Patents by Inventor Shoji Horiba

Shoji Horiba 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: 8186372
    Abstract: A fuel shut-off valve includes a casing, an ascendable and descendible float, and an upper valve element, which is actuated by the float to open and close connector passage that communicates the inside of fuel tank with the outside, and which includes a valve body and a ring-shaped seat member. The ring-shaped seat member makes a connector bore, which communicates with the connector passage, therein, and includes a base, a holding portion, a seating portion, a lip-shaped portion, and a thin-film-shaped portion. The seating portion opens and closes the connector passage, and defines an opening of the connector bore. The lip-shaped portion seats on and separates away from the float, and defines the other opening of the connector bore. The thin-film-shaped portion is disposed between the base and the lip-shaped portion, and is deformable elastically upon being pressed by the float when the float seats on the lip-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Horiba, Hiroshi Nishi, Naoki Mori
  • Patent number: 7810474
    Abstract: The fuel tank venting device is furnished with a full fuel control valve and a rollover valve that are installed on a fuel tank, and a fuel tank valve unit having a pressure valve that is situated between a canister and the two valves. The pressure valve is furnished with a casing that has a valve chamber, a valve body housed within the valve chamber, and a spring. The valve body has a disk-shaped valve part and a side wall that projects with tubular contours from the outside perimeter of the valve part, and has a cup shape defining a spring chamber that is bounded by the valve part and the side wall. The valve part is perforated by an orifice of smaller planar dimensions than the valve aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kito, Hiroshi Nishi, Shoji Horiba
  • Publication number: 20090293849
    Abstract: The fuel tank venting device is furnished with a full fuel control valve and a rollover valve that are installed on a fuel tank, and a fuel tank valve unit having a pressure valve that is situated between a canister and the two valves. The pressure valve is furnished with a casing that has a valve chamber, a valve body housed within the valve chamber, and a spring. The valve body has a disk-shaped valve part and a side wall that projects with tubular contours from the outside perimeter of the valve part, and has a cup shape defining a spring chamber that is bounded by the valve part and the side wall. The valve part is perforated by an orifice of smaller planar dimensions than the valve aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kito, Hiroshi Nishi, Shoji Horiba
  • Patent number: 7448364
    Abstract: In a fuel cutoff valve of the invention, an opening at a lower end of a cylindrical bottom member defines a full level of fuel. The opening of the cylindrical bottom member has a flange that is protruded in a horizontal direction. This structure of the invention effectively interferes with invasion of the air into a casing of the fuel cutoff valve in the course of fuel supply to the full level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kaneko, Shoji Horiba
  • Publication number: 20080236672
    Abstract: A fuel shut-off valve includes a casing, an ascendable and descendible float, and an upper valve element, which is actuated by the float to open and close connector passage that communicates the inside of fuel tank with the outside, and which includes a valve body and a ring-shaped seat member. The ring-shaped seat member makes a connector bore, which communicates with the connector passage, therein, and includes a base, a holding portion, a seating portion, a lip-shaped portion, and a thin-film-shaped portion. The seating portion opens and closes the connector passage, and defines an opening of the connector bore. The lip-shaped portion seats on and separates away from the float, and defines the other opening of the connector bore. The thin-film-shaped portion is disposed between the base and the lip-shaped portion, and is deformable elastically upon being pressed by the float when the float seats on the lip-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji HORIBA, Hiroshi NISHI, Naoki MORI
  • Publication number: 20070295312
    Abstract: In a fuel cutoff valve of the invention, an opening at a lower end of a cylindrical bottom member defines a full level of fuel. The opening of the cylindrical bottom member has a flange that is protruded in a horizontal direction. This structure of the invention effectively interferes with invasion of the air into a casing of the fuel cutoff valve in the course of fuel supply to the full level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kaneko, Shoji Horiba