Patents Assigned to Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
  • EXHAUST SILENCER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190136740
    Abstract: An exhaust silencer device which is interposed in an exhaust passage in a vehicle to reduce exhaust noise comprises a sub-muffler which is interposed in the exhaust passage and has an expansion chamber formed therein; an inlet pipe which is airtightly inserted through an inlet opening of the sub-muffler; and an outlet pipe which is airtightly inserted through an outlet opening of the sub-muffler, wherein the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe are formed with openings (small apertures, non-joined portions) only in their upper half area and their lower half area is sealed without having the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiki TERAMOTO, Takato ISHIHATA, Takehiro MIURA, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Catalytic converter
    Patent number: 10273909
    Abstract: Provided is a catalytic converter to be disposed in a branch portion between an exhaust gas passage that guides exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine to outside and an exhaust gas recirculation passage that recirculates a portion of the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas passage to an intake system of the internal combustion engine. The catalytic converter comprises a catalyst storage case that stores a catalyst, a recirculation pipe that forms the exhaust gas recirculation passage, an abutment portion that makes the catalyst storage case and the recirculation pipe be in surface contact with each other and be arranged in parallel to each other, and a downstream cone that makes the exhaust gas passage and the exhaust gas recirculation passage merge with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Takagi
  • Heat exchanger
    Patent number: 10267566
    Abstract: A heat exchanger in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a plurality of plate parts. The plurality of plate parts is arranged such that respective outer surfaces of mutually-adjacent plate parts of the plurality of plate parts are in a non-contact state having a gap between the respective outer surfaces, and apexes, each of which is an apex of the at least one convex protruding from each of respective mutually-facing outer surfaces of the mutually-adjacent plate parts, do not face each other in an arrangement direction of the plurality of plate parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishikawa, Hirohisa Okami
  • EXHAUST SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20190107032
    Abstract: In an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, an exhaust pipe is reliably bent and deformed during vehicle rear collision while improving drainage performance in the exhaust pipe in normal times. The exhaust system 1 includes a second pipe 17 corresponding to a downstream end part of an exhaust pipe 10 through which exhaust gas flows from an engine 2. The second pipe 17 includes: a fragile part 30 as a starting point of bending deformation of a tail pipe 13; and a partition plate 20 vertically dividing the inside of the second pipe 17 to form, under the partition plate 20, a lower passage 7 to flow water that accumulates in the exhaust pipe 10. The partition plate 20 is in a vicinity of the fragile part 30 and at a position not overlapping with the fragile part 30 in an axial direction of the second pipe 17.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Futaba Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Utsunomiya, Nakaya Takagaki, Masaya Takeuchi
  • Canister
    Patent number: 10221812
    Abstract: A canister is mounted on a vehicle and comprises at least one chamber, an inflow port, an atmosphere port, an outflow port and elongated adjusting parts. The inflow port allows evaporated fuel to flow into the at least one chamber from a fuel tank of the vehicle. The outflow port allows the evaporated fuel adsorbed by an adsorbent to flow out towards an engine by air from the atmosphere port. The adjusting parts are arranged with the adsorbent in an object chamber, which is at least one of the at least one chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Iwamoto
  • Instrument panel reinforcement
    Patent number: 10220883
    Abstract: An instrument panel reinforcement in a tubular shape according to one aspect comprises a large-diameter portion that supports a steering column, a small-diameter portion that has an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the large-diameter portion and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the large-diameter portion, and an intermediate portion that is arranged between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion. The intermediate portion is formed integrally with the large-diameter portion and has an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the large-diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuzo Nishimura, Yusuke Asai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Kotaro Tsuda
  • Heat insulating structure for exhaust junction pipe
    Patent number: 10180099
    Abstract: A heat insulating structure for an exhaust junction pipe to be disposed in an area in which exhaust gas passages having different respective lengths are merged together comprises a first heat insulation portion that covers and provides heat insulation for at least a portion of one branch part of branch parts that are branched in the exhaust junction pipe; the one branch part forms one exhaust gas passage in a not-yet-merged state of the exhaust gas passages, and forms the one exhaust gas passage having a short length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro Jinda, Munehiro Tsubosaka, Takuya Kondo, Shinnosuke Toichi, Toshikazu Namikiri, Manabu Yokoyama
  • FRAME MEMBER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FRAME MEMBER
    Publication number: 20190002030
    Abstract: A frame member is a high-tensile steel member included in a frame. The frame is a part of a body structure of a body of an automobile. The frame member includes a plate-like attachment for abutting other member of the automobile. The attachment includes a welding part configured to be welded to the other member. The welding part is thinner than other parts of the attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuzo NISHIMURA, Kenji NIWA, Koichi KANDA
  • Grid and canister using the grid
    Patent number: 10155191
    Abstract: A grid that includes a plurality of holes perforated therein such that an aperture ratio of the grid increases from the center toward the periphery of the grid. The grid holds adsorbents filled inside a filling chamber of a canister having an opening, and keeps the adsorbents inside the filling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kishida, Shogo Minezawa
  • MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PRESS-FORMED ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20180345348
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a press-formed article includes: forming a specified shape in a plate-like member made of metal; forming a convex portion in a portion that does not undergo deformation by the forming of the specified shape in the plate-like member; and flattening the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hayashi, Masatoshi Miwa, Koichi Kume, Masato Sakai
  • Canister
    Patent number: 10138848
    Abstract: A canister in one aspect of the present invention comprises an adsorber having a honeycomb shape that adsorbs evaporated fuel and a housing chamber that houses the adsorber. The canister comprises an outer passage, provided in the housing chamber, that passes over an outer surface of the adsorber and a flow passage that passes through the adsorber and the outer passage as a flow passage for the evaporated fuel to pass through the housing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kuboyama, Shogo Minezawa
