Patents by Inventor Hajimu Imanaka

Hajimu Imanaka 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: 10502317
    Abstract: A hydraulic system according to the present invention includes a rotational shaft, a hydraulic rotor supported by the rotational shaft so as to be incapable of relative rotation, an output adjuster varying a volume of the hydraulic rotor, a control shaft tilting the output adjuster, a drive motor operating the control shaft around the axis, a drive shaft disposed on a reference axis same as the axis of the control shaft and operably driven around the axis by the drive motor, a deceleration mechanism decelerating rotary power input from the drive shaft and outputs the decelerated rotary power toward the control shaft, and a housing accommodating the hydraulic rotor, the output adjuster, and the deceleration mechanism, wherein the deceleration mechanism has a hypocycloid-type deceleration mechanism disposed on the reference axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Sasahara, Hiroaki Hashima, Hajimu Imanaka, Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10408319
    Abstract: A MTD unit according to a present disclosure includes a bearing member that has an inner ring, a plurality of rolling elements and an outer ring and is capable of bearing a radial load and a unidirectional axial load, a retainer that has a retaining part retaining the rolling elements such that the rolling elements are rotatable around their own axes and rotates around an axis of the inner ring in accordance with an orbital motion of the rolling elements around the inner ring, and a case that accommodates the bearing member and the retainer, wherein the case has a piston that is axially movable so as to push a movable body, which is either the inner ring or the outer ring, in a first axial direction, an oil chamber provided on an opposite side of the piston from the movable body, and an oil passage for guiding pressurized oil to the oil chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hajimu Imanaka, Hiroaki Hashima
  • Patent number: 10215225
    Abstract: In a power-transmitting mechanism with rolling-element bearing according to the present invention, an inner ring has plural inner ring members disposed in series in an axial direction, an outer ring has plural outer ring members respectively cooperating with the plural inner ring members. Plural rolling elements are disposed between the cooperating inner ring members and outer ring members. A retainer has plural partitions retaining the plural rolling elements at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction such that rolling elements disposed between one pair of cooperating inner ring and outer ring members and rolling elements disposed between another pair of cooperating inner ring and outer ring members orbit the corresponding inner ring members in a synchronized manner, and a connector connecting the plural partitions such that the plural partitions integrally rotate around an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD., KINKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hajimu Imanaka, Hiroshi Tottori, Yasuyoshi Tozaki
  • Publication number: 20170284459
    Abstract: In a power-transmitting mechanism with rolling-element bearing according to the present invention, an inner ring has plural inner ring members disposed in series in an axial direction, an outer ring has plural outer ring members respectively cooperating with the plural inner ring members. Plural rolling elements are disposed between the cooperating inner ring members and outer ring members. A retainer has plural partitions retaining the plural rolling elements at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction such that rolling elements disposed between one pair of cooperating inner ring and outer ring members and rolling elements disposed between another pair of cooperating inner ring and outer ring members orbit the corresponding inner ring members in a synchronized manner, and a connector connecting the plural partitions such that the plural partitions integrally rotate around an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Hajimu IMANAKA, Hiroshi TOTTORI, Yasuyoshi TOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170234425
    Abstract: A hydraulic system according to the present invention includes a rotational shaft, a hydraulic rotor supported by the rotational shaft so as to be incapable of relative rotation, an output adjuster varying a volume of the hydraulic rotor, a control shaft tilting the output adjuster, a drive motor operating the control shaft around the axis, a drive shaft disposed on a reference axis same as the axis of the control shaft and operably driven around the axis by the drive motor, a deceleration mechanism decelerating rotary power input from the drive shaft and outputs the decelerated rotary power toward the control shaft, and a housing accommodating the hydraulic rotor, the output adjuster, and the deceleration mechanism, wherein the deceleration mechanism has a hypocycloid-type deceleration mechanism disposed on the reference axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo SASAHARA, Hiroaki HASHIMA, Hajimu IMANAKA, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170152929
