Patents by Inventor Takuo Kase

Takuo Kase 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: 12196128
    Abstract: A power generation device capable of ensuring assemblability and ensuring strength/rigidity necessary when being handled, and having reduced size and weight, without using a reinforcement frame. The power generation device includes, in a casing, an alternator that generates power through driving of an engine, an inverter case that houses an inverter of the alternator, and a fuel tank that stores fuel for the engine. The device includes an upper fixing part that fixes an upper part of the fuel tank to the casing, an intermediate fixing part that fixes a lower part of the fuel tank to an upper part of the inverter case, and a lower fixing part that fixes a lower part of the inverter case to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20220090536
    Abstract: A power generation device capable of ensuring assemblability and ensuring strength/rigidity necessary when being handled, and having reduced size and weight, without using a reinforcement frame. The power generation device includes, in a casing, an alternator that generates power through driving of an engine, an inverter case that houses an inverter of the alternator, and a fuel tank that stores fuel for the engine. The device includes an upper fixing part that fixes an upper part of the fuel tank to the casing, an intermediate fixing part that fixes a lower part of the fuel tank to an upper part of the inverter case, and a lower fixing part that fixes a lower part of the inverter case to the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono
  • Patent number: 11187195
    Abstract: An engine generator including, in a housing: a generator; an engine; a fuel tank; a canister for collecting evaporated fuel; and pipes for causing the canister and an inside of the fuel tank to communicate with each other. The pipes include the pipe section provided in the fuel tank; the pipe section extends above a liquid surface of the fuel in the fuel tank in a state in which a short-length side of the housing is placed downward; and the pipe section includes a portion that passes through a place above the liquid surface of the fuel in a state in which an opposite side of the housing is placed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuo Kase
  • Publication number: 20210199073
    Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of using a canister with a large capacity and preventing infiltration of fuel in a liquid state to the canister in an engine generator. Provided is an engine generator including, in a housing 10: a generator; an engine; a fuel tank 31; a canister 36 for collecting evaporated fuel; and pipes 41, 41a, and 41c for causing the canister 36 and an inside of the fuel tank 31 to communicate with each other, in which: the pipes 41, 41a, and 41c include the pipe section 41a provided in the fuel tank 31; the pipe section 41a extends above a liquid surface L of the fuel in the fuel tank 31 in a state in which a short-length side of the housing 10 is placed downward; and the pipe section includes a portion 41b that passes through a place above the liquid surface L of the fuel in a state in which an opposite side of the housing is placed downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Takuo Kase
  • Patent number: 10753362
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes an engine having a crankshaft, a generator unit having a drive shaft connected to the crankshaft, a cooling fan connected to the drive shaft, and a recoil starter engageable with the cooling fan. The cooling fan includes a starting pulley engageable with the recoil starter, a centrifugal fan formed on a circumferential outer side of the pulley, and a mixed flow fan formed on a circumferential inner side of the pulley. The pulley, the centrifugal fan, the mixed flow fan are molded integrally with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10273864
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes a fuel tank disposed in front of a cooling fan, an air guide space defined between the fuel tank and the cooling fan, an inverter disposed beside a lateral side part of the air guide space, and an air shroud provided between the inverter and the air guide space. The fuel tank is vertically elongated to face a cylinder block of a vertical engine. A storage space having the inverter disposed therein is connected to the air guide space via the air shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono, Kiyomi Yanai
  • Patent number: 9714599
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes an exhaust muffler disposed adjacent to a lateral side of a cylinder block, a fan cover having an air outlet arranged to face the exhaust muffler and the cylinder block, the fan cover being configured to guide cooling air from a cooling fan directly to the air outlet, and an opening area-adjustment member provided on a muffler blow-off port of the air outlet for adjusting an opening area of the muffler blow-off port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono, Kiyomi Yanai
  • Publication number: 20160281576
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes an exhaust muffler disposed adjacent to a lateral side of a cylinder block, a fan cover having an air outlet arranged to face the exhaust muffler and the cylinder block, the fan cover being configured to guide cooling air from a cooling fan directly to the air outlet, and an opening area-adjustment member provided on a muffler blow-off port of the air outlet for adjusting an opening area of the muffler blow-off port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono, Kiyomi Yanai
  • Publication number: 20160281597
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes an engine having a crankshaft, a generator unit having a drive shaft connected to the crankshaft, a cooling fan connected to the drive shaft, and a recoil starter engageable with the cooling fan. The cooling fan includes a starting pulley engageable with the recoil starter, a centrifugal fan formed on a circumferential outer side of the pulley, and a mixed flow fan formed on a circumferential inner side of the pulley. The pulley, the centrifugal fan, the mixed flow fan are molded integrally with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Yuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160281581
    Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes a fuel tank disposed in front of a cooling fan, an air guide space defined between the fuel tank and the cooling fan, an inverter disposed beside a lateral side part of the air guide space, and an air shroud provided between the inverter and the air guide space. The fuel tank is vertically elongated to face a cylinder block of a vertical engine. A storage space having the inverter disposed therein is connected to the air guide space via the air shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Takuo Kase, Kazuki Shimozono, Kiyomi Yanai
  • Patent number: 9062628
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes an intake flow passage communicating with an intake port of a gas engine, a fuel shut-off valve assembly for blocking a fuel supply passage to prevent supply of a gas fuel to a fuel mixer, a vacuum flow passage communicating with a vacuum actuator of the fuel shut-off valve assembly and a crank chamber of the gas engine, and means for holding the vacuum flow passage open when the gas engine starts, such that a vacuum produced in the crank chamber is used to actuate the vacuum actuator for switching the fuel shut-off valve assembly to an open position allowing supply of the gas fuel to the fuel mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Takeshi Fukawa
  • Patent number: 8985069
    Abstract: A portable engine generator includes a power generation unit operating an engine to generate electricity and a negative pressure fuel cock using a negative pressure in a crank chamber as an operating negative pressure to supply fuel to the engine. The negative pressure fuel cock is located on a side opposite to a negative pressure take-out port of the crank chamber with respect to a position of the power generation unit when the portable gas-engine generator is turned over, and so as to be located at a position higher than the negative pressure take-out port when the portable gas-engine generator is in an upright posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima, Masashi Kai, Takuo Kase
  • Publication number: 20140026828
    Abstract: A portable engine generator includes a power generation unit operating an engine to generate electricity and a negative pressure fuel cock using a negative pressure in a crank chamber as an operating negative pressure to supply fuel to the engine. The negative pressure fuel cock is located on a side opposite to a negative pressure take-out port of the crank chamber with respect to a position of the power generation unit when the portable gas-engine generator is turned over, and so as to be located at a position higher than the negative pressure take-out port when the portable gas-engine generator is in an upright posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima, Masashi Kai, Takuo Kase
  • Publication number: 20130133623
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes an intake flow passage communicating with an intake port of a gas engine, a fuel shut-off valve assembly for blocking a fuel supply passage to prevent supply of a gas fuel to a fuel mixer, a vacuum flow passage communicating with a vacuum actuator of the fuel shut-off valve assembly and a crank chamber of the gas engine, and means for holding the vacuum flow passage open when the gas engine starts, such that a vacuum produced in the crank chamber is used to actuate the vacuum actuator for switching the fuel shut-off valve assembly to an open position allowing supply of the gas fuel to the fuel mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Kase, Takeshi Fukawa