Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Akiba
Yoshitaka Akiba 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).
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Patent number: 7931181Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a cylinder, a piston, a head, a combustion chamber frame, an ignition unit, a trigger, a control member. The combustion chamber frame is abuttable on the head to provide a combustion chamber in cooperation with the head and the piston. The trigger is operated by a user for driving the fastener into a workpiece. The control member detects that the combustion chamber has been provided and the trigger has been operated, and allows the ignition unit to ignite the combustible gas only when the control member detects that both the combustion chamber has been provided and the trigger has been operated.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Akiba
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Publication number: 20100219226Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nailing machine including: a housing; an ejection section in the housing; an activation lever provided in the ejection section to be movable inside a traveling course; a magazine holding nails; a feeder urging the nails to feed the nails; and an engagement member engaged with the feeder so that, when an amount of remaining nails becomes to a predetermined number, the engagement member is moved toward a first direction to protrude into the traveling course; wherein one of the activation lever and the engagement member includes a slope portion so that the engagement member is further moved toward the first direction through the sliding contact therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Hitachi koki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka AKIBA
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Publication number: 20100187280Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder head, a cylinder, a push lever, a piston, a combustion-chamber frame, and an urging member. The cylinder head is disposed at a first end of the housing. The cylinder is disposed in and fixed to the housing. The cylinder has an inner space. The push lever is disposed at a second end of the housing. The piston is slidably disposed in the cylinder and is reciprocally movable in an axial direction. The combustion-chamber frame is disposed in the housing and provides a combustion chamber in cooperation with the cylinder head and the piston. The urging member has one end attached to the piston and another end attached to an axial end of the cylinder, thereby urging the piston in a direction from the second end toward the first end.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Yukiyoshi Maehara
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Patent number: 7748586Abstract: A driving tool in a form of a combustion type nail driving machine 1 for injecting a nail by combustion gas is provided. The driving tool includes a lower pusher which is arranged at a distal end in a projecting direction of a nose through which the nail passes, formed with an elongated hole, and adapted to come into contact with a wood, an upper pusher which is urged by the lower pusher, and an extending-contracting mechanism interposed between the lower pusher and the upper pusher. The extending-contracting mechanism includes a bush which is in contact with the upper pusher and formed with a threaded hole, and a screwing part which can be screwed into the threaded hole after passing through the elongated hole. The screwing part includes a bolt which connects the lower pusher and the bush, and a lever.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Akiba
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Patent number: 7500587Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder head disposed at one end of the housing, a cylinder in the housing, a piston slidably disposed in the cylinder, and a driver blade connected to the piston. A combustion-chamber is provided in the housing, a fan is disposed in the combustion chamber, and a motor having an output shaft is coupled to the fan. A motor holder accommodates the motor, and the cylinder head is formed with a motor holder receiving portion in which the motor holder is slidably movably disposed. An elastic member is disposed in a gap formed between the motor holder and the motor holder receiving portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Kunio Yamamoto, Shinki Ohtsu, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Patent number: 7490582Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing having one end, a head portion disposed at the one end, and a cylinder disposed in the housing, the cylinder being formed with an exhaust hole. A piston is reciprocally movable in the cylinder, and a combustion-chamber frame is disposed in the housing and movable in an axial direction of the cylinder, the combustion-chamber frame being abuttable on the head portion to provide a combustion chamber in cooperation with the head portion and the piston. A fin is disposed on the cylinder and has a portion extending in a direction slanted in relation to the axial direction and oriented toward the exhaust hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoichi Hirai, Yoshitaka Akiba, Tomomasa Nishikawa
