Patents by Inventor Takamasa Otsuji

Takamasa Otsuji 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: 10415496
    Abstract: An engine-driven working machine includes a controller, which varies a control value of a solenoid valve so as to decrease or increase an opening degree of the solenoid valve when a rotating speed of an engine is within a predetermined high rotating speed range and the rotating speed of the engine is lower or higher than a predetermined rotating speed, respectively. When the control value of the solenoid valve is varied so as to decrease the opening degree of the solenoid valve and corresponds to a predetermined opening degree larger than a fully-closed state, the control value is set to a limitation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: YAMABIKO CORPORATION, IIDA DENKI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji, Kosuke Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Miyaki, Akira Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10060392
    Abstract: A carburetor achieves better emission characteristics while improving a combustion state by increasing a delivery ratio of a stratified scavenging engine and reducing intake resistance. No dividing wall is provided between a throttle valve 204 and a choke valve 242, and a gap 244 between the valves 204 and 242 is opened. Intake air in both of an upper region and a lower region of the choke valve 242 flows into an air-fuel mixture passage 246 in a lower region of the fully-open throttle valve 204. A main nozzle 202 is arranged so as to be inclined toward the throttle valve 204.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji
  • Patent number: 10024224
    Abstract: To allow an intake negative pressure to directly act on a fuel outlet formed on a nozzle tube, and to guide a fuel discharged from the fuel outlet in the nozzle tube to the fuel-air mixture passage. A rotary carburetor (200) has a guide plate member (42) downstream of a fuel outlet (30) located in a through-hole (14). The guide plate member (42) has both side edges (42b) away from an inner wall surface (14a) of the through-hole (14). The through-hole (14) is divided by the guide plate member (42) into a first passage portion (44) and a second passage portion (46). The first passage portion (44) communicates through a piston groove with a scavenging passage of a cylinder. The fuel discharged from the fuel outlet (30) is guided by the guide plate member (42) to the second passage portion (46) and is supplied through the second passage portion (46) to a fuel-air mixture passage (24) of an engine intake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji, Hidekazu Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9945290
    Abstract: An engine-driven working machine includes a controller, which varies a control value of a solenoid valve so as to decrease or increase an opening degree of the solenoid valve when a rotating speed of an engine is within a predetermined high rotating speed range and the rotating speed of the engine is lower or higher than a predetermined rotating speed, respectively. In case the controller determines that the engine-driven working machine gets started saw cutting, the controller stops varying the control value of the solenoid valve when the rotating speed of the engine is within the predetermined high rotating speed range and lower than the target rotating speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Yamabiko Corporation, IIDA Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Otsuji, Shiro Yamaguchi, Kosuke Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Miyaki, Akira Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9938926
    Abstract: The certainty of supplying air to a scavenging channel through a piston groove is improved. In a cylinder wall 2, a gas venting port 10 is formed below and adjacent to a scavenging port 6a. The gas venting port 10 is independent from the scavenging port 6a, and is opened/closed by a piston as each of an air port 4a and the scavenging port 6a is. Upon a piston groove 8 being brought into communication with the gas venting port 10 as a result of the piston moving up (FIG. 1(II)), blown-back gas in a piston groove 8 can move to a crankcase through the gas venting port 10. Along with this, air can enter the piston groove 8 from the air port 4a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Takamasa Otsuji, Hidekazu Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9903314
    Abstract: The present invention is to prevent mixing of fresh air and an air-fuel mixture when a throttle valve is fully opened and increase a delivery ratio. A main nozzle (30) is surrounded by a tunnel-like air flow guiding member (52). The air flow guiding member (52) is opened at its front and back sides. A whole amount of fuel discharged via a main nozzle (30) is sent to a downstream side by an air flow created by the air flow guiding member (52). When a throttle valve (22) and a choke valve (24) are both in a fully-opened state, fresh air flows into an air-fuel mixture passage (12) through a gap between these valves (22, 24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji
  • Publication number: 20170130642
    Abstract: To allow an intake negative pressure to directly act on a fuel outlet formed on a nozzle tube, and to guide a fuel discharged from the fuel outlet in the nozzle tube to the fuel-air mixture passage. A rotary carburetor (200) has a guide plate member (42) downstream of a fuel outlet (30) located in a through-hole (14). The guide plate member (42) has both side edges (42b) away from an inner wall surface (14a) of the through-hole (14). The through-hole (14) is divided by the guide plate member (42) into a first passage portion (44) and a second passage portion (46). The first passage portion (44) communicates through a piston groove with a scavenging passage of a cylinder. The fuel discharged from the fuel outlet (30) is guided by the guide plate member (42) to the second passage portion (46) and is supplied through the second passage portion (46) to a fuel-air mixture passage (24) of an engine intake system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji, Hidekazu Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20160312692
    Abstract: An engine-driven working machine includes a controller, which varies a control value of a solenoid valve so as to decrease or increase an opening degree of the solenoid valve when a rotating speed of an engine is within a predetermined high rotating speed range and the rotating speed of the engine is lower or higher than a predetermined rotating speed, respectively. In case the controller determines that the engine-driven working machine gets started saw cutting, the controller stops varying the control value of the solenoid valve when the rotating speed of the engine is within the predetermined high rotating speed range and lower than the target rotating speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Takamasa OTSUJI, Shiro YAMAGUCHI, Kosuke MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki MIYAKI, Akira YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160312737
    Abstract: An engine-driven working machine includes a controller, which varies a control value of a solenoid valve so as to decrease or increase an opening degree of the solenoid valve when a rotating speed of an engine is within a predetermined high rotating speed range and the rotating speed of the engine is lower or higher than a predetermined rotating speed, respectively. When the control value of the solenoid valve is varied so as to decrease the opening degree of the solenoid valve and corresponds to a predetermined opening degree larger than a fully-closed state, the control value is set to a limitation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Shiro YAMAGUCHI, Takamasa OTSUJI, Kosuke MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki MIYAKI, Akira YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160208685
    Abstract: A portable engine-driven working machine has an engine unit and a cover enclosing the engine unit. The engine unit includes a cylinder block, an electronically controlled carburetor, a controller connected to the carburetor and a diagnostic connector connected to the controller. The cover has a cylinder cover partially defining a first chamber containing the cylinder block and partially defining a passage for air which cools the cylinder block, and a removable connector cover partially defining a second chamber containing the diagnostic connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAKI, Takamasa OTSUJI, Shirou YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160097343
    Abstract: The certainty of supplying air to a scavenging channel through a piston groove is improved. In a cylinder wall 2, a gas venting port 10 is formed below and adjacent to a scavenging port 6a. The gas venting port 10 is independent from the scavenging port 6a, and is opened/closed by a piston as each of an air port 4a and the scavenging port 6a is. Upon a piston groove 8 being brought into communication with the gas venting port 10 as a result of the piston moving up (FIG. 1(II)), blown-back gas in a piston groove 8 can move to a crankcase through the gas venting port 10. Along with this, air can enter the piston groove 8 from the air port 4a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Takamasa Otsuji, Hidekazu Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20150337765
    Abstract: A carburetor achieves better emission characteristics while improving a combustion state by increasing a delivery ratio of a stratified scavenging engine and reducing intake resistance. No dividing wall is provided between a throttle valve 204 and a choke valve 242, and a gap 244 between the valves 204 and 242 is opened. Intake air in both of an upper region and a lower region of the choke valve 242 flows into an air-fuel mixture passage 246 in a lower region of the fully-open throttle valve 204. A main nozzle 202 is arranged so as to be inclined toward the throttle valve 204.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamazaki, Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji
  • Publication number: 20150337764
    Abstract: The present invention is to prevent mixing of fresh air and an air-fuel mixture when a throttle valve is fully opened and increase a delivery ratio. A main nozzle (30) is surrounded by a tunnel-like air flow guiding member (52). The air flow guiding member (52) is opened at its front and back sides. A whole amount of fuel discharged via a main nozzle (30) is sent to a downstream side by an air flow created by the air flow guiding member (52). When a throttle valve (22) and a choke valve (24) are both in a fully-opened state, fresh air flows into an air-fuel mixture passage (12) through a gap between these valves (22, 24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shirou Yamaguchi, Takamasa Otsuji
  • Patent number: 8967100
    Abstract: It is intended to effectively prevent blow-by with no need for large changes in typical structures of two-cycle internal combustion engines. A main scavenging passage (24) for supplying air-fuel mixture from a crankcase to a combustion chamber for scavenging purposes has a branch scavenging passage (26) that extends upward aslant toward an intake port (14). The main scavenging passage (24) communicates with a first scavenging port (20) located nearer to an exhaust port (16). The branch scavenging passage (26) communicates with a second scavenging port (22). A mean cross-sectional area of the branch scavenging passage (26) is smaller than that of the main scavenging passage (24). Cross-sectional area of a portion (24b) next to an inlet port (24a) of the main scavenging passage (24) opening to the crankcase is smaller than the sum of cross-sectional areas of the first and second scavenging ports (20, 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Otsuji, Buhei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130037011
    Abstract: It is intended to effectively prevent blow-by with no need for large changes in typical structures of two-cycle internal combustion engines. A main scavenging passage (24) for supplying air-fuel mixture from a crankcase to a combustion chamber for scavenging purposes has a branch scavenging passage (26) that extends upward aslant toward an intake port (14). The main scavenging passage (24) communicates with a first scavenging port (20) located nearer to an exhaust port (16). The branch scavenging passage (26) communicates with a second scavenging port (22). A mean cross-sectional area of the branch scavenging passage (26) is smaller than that of the main scavenging passage (24). Cross-sectional area of a portion (24b) next to an inlet port (24a) of the main scavenging passage (24) opening to the crankcase is smaller than the sum of cross-sectional areas of the first and second scavenging ports (20, 22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Otsuji, Buhei Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6497204
    Abstract: The engine can improve a leading air suction efficiency, has a simple structure and a low cost. Accordingly, in a stratified scavenging two-stroke cycle engine provided with an exhaust port (22) and a scavenging port (21) which are connected to a cylinder chamber (10), a leading air suction port (24) not connected to the cylinder chamber and a crank chamber (11), an air-fuel mixture suction port (23) connected to the crank chamber, a scavenging flow passage (20) connecting between the scavenging port and the crank chamber, and a piston groove (25) connecting between the leading air suction port and the scavenging port and not connecting between the air-fuel mixture suction port and the scavenging port at a time of a suction stroke, and disposed in an outer peripheral portion of the piston (4), the leading air suction port is positioned at an opposite side to the air-fuel mixture suction port with respect to an axis of the cylinder (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Komatsu Zenoah, Co.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyazaki, Takamasa Otsuji