Patents by Inventor Mamoru Yoshikawa

Mamoru Yoshikawa 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: 6973982
    Abstract: A motor structure of an electric vehicle which is driven by an electric motor. The motor structure comprises an electric motor unit including the electric motor and differential gears, and a radiator for cooling the electric vehicle. Accessories are mounted on the electric motor unit. The radiator is positioned at a front side of the electric vehicle and in front of the electric motor unit. In this motor structure, one of universal joints, each of which connects a drive shaft on the differential gears side and a drive shaft on a wheel side, is adjacent to a side of the electric motor, which is in the form of a cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Sato, Kiyoshi Kimura, Seiichi Mogi
  • Patent number: 6860349
    Abstract: A cooling system for a fuel cell and a fuel cell powered vehicle are disclosed. The cooling system and the fuel cell powered vehicle have a primary circulation passage adapted to circulate primary coolant for cooling the fuel cell, and a secondary circulation passage adapted to circulate secondary coolant for cooling a heat generating source including at least an electric vehicle motor. The primary coolant and the secondary coolant are driven by primary and secondary circulation pumps that are circulated by a single common drive motor, with the primary coolant being cooled with the secondary coolant in a common heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Ogawa, Mitsuharu Imaseki, Takeshi Ushio, Katsumi Saitou, Mamoru Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20030042053
    Abstract: A motor structure of an electric vehicle which is driven by an electric motor. The motor structure comprises an electric motor unit including the electric motor and differential gears, and a radiator as cooling means of the electric vehicle. Accessories are mounted on the electric motor unit. The radiator is positioned at a front side of the electric vehicle and in front of the electric motor unit. In this motor structure, one of universal joints, each of which connects a drive shaft on the differential gears side and a drive shaft on a wheel side, is adjacent to a side of the electric motor in the form of a cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Sato, Kiyoshi Kimura, Seiichi Mogi
  • Patent number: 6494286
    Abstract: A motor 1 for traveling is attached to a frame 6 of a vehicle via mounts 3, 4 and 5 absorbing vibration. An air compressor 10 and an air compressor driving motor 11 are attached with respect to said motor 1 for traveling. The mounts 3, 4 and 5 are placed to be shared mounts absorbing vibration of the motor 1 for traveling, the air compressor 10 and the air compressor driving motor 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shimizu, Mamoru Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20020100622
    Abstract: A motor 1 for traveling is attached to a frame 6 of a vehicle via mounts 3, 4 and 5 absorbing vibration. An air compressor 10 and an air compressor driving motor 11 are attached with respect to said motor 1 for traveling. The mounts 3, 4 and 5 are placed to be shared mounts absorbing vibration of the motor 1 for traveling, the air compressor 10 and the air compressor driving motor 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shimizu, Mamoru Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20010050191
    Abstract: A cooling system for a fuel cell and a fuel cell powered vehicle are disclosed. The cooling system and the fuel cell powered vehicle have a primary circulation passage adapted to circulate primary coolant for cooling the fuel cell, and a secondary circulation passage adapted to circulate secondary coolant for cooling a heat generating source including at least an electric vehicle motor. The primary coolant and the secondary coolant are driven by primary and secondary circulation pumps that are circulated by a single common drive motor, with the primary coolant being cooled with the secondary coolant in a common heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Ogawa, Mitsuharu Imaseki, Takeshi Ushio, Katsumi Saitou, Mamoru Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 5648581
    Abstract: A method for polymerizing or copolymerizing .alpha.-olefin in a vapor phase condition by supplying to a reactor a catalyst composed of a solid catalyst component containing at least titanium and/or vanadium as well as magnesium and an organic aluminum compound wherein the current due to the electric charge transferred from polymer particles electrified to an electrode disposed at a position where sheet-like polymers will be produced in a reactor, as a result of contact of the polymer particles in the reactor with the electrode is determined, and the polymerization or copolymerization is carried out under such condition where the mean value of current is zero or a positive value. As a result, it becomes possible to prevent production of sheet-like polymers and to stably continue the reaction for polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Masahiro Niwa, Eiko Kobayashi, Mamoru Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 5571879
    Abstract: In the polymerization of olefins with a vapor phase fluidized bed reactor, the improvement comprises the steps of feeding seed polymer particles and the reaction is then started after feeding an organoaluminum compound on a prescribed basis, thereby avoiding the formation of sheet-like polymer in the initial period of the reaction and the lowering of the bulk density of the product polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Makoto Jimbo, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Shinjiro Suga, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi, Masahiro Niwa, Eiko Kobayashi, Kunimichi Kubo
