Patents by Inventor Hirotoshi Kihara

Hirotoshi Kihara 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: 20110061833
    Abstract: The present invention has a waste heat recovery device (37) that supplies engine waste heat by way of engine coolant; a radiator (18) that dissipates engine waste heat by way of engine coolant; an exhaust gas heat exchanger (33) that supplies engine waste heat from exhaust gas to engine coolant; and a coolant pump (32) that causes engine coolant to circulate. Furthermore, the constitution is such that pressure drop equipment (34) is arranged upstream with respect to a coolant pump suction region (32b); a restrictor is arranged in a communication passage (50) between a coolant pump suction region and a region (20) vented to atmosphere; a location upstream with respect to the pressure drop equipment is made to communicate with the region vented to atmosphere; and the region vented to atmosphere is made capable of being kept in communication with atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Kihara, Shohei Amakawa, Toshiyuki Hayashi, Shojiro Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20110056453
    Abstract: In the context of an enclosure-housed engine in which an engine 10 is housed within an enclosure 2, the present invention is such that arranged in an intake chamber 8A, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator 18 and the engine are disposed, there is engine intake equipment comprising an air cleaner 22 and an intake silencer 23; the constitution being such that at least one wall face of said intake chamber is subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which are driven by a radiator fan; and the constitution being such that the radiator fan 19 is driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when outside air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Yanmar co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Toshiyuki Hayashi, Hirotoshi kihara, Shojiro Matsumura