Patents by Inventor Takashi Sakumoto

Takashi Sakumoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20150159540
    Abstract: A cooling device of a multi-cylinder engine circulates a coolant from a water pump through water jackets of a cylinder head and a cylinder block. The cooling device includes a main jacket of the water jacket of the cylinder head, formed around combustion chambers, an exhaust jacket of the water jacket of the cylinder head, communicating to the main jacket and formed on an opposite side of exhaust ports to the combustion chambers, a circulation system for suppressing that the coolant flows through the main jacket in an engine cold start, by circulating the coolant through the water pump and the exhaust jacket, and a convection suppressor for suppressing that the coolant flows into the main jacket from the water jacket of the cylinder block in the engine cold start, by suppressing a convection of the coolant inside the water jacket of the cylinder block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Haruki Misumi, Ryotaro Nishida, Yusuke Marutani, Takashi Sakumoto, Tomohiro Koguchi
  • Patent number: 8079828
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a water pump (10) is configured such that rotation is transmitted in a non-contact condition from a drive-end rotation member (20) whereto rotation is transmitted from an engine to a driven-end rotation member (30) having a pump impeller (31). The drive-end rotation member (20) includes a vacuum chamber (50) and a pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) provided so as to be mutually opposed with different polarities. The driven-end rotation member (30) includes an induction ring (32) having an induction section (32b) provided so as to form a prescribed interval between the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b). Furthermore, the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) is moved in a rotation axis direction with respect to the induction section (32b) due to the vacuum introduced into the vacuum chamber (50), and the overlap amount (L1) of the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) and the induction section (32b) in the rotation axis direction is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyosuke Togawa, Takasuke Shikida, Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 8029246
    Abstract: A pulley is fixed to a housing of a water pump, the pulley being connected to an output shaft of an internal combustion engine so that the pulley is driven through the output shaft. In the housing, a slider moves to and fro due to a change in pressure in a pressure chamber, which causes the magnetic flux passing through a magnet and an inductor ring of a rotary cylinder to vary, so that the driving force of the internal combustion engine is variably transmitted to the rotary cylinder. The pressure chamber is connected to an intake air passage and an atmospheric air introducing portion through a pressure path, and the state of communication is changed by a VSV. The pressure passage is provided with an orifice for preventing rapid change in pressure in the pressure chamber when the VSV is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Hanai, Kyosuke Togawa, Kazunari Adachi, Nobuhisa Nakajima, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 7922464
    Abstract: A magnetic drive pump includes a pump chamber including an inlet port and an outlet port, a partition wall separating the pump chamber from an exterior, a rotational shaft provided at a side of the pump chamber relative to the partition wall, an impeller rotatably supported by a first end of the rotational shaft, an inductor integrally fixed to the impeller to rotate, a magnetic member positioned radially outside of the partition wall and facing the inductor, the magnetic member rotatably supported, a rotation drive device fixed to the magnetic means and actuating the magnetic member to rotate, and a drive device moving at least one of the magnetic member and the inductor in an axial direction of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20090097996
    Abstract: A magnetic drive pump includes a pump chamber, a partition wall separating the pump chamber from an exterior portion, an impeller disposed in the pump chamber and rotating around a rotation axis, an inductor unitarily rotating with the impeller around the rotation axis, a magnet unit disposed at a position of the exterior portion separated by the partition wall where the magnet unit faces the inductor in a radial direction of the rotation axis, the magnet unit being rotatable around the rotation axis, and a rotation driving means driving the magnet unit to rotate, wherein a displacement mechanism is provided for changing a radial distance between the magnet unit and the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Takashi Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20090022606
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a water pump (10) is configured such that rotation is transmitted in a non-contact condition from a drive-end rotation member (20) whereto rotation is transmitted from an engine to a driven-end rotation member (30) having a pump impeller (31). The drive-end rotation member (20) includes a vacuum chamber (50) and a pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) provided so as to be mutually opposed with different polarities. The driven-end rotation member (30) includes an induction ring (32) having an induction section (32b) provided so as to form a prescribed interval between the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b). Furthermore, the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) is moved in a rotation axis direction with respect to the induction section (32b) due to the vacuum introduced into the vacuum chamber (50), and the overlap amount (L1) of the pair of permanent magnets (26a, 26b) and the induction section (32b) in the rotation axis direction is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Kyosuke Togawa, Takasuke Shikida, Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20080232975
    Abstract: A pulley is fixed to a housing of a water pump, the pulley being connected to an output shaft of an internal combustion engine so that the pulley is driven through the output shaft. In the housing, a slider moves to and fro due to a change in pressure in a pressure chamber, which causes the magnetic flux passing through a magnet and an inductor ring of a rotary cylinder to vary, so that the driving force of the internal combustion engine is variably transmitted to the rotary cylinder. The pressure chamber is connected to an intake air passage and an atmospheric air introducing portion through a pressure path, and the state of communication is changed by a VSV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuichi Hanai, Kyosuke Togawa, Kazunari Adachi, Nobuhisa Nakajima, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20070243085
    Abstract: A magnetic drive pump includes a pump chamber including an inlet port and an outlet port, a partition wall separating the pump chamber from an exterior, a rotational shaft provided at a side of the pump chamber relative to the partition wall, an impeller rotatably supported by a first end of the rotational shaft, an inductor integrally fixed to the impeller to rotate, a magnetic member positioned radially outside of the partition wall and facing the inductor, the magnetic member rotatably supported, a rotation drive device fixed to the magnetic means and actuating the magnetic member to rotate, and a drive device moving at least one of the magnetic member and the inductor in an axial direction of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 7080510
    Abstract: An exhaust gas sealing system for a turbocharger includes a control valve for controlling a flow of an exhaust gas in a turbine housing, a shaft extending to an outside of the turbine housing through a bearing bore provided on the turbine housing, one end of the shaft being fixed to the control valve, and a sealing member for preventing the exhaust gas from leaking to the outside of the turbine housing through a gap formed between the bearing bore and the shaft. The sealing member includes a through-hole forming a gap with the shaft smaller than a gap formed between the bearing bore and the shaft. One side of the sealing member is pressed against a sealing face and is provided within a cavity formed in the turbine housing and including the sealing face on a peripheral side of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ishihara, Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto, Shinji Kono
  • Publication number: 20050079049
    Abstract: An exhaust gas sealing system for a turbocharger includes a control valve for controlling a flow of an exhaust gas in a turbine housing, a shaft extending to an outside of the turbine housing through a bearing bore provided on the turbine housing, one end of the shaft being fixed to the control valve, and a sealing member for preventing the exhaust gas from leaking to the outside of the turbine housing through a gap formed between the bearing bore and the shaft. The sealing member includes a through-hole forming a gap with the shaft smaller than a gap formed between the bearing bore and the shaft. One side of the sealing member is pressed against a sealing face and is provided within a cavity formed in the turbine housing and including the sealing face on a peripheral side of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ishihara, Kazunari Adachi, Takashi Sakumoto, Shinji Kono