Patents Assigned to Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 5197871
    Abstract: A vaporizing type burner including a cylindrical body, a combustion chamber, a fuel absorbing section for receiving a fuel therein and vaporizing the received fuel therefrom, a mixer tube in which a vaporized fuel and a combustion air are mixed with each other to prepare a mixture gas and an igniting plug for igniting the mixture gas radially ejected from the mixer tube wherein a supporting member for accommodating the fuel absorbing section in the cylindrical body is arranged in such a manner as not to allow the fuel absorbing section to be exposed directly the combustion chamber, a vaporizing chamber is arranged adjacent to the fuel absorbing section and the supporting member so as to allow a part of the combustion gas generated in the combustion chamber to be introduced into the vaporizing chamber without any burning flame, an air swirling chamber includes a plurality of guide plates for imparting a swirling force to the combustion air, the mixer tube is communicated not only with the air swirling chamber
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuuzou Yamamoto, Katsuji Sawada, Hisashi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 5119787
    Abstract: A fuel supply system for injection carburetors includes an orifice, a constant flow rate control device, and a fuel supply source and is provided with a first fuel channel circulating fuel of a predetermined flow rate, a second fuel channel branching off from the first fuel channel between the orifice and the constant flow rate control device for injecting the fuel into a suction tube of the carburetor, an air flow rate detecting device capable of detecting a flow rate of air flowing through the suction tube, and a fuel ejection control device capable of metering the flow rate of fuel to be ejected so that a pressure difference with atmospheric pressure which is detected by the air flow rate detecting device is balanced with a fuel pressure difference between the upstream side and the downstream side of the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 5031596
    Abstract: A fuel supply system for injection carburetors includes an orifice, a constant flow rate control device, and a fuel supply source and is provided with a first fuel channel circulating fuel of a predetermined flow rate, a second fuel channel branching off from the first fuel channel between the orifice and the constant flow rate control device for injecting the fuel into a suction tube of the carburetor, an air flow rate detecting device capable of detecting a flow rate of air flowing through the suction tube, and a fuel ejection control device capable of metering the flow rate of fuel to be ejected so that a pressure difference with atmospheric pressure which is detected by the air flow rate detecting device is balanced with a fuel pressure difference between the upstream side and the downstream side of the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 4986240
    Abstract: The fuel injection device for injection carburetors comprises a slow fuel control unit consisting of an air pressure regulator and a fuel pressure regulator, and a main fuel control unit consisting of another air pressure regulator and another fuel pressure regulator. The slow fuel control unit and the main fuel control unit have a common fuel feeding passage, and the former fuel control unit is arranged at a location downstream the latter fuel control unit. This feel injection device has a broad control range and high control accuracy, is manufacturable at a low cost and is capable of maintaining initial performance thereof for a long term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Muraji, Mitsuru Sekiya
  • Patent number: 4984547
    Abstract: The fuel injection system for injection carburetors is provided with an air section of regulator and a fuel section of regulator which are arranged opposedly to each other on both the sides of a suction tube, and a connecting member equipped with a fuel injection valve for controlling fuel injection from the fuel section of regulator into the suction tube. The air section of regulator comprises a depression chamber and an air chamber which are separated from each other by a diaphragm, whereas the fuel section of regulator comprises a fuel chamber and a fuel injection chamber which are separated from each other by another diaphragm and communicated with each other through an orifice. The depression chamber is so adapted as to receive negative pressure from a venturi in the suction tube. The connecting member is connected between said two diaphragms and is urged so as to close the fuel injection port with the fuel injection valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 4971013
    Abstract: The fuel injection device for injection carburetors is provided with a single fuel control unit for injecting a fuel into a suction tube in quantities corresponding to flow rates of air to be drawn into the suction tube, a slow negative pressure passage communicating with a depression chamber of the fuel control unit, a diaphragm valve for opening a main negative pressure passage to communicate the depression chamber with the main negative pressure passage when the air suction rate exceeds a predetermined value, and another diaphragm valve operable to close a slow jet and open a main jet when the air suction rate exceeds the predetermined value. This fuel injection device is simple in the structure thereof, manufacturable at a low cost and has high fuel control accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Muraji, Mitsuru Sekiya
  • Patent number: 4948093
    Abstract: A solenoid valve including a solenoid and a second solenoid to which a smaller electric current is applied han is applied to the first solenoid. The first solenoid is provided at a core, and the second solenoid is provided at a support member connected to the core. A cup-shaped plunger is connected to a valve body opening and closing a passage, and is moved in accordance with an energization of the solenoid, to open and close the valve body. A contact member is connected to the plunger and inclined relative to the bottom wall of the plunger, to come into tight contact with the support member. A first magnetic path is formed in the core and a cylindrical side wall of the plunger, and a second magnetic path is formed in the support member and the contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Tohoku Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Sugawara, Takeshi Iinuma, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4814115
