fuel extruded from the pump chamber due to a pumping effect of the remaining air and the fuel vapor enters into the fixed fuel chamber, thereby preventing the alteration of a rate of the fuel flowing through a main fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: ZAMA Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Iwasa, Mamoru Toda
  • Publication number: 20070063357
    Abstract: The accelerator apparatus prevents air from remaining within a pump chamber and discharged fuel vapor from causing a pumping effect so as to a destabilize engine operation and increase of an exhaust gas content of harmful material, in an accelerator apparatus in which an accelerated fuel passage draws and discharges fuel to the pump chamber of an accelerator pump, which is connected to a main fuel passage. The pump chamber of the accelerator pump is mechanically coupled with a throttle valve and is connected to a fixed fuel chamber storing a fuel delivered to an intake passage at a fixed pressure by the accelerated fuel passage. Air remaining within the pump chamber and a fuel vapor generated within the pump chamber are discharged to the fixed fuel chamber, and fuel extruded from the pump chamber due to a pumping effect of the remaining air and the fuel vapor enters into the fixed fuel chamber, thereby preventing the alteration of a rate of the fuel flowing through a main fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Iwasa, Mamoru Toda
  • Publication number: 20050179146
    Abstract: The apparatus prevents fuel vapor from being discharged to an intake passage from a fuel metering chamber of a carburetor and maintains a substantially constant fuel pressure in the fuel metering chamber so as to stabilize the amount of the fuel discharged to the intake passage. The pump has a drive force produced by a pulsation pressure generated in a crank chamber of an engine or an intake tube. A discharge chamber of a fuel pump and a fuel tank are connected by a relief passage, and the relief passage is provided with a pressure regulating valve discharging a pressure equal to or greater than a set pressure in the discharge chamber to the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Zama Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Iwasa, Mamoru Toda