Patents by Inventor Akiyoshi Horikawa

Akiyoshi Horikawa 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: 9512860
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid pressure cylinder improved in assembling performance so as to easily fix a partition wall to a cylinder main body. A plurality of pistons 15a and 15b are incorporated in a cylinder main body 11, axially aligned with each other, reciprocable in an axial direction, and respectively provided with piston rods 17a and 17b. A partition wall 14 is attached to the cylinder main body 11 so as to form pressure chambers 21a and 21b. A stopper space is formed by an engagement groove 31 provided to the partition wall 14 and a slit 32 formed so as to extend in a transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11. A stopper 34 is inserted in the stopper space in the transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11 so as to fix the partition wall 14 to the cylinder main body 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yu Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20140366716
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid pressure cylinder improved in assembling performance so as to easily fix a partition wall to a cylinder main body. A plurality of pistons 15a and 15b are incorporated in a cylinder main body 11, axially aligned with each other, reciprocable in an axial direction, and respectively provided with piston rods 17a and 17b. A partition wall 14 is attached to the cylinder main body 11 so as to form pressure chambers 21a and 21b. A stopper space is formed by an engagement groove 31 provided to the partition wall 14 and a slit 32 formed so as to extend in a transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11. A stopper 34 is inserted in the stopper space in the transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11 so as to fix the partition wall 14 to the cylinder main body 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yu Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 8839919
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit for absorbing an impact force without bending the reciprocating rod. The shock absorber has a hollow rod provided with a through hole. The hollow rod is mounted within an outer cylindrical body. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force toward one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body by a compression coil spring. An annular piston provided in the hollow rod partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. When the impact force is applied to the hollow rod, the liquid flows from one liquid chamber to another liquid chamber through a gap, whereby a resistance force is applied to the hollow rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8584817
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod and an outer cylindrical body mounted axially movably relatively to and outside the hollow rod. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. The hollow rod carries an annular piston, which partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. A compression spring biases the outer cylindrical body toward one end of the hollow rod. When an impact forces the outer cylindrical body toward the other end of the hollow rod, liquid flows from one of the liquid chambers to the other through a gap, so that a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8342301
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod provided with a through hole and an outer cylindrical body mounted outside the hollow rod so as to be movable axially relatively and attached to the reciprocating unit. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force in a direction of being relatively directed to one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body by a compression coil spring. An annular piston for partitioning an accommodating space into two liquid chambers is provided in the hollow rod. When the impact force is applied to the hollow rod so as to be slid to the hollow rod, the liquid flows from one liquid chamber to another liquid chamber through a gap, whereby a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20120326367
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit for absorbing an impact force without bending the reciprocating rod. The shock absorber has a hollow rod provided with a through hole. The hollow rod is mounted within an outer cylindrical body. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force toward one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body by a compression coil spring. An annular piston provided in the hollow rod partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. When the impact force is applied to the hollow rod, the liquid flows from one liquid chamber to another liquid chamber through a gap, whereby a resistance force is applied to the hollow rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20120241266
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod and an outer cylindrical body mounted axially movably relatively to and outside the hollow rod. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. The hollow rod carries an annular piston, which partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. A compression spring biases the outer cylindrical body toward one end of the hollow rod. When an impact forces the outer cylindrical body toward the other end of the hollow rod, liquid flows from one of the liquid chambers to the other through a gap, so that a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: KOGANEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8181756
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod and an outer cylindrical body mounted axially movably relatively to and outside the hollow rod. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force in a direction of being relatively directed to one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied by a compression spring to the outer cylindrical body. The hollow rod is provided with an annular piston which partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. When an impact force in a direction of being relatively directed to the other end side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body, liquid flows from one of the liquid chambers to the other through a gap, so that a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Patent number: 7669515
    Abstract: A pair of cylinder holes 10 are formed in a cylinder tube 2 in the axial direction, a slit 25 is formed between these cylinder holes, and an iron plate 22 is inserted in the slit covering the whole range of the movement of the pistons 3 in the cylinder holes. Spacers 23 made of a synthetic resin are interposed on both sides of the iron plate 22 to reliably hold the iron plate 22 in the slit 25. The iron plate 22 disposed between the cylinder holes works to decrease the repulsive force acting between the inner magnets 14 of the pistons and produce an attracting force between the iron plate 22 and the inner magnets 14, and a contact surface pressure between the wear rings 9 of the pistons 3 and the wall surfaces of the cylinder holes 10 can be adjusted to a suitable value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignees: Howa Machinery, Ltd., Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Mitsuo Noda
  • Patent number: 7644648
    Abstract: A pair of independent cylinder holes 3, 3 are formed in a cylinder tube 2 of a flat outer shape. When a pressurized fluid is alternately supplied into the cylinder tube 2 through a port 7 formed in an end cap 5, the internal pressure for operating the cylinders acts uniformly on the cylinder tube 2 greatly decreasing stress and deflection of the cylinder tube 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignees: Howa Machinery, Ltd., Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Akiyoshi Horikawa, Mitsuo Noda
  • Publication number: 20090223762
