Patents Assigned to Nikki Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10871789
    Abstract: A regulator may be configured to reduce an individual difference between products due to a size tolerance of each of a valve seated seat holding member, a valve seated seat, a piston pressure regulating valve, and a main body part. The main body part may be affected by a load of a pressure regulating spring, or a load variation at a set point of the pressure regulating spring. The regulator may be configured without a function loss due to a damage, leakage failure, or the like of the valve seated seat. A pressure regulating valve body 5 may be closely in contact with a valve seated seat 31, and a piston unit 6 that is formed around an outer periphery thereof and that affects a pressure regulating spring 8 are formed separately, the two forming a piston pressure regulating valve 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoya Suenaga
  • Patent number: 10662882
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pressure monitoring system of a vaporizer using a safety module which issues a fault signal by detecting a pressure using a fuel pressure sensor disposed in a pressure regulating chamber of the vaporizer within a predetermined time after an engine is stopped and determining that the pressure regulating mechanism fails when the detected pressure exceeds a threshold stored in a storage device to be increased to a predetermined pressure or higher, and the pressure regulating mechanism is determined to fail only when a water temperature of cooling water in the engine of the vaporizer reaches a predetermined temperature at which warming up of the engine can be determined to be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Endo, Tsutomu Murakami, Tomoaki Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 10655579
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a housing including a housing body in which a fuel storage tank serving as a reservoir tank as well and a lid covering an opening of the housing body in an air-tight manner. The housing includes a fuel pump, a regulator configured to regulate a pressure of the fuel to return excess fuel to the fuel storage tank, a regulator holding member supporting the regulator, and a fuel storage volume adjusting unit that maintains the liquid surface level of the stored fuel at a fixed level. The fuel supply system supplies fuel at a predetermined pressure from a fuel discharging pipe of the lid to the engine. The regulator holding member is formed in such a manner in a planar view as to fill most of interspace in the opening of the housing body to close the upper portion of the fuel storage tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Wakabayashi, Yukinori Suematsu
  • Patent number: 10120395
    Abstract: A supporting member supporting a valve body includes a supporting member body having a semispherical bottom portion that makes contact with the top face of the valve body and a securing recess that is provided in the center and at a predetermined axial location to adjoin a through hole provided in the valve body, and a securing member including an engaging portion that has a form of a shaft having a predetermined diameter made of an elastic material and protrudes from a proximal end and a securing projection that swells out from a predetermined axial location of the shaft portion to fit into a securing recess provided in a through hole in the supporting member body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Ishida, Masanori Yasaki
  • Patent number: 10052945
    Abstract: To provide a fuel supply system in which fuel stored in a fuel storage tank formed in a housing main body can be supplied by a high-pressure pump provided in the housing main body in spite of a rapid acceleration or a rapid deceleration of an engine, two types of connectors, which is a first connector having a low-pressure pump having a connection port for a fuel supply pipe from a fuel tank and a second connector having no pump, can be selectively attached via a common connector mounting part formed on a wall surface of a housing main body, and by using a housing having therein the commonly used high-pressure pump, a fuel supply system using an external pump and a fuel supply system using no external pump can be respectively manufactured in accordance with the purpose of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kimura, Teruyuki Wakabayashi, Yukinori Suematsu
  • Patent number: 9677507
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to improve the oil removal rate in an oil separator that separates and removes oil from gas including the oil as an impurity. The oil separator according to the present invention is characterized by including a first filter member (42) in a cylindrical shape made with a cylindrical filter material having an air permeability, and positioned such that the target gas flows in from a hollow part as well as a central axis is in an up-down direction, and a second filter member (43) made with a filter material having air permeability and wrapped around the first filter member (42) along an outer surface thereof with a predetermined spacing from the outer surface of the first filter member (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd., Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Masashi Iwasaki, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara
  • Publication number: 20160016463
    Abstract: To provide a fuel supply system in which fuel stored in a fuel storage tank formed in a housing main body can be supplied by a high-pressure pump provided in the housing main body in spite of a rapid acceleration or a rapid deceleration of an engine, two types of connectors, which is a first connector having a low-pressure pump having a connection port for a fuel supply pipe from a fuel tank and a second connector having no pump, can be selectively attached via a common connector mounting part formed on a wall surface of a housing main body, and by using a housing having therein the commonly used high-pressure pump, a fuel supply system using an external pump and a fuel supply system using no external pump can be respectively manufactured in accordance with the purpose of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kimura, Teruyuki Wakabayashi, Yukinori Suematsu
