Patents by Inventor Mototsugu ARAI

Mototsugu ARAI 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).

  • Publication number: 20100000836
    Abstract: A clutch generating stress equally at a plurality of bridges parts of a driving side clutch plate to thereby prevent bridge parts from breaking easily during transmission of drive power, wherein a plurality of hole parts 13c and 13d are formed, arranged in a circumferential direction, respectively at the outer circumference side and inner circumference side of a driving side clutch plate 13b, and bridge parts 13e and 13f are formed adjacent in a circumferential direction between the hole parts 13c and 13d, the driving side clutch plate 13b comprises a friction surface 13a pressed to the driven side clutch plate 18 and an opposite friction surface 13h on the opposite side of the friction surface, and a thickness t1 of the inner circumference side is greater than a thickness t2 of the outer circumference side of the same with respect to the plate thickness between the friction surface 13a and the opposite friction surface 13h.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mototsugu ARAI