Patents by Inventor Hirofumi MORINAGA

Hirofumi MORINAGA 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: 11339848
    Abstract: A shock absorber with a hydrostopper is provided. The hydrostopper includes a stopper piston that is relatively displaceable along a rod portion of a piston and partitions one cylinder chamber into an upper chamber and a lower chamber, and a compression coil spring that biases the stopper piston against a stopper disc fixed to the rod portion in the lower chamber. The stopper piston has an orifice passage connecting the upper and lower chambers. The hydrostopper includes an elastic disk functioning as an elastically deformable member that increases an amount of elastic deformation to increase an amount of reduction of an effective passage cross-sectional area of the orifice passage as a differential pressure between pressures in the upper and lower chambers is larger when the pressure in the upper chamber is higher than the pressure in the lower chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Morinaga, Asuka Mogi
  • Publication number: 20200132156
    Abstract: A shock absorber with a hydrostopper is provided. The hydrostopper includes a stopper piston that is relatively displaceable along a rod portion of a piston and partitions one cylinder chamber into an upper chamber and a lower chamber, and a compression coil spring that biases the stopper piston against a stopper disc fixed to the rod portion in the lower chamber. The stopper piston has an orifice passage connecting the upper and lower chambers. The hydrostopper includes an elastic disk functioning as an elastically deformable member that increases an amount of elastic deformation to increase an amount of reduction of an effective passage cross-sectional area of the orifice passage as a differential pressure between pressures in the upper and lower chambers is larger when the pressure in the upper chamber is higher than the pressure in the lower chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi MORINAGA, Asuka MOGI
  • Patent number: 10330170
    Abstract: A rod guide includes a housing portion and a depressed portion formed toward an outer periphery from a starting point located apart from a piston rod by ½ or more of a distance in an axial direction between a bottom surface of the housing portion and a flat portion of an oil seal in a radial direction closest to the piston rod, and a bush is disposed to be flush with the bottom surface or disposed to project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: KYB CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohito Kato, Seiichiro Komatsu, Yuusuke Furuta, Hirofumi Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20170350464
    Abstract: A rod guide includes a housing portion and a depressed portion formed toward an outer periphery from a starting point located apart from a piston rod by ½ or more of a distance in an axial direction between a bottom surface of the housing portion and a flat portion of an oil seal in a radial direction closest to the piston rod, and a bush is disposed to be flush with the bottom surface or disposed to project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Hirohito KATO, Seiichiro KOMATSU, Yuusuke FURUTA, Hirofumi MORINAGA