  • Patent number: 9183098
    Abstract: The invention provides a control device for mutually monitoring two microcomputers at a low cost while reducing a parts number and doubly monitoring abnormality in each of the microcomputers. The control device transmits a reset signal to a main microcomputer and resets the main microcomputer when a frequency of a first pulse signal deviates from a normal frequency range determined by a frequency calculating means, in which the first pulse signal is output from the main microcomputer, and the frequency calculating means calculates a frequency of the first pulse signal by an input of the first pulse signal to a sub microcomputer. The control device transmits a reset signal to the sub microcomputer and resets the sub microcomputer when a frequency of a second pulse signal deflects from a normal frequency range, by an input of the second pulse signal to the main microcomputer from the sub microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamat Abdukadir, Yoshiyuki Ando, Umerujan Sawut
  • Publication number: 20150226158
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to improve the oil removal rate in an oil separator that separates and removes oil from gas including the oil as an impurity. The oil separator according to the present invention is characterized by including a first filter member (42) in a cylindrical shape made with a cylindrical filter material having an air permeability, and positioned such that the target gas flows in from a hollow part as well as a central axis is in an up-down direction, and a second filter member (43) made with a filter material having air permeability and wrapped around the first filter member (42) along an outer surface thereof with a predetermined spacing from the outer surface of the first filter member (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: TOKYO ROKI CO., LTD., NIKKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Masashi Iwasaki, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara
  • Patent number: 8979967
    Abstract: There is provided a filter device for gas including: a cylindrical filter case formed to be airtight; a hollow filter which is formed with an opening in a bottom part thereof, a top part of which is obstructed, and which is placed inside the filter case in such a manner that a central axis thereof substantially aligns with a central axis of the filter case; and a flow controlling plate which is attached roundly between an outlet in the top part of the filter case and the top part of the hollow filter on an inner peripheral wall of the filter case, wherein gas introduced through an inlet in a bottom part of the filter case is introduced into a hollow part of the hollow filter, and also passes through a space between an outer periphery of the hollow filter and the inner peripheral wall of the filter case, and then is discharged through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignees: Nikki Co., Ltd., Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Yuka Yorita, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara
  • Patent number: 8733319
    Abstract: When control to maintain a constant engine rotation number is executed, the electronic control unit constantly monitors an error of detected throttle position data with respect to a desired throttle control value, executes a first stage of a failure judgment method to judge that a failure of a throttle control system has occurred in a case where an absolute value of the error exceeds a predetermined threshold value continuously for a predetermined time or longer, and executes a second stage of the failure judgment method to judge that a serious failure has occurred in the system in a case where a detected engine rotation number exceeds a predetermined rotation number continuously for a predetermined time or longer, to perform predetermined operations in accordance with the judgment results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Buso Takigawa, Umerujan Sawut, Tohti Gheyret, Norichika Kojima, Tsutomu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140143595
    Abstract: The invention provides a control device for mutually monitoring two microcomputers at a low cost while reducing a parts number and doubly monitoring abnormality in each of the microcomputers. The control device transmits a reset signal to a main microcomputer and resets the main microcomputer when a frequency of a first pulse signal deviates from a normal frequency range determined by a frequency calculating means, in which the first pulse signal is output from the main microcomputer, and the frequency calculating means calculates a frequency of the first pulse signal by an input of the first pulse signal to a sub microcomputer. The control device transmits a reset signal to the sub microcomputer and resets the sub microcomputer when a frequency of a second pulse signal deflects from a normal frequency range, by an input of the second pulse signal to the main microcomputer from the sub microcomputer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamat Abdukadir, Yoshiyuki Ando, Umerujan Sawut
  • Publication number: 20140059984
    Abstract: There is provided a filter device for gas including: a cylindrical filter case formed to be airtight; a hollow filter which is formed with an opening in a bottom part thereof, a top part of which is obstructed, and which is placed inside the filter case in such a manner that a central axis thereof substantially aligns with a central axis of the filter case; and a flow controlling plate which is attached roundly between an outlet in the top part of the filter case and the top part of the hollow filter on an inner peripheral wall of the filter case, wherein gas introduced through an inlet in a bottom part of the filter case is introduced into a hollow part of the hollow filter, and also passes through a space between an outer periphery of the hollow filter and the inner peripheral wall of the filter case, and then is discharged through the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: TOKYO ROKI CO., LTD., NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Yuka Yorita, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara
  • Patent number: 8543316
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device comprising a fuel supply unit, engine operation state detector, air-fuel ratio information detector, and an electronic control unit is disclosed. The electronic control unit determines a fuel injection amount which realizes a target air-fuel ratio while using engine load information by the engine operation state detector on the basis of air-fuel ratio information by the air-fuel ratio information detector, and then outputs a driving signal to the fuel supply unit, to execute feedback control mainly at an excessively rich side air-fuel ratio, characterized in that the air-fuel ratio information detector is an exhaust gas temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Buso Takigawa, Umerujan Sawut, Tohti Gheyret
  • Patent number: 8408526
    Abstract: A carburetor with a starting fuel supply mechanism which additionally supplies a starting fuel at the start of an engine includes a choke valve in suction passages extending through a main body; and a starting fuel supply path disposed as a bypass of a main fuel passage to connect a float chamber to the suction passages, the starting fuel supply path being provided with an opening/closing valve opened by interlocking with the closing operation of the choke valve, and a valve body of the choke valve which performs the closing operation presses valve opening/closing device while abutting on one end of the valve opening/closing device, to open the opening/closing valve of the starting fuel supply path, so that the starting fuel can be prepared to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 8272257
    Abstract: The invention aims at providing an engine control experimenting apparatus which enables to easily carry out a confirmation test of an operation in all operation states with regard to the performance of various engine control parts constituting an engine system. In this engine control experimenting apparatus, various engine control parts, which are actually mounted on an engine and are required for engine control, are constructed in a state where electrical transmission and fuel supply are enabled in a manner similar to a case where the engine control parts are mounted on a real engine, and a model-based control is performed on the same conditions as those of the actual engine, on the basis of experimental data of the real engine written in an electronic control unit constituting each of the engine control parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Umerujan Sawut, Shinya Yamaguchi, Buso Takigawa
  • Publication number: 20120150416
    Abstract: Even if the engine structure is not capable of continuous operation in the vicinity of stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, this engine is in the stoichiometric combustion region when condition such as low load and stable engine rotation is met, and the feedback control using the O2 sensor, although temporary, becomes possible. Therefore, the air-fuel ratio control system performs this feedback, and derives and sets the constant value for correction to attain the air-fuel ratio suited to the engine. Thereafter, the optimal air-fuel ratio is controlled at the normal control mode just by correcting the fuel injection quantity using the constant value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20120000442
    Abstract: When control to maintain a constant engine rotation number is executed, the electronic control unit constantly monitors an error of detected throttle position data with respect to a desired throttle control value, executes a first stage of a failure judgment method to judge that a failure of a throttle control system has occurred in a case where an absolute value of the error exceeds a predetermined threshold value continuously for a predetermined time or longer, and executes a second stage of the failure judgment method to judge that a serious failure has occurred in the system in a case where a detected engine rotation number exceeds a predetermined rotation number continuously for a predetermined time or longer, to perform predetermined operations in accordance with the judgment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Buso Takigawa, Umerujan Sawut, Tohti Gheyret, Norichika Kojima, Tsutomu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20110257871
    Abstract: There is provided an air-fuel ratio control device comprising: fuel supply means; engine operation state detection means; air-fuel ratio information detection means; and an electronic control unit, the electronic control unit being configured to determine a fuel injection amount which realizes a target air-fuel ratio while using engine load information by the engine operation state detection means on the basis of air-fuel ratio information by the air-fuel ratio information detection means, and then output a driving signal to the fuel supply means, to execute feedback control mainly at an excessively rich side air-fuel ratio, characterized in that the air-fuel ratio information detection means is an exhaust gas temperature sensor, and while estimating an air-fuel ratio at this time on the basis of detected exhaust gas temperature information by a predetermined obtaining method, the air-fuel ratio is used for the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Buso Takigawa, Umerujan Sawut, Tohti Gheyret
  • Patent number: D808438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Wakabayashi, Yukinori Suematsu