Patents by Inventor Eitarou Tanaka

Eitarou Tanaka 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: 8702545
    Abstract: The power transmission system for use in a vehicle includes a power split device to perform power distribution among a flywheel for storing rotational energy as mechanical energy, an internal combustion engine and an electric rotating machine. The power transmission system is provided with an interrupting device configured to interrupt power transmission between a group of the flywheel and the electric rotating machine and a group of the internal combustion engine and drive wheels of the vehicle when rotational energy stored in the flywheel is transmitted to the electric rotating machine through the power split device under condition that power is transmitted between the internal combustion engine and the drive wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eitarou Tanaka, Takahiro Narita, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Publication number: 20130288851
    Abstract: The power transmission system for use in a vehicle includes a power split device to perform power distribution among a flywheel for storing rotational energy as mechanical energy, an internal combustion engine and an electric rotating machine. The power transmission system is provided with an interrupting device configured to interrupt power transmission between a group of the flywheel and the electric rotating machine and a group of the internal combustion engine and drive wheels of the vehicle when rotational energy stored in the flywheel is transmitted to the electric rotating machine through the power split device under condition that power is transmitted between the internal combustion engine and the drive wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Eitarou TANAKA, Takahiro Narita, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 8496553
    Abstract: The power transmission system for use in a vehicle includes a power split device to perform power distribution among a flywheel for storing rotational energy as mechanical energy, an internal combustion engine and an electric rotating machine. The power transmission system is provided with an interrupting device configured to interrupt power transmission between a group of the flywheel and the electric rotating machine and a group of the internal combustion engine and drive wheels of the vehicle when rotational energy stored in the flywheel is transmitted to the electric rotating machine through the power split device under condition that power is transmitted between the internal combustion engine and the drive wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Eitarou Tanaka, Takahiro Narita, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Publication number: 20110106359
    Abstract: The power transmission system for use in a vehicle includes a power split device to perform power distribution among a flywheel for storing rotational energy as mechanical energy, an internal combustion engine and an electric rotating machine. The power transmission system is provided with an interrupting device configured to interrupt power transmission between a group of the flywheel and the electric rotating machine and a group of the internal combustion engine and drive wheels of the vehicle when rotational energy stored in the flywheel is transmitted to the electric rotating machine through the power split device under condition that power is transmitted between the internal combustion engine and the drive wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eitarou Tanaka, Takahiro Narita, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 7722345
    Abstract: In a screw compressor, a pair of rotors are located in a housing to be rotatable around their rotary axes to form in the housing a compression chamber in which gas sucked from a suction port of the housing is compressed thereby discharging the compressed gas from a discharge port of the housing. The suction port is provided in the housing at a position radial outside of the rotors, and the housing is provided with a communication passage through which the suction port communicates with the compression chamber before being communicated with the suction port. Furthermore, the communication passage is provided such that the gas sucked from the suction port flows into the communication passage in a direction approximately parallel with an axial direction of the rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eitarou Tanaka, Hiroshi Okada
  • Patent number: 7553144
    Abstract: In a gas compressor, housing heads are disposed to define an internal space with a housing, and two rotors housed in the internal space are rotatable to form in the internal space a compression chamber. The housing has an inner wall surface opposed to at least outer peripheral surfaces of the two rotors, and the housing heads are provided in correspondence to the respective rotors. One end portion of a rotary shaft of each rotor is supported by the housing, and other end portion of the rotary shaft of each rotor is supported by the housing heads. The housing heads have a first outer peripheral portion corresponding to the inner wall surface of the housing, and a second outer peripheral portion larger than the first outer peripheral portion. Furthermore, the first outer peripheral portion of the housing heads is fitted onto the inner wall surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Eitarou Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070280846
    Abstract: In a screw compressor, a pair of rotors are located in a housing to be rotatable around their rotary axes to form in the housing a compression chamber in which gas sucked from a suction port of the housing is compressed thereby discharging the compressed gas from a discharge port of the housing. The suction port is provided in the housing at a position radial outside of the rotors, and the housing is provided with a communication passage through which the suction port communicates with the compression chamber before being communicated with the suction port. Furthermore, the communication passage is provided such that the gas sucked from the suction port flows into the communication passage in a direction approximately parallel with an axial direction of the rotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eitarou Tanaka, Hiroshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20070258841
    Abstract: In a gas compressor, housing heads are disposed to define an internal space with a housing, and two rotors housed in the internal space are rotatable to form in the internal space a compression chamber. The housing has an inner wall surface opposed to at least outer peripheral surfaces of the two rotors, and the housing heads are provided in correspondence to the respective rotors. One end portion of a rotary shaft of each rotor is supported by the housing, and other end portion of the rotary shaft of each rotor is supported by the housing heads. The housing heads have a first outer peripheral portion corresponding to the inner wall surface of the housing, and a second outer peripheral portion larger than the first outer peripheral portion. Furthermore, the first outer peripheral portion of the housing heads is fitted onto the inner wall surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Eitarou Tanaka