Patents by Inventor Kensuke Ogose

Kensuke Ogose 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: 11091028
    Abstract: A fuel supply port device includes a tubular main member portion where a fuel supply nozzle is inserted from a tube-upper-end side; a cover member covering a side portion on the tube-upper-end side of the tubular main member portion from an outside; an earth member electrically connecting a fuel-supply-nozzle side to be inserted and a body-panel side; and a seal member sealing a pass-through portion of the earth member formed in the cover member. The seal member includes an insert-through portion allowing a one-end-portion side of the earth member to be inserted to pass through from the outside of the tubular main member portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose
  • Patent number: 10913349
    Abstract: A fuel filler port device includes a fuel filler port, a main flap which is disposed in the fuel filler port and is configured to be rotated to an open position by introducing a fuel filler nozzle to open the fuel filler port, a drain opening disposed in the fuel filler port at an outer side of the main flap, and a closure mechanism which closes the drain opening in a fuel filling state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose
  • Patent number: 10766359
    Abstract: The fuel filler neck device is attached to a filler pipe and is opened and closed by a fueling nozzle. The device has a cover member which has an introduction opening for the fueling nozzle and which is engaged with the filler pipe side with engagement parts formed on the filler pipe side being fitted in window holes. Insertion parts are respectively formed adjacent to the engagement parts in the circumferential direction of the filler pipe. The engagement parts can be each disengaged by deforming or breaking the cover member side by inserting a portion of a tool into the insertion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Hirose, Shunpei Nabeya, Kensuke Ogose
  • Patent number: 10759271
    Abstract: A closing member includes a pair of flap members, and an urging device urging each flap member to be positioned at a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening for a fuel filling nozzle. Each flap member includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other of the flap members. A far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening as a slope upper end and formed on both sides of a directly underneath position including the directly underneath position of the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, are formed on a far side of the closing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Hirose, Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20200130503
    Abstract: A fuel supply port device includes a tubular main member portion where a fuel supply nozzle is inserted from a tube-upper-end side; a cover member covering a side portion on the tube-upper-end side of the tubular main member portion from an outside; an earth member electrically connecting a fuel-supply-nozzle side to be inserted and a body-panel side; and a seal member sealing a pass-through portion of the earth member formed in the cover member. The seal member includes an insert-through portion allowing a one-end-portion side of the earth member to be inserted to pass through from the outside of the tubular main member portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kensuke OGOSE
  • Patent number: 10500948
    Abstract: A fuel filling aperture device includes a closing member turned to an open position to open a fuel filling aperture by an introduction of a fuel filling nozzle. The closing member includes a pair of flap members, and urging devices urging the pair of flap members to be positioned at a closed position. Each of the pair of flap members includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of the turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other flap member. Also, a seal projecting piece abutting against an opening edge portion of a pass-through opening of the fuel filling nozzle at the closed position, and an edge projecting piece continuing to a terminal of the seal projecting piece, and forming at least one portion of the abutment portion, are formed on a surface portion of each of the pair of flap members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Hirose, Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20180370353
    Abstract: A fuel filler port device includes a fuel filler port, a main flap which is disposed in the fuel filler port and is configured to be rotated to an open position by introducing a fuel filler nozzle to open the fuel filler port, a drain opening disposed in the fuel filler port at an outer side of the main flap, and a closure mechanism which closes the drain opening in a fuel filling state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Kensuke OGOSE
  • Publication number: 20180312055
    Abstract: A closing member includes a pair of flap members, and an urging device urging each flap member to be positioned at a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening for a fuel filling nozzle. Each flap member includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other of the flap members. A far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening as a slope upper end and formed on both sides of a directly underneath position including the directly underneath position of the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, are formed on a far side of the closing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Takatsugu HIROSE, Kensuke OGOSE
  • Publication number: 20180290538
    Abstract: A fuel filling aperture device includes a closing member turned to an open position to open a fuel filling aperture by an introduction of a fuel filling nozzle. The closing member includes a pair of flap members, and urging devices urging the pair of flap members to be positioned at a closed position. Each of the pair of flap members includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of the turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other flap member. Also, a seal projecting piece abutting against an opening edge portion of a pass-through opening of the fuel filling nozzle at the closed position, and an edge projecting piece continuing to a terminal of the seal projecting piece, and forming at least one portion of the abutment portion, are formed on a surface portion of each of the pair of flap members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Takatsugu HIROSE, Kensuke OGOSE
  • Publication number: 20180236869
