Patents by Inventor Hiroyoshi Tawa

Hiroyoshi Tawa 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: 11407085
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a gear capable of processing a projection formed on a tooth tip by shot peening while reducing time for manufacturing the gear. A method for manufacturing a gear includes: a process of hardening, by performing shot peening in which shot particles are jetted onto a tooth surface 1a of a gear base material, the tooth surface while applying residual stress to the tooth surface; a process of softening, by at least heating a tooth tip of the gear base material having the hardened tooth surface, the tooth tip; and a process of rotationally driving the gear base material having the softened tooth tip by engaging it with another gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Tawa
  • Patent number: 10894992
    Abstract: A method for producing a steel member includes carburizing the steel member, pearlitizing austenite, and performing quenching. The pearlitizing of the austenite includes performing a first pearlite precipitation treatment of cooling the steel member to a first temperature lower than an austenite transformation start temperature and higher than 680° C. and holding the steel member at the first temperature to pearlitize a part of the austenite formed in the carburizing of the steel member, and performing a second pearlite precipitation treatment of further cooling the steel member to a second temperature equal to or lower than 680° C. and higher than a nose temperature and holding the steel member at the second temperature to pearlitize the austenite retained in the first pearlite precipitation treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Tawa, Hiroyuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200114491
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a gear capable of processing a projection formed on a tooth tip by shot peening while reducing time for manufacturing the gear. A method for manufacturing a gear includes: a process of hardening, by performing shot peening in which shot particles are jetted onto a tooth surface 1a of a gear base material, the tooth surface while applying residual stress to the tooth surface; a process of softening, by at least heating a tooth tip of the gear base material having the hardened tooth surface, the tooth tip; and a process of rotationally driving the gear base material having the softened tooth tip by engaging it with another gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi TAWA
  • Publication number: 20190226037
    Abstract: A method for producing a steel member includes carburizing the steel member, pearlitizing austenite, and performing quenching. The pearlitizing of the austenite includes performing a first pearlite precipitation treatment of cooling the steel member to a first temperature lower than an austenite transformation start temperature and higher than 680° C. and holding the steel member at the first temperature to pearlitize a part of the austenite formed in the carburizing of the steel member, and performing a second pearlite precipitation treatment of further cooling the steel member to a second temperature equal to or lower than 680° C. and higher than a nose temperature and holding the steel member at the second temperature to pearlitize the austenite retained in the first pearlite precipitation treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi TAWA, Hiroyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9539675
    Abstract: [Task] To provide a method that makes it possible to easily, inexpensively and accurately manufacture a machined part with a simple configuration and an excellent strength. [Means for Solution] In a method for manufacturing a machined part according to the invention, a dislocation is partially introduced (S3), through shot peening, only into a surface layer of a raw material 1 in a region 1a to be machined, graphite is partially deposited (S4), through heating, only in the surface layer of the region 1a to be machined, and then, the surface layer of the region 1a where graphite is deposited is removed, through machining (S5), only by an amount corresponding to a working margin 1c, thereby manufacturing a machined part 1?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Inagaki, Masahiko Mitsubayashi, Takaaki Kanazawa, Hiroyoshi Tawa
  • Patent number: 9457451
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention involves providing a gear that has high tooth-root bending strength and for which there is no chipping of the tips of the teeth. Accordingly, the surface of the gear is carburized and the gear is strengthened by imparting residual stress, with the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 5 ?m to 20 ?m being ?1000 MPa or less, and the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 50 ?m to 150 ?m being ?1000 MPa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Tawa, Masahiko Mitsubayashi, Hideyuki Sakaue, Keisuke Kadota
  • Publication number: 20150075003
    Abstract: [Task] To provide a method that makes it possible to easily, inexpensively and accurately manufacture a machined part with a simple configuration and an excellent strength. [Means for Solution] In a method for manufacturing a machined part according to the invention, a dislocation is partially introduced (S3), through shot peening, only into a surface layer of a raw material 1 in a region 1a to be machined, graphite is partially deposited (S4), through heating, only in the surface layer of the region 1a to be machined, and then, the surface layer of the region 1a where graphite is deposited is removed, through machining (S5), only by an amount corresponding to a working margin 1c, thereby manufacturing a machined part 1?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Inagaki, Masahiko Mitsubayashi, Takaaki Kanazawa, Hiroyoshi Tawa
  • Publication number: 20150068039
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention involves providing a gear that has high tooth-root bending strength and for which there is no chipping of the tips of the teeth. Accordingly, the surface of the gear is carburized and the gear is strengthened by imparting residual stress, with the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 5 ?m to 20 ?m being ?1000 MPa or less, and the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 50 ?m to 150 ?m being 1000 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi TAWA, Masahiko MITSUBAYASHI, Hideyuki SAKAUE, Keisuke KADOTA
  • Publication number: 20130160899
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention involves providing a gear that has high tooth-root bending strength and for which there is no chipping of the tips of the teeth. Accordingly, the surface of the gear is carburized and the gear is strengthened by imparting residual stress, with the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 5 ?m to 20 ?m being ?1000 MPa or less, and the residual stress in the region with a surface depth of 50 ?m to 150 ?m being ?1000 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Tawa, Masahiko Mitsubayashi, Hideyuki Sakaue, Keisuke Kadota