Patents by Inventor Haruhiro Tsubota

Haruhiro Tsubota 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).

  • Publication number: 20070160468
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided which is easy to assemble and provides improved cooling efficiency by preventing a back flow without fail. To this end, the cooling device has: (a) an axial fan having a plurality of vanes; (b) a power source for driving the axial fan; (c) a tubular fan ring disposed in outer edge portions of the vanes; (d) a projecting portion that extends over substantially entire circumference of the fan ring and projects in an outer peripheral direction; (e) a shroud disposed between the axial fan and an object to be cooled; and (f) an adjusting plate that is fixedly attached to the shroud so as to make a distance from an outer circumferential surface of the fan ring variable and circumferentially divided into a plurality of parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Haruhiro Tsubota
  • Patent number: 6601664
    Abstract: The present invention is a crawler device for a crawler type vehicle, which lowers the vehicle height, decreases the vehicle width, and exhibits superior stability during operation. For this purpose, in a crawler type vehicle having, on right and left sides of either one of front or rear portion, or both of the front and rear portions of a vehicle body, crawler devices each having a sprocket, an idler disposed on a truck frame, and a crawler belt passed through the sprocket and the idler, the crawler device can include a front end link coupled to a forward part of the truck frame by a pin at a lower end portion thereof and to the side of said vehicle body by a pin at the upper end portion thereof, and can include a rear end link coupled to a rearward part of the truck frame by a pin at the lower end portion thereof and to the side of the vehicle body at a position behind the front end link by a pin at the upper end portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikosaburo Hiraki, Haruhiro Tsubota, Kazutoshi Hori
  • Publication number: 20020070059
    Abstract: The present invention is a crawler device for a crawler type vehicle, which lowers the vehicle height, decreases the vehicle width, and exhibits superior stability during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hikosaburo Hikari, Haruhiro Tsubota, Kazutoshi Hori
  • Patent number: 6334496
    Abstract: The present invention is a crawler device for a crawler type vehicle, which lowers the vehicle height, decreases the vehicle width, and exhibits superior stability during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikosaburo Hiraki, Haruhiro Tsubota, Kazutoshi Hori
  • Patent number: 6332509
    Abstract: A noise reducer for construction machinery, which efficiently reduces noise at low cost with durability, is provided. For this purpose, lamination plates (8) which are the plates being laminated are bonded, discretely at a predetermined interval (a1), to a part of or the entire of a noise generating element. Lamination plates (8A, 8E) may be bonded discretely at a plurality of kinds of bonding intervals (a1, a2). The lamination plates (8) with the different number of laminations may be bonded according to a noise generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nishikawa, Haruhiro Tsubota, Masao Tsujino
  • Patent number: 6283562
    Abstract: A triangular crawler device, which is free from being stumbled and whose crawler belt does not come off from a body of a vehicle while the vehicle travels, includes a track frame (10), having a front idler (15A) and a rear idler (15B) disposed at the front and rear ends thereof respectively; a sprocket (20), rotatably fixed to the track frame (10); links (11, 13), for connecting the body (2) of the vehicle (1) and the track frame (10) together; and a crawler belt (17), wound around the front idler (15A), the rear idler (15B) and the sprocket (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiro Tsubota, Hikosaburo Hiraki, Kazutoshi Hori