    Abstract: The fuel filler neck device is attached to a filler pipe and is opened and closed by a fueling nozzle. The device has a cover member which has an introduction opening for the fueling nozzle and which is engaged with the filler pipe side with engagement parts formed on the filler pipe side being fitted in window holes. Insertion parts are respectively formed adjacent to the engagement parts in the circumferential direction of the filler pipe. The engagement parts can be each disengaged by deforming or breaking the cover member side by inserting a portion of a tool into the insertion part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Takatsugu HIROSE, Shunpei NABEYA, Kensuke OGOSE
  • Patent number: 10017050
    Abstract: A valve device includes a float and a case storing the float. The valve device forms a part of a ventilation passage of a fuel tank. The case includes a partition wall which divides inside the case into an upper chamber and a storage chamber to house the float. The partition wall includes a rising portion opened and closed by the float, and a rising portion which surrounds the opening in the upper chamber. A dividing portion is formed in the rising portion to guide liquid to flow downward, and an upper surface of the partition wall outside the rising portion is formed with a gradient such that a side of the dividing part is a low part of an inclined portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20160355085
    Abstract: A valve device includes a float and a case storing the float. The valve device forms a part of a ventilation passage of a fuel tank. The case includes a partition wall which divides inside the case into an upper chamber and a storage chamber to house the float. The partition wall includes a rising portion opened and closed by the float, and a rising portion which surrounds the opening in the upper chamber. A dividing portion is formed in the rising portion to guide liquid to flow downward, and an upper surface of the partition wall outside the rising portion is formed with a gradient such that a side of the dividing part is a low part of an inclined portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Kensuke OGOSE
  • Patent number: 8173013
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel filter in which is disposed in a fuel suction port of a fuel tank or in a fuel line and used to filter the fuel. At least one of filter materials constituting the fuel filter is made into a multifunctional filter material having a function of trapping dust of different particle diameters in stages, by differing the diameter of the pores in the filter material from the primary side to the secondary side of the filter material so that the size of the pores decreases toward the secondary side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroji Sato, Yasushi Ueki, Kensuke Ogose
  • Patent number: 8141736
    Abstract: A filler cap tether includes attachment portions on both ends of a string-like member, of which one end-side attachment portion is connected to a filler cap to be removably mounted on an oil feeding port whereas the other end-side attachment portion is connected to the vehicle body-side corresponding portion. The filler cap tether includes a disengagement portion for permitting the filler cap and the vehicle body-side corresponding portion to enter into a disconnected state when a load with a predetermined value or above is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: NIFCO Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo Takahashi, Shelley Ross Edward, Kensuke Ogose
  • Patent number: 8137546
    Abstract: A filter device includes a bag-shape filter body. The filter device is attached in a manner such that an internal space of the filter body connects through to a fuel intake port in a fuel tank. The filter body includes two or more filter materials overlaying each other. At least one of the filter materials is configured so that a cross sectional area of its fuel passage is different between a primary side and a secondary side of the filter material so as to be a multifunctional filter material having a function of gradually capturing dust having different particle sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: NIFCO, Inc.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20110192774
    Abstract: A fuel filter is provided with a communicating portion between the inside and outside of a bag in a bag-shaped filter medium which is used by communicating an internal space with a fuel flow passage. Also, an interval between inner walls, which constitute the communicating portion and are located at opposite positions, has a size so as to usually allow the fuel to stagnate in the communicating portion by a surface tension, and when the bag-shaped filter medium is clogged with the fuel which has been lowered in fluidity by a temperature change, the interval between the inner walls has a size so as to allow the fuel which has been lowered in fluidity to flow into the bag-shaped filter medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20110180469
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel filter in which is disposed in a fuel suction port of a fuel tank or in a fuel line and used to filter the fuel. At least one of filter materials constituting the fuel filter is made into a multifunctional filter material having a function of trapping dust of different particle diameters in stages, by differing the diameter of the pores in the filter material from the primary side to the secondary side of the filter material so that the size of the pores decreases toward the secondary side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Hiroji Sato, Yasushi Ueki, Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20100237650
    Abstract: A filler cap tether includes attachment portions on both ends of a string-like member, of which one end-side attachment portion is connected to a filler cap to be removably mounted on an oil feeding port whereas the other end-side attachment portion is connected to the vehicle body-side corresponding portion. The filler cap tether includes a disengagement portion for permitting the filler cap and the vehicle body-side corresponding portion to enter into a disconnected state when a load with a predetermined value or above is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Takahashi, Shelley Ross Edward, Kensuke Ogose
  • Publication number: 20090321347
    Abstract: A filter device includes a bag-shape filter body. The filter device is attached in a manner such that an internal space of the filter body connects through to a fuel intake port in a fuel tank. The filter body includes two or more filter materials overlaying each other. At least one of the filter materials is configured so that a cross sectional area of its fuel passage is different between a primary side and a secondary side of the filter material so as to be a multifunctional filter material having a function of gradually capturing dust having different particle sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogose