Patents by Inventor Takeo Furuta

Takeo Furuta 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: 11959543
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a lubricating structure for a vehicle power transmission device that may effectively lubricate a transfer device and a differential device without increasing the amount of oil. The lubricating structure includes: a first guide wall positioned above a bearing; a second guide wall provided below an oil reservoir and extending toward a central axis of a final driven gear; and an oil catch member that receives oil guided by the second guide wall and supplies the oil to a differential device and the bearing. The oil catch member includes a first inclined part inclined so that a direction of the first guide wall is lowered, a notch formed at a position facing an opening formed in a differential case, and a groove for oil guiding that extends toward the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuto Kanase, Nobutaka Fukamizu, Seiji Ishii, Takeo Furuta
  • Publication number: 20230313879
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a lubricating structure for a vehicle power transmission device that may effectively lubricate a transfer device and a differential device without increasing the amount of oil. The lubricating structure includes: a first guide wall positioned above a bearing; a second guide wall provided below an oil reservoir and extending toward a central axis of a final driven gear; and an oil catch member that receives oil guided by the second guide wall and supplies the oil to a differential device and the bearing. The oil catch member includes a first inclined part inclined so that a direction of the first guide wall is lowered, a notch formed at a position facing an opening formed in a differential case, and a groove for oil guiding that extends toward the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuto KANASE, Nobutaka FUKAMIZU, Seiji ISHII, Takeo FURUTA
  • Patent number: 9651137
    Abstract: An opening end of an inboard section includes: an end surface composed of a plane positioned farthest from the center of a differential device in the axial direction and perpendicular to the axial direction; a ledge positioned adjacent to the end surface in the circumferential direction of the opening end and closer to the center than the end surface in the axial direction; and a tapered section in a slope shape formed continuing to the inner diameter side of the ledge at the opening end, slanting toward the inner diameter side of the opening end and approaching the center. Lubricating oil supplied to the opening end of the inboard section flows to the tapered section via the ledge and flows from the tapered section into a spiral groove formed on an inner periphery of the inboard section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshizawa, Koichi Fushimi, Takeo Furuta, Yuuto Sasaki, Eri Maeda, Shinobu Kurachi, Yuji Koga
  • Publication number: 20150114757
    Abstract: An opening end of an inboard section includes: an end surface composed of a plane positioned farthest from the center of a differential device in the axial direction and perpendicular to the axial direction; a ledge positioned adjacent to the end surface in the circumferential direction of the opening end and closer to the center than the end surface in the axial direction; and a tapered section in a slope shape formed continuing to the inner diameter side of the ledge at the opening end, slanting toward the inner diameter side of the opening end and approaching the center. Lubricating oil supplied to the opening end of the inboard section flows to the tapered section via the ledge and flows from the tapered section into a spiral groove formed on an inner periphery of the inboard section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshizawa, Koichi Fushimi, Takeo Furuta, Yuuto Sasaki, Eri Maeda, Shinobu Kurachi, Yuji Koga
  • Patent number: 5970821
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a control system for an automatic transmission, which operates so that when slipping of drive wheels is generated at the starting of a vehicle on ice or the like, upshifting from a second gear shift stage to a third gear shift stag is prohibited. However, when the pseudo slipping state of the drive wheels is detected with the locking or unlocking of the drive wheels, the undesirable prohibition of the upshifting of the automatic transmission is avoided. A slip rate of a torque converter is determined on the basis of an engine revolution-speed (a torque converter input rotation-speed) and an automatic transmission input rotation-speed (a torque converter output rotation-speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Koyama, Masamitsu Hirano, Hiroyuki Kimura, Takeo Furuta, Masatoshi Nishina
  • Patent number: 5931762
    Abstract: When slipping is generated during the upshifting from a first gear shift stage to a second gear shift stage on ice or the like, a control for prohibiting the upshifting from the second gear shift stage to a third gear shift stage can be carried out precisely. A control system is designed so that when a slipping state is detected on ice having a lower road surface friction coefficient by a slipping state determining device, the upshifting of an automatic transmission from a second gear shift stage to a third gear shift stage is prohibited. In this control system, the time required for the upshifting from a first gear shift stage to the second gear shift stage is measured. If such time is shorter than a first predetermined time, it is determined that a slipping has been generated during the upshifting, and the upshifting from the second gear shift stage to the third gear shift stage is prohibited for a second predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Koyama, Masamitsu Hirano, Shirou Godai, Takeo Furuta, Norio Nakauchi