Patents by Inventor Kentarou Yamamoto

Kentarou Yamamoto 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: 7516947
    Abstract: A hydraulic antivibration device capable of sufficiently reducing strange sounds is provided. The one in a first embodiment includes first ribs whose tops are spaced apart from lattice members and second ribs having tops abutting on the lattice members and a smaller rib width than the first ribs. When an elastic partition membrane impinges on the lattice members with vibration, the second ribs resist and the elastic partition membrane impinges moderately on the lattice members, so that strange sounds can be reduced. In a second embodiment, such first and second displacement-regulating protrusions are provided that are disposed asymmetrically relative to a phantom plane passing through a center of the elastic partition membrane in its thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hatakeyama, Masaaki Itoh, Kentarou Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20060071381
    Abstract: A hydraulic antivibration device capable of sufficiently reducing strange sounds is provided. The one in a first embodiment includes first ribs whose tops are spaced apart from lattice members and second ribs having tops abutting on the lattice members and a smaller rib width than the first ribs. When an elastic partition membrane impinges on the lattice members with vibration, the second ribs resist and the elastic partition membrane impinges moderately on the lattice members, so that strange sounds can be reduced. In a second embodiment, such first and second displacement-regulating protrusions are provided that are disposed asymmetrically relative to a phantom plane passing through a center of the elastic partition membrane in its thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Hatakeyama, Masaaki Itoh, Kentarou Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20060022110
    Abstract: A hydraulic antivibration device is provided that is capable of reducing greatly strange sound upon inputting of high amplitude while meeting both a low dynamic spring characteristic upon inputting of low amplitude and a high damping characteristic upon inputting of high amplitude. According to the device 100 of the invention, because an elastic partition membrane 15 is arrested by displacement-regulating ribs 17, 19 to regulate its displacement, and openings 54, 56 are pierced to provide an escape for the elastic partition membrane 15, it is possible to reduce greatly strange sounds upon inputting of large amplitude while meeting both a low dynamic spring characteristic upon inputting of low amplitude and a high damping characteristic upon inputting of large amplitude (intermediate amplitude) vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: TOKYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Kentarou Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Tananka
  • Patent number: D559733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Kentarou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D484829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kentarou Yamamoto, Keiichi Keyaki