Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Moritani

Yuichiro Moritani 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: 11773955
    Abstract: A rotating component includes a metal plate fixed to an end portion of the metal shaft, and a resin valve gear integrally formed with the plate by insert molding. The plate is formed with a circular fitting hole that fits with the end portion of the shaft, and a positioning recess that is recessed from one side to the other side of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichiro Moritani
  • Patent number: 11761552
    Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a valve member, a valve seat member, a fixing member for fixing the valve seat member to the housing, and a housing-side seal portion. The housing has a valve chamber, and a housing-space inner wall forming a housing space communicating with the valve chamber. The housing-side seal portion blocks a flow of fluid between the valve seat member and the housing-space inner wall. The valve seat member has a tubular portion and a flange portion connected to the tubular portion. The flange portion is interposed between a facing surface of the housing-space inner wall and the fixing member in an axial direction. The fixing member is fixed to the housing-space inner wall in an airtight state. The housing-side seal portion is made of a rubber material and is interposed between the flange portion and the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Harada, Yuichiro Moritani, Takehiro Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11655782
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, and an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage, and provided downstream with respect to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage and rotates around an EGR valve axis to open and close the downstream passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Moritani, Hideki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11629674
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream side of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream side of the second upstream passage, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage, rotates around an EGR valve axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Yuichiro Moritani, Shogo Tateishi
  • Publication number: 20230041903
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, and an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage, and provided downstream with respect to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage and rotates around an EGR valve axis to open and close the downstream passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro MORITANI, Hideki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230044245
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream side of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream side of the second upstream passage, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage, rotates around an EGR valve axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Yuichiro MORITANI, Shogo TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230043144
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes: a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows; a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows; a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream of the second upstream passage; and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body is provided in the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shogo TATEISHI, Yuichiro MORITANI, Hideki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220025989
    Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a valve member, a valve seat member, a fixing member for fixing the valve seat member to the housing, and a housing-side seal portion. The housing has a valve chamber, and a housing-space inner wall forming a housing space communicating with the valve chamber. The housing-side seal portion blocks a flow of fluid between the valve seat member and the housing-space inner wall. The valve seat member has a tubular portion and a flange portion connected to the tubular portion. The flange portion is interposed between a facing surface of the housing-space inner wall and the fixing member in an axial direction. The fixing member is fixed to the housing-space inner wall in an airtight state. The housing-side seal portion is made of a rubber material and is interposed between the flange portion and the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HARADA, Yuichiro MORITANI, Takehiro SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20220003302
    Abstract: A rotating component includes a metal plate fixed to an end portion of the metal shaft, and a resin valve gear integrally formed with the plate by insert molding. The plate is formed with a circular fitting hole that fits with the end portion of the shaft, and a positioning recess that is recessed from one side to the other side of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuichiro MORITANI
  • Publication number: 20200141499
    Abstract: A valve device has a valve element, a housing and a rotary shaft. The housing has an opening and a seal member having a cylindrical shape and arranged along the opening. The valve element is rotated by the rotary shaft in an opening direction for opening the opening and in a closing direction for closing the opening. The seal member has a first side in the closing direction and a second side in the opening direction. The seal member has a first projection protruded from an inner surface of the seal member on the first side in the closing direction and a second projection protruded from an outer surface of the seal member on the second side in the opening direction. A first end and a second end of the second projection in a circumferential direction are not connected with other parts of the seal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro MORITANI, Takehiro SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 10539100
    Abstract: A valve device includes a shaft, a valve body, and a housing including a valve opening. An outwardly facing surface of the valve body is out of contact with the housing and a valve-facing surface is in contact with the housing in a fully closed state in which the valve body closes the valve opening. A valve seal surface includes a first valve seal surface protruding in a valve closing direction and a second valve seal surface recessed in a valve opening direction. A first seal distance in a radial direction from an outer diameter end of the first valve seal surface to a rotation axis is shorter than a second seal distance in the radial direction from an outer diameter end of the second valve seal surface to the rotation axis. The first valve seal surface and the second valve seal surface each have at least a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Yuichiro Moritani
  • Publication number: 20190264620
