Patents by Inventor Katsumi Ochiai
Katsumi Ochiai 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: 11260948Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a supercharger that compresses air to be supplied to an air intake of the engine, and a cooler that cools the air compressed by the supercharger. The compressed air is cooled by spraying water obtained by condensing water vapor produced by combustion in the engine to the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 10465641Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, an engine cover accommodating the engine, and an intake path between the engine cover and the engine. The intake path directs external air to the engine. The engine cover includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The upper cover includes an opening to take external air into the intake path. The intake path includes a first airflow passage, a second airflow passage, and an airflow space. The first airflow passage is at least partially defined by an inner surface of the engine cover, and downwardly directs the external air. The second airflow passage is at least partially defined by the inner surface of the engine cover, and upwardly directs the external air. The airflow space is above the lower cover and continues to the first airflow passage and the second airflow passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Tomoaki Sato, Yasutaka Itou, Yuta Miyagi, Takayuki Yamada
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Patent number: 10385768Abstract: An outboard motor unit includes a first outboard motor including a supercharger that is located inside a first cowling and supplies compressed air to a first engine, a second outboard motor including a second cowling and a second engine housed in the second cowling, and an air passage through which the air compressed by the supercharger of the first outboard motor is supplied to the second engine of the second outboard motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Toshio Suzuki
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Patent number: 10150548Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine including a plurality of cylinders, a cowling including an internal space, a drive force transmission shaft, and a supercharger driven by the drive force transmission shaft. An upper end of the supercharger is disposed below an upper end of an uppermost one of the plurality of cylinders in the internal space of the cowling.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Toshio Suzuki, Masashi Hirota
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Publication number: 20180118317Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine including a plurality of cylinders, a cowling including an internal space, a drive force transmission shaft, and a supercharger driven by the drive force transmission shaft. An upper end of the supercharger is disposed below an upper end of an uppermost one of the plurality of cylinders in the internal space of the cowling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Katsumi OCHIAI, Toshio SUZUKI, Masashi HIROTA
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Publication number: 20180105249Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a supercharger that compresses air to be supplied to an air intake of the engine, and a cooler that cools the air compressed by the supercharger. The compressed air is cooled by spraying water obtained by condensing water vapor produced by combustion in the engine to the cooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventor: Katsumi OCHIAI
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Publication number: 20180100431Abstract: An outboard motor unit includes a first outboard motor including a supercharger that is located inside a first cowling and supplies compressed air to a first engine, a second outboard motor including a second cowling and a second engine housed in the second cowling, and an air passage through which the air compressed by the supercharger of the first outboard motor is supplied to the second engine of the second outboard motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Katsumi OCHIAI, Toshio SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180087438Abstract: An outboard motor unit includes an outboard motor including a cowling and an engine housed in the cowling and that is mounted on a vessel body, a supercharger that compresses air, and a compressed air cooler that is installed outside the cowling of the outboard motor and cools air compressed by the supercharger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Katsumi OCHIAI, Toshio SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9926831Abstract: An outboard motor unit includes an outboard motor including a cowling and an engine housed in the cowling and that is mounted on a vessel body, a supercharger that compresses air, and a compressed air cooler that is installed outside the cowling of the outboard motor and cools air compressed by the supercharger.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Toshio Suzuki
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Patent number: 9828079Abstract: An outboard motor includes a catalyst housing passage disposed inside the V-shaped line, a cooling water passage including at least a portion disposed at a periphery of a catalyst and that guides cooling water that cools an exhaust passage and a vent hole disposed higher than the catalyst and that connects the interior of the cooling water passage to the exterior of the cooling water passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsumi Ochiai
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Publication number: 20170129654Abstract: The present invention provides a labeled blow-molded container having a convex portion and/or a concave portion on a label face, and a blow molding mold. The labeled blow-molded container of the present invention including a blow-molded container containing a thermoplastic resin; and a label containing a thermoplastic resin film, the labeled blow-molded container being formed by the blow-molded container being thermally fused to a label; a label face of the container to which the label is affixed having a convex portion and/or a concave portion; and a height difference (h) representing a distance between the highest part of the label surface and the lowest part of the label surface being not less than 0.3 mm using the label face as a reference in a height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: YUPO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi FUNATO, Katsumi OCHIAI, Takahiko UEDA