    Abstract: A slide and pin type carburetor using a plate-shaped slide valve in which the lower end surface of a flat plate portion is placed on the same plane as that of a column-shaped portion, the flow rate of air is controlled in the periphery of the column-shaped portion within the region in which the column-shaped portion exists and in front of the flat plate portion within the region in which no column-shaped portion exists, and a cutaway is formed, ranging from the surface located on the upstream side of the lower end of the flat plate portion to the bottom surface of the column-shaped portion, toward the downstream side, in order to make it possible to set properly the level of a negative pressure to be produced without raising abnormally the negative pressure produced in the vicinity of the exit of a main fuel nozzle and to increase the flow velocity of air, without producing any turbulence, in the vicinity of the exit of the main fuel nozzle so that the atomization of the fuel is favorably performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Hashimoto, Hitoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4797073
    Abstract: A plunger pump has a plunger adapted to slide in the axial direction and rotate by a combination of worm and worm wheel. A cylindrical pump body has an axial extension at one free end through which a control pin extends upwardly at a right angle relative to the extension, while the plunger carried on the pump in a cantilever fashion has an inclined end face cam, an adjustment cam and a worm wheel on the same side as the axial extension. The worm wheel meshes with a worm directly connected to a crankshaft of an engine and the crankshaft is not held on the pump body. As the crankshaft is rotated, the plunger is caused to rotate by meshing engagement of the worm and the worm wheel and at the same time slide in the pump body by contact of the end face cam with the control pin whereby liquid held in the pump chamber is discharged from the delivery port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Tohoku Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 4765932
    Abstract: A fuel supply device for carburetors comprising a fuel passageway opened at one end in a variable venturi and connected to a float chamber through a jet; a solenoid valve and/or fuel pump provided within the fuel passageway; a negative pressure passageway opened at one end in a stationary venturi located on the upstream side of the variable venturi and generating a negative pressure weaker than in the variable venturi and having an upright part connected to the fuel passageway between the jet and the fuel pump; a level sensor provided in a predetermined height position of the upright part of the negative pressure passageway and capable of detecting whether or not a fuel column formed in the upright part is in a predetermined position and; a control circuit capable of controlling the operation of the solenoid valve and fuel pump on the basis of the output from the level sensor in order to make it possible to maintain the air-fuel ratio in a high load range to be proper without enlarging the flow resistance wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 4709677
    Abstract: In order to insure that, even when there arises a change in the rate of air flowing through an intake mixture passageway, the air-fuel ratio of the mixture which is to be supplied to an engine is always kept constant, the fuel control system comprises: an intake mixture passageway having a first negative pressure generating section and a second negative pressure generating section provided upstream of the first negative pressure generating section for generating a negative pressure weaker than that in the first negative pressure generating section; a fuel passageway having its one end opening in the first negative pressure generating section and its other end connected to a float chamber via a fuel metering jet; an electromagnetic valve for controlling the rate of the fuel flowing through the fuel passageway; a negative pressure passageway having its one end opening in the second negative pressure generating section and having its other end connected to the fuel passageway at a site located between the fuel m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 4690119
    Abstract: In order that an EGR valve device for internal combustion engines of automobiles can be manufactured in a compact size and at a low cost and also that its valve member can be immediately brought to its valve-closing position whenever the driving motor of the device fails, the EGR valve device comprises a sector-shaped gear operatively coupled to a valve member urged to close the valve and capable of causing the valve member to make opening and closing movements, and a driving motor whose shaft of rotary member is disposed so as to intersect at right angles a plane containing the sector-shaped gear and is provided with a pinion meshed with the sector-shaped gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Makino, Akio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4669974
    Abstract: An improved liquid fuel combustion apparatus of the type including a cylindrical combustion chamber, an ignition plug, an ignition plug mounting sleeve and a heat exchanger is disclosed. The cylindrical combustion chamber and the heat exchanger constituting essential components of the apparatus are separable. The ignition plug mounting sleeve is firmly mounted within coaxially aligned nipples on the heat exchanger and on the combustion chamber so that its inner wall lined with a layer of wick is exposed to the interior of the cylindrical combustion chamber. Typically, the ignition plug mounting sleeve is secured to the mounting seat by securing a flange on the outer surface of the mounting sleeve to mounting seat associated with the nipple of the heat exchanger by means of bolts with a packing interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuji Sawada, Kunio Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4627412
