Patents by Inventor Kazushige Sakazaki

Kazushige Sakazaki 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: 11679667
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a refueling port capable of simplifying a structure for restricting rotation of a nozzle guide with respect to a refueling port body. One of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes guide ribs formed between an inner peripheral surface of a body cylinder portion and an outer peripheral surface of a guide cylinder portion to sandwich a reflux port in the circumferential direction, and guiding fuel vapor flowing in from the reflux port in a direction toward a filler pipe connection port. The other one of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes a locking portion formed between the inner peripheral surface of the body cylinder portion and the outer peripheral surface of the guide cylinder portion, and locked in both directions in the circumferential direction to the guide ribs to restrict relative rotation between the refueling port body and the nozzle guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Makoto Shimojo, Eunjin Park, Takayuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220379720
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a refueling port capable of simplifying a structure for restricting rotation of a nozzle guide with respect to a refueling port body. One of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes guide ribs formed between an inner peripheral surface of a body cylinder portion and an outer peripheral surface of a guide cylinder portion to sandwich a reflux port in the circumferential direction, and guiding fuel vapor flowing in from the reflux port in a direction toward a filler pipe connection port. The other one of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes a locking portion formed between the inner peripheral surface of the body cylinder portion and the outer peripheral surface of the guide cylinder portion, and locked in both directions in the circumferential direction to the guide ribs to restrict relative rotation between the refueling port body and the nozzle guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazushige SAKAZAKI, Makoto SHIMOJO, Eunjin PARK, Takayuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220266684
    Abstract: A fuel filler port includes a resin fuel filler port main body formed tubular and having an interlock part on an outer circumferential surface thereof; an inlet metal fitting at least having an outer tube part formed tubular, positioned and disposed in the fuel filler port main body, and disposed to face the outer circumferential surface of the fuel filler port main body in a radial direction; and an earth metal fitting formed in a plate shape and interlocked with the interlock part. The earth metal fitting includes a tip bent part disposed between the outer circumferential surface of the fuel filler port main body and an inner circumferential surface of the outer tube part in the radial direction and disposed while having a biasing force in the radial direction with respect to the inner circumferential surface of the outer tube part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Eunjin PARK, Makoto SHIMOJO, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Kazushige SAKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11378212
    Abstract: A pair of first leg portions of a retainer have first taper surfaces at distal end sides on surfaces on the side to which a first pipe is to be inserted. The first taper surfaces cause the retainer to move from an initial position to an insertion position by an axial-direction pressing force from an annular protrusion, during a period until the first pipe is inserted to a regular position. During the period until the first pipe is inserted to the regular position, a pair of second leg portions restrict the retainer from moving from the initial position to a confirmation position. In a state in which the first pipe is inserted to the regular position, the pair of second leg portions allow the retainer to move from the initial position to the confirmation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Ryousuke Kanegae, Kazushige Sakazaki, Makoto Ito
  • Publication number: 20200256493
    Abstract: A pair of first leg portions of a retainer have first taper surfaces at distal end sides on surfaces on the side to which a first pipe is to be inserted. The first taper surfaces cause the retainer to move from an initial position to an insertion position by an axial-direction pressing force from an annular protrusion, during a period until the first pipe is inserted to a regular position. During the period until the first pipe is inserted to the regular position, a pair of second leg portions restrict the retainer from moving from the initial position to a confirmation position. In a state in which the first pipe is inserted to the regular position, the pair of second leg portions allow the retainer to move from the initial position to the confirmation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Ryousuke KANEGAE, Kazushige SAKAZAKI, Makoto ITO
  • Patent number: 8673417
    Abstract: A hose for gasohol fuel including an inner layer containing at least one selected from (A) to (D) below and an alcohol-cut off layer including a rubber composition containing a butyl rubber, a hydrated hydrotalcite compound, and a 1,8-diazabicyclo(5,4,0)undecene-7 salt (DBU salt): (A) a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride terpolymer or a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether tetrapolymer; (B) a polyamide resin; (C) a fluororubber; and (D) NBR or NBR-PVC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Hiroyoshi Mori, Kazutaka Katayama, Shinji Iio, Hidehito Ikeda, Hideji Fukaya
