Patents by Inventor Takahiro Kajihara

Takahiro Kajihara 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: 10323675
    Abstract: A device with an adjustment bolt includes a bolt attachment wall, an adjustment bolt screwed with an internal thread hole of the bolt attachment wall, a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt, a cover that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut, and a stopper unit that prevents removal of the cover from the locknut. The stopper unit includes an inner circumference groove of the cover fitted around a C-shaped retaining ring, and an external circumference groove of the locknut fitting within the retaining ring. The external circumference groove includes a first groove portion having a large-diameter groove bottom that restricts contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove, and a second groove portion provided continuously for the first groove portion and having a small-diameter groove bottom that allows contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Oso, Naoya Sakurai, Takumi Fukuda, Mitsugu Okuda, Wataru Iwanaga, Yusuke Suzuki, Takahiro Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20170370397
    Abstract: A device with an adjustment bolt includes a bolt attachment wall, an adjustment bolt screwed with an internal thread hole of the bolt attachment wall, a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt, a cover that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut, and a stopper unit that prevents removal of the cover from the locknut. The stopper unit includes an inner circumference groove of the cover fitted around a C-shaped retaining ring, and an external circumference groove of the locknut fitting within the retaining ring. The external circumference groove includes a first groove portion having a large-diameter groove bottom that restricts contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove, and a second groove portion provided continuously for the first groove portion and having a small-diameter groove bottom that allows contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki OSO, Naoya SAKURAI, Takumi FUKUDA, Mitsugu OKUDA, Wataru IWANAGA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Takahiro KAJIHARA
  • Patent number: 8528533
    Abstract: In a plughole waterproofing device for an engine, a coil case is fitted onto the ignition coil that is accommodated in a plughole of an engine, and an upper portion of the case protruding above the engine is provided with a longitudinal air path extending upward from a lower end thereof communicating with the plughole and a vent hole communicating with an upper end portion of the air path and opened to ambient air. A cover wall hanging while surrounding the vent hole is continuously provided on the case upper portion, and an air chamber is formed inside the cover wall, the vent hole being opened in an upper portion of the air chamber, and an opening face being formed at an entire bottom of the air chamber opening toward the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignees: Toyo Denso Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Kishi, Takahiro Kajihara, Makoto Kurahashi, Gakuji Moriya
  • Patent number: 7950354
    Abstract: An oil-release space (18) is formed along a lower side portion (17) of a cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) below an oil-cooling jacket (4). A reinforcing plate (19) spans between the lower side portion (17) of the cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) and a bottom wall (10) of a push-rod chamber (8) below the oil-release space (18). The oil-release space (18) is communicated with an oil outlet (20) of an oil-return passage (7). Engine oil that has passed through the oil-return passage (7) is released from the oil outlet (20) into the oil-release space (18). The engine oil released into the oil-release space (18) is guided by an upper surface of the reinforcing plate (19) to drop from a led-out end (25) on a rear side of the reinforcing plate (19) onto a rear side space (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kawahara, Shingo Izumi, Takahiro Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20110083628
    Abstract: In a plughole waterproofing device for an engine, a coil case for covering an ignition coil is fitted onto the ignition coil that is accommodated, together with an ignition plug, in a plughole opened to an upper surface of an engine, and a longitudinal air path extending upward from a lower end portion of the case upper portion communicating with the plughole and a vent hole communicating with an upper end portion of the longitudinal air path and being opened to ambient air are provided in a case upper portion, protruding above the engine, of the coil case. The vent hole is provided in an upper portion of the case upper portion. A cover wall hanging while surrounding the vent hole is continuously provided on the case upper portion, and an air chamber is formed inside the cover wall, the vent hole being opened in an upper portion of the air chamber, an opening face being formed at an entire bottom of the air chamber in such a manner as to open toward the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicants: TOYO DENSO CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji KISHI, Takahiro KAJIHARA, Makoto KURAHASHI, Gakuji MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20090064947
    Abstract: An oil-release space (18) is formed along a lower side portion (17) of a cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) below an oil-cooling jacket (4). A reinforcing plate (19) spans between the lower side portion (17) of the cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) and a bottom wall (10) of a push-rod chamber (8) below the oil-release space (18). The oil-release space (18) is communicated with an oil outlet (20) of an oil-return passage (7). Engine oil that has passed through the oil-return passage (7) is released from the oil outlet (20) into the oil-release space (18). The engine oil released into the oil-release space (18) is guided by an upper surface of the reinforcing plate (19) to drop from a led-out end (25) on a rear side of the reinforcing plate (19) onto a rear side space (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru KAWAHARA, Shingo IZUMI, Takahiro KAJIHARA
  • Patent number: 6968822
    Abstract: Cap segment surfaces (9a) and (9b) of a larger-diameter end portion (7) of a connecting rod (5) are positioned at an upper and a lower portions of a crank pin (8) and are inclined from a right upper portion of the larger-diameter end portion (7) of the connecting rod (5) to a left lower portion thereof. A cap (10) is attached by connecting rod bolts (11a) and (11b), head portion (12a) and (12b) of which are arranged vertically along the inclination direction of the cap segment surfaces (9a) and (9b). With a piston (24) existing at a bottom dead center, a weight connection portion (15a) of an upper rotary balancer (4a) is provided with a recess (13a) at a portion oriented leftwards and downwards which comes to face the head portion (12a) of the upper connecting rod bolt (11a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kiichiro Yamada, Shinkichi Iwasaki, Takahiro Kajihara
  • Patent number: 6957639
    Abstract: In an inclined engine where a cylinder (2) projects from a crank case (1) obliquely and upwardly, when seen in a direction parallel to a center axis (3) of a crank shaft (10), under a specific observation condition in which the cylinder projecting direction is deemed as an upper right side, a valve operating cam gear (5) meshes with a crank gear (4) from a horizontal right side of the latter and a governor gear (6) is arranged in a space defined below a portion where the valve operating cam gear (5) meshes with the crank gear (4). This governor gear (6) engages with the valve operating cam gear (5) from a lower left side of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kiichiro Yamada, Shinkichi Iwasaki, Takahiro Kajihara
  • Patent number: 6901909
    Abstract: The centrifugal governor ensures that the governor lever (3) can apply a synthesized tensile force (STF) of the tensile forces (GS) of the main spring (4) and the tensile force (IS) of the idling spring (5) to the fuel adjuster (2) of the fuel pump (1) so as to increase the supply of fuel, and cause the governor weight (6) to decrease the fuel amount by pushing down the fuel adjuster (2), so that a disequilibrium between the synthetic tensile force (STF) of the two springs (4), (5) and the governor force (GF) is utilized for increasing or decreasing the supply of fuel through the operation of the fuel adjuster (2), and that the idling spring (5) which is constituted as a tension coiled spring spring-biases the governor lever (3) in the direction of increasing the supply of the fuel both in the non-load set and in the low-load set (LL), and negates the spring-biasing both in the high-load set (LH) and in the full-load set (4/4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kajihara, Shinkichi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20050103304
    Abstract: Cap segment surfaces (9a) and (9b) of a larger-diameter end portion (7) of a connecting rod (5) are positioned at an upper and a lower portions of a crank pin (8) and are inclined from a right upper portion of the larger-diameter end portion (7) of the connecting rod (5) to a left lower portion thereof. A cap (10) is attached by connecting rod bolts (11a) and (11b), head portion (12a) and (12b) of which are arranged vertically along the inclination direction of the cap segment surfaces (9a) and (9b). With a piston (24) existing at a bottom dead center, a weight connection portion (15a) of an upper rotary balancer (4a) is provided with a recess (13a) at a portion oriented leftwards and downwards which comes to face the head portion (12a) of the upper connecting rod bolt (11a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Kiichiro Yamada, Shinkichi Iwasaki, Takahiro Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20050056252
    Abstract: The centrifugal governor ensures that the governor lever (3) can apply a synthesized tensile force (STF) of the tensile forces (GS) of the main spring (4) and the tensile force (IS) of the idling spring (5) to the fuel adjuster (2) of the fuel pump (1) so as to increase the supply of fuel, and cause the governor weight (6) to decrease the fuel amount by pushing down the fuel adjuster (2), so that a disequilibrium between the synthetic tensile force (STF) of the two springs (4), (5) and the governor force (GF) is utilized for increasing or decreasing the supply of fuel through the operation of the fuel adjuster (2), and that the idling spring (5) which is constituted as a tension coiled spring spring-biases the governor lever (3) in the direction of increasing the supply of the fuel both in the non-load set and in the low-load set (LL), and negates the spring-biasing both in the high-load set (LH) and in the full-load set (4/4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Kajihara, Shinkichi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20040187811
    Abstract: In an inclined engine where a cylinder (2) projects from a crank case (1) obliquely and upwardly, when seen in a direction parallel to a center axis (3) of a crank shaft (10), under a specific observation condition in which the cylinder projecting direction is deemed as an upper right side, a valve operating cam gear (5) meshes with a crank gear (4) from a horizontal right side of the latter and a governor gear (6) is arranged in a space defined below a portion where the valve operating cam gear (5) meshes with the crank gear (4). This governor gear (6) engages with the valve operating cam gear (5) from a lower left side of the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Kiichiro Yamada, Shinkichi Iwasaki, Takahiro Kajihara