Patents by Inventor Ryo MOTOOKA

Ryo MOTOOKA 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: 20230322062
    Abstract: To achieve a size reduction while making it possible to mold a case housing an axle and a gear mechanism by casting in an electric-vehicle power transmission unit that drives right and left wheels with a single electric motor. [Solution] A power transmission unit 41 includes a motor case 50 that is provided on the same side as a second axle 19 with respect to a center between a first axle 18 and the second axle 19, separated to right and left, in a right-left direction and that houses the electric motor 70, a first axle case 43 housing a reduction gear mechanism 78, a differential gear mechanism 118, and the first axle 18, and a second axle case 130 that is fixed to the first axle case 43 in a separable manner and houses the second axle 19.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Koji KIYOOKA, Ryo MOTOOKA, Ken MORISHITA, Hitoshi SAWADA, Akihiro IMA
  • Publication number: 20230272851
    Abstract: [Problem] A power transmission unit that improves quietness of a gear mechanism and prevents a size of the unit from increasing when a brake rotor is installed around an input shaft of the gear mechanism. [Solution] The power transmission unit includes an electric driving motor with a motor shaft, a gear mechanism, and an output shaft, which are accommodated in a transmission housing, wherein the power of the motor shaft is transmitted to the output shaft via the gear mechanism. The gear mechanism has a gear shaft rotatably supported on the transmission housing and a first helical gear provided on the gear shaft. The power transmission unit further includes a connecting member provided with a tubular portion fitted to the motor shaft and the gear shaft so as to allow the motor shaft and the gear shaft to synchronously rotate. The connecting member is integrally provided with a brake rotor on the outer periphery thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Koji KIYOOKA, Ryo MOTOOKA, Ken MORISHITA, Hitoshi SAWADA, Akihiro IMA
  • Patent number: 11668381
    Abstract: A transmission structure of the present invention causes, during a period from a time point when a rotational speed of a drive rotational power reaches a predetermined first/second speed stage shift-up start speed until a first/second speed stage shift-up end time point, one of an input-side clutch mechanism pair and an output-side clutch mechanism pair to be in a double transmitting state, and causes, in the double transmitting state, a first clutch mechanism and a second clutch mechanism of the other one of the input-side clutch mechanism pair and the output-side clutch mechanism pair to be shifted to a disengagement sate and an engagement state, respectively, while having frictional plate slid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Owada, Koji Iwaki, Ryo Motooka, Kohei Ogura, Takumi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11644091
    Abstract: A hydromechanical continuously variable speed transmission is provided. The hydromechanical continuously variable speed transmission can include: the HST 10 in which the planetary gear mechanism 11 is housed in the planetary gear support case 71 mounted on a face of the center section 35 to form the HMT unit 100, the face being on the side opposite to the side on which the HST case 23 is mounted, and the HMT unit 100 is further provided with the housing mounting face 35d for fixing the HMT unit 100 to the housing 91 of the traveling power transmission mechanism 89, the housing mounting face 35d being provided on the center section 35 so as to surround the outer circumference of the mounting face 71a on which the planetary gear support case 71 is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Iwaki, Tomoyuki Tsuji, Ryo Motooka
  • Publication number: 20230014393
    Abstract: A transmission structure of the present invention causes, during a period from a time point when a rotational speed of a drive rotational power reaches a predetermined first/second speed stage shift-up start speed until a first/second speed stage shift-up end time point, one of an input-side clutch mechanism pair and an output-side clutch mechanism pair to be in a double transmitting state, and causes, in the double transmitting state, a first clutch mechanism and a second clutch mechanism of the other one of the input-side clutch mechanism pair and the output-side clutch mechanism pair to be shifted to a disengagement sate and an engagement state, respectively, while having frictional plate slid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OWADA, Koji IWAKI, Ryo MOTOOKA, Kohei OGURA, Takumi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220316570
    Abstract: A hydromechanical continuously variable speed transmission is provided. The hydromechanical continuously variable speed transmission can include: the HST 10 in which the planetary gear mechanism 11 is housed in the planetary gear support case 71 mounted on a face of the center section 35 to form the HMT unit 100, the face being on the side opposite to the side on which the HST case 23 is mounted, and the HMT unit 100 is further provided with the housing mounting face 35d for fixing the HMT unit 100 to the housing 91 of the traveling power transmission mechanism 89, the housing mounting face 35d being provided on the center section 35 so as to surround the outer circumference of the mounting face 71a on which the planetary gear support case 71 is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Koji IWAKI, Tomoyuki TSUJI, Ryo MOTOOKA