Patents by Inventor Kazushi Numazaki
Kazushi Numazaki 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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Publication number: 20240255064Abstract: To provide a safety valve capable of suppressing creep of a fusible alloy to the minimum even if a member that blocks a flow path directly presses the fusible alloy. A fusible alloy is disposed between a blocking member that blocks the flow of fluid flowing from a discharge path of a fluid apparatus and a pressing cap, a reservoir part 8 that reserves the fused fusible alloy is formed at least in one of the blocking member 3 and the pressing cap, and two porous plates punched positions of which do not overlap with each other are arranged between the reservoir part and the fusible alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Matsuoka, Kunihiko Daido, Tadayuki Yakushijin, Koji Hiramatsu, Yusei Horikawa, Takao Kitanaka, Kazushi Numazaki, Natsuki Iwamoto, Tetsuya Tokuno
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Publication number: 20240019038Abstract: A pressure reduction valve includes a body including a gas passage, a valve seat provided in the gas passage, and a valve member provided on a downstream side of the valve seat in the gas passage. The gas passage includes a primary-side passage section located on an upstream side of the valve member, and a secondary-side passage section located on a downstream side of the valve member. The primary-side passage section includes a pressure chamber, which is a space formed between the valve member and the valve seat. The valve member includes a valve member passage that connects the pressure chamber to the secondary-side passage section, and an auxiliary passage configured to assist gas that flows into the pressure chamber through a clearance between the valve member and the valve seat to flow out to the secondary-side passage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Tetsuya KANEKO, Akira NAKANO, Kazuhiro TAKABAYASHI, Kazuo HANEDA, Yuya KIHARA
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Patent number: 11859766Abstract: A fusible plug for a high pressure gas cylinder includes a communication hole filled with a low melting point alloy, a porous metal sintered body is press-fitted in at least a part of the communication hole in a length direction, all or a part of the porous metal sintered body is impregnated with the low melting point alloy to solidify and composite the low melting point alloy. It is preferable that: the low melting point alloy has a melting point of 110° C.; the porous metal sintered body to be press-fitted is a porous metal sintered body having pores with an area ratio of 30% or more and 50% or less and having pores with a diameter exceeding 5 ?m among the pores of 80% or more in terms of area ratio to all the pores; and the porous metal sintered body is a porous austenitic stainless steel sintered body.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD., JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takiguchi, Atsuya Aoki, Kazushi Numazaki, Takeshi Takahashi, Natsuki Iwamoto, Yudai Watanabe
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Patent number: 11698141Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes: a body, a valve seat, and a valve element opening and closing the valve seat according to a difference between a pressure on the inlet side and a pressure on the outlet side. A pressure chamber, which is a space part between the valve element and the valve seat, is provided on the inlet side of the valve element. The valve element includes a plurality of horizontal holes each opening to the pressure chamber, and a vertical hole bringing the horizontal holes and the outlet side of the valve element into communication with each other. The horizontal holes and the vertical hole are provided in such a manner that a value of a ratio of a flow channel area of the vertical hole to a total area that is a total of flow channel areas of the horizontal holes exceeds 1.16.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Numazaki, Tetsuya Kaneko, Akira Nakano, Kazuhiro Takabayashi, Kazuo Haneda, Yuya Kihara
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Patent number: 11560965Abstract: A valve device includes a body, a solenoid valve, and a manual valve mounted to the body. The manual valve being configured to open and close the gas flow channel via a manual operation. The gas flow channel includes a first flow channel including the valve-side opening portion, and a second flow channel including the tank-side opening portion, and includes an intersection portion in which a first center axis that is a center axis of the first flow channel and a second center axis that is a center axis of the second flow channel intersect with each other. A center axis of the solenoid valve coincides with an extension line of the first center axis and a center axis of the manual valve coincides with an extension line of the second center axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Natsuki Iwamoto, Kazushi Numazaki, Tomohiro Ishihara
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Patent number: 11543052Abstract: A valve device includes a body, a joint, a check valve, a valve seat fixation member having an outer peripheral surface on which an external thread is provided, and a sealing member. The body has an attachment hole that attaches the joint and the valve seat fixation member from an outside of the body in a sequence of the joint and the valve seat fixation member, and that has an inner peripheral surface in which an internal thread screwed to the external thread of the valve seat fixation member is provided. The sealing member is provided between the joint and the valve seat fixation member. An outer peripheral edge of the sealing member is located radially inward of a screwed region of the internal thread and the external thread.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Suzuki, Kazuki Okamura, Takashi Yamazaki, Toshihiko Shima, Kazushi Numazaki, Naohiro Sakamoto, Akio Nakamura, Koji Kida
