Patents by Inventor Kouji Mitsuhata

Kouji Mitsuhata 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: 4856815
    Abstract: When vibrations having a period at which pitching tends to occur in a vehicle body is detected, if its amplitude falls out of the range between "H" and "L", a control unit increases the damping force of each suspension unit by using an actuator. In addition, if the amplitude falls out of the range between "HH" and "LL", the control unit supplies a predetermined amount of air to each air spring chamber in response to an upward displacement of vehicle height, and exhausts a predetermined amount of air from each air spring chamber in response to a downward displacement of vehicle height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidoshia Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubhishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Shozo Takizawa, Minoru Tatemoto, Tetsuya Terada, Shunichi Wada, Shigeki Ohtagaki, Kouji Mitsuhata
  • Patent number: 4856813
    Abstract: If a deceleration exeeds first set value G1 within set time T1 after the brake is depressed, a set amount of fluid is supplied to the fluid spring chamber of each front-wheel suspension unit. If a deceleration exceeds the second set value G2 when set time T1 or more has elapsed upon this operation, a set amount of fluid is exhausted from the fluid spring chamber of each rearwheel suspension unit. With this operation, since braking action for gradually increasing a deceleration is controlled by two stages, uncomfortableness which passangers feel in anti-nose-dive control can be greatly reduced. In addition, control is not performed only by depressing the brake pedal if an acutal deceleration is smaller than first set value G1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Tanaka, Mitsuhiko Harara, Yasutaka Taniguchi, Shozo Takizawa, Minoru Tatemoto, Tetsuya Terada, Shunichi Wada, Shigeki Ohtagaki, Kouji Mitsuhata