Patents by Inventor Shuzou Sanda

Shuzou Sanda 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: 9791216
    Abstract: An object is to enable a compact and high output heat storage system to perform warm-up rapidly when a vehicle is started up, and after warm-up, to recover surplus heat that is present in a heat source in the vehicle to prepare for the next warm-up event. A heat recovery-type heating device includes: an ammonia buffer configured so as to be capable of fixing and desorbing ammonia that serves as a chemical reaction medium; and a chemical heat storage reactor provided with a chemical heat storage material that generates heat through a chemical reaction with ammonia supplied from the ammonia buffer, and that desorbs ammonia using surplus heat from a heat source and returns the ammonia to the ammonia buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Takafumi Yamauchi, Takashi Shimazu, Tsutomu Shinagawa, Shuzou Sanda
  • Patent number: 9309918
    Abstract: When temperature of lubricating oil is raised at a time of low-temperature, of an outer peripheral side of a radial plain bearing in a bearing retaining unit, heat is not supplied from a heating medium in a thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in a bearing retaining unit body, which has a large thermal capacity, and instead, heat is supplied from the heating medium in the thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in the cap, which has a small thermal capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Shuzou Sanda, Takashi Shimazu, Yasuhiro Ohmiya, Yoshihiro Hotta
  • Publication number: 20150226255
    Abstract: When temperature of lubricating oil is raised at a time of low-temperature, of an outer peripheral side of a radial plain bearing in a bearing retaining unit, heat is not supplied from a heating medium in a thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in a bearing retaining unit body, which has a large thermal capacity, and instead, heat is supplied from the heating medium in the thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in the cap, which has a small thermal capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Shuzou SANDA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Yasuhiro OHMIYA, Yoshihiro HOTTA
  • Patent number: 9046125
    Abstract: When temperature of lubricating oil is raised at a time of low-temperature, of an outer peripheral side of a radial plain bearing in a bearing retaining unit, heat is not supplied from a heating medium in a thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in a bearing retaining unit body, which has a large thermal capacity, and instead, heat is supplied from the heating medium in the thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in the cap, which has a small thermal capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Shuzou Sanda, Takashi Shimazu, Yasuhiro Ohmiya, Yoshihiro Hotta
  • Publication number: 20140224453
    Abstract: An object is to enable a compact and high output heat storage system to perform warm-up rapidly when a vehicle is started up, and after warm-up, to recover surplus heat that is present in a heat source in the vehicle to prepare for the next warm-up event. A heat recovery-type heating device includes: an ammonia buffer configured so as to be capable of fixing and desorbing ammonia that serves as a chemical reaction medium; and a chemical heat storage reactor provided with a chemical heat storage material that generates heat through a chemical reaction with ammonia supplied from the ammonia buffer, and that desorbs ammonia using surplus heat from a heat source and returns the ammonia to the ammonia buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Takafumi Yamauchi, Takashi Shimazu, Tsutomu Shinagawa, Shuzou Sanda
  • Publication number: 20130343683
    Abstract: When temperature of lubricating oil is raised at a time of low-temperature, of an outer peripheral side of a radial plain bearing in a bearing retaining unit, heat is not supplied from a heating medium in a thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in a bearing retaining unit body, which has a large thermal capacity, and instead, heat is supplied from the heating medium in the thermal medium flow path on the outer peripheral side of a halved bearing metal in the cap, which has a small thermal capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Shuzou Sanda, Takashi Shimazu, Yasuhiro Ohmiya, Yoshihiro Hotta
  • Patent number: 8556514
    Abstract: A sliding support structure includes: a support member (12; 106) and a shaft member (10; 120) that relatively rotates with respect to the support member (12; 106) wherein lubricating oil is supplied to between a sliding surface of the shaft member and a sliding surface of the support member, the support member (12; 106) has a sliding surface portion (x) that corresponds to a load concentrating portion between the shaft member (10; 120) and the support member (12; 106), and sliding surface regions (Ya, Yb) that are higher in oil repellency than the sliding surface portion are respectively provided on upstream and downstream sides of the sliding surface portion in a flow direction of the lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoichi Murakami, Shoji Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ariizumi, Ryuji Koike, Naoto Koyamaishi, Shuzou Sanda, Shigeru Hotta, Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yasuhiro Hikita
  • Publication number: 20120148180
    Abstract: A sliding support structure includes: a support member (12; 106) and a shaft member (10; 120) that relatively rotates with respect to the support member (12;106) wherein lubricating oil is supplied to between a sliding surface of the shaft member and a sliding surface of the support member, the support member (12; 106) has a sliding surface portion (x) that corresponds to a load concentrating portion between the shaft member (10; 120) and the support member (12; 106), and sliding surface regions (Ya, Yb) that are higher in oil repellency than the sliding surface portion are respectively provided on upstream and downstream sides of the sliding surface portion in a flow direction of the lubricating oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicants: Taiho Kogyo Co., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoichi Murakami, Shoji Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ariizumi, Ryuji Koike, Naoto Koyamaishi, Shuzou Sanda, Shigeru Hotta, Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yasuhiro Hikita