    Abstract: A shock absorber with a possible minimum peak value of the impact acceleration during a collision. The shock absorber includes a tubular cylinder part with an opening at one end and the other end closed, a seal part configured to seal the internal space of this cylinder part at a part closer to this one end inside this cylinder part, fluid filled in the enclosed space formed by this seal part inside this cylinder part, a slidable piston part inside this enclosed space, and a rod part that slidably penetrates this seal part concentrically and is connected to this piston part at one end while projecting out to the other side. This cylinder part has a tapered inner surface inside this enclosed space, reducing its internal diameter from the one end to the other end, and the rate of this taper is within the range from 1/50 to 1/130.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Patent number: 7568423
    Abstract: Repulsive magnetic forces in the axial direction of cylinder tubes act between the rows 11 of inner magnets of pistons 10, 10 accommodated in two cylinder tubes 2, 2, and the inner magnets 12 of the pistons 10 come to a halt being slightly deviated relative to the outer magnets 22 in the axial direction of the tube. Due to this deviation, a magnetic holding force Fc is produced between the inner and outer magnets 12, 22. Since the magnetic holding force Fc is produced in a static state, a smooth movement can be attained from a static state suppressing the occurrence of a stick slip phenomenon at the start of movement as compared to the prior art, which does not produce the magnetic holding force in a static state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignees: Howa Machinery, Ltd., Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Akiyoshi Horikawa, Mitsuo Noda
  • Patent number: 7493848
    Abstract: A magnet type rodless cylinder provided with a slide magnetically coupled with a piston arranged in a cylinder tube and a slide able to move outside of the cylinder tube. The slide has a connection mount detachably attached to it. When attaching the connection mount, the position where the connection mount and an end cap strike/contact becomes the striking/contacting position of the piston. When using a rodless cylinder without a connection mount, the distance between the slide and an end cap when the piston is positioned at the striking/contacting position becomes longer than the striking/contacting distance due to the removal of the connection mount. Therefore, external dampers able to strike/contact the slide are detachably attached to the end caps at the slide sides. Due to this, regardless of the use or nonuse of a connection mount, the piston and slide can always stop at the striking/contacting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignees: Howa Machinery, Ltd., Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Mitsuo Noda, Tsuyoshi Yonezawa
  • Publication number: 20080141856
    Abstract: A pair of cylinder holes 10 are formed in a cylinder tube 2 in the axial direction, a slit 25 is formed between these cylinder holes, and an iron plate 22 is inserted in the slit covering the whole range of the movement of the pistons 3 in the cylinder holes. Spacers 23 made of a synthetic resin are interposed on both sides of the iron plate 22 to reliably hold the iron plate 22 in the slit 25. The iron plate 22 disposed between the cylinder holes works to decrease the repulsive force acting between the inner magnets 14 of the pistons and produce an attracting force between the iron plate 22 and the inner magnets 14, and a contact surface pressure between the wear rings 9 of the pistons 3 and the wall surfaces of the cylinder holes 10 can be adjusted to a suitable value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Mitsuo Noda
  • Publication number: 20080115664
    Abstract: Repulsive magnetic forces in the axial direction of cylinder tubes act between the rows 11 of inner magnets of pistons 10, 10 accommodated in two cylinder tubes 2, 2, and the inner magnets 12 of the pistons 10 come to a halt being slightly deviated relative to the outer magnets 22 in the axial direction of the tube. Due to this deviation, a magnetic holding force Fc is produced between the inner and outer magnets 12, 22. Since the magnetic holding force Fc is produced in a static state, a smooth movement can be attained from a static state suppressing the occurrence of a stick slip phenomenon at the start of movement as compared to the prior art, which does not produce the magnetic holding force in a static state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Akiyoshi Horikawa, Mitsuo Noda
  • Publication number: 20080000347
    Abstract: A pair of independent cylinder holes 3, 3 are formed in a cylinder tube 2 of a flat outer shape. When a pressurized fluid is alternately supplied into the cylinder tube 2 through a port 7 formed in an end cap 5, the internal pressure for operating the cylinders acts uniformly on the cylinder tube 2 greatly decreasing stress and deflection of the cylinder tube 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Akiyoshi Horikawa, Mitsuo Noda
  • Publication number: 20070205064
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod and an outer cylindrical body mounted axially movably relatively to and outside the hollow rod. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force in a direction of being relatively directed to one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied by a compression spring to the outer cylindrical body. The hollow rod is provided with an annular piston which partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. When an impact force in a direction of being relatively directed to the other end side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body, liquid flows from one of the liquid chambers to the other through a gap, so that a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20070205065
    Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod provided with a through hole and an outer cylindrical body mounted outside the hollow rod so as to be movable axially relatively and attached to the reciprocating unit. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force in a direction of being relatively directed to one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body by a compression coil spring. An annular piston for partitioning an accommodating space into two liquid chambers is provided in the hollow rod. When the impact force is applied to the hollow rod so as to be slid to the hollow rod, the liquid flows from one liquid chamber to another liquid chamber through a gap, whereby a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yuta Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20060207422
    Abstract: A magnet type rodless cylinder provided with a slide magnetically coupled with a piston arranged in a cylinder tube and a slide able to move outside of the cylinder tube. The slide has a connection mount detachably attached to it. When attaching the connection mount, the position where the connection mount and an end cap strike/contact becomes the striking/contacting position of the piston. When using a rodless cylinder without a connection mount, the distance between the slide and an end cap when the piston is positioned at the striking/contacting position becomes longer than the striking/contacting distance due to the removal of the connection mount. Therefore, external dampers able to strike/contact the slide are detachably attached to the end caps at the slide sides. Due to this, regardless of the use or nonuse of a connection mount, the piston and slide can always stop at the striking/contacting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Mitsuo Noda, Tsuyoshi Yonezawa
  • Patent number: D529938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignees: Howa Machinery, Ltd., Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Noda, Tsuyoshi Yonezawa, Akiyoshi Horikawa, Naoki Minowa, Hiroshi Yoshida