  • Patent number: 8596690
    Abstract: A quick connector capable of surely confirming that a pipe body is engaged by a retainer when an elastically-deformable claw of the retainer and an elastically-deformable claw of a checker are adjacently arranged in an axial direction. Checker-axis direction elastically-deformable claws have distal-end sides formed flexibly deformable in the axial direction, maintain a state of being engaged by a second engagement portion of a retainer body by having deflective deformation regulated by a retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw in a state in which the retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw is expanded diametrically, and regulate sliding from a first position with respect to the retainer body toward a set radial direction by being engaged by the second engagement portion of the retainer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Kazushige Sakazaki, Takahiro Shibata, Ryo Ikegami, Hisashi Terayama
  • Patent number: 8408604
    Abstract: A quick connector capable of surely confirming that a pipe body is engaged by a retainer when an elastically-deformable claw of the retainer and an elastically-deformable claw of a checker are adjacently arranged in an axial direction. Checker-axis direction elastically-deformable claws have distal-end sides formed flexibly deformable in the axial direction, maintain a state of being engaged by a second engagement portion of a retainer body by having deflective deformation regulated by a retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw in a state in which the retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw is expanded diametrically, and regulate sliding from a first position with respect to the retainer body toward a set radial direction by being engaged by the second engagement portion of the retainer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Kazushige Sakazaki, Takahiro Shibata, Ryo Ikegami, Hisashi Terayama
  • Patent number: 8329274
    Abstract: A fuel hose comprising a laminated structure of a tubular resin layer and an adjoining rubber layer, the rubber layer being formed by a rubber composition containing the following (A) to (E) as essential components and the following (F) at less than 0.1 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the following (A) as an optional component, and the resin layer being formed by a material containing a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether quaternary polymer as a main component: (A) diene rubber; (B) a sulfur vulcanizing agent; (C) at least one selected from the group consisting of 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undecene-7 salt, 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]nonene-5 salt, 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undecene-7 and 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]nonene-5; (D) at least one of metallic salt of carbamate and metallic salt of thiazole; (E) magnesium oxide; and (F) zinc oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Hiroyoshi Mori, Shinji Iio
  • Publication number: 20120161435
    Abstract: A quick connector capable of surely confirming that a pipe body is engaged by a retainer when an elastically-deformable claw of the retainer and an elastically-deformable claw of a checker are adjacently arranged in an axial direction. Checker-axis direction elastically-deformable claws have distal-end sides formed flexibly deformable in the axial direction, maintain a state of being engaged by a second engagement portion of a retainer body by having deflective deformation regulated by a retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw in a state in which the retainer diameter-expanding elastically-deformable claw is expanded diametrically, and regulate sliding from a first position with respect to the retainer body toward a set radial direction by being engaged by the second engagement portion of the retainer body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMADA, Kazushige SAKAZAKI, Takahiro SHIBATA, Ryo IKEGAMI, Hisashi TERAYAMA
  • Patent number: 7955675
    Abstract: A weld joint has a weld portion for being welded and bonded to a rim portion around an opening of a resin fuel tank. The weld portion is made of a resin alloy material that is obtained by alloying EVOH or PA with a modified HDPE. A highly-weldable layer is provided in an extremity portion of the weld portion throughout an entire circumference of the weld portion. The highly-weldable layer is made of HDPE and/or a modified HDPE having good weldability to the resin fuel tank. An extremity end surface of the highly-weldable layer serves as a weld surface for welding the weld portion to the resin fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Maeda, Atsuo Miyajima, Kazushige Sakazaki, Kentaro Sugita
  • Patent number: 7810524
    Abstract: A resin composite hose includes a curved portion at an axial position thereof, and has a multilayer construction including a resin layer having permeation resistance to a transported fluid and serving as a barrier layer, an inner rubber layer and an outer rubber layer. The curved portion has a shape of progressively increasing a circumferential length while being flattened progressively increasingly from a curve beginning end of a perfect circle in cross-section to a curve terminal end or a curve middle portion of a flattened circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazushige Sakazaki
  • Publication number: 20100243104
    Abstract: A resin filler pipe which has lower fuel permeability and excellent moldability. The resin filler pipe, which is to be provided on a fuel supply port side, is composed of an alloy material which comprises a sea phase, an island phase dispersed in the sea phase and a sea-island compatibilizing layer present between the sea phase and the island phase. The sea phase comprises a higher-acid-modification-ratio high-density polyethylene resin (A), a lower-acid-modification-ratio high-density polyethylene resin (B), and an unmodified high-density polyethylene resin (C). The island phase comprises a polyamide resin (D). The proportion of the higher-acid-modification-ratio high-density polyethylene resin (A) is 2 to 19 wt % based on the total weight of the components (A) to (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yajima, Kazutaka Katayama, Kazushige Sakazaki, Takahiro Shibata, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7661717
    Abstract: An annular positioning projection integrally has a body portion extending in a circular arc, one end portion projecting from one circumferential end of the body portion toward one raised portion and connected to a radial outer surface of the one raised portion, and the other end portion projecting from the other circumferential end of the body portion toward the other raised portion and connected to a radial outer surface of the other raised portion. An outer surface of one end portion thereof extends in a tangential direction with respect to one circumferential end of an outer surface of the body portion, and an outer surface of the other end portion extends in a tangential direction with respect to the other circumferential end of an outer surface of the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Kentaro Sugita
  • Patent number: 7568505
    Abstract: A fuel hose for a fuel pipeline in an motor vehicle has a multilayer structure including a resin barrier layer having low permeability to fuel, an outer rubber layer laminated on an outer side of the barrier layer and an inner rubber layer laminated on an inner side of the barrier layer and defining an inner surface layer of the fuel hose. The multilayer structure is formed throughout an entire length of the fuel hose. A rubber hardness of the inner rubber layer is higher than a rubber hardness of the outer rubber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Kentaro Sugita
  • Patent number: 7490862
    Abstract: A hose clamp has an annular clamp body to be fitted on a clamp mounting portion of an end portion of a hose, and the clamp body is configured so as to tighten the clamp mounting portion by diametrically contracting the clamp body. A holding structure of the hose clamp has an anti-rotation engaging portion on the clamp body, an engaging holder portion on the hose, and a deformation restraining mechanism for restraining deformation of the hose when the clamp body tightens the clamp mounting portion. The engaging holder portion engages with the anti-rotation engaging portion in a circumferential direction when the clamp body is fitted on the clamp mounting portion. The deformation restraining mechanism restrains that the anti-rotation engaging portion is pressed against the engaging holder portion and thereby the hose is deformed via the engaging holder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Koji Hioki
  • Patent number: 7478652
    Abstract: A fuel hose has multilayered construction and a flexible corrugated portion with corrugation bottom portions and corrugation peak portions. The fuel hose includes a rubber layer and a resin layer that is a laminated on an inner side of the rubber layer. The resin layer has fuel permeation resistance and serves as a barrier layer. The corrugated portion satisfies a condition of H/W?1.1 when H represents a height of the corrugation measured between an inside of the corrugation bottom portion and an inside of the corrugation peak portion thereof, and 2W represents an axial distance between an inside of the corrugation bottom portion and an inside of an adjacent corrugation bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Koji Hioki
  • Patent number: 7478653
    Abstract: A resin composite fuel hose of a multilayer construction includes a resin layer as a barrier layer having a fuel permeation resistance, an inner rubber layer as an inner surface layer laminated on an inner side of the resin layer and an outer rubber layer laminated on an outer side of the resin layer. The outer rubber layer has a rubber hardness degree equal to or greater than that of the inner rubber layer, and the inner rubber layer has a permanent elongation equal to or less than 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Hiroyoshi Mori, Shinji Iio
  • Patent number: 7464968
    Abstract: A laminated low-permeability elastic ring (40) comprising an outer layer (40A) of a low permeability material that possesses impermeability to automotive fuel, and an inner core part (40B) of a low temperature-resistant material with excellent low temperature performance in order to maintain high elastic strength at low temperatures for the low permeability material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Koji Hioki
  • Publication number: 20080230137
    Abstract: A hose for gasohol fuel including an inner layer containing at least one selected from (A) to (D) below and an alcohol-cut off layer including a rubber composition containing a butyl rubber, a hydrated hydrotalcite compound, and a 1,8-diazabicyclo(5,4,0)undecene-7 salt (DBU salt): (A) a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride terpolymer or a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether tetrapolymer; (B) a polyamide resin; (C) a fluororubber; and (D) NBR or NBR-PVC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Hiroyoshi Mori, Kazutaka Katayama, Shinji Iio, Hidehito Ikeda, Hideji Fukaya