Patents by Inventor Osamu Hakamata
Osamu Hakamata 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).
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Publication number: 20230035792Abstract: A reserve tank includes a gas-liquid separator, a flow inlet portion, a flow outlet portion, and a projection shaped in a tubular form. The gas-liquid separator is shaped in a bottomed tubular form and is centered on a predetermined axis. The flow inlet portion is configured to conduct coolant into an inside of the gas-liquid separator. The flow outlet portion is configured to discharge the coolant from the inside of the gas-liquid separator. The projection extends along the predetermined axis from a bottom wall at the inside of the gas-liquid separator. An inner space of the projection opens to an inner space of the gas-liquid separator at a distal end portion of the projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Masashi MIYAGAWA, Osamu HAKAMATA, Akira YAMANAKA, Kenshirou MATSUI, Masaki HARADA
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Patent number: 11421580Abstract: A reserve tank includes a vapor-liquid separator, an inlet portion, an outlet portion, and a protrusion. The vapor-liquid separator defines an inner space for separating a vapor phase and a liquid phase of a cooling water. The inlet portion defines a first opening through which the cooling water is supplied into the inner space and the outlet portion defines a second opening through which the cooling water is discharged from the inner space. The protrusion protrudes upward from a bottom surface of the vapor-liquid separator. An inner circumferential surface of the vapor-liquid separator and an outer circumferential surface of the protrusion are coaxially provided to define an annular passage in the inner space. The cooling water introduced from the first opening flows spirally in the annular passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Miyagawa, Akira Yamanaka, Osamu Hakamata
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Publication number: 20220065157Abstract: A reserve tank includes a vapor-liquid separator, an inlet portion, an outlet portion, and a protrusion. The vapor-liquid separator defines an inner space for separating a vapor phase and a liquid phase of a cooling water. The inlet portion defines a first opening through which the cooling water is supplied into the inner space and the outlet portion defines a second opening through which the cooling water is discharged from the inner space. The protrusion protrudes upward from a bottom surface of the vapor-liquid separator. An inner circumferential surface of the vapor-liquid separator and an outer circumferential surface of the protrusion are coaxially provided to define an annular passage in the inner space. The cooling water introduced from the first opening flows spirally in the annular passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Masashi MIYAGAWA, Akira YAMANAKA, Osamu HAKAMATA
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Patent number: 11162743Abstract: The heat exchanger has tubes and a header tank that is located at an end of the tubes in a longitudinal direction and communicates with the tubes. The header tank has a core plate that connects to the tubes and a tank body that is fixed to the core plate. The core plate has a tube connection surface, a sealing surface, and an inclined surface that connects the tube connection surface and the sealing surface with each other. A distance between the tube connection surface and an end surface of the tubes in the longitudinal direction is different from a distance between the sealing surface and the end surface in the longitudinal direction by disposing the inclined surface to incline with respect to the longitudinal direction. The tubes connect to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface in a condition of being inserted to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Hakamata, Tatsuo Ozaki, Shinta Mabuchi
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Patent number: 11143463Abstract: A stiffener for a heat exchanger includes a top plate and at least two legs extending from opposing sides of the top plate. Each of the at least two legs includes a bent portion, an angled portion, and a straight portion. The bent portion attaches the leg to the top plate. The angled portion increases a width of the stiffener from a width of the top plate. The straight portion extends perpendicular to a plane of the top plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Guriqbal Singh, Jason Spenny, Osamu Hakamata
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Patent number: 10837707Abstract: A side slit of a core plate of a heat exchanger reaches a sealing surface. The core plate has a rib which is formed on a bottom plate across a protruding portion. The rib communicates to a cavity above the sealing surface. An end slit formed on an end wall of the core plate reaches the sealing surface. A first joining tab is formed between two end slits. The first joining tab is joined to a second joining tab on a reinforce plate. The side slit and the rib enable deformation of the core plate. The end slit enables deformation of the first joining tab in a tilting manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Hakamata, Steven Maloney, Masaya Nakamura
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Patent number: 10598444Abstract: A heat exchanger has a core plate connected to a tank member by clamping claws. The tank member has a waved outer surface including outer ridge portions and outer valley portions which are disposed alternately. The tank member also has a waved inner surface including inner ridge portions and inner valley portions which are disposed alternately. The outer valley portions are capable of receiving the claws. The inner ridge portion is positioned inside the outer valley portion in a width direction. The inner ridge portion is positioned between the adjacent tubes and/or between extensions of the tubes in a height direction. An inner width of the tank member regulated by the inner ridge portions is narrower than a width of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO THERMAL SYSTEMS S.P.A.Inventors: Shinta Mabuchi, Hajime Sugito, Osamu Hakamata, Marta Roberti, Giuseppe Tiziano