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Patent number: 9587601Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a flywheel magnet generator, a fan, and a cover member. The engine includes a crankshaft extending in a vertical direction. The flywheel magnet generator includes a flywheel rotor, a core, and a coil. The flywheel rotor is attached to an end of the crankshaft. The core and the coil are disposed between the flywheel rotor and the engine. The fan is attached onto the flywheel rotor. The cover member is disposed above the fan. The cover member includes a first suction port that sucks in air from above the cover member. The flywheel rotor includes a second suction port that sucks in air from below the flywheel rotor. The fan includes a first ventilation path and a second ventilation path. The first ventilation path radially outwardly releases the air sucked in through the first suction port, whereas the second ventilation path radially outwardly releases the air sucked in through the second suction port.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 9394018Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a roof side rail, roof arch, and roof panel. The roof side rail includes a mount portion extending inward in a vehicle-transversal direction and having a vehicle-transversally outer end portion of the roof panel mounted thereto. The roof arch includes a vehicle-transversally outer end portion that is located outside a vehicle-transversally inner end of the mount portion in the vehicle-transversal direction, joined with the roof side rail, and disposed at a position that is spaced apart downward from the vehicle-transversally outer end portion of the roof panel. At least one of the roof arch and the roof side rail includes a flange portion that extends toward the other one of the roof arch and the side rail and comes into contact with the other one of the roof arch and the roof side rail to restrict downward movement of the roof arch.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Kisaku, Katsumi Ochiai, Yukihiko Nagai
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Publication number: 20160129980Abstract: An outboard motor includes a catalyst housing passage disposed inside the V-shaped line, a cooling water passage including at least a portion disposed at a periphery of a catalyst and that guides cooling water that cools an exhaust passage and a vent hole disposed higher than the catalyst and that connects the interior of the cooling water passage to the exterior of the cooling water passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventor: Katsumi OCHIAI
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Patent number: 9296458Abstract: An outboard motor includes an exhaust pipe that includes an outer wall section, an inner wall section, a coolant passage, and a constricted section. The inner wall section is arranged inward of the outer wall section. The coolant passage is arranged between the outer wall section and the inner wall section. The constricted section is configured to constrict a flow cross section of the coolant passage. A catalytic converter is housed in the exhaust pipe. A temperature sensor is installed in the constricted section and measures a temperature of a pipe wall of the exhaust pipe.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kimitaka Saruwatari, Katsumi Ochiai, Toshio Suzuki
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Patent number: 9260172Abstract: An outboard motor includes a cooling water passage including at least a portion disposed at a periphery of a catalyst and that guides cooling water that cools an exhaust passage, a vent hole disposed higher than the catalyst and that connects the interior of the cooling water passage to the exterior of the cooling water passage, and a restriction valve that allows a fluid to flow from the interior of the cooling water passage to the exterior of the cooling water passage via the vent hole and that restricts the flow of the fluid from the exterior of the cooling water passage to the interior of the cooling water passage via the vent hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 9260171Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an exhaust passage guiding an exhaust, discharged from combustion chambers into an exhaust collecting passage, to a catalyst housed in a catalyst housing passage, and a cooling water passage guiding cooling water. The cooling water passage includes an upstream water passage, guiding the cooling water taken into the interior of the vessel propulsion apparatus by a water pump, and a first and second parallel water passage connected in series to the upstream water passage and connected in parallel to each other. The cooling water passage supplies the cooling water from the upstream water passage to each of the first and second parallel water passages to cool the catalyst housing passage by the first parallel water passage disposed along the catalyst housing passage and cool the exhaust collecting passage by the second parallel water passage disposed along the exhaust collecting passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Kouhei Natsume, Shinichi Hoshiya
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Patent number: 9120549Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinders disposed along a V-shaped line, a pair of exhaust manifolds disposed inside the V-shaped line, and an exhaust pipe disposed inside the V-shaped line. Each of the pair of exhaust manifolds includes a first passage that includes a plurality of inflow ports into which exhaust gases from the cylinders flow, a collecting portion at which exhaust gases are collected, and an exhaust port from which exhaust gases are discharged. The exhaust pipe includes a connection passage that includes a pair of intermediate inflow ports that are connected to the exhaust ports, at least one intermediate exhaust port from which exhaust gases are discharged. The connection passage is arranged to connect the pair of intermediate inflow ports and the at least one intermediate exhaust port.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Shinichi Hoshiya, Shinya Maekawa, Toshio Suzuki
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Patent number: 9062587Abstract: An exhaust pipe connecting structure includes a first exhaust pipe, a second exhaust pipe, a seal member, and a gasket. The second exhaust pipe is a separate part from the first exhaust pipe. The second exhaust pipe is connected to the first exhaust pipe and defines an exhaust passage together with the first exhaust pipe. The seal member is located between the first exhaust pipe and the second exhaust pipe in a connecting portion where the first exhaust pipe and the second exhaust pipe connect. The gasket is arranged between the seal member and the exhaust passage in the connecting portion where the first exhaust pipe and the second exhaust pipe connect together. The gasket has a heat resistant property.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Nakayama, Toshio Suzuki, Katsumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 8986059Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes an engine, an exhaust passage, a porous body, a retainer mat, and a stopper portion. The engine includes an exhaust port. The exhaust passage connects to the exhaust port. The porous body is disposed in the exhaust passage. The retainer mat covers the outside peripheral face of the porous body. The retainer mat retains the porous body. The stopper portion is disposed inside the exhaust passage. The stopper portion is disposed downstream of the porous body and spaced apart from a downstream-side end portion of the porous body. The stopper portion extends inwardly in the radial direction, past the outside peripheral surface of the porous body.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Maekawa, Koichi Nakayama, Toshio Suzuki, Katsumi Ochiai