Patents by Inventor Naoto ICHIHASHI

Naoto ICHIHASHI 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: 9359937
    Abstract: The two-cycle engine comprises a first scavenging opening and second scavenging opening on the inner peripheral wall of a cylinder bore, and a first scavenging passage and second scavenging passage connecting the first scavenging opening and second scavenging opening to the crank chamber. The first and second scavenging passages are provided with an outflow direction change device directing the outflow of an air-fuel mixture flowing out from near the top dead center of the first and second scavenging openings into the cylinder bore and the outflow of the air-fuel mixture flowing out from near the bottom dead center of the first and second scavenging openings into the cylinder bore in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 9249715
    Abstract: An air-cooled engine includes a cylinder provided with a plurality of cooling fins at an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, a cooling fan, a cylinder cover covering the cylinder, an air guide plate, and an air guide portion. The air guide plate is positioned between an inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. The cooling fan generates cooling air stream for cooling the cylinder, and the air guide plate is configured to guide the cooling air stream to flow through a space between the inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. A first small space is defined between the air guide plate and the inner surface of the cylinder cover. The air guide portion covers at least a part of the first small space at an upstream side of the air guide plate in the axial direction of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 9140175
    Abstract: In an engine including a cooling fan provided at one end of a drive shaft to cool the engine, a muffler is attached such that a longitudinal direction thereof coincide with a direction of gravity, and a muffler accommodating chamber is formed by a muffler cover. A portion of cooling air generated by the cooling fan is introduced into the muffler accommodating chamber so as to cool the muffler. At the muffler accommodating chamber, a cooling air outlet is provided at an upper end of a cooling passage, such that the waste heat of the muffler is discharged from the cooling air outlet to the outside during the stop of the engine. A cooling air inlet is disposed below the cooling air outlet such that the cooling air flows from the lower side to the upper side of the muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 9010284
    Abstract: The cooling effect of an engine is improved. An engine, which rotationally drives a saw chain serving as a rotating tool, is provided with a crankcase, in which a crankshaft is rotatably built, and a cylinder, in which a piston coupled to the crankshaft via a connecting rod is reciprocatably built. Atop part of the cylinder is covered with a cylinder cover, and a cooling wind toward the cylinder is generated by a cooling fan attached to a projecting end of the crankshaft. The cooling wind is guided by heat-dissipating plates extending along the crankshaft. Exposing parts bulged to outside than a lateral side of the cylinder cover are provided to tips of the heat-dissipating plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20150078938
    Abstract: An air compressor includes a cooling fan having a back plate serving as a plate shape part formed on a flat plate, a normal line thereof being set to a direction along a rotational shaft of a motor, blades extending parallel with the rotational shaft from an inner side of the back plate towards an outer periphery thereof and being centrifugally formed on the back plate, and a ring part having a cylindrical shape substantially parallel with the rotational shaft and extending from the back plate towards a heat generation surface. When the motor is operated, exterior air sucked by the cooling fan is guided to a central part thereof, flows towards an outer periphery thereof along the back plate, deflected by the ring part, flows towards and collides with the heat generation surface and further flows radially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20150078935
    Abstract: In an air compressor, inner blades of a cooling fan are formed into a centrifugal type, and outer blades are formed into an axial flow type. Exterior air is sucked through a ventilating window by the outer blades, and an air stream (CA1) is generated. A part of the generated air stream flows towards a stator coil, like an air stream (CA2). By a negative pressure generated by the inner blades, the air in the vicinity of the stator coil is sucked to the inner blades, like an air stream (CA3). The sucked air flows out from a motor-side opening towards a non-motor-side opening by a negative pressure generated by the outer blades, is sucked to the outer blades like an air stream (CA4) and flows out together with the air stream (CA1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20140261255
    Abstract: An air-cooled engine includes a cylinder provided with a plurality of cooling fins at an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, a cooling fan, a cylinder cover covering the cylinder, an air guide plate, and an air guide portion. The air guide plate is positioned between an inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. The cooling fan generates cooling air stream for cooling the cylinder, and the air guide plate is configured to guide the cooling air stream to flow through a space between the inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. A first small space is defined between the air guide plate and the inner surface of the cylinder cover. The air guide portion covers at least a part of the first small space at an upstream side of the air guide plate in the axial direction of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 8821131
    Abstract: According to the invention, an air compressor includes: one pair of air tanks arranged parallel to each other by being separated from each other in a constant interval, for storing thereinto compressed air; a compressing unit that compresses air sucked from an external space so as to supply the compressed air to the air tanks; and a motor coupled to the compressing unit so as to drive the compressing unit, while the motor and the compressing unit are arranged above the one pair of air tanks; wherein: a cooling fan that generates cooling wind is provided on one end of a rotation shaft of the motor; and a control circuit unit that drives the motor is arranged above the one pair of air tanks and at a position which is overlapped with an axial direction projection area of the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Seiichi Kodato, Kenichi Matsunaga, Kazuhiro Segawa, Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 8800505