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Patent number: 11448329Abstract: A valve device includes a body having a gas flow path. When the gas is charged, the first flow path is located upstream of the intersecting portion, and the second flow path is located downstream of the intersecting portion. The gas flow path has a check valve mechanism and a drive mechanism. The check valve mechanism opens a valve when the gas is charged and closes the valve when the gas charge is completed, and the drive mechanism opens the valve of the check valve mechanism and holds the open state of the valve of the check valve mechanism when the gas is discharged from the tank. The check valve mechanism includes a valve seat, and the valve seat is disposed in the first flow path.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Numazaki, Takeshi Takahashi, Kazuhiro Takabayashi, Tomohiro Ishihara, Natsuki Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20220243872Abstract: A fusible plug for a high pressure gas cylinder includes a communication hole filled with a low melting point alloy, a porous metal sintered body is press-fitted in at least a part of the communication hole in a length direction, all or a part of the porous metal sintered body is impregnated with the low melting point alloy to solidify and composite the low melting point alloy. It is preferable that: the low melting point alloy has a melting point of 110° C.; the porous metal sintered body to be press-fitted is a porous metal sintered body having pores with an area ratio of 30% or more and 50% or less and having pores with a diameter exceeding 5 ?m among the pores of 80% or more in terms of area ratio to all the pores; and the porous metal sintered body is a porous austenitic stainless steel sintered body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicants: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD., JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Atsuya AOKI, Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Natsuki IWAMOTO, Yudai WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220186848Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes: a body, a valve seat, and a valve element opening and closing the valve seat according to a difference between a pressure on the inlet side and a pressure on the outlet side. A pressure chamber, which is a space part between the valve element and the valve seat, is provided on the inlet side of the valve element. The valve element includes a plurality of horizontal holes each opening to the pressure chamber, and a vertical hole bringing the horizontal holes and the outlet side of the valve element into communication with each other. The horizontal holes and the vertical hole are provided in such a manner that a value of a ratio of a flow channel area of the vertical hole to a total area that is a total of flow channel areas of the horizontal holes exceeds 1.16.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Tetsuya KANEKO, Akira NAKANO, Kazuhiro TAKABAYASHI, Kazuo HANEDA, Yuya KIHARA
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Publication number: 20210396327Abstract: A valve device includes a body, a solenoid valve, and a manual valve mounted to the body. The manual valve being configured to open and close the gas flow channel via a manual operation. The gas flow channel includes a first flow channel including the valve-side opening portion, and a second flow channel including the tank-side opening portion, and includes an intersection portion in which a first center axis that is a center axis of the first flow channel and a second center axis that is a center axis of the second flow channel intersect with each other. A center axis of the solenoid valve coincides with an extension line of the first center axis and a center axis of the manual valve coincides with an extension line of the second center axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Natsuki IWAMOTO, Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Tomohiro ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11067186Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes a piston disposed in a cylinder chamber; a valve element that is coupled to the piston and opens and closes a valve seat; a valve spring that biases the valve element in a direction in which the valve element is moved away from the valve seat; and a biasing member that biases the valve seat toward a side opposite to the piston. The pressure reducing valve is configured to reduce a primary pressure of a fluid to a secondary pressure. The valve seat is disposed such that the valve seat reciprocates in the same direction as a direction in which the valve element reciprocates in the primary pressure chamber. As a difference between the primary pressure and the secondary pressure increases, the valve seat moves toward the secondary pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Numazaki, Kazuhiro Takabayashi, Taizan Morita
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Patent number: 10890271Abstract: A solenoid valve device includes a body including a gas passage and an accommodation portion communicating with the gas passage, a solenoid valve that is accommodated in the accommodation portion and that controls flow of gas by opening and closing the gas passage, a sealing member disposed between the accommodation portion and the solenoid valve to maintain airtightness of the gas passage, and a solenoid that generates power for the solenoid valve to open and close the gas passage, wherein the body is provided with a communication hole that allows communication between inside and outside of the accommodation portion; the solenoid includes a connection terminal portion extending toward the communication hole; and a connector is accommodated in the communication hole in a manner such that rotation of the connector in a circumferential direction about an axis of the communication hole is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Numazaki, Natsuki Iwamoto, Toshikatsu Kubo, Tomohiro Yasuoka, Koji Kida
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Publication number: 20200292091Abstract: A valve device includes a body having a gas flow path. When the gas is charged, the first flow path is located upstream of the intersecting portion, and the second flow path is located downstream of the intersecting portion. The gas flow path has a check valve mechanism and a drive mechanism. The check valve mechanism opens a valve when the gas is charged and closes the valve when the gas charge is completed, and the drive mechanism opens the valve of the check valve mechanism and holds the open state of the valve of the check valve mechanism when the gas is discharged from the tank. The check valve mechanism includes a valve seat, and the valve seat is disposed in the first flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro TAKABAYASHI, Tomohiro ISHIHARA, Natsuki IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200271235Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes a piston disposed in a cylinder chamber; a valve element that is coupled to the piston and opens and closes a valve seat; a valve spring that biases the valve element in a direction in which the valve element is moved away from the valve seat; and a biasing member that biases the valve seat toward a side opposite to the piston. The pressure reducing valve is configured to reduce a primary pressure of a fluid to a secondary pressure. The valve seat is disposed such that the valve seat reciprocates in the same direction as a direction in which the valve element reciprocates in the primary pressure chamber. As a difference between the primary pressure and the secondary pressure increases, the valve seat moves toward the secondary pressure chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Kazuhiro TAKABAYASHI, Taizan MORITA
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Publication number: 20190323626Abstract: A valve device includes a body, a joint, a check valve, a valve seat fixation member having an outer peripheral surface on which an external thread is provided, and a sealing member. The body has an attachment hole that attaches the joint and the valve seat fixation member from an outside of the body in a sequence of the joint and the valve seat fixation member, and that has an inner peripheral surface in which an internal thread screwed to the external thread of the valve seat fixation member is provided. The sealing member is provided between the joint and the valve seat fixation member. An outer peripheral edge of the sealing member is located radially inward of a screwed region of the internal thread and the external thread.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya SUZUKI, Kazuki OKAMURA, Takashi YAMAZAKI, Toshihiko SHIMA, Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Naohiro SAKAMOTO, Akio NAKAMURA, Koji KIDA
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Publication number: 20190285192Abstract: A solenoid valve device includes a body including a gas passage and an accommodation portion communicating with the gas passage, a solenoid valve that is accommodated in the accommodation portion and that controls flow of gas by opening and closing the gas passage, a sealing member disposed between the accommodation portion and the solenoid valve to maintain airtightness of the gas passage, and a solenoid that generates power for the solenoid valve to open and close the gas passage, wherein the body is provided with a communication hole that allows communication between inside and outside of the accommodation portion; the solenoid includes a connection terminal portion extending toward the communication hole; and a connector is accommodated in the communication hole in a manner such that rotation of the connector in a circumferential direction about an axis of the communication hole is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Natsuki IWAMOTO, Toshikatsu KUBO, Tomohiro YASUOKA, Koji KIDA
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Patent number: 9988081Abstract: A steering system is provided which more appropriately alleviates driver's discomfort in the wrists. A steering ECU has an estimated grip angle calculating circuit, a deviation calculating circuit, an automatic steering torque command value calculating circuit, and a grip angle command value calculating circuit. The estimated grip angle calculating circuit calculates an estimated grip angle based on a steering angle. The deviation calculating circuit calculates a deviation based on the steering angle, a steering angle deviation, and the estimated grip angle. The grip angle command value calculating circuit calculates a grip angle command value that is a sum of a grip angle and the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Numazaki, Ryouhei Hayama, Hideyuki Mukae
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Publication number: 20170073000Abstract: A steering system is provided which more appropriately alleviates driver's discomfort in the wrists. A steering ECU has an estimated grip angle calculating circuit, a deviation calculating circuit, an automatic steering torque command value calculating circuit, and a grip angle command value calculating circuit. The estimated grip angle calculating circuit calculates an estimated grip angle based on a steering angle. The deviation calculating circuit calculates a deviation based on the steering angle, a steering angle deviation, and the estimated grip angle. The grip angle command value calculating circuit calculates a grip angle command value that is a sum of a grip angle and the deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Ryouhei HAYAMA, Hideyuki MUKAE
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Patent number: 9249935Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a fuel gas tank; a temperature detecting portion; a fuel gas discharge flow path; a main stop valve that is provided in the fuel gas discharge flow path; and a control portion. The main stop valve includes an inlet portion and an outlet portion, a main valve that is arranged between the inlet portion and the outlet portion and that opens and closes the fuel gas discharge flow path, a pilot flow path that is provided so as to communicate the inlet portion with the outlet portion, a pilot valve that opens and closes the pilot flow path, and an actuator capable of opening and closing the main valve and the pilot valve at different timings. The control portion opens the pilot valve and closes the main valve when the detected temperature is equal to or lower than a first reference temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Okawachi, Kazushi Numazaki
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Patent number: 8931754Abstract: A safety valve includes a cylinder having an open end and a plug for closing the open end with a hermetic seal. The interior of the cylinder communicates with a high-pressure gas passage. The cylinder is deformed as a function of gas pressure in the high-pressure gas passage to widen the open end. This allows gas in the high-pressure gas passage to escape and thus prevents the gas pressure from increasing beyond an acceptable level.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Toyooki Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Imoto, Hiroaki Suzuki, Kazushi Numazaki, Chihiro Uchimura, Akira Yamashita, Tsukuo Ishitoya, Noritaka Watanabe