Patents by Inventor Taro Ikeya

Taro Ikeya 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: 5787709
    Abstract: An exhaust manifold of which each exhaust port is formed by a pipe member is disclosed. Each pipe member at one end portion has a wedge shape section. Each pipe member at the other end portion is connected to the cylinder head of an engine. The pipe members are abutted one another in the one end portion to form the merging portion of the exhaust manifold. A plurality of radial partition walls are formed in the merging portion by joining end surfaces of the pipe members one another. In the exhaust manifold, two adjacent partition walls among the partitions walls are arranged almost symmetrically around a plane which passes through the center of the merging portion and is parallel to a direction in which the largest force is generated by thermal expansions of the exhaust ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Taro Ikeya
  • Patent number: 5111776
    Abstract: A sealed type engine cooling system having a reservoir tank connected to the engine recirculating water passageway by inlet pipes connected to the upper outlet of an engine cooling water passageway and to the upper inlet of a radiator. The bottom portion of the reservoir tank is connected to the bottom of the engine cooling water passageway, for supplementing the engine cooling water, and is provided with a cap with a relief valve, to thereby discharge vapor created in the cooling water passageway under a hot soak condition. The relationship between the inner diameter of the pipes is such that the effective cross sectional area of the inlet pipe means is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Matsushiro, Toru Kosuda, Shigeo Sasao, Taro Ikeya, Yoshiharu Chino, Yasuaki Uekawa
  • Patent number: 4825825
    Abstract: An arrangement and structure for an oil pan system to permit mounting a vertical in-line engine in a vehicle in a horizontal or nearly horizontal attitude includes a cylinder block of the engine having an opening on the side wall thereof, a cover attached to the cylinder block where an ordinary oil pan is usually mounted, an adapter plate fastened to the lower side wall of the cylinder block and bottom of the cover, and an oil pan attached to the lower surface of the adapter plate. The adapter plate allows the oil pan to extend and always remain below the cylinder block, so that the return paths from the lubricated portions of the engine to the oil pan are shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Chino, Nobuaki Wakita, Masaru Hibino, Taro Ikeya, Toshiro Kanesaka, Kazuo Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 4083182
    Abstract: A manifold reactor used for the purpose of cleaning the exhaust gas emitted from an automobile or any other internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, which is constituted of three shells, i.e, an inner shell or baffle, an intermediate shell and an outer shell. The construction of said manifold reactor allows the inner shell and the intermediate shell to freely expand or contract in any direction in relation to the outer shell by virtue of a suspension structure with a suspension bolt that fixes the inner shell and the intermediate shell in a central place within the outer shell thus avoiding thermal stress due to heat of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taro Ikeya
  • Patent number: 4074524
    Abstract: A manifold reactor having inner and outer cores, the latter enclosing the former, the outer core having an inlet tube while the inner core having a tubular inlet portion, the inlet tube and the inlet portion being telescoped with each other, wherein an annular seal element made of a metal sheet or sheets is provided between telescoping portions of the abovementioned two members, with one peripheral portion of the annular seal element being connected to one of the two telescoping members, while the other peripheral portion of the annular seal element being elastically and slidably engaged with the other of the two telescoping members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taro Ikeya