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Publication number: 20190249936Abstract: The heat exchanger has tubes and a header tank that is located at an end of the tubes in a longitudinal direction and communicates with the tubes. The header tank has a core plate that connects to the tubes and a tank body that is fixed to the core plate. The core plate has a tube connection surface, a sealing surface, and an inclined surface that connects the tube connection surface and the sealing surface with each other. A distance between the tube connection surface and an end surface of the tubes in the longitudinal direction is different from a distance between the sealing surface and the end surface in the longitudinal direction by disposing the inclined surface to incline with respect to the longitudinal direction. The tubes connect to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface in a condition of being inserted to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Osamu HAKAMATA, Tatsuo OZAKI, Shinta MABUCHI
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Patent number: 10369665Abstract: This brazed structure includes a brazing sheet that has been brazed and that comprises: a core material comprising an aluminum alloy which contains 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Si, 0.6-2.0 mass %, excluding 0.6 mass %, Mn, 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Cu, and 0.15-0.5 mass %, excluding 0.15 mass %, Mg, with the remainder comprising Al and unavoidable impurities, and has an average crystal grain diameter of 50 ?m or larger and in which an Mg—Si intermetallic compound and an Al—Mg—Si—Cu intermetallic compound account for 40% or less of the grain boundaries; and, clad to the core material, a brazing material comprising an Al—Si alloy.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignees: KOBE STEEL, LTD., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Izumi, Shimpei Kimura, Yuji Shibuya, Shoei Teshima, Hayaki Teramoto, Osamu Hakamata
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Patent number: 10317148Abstract: The heat exchanger has tubes and a header tank that is located at an end of the tubes in a longitudinal direction and communicates with the tubes. The header tank has a core plate that connects to the tubes and a tank body that is fixed to the core plate. The core plate has a tube connection surface, a sealing surface, and an inclined surface that connects the tube connection surface and the sealing surface with each other. A distance between the tube connection surface and an end surface of the tubes in the longitudinal direction is different from a distance between the sealing surface and the end surface in the longitudinal direction by disposing the inclined surface to incline with respect to the longitudinal direction. The tubes connect to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface in a condition of being inserted to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Hakamata, Tatsuo Ozaki, Shinta Mabuchi
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Publication number: 20190137184Abstract: A side slit of a core plate of a heat exchanger reaches a sealing surface. The core plate has a rib which is formed on a bottom plate across a protruding portion. The rib communicates to a cavity above the sealing surface. An end slit formed on an end wall of the core plate reaches the sealing surface. A first joining tab is formed between two end slits. The first joining tab is joined to a second joining tab on a reinforce plate. The side slit and the rib enable deformation of the core plate. The end slit enables deformation of the first joining tab in a tilting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Osamu HAKAMATA, Steven MALONEY, Masaya NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190072341Abstract: A stiffener for a heat exchanger includes a top plate and at least two legs extending from opposing sides of the top plate. Each of the at least two legs includes a bent portion, an angled portion, and a straight portion. The bent portion attaches the leg to the top plate. The angled portion increases a width of the stiffener from a width of the top plate. The straight portion extends perpendicular to a plane of the top plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Guriqbal SINGH, Jason SPENNY, Osamu HAKAMATA
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Patent number: 9751143Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has a core, a sacrificial material formed on one side of the core, and a brazing filler metal formed on the other side of the core. The core is made of an aluminum alloy containing Si, Cu, Mn, and Al. The sacrificial material is made of an aluminum alloy containing Si, Zn, Mg, and Al. The brazing filler metal is made of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has a work hardening exponent n of not less than 0.05. The core has an average crystal grain size of not more than 10 ?m in a cross-section. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has excellent strength and corrosion resistance even when it is formed into a thin material and also has excellent high frequency weldability and weld cracking resistance during electric resistance welding.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignees: KOBE STEEL, LTD., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei Kimura, Toshiki Ueda, Takahiro Izumi, Haruyuki Konishi, Hayaki Teramoto, Osamu Hakamata, Michiyasu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9696099Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core portion, a pair of header tanks, and an elastically-deformable sealing member. The header tanks are arranged on both end sides of the core portion. The header tank includes a core plate and a resin tank body, which define a tank space. The sealing member is disposed at an end part of the tank body located adjacent to the core plate. The sealing member has a loop shape to enclose the tank space when viewed from the core portion and is formed integrally with the end part of the tank body. The end part of the tank body includes a protrusion portion at least one of inward and outward of the sealing member. The protrusion portion encloses the tank