Patents by Inventor Shigenori Tahara
Shigenori Tahara 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: 20170356412Abstract: Provided is a solution to a problem on a discharge valve mechanism disposed at an exit of a pressurizing chamber of a high-pressure fuel supply pump, that is, an occurrence of a backward flow of the fuel concentrates on a limited fuel passage, leading to a higher fuel flow rate, and this easily induces the occurrence of cavitation, and collapse of the generated cavitation might damage a seat surface, making it difficult to maintain valve functions. The present invention provides a valve mechanism including a seat member having a seat section, a valve body configured to attach to or detached from the seat section, and a housing member arranged on an outer peripheral side of the seat member. A first fluid flow-path is formed to connect an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side of the seat section in a case where the valve is detached from the seat section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Moritsugu AKIYAMA, Shigehiko OMATA, Shigenori TAHARA, Katsutoshi KOBAYASHI, Kenichirou TOKUO
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Patent number: 9145860Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply pump which has no probability of discontinuity of a thin film of fuel at a sliding portion even when the fuel is not needed to be compressed to a high pressure is obtained. Two low-pressure fuel ports are provided on the high-pressure fuel supply pump in addition to a high-pressure discharge port to a high-pressure fuel capacity chamber. One of the two low-pressure fuel ports is connected to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and remaining one is connected to a low-pressure fuel supply pump. Accordingly, the interior of the high-pressure fuel supply pump is always filled with fresh fuel even in a mode in which a high-pressure fuel injecting valve does not inject fuel and only a low-pressure fuel injection valve injects fuel, so that a temperature rise of a plunger and a cylinder is prevented and locking of the plunger and the cylinder can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Shigenori Tahara, Kenichiro Tokuo, Masashi Nemoto, Akihiro Munakata, Masayuki Suganami, Tatsuo Kawano
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Publication number: 20120312278Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply pump which has no probability of discontinuity of a thin film of fuel at a sliding portion even when the fuel is not needed to be compressed to a high pressure is obtained. Two low-pressure fuel ports are provided on the high-pressure fuel supply pump in addition to a high-pressure discharge port to a high-pressure fuel capacity chamber. One of the two low-pressure fuel ports is connected to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and remaining one is connected to a low-pressure fuel supply pump. Accordingly, the interior of the high-pressure fuel supply pump is always filled with fresh fuel even in a mode in which a high-pressure fuel injecting valve does not inject fuel and only a low-pressure fuel injection valve injects fuel, so that a temperature rise of a plunger and a cylinder is prevented and locking of the plunger and the cylinder can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Satoshi Usui, Shigenori Tahara, Kenichiro Tokuo, Masashi Nemoto, Akihiro Munakata, Masayuki Suganami, Tatsuo Kawano
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Patent number: 7707996Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Shigenori Tahara, Atsuji Saito, Yukio Takahashi, Masami Abe
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Publication number: 20090178652Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMADA, Shigenori Tahara, Atsuji Saito, Yukio Takahashi, Masami Abe
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Patent number: 7540274Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Shigenori Tahara, Atsuji Saito, Yukio Takahashi, Masami Abe
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Publication number: 20040055580Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Car Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Shigenori Tahara, Atsuji Saito, Yukio Takahashi, Masami Abe
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Patent number: 6631706Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Shigenori Tahara, Atsuji Saito, Yukio Takahashi, Masami Abe
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Patent number: 5699768Abstract: A throttle control device freely sets the throttle opening area changing ratio in the low opening degree range to the intermediate and high opening degree range. The throttle valve is rotatably supported to an air intake passage to vary the area of the air intake passage, and rotated by a throttle lever fixed to the throttle valve. A drive lever is rotated with stepping down of an accelerator pedal by the driver. A cam mechanism transmits rotation of the drive lever, to the throttle lever and a link mechanism having a connecting lever transmits rotation of the drive lever to the throttle lever. The cam mechanism and the link mechanism are switched to be operated corresponding to the opening degree of the throttle valve.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Saito, Shigenori Tahara, Hiroyuki Yamada, Atsushi Hohkita