Patents by Inventor Shigehisa Morinaka

Shigehisa Morinaka 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: 5025883
    Abstract: A motorcycle provided with a central trunk and left and right trunks at the rear portion of the vehicle body. The vehicle body frame of this motorcycle is composed of a main vehicle body frame at the front and a rear vehicle body frame that can be detachably mounted to this main vehicle body frame. The rear vehicle body frame constitutes a trunk assembly jointly with a central trunk, a left trunk, a right trunk and other equipments such as lamps, and after the above-mentioned trunk assembly has been formed preliminarily as one unit outside of a main assembly line, it is detachably mounted to the main vehicle body frame on the main assembly line. Accordingly, the work on the main assembly line becomes little and simple, and a productivity is improved. Upon replacement of a rear wheel tire, it is only necessary to dismount the entire trunk assembly together with the rear vehicle body frame without individually dismounting a large number of equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigehisa Morinaka, Tai Nakashima, Takeshi Yamazaki, Kazuo Morishima, Yoshiaki Kashio, Giichiro Akimori
  • Patent number: 4735278
    Abstract: A heated air ducting structure (20; 200; 300; 360; 400) for motor cycles (50; 350; 450) including an engine (2; 302) mounted at a lower position in the front part of a vehicle body frame (1) and a a rider's seat (4; 401) installed on the vehicle body frame behind the engine. The ducting structure comprises a duct (20a; 208, 208r, 205a, 205c; 321, 314; 361, 365; 404, 405, 409) having a heated air entry (20b; 208c; 322; 362; 407) which, facing a rear portion (2b; 302g) of the engine, takes in heated air that has cooled the engine, and a heated air exit (20c; 205f; 328; 365b; 409b) which opens in the rearward direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushik Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsusuke Komuro, Hideaki Nebu, Shigehisa Morinaka, Yoshiaki Kashio
  • Patent number: 4632206
    Abstract: A water-cooled engine cooler of the divided type for such vehicles as autobikes, autotricycles, four wheel buggy, etc., is disclosed. The cooler has two radiators for cooling the water-cooled engine, these radiators being inclined with respect to the direction of progress of the vehicle such that their axes extending at right angles to their front intersect with each other at a forward position of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigehisa Morinaka, Katsusuke Komuro