space when viewed from the core portion and projects from the end part of the tank body toward the core plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Hakamata, Yoshinori Ishihara, Hirotaka Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20170038163Abstract: The heat exchanger has tubes and a header tank that is located at an end of the tubes in a longitudinal direction and communicates with the tubes. The header tank has a core plate that connects to the tubes and a tank body that is fixed to the core plate. The core plate has a tube connection surface, a sealing surface, and an inclined surface that connects the tube connection surface and the sealing surface with each other. A distance between the tube connection surface and an end surface of the tubes in the longitudinal direction is different from a distance between the sealing surface and the end surface in the longitudinal direction by disposing the inclined surface to incline with respect to the longitudinal direction. The tubes connect to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface in a condition of being inserted to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Osamu HAKAMATA, Tatsuo OZAKI, Shinta MABUCHI
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Publication number: 20160258693Abstract: A heat exchanger has a core plate connected to a tank member by clamping claws. The tank member has a waved outer surface including outer ridge portions and outer valley portions which are disposed alternately. The tank member also has a waved inner surface including inner ridge portions and inner valley portions which are disposed alternately. The outer valley portions are capable of receiving the claws. The inner ridge portion is positioned inside the outer valley portion in a width direction. The inner ridge portion is positioned between the adjacent tubes and/or between extensions of the tubes in a height direction. An inner width of the tank member regulated by the inner ridge portions is narrower than a width of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Shinta MABUCHI, Hajime SUGITO, Osamu HAKAMATA, Marta ROBERTI, Giuseppe TIZIANO
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Publication number: 20160238329Abstract: In a heat exchanger for a vehicle, a cover member covers an upstream side end that is a part of an outer peripheral surface of a tube in which a heat medium flows, on the upstream side of the air flow. Further, the cover member is fixed to the upstream side end of the tube. For example, a width of the cover member is equal to or less than that of the tube in a direction perpendicular to the air flow direction and a flow direction of the heat medium. Thus, the heat exchanger can prevent the misalignment of the cover member with respect to the tube, thereby protecting the tube by the cover member at the front side of the vehicle. Therefore, the tube can be protected from chipping.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Masashi UTSUNOMIYA, Osamu HAKAMATA
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Publication number: 20160031045Abstract: This brazed structure includes a brazing sheet that has been brazed and that comprises: a core material comprising an aluminum alloy which contains 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Si, 0.6-2.0 mass %, excluding 0.6 mass %, Mn, 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Cu, and 0.15-0.5 mass %, excluding 0.15 mass %, Mg, with the remainder comprising Al and unavoidable impurities, and has an average crystal grain diameter of 50 ?m or larger and in which an Mg—Si intermetallic compound and an Al—Mg—Si—Cu intermetallic compound account for 40% or less of the grain boundaries; and, clad to the core material, a brazing material comprising an Al—Si alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD,), DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro IZUMI, Shimpei KIMURA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Shoei TESHIMA, Hayaki TERAMOTO, Osamu HAKAMATA
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Patent number: 8997912Abstract: Disclosed is an electric motorcycle provided with: an electric motor (M) for driving a rear wheel (110) which is a drive wheel; a battery (B) for supplying power to the electric motor (M); and a controller unit (130) for performing drive control of the electric motor (M). The electric motorcycle is of the scooter type in which a footrest section is constructed between the front wheel (105) and the rear wheel (110), and is provided with a controller housing compartment (129) disposed in the footrest section so as to be downwardly recessed. An opening (131) is formed in the bottom of the controller housing compartment (129), and a cooling fin (130c) is provided in the bottom surface of the controller unit (130) in a state in which the cooling fin (130c) is housed in the controller housing compartment (129) and downwardly protrudes from the opening (131) to face the outside. As a result, the controller unit (130) is directly and efficiently cooled by airflow produced during travel.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Osamu Hakamata, Akinori Honma, Kazuhiro Iida, Takeshi Nagao
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Publication number: 20130260175Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has a core, a sacrificial material formed on one side of the core, and a brazing filler metal formed on the other side of the core. The core is made of an aluminum alloy containing Si, Cu, Mn, and Al. The sacrificial material is made of an aluminum alloy containing Si, Zn, Mg, and Al. The brazing filler metal is made of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has a work hardening exponent n of not less than 0.05. The core has an average crystal grain size of not more than 10 ?m in a cross-section. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet for heat exchangers has excellent strength and corrosion resistance even when it is formed into a thin material and also has excellent high frequency weldability and weld cracking resistance during electric resistance welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Shimpei KIMURA, Toshiki Ueda, Takahiro Izumi, Haruyuki Konishi, Hayaki Teramoto, Osamu Hakamata, Michiyasu Yamamoto