Patents by Inventor Hisao Kodama

Hisao Kodama 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: 12317789
    Abstract: A trimming machine capable of suppressing damage to a gear when blades are locked, with a simple structure without increasing weight and cost. The trimming machine includes: an electric motor; a blade drive gear rotationally driven by the electric motor; an eccentric cam provided in the gear; and a pair of blades relatively slidably facing and contacting each other, in which the eccentric cam is adapted to reciprocate the pair of blades in relatively opposite directions along the longitudinal direction of the blades, thereby grinding cutting edges against each other, the cutting edges provided in a protruding manner with gaps therebetween in the pair of blades, and a shock absorbing portion is provided between a connecting portion connected to the eccentric cam and the cutting edges in each of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventor: Hisao Kodama
  • Publication number: 20240324515
    Abstract: A hedge trimmer comprises a cutter assembly and a drive operating portion for driving and operating the cutter assembly is provided. The drive operating portion in the hedge trimmer includes a body with a power source, a front handle, and a rear handle. The front handle includes a rod-shaped front gripping portion provided to protrude laterally of the cutter assembly and a trigger lever displaceably mounted on the front gripping portion, allowing and releasing transmission of drive power from the power source to the cutter assembly. When the hedge trimmer is viewed laterally in a state where a thickness direction of the cutter assembly being a vertical direction, the trigger lever is arranged to protrude from the front gripping portion in a direction inclined forward with respect to the vertical direction on a lower side of the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Hisao KODAMA, Takeshi MAENO, Yusuke MORISAKI, Yoshie NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240306555
    Abstract: A hand-held drive apparatus comprises an apparatus main body including a pruner and a handle rotatably connected to the apparatus main body and including a rotation lock mechanism and a drive operation mechanism. The rotation lock mechanism includes a rotation lock lever movable to a rotation prevention position where the handle is prevented from rotating, and to a rotation allowance position where the handle is allowed to rotate. The drive operation mechanism includes a switch configured to control activation of the pruner and a throttle lever movable to a contact position where the throttle lever pushes the switch and to a non-contact position where the throttle lever is separated from the switch. The throttle lever contacts the rotation lock lever at the rotation allowance position to maintain the non-contact position, and is, when the rotation lock lever is at the rotation prevention position, allowed to move to the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Hisao KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20240306554
    Abstract: A cutter assembly for a hedge trimmer comprises a lower cutter and an upper cutter overlap each other and slidable along their longitudinal direction. Each of the lower cutter and the upper cutter has a cutter main body and a plurality of cutting edges protruding laterally from the cutter main body. At least the cutter main body of the lower cutter has an elongated hole penetrating the cutter main body of the lower cutter in its thickness direction and extending along the longitudinal direction. The elongated hole is exposed to an outside of the cutter assembly. An area along the longitudinal direction on an inner circumferential face of the elongated hole has at least one removal structure having a function of contacting a branch that has entered the elongated hole, and thereby removing the branch from within the elongated hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Hisao KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20240300084
    Abstract: A hand-held electric working machine for cutting a work object is provided. The electric working machine comprises a working portion, a motor, a control unit, and a guide portion. The working portion is configured to cut the work object. The motor is configured to allow rotary power to be generated for allowing the working portion to drive. The control unit is configured to electrically control rotation of the motor. The guide portion is provided on the control unit, thereby forming a first air flow path surrounded by the guide portion and the control unit. The first air flow path is configured to allow air to circulate therein by rotation of the motor, thereby cooling the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hisao KODAMA, Hisato OSAWA, Takeshi MAENO, Yusuke MORISAKI
  • Publication number: 20240298580
    Abstract: A hand-held electric working machine for cutting a work object is provided. The electric working machine comprises a working portion, a housing, a motor, and a control unit. The working portion is configured to cut the work object. The housing extends in a first direction from a rear side where a user is positioned to a front side where the work object is positioned. The motor is configured to generate rotary power for allowing the working portion to drive and is provided on the rear side of the housing, displaced in a second direction with respect to a centerline of the housing. The centerline extends in the first direction, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The control unit is configured to electrically control rotation of the motor and is positioned opposite the motor across the centerline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hisao KODAMA, Yoshie NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230016087
    Abstract: A trimming machine capable of releasing cutting edges from branches or the like, by reversing motor rotation without requiring additional operation (with normal operation) by a user, such as operating a forward-reverse switching lever, when blades are locked. The trimming machine includes: an electric motor; a blade drive gear rotationally driven by the electric motor; an eccentric cam provided in the gear; a pair of blades relatively slidably facing and contacting each other, which are reciprocated, by the eccentric cam, in relatively opposite directions along a longitudinal direction of the blades, thereby grinding cutting edges provided in a protruding manner with gaps therebetween in the pair of blades against each other; a trigger lever for driving the blades; and a control circuit (controller) that controls a rotational driving of the electric motor based on input from the trigger lever and switches a rotational direction of the electric motor at each time of the input from the trigger lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Toru KONO, Kunio SHIMIZU, Hisao KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20230014201
    Abstract: A trimming machine capable of suppressing damage to a gear when blades are locked, with a simple structure without increasing weight and cost. The trimming machine includes: an electric motor; a blade drive gear rotationally driven by the electric motor; an eccentric cam provided in the gear; and a pair of blades relatively slidably facing and contacting each other, in which the eccentric cam is adapted to reciprocate the pair of blades in relatively opposite directions along the longitudinal direction of the blades, thereby grinding cutting edges against each other, the cutting edges provided in a protruding manner with gaps therebetween in the pair of blades, and a shock absorbing portion is provided between a connecting portion connected to the eccentric cam and the cutting edges in each of the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Hisao KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11432467
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction. Each of the blades includes a base as a flat plate extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of teeth protruding in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. A transmission case of the reciprocating blade apparatus also includes a reciprocating member having a joint detachably coupled to the base, the reciprocating member being reciprocably supported in the longitudinal direction. A blade support member is attached to the transmission case and configured to sandwich bases of the pair of reciprocating blades therebetween to allow the pair of reciprocating blades to move in the longitudinal direction. The blade support member holds a space to accommodate the pair of reciprocating blades and is independently attached to the transmission case. The pair of reciprocating blades is detachably attached to the blade support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Shimizu, Hisao Kodama
  • Patent number: 11432468
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction. Each of the blades includes a base as a flat plate extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of teeth protruding in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. A transmission case of the reciprocating blade apparatus also includes a reciprocating member having a joint detachably coupled to the base, the reciprocating member being reciprocably supported in the longitudinal direction. A blade support member is attached to the transmission case and configured to sandwich bases of the pair of reciprocating blades therebetween to allow the pair of reciprocating blades to move in the longitudinal direction. The blade support member supporting the pair of reciprocating blades is detachably attached to the transmission case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Shimizu, Hisao Kodama
  • Publication number: 20220087110
    Abstract: Provided is a hedge trimmer including an electric motor, a blade disposed ahead of the electric motor and a body case housing the electric motor. The electric motor includes a stator equipped with coils and an outer rotor which has a circumferential wall portion surrounding an outer circumference of the stator, the circumferential wall portion being equipped with magnets. The outer rotor is rotatably supported by the stator and connected to the blade via a driving transmission mechanism. The blade reciprocates according to the rotation of the outer rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisao KODAMA, Kunio SHIMIZU, Toru KONO
  • Patent number: 11272671
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction, and a transmission case including a power train configured to reciprocate the pair of reciprocating blades. The power train includes a pair of eccentric cams, and a pair of reciprocating members including fitting holes in which the eccentric cams are fitted, respectively. The pair of reciprocating members is guided to be able to move along an axis line which is parallel to a moving direction of the pair of reciprocating blades and runs through a rotation axis of the eccentric cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Shimizu, Hisao Kodama
  • Publication number: 20210029887
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction, and a transmission case including a power train configured to reciprocate the pair of reciprocating blades. The power train includes a pair of eccentric cams, and a pair of reciprocating members including fitting holes in which the eccentric cams are fitted, respectively. The pair of reciprocating members is guided to be able to move along an axis line which is parallel to a moving direction of the pair of reciprocating blades and runs through a rotation axis of the eccentric cams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kunio SHIMIZU, HISAO KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20200404857
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes: a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction, each of which includes a base as a flat plate extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of teeth protruding in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction; a transmission case including a reciprocating member having a joint detachably coupled to the base, the reciprocating member being reciprocally supported in the longitudinal direction; and a blade support member attached to the transmission case and configured to sandwich bases of the pair of reciprocating blades therebetween to allow the pair of reciprocating blades to move in the longitudinal direction. The blade support member holds a space to accommodate the pair of reciprocating blades and is independently attached to the transmission case. The pair of reciprocating blades is detachably attached to the blade support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: KUNIO SHIMIZU, Hisao KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20200404858
    Abstract: A reciprocating blade apparatus includes: a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction, each of which includes a base as a flat plate extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of teeth protruding in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction; a transmission case including a reciprocating member having a joint detachably coupled to the base, the reciprocating member being reciprocably supported in the longitudinal direction; and a blade support member attached to the transmission case and configured to sandwich bases of the pair of reciprocating blades therebetween to allow the pair of reciprocating blades to move in the longitudinal direction. wherein the blade support member supporting the pair of reciprocating blades is detachably attached to the transmission case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: KUNIO SHIMIZU, HISAO KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20200045889
    Abstract: A hedge trimmer capable of effectively increasing the rigidity of a cutter assembly as well as reducing its weight, and easily adjusting the clearance for sliding of cutters, thereby improving the operability and addressing degradation of the cutting performance of the cutters is disclosed. In the cutter assembly, upper and lower cutter supports are provided with a plurality of clamping portions at predetermined intervals for increasing the rigidity, each clamping portion having a square tube-like spacer and a first bolt. In addition, at least one adjusting portion having a second bolt for adjusting the separation distance between the upper and lower cutter supports is provided between adjacent clamping portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio SHIMIZU, Hisao KODAMA
  • Patent number: 7866048
    Abstract: A rotatable rear hand grip (3) is releasably locked at a desired rotational position by operation of a control lever member (4). The power hand tool includes: a tool body (1) including an engine for generating driving power used for performing work; a front hand grip (2) fixed to the tool body; a rear hand grip including: a control lever member coupled to the engine for controlling an output of the engine; a supporting mechanism for supporting the rear hand grip rotationally about an axis (AX) between the tool body and the rear hand grip; a locking mechanism for locking the rear hand grip at one rotational position about the axis in response to the control lever member; and a controlling mechanism (4d) for allowing the control lever member to control the output of the engine after the locking mechanism locks the rear hand grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Kodama, Syuuji Satou
  • Publication number: 20090064504
    Abstract: A rotatable rear hand grip (3) is releasably locked at a desired rotational position by operation of a control lever member (4). The power hand tool includes: a tool body (1) including an engine for generating driving power used for performing work; a front hand grip (2) fixed to the tool body; a rear hand grip including: a control lever member coupled to the engine for controlling an output of the engine; a supporting mechanism for supporting the rear hand grip rotationally about an axis (AX) between the tool body and the rear hand grip; a locking mechanism for locking the rear hand grip at one rotational position about the axis in response to the control lever member; and a controlling mechanism (4d) for allowing the control lever member to control the output of the engine after the locking mechanism locks the rear hand grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Shindaiwa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Kodama, Syuuji Satou
  • Patent number: D1074346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisao Kodama
  • Patent number: D1079414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisao Kodama