Patents by Inventor Chugo Kimura

Chugo Kimura 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: 4799390
    Abstract: A snow-weathering test apparatus for a self-propelled vehicle, comprises: a low-temperature testing chamber; a water-spraying unit provided with a truck having a wheel, on which truck is mounted a two-fluid injection nozzle for spraying water with an air-jet into a mist, which water-spraying unit is movably provided in the low-temperature testing chamber; a cooling unit provided with an air-feed duct connected between the low-temperature testing chamber and the cooling unit to feed a cooling air issued from the cooling unit to the low-temperature testing chamber; an air-return duct connected between the low-temperature testing chamber and the cooling unit to permit the cooling air to return to the cooling unit from the low-temperature testing chamber; and a snow-catching unit provided with a heating unit, for catching a snow carried by the cooling air from the low-temperature chamber, which heating unit is employed to melt the snow caught by the snow-catching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki-Kaisha Toyo Seisakusho
    Inventor: Chugo Kimura