Patents by Inventor Ikuo Hara
Ikuo Hara 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).
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Patent number: 11511622Abstract: A mounting structure for a fuel shutoff valve unit (U) includes a valve device (50) which is provided in a fuel tank (31) of a saddle type vehicle (1) and in which a breather passage (Y) which discharges volatile fuel to the outside is formed and a valve (51) which prevents leakage of liquid fuel is provided, wherein, in the saddle type vehicle including a filler tube (F) which is provided inside the fuel tank (31) and supplies fuel supplied from the outside to the inside of the fuel tank (31), a support member (B) which is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the filler tube (F) and supports the fuel shutoff valve unit (U) inside the fuel tank (31) is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ko Kurata, Hiroshi Inaoka, Ikuo Hara
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Patent number: 11413958Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment structure of a fuel cut-off unit (U) that is provided in a fuel tank (31) of a saddle-type vehicle (1), includes a breather passage (114) for discharging volatile fuel to the outside, and includes a valve device (50) for cutting off outflow of liquid fuel. The fuel cut-off unit (U) includes an accommodation container (100) constituted of a fitting portion (U2) which is inserted into the fuel tank (31) at the time of attachment to the fuel tank (31) and a unit exterior portion (U1) which is positioned outside the fuel tank (31). A first locking portion (105) for performing positioning at the time of attachment to the fuel tank (31) is formed in the fitting portion (U2). A penetration hole (C) penetrating from the inside to the outside such that the fitting portion (U2) is inserted therethrough is formed in the fuel tank (31).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ko Kurata, Hiroshi Inaoka, Ikuo Hara
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Publication number: 20220024297Abstract: A mounting structure for a fuel shutoff valve unit (U) includes a valve device (50) which is provided in a fuel tank (31) of a saddle type vehicle (1) and in which a breather passage (Y) which discharges volatile fuel to the outside is formed and a valve (51) which prevents leakage of liquid fuel is provided, wherein, in the saddle type vehicle including a filler tube (F) which is provided inside the fuel tank (31) and supplies fuel supplied from the outside to the inside of the fuel tank (31), a support member (B) which is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the filler tube (F) and supports the fuel shutoff valve unit (U) inside the fuel tank (31) is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Ko Kurata, Hiroshi Inaoka, Ikuo Hara
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Publication number: 20220009344Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment structure of a fuel cut-off unit (U) that is provided in a fuel tank (31) of a saddle-type vehicle (1), includes a breather passage (114) for discharging volatile fuel to the outside, and includes a valve device (50) for cutting off outflow of liquid fuel. The fuel cut-off unit (U) includes an accommodation container (100) constituted of a fitting portion (U2) which is inserted into the fuel tank (31) at the time of attachment to the fuel tank (31) and a unit exterior portion (U1) which is positioned outside the fuel tank (31). A first locking portion (105) for performing positioning at the time of attachment to the fuel tank (31) is formed in the fitting portion (U2). A penetration hole (C) penetrating from the inside to the outside such that the fitting portion (U2) is inserted therethrough is formed in the fuel tank (31).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Ko Kurata, Hiroshi Inaoka, Ikuo Hara
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Patent number: 9446661Abstract: To enable the effective supply of fuel in a low remaining fuel condition, even in a saddle-ride vehicle with a requirement for an increased fuel tank capacity being provided within a limited amount of space. The saddle-ride vehicle includes an engine having a cylinder disposed on a crankcase; an intake system component disposed at the rear of the cylinder for sucking air into the engine; and a fuel tank disposed above the engine for storing fuel. The saddle-ride type vehicle includes a fuel suction port in a side bottom plate portion of the fuel tank for feeding fuel to the intake system component. The saddle-ride vehicle has a sub-chamber having a wall that surrounds the fuel suction port and the sub-chamber includes a fuel flow opening toward the vehicle rear.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunao Kawano, Masataka Nakano, Ikuo Hara, Takeshi Shimura, Junji Higashiyama
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Patent number: 9166017Abstract: Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p+-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Arai, Yoshito Nakazawa, Ikuo Hara, Tsuyoshi Kachi, Yoshinori Hoshino, Tsuyoshi Tabata