  • Processing Apparatus and Program
    Publication number: 20180311763
    Abstract: A processing apparatus, which is provided with a processing space to place a workpiece therein and configured to process the workpiece placed in the processing space using a laser, includes a laser emitter, a processing position specifying device, a target emission condition computing device, an emission controller, a correction amount specifying device, a post-correction focal position computing device, and a post-correction emission condition computing device. The emission controller controls the laser emitter to emit the laser under a post-correction emission condition when a Z-axis correction amount is updated in the correction amount specifying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Yamaguchi
  • Valve Device
    Publication number: 20180299016
    Abstract: A valve device opens/closes an opening that is located at an end portion of a flow path and whose shape is a point symmetrical or substantially point symmetrical planar figure. The valve device includes a lid portion closing the opening and an arm portion rotating the lid portion about an axis to open/close the opening. A straight line passing through the center of the opening and orthogonal to the opening is taken as a center line. The axis is a straight line intersecting the flow path without intersecting the center line. When closing the opening, the arm portion rotates the lid portion toward the center line, and when opening the opening, the arm portion rotates the lid portion to the opposite side of the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji Asai, Hirohisa Okami
  • Evaporated Fuel Treatment Device
    Publication number: 20180283322
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device is provided in a canister including first to third chambers. The first chamber is provided with an inflow port and an outflow port at an end part thereof, and is connected to the second chamber. The evaporated fuel treatment device is configured as the third chamber of the canister. The third chamber has disposed therein activated carbon as an adsorbent material. The side connected to the second chamber in the third chamber is defined as second chamber side, and the side opposite to the second chamber side is defined as atmosphere side. An atmosphere port is provided at an end part on the atmosphere side of the third chamber. The third chamber is provided with a highly adsorptive layer and a low adsorptive layer which are aligned from the second chamber side to the atmosphere side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUBOYAMA, Koji IWAMOTO, Takuya NAKAGAWA
  • Heat exchanger
    Patent number: 10087813
    Abstract: A heat exchanger allows efficient heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid which flows inside the heat exchanger. A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger main body housed inside a case where a first fluid flows and which houses a second fluid therein. The heat exchanger main body has a plurality of first passages such that the first fluid flows across the inside of the heat exchanger main body. In a side view from one direction, the heat exchanger main body has a shape that is left-right symmetric about the central axis of the case and of which the upstream side protrudes farther in the upstream direction toward the center. The first passages extend parallel to the central axis of the case, and are formed to be longer as they are disposed closer to the center of the heat exchanger main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Okami, Hisayuki Kato
  • EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180274495
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a main flow path, a secondary flow path, a plurality of heat exchangers, and a communication portion. Exhaust gas flows in the main flow path. The secondary flow path is a flow path branched from the main flow path, and at least a portion of the exhaust gas flows in the secondary flow path. The plurality of heat exchangers are arranged in the secondary flow path. The communication portion communicates with the plurality of heat exchangers and constitutes a portion of the secondary flow path. The communication portion is provided with an exhaust gas outlet which is an outlet for exhaust gas used for exhaust gas recirculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishikawa, Naohiro Takemoto
  • EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180266369
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a main flow path, a secondary flow path, one or a plurality of heat exchangers, and one or a plurality of covering members. Exhaust gas flows in the main flow path. The secondary flow path is a flow path branched from the main flow path and is disposed surrounding a circumference of the main flow path. At least a portion of the exhaust gas flows in the secondary flow path. One or a plurality of the heat exchangers is arranged in the secondary flow path. One or a plurality of the covering members covers at least a portion of a circumference of the heat exchanger, and an internal space constitutes a portion of the secondary flow path. The covering member is provided with an exhaust gas outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishikawa, Hirohisa Okami
  • EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180266367
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device includes a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between exhaust gas flowing in from a first exhaust gas conduit and a fluid as a heated object. Regarding the heat exchanger, a flow passage for the exhaust gas inside the shell is configured so that the exhaust gas flowing in from the exhaust gas inflow passage reaches a branch after contacting a plate in a division area and the exhaust gas not branched to an exhaust gas recirculation flow passage at the branch flows out to a second exhaust gas conduit after contacting a plate in a division area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunikazu Shirai, Naohiro Takemoto, Hirohisa Okami
  • EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180266368
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a heat exchanger, a supply flow path, and a discharge flow path. The heat exchanger has a plurality of heat exchange flow paths configured to carry out heat exchange between exhaust gas and a heat exchange medium. The supply flow path is configured such that the exhaust gas flows therethrough, and the flowing exhaust gas is supplied to the plurality of heat exchange flow paths while being branched. The discharge flow path is configured to merge and discharge the heat-exchanged exhaust gas having passed through the plurality of heat exchange flow paths. At least one flow path of the supply flow path and the discharge flow path is configured to be narrower toward a downstream side in a flow direction of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishikawa, Naohiro Takemoto
  • MUFFLER
    Publication number: 20180266301
    Abstract: A muffler includes an inner pipe and an outer pipe which, along with the inner pipe, forms a double-wall pipe. A cavity is provided between the inner and outer pipes. A first end of the double-wall pipe is closed between the inner and outer pipes, and a second end of the double-wall pipe has an opening between the inner and outer pipes. The cavity communicates with an exhaust channel via the opening. The cavity is formed as a result of the inner pipe being shaped in a manner such that a portion of an outer-circumferential surface of the inner pipe is positioned on an inner-circumferential side relative to a reference, the reference being a position of an outer-circumferential surface of the outer pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki Higashino, Katsuhiko Kainuma, Takehiro Miura, Shinnosuke Toichi, Hayato Tawada