Patents by Inventor Atsuya Okamoto

Atsuya Okamoto 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: 11976618
    Abstract: A fixed core generates a magnetic attraction force with energization of a coil. A movable core has an attracted surface facing an attracting surface of the fixed core is attracted to the fixed core to cause the valve body to open a nozzle hole. A stopper member abuts against the movable core to restrict movement of the movable core. The movable core has an abutment portion that abuts against the stopper member, and a core body portion in which the attracted surface is formed. The attracting surface and the attracted surface extend annularly around an axis line of the fixed core, are formed so as to be separated from each other in an axis line direction in a state where the abutment portion abuts against the stopper member, and a separation distance from each other increases toward a radially outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamamoto, Yuki Watanabe, Atsuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11922690
    Abstract: A data processing system, a data processing device, and a data processing method are provided. The data processing system includes a wearable device including a display means and an imaging means and a database that is connected to the wearable device through a network. The database includes at least one of pieces of information on a cooking recipe, a cooking method, and a material. The wearable device detects a first material by the imaging means. The wearable device collects information on the first material from the database. When the first material exists in a specific region in an imaging range of the imaging means, the information on the first material is displayed on the display means. When the first material does not exist in the specific region, the information on the first material is not displayed on the display means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuro Kanemura, Taisuke Higashi, Hiroya Hibino, Atsuya Tokinosu, Hiromichi Godo, Satoru Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11542901
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring and a cup. The movable core has a first core contact surface which contacts the valve body when the movable core is moved by a predetermined distance away from a nozzle hole, and a second core contact surface which contacts the cup when the movable core is moved away from the nozzle hole. The movable core, the cup and the valve body form a fuel storage chamber which is surrounded by the movable core, the cup and the valve body to accumulate fuel. The first core contact surface is located inside the fuel storage chamber. The first core contact surface and the second core contact surface have a communication groove through which the inside and the outside of the fuel storage chamber communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Mochizuki, Atsuya Okamoto, Shinsuke Yamamoto, Yuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11421636
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring, and a cup. The spring is elastically deformed according to valve opening operation of the valve body, and exerts a valve closing elastic force for closing the valve body. The cup contacts a valve closing contact surface of the valve body, and transmits the valve closing elastic force to the valve body. At a start of predetermined-distance movement of the movable core together with the cup, the cup is in contact with the valve closing contact surface, and the valve body or the cup has a supply flow channel through which fuel is supplied to the valve body closing contact surface which is in a state contacting the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamamoto, Kouichi Mochizuki, Atsuya Okamoto, Yuki Watanabe, Tohru Sekido
  • Patent number: 11300088
    Abstract: A valve body has a seat surface swollen toward a seating surface of an injection hole body having an injection hole. A fuel passage is between the injection hole body and the valve body and is opened and closed due to separation and seating of the seat surface. In a seat portion throttle state, a flow rate of injected fuel is throttled by a gap between the seat surface and the seating surface. In an injection hole throttle state, the flow rate of fuel is throttled by the injection hole. When the valve body is operated from a valve closing position to a full lift position, the seat portion throttle state is brought from the valve closing position to a predetermined intermediate position, and the injection hole throttle state is brought from the intermediate position to the full lift position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Kouichi Mochizuki, Atsuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11242831
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring, a cup, and a guide. The cup contacts the spring and the valve body to transmit a valve closing elastic force to the valve body, and includes a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape. The guide has a sliding surface on which an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion slides so as to guide the movement of the cylindrical portion in an axial direction while restricting the movement of the cylindrical portion in a radial direction. The guide has a recessed surface connected to the sliding surface and recessed to increase a gap between the recessed surface and the cup in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamamoto, Kouichi Mochizuki, Atsuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210332780
    Abstract: A fixed core generates a magnetic attraction force with energization of a coil. A movable core has an attracted surface facing an attracting surface of the fixed core is attracted to the fixed core to cause the valve body to open a nozzle hole. A stopper member abuts against the movable core to restrict movement of the movable core. The movable core has an abutment portion that abuts against the stopper member, and a core body portion in which the attracted surface is formed. The attracting surface and the attracted surface extend annularly around an axis line of the fixed core, are formed so as to be separated from each other in an axis line direction in a state where the abutment portion abuts against the stopper member, and a separation distance from each other increases toward a radially outer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAMOTO, Yuki WATANABE, Atsuya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210285412
    Abstract: A valve body has a seat surface swollen toward a seating surface of an injection hole body having an injection hole. A fuel passage is between the injection hole body and the valve body and is opened and closed due to separation and seating of the seat surface. In a seat portion throttle state, a flow rate of injected fuel is throttled by a gap between the seat surface and the seating surface. In an injection hole throttle state, the flow rate of fuel is throttled by the injection hole. When the valve body is operated from a valve closing position to a full lift position, the seat portion throttle state is brought from the valve closing position to a predetermined intermediate position, and the injection hole throttle state is brought from the intermediate position to the full lift position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki WATANABE, Kouichi MOCHIZUKI, Atsuya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210277861
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve including: an injection hole body formed of metal and having an injection hole configured to inject fuel; and a metal holder that has a cylindrical shape having an insertion port in which the injection hole body is inserted, and is fusion welded to a portion of the injection hole body located inside the insertion port. The injection hole body includes a body-side fused portion formed by fusion welding, a heat-affected portion which is located on a side of the insertion port with respect to the body-side fused portion, and of which a tissue structure is changed due to heat of the fusion welding, and a seal portion located on an opposite side of the heat-affected portion from the body-side fused portion and extending in an annular shape around a cylinder center line of the holder to come into close contact with the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kouichi MOCHIZUKI, Koichi OHATA, Atsuya OKAMOTO, Noritsugu KATO, Yuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200224621
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring, a cup, and a guide. The cup contacts the spring and the valve body to transmit a valve closing elastic force to the valve body, and includes a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape. The guide has a sliding surface on which an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion slides so as to guide the movement of the cylindrical portion in an axial direction while restricting the movement of the cylindrical portion in a radial direction. The guide has a recessed surface connected to the sliding surface and recessed to increase a gap between the recessed surface and the cup in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAMOTO, Kouichi MOCHIZUKI, Atsuya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200224620
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring and a cup. The movable core has a first core contact surface which contacts the valve body when the movable core is moved by a predetermined distance away from a nozzle hole, and a second core contact surface which contacts the cup when the movable core is moved away from the nozzle hole. The movable core, the cup and the valve body form a fuel storage chamber which is surrounded by the movable core, the cup and the valve body to accumulate fuel. The first core contact surface is located inside the fuel storage chamber. The first core contact surface and the second core contact surface have a communication groove through which the inside and the outside of the fuel storage chamber communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kouichi MOCHIZUKI, Atsuya OKAMOTO, Shinsuke YAMAMOTO, Yuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200224622
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring, and a cup. The spring is elastically deformed according to valve opening operation of the valve body, and exerts a valve closing elastic force for closing the valve body. The cup contacts a valve closing contact surface of the valve body, and transmits the valve closing elastic force to the valve body. At a start of predetermined-distance movement of the movable core together with the cup, the cup is in contact with the valve closing contact surface, and the valve body or the cup has a supply flow channel through which fuel is supplied to the valve body closing contact surface which is in a state contacting the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAMOTO, Kouichi MOCHIZUKI, Atsuya OKAMOTO, Yuki WATANABE, Tohru SEKIDO
  • Patent number: 9605634
    Abstract: A needle has a large-diameter portion, an outer diameter of which is larger than that of a shaft portion of the needle. A needle-side tapered surface is formed at the large-diameter portion on a valve closing side thereof, wherein the needle-side tapered surface is inclined by a needle angle with respect to a center axis of the needle. A core-side tapered surface is formed at a movable core, wherein the core-side tapered surface is inclined by a core angle with respect to the center axis of the needle. The needle and the movable core are brought into contact with each other via the needle-side and the core-side tapered surfaces. The needle angle and the core angle are made to be equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Yoshimaru, Eiji Mimura, Atsuya Okamoto, Akira Kamada, Eiji Murase, Keisuke Komori
  • Publication number: 20140084087
    Abstract: A needle has a large-diameter portion, an outer diameter of which is larger than that of a shaft portion of the needle. A needle-side tapered surface is formed at the large-diameter portion on a valve closing side thereof, wherein the needle-side tapered surface is inclined by a needle angle with respect to a center axis of the needle. A core-side tapered surface is formed at a movable core, wherein the core-side tapered surface is inclined by a core angle with respect to the center axis of the needle. The needle and the movable core are brought into contact with each other via the needle-side and the core-side tapered surfaces. The needle angle and the core angle are made to be equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyotaka YOSHIMARU, Eiji MIMURA, Atsuya OKAMOTO, Akira KAMADA, Eiji MURASE, Keisuke KOMORI
  • Patent number: 7191961
    Abstract: In an injection hole plate of a fuel injection apparatus, a second-side hole section of each injection hole extends from a downstream end of a base wall of the injection hole plate and is communicated with first-side hole sections, which extends from an upstream end of the wall of the injection hole plate to an axially intermediate point of the wall. The first-side hole sections may discharge fuel into the second-side hole section in a manner that forms a swirl fuel flow in the second-side hole section. The injection hole plate may includes a collision portion, in which fuel flows supplied from the first-side hole sections collide with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Takeshi Mizobuchi, Takehiko Kato
  • Patent number: 7128282
    Abstract: Multiple injection holes are formed in an injection hole plate. Each injection hole penetrates the injection hole plate. The injection hole is formed with an inlet side opening and an outlet side opening. The outlet side opening is formed in the shape of a flattened rectangle having a major axis and a minor axis. Therefore, the fuel flowing into the injection hole through the inlet side opening is injected in the shape of a film from the outlet side opening. Thus, liquid film splitting is promoted, so atomization of the fuel is promoted. Since the multiple injection holes are formed in the injection hole plate, the shape of a great fuel spray, which is formed by combining fuel sprays injected from the respective injection holes, can be adjusted easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Nobuo Ota, Kouichi Mochizuki, Masuaki Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20060202063
    Abstract: In an injection hole plate of a fuel injection apparatus, a second-side hole section of each injection hole extends from a downstream end of a base wall of the injection hole plate and is communicated with first-side hole sections, which extends from an upstream end of the wall of the injection hole plate to an axially intermediate point of the wall. The first-side hole sections may discharge fuel into the second-side hole section in a manner that forms a swirl fuel flow in the second-side hole section. The injection hole plate may includes a collision portion, in which fuel flows supplied from the first-side hole sections collide with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Takeshi Mizobuchi, Nobuo Ota, Kouichi Mochizuki, Takehiko Kato
  • Patent number: 7066408
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel injection valve in which nozzle holes are formed on a metering plate and fuel flowing on a face of the metering plate on the upstream side is injected outside of a face of the metering plate on the downstream side through the nozzle holes. The fuel injection valve includes a vortex flow generator means for changing a flow of fuel passing in each nozzle hole into a vortex flow, wherein the vortex flow generator means is provided on the upstream side of the metering plate. The vortex flow means is a vortex flow generator groove provided on an upper face of the metering plate and connected with a wall face of an entrance of the nozzle hole, and a main stream of fuel flowing in the groove is directed to a position shifted from the center of the nozzle hole. Alternatively, the vortex flow means is a protrusion formed on an upper face of the metering plate. A flow of fuel is changed into a vortex flow in the nozzle hole and injected from the nozzle hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomojiro Sugimoto, Keiso Takeda, Shigeo Furuno, Kimitaka Saito, Yasuhide Tani, Atsuya Okamoto, Takehiko Kato, Tatsushi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 6994279
    Abstract: In an injection hole plate of a fuel injection device, injection holes are arranged about a circle. Fuel injected from the injection holes forms a flat sector-shaped spray. The intervals between adjacent injection holes are approximately equal to each other, while the diameters of the injection holes are equal to each other. An injection hole is positioned on an imaginary plane, which contains the central axis of the sector-shaped spray along the injection direction and is orthogonal or approximately orthogonal to the sector-shaped spray. The injection holes, away from the imaginary plane in this order, are symmetric with respect to the line of intersection of the injection hole plate and the imaginary plane. The farther each injection hole is away from the imaginary plane, the larger an angle of gradient of the injection hole with respect to the imaginary plane becomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kimitaka Saito, Yasuhide Tani, Atsuya Okamoto, Takeshi Mizobuchi
  • Publication number: 20040217204
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel injection valve in which nozzle holes are formed on a metering plate and fuel flowing on a face of the metering plate on the upstream side is injected outside of a face of the metering plate on the downstream side through the nozzle holes. The fuel injection valve includes a vortex flow generator means for changing a flow of fuel passing in each nozzle hole into a vortex flow, wherein the vortex flow generator means is provided on the upstream side of the metering plate. The vortex flow means is a vortex flow generator groove provided on an upper face of the metering plate and connected with a wall face of an entrance of the nozzle hole, and a main stream of fuel flowing in the groove is directed to a position shifted from the center of the nozzle hole. Alternatively, the vortex flow means is a protrusion formed on an upper face of the metering plate. A flow of fuel is changed into a vortex flow in the nozzle hole and injected from the nozzle hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Tomojiro Sugimoto, Keiso Takeda, Shigeo Furuno, Kimitaka Saito, Yasuhide Tani, Atsuya Okamoto, Takehiko Kato, Tatsushi Nakashima