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Patent number: 8939130Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device is provided to treat evaporated fuel by using a fuel supply cap with a small size while the flowout of fuel can also be suitably prevented. The evaporated fuel treatment device includes a positive pressure adjusting valve which opens when an inner pressure of a fuel tank becomes a predetermined pressure or more, and a spherical rollover valve which closes the positive pressure adjusting valve when the fuel tank is inclined at an angle equal to or larger than a predetermined angle. The positive pressure adjusting valve and the spherical rollover valve are mounted on one cylindrical portion formed on a fuel supply cap.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Shimura, Shinji Kobayashi, Ikuo Hara, Takuma Koishikawa, Satoshi Okayama, Takeshi Uemae
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Patent number: 8887696Abstract: A fuel cap includes a communication chamber configured to make a charge path and the inside of the fuel tank communicate with each other while in a closed state. The communication chamber includes: a positive pressure control valve configured to open, and send evaporated fuel, which occurs inside the fuel tank, to an evaporated fuel reservoir via the communication chamber and the charge path when the internal pressure of the fuel tank becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure; and a negative pressure control valve configured to open, and send air from the evaporated fuel reservoir to the fuel tank via the communication chamber and the charge path when the internal pressure of the fuel tank becomes equal to or less than the predetermined pressure. In addition, a key cylinder sets the negative pressure control valve open upon inserting a key into the key cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Shimura, Ikuo Hara, Tadaaki Nagata, Shinji Kobayashi, Takahiro Imamura
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Patent number: 8864002Abstract: A side trunk mounting structure which enhances the external appearance of a two-wheeled motor vehicle. Mounting holes (113F, 113r) for mounting the side trunk (111) are formed in a rear fender (17). The side trunk mounting holes are located below a rider's seat (15).Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rinatsu Iida, Ikuo Hara, Eiji Toriyama, Satoshi Kogo, Hirotoshi Akita, Keiichi Kaji
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Patent number: 8813725Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device for a vehicle is provided to suppress the flowout of evaporated fuel into atmospheric air. In the evaporated fuel treatment device, a communication chamber is formed in a fuel supply cap, allowing communication between a charge passage and the inside of a fuel tank in a closed state. In the communication chamber, a positive pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply evaporated fuel in the fuel tank to an evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage, and a negative pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply atmospheric air to the fuel tank from the evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage. An interlocking member is provided between the key cover and the negative pressure adjusting valve, and opens the negative pressure adjusting valve in an interlocking manner with an operation of opening the key cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Shimura, Ikuo Hara, Tadaaki Nagata, Shinji Kobayashi, Takahiro Imamura
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Publication number: 20140235020Abstract: Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p+-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke ARAI, Yoshito NAKAZAWA, Ikuo HARA, Tsuyoshi KACHI, Yoshinori HOSHINO, Tsuyoshi TABATA
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Patent number: 8741699Abstract: Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p+-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Daisuke Arai, Yoshito Nakazawa, Ikuo Hara, Tsuyoshi Kachi, Yoshinori Hoshino, Tsuyoshi Tabata
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Arrangement structure of parking brake lever and arrangement structure of operating lever in vehicle
Patent number: 8726758Abstract: A parking brake lever which provides ease of recognition of a locked state of the parking brake lever and improves the arrangement of the parking brake lever around a handle bar. A parking brake lever includes a handle rear arm portion provided adjacent to a left handle bar rearward thereof in an unlocked position in which a parking brake caliper is in an unlocked state, and a handle upper arm portion provided adjacent to the left handle bar upward thereof in the unlocked position in which the parking brake caliper is in the unlocked state. A rotating shaft of the parking brake lever is provided in the handle rear arm portion that is substantially parallel to the direction of the axis of the left handle bar, so that the parking brake caliper can be operated into the locked state by pulling the parking brake lever upward.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Furuse, Ikuo Hara, Rui Maeda, Chihiro Iida, Manabu Ichikawa -
Patent number: 8496092Abstract: A parking brake lever apparatus for a vehicle includes a first latchet member and a second latchet member arranged along the direction of an axis of a rotating shaft of a holder member which rotatably supports a parking brake lever. The first latchet member and the second latchet member are arranged so that respective teeth thereof come into contact with each other at end surfaces facing in the direction of the axis of the rotating shaft when the parking brake lever is in an unlocked position. The first latchet member is moved toward the second latchet member by springs so that the respective teeth of the first latchet member and the second latchet member are engaged with each other when the parking brake lever is in a locked position.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Furuse, Ikuo Hara, Rui Maeda, Chihiro Iida
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Publication number: 20120299056Abstract: Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p+-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Daisuke ARAI, Yoshito NAKAZAWA, Ikuo HARA, Tsuyoshi KACHI, Yoshinori HOSHINO, Tsuyoshi TABATA
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Publication number: 20120255525Abstract: A fuel cap includes a communication chamber configured to make a charge path and the inside of the fuel tank communicate with each other while in a closed state. The communication chamber includes: a positive pressure control valve configured to open, and send evaporated fuel, which occurs inside the fuel tank, to an evaporated fuel reservoir via the communication chamber and the charge path when the internal pressure of the fuel tank becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure; and a negative pressure control valve configured to open, and send air from the evaporated fuel reservoir to the fuel tank via the communication chamber and the charge path when the internal pressure of the fuel tank becomes equal to or less than the predetermined pressure. In addition, a key cylinder sets the negative pressure control valve open upon inserting a key into the key cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Takeshi Shimura, Ikuo Hara, Tadaaki Nagata, Shinji Kobayashi, Takahiro Imamura
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Publication number: 20120240904Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device for a vehicle is provided to suppress the flowout of evaporated fuel into atmospheric air. In the evaporated fuel treatment device, a communication chamber is formed in a fuel supply cap, allowing communication between a charge passage and the inside of a fuel tank in a closed state. In the communication chamber, a positive pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply evaporated fuel in the fuel tank to an evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage, and a negative pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply atmospheric air to the fuel tank from the evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage. An interlocking member is provided between the key cover and the negative pressure adjusting valve, and opens the negative pressure adjusting valve in an interlocking manner with an operation of opening the key cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Takeshi Shimura, Ikuo Hara, Tadaaki Nagata, Shinji Kobayashi, Takahiro Imamura
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Publication number: 20120240906Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device is provided to treat evaporated fuel by using a fuel supply cap with a small size while the flowout of fuel can also be suitably prevented. The evaporated fuel treatment device includes a positive pressure adjusting valve which opens when an inner pressure of a fuel tank becomes a predetermined pressure or more, and a spherical rollover valve which closes the positive pressure adjusting valve when the fuel tank is inclined at an angle equal to or larger than a predetermined angle. The positive pressure adjusting valve and the spherical rollover valve are mounted on one cylindrical portion formed on a fuel supply cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Takeshi SHIMURA, Shinji Kobayashi, Ikuo Hara, Takuma Koishikawa, Satoshi Okayama, Takeshi Uemae
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Publication number: 20110073627Abstract: A side trunk mounting structure which enhances the external appearance of a two-wheeled motor vehicle. Mounting holes (113F, 113r) for mounting the side trunk (111) are formed in a rear fender (17). The side trunk mounting holes are located below a rider's seat (15).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Rinatsu Iida, Ikuo Hara, Eiji Toriyama, Satoshi Kogo, Hirotoshi Akita, Keiichi Kaji
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Publication number: 20110056322Abstract: A parking brake lever apparatus for a vehicle includes a first latchet member and a second latchet member arranged along the direction of an axis of a rotating shaft of a holder member which rotatably supports a parking brake lever. The first latchet member and the second latchet member are arranged so that respective teeth thereof come into contact with each other at end surfaces facing in the direction of the axis of the rotating shaft when the parking brake lever is in an unlocked position. The first latchet member is moved toward the second latchet member by springs so that the respective teeth of the first latchet member and the second latchet member are engaged with each other when the parking brake lever is in a locked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Hiroshi FURUSE, Ikuo HARA, Rui MAEDA, Chihiro IIDA