    Abstract: A MTD unit according to a present disclosure includes a bearing member that has an inner ring, a plurality of rolling elements and an outer ring and is capable of bearing a radial load and a unidirectional axial load, a retainer that has a retaining part retaining the rolling elements such that the rolling elements are rotatable around their own axes and rotates around an axis of the inner ring in accordance with an orbital motion of the rolling elements around the inner ring, and a case that accommodates the bearing member and the retainer, wherein the case has a piston that is axially movable so as to push a movable body, which is either the inner ring or the outer ring, in a first axial direction, an oil chamber provided on an opposite side of the piston from the movable body, and an oil passage for guiding pressurized oil to the oil chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Hajimu Imanaka, Hiroaki Hashima
  • Patent number: 7921826
    Abstract: To make it possible to pump a fuel from a supply pump into an accumulator, even when a pressure control means provided with a pressurized fuel pathway is out of action. In a fuel supply system of an engine, which is provided with pressure control means controlling a fuel pressure in an accumulator, on the pressurized fuel pathway delivering the fuel from a feed pump via a supply pump having a plurality of plungers into the accumulator, at least one pressurized fuel pathway is not provided with the pressure control means and the other pressurized fuel pathways are provided with the pressure control means, out of the plurality of pressurized fuel pathways delivering the fuel from the feed pump via plurality of plungers into the accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobu Kobayashi, Hajimu Imanaka, Mitsuyoshi Kawarabayashi
  • Patent number: 7921827
    Abstract: To provide an accumulator fuel injection device, so as to stabilize the operation of a pressure control valve for controlling a fuel pressure in an accumulator. The accumulator fuel injection device includes a pressure control valve 6 for controlling the fuel pressure in the accumulator by moving an armature 13 in an armature chamber 22 and by adjusting escaped volumes of the fuels from the accumulator 2 due to a valving element 11 formed integral with the armature 13 in a control chamber 21 introducing the fuels in the accumulator 2. A means for attenuating the pressure transmitted from the accumulator 2 to the valve seat 10 is provided in the valve seat 10 disposed between the control chamber 21 and the accumulator 2 of the pressure control valve 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobu Kobayashi, Hajimu Imanaka, Mitsuyoshi Kawarabayashi
  • Publication number: 20100275881
    Abstract: To provide an accumulator fuel injection device, so as to stabilize the operation of a pressure control valve for controlling a fuel pressure in an accumulator. The accumulator fuel injection device includes a pressure control valve 6 for controlling the fuel pressure in the accumulator by moving an armature 13 in an armature chamber 22 and by adjusting escaped volumes of the fuels from the accumulator 2 due to a valving element 11 formed integral with the armature 13 in a control chamber 21 introducing the fuels in the accumulator 2. A means for attenuating the pressure transmitted from the accumulator 2 to the valve seat 10 is provided in the valve seat 10 disposed between the control chamber 21 and the accumulator 2 of the pressure control valve 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobu Kobayashi, Hajimu Imanaka, Mitsuyoshi Kawarabayashi
  • Publication number: 20100275882
    Abstract: To make it possible to pump a fuel from a supply pump into an accumulator, even when a pressure control means provided with a pressurized fuel pathway is out of action. In a fuel supply system of an engine, which is provided with pressure control means 20, 40 controlling a fuel pressure in an accumulator 2, on the pressurized fuel pathway delivering the fuel from a feed pump 16 via a supply pump 3 having plurality of plungers 5,5 into the accumulator 2, at least one pressurized fuel pathway is not provided with the pressure control means 20, 40 and the other pressurized fuel pathways are provided with the pressure control means 20, 40, out of plurality of pressurized fuel pathways delivering the fuel from the feed pump 16 via plurality of plungers 5,5 into the accumulator 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobu Kobayashi, Hajimu Imanaka, Mitsuyoshi Kawarabayashi
  • Publication number: 20090301431