    Abstract: A valve device includes a valve housing, a valve member, a limiter portion and a contact portion. The valve housing includes an upstream-side flow passage, which is communicated with an intake passage, a receiving space, which is communicated with an EGR passage, a valve chamber, which communicates between the upstream-side flow passage and the receiving space, and a valve-housing-side seal portion, which is placed around an opening that communicates between the upstream-side flow passage and the receiving space. The valve member includes a valve-member-side seal portion, which blocks communication between the intake passage and the EGR passage when the valve-member-side seal portion contacts the valve-housing-side seal portion. The rotation of the valve member is limited when the contact portion contacts the limiter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichiro MORITANI, Takehiro SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 10378490
    Abstract: Shaft is rotationally driven, and a valve body rotates together with the shafts and has a cylindrical surface on an outer peripheral surface. A housing has a valve chamber in which the valve body is rotatably accommodated, and the valve chamber has an opening opened or closed by the valve body. The outer peripheral surface is provided to be in a non-contact with the housing. The valve body has a valve seal surface for closing the opening by abutting on a predetermined part set in the housing when the opening is fully closed, and the valve seal surface is directed in the circumferential direction. The valve body has a core metal made of a metal, and the shafts are provided on both ends of the core metal, and a valve seal surface is made of a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Sugawara, Yuichiro Moritani
  • Publication number: 20190078538
    Abstract: A valve device includes a shaft, a valve body, and a housing including a valve opening. An outwardly facing surface of the valve body is out of contact with the housing and a valve-facing surface is in contact with the housing in a fully closed state in which the valve body closes the valve opening. A valve seal surface includes a first valve seal surface protruding in a valve closing direction and a second valve seal surface recessed in a valve opening direction. A first seal distance in a radial direction from an outer diameter end of the first valve seal surface to a rotation axis is shorter than a second seal distance in the radial direction from an outer diameter end of the second valve seal surface to the rotation axis. The first valve seal surface and the second valve seal surface each have at least a curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Yuichiro MORITANI
  • Publication number: 20180171943
    Abstract: Shaft is rotationally driven, and a valve body rotates together with the shafts and has a cylindrical surface on an outer peripheral surface. A housing has a valve chamber in which the valve body is rotatably accommodated, and the valve chamber has an opening opened or closed by the valve body. The outer peripheral surface is provided to be in a non-contact with the housing. The valve body has a valve seal surface for closing the opening by abutting on a predetermined part set in the housing when the opening is fully closed, and the valve seal surface is directed in the circumferential direction. The valve body has a core metal made of a metal, and the shafts are provided on both ends of the core metal, and a valve seal surface is made of a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Takehiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro MORITANI
  • Patent number: 9458777
    Abstract: A valve is configured to control an opening in a passage. A valve angle sensor is configured to send an electric signal according to a rotation angle of the valve. In a storing process, an actual measurement value of a valve angle at a mechanical full open position is stored as an actual full open valve angle. In a first setting process, a first output value at a mechanical full close position is set. In a second setting process, a second output value at the stored actual full open valve angle is set. The output characteristic is set as an angle to output value relation according to the first output value and the second output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inagaki, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Koji Hashimoto, Yuichiro Moritani
  • Patent number: 9169906
    Abstract: A link apparatus includes a cam plate, a lever and an accommodation member. The cam plate has a cam groove. The lever has a roller engaged with the cam groove and a pin which is inserted through a center of the roller so that the roller is rotatably supported on the pin. The accommodation member accommodates the cam plate and the lever. The accommodation member and the pin have a distance “A” therebetween. The roller has a thickness “B” along an axial direction of the pin. The value of the distance “A” is smaller than the value of the thickness “B”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inagaki, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Takaaki Oohashi, Koji Hashimoto, Yuichiro Moritani
  • Patent number: 8973559
    Abstract: A gear subassembly is for an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system including an EGR valve and a rotatable shaft provided for the EGR valve. The gear subassembly includes a gear and a cam. The gear is a part of reduction gears and is fastened to the rotatable shaft to rotate therearound. The cam is fastened to the gear and is a part of a link mechanism. The gear includes a metal shaft-fastening part used for fastening the gear to the rotatable shaft, and a metal cam-fastening part used for fastening the gear to the cam. The gear is formed by resin-molding with the shaft-fastening part and the cam-fastening part serving as insert parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inagaki, Yuichiro Moritani, Koji Hashimoto, Takaaki Ohashi, Shinsuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8905009
    Abstract: When a failure occurs in synchronizing mechanism, an intake air throttle valve is rotated in a direction that is opposite from a normal operational time valve closing direction, so that an arm of a driven plate contacts a throttle valve side stopper to stop rotation of the intake air throttle valve. Thereafter, when a low pressure EGR valve is rotated from a full close position to a full open position, an EGR valve side stopper contacts the arm of the driven plate to stop the low pressure EGR valve. A rotational angle of the EGR valve is sensed with a sensor and is outputted to an ECU. The ECU determines that a failure mode is set when a valve angle sensed with the sensor coincides with a rotation stop position of the EGR valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Moritani, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Kazushi Sasaki, Koji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140202436
    Abstract: A valve is configured to control an opening in a passage. A valve angle sensor is configured to send an electric signal according to a rotation angle of the valve. In a storing process, an actual measurement value of a valve angle at a mechanical full open position is stored as an actual full open valve angle. In a first setting process, a first output value at a mechanical full close position is set. In a second setting process, a second output value at the stored actual full open valve angle is set. The output characteristic is set as an angle to output value relation according to the first output value and the second output value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inagaki, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Koji Hashimoto, Yuichiro Moritani