Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Yashiro

Yoshinobu Yashiro 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: 7004149
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (18) has an intake pipe (34) which extends from an internal combustion engine main body (19) and an intake passageway (33) formed in the interior thereof communicates with an intake passageway (27) formed in the internal combustion engine main body (19), a fuel supply means (36) for supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine main body (19), an intake negative pressure sensor (43) for detecting an intake negative pressure (P) in the intake passageway (33) within the intake pipe (34), and a control unit (44) for controlling the supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine main body (19) by the fuel supply means (36) based on a detection signal of the intake negative pressure sensor (43). The intake negative pressure sensor (43) is adapted to detect an intake negative pressure at a downstream end (42) of the intake passageway (33) within the intake pipe (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Yashiro
  • Publication number: 20050109326
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (18) has an intake pipe (34) which extends from an internal combustion engine main body (19) and an intake passageway (33) formed in the interior thereof communicates with an intake passageway (27) formed in the internal combustion engine main body (19), a fuel supply means (36) for supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine main body (19), an intake negative pressure sensor (43) for detecting an intake negative pressure (P) in the intake passageway (33) within the intake pipe (34), and a control unit (44) for controlling the supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine main body (19) by the fuel supply means (36) based on a detection signal of the intake negative pressure sensor (43). The intake negative pressure sensor (43) is adapted to detect an intake negative pressure at a downstream end (42) of the intake passageway (33) within the intake pipe (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Yashiro
  • Patent number: 6196186
    Abstract: A number of embodiments of engine induction system and fuel injection systems for increasing the engine's combustion efficiency by maintaining a desired ratio between the intake system volume between the throttle valve and the intake port and the exhaust gas volume. This requires a close positioning of the throttle valve to the combustion chamber, and thus results in quick throttle response. A fuel injection system injects fuel into the intake passage, and a number of embodiments of buffer valves are employed so as to maintain stability in combustion when blipping the throttle under no-load conditions. In addition, arrangements are disclosed wherein separate throttle bodies are employed but that utilize the fuel rail as a means for connecting all of these throttle bodies together to provide a unitary sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Nagasaka, Haruhiko Samoto, Yoshinobu Yashiro, Yoshiyuki Higaki
  • Patent number: 6039029
    Abstract: A number of embodiments of engine induction system and fuel injection systems for increasing the engines combustion efficiency by maintaining a desired ratio between the intake system volume between the throttle valve and the intake port and the exhaust gas volume. This requires a close positioning of the throttle valve to the combustion chamber, and thus results in quick throttle response. A fuel injection system injects fuel into the intake passage, and a number of embodiments of buffer valves are employed so as to maintain stability in combustion when blipping the throttle under no-load conditions. In addition, arrangements are disclosed wherein separate throttle bodies are employed but that utilize the fuel rail as a means for connecting all of these throttle bodies together to provide a unitary sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Nagasaka, Haruhiko Samoto, Yoshinobu Yashiro, Yoshiyuki Higaki
  • Patent number: 5287833
    Abstract: A lubricating oil supplying system for a two cycle engine that includes a reciprocating engine drive lubricant pump and a solenoid controlled bypass valve for selectively delivering lubricant to the engine of by bypassing it back to the inlet side of the lubricant pump to control the amount of lubricant supplied to the engine. The duty cycle of solenoid is increased as the engine speed is decreased and the duty cycle is also decreased when the throttle is opened rapidly so as to insure the proper amount of lubricant flow to the engine under all conditions, both transient and steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Yashiro
  • Patent number: 4566409
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a two-cycle engine which enables the prevention of carbon in the exhaust port, and ensures a minimum reduction in the open area of the exhaust port for a long period of time. This is attained by including a groove or shoulder formed in at a least a portion of the wall of an exhaust passage immediately behind an exhaust port, and extending along the edge of an opening defining the exhaust port to disable carbon to adhere easily to the exhaust port, or prevent any thick layer of carbon from adhering to the exhaust port so that the carbon layer may have only a limited strength and be easily removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Yashiro, Takeshi Ito