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Patent number: 7484481Abstract: A main switch section is accommodated in a trigger. The trigger provided on the handle through a spring. The handle is formed with a recess to which one end of the spring is seated, so that the trigger is normally urged toward the lower side of the combustion-type nail driver. A switch accommodating portion is provided in the lower side of the canister housing. A push switch is stored in the switch accommodating portion. The push switch is a commodity type micro-switch covered with a switch protection member made from an elastic material such as a rubber.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhisa Fujisawa, Yoshitaka Akiba
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Patent number: 7467739Abstract: A combustion-powered, fastener-driving tool includes a cylinder and a combustion chamber disposed on top of the cylinder that accommodates a gaseous mixture of existing air in the combustion chamber and fuel injected therein. A spark plug generates a spark to combust the gaseous mixture in the combustion chamber. A trigger produces the spark in the spark plug when operated. A piston is movably supported in the cylinder and driven by combustion in the combustion chamber. A driving blade is coupled to the piston for driving a fastener. A spark controller is provided for generating a plurality of sparks in succession with the spark plug.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhisa Fujisawa, Yoshitaka Akiba, Nobuhiro Takano, Kenro Ishimaru, Tomomasa Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20080308593Abstract: The combustion type power tool includes a housing accommodating a combustion chamber and an ignition plug for igniting a combustion gas supplied into the combustion chamber. In the housing is defined a lithium ion battery accommodating part for causing the ignition plug to generate ignition energy. The housing includes a handle part. The lithium ion battery accommodating part is arranged at the free end of the handle part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa, Yoshimitsu Iijima, Norikazu Baba
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Patent number: 7455036Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a head portion, a cylinder disposed in the housing, and a push lever. A piston is reciprocally movable in the cylinder, and a combustion-chamber frame is disposed in the housing and abuttable on the head portion to provide a combustion chamber in cooperation with the head portion and the piston. A fuel supplying portion supplies the fuel into the combustion chamber, a motor is disposed at the head portion, and a fan is disposed in the combustion chamber and connected to an output shaft of the motor so as to promote turbulent combustion of an air-fuel mixture. The fan and the combustion-chamber frame define a high turbulent-combustion region and a low turbulent-combustion region, a fin of one shape is located within the low turbulent-combustion region, and another fin of another shape has a part thereof located in the high turbulent-combustion region.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2006Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomomasa Nishikawa, Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Patent number: 7387092Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder, a cylinder head, a combustion chamber frame, and a rotatable fan. The combustion chamber frame including a base section, a head section abuttable on the cylinder head to provide a combustion chamber when the combustion chamber frame is at a first position, and a connection portion for connecting the head section with the base section. The fan includes fan blades which define a widthwise center line and having widthwise edge portions which define a widthwise edge line at a side of the cylinder head. The widthwise center line is offset from the connection portion toward another end of the housing, and the widthwise edge line is offset from the connection portion toward the cylinder head when the combustion chamber frame is at a second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomomasa Nishikawa, Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20080121676Abstract: A driving tool in a form of a combustion type nail driving machine 1 for injecting a nail by combustion gas is provided. The driving tool includes a lower pusher which is arranged at a distal end in a projecting direction of a nose through which the nail passes, formed with an elongated hole, and adapted to come into contact with a wood, an upper pusher which is urged by the lower pusher, and an extending-contracting mechanism interposed between the lower pusher and the upper pusher. The extending-contracting mechanism includes a bush which is in contact with the upper pusher and formed with a threaded hole, and a screwing part which can be screwed into the threaded hole after passing through the elongated hole. The screwing part includes a bolt which connects the lower pusher and the bush, and a lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventor: Yoshitaka AKIBA
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Patent number: 7332838Abstract: To connect a motor shaft to a fan, a connection rod is used that is symmetrical in shape with respect to a longitudinal axis of the connection rod. The connection rod includes a first part formed with a hole in coaxial with the longitudinal axis, and a second part formed at least partially with a threaded portion. The motor shaft is attached to the connection rod by inserting the motor shaft into the hole of the first part of the connection rod. The fan is attached to the connection rod by inserting the second part of the connection rod into the center hole of the hub portion and supports the fan with a pair of nuts, one at one side of the hub portion and another at another side of the hub portion wherein the nuts are moved toward each other with the hub portion interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Akiba
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Patent number: 7316209Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder disposed, a piston, and a cylinder head disposed at an end of the housing and having a wall portion extending in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, the wall portion having an opening. A motor is disposed at the cylinder head and includes a motor body and a drive shaft extending from the motor body into a combustion chamber through the opening of the wall portion of the cylinder head, a fan is connected to the drive shaft to be rotatable within the combustion chamber, and an elastic member is disposed at the opening of the wall portion and has a sleeve portion extending in the axial direction. The sleeve portion has a through-hole through which the drive shaft extends, and an inner surface of the through-hole is tapered with respect to an outer surface of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa, Tomomasa Nishikawa
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Patent number: 7305941Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a frame comprising a housing having one end, and a head portion disposed at the one end, and a piston reciprocally movably disposed in the housing. A combustion chamber is provided in the housing and has one end movable toward and away from the head portion and another end defined by the piston. A motor is provided and has a motor case disposed opposite to the combustion chamber with respect to the head portion, a buffer member is provided which supports the motor and has a part located between the motor case and the head portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Patent number: 7305940Abstract: In the combustion-type power tool, a first shelter wall and a second shelter wall are disposed to partially surround an area between an ignition plug and an ignition ground. Two gaps are provided between the first and second shelter walls. The first shelter wall extends radially outwardly from an outer peripheral surface of a motor boss, and also protrudes from an end face in an axial direction of a fan shaft. The first shelter wall has a lower end surface inclined such that an axial length between the end face and the lower end surface is gradually reduced toward radially outer end of the first shelter wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomomasa Nishikawa, Yasuki Ohmori, Shinki Ohtsu, Kunio Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20070240651Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder, a cylinder head, a combustion chamber frame, and a rotatable fan. The combustion chamber frame including a base section, a head section abuttable on the cylinder head to provide a combustion chamber when the combustion chamber frame is at a first position, and a connection portion for connecting the head section with the base section. The fan includes fan blades which define a widthwise center line and having widthwise edge portions which define a widthwise edge line at a side of the cylinder head. The widthwise center line is offset from the connection portion toward another end of the housing, and the widthwise edge line is offset from the connection portion toward the cylinder head when the combustion chamber frame is at a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: Tomomasa NISHIKAWA, Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20070227477Abstract: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder disposed, a piston, and a cylinder head disposed at an end of the housing and having a wall portion extending in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, the wall portion having an opening. A motor is disposed at the cylinder head and includes a motor body and a drive shaft extending from the motor body into a combustion chamber through the opening of the wall portion of the cylinder head, a fan is connected to the drive shaft to be rotatable within the combustion chamber, and an elastic member is disposed at the opening of the wall portion and has a sleeve portion extending in the axial direction. The sleeve portion has a through-hole through which the drive shaft extends, and an inner surface of the through-hole is tapered with respect to an outer surface of the drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Haruhisa Fujisawa, Tomomasa Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20070210132Abstract: A combustion type power tool selectively defining a combustion chamber as a result of movement of a combustion chamber frame. A sealing arrangement is provided at a boundary between an outer peripheral section of a chamber head and an inner peripheral portion of an upper portion of the combustion chamber frame. Another sealing arrangement is provided at a boundary between an inner peripheral portion of a lower portion of the combustion chamber frame and an outer peripheral portion of an upper portion of a cylinder. Annular grooves are formed in the outer peripheral section of the chamber head and the outer peripheral portion of the cylinder. Each sealing arrangement is assembled in the annular groove, and includes an endless O-ring and a back-up ring disposed at an inner peripheral side of the O-ring for urging the O-ring radially outwardly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventor: Yoshitaka Akiba
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Patent number: D586196Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Kosugi, Masanori Okada, Yoshitaka Akiba, Yoshimitsu Iljima, Norikazu Baba