Patents by Inventor Kunihiro NISHI

Kunihiro NISHI 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: 10967815
    Abstract: A harness has a laterally extending portion disposed along a block rear surface of an engine and extending in a width direction of a vehicle within a predetermined height range in which a drive shaft is included. The engine has a projection disposed in at least one of a position above the laterally extending portion or a position below the laterally extending portion within the predetermined height range in a portion, of the engine, toward the rear of the vehicle, the projection projecting, toward the rear of the vehicle, further than the laterally extending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Okii, Kunihiro Nishi
  • Publication number: 20200189380
    Abstract: A harness has a laterally extending portion disposed along a block rear surface of an engine and extending in a width direction of a vehicle within a predetermined height range in which a drive shaft is included. The engine has a projection disposed in at least one of a position above the laterally extending portion or a position below the laterally extending portion within the predetermined height range in a portion, of the engine, toward the rear of the vehicle, the projection projecting, toward the rear of the vehicle, further than the laterally extending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Okii, Kunihiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 10329973
    Abstract: Provided is an engine oil deterioration diagnosis device (10) comprising annual traveling distance calculating part (16), a used hour calculating part (18), a severe condition determining part (20), an oil traveling distance calculating part (22), an oil traveling distance accumulating part (24), and an engine oil deterioration diagnosis part (26) for diagnosing that engine oil is in a state of deterioration when an oil traveling distance accumulated by the oil traveling distance accumulating part reached a predetermined value, wherein the oil traveling distance calculating part (22) comprises an oil traveling distance addition correcting part (32) for calculating the oil traveling distance by adding a predetermined value to the traveling distance when the severe condition determining part determines the state as the severe condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa Handa, Kunihiro Nishi, Hisashi Okazawa, Kenko Ujihara
  • Publication number: 20170276039
    Abstract: Provided is an engine oil deterioration diagnosis device (10) comprising annual traveling distance calculating part (16), a used hour calculating part (18), a severe condition determining part (20), an oil traveling distance calculating part (22), an oil traveling distance accumulating part (24), and an engine oil deterioration diagnosis part (26) for diagnosing that engine oil is in a state of deterioration when an oil traveling distance accumulated by the oil traveling distance accumulating part reached a predetermined value, wherein the oil traveling distance calculating part (22) comprises an oil traveling distance addition correcting part (32) for calculating the oil traveling distance by adding a predetermined value to the traveling distance when the severe condition determining part determines the state as the severe condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa HANDA, Kunihiro NISHI, Hisashi OKAZAWA, Kenko UJIHARA
  • Patent number: 8640668
    Abstract: An oil pump unit comprises a pump shaft and a pump housing which stores the pump shaft. A balancer unit comprises a pair of balancer shafts and a balancer housing which stores the balancer shafts. The pump housing and the balancer housing are coupled to each other at least in the vicinity of a periphery of the pump shaft, and at a coupling portion in the vicinity of the periphery of a power transmission shaft is formed a connection groove which connects the inside to the inside of the coupling portion. Accordingly, it can be retrained that the reliability of journal portions of the balancer shaft of the balancer unit and the like is deteriorated by dusts and the like contained in high-pressure oil from the oil pump unit in a balancer device of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro Nishi, Hisayuki Yamane, Masanori Hashimoto, Sakumi Haseto, Masaaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110308492
    Abstract: An oil pump unit comprises a pump shaft and a pump housing which stores the pump shaft. A balancer unit comprises a pair of balancer shafts and a balancer housing which stores the balancer shafts. The pump housing and the balancer housing are coupled to each other at least in the vicinity of a periphery of the pump shaft, and at a coupling portion in the vicinity of the periphery of a power transmission shaft is formed a connection groove which connects the inside to the inside of the coupling portion. Accordingly, it can be retrained that the reliability of journal portions of the balancer shaft of the balancer unit and the like is deteriorated by dusts and the like contained in high-pressure oil from the oil pump unit in a balancer device of an engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiro NISHI, Hisayuki YAMANE, Masanori HASHIMOTO, Sakumi HASETO, Masaaki SATO