    Abstract: A method for controlling a common-rail fuel injection system, which avoids the adverse effect of the pilot injection on the main injection while driving an engine and maximizes the cleaning up of the exhaust gas by the pilot injection or the like, is provided. In the common-rail fuel injection system performing a multistage injection, a pilot injection timing ?p at a crankshaft angle and a main injection timing ?m at the crankshaft angle base are controlled by a ECU. The ECU calculates a pilot injection interval Tpin at a time base and adjusts the main injection timing ?m when the pilot injection interval Tpin is less than the predefined threshold (1 (ms) in the present embodiment).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Kawarabayashi, Hajimu Imanaka, Nobu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7121245
    Abstract: In an injection control device for a fuel injection pump comprising: a water temperature sensor; a cold start device (CSD) for advancing a fuel injection timing to an engine when started up in a low temperature; and a controller, the controller recognizes a value T of water temperature by a signal from the water temperature sensor, and activates the CSD when the engine is started up and when the value of water temperature recognized by the controller (recognized value T of water temperature) is lower than a threshold value Tc of water temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanaka, Hajimu Imanaka
  • Publication number: 20060112936
    Abstract: In an injection control device for a fuel injection pump comprising: a water temperature sensor; a cold start device (CSD) for advancing a fuel injection timing to an engine when started up in a low temperature; and a controller, the controller recognizes a value T of water temperature by a signal from the water temperature sensor, and activates the CSD when the engine is started up and when the value of water temperature recognized by the controller (recognized value T of water temperature) is lower than a threshold value Tc of water temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanaka, Hajimu Imanaka
  • Patent number: 7051706
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a fuel injection pump comprises: an electronic governor which actuates a rack actuator by a controller for controlling a governing rack; and a cold start device which actuates an injection-quickening actuator by the controller for opening or closing a draining sub port formed in a plunger barrel so as to advance injection timing when an engine is cold. Different settings about control degree of the governing rack controlled by the controller are prepared for a case where the injection-quickening actuator is actuated to switch on the cold start device (as characteristic curve 61a), and for a case where the injection-quickening actuator is disactuated to switch off the cold start device (as characteristic curve 61b), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanaka, Hajimu Imanaka
  • Publication number: 20060048750
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a fuel injection pump comprises: an electronic governor which actuates a rack actuator by a controller for controlling a governing rack; and a cold start device which actuates an injection-quickening actuator by the controller for opening or closing a draining sub port formed in a plunger barrel so as to advance injection timing when an engine is cold. Different settings about control degree of the governing rack controlled by the controller are prepared for a case where the injection-quickening actuator is actuated to switch on the cold start device (as characteristic curve 61a), and for a case where the injection-quickening actuator is disactuated to switch off the cold start device (as characteristic curve 61b), respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanaka, Hajimu Imanaka
  • Patent number: 6953022
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump, comprising three sub-mechanism parts; a lower mechanism part (A), a head mechanism part (B), and a governor mechanism part (C), wherein, when the governor mechanism part (C) is assembled into the combination of the lower mechanism part (A) and head mechanism part (B) after the lower mechanism part (A) and head mechanism part (B) are assembled with each other, a governor link (27) installed extendedly from the governor mechanism part (C) is inserted into both mechanism parts (A, B) and, when a hook groove (27a) at the tip of the governor link (27) is engaged with a lock pin (21a) in a control slider (21) for the rotation of a plunger (7) disposed inside the lower mechanism part (A) and head mechanism part (B), first, with a cut surface (33b) of a lift pin (33) facing upward, the governor link (27) is put on the cut surface (33b) so as to position the hook groove (27a) under the lock pin (21a), and then the lift pin (33) is rotated to face the cut surface (33b) downward, and the governor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Itsuki, Satoshi Hattori, Hajimu Imanaka, Junichi Samo, Masamichi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Yokome