Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Okazono

Tetsuro Okazono 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: 20160252059
    Abstract: A fuel supply device includes a fuel pump and a filter case that houses a fuel filter, fuel pumped by the fuel pump from inside a fuel tank is filtered by the fuel filter and supplied from inside the filter case toward an internal combustion engine, and the filter case includes a fuel passage formed downstream of the fuel filter, the fuel passage being in communication with outside of the filter case, and a partition wall that partitions the fuel passage to give the fuel passage a shape which is turned back in an axial direction of the filter case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Yutaka NIWA, Hideto TAKAHASHI, Tetsuro OKAZONO, Hironobu OKI, Akinari SUGIYAMA, Akihiro ISHITOYA
  • Publication number: 20160245246
    Abstract: A fuel supply device includes a fuel pump and a filter case that houses a fuel filter, a fuel pumped by the fuel pump from inside a fuel tank is filtered by the fuel filter and supplied from inside the filter case toward an internal combustion engine, and the filter case includes a case body having a closed bottom shape that forms a housing chamber of the fuel filter, a case cap that covers an aperture of the case body by being joined to the case body, and a residual pressure retention valve that, when the fuel pump is stopped, retains a pressure of the fuel supplied from inside the filter case toward the internal combustion engine, the residual pressure retention valve being disposed at a joint boundary of the case body and the case cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Yutaka NIWA, Hideto TAKAHASHI, Tetsuro OKAZONO, Hironobu OKI, Akinari SUGIYAMA, Akihiro ISHITOYA
  • Patent number: 9388780
    Abstract: A resilient member is accommodated within a single support column, which connects a flange and a pump unit. The resilient member presses the pump unit in an axial direction toward a bottom part of a fuel tank through a holder member. The support column is formed in a polygonal tube shape and has a specific range in a part in the axial direction. A peripheral wall in the specific range is concave relative to