    Abstract: An engine for rotating a saw chain serving as a rotating tool includes an engine main body including a crank case and cylinder. A cooling fan for generating forced cooling air is attached to a protruding end of a crank shaft. An engine cover for covering a top of the cylinder is provided in the engine, and an air guiding rib extending in a direction of crossing the cooling air is provided in an inner circumferential surface of the engine cover. In the engine cover, opening portions for exhausting the cooling air outside are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20140216370
    Abstract: In an engine including a cooling fan provided at one end of a drive shaft to cool the engine, a muffler is attached such that a longitudinal direction thereof coincide with a direction of gravity, and a muffler accommodating chamber is formed by a muffler cover. A portion of cooling air generated by the cooling fan is introduced into the muffler accommodating chamber so as to cool the muffler. At the muffler accommodating chamber, a cooling air outlet is provided at an upper end of a cooling passage, such that the waste heat of the muffler is discharged from the cooling air outlet to the outside during the stop of the engine. A cooling air inlet is disposed below the cooling air outlet such that the cooling air flows from the lower side to the upper side of the muffler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20130239911
    Abstract: An engine for rotating a saw chain serving as a rotating tool includes an engine main body including a crank case and cylinder. A cooling fan for generating forced cooling air is attached to a protruding end of a crank shaft. An engine cover for covering a top of the cylinder is provided in the engine, and an air guiding rib extending in a direction of crossing the cooling air is provided in an inner circumferential surface of the engine cover. In the engine cover, opening portions for exhausting the cooling air outside are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto ICHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130239914
    Abstract: The cooling effect of an engine is improved. An engine, which rotationally drives a saw chain serving as a rotating tool, is provided with a crankcase, in which a crankshaft is rotatably built, and a cylinder, in which a piston coupled to the crankshaft via a connecting rod is reciprocatably built. Atop part of the cylinder is covered with a cylinder cover, and a cooling wind toward the cylinder is generated by a cooling fan attached to a projecting end of the crankshaft. The cooling wind is guided by heat-dissipating plates extending along the crankshaft. Exposing parts bulged to outside than a lateral side of the cylinder cover are provided to tips of the heat-dissipating plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20130160740
    Abstract: An engine including: a cylinder block formed with a cylinder bore; a carburetor including, a fuel storage portion that stores fuel supplied from a fuel tank and supplies the fuel to a suction path, and a fuel discharge path that discharges fuel overflowed from the fuel storage portion; a starting fuel supply device including, a starting fuel storage chamber that is provided on a fuel route defined by the fuel tank and the carburetor and stores a predetermined amount of fuel, a fuel delivery portion that delivers the fuel to a starting fuel supply path connected to the suction path or the cylinder bore, and a fuel return path that discharges the fuel overflowed from the starting fuel storage chamber; and a notifying portion that visually notifies that the starting fuel storage chamber is filled with fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Kamimura, Takuhiro Murakami, Naoto Ichihashi, Kentarou Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20130008681
    Abstract: The two-cycle engine comprises a first scavenging opening and second scavenging opening on the inner peripheral wall of a cylinder bore, and a first scavenging passage and second scavenging passage connecting the first scavenging opening and second scavenging opening to the crank chamber. The first and second scavenging passages are provided with an outflow direction change device directing the outflow of an air-fuel mixture flowing out from near the top dead center of the first and second scavenging openings into the cylinder bore and the outflow of the air-fuel mixture flowing out from near the bottom dead center of the first and second scavenging openings into the cylinder bore in different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20100319671
    Abstract: An engine-powered cutter comprising a housing that houses an engine for driving a rotating blade and that is provided to the rear of the rotating blade; an air cleaner chamber provided in the housing to the rear of the engine; a pre-air cleaner chamber provided in the housing on the upstream side of the air cleaner chamber and having an air inflow opening through which air flows in formed in a side wall, an air exhaust opening for exhausting air into the air cleaner chamber formed in a rear partition and a divider wall extending downward beyond the bottom edge of the air exhaust opening from the rear partition above the air exhaust opening between the air inflow opening and the air exhaust opening; and a dust collection chamber provided in the lower side of the pre-air cleaner chamber so as to be free to open and close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Naoto ICHIHASHI, Junichi Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20090194177
    Abstract: According to the invention, an air compressor includes: one pair of air tanks arranged parallel to each other by being separated from each other in a constant interval, for storing thereinto compressed air; a compressing unit that compresses air sucked from an external space so as to supply the compressed air to the air tanks; and a motor coupled to the compressing unit so as to drive the compressing unit, while the motor and the compressing unit are arranged above the one pair of air tanks; wherein: a cooling fan that generates cooling wind is provided on one end of a rotation shaft of the motor; and a control circuit unit that drives the motor is arranged above the one pair of air tanks and at a position which is overlapped with an axial direction projection area of the cooling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi YOKOTA, Seiichi KODATO, Kenichi MATSUNAGA, Kazuhiro SEGAWA, Naoto ICHIHASHI