  • Patent number: 5541269
    Abstract: In the polymerization of olefins using a catalyst comprising an organoaluminum compound and solid catalyst components containing titanium and/or vanadium; and magnesium in a vapor phase fluidized bed, the formation of sheet-like polymer and other abnormal conditions in the initial stage of the polymerization are avoided by means of previous drying of the reactor by feeding an organoaluminum compound prior to the feeding of seed polymer, the quantity of said organoaluminum compound being calculated by the following equation (I):A=k.multidot.V.sup. 2/3 (I)wherein A is the feed quantity (mol) of the organoaluminum compound, k is a coefficient (mol/m.sup.2) in the range from 0.15 to 4, and V is the volume (m.sup.3) of the whole system including gas circulation pipings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Niwa, Shinjiro Suga, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5310833
    Abstract: A process for feeding a powder catalyst with a gas intermittently to a high-pressure fluidized bed reactor for the vapor phase polymerization of olefin, wherein the cross section of a catalyst feed pipe is reduced midway through the pipe to thereby make continual catalyst feeding possible and prevent the formation of a lump polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Motokazu Watanabe, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Masatoshi Morikawa, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5295788
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a screw pump has a light alloy rotor main body having an axially extending central bore. A steel shaft is press-fitted into the central bore. A diametrically extending fixing pin is press-fitted through the rotor main body and the shaft. Friction forces between the rotor main body and the shaft are arranged to be larger on a discharge side of the rotor assembly than on a suction side thereof. The fixing pin is disposed at substantially a central position of entire friction forces in terms of their directions and magnitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsunori Tajima, Mitsunori Arimura, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Tadashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 5203683
    Abstract: A screw pump having a pair of screw rotors meshed with each other and rotatably supported in a housing having an intake port provided at one end and a piston movably provided at the other axial end of the housing, which piston defines a discharge port in cooperation with the housing. The movement of the piston in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axes of the screw rotors enables the distance between a discharge starting position of the discharge port and the intake port to be varied, so that the internal compression ratio can be varied. This arrangement ensures that the size of the housing will not be increased and any disadvantage due to the difference in thermal expansion along the length of the housing can be overcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshikawa, Taketoshi Satoh
  • Patent number: 5202396
    Abstract: A process for feeding a powder catalyst with a gas intermittently to a high-pressure fluidized bed reactor for the vapor phase polymerization of olefin, wherein the cross section of a catalyst feed pipe is reduced midway through the pipe to thereby make continual catalyst feeding possible and prevent the formation of a lump polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Motokazu Watanabe, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Masatoshi Morikawa, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 4525548
    Abstract: Provided is a method for vapor phase polymerization of olefins. An olefin gas is fed into a horizontal cylindrical vessel having a lower curved surface corresponding to 30 to 180 degrees of the circumference of the vessel and extending substantially the length of the vessel formed by a perforated plate having a multiplicity of holes spaced at intervals in the range of from 0.5 to 50 mm, through said plate from an olefin feed chamber mounted below and covering the plate. A polymer catalyst is fed into the horizontal cylindrical vessel through a polymerization catalyst inlet port located in a portion of the vessel other than the lower curved surface formed by the perforated plate. The olefin is reacted in the presence of a catalyst with agitation to form polymer. Unreacted olefin is removed through a discharge port located in a portion of the vessel other than the lower curved surface formed by the perforated plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Company Limited
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Motokazu Watanabe, Yasunosuke Miyazaki, Mituji Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 4438073
    Abstract: A horizontal agitation bed type vapor phase polymerization apparatus for olefins provided on its lower curved surface with plural cells each having an opening facing on the polymerization reaction system and further having small holes formed in its side wall portion for feeding a starting olefin gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Yasunosuke Miyazaki, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Mituji Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 4372919
    Abstract: A horizontal agitation bed type vapor phase polymerization apparatus for olefins, having a lower curved surface constructed by a perforated plate so as to allow a olefin gas to be fed uniformly throughout the reaction system through the said perforated plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kunimichi Kubo, Mamoru Yoshikawa, Motokazu Watanabe, Yasunosuke Miyazaki, Mituji Miyoshi