Patents by Inventor Ikuo Matsuki

Ikuo Matsuki 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: 4592458
    Abstract: A clutch device for working vehicles including a pressure member integrally rotatable with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle, a centrifugal weight supported by the pressure member, the centrifugal weight being centrifugally movable in a higher revolution region than a predetermined number of revolutions of the crankshaft, a clutch outer member driven to be rotated by the pressure member, a plurality of drive friction plates integrally supported by the clutch outer member, the drive friction plates being axially movable, a clutch inner member fixedly provided with a plurality of driven friction plates frictionally engageable with the drive friction plates and having an output portion connected to a working implement of the vehicle, and a member for resiliently biassing the drive friction plates and the driven friction plates in their engagement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsuki, Yasushi Itai, Kenji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4590905
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for controlling the decompression of an internal combustion engine for driving compressors, electric generators, and the like, the process including the steps of starting the engine with the decompression control engaged and the engine decompressed, partially activating the control when the engine reaches a first predetermined speed so that, as the speed is increased, the engine operates compressed, when the engine reaches normal operating speed, fully activating the control and, when the engine speed is decreased to a second predetermined speed below said normal operating speed but above said first predetermined speed, the control is reactivated for decompression operation of the engine until the engine stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsuki, Naoyuki Kamiya, Toshimitsu Ikeda, Yoshiari Takagi, Yoshio Iizuka, Yoshinobu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Funai, Mutsumi Terasawa, Susumu Tasaka