    Abstract: An improved vaporized liquid fuel combustion apparatus of the type including a cylindrical combustion chamber, a blower and a heat exchanger is disclosed. An end plate located at the upstream end of the combustion chamber is formed with an air flow guide port through which combustion air is introduced into the combustion chamber. The air flow guide port is located at a position eccentric relative to the axis of the cylindrical combustion chamber. An air guide is disposed in the area located in the proximity of the air flow guide port in such a manner to generate swirl flow in the combustion chamber. The air guide may be disposed on the wall surface of the end plate either on the side located opposite to the blower casing or on the side located opposite to the combustion chamber. The air guide is preferably formed integral with the end plate by press working.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuji Sawada, Yoshiaki Kimijima, Hidetoshi Umehara
  • Patent number: 4623310
    Abstract: An improved vaporized liquid fuel combustion apparatus of the type including a cylindrical combustion chamber, a blower, and end plate located between the combustion chamber and the blower and a heat exchanger for heating air by utilizing thermal energy generated in the combustion chamber is disclosed. The combustion chamber, the blower, the end plate and the heat exchanger are separable components and the blower and the heat exchanger are firmly assembled together by tightening bolts at a single flange connection with the end of the combustion chamber making gastight contact with the peripheral end part of the end plate. The one end part of the combustion chamber, the peripheral end part of the end plate are formed and the one end part of the heat exchanger are formed to mate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kimijima, Kunio Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4613072
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for heating fluid by burning liquid fuel is disclosed. To heat fluid such as water, air or the like medium heat exchanging is effected between the combustion chamber in which liquid fuel is burnt with combustion air introduced therein and the fluid passage through which fluid to be heated flows. The apparatus includes means for controlling rotational speed of a single motor for rotating the fuel pump and the blower, means for controlling a flow rate of fuel to be pumped from the fuel pump, means for controlling a flow rate of combustion air and an electronic control unit into which a variety of parameters relative to the above-mentioned means are inputted. The parameters are processed in the electronic control unit to individually control the means for controlling rotational speed of the motor, the means for controlling a flow rate of fuel and the means for controlling a flow rate of combustion whereby heat exchanging therebetween is achieved without fluctuation in temperature of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunio Kikuchi, Hidetoshi Umehara
  • Patent number: 4611564
    Abstract: An electronically controlled fuel injection or feeding device for use in an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The device comprises means for storing respective engine speeds corresponding to respective positions of an accelerator pedal, and means for increasing the intake mixture of fuel and air to the engine corresponding to the engine speeds by a given amount when a decrease of the actual engine speed is detected under the condition wherein instant pedal position is not changed at a relatively low engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Miyano
  • Patent number: 4608209
    Abstract: In order to enable a carbureter body formed of a soft material such as a synthetic resin to be coupled easily between an air cleaner and a manifold pipe in its state of not developing a distortion, the carbureter for an internal combustion engine comprises: reinforcing members each having a high rigidity and a length greater than the full length of the carbureter body but smaller than the length obtained by adding this length of the carbureter body to the thicknesses of two elastic sealing members used in coupling the carbureter body to the air cleaner and to the manifold pipe; a plurality of arms for nipping the reinforcing members in their posture of being placed along a suction bore of the carbureter body. Shaft-receiving bores for supporting a throttle valve shaft and a choke valve shaft are disposed at locations at which these valve shafts are not affected by the strains which are apt to develop when the carbureter body is coupled to the air cleaner and to the manifold pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4599981
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling the air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine are disclosed. In this method and device the actuator for controlling the air-flow rate is selected as an actuator capable of causing change with passage of time frequently, and the deviation of air-fuel ratio is detected by an air-fuel sensor from a small air-flow rate point corresponding to, for example, an idling speed of engine and a large air-flow rate point corresponding to a predetermined engine speed during running thereby correcting the parameters a and b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Miyano, Shunji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4598682
    Abstract: A method of controlling air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. An oxygen sensor is mounted to the engine to detect oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas from the engine and generate a voltage signal therefrom. The air-fuel is a controlled ratio in accordance with the detected result. The oxygen concentration is sampled in synchronism with the rotational speed of the engine, and sampled results are stored as a correction factor by taking the engine rotational speed into account. The air-fuel ratio is controlled by correction factor previously stored in the preceding sampling time of a given sampling time when a change of the air-fuel ratio is detected by comparing its voltage signal with a reference voltage of the oxygen sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Miyano, Takashi Miyano