Patents by Inventor Kotaro SUGI

Kotaro SUGI 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: 9243586
    Abstract: A ventilation outlet of a generation unit case installed outdoors and housing a generation unit including a generator and an internal combustion engine to drive the generator. The outlet comprise a maintenance box whose inside surfaces are attached with sound insulators and bored with an inlet hole at its upper portion to be communicated with an inside of the generation unit case and bored with an outlet hole at its lower portion that connects the inlet hole to exterior through a passage formed among the sound insulators. A flow guide plate is installed near the outlet hole to guide rainwater entered from outside to flow upward and a shield is installed at the passage to prevent the rainwater from flowing further upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Atsumu Naoi, Kotaro Sugi
  • Patent number: 8763569
    Abstract: A vertical, multi-link, adjustable-stroke type engine includes a lubricating oil passage provided in a cylinder barrel for supplying lubricating oil to a lower shaft end portion of a crankshaft and at least a lower shaft end portion of an eccentric shaft, which changes an intake stroke and compression stroke of a piston, so as to pre-press the crankshaft and the eccentric shaft in a predetermined direction, or for supplying lubricating oil to the lower shaft end portion of the eccentric shaft so as to pre-press the eccentric shaft in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gaku Naoe, Kota Tokubi, Kotaro Sugi
  • Patent number: 8701623
    Abstract: A multi-link, adjustable-stroke type engine includes: a timing gear provided on and concentrically with a crankshaft; an eccentric gear provided on an eccentric shaft and meshing with the timing gear so that rotation of the timing gear is transmitted to the eccentric gear; a lubricating oil passage provided in a cylinder barrel for supplying lubricating oil to lower shaft end portions of the crankshaft and eccentric shaft; and an ejection section provided in the lubricating oil passage for ejecting lubricating oil toward a meshing engagement section between the timing gear and the eccentric gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei Kono, Kotaro Sugi
  • Publication number: 20120210959
    Abstract: A multi-link, adjustable-stroke type engine includes: a timing gear provided on and concentrically with a crankshaft; an eccentric gear provided on an eccentric shaft and meshing with the timing gear so that rotation of the timing gear is transmitted to the eccentric gear; a lubricating oil passage provided in a cylinder barrel for supplying lubricating oil to lower shaft end portions of the crankshaft and eccentric shaft; and an ejection section provided in the lubricating oil passage for ejecting lubricating oil toward a meshing engagement section between the timing gear and the eccentric gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Kono, Kotaro Sugi
  • Publication number: 20120210983
    Abstract: A vertical, multi-link, adjustable-stroke type engine includes a lubricating oil passage provided in a cylinder barrel for supplying lubricating oil to a lower shaft end portion of a crankshaft and at least a lower shaft end portion of an eccentric shaft, which changes an intake stroke and compression stroke of a piston, so as to pre-press the crankshaft and the eccentric shaft in a predetermined direction, or for supplying lubricating oil to the lower shaft end portion of the eccentric shaft so as to pre-press the eccentric shaft in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Naoe, Kota Tokubi, Kotaro Sugi
  • Publication number: 20120098260
    Abstract: A ventilation outlet of a generation unit case installed outdoors and housing a generation unit including a generator and an internal combustion engine to drive the generator. The outlet comprise a maintenance box whose inside surfaces are attached with sound insulators and bored with an inlet hole at its upper portion to be communicated with an inside of the generation unit case and bored with an outlet hole at its lower portion that connects the inlet hole to exterior through a passage formed among the sound insulators. A flow guide plate is installed near the outlet hole to guide rainwater entered from outside to flow upward and a shield is installed at the passage to prevent the rainwater from flowing further upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akiko ICHIKAWA, Atsumu NAOI, Kotaro SUGI