Patents by Inventor Manabu Kashihara

Manabu Kashihara 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: 4232561
    Abstract: A stepless speed change gear has an axially movable speed changing ring that is frictionally engaged with a plurality of conical rollers. The stepless gear has improved durability and reduced weight due to a flat annular power transmitting surface and an annular power transmitting surface of arcuate cross-sectional contour on the bottom portion of each conical roller. A force caused by a contact pressure generating device is applied to the conical rollers at the annular power transmitting surface of arcuate cross-sectional contour, so as to advance the conical rollers into a space between the speed changing ring and another frictionally engaging member as a wedge so that required contact pressures are applied on the frictionally engaging points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Shinpo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Kashihara, Kikuo Okamura, Yoshikata Muguruma, Shizuo Yamano, Shigeo Mizusawa