Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yokota

Hiroshi Yokota 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: 9840952
    Abstract: A breather chamber for an internal combustion engine wherein the breather chamber has a large size that is formed while an increase in the size of the internal combustion engine is suppressed. The breather chamber of an internal combustion engine includes looped cam chains for transmitting the power of a horizontally disposed crankshaft to camshafts provided in cylinder heads and includes cam chain chambers disposed alongside portions of cylinder block portions which intersect the direction of the crankshaft. The breather chamber is located on a side of a plane formed by a rotation locus of the cam chain in the direction of the crankshaft in the cam chain chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugiura, Hiroshi Yokota, Noriyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9810111
    Abstract: An oil supply structure of a water-cooled internal combustion engine includes an oil cooler for improving oil circulation efficiency by making an oil passage of a lubrication system short. In addition, weight of the oil cooler is reduced by reducing the number of parts. The oil supply structure of a water-cooled internal combustion engine includes an oil pump drive shaft of an oil pump that is coaxially coupled with one end of a balancer shaft placed parallel with a crankshaft and a water pump drive shaft of a water pump that is coaxially coupled with the other end of the balancer shaft. In the oil supply structure, an oil cooler is provided in the vicinity of the oil pump together with an oil filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sotani, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20170284335
    Abstract: A first angle portion where part of a bearing cap side wall portion is cut out and a second angle portion where part of a bearing cap bottom surface portion is cut out are formed in a region (an angle region of a bearing cap) including a part where respective extension portions of the bearing cap side wall portion and the bearing cap bottom surface portion intersect each other, and a gap is provided between the crankcase side wall portion of a journal wall and the first angle portion and between a crankcase bottom surface portion and the second angle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki SUZUKI, Hiroshi YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20170276028
    Abstract: A valve operating apparatus for use in an internal combustion engine includes an intake cam 38, an intake rocker arm 33 rotatable about a rotational shaft 35 and driven by the intake cam 38, and an intake valve 40 pushed by a pusher 70 of the intake rocker arm 33, the internal combustion engine has a cylinder assembly 12L lying horizontally, and the intake rocker arm 33 has a weight 67 adjusting the center of gravity of the rocker arm 33 to position the pusher 70 above the rotational shaft 35 while the intake cam 38 is held out of abutting contact with the intake rocker arm 33.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki IKEBE, Hiroshi YOKOTA, Satoru NOJIMA
  • Patent number: 9759217
    Abstract: A pump with high performance and cleanability includes a casing having a smaller volute and a larger volute; a space between an outer circumference of an impeller and a starting end of the smaller volute being greater than that of the larger volute, generating a circulating flow of self-priming water from the smaller volute to the larger volute; and a diffusing part of the larger volute being formed into an upright, cylindrical self-priming water separating chamber guiding the self-priming water from the smaller volute to flow in for air-water separation. An inner circumference part of the casing is formed concentric with the outer circumference of the impeller with a predetermined space therebetween; defining members are protrusively disposed on the inner circumference part of the casing so as to define the shapes of the two volutes; and the self-priming water separating chamber is made attachable to and detachable from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YOKOTA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokota, Fumio Nishi, Isao Kawamoto, Kenji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170234205
    Abstract: A water pump unit has, within a water pump case, a drive shaft for driving an impeller, and a transmission member for transmitting power of a power supply device to the drive shaft. The water pump unit is configured such that the water pump case receives therein and supports the drive shaft, the transmission member is supported by the water pump case by means of the drive shaft with a part of the transmission member protruding from within the water pump case, and an attachment surface of the water pump case, for joining the water pump case to the power supply device, is formed to extend along the transmission member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SUGIURA, Hiroshi YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 9722292
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus includes an antenna, a circuit board configured to form a wireless communication circuit that is connected to the antenna, and a housing configured to accommodate the circuit board and formed by resin molding. A linear conductor extends from a ground of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Takeshi Kohrogi, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 9700853
    Abstract: This invention provides a microscopic bubble generator that can stably/efficiently generate a large amount of microscopic bubbles in liquid in a short time and can be easily cleaned in an assembled state and in a disassembled state, and a gas-liquid dissolving tank that can be suitably used for the apparatus. In the gas-liquid dissolving tank that promotes dissolution of gas mixed with liquid in the liquid, openings that pass the flowing gas-liquid are formed at an upper portion and a lower portion of a container of the tank, a plurality of separation walls that vertically divide a plurality of chambers are disposed in the container, openings that connect upper and lower chambers are formed through the separation walls, the upper ends of the openings of the separation walls extend predetermined distances upward from the separation walls, and the lower ends of the openings of the separation walls extend predetermined distances downward from the separation walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YOKOTA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokota, Fumio Nishi, Isao Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20170165571
    Abstract: The server apparatus is applied to a game system which has a storage unit storing gaming dynamic images different from each other in association with a stream ID for identifying each gaming dynamic image. The game system acquires a playing dynamic image photographed by a portable phone and a stream ID of the playing dynamic image via a network. Base on the acquisition result, the game system determines the gaming dynamic image whose stream ID corresponds to the stream ID of the playing dynamic image acquired as a target gaming dynamic image, and provides a dynamic-image delivery service so that a delivery screen is displayed at each personal computer, the delivery screen including a composite dynamic image where the playing dynamic image and the target gaming dynamic image are synthesized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuya Takahashi, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Yokota, Hiroyuki Hosoyama, Takayuki Akita, Yuichi Tomoyose
  • Patent number: 9670807
    Abstract: A ball valve includes a valve hole provided in an engine body to communicate with an inner end portion of a breather hole and is open in the engine body. A valve seat is formed on an inner surface of the engine body to coaxially surround the valve hole. A guide sleeve is in coaxially communication with the valve hole and the valve seat and is secured to the engine body at one end portion. A metallic valve element, formed to be ball-like with a predetermined weight is received to be rollable in the guide sleeve for enabling the closing of the valve hole and to be prevented from falling off the other end of the guide sleeve, is provided in the engine body so that the valve hole is placed within a moving range of oil in the engine body depending on the inclination of the engine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sotani, Hiroshi Yokota, Masaji Narushima
  • Patent number: 9641732
    Abstract: A plurality of lenses constituting a lens unit (1) are fixed to each other with use of an adhesive (20) applied between the plurality of lenses. The lens unit (1) is incorporated into an actuator (30) through an opening (26) of the actuator (30) and is held inside the actuator (30) so as to face directly an inner wall surface of the actuator (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yasukochi, Hisateru Okai, Hiroshi Yokota, Yoshihito Ishizue, Yoshihiro Sekimoto
  • Patent number: 9634210
    Abstract: There is provided a production method for an optical semiconductor device including a substrate having a silver plating layer formed on a surface and a light emitting diode bonded to the silver plating layer. The production method includes a film formation step of forming a clay film covering the silver plating layer and a connection step of electrically connecting the light emitting diode and the silver plating layer covered with the clay film by wire bonding, after the film formation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Tomoko Higashiuchi, Nobuaki Takane, Masashi Yamaura, Maki Inada, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 9591183
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a sheet reading portion, an assimilation surveying portion, a color changing portion, and a printing portion. The sheet reading portion reads image data from a transparent sheet tinted with a predetermined color owned by a user. The assimilation surveying portion looks for, out of printable colors, a particular color that assimilates to the color of the read image data. The color changing portion changes, out of the data of a predetermined document accepted from the user, the color of the data of a concealable character, which is a character concealed when overlaid with the transparent sheet, to the found particular color. The printing portion prints, out of the data of the document, the data of the concealable character in the particular color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Seiki Satomi, Masataka Takemura, Shinji Hayashi, Kunihiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Yokota, Masaki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9565993
    Abstract: The object lens 21 and the ocular lens 22 are disposed in the lens barrel unit 11 and the relay lens system 23 is disposed therebetween. The image sensor 31 is disposed in the camera unit 12 and the coaxial illumination unit 32 is disposed therearound. The focus position shift member 25 is disposed at the image formation position L1 in the lens barrel unit 11. The light from the coaxial illumination unit 32 is imaged at the image formation position L1 and is shifted to a position L2 by the focus position shift member 25. Since the position L2 positions at a position closer than a focus position, light through the object lens 21 diffuses to illuminate the object 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okuda, Hiroshi Yokota, Toshio Chiba, Hiromasa Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20160372740
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a positive electrode mixture capable of conducting stable charging and discharging with a less amount of gasses generated which has an operating voltage or an initial crystal phase transition voltage of not less than 4.5 V on the basis of lithium. The present invention relates to a positive electrode mixture comprising carbon black having a bulk density of not more than 0.1 g/cm3, a crystallite size of 10 to 40 ?, an iodine adsorption of 1 to 150 mg/g, a volatile content of not more than 0.1% and a metal impurity content of not more than 20 ppm, and a positive electrode active substance having an operating voltage or an initial crystal phase transition voltage of not less than 4.5 V on the basis of lithium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Akihisa KAJIYAMA, Teruaki SANTOKI, Daisuke MORITA, Ryuta MASAKI, Takahiko SUGIHARA, Tsuyoshi WAKIYAMA, Kazutoshi MATSUMOTO, Akira YODA, Taroh INADA, Hiroshi YOKOTA, Takashi KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 9525114
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a silver plating layer formed on a surface, a light emitting diode that is bonded to the silver plating layer, a light reflecting portion that surrounds the light emitting diode, a transparent sealing portion that is filled into the light reflecting portion and seals the light emitting diode, and a clay film that covers the silver plating layer. The transparent sealing portion and the light reflecting portion are bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Higashiuchi, Nobuaki Takane, Masashi Yamaura, Maki Inada, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: D826378
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Hayakawa, Hiroshi Yokota, Ryo Matsuda
  • Patent number: D826379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Hayakawa, Hiroshi Yokota, Ryo Matsuda
  • Patent number: D826380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Hayakawa, Hiroshi Yokota, Ryo Matsuda
  • Patent number: D827092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Hayakawa, Hiroshi Yokota, Ryo Matsuda