Patents by Inventor Bunji Honma

Bunji Honma 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: 6638009
    Abstract: An impeller for liquid pump that is capable of improving pump efficiency by modifying a shape of the impeller. An impeller is rotatably provided in a pump section of a fuel pump. A plurality of through holes are formed in the impeller so as to extend in an axial direction adjacent a circumference of a disk plate member. By doing so, a plurality of vanes and an outer-radial side ring portion are formed. An intake portion for the liquid, that is, a radial inner surface of the through hole that guides the liquid is inclined so that its rotating direction leading side is positioned to the inner-radial side, and thereby, a wider fluid guiding area is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventor: Bunji Honma
  • Publication number: 20020168261
    Abstract: An impeller for liquid pump that is capable of improving pump efficiency by modifying a shape of the impeller. An impeller is rotatably provided in a pump section of a fuel pump. A plurality of through holes are formed in the impeller so as to extend in an axial direction adjacent a circumference of a disk plate member. By doing so, a plurality of vanes and an outer-radial side ring portion are formed. An intake portion for the liquid, that is, a radial inner surface of the through hole that guides the liquid is inclined so that its rotating direction leading side is positioned to the inner-radial side, and thereby, a wider fluid guiding area is secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bunji Honma
  • Publication number: 20020054814
    Abstract: A light, cheap, and high-performance regenerative pump for pumping a methanol-water fuel of a fuel cell, which is adapted to the fuel. At least one of an impeller of the regenerative pump and an inner wall of the pump is made of polyphenylene sulfide or polyphenylene sulfide containing a filler. A thrust clearance formed between the pump chamber inner wall and an impeller peripheral face is set so as to be assured even in a state where the impeller swells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bunji Honma, Nobuyasu Sadakata, Kiyoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5593287
    Abstract: A fuel pump wherein the inner cylinder 37 for forming the fuel duct 38, in the outer cylinder 14, is provided between the stator 34 and the rotor 32 of the brushless motor 12, one end portion of the inner cylinder 37 is blockaded by the holder plate 41. The contacting pipe 44 for connecting from the fuel duct 38 to the delivery duct 21 is protrudely provided at the holder plate 41, and the control circuit unit 13 of the brushless motor 12 is held thereon. A resin sealed portion 52 is formed between the outer cylinder 14 and the inner cylinder 37, and the circumference of the control circuit unit 13 in the inner cylinder 37 by a potting method. The fuel 54 is lead from the introductory duct 16 to the fuel duct 38 of the inner cylinder 37, and is delivered from the delivery duct 21 through the insides of the fuel duct 38 and the contacting pipe 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsuba Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Sadakata, Bunji Honma, Hideyuki Iwamoto, Yoichi Shindo, Akira Yomoda