Patents by Inventor Hisatoshi Kinoshita

Hisatoshi Kinoshita 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: 20240044276
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle, including: an engine, which includes a combustion chamber; a three-way catalyst, which is configured to purify exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber; an upstream oxygen sensor, which is provided upstream of the three-way catalyst in a flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect an oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; a downstream oxygen sensor, which is provided downstream of the three-way catalyst in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; and a controller, which includes a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions, execution of which by the processor causes the controller to execute a detachment determination process of determining whether the three-way catalyst is detached at least based on a signal input as a signal of the downstream oxygen sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yoh ARAMAKI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Nobuyuki KAWASHIMA, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Satoshi SHIOKAWA, Ryo TOMII, Yuta SHIMIZU, Haruhiko FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11821813
    Abstract: A drive train abnormality determination device for a straddled vehicle that includes a drive train having a rotator. The drive train abnormality determination device includes an angle signal output unit that periodically outputs an angle signal in accordance with rotation of the rotator, a rotator rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit that acquires a quantity related to a fluctuation in a rotation speed of the rotator, based on the angle signal from the angle signal output unit, a rough road determination unit that determines whether a distribution state or pattern satisfies a predetermined rough road condition, a continuity determination unit that determines whether the rough road condition is continuously satisfied, and a drive train abnormality determination unit that determines, responsive to a determination by the continuity determination unit that the rough road condition is continuously satisfied, that the drive train has an abnormality in its functioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuteru Iwamoto, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Nobuyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11767076
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one of an electric vent valve configured to open and close an outside-air-introduction passage of a canister or an electric suction pump configured to suck gas in a gas passage through which the gas flows. The canister and at least one of the vent valve or the suction pump are disposed such that at least one of a virtual-left-right-center plane that includes a center in a left-right direction and is perpendicular to the left-right direction, a virtual-front-rear-center plane that includes a center in a front-rear direction and is perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or a virtual-up-down-center plane that includes a center in an up-down direction and is perpendicular to the up-down direction is located between a gravity center of the canister and at least one of a gravity center of the vent valve or a gravity center of the suction pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuya Hidai, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Atsushi Hirano, Tatsuya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11754022
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame, a seat, a storage box, an engine body at least partially overlapping with the seat when seen from above, an intake system component, a fuel system component, an evaporative emission system, a pressure sensor, and at least one of an electric vent valve or an electric suction pump. At least one of the pressure sensor, the vent valve, or the suction pump is supported by at least one of a frame, a storage box, an engine body, an intake system component, or a fuel system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuya Hidai, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Atsushi Hirano, Tatsuya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11629672
    Abstract: A gas-leak-detection device for detecting a gas leakage from an evaporative emission system includes an electric-wire-connection portion and a passage connection portion that are disposed to overlap with at least one of appearance components in a vehicle when the vehicle is seen in a viewing direction, and are disposed closer to the at least one appearance component than a center plane perpendicular to the viewing direction when the vehicle is in an upright state, the center plane being one of an imaginary-lateral-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane perpendicular to the left-right direction, an imaginary-longitudinal-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane including a center in the front-rear direction and being perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or an imaginary-vertical-center plane that is an imaginary horizontal plane including a center in the top-bottom direction and being perpendicular to the top-bottom direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuya Hidai, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Atsushi Hirano, Tatsuya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11619566
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle engine unit including an internal combustion engine and a misfire detection device. The misfire detection device includes a crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit and a misfire determination unit. The misfire determination unit includes first to third determination units. The first determination unit determines whether or not the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired by the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit is greater than a set physical quantity determination reference. The second determination unit determines whether or not a fluctuation pattern constituted by a physical quantity and the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired at least before or after the physical quantity falls within a set misfire pattern range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Hotta, Yoshihiko Nonogaki, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Nobuyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11598291
    Abstract: A gas-leak-detection device for detecting a gas leakage from an evaporative emission system includes an electric-wire-connection portion and a passage connection portion that are disposed to overlap with at least one of appearance components in a vehicle when the vehicle is seen in a viewing direction, and are disposed closer to the at least one appearance component than a center plane perpendicular to the viewing direction when the vehicle is in an upright state, the center plane being one of an imaginary-lateral-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane perpendicular to the left-right direction, an imaginary-longitudinal-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane including a center in the front-rear direction and being perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or an imaginary-vertical-center plane that is an imaginary horizontal plane including a center in the top-bottom direction and being perpendicular to the top-bottom direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuya Hidai, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Atsushi Hirano, Tatsuya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11536215
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle engine unit including an internal combustion engine and a misfire detection device. The internal combustion engine has a crankshaft, and a crank angle signal output unit that periodically outputs a crank angle signal in accordance with rotation of the crankshaft. The internal combustion engine is configured to repeat at least two kinds of strokes on a cycle of every 720-degree rotation of the crankshaft. The misfire detection device includes a crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit configured to acquire a physical quantity related to an amount of fluctuation in a rotation speed of the crankshaft in one kind of stroke, out of the at least two kinds of strokes, based on the crank angle signal from the crank angle signal output unit, and a misfire determination unit configured to perform a misfire determination in response to each acquisition of the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Hotta, Yoshihiko Nonogaki, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Nobuyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20220389886
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame, a seat, a storage box, an engine body at least partially overlapping with the seat when seen from above, an intake system component, a fuel system component, an evaporative emission system, a pressure sensor, and at least one of an electric vent valve or an electric suction pump. At least one of the pressure sensor, the vent valve, or the suction pump is supported by at least one of a frame, a storage box, an engine body, an intake system component, or a fuel system component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuya HIDAI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Atsushi HIRANO, Tatsuya KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220389888
    Abstract: A gas-leak-detection device for detecting a gas leakage from an evaporative emission system includes an electric-wire-connection portion and a passage connection portion that are disposed to overlap with at least one of appearance components in a vehicle when the vehicle is seen in a viewing direction, and are disposed closer to the at least one appearance component than a center plane perpendicular to the viewing direction when the vehicle is in an upright state, the center plane being one of an imaginary-lateral-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane perpendicular to the left-right direction, an imaginary-longitudinal-center plane that is an imaginary vertical plane including a center in the front-rear direction and being perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or an imaginary-vertical-center plane that is an imaginary horizontal plane including a center in the top-bottom direction and being perpendicular to the top-bottom direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuya HIDAI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Atsushi HIRANO, Tatsuya KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220388594
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one of an electric vent valve configured to open and close an outside-air-introduction passage of a canister or an electric suction pump configured. to suck gas in a gas passage through which the gas flows. The canister and at least one of the vent valve or the suction pump are disposed such that at least one of a virtual-left-right-center plane that includes a center in a left-right direction and is perpendicular to the left-right direction, a virtual-front-rear-center plane that includes a center in a front-rear direction and is perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or a virtual-up-down-center plane that includes a center in an up-down direction and is perpendicular to the up-down direction is located between a gravity center of the canister and at least one of a gravity center of the vent valve or a gravity center of the suction pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuya HIDAI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Atsushi HIRANO, Tatsuya KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220389887
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle on which a part used for performing an inspection for a leak of gas from an evaporative emission system is mounted such that a weight balance of the straddled vehicle is maintained and mass concentrates includes a canister-integrated-leak-detection device that detects a leak of gas from an evaporative emission system. The canister-integrated-leak-detection device configured in a state where at least one of a vent valve or a suction pump is integrated with a canister is supported via a common attaching member to intersect with at least one of a virtual-left-right-center plane that includes a center in a left-right direction and is perpendicular to the left-right direction, a virtual-front-rear-center plane that includes a center in a front-rear direction and is perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or a virtual-up-down-center plane that includes a center in an up-down direction and is perpendicular to the up-down direction in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuya HIDAI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Atsushi HIRANO, Tatsuya KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220050019
    Abstract: A drive train abnormality determination device for a straddled vehicle that includes a drive train having a rotator. The drive train abnormality determination device includes an angle signal output unit that periodically outputs an angle signal in accordance with rotation of the rotator, a rotator rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit that acquires a quantity related to a fluctuation in a rotation speed of the rotator, based on the angle signal from the angle signal output unit, a rough road determination unit that determines whether a distribution state or pattern satisfies a predetermined rough road condition, a continuity determination unit that determines whether the rough road condition is continuously satisfied, and a drive train abnormality determination unit that determines, responsive to a determination by the continuity determination unit that the rough road condition is continuously satisfied, that the drive train has an abnormality in its functioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuteru Iwamoto, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Nobuyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11235711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a structure in which no gap that allows water entry between a weather strip and a glass run is formed in a situation where the weather strip at an upper frame portion of a window frame extends gradually downwardly apart from the glass run. An upper glass run portion is provided with a door panel sealing lip. The door panel sealing lip is provided with a gradually varying portion such that a downward protruding length of the door panel sealing lip increases. The gradually varying portion is disposed so as to contact an outer sealing lip of the weather strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd., MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takeda, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Noboru Shouno, Yusuke Migaki
  • Publication number: 20210404406
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle engine unit including an internal combustion engine and a misfire detection device. The internal combustion engine has a crankshaft, and a crank angle signal output unit that periodically outputs a crank angle signal in accordance with rotation of the crankshaft. The internal combustion engine is configured to repeat at least two kinds of strokes on a cycle of every 720-degree rotation of the crankshaft. The misfire detection device includes a crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit configured to acquire a physical quantity related to an amount of fluctuation in a rotation speed of the crankshaft in one kind of stroke, out of the at least two kinds of strokes, based on the crank angle signal from the crank angle signal output unit, and a misfire determination unit configured to perform a misfire determination in response to each acquisition of the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru HOTTA, Yoshihiko NONOGAKI, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Nobuyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210404913
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle engine unit including an internal combustion engine and a misfire detection device. The misfire detection device includes a crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit and a misfire determination unit. The misfire determination unit includes first to third determination units. The first determination unit determines whether or not the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired by the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit is greater than a set physical quantity determination reference. The second determination unit determines whether or not a fluctuation pattern constituted by a physical quantity and the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired at least before or after the physical quantity falls within a set misfire pattern range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru HOTTA, Yoshihiko NONOGAKI, Kazuteru IWAMOTO, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Nobuyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10988012
    Abstract: Disclosed is a structure in which no gap that allows water admission between a weather strip and a glass run is formed in a situation where the weather strip at an upper frame portion of a window frame extends gradually downwardly apart from the glass run. The upper glass run portion is provided with a door panel sealing lip. The door panel sealing lip is provided with a form change point. The door panel sealing lip has a portion located closer to a center portion in a front-rear direction of the vehicle than the form change point is, and the portion contacts an upper surface of an upper frame portion and is bent outward away from a cabin. The door panel sealing lip has another portion located closer to an end than the form change point is, and the portion is not bent but extends downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takeda, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Noboru Shouno, Yusuke Migaki
  • Patent number: 10794314
    Abstract: An unequal-interval combustion engine misfire-determination device determines whether a misfire has occurred in an unequal-interval combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders in which combustion occurs at unequal intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Hotta, Yoshihiko Nonogaki, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Yo Aramaki, Kazuteru Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10788397
    Abstract: A misfire determination device includes: a combustion fluctuation canceled value acquisition unit that acquires a first combustion fluctuation canceled value corresponding to a first angle position and a second combustion fluctuation canceled value corresponding to a second angle position; a combustion fluctuation manifested value calculation unit that calculates a first fluctuation manifested value by removing the first combustion fluctuation canceled value from a rotation speed at the first angle position, and calculates a second fluctuation manifested value by removing the second combustion fluctuation canceled value from a rotation speed at the second angle position; a first-order difference calculation unit that calculates a first-order difference between the first fluctuation manifested value and the second fluctuation manifested value; and a specific cylinder misfire determination unit that determines a misfire in a specific cylinder by using the first-order difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Hotta, Yoshihiko Nonogaki, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Yo Aramaki, Kazuteru Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190128199
    Abstract: An unequal-interval combustion engine misfire-determination device determines whether a misfire has occurred in an unequal-interval combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders in which combustion occurs at unequal intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: Denso Corporation, Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Hotta, Yoshihiko Nonogaki, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Yo Aramaki, Kazuteru Iwamoto