Patents by Inventor Hirozumi Kuwabara

Hirozumi Kuwabara 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: 9441514
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which an engine body, a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. In the diesel engine including the engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case and an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body, the DPF case is supported by the engine body through an exhaust gas introducing pipe, and the SCR catalyst case is supported by the DPF case through an exhaust gas relay pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Tamon Tanaka, Koichi Funaki, Hirozumi Kuwabara, Soichiro Watanabe, Yoshitaka Taira, Tetsuya Kosaka, Satoshi Inayama
  • Patent number: 9416707
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. The diesel engine includes an engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case, an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, and the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body. The SCR catalyst case is placed in a direction which extends along the DPF case. The DPF case is placed directly above a flywheel housing and right behind a cylinder head cover, and the SCR catalyst case is placed directly above the cylinder head cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Tamon Tanaka, Koichi Funaki, Hirozumi Kuwabara, Soichiro Watanabe, Yoshitaka Taira, Tetsuya Kosaka, Satoshi Inayama
  • Publication number: 20150184566
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which an engine body, a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. In the diesel engine including the engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case and an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body, the DPF case is supported by the engine body through an exhaust gas introducing pipe, and the SCR catalyst case is supported by the DPF case through an exhaust gas relay pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Tamon TANAKA, Koichi FUNAKI, Hirozumi KUWABARA, Soichiro WATANABE, Yoshitaka TAIRA, Tetsuya KOSAKA, Satoshi INAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150089930
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. The diesel engine includes an engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case, an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, and the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body. The SCR catalyst case is placed in a direction which extends along the DPF case. The DPF case is placed directly above a flywheel housing and right behind a cylinder head cover, and the SCR catalyst case is placed directly above the cylinder head cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Tamon TANAKA, Koichi FUNAKI, Hirozumi KUWABARA, Soichiro WATANABE, Yoshitaka TAIRA, Tetsuya KOSAKA, Satoshi INAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8091353
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an exhaust device for a diesel engine capable of surely burning flammable gas in an exhaust route. In the exhaust device for the diesel engine, liquid fuel (6) is supplied from a liquid-fuel supply source (5) to a gas generator (3). The gas generator (3) converts the liquid fuel (6) to flammable gas (7) and has a flammable-gas flow outlet (9) of the with which an exhaust route (1) is communicated upstream of a diesel-particulate-filter (2). The flammable gas (7) flowed out from the flammable-gas flow outlet (9) is burnt with oxygen in exhaust gas (10) to produce combustion heat. The exhaust gas (10) heated by the thus produced combustion heat can burn the exhaust-gas fine particles remaining at the filter (2). The gas generator (3) is provided with a catalyst chamber (51) which houses a catalyst (4). Catalyst-combustion heat is generated in the catalyst chamber (51) which is arranged along an external periphery of a peripheral wall (1a) of the exhaust route (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Nakahira, Masahiko Sugimoto, Shuichi Yamada, Katsushi Inoue, Hirozumi Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20090044522
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an exhaust device for a diesel engine capable of surely burning flammable gas in an exhaust route. In the exhaust device for the diesel engine, liquid fuel (6) is supplied from a liquid-fuel supply source (5) to a gas generator (3). The gas generator (3) converts the liquid fuel (6) to flammable gas (7) and has a flammable-gas flow outlet (9) of the with which an exhaust route (1) is communicated upstream of a diesel-particulate-filter (2). The flammable gas (7) flowed out from the flammable-gas flow outlet (9) is burnt with oxygen in exhaust gas (10) to produce combustion heat. The exhaust gas (10) heated by the thus produced combustion heat can burn the exhaust-gas fine particles remaining at the filter (2). The gas generator (3) is provided with a catalyst chamber (51) which houses a catalyst (4). Catalyst-combustion heat is generated in the catalyst chamber (51) which is arranged along an external periphery of a peripheral wall (1a) of the exhaust route (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio NAKAHIRA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Shuichi YAMADA, Katsushi INOUE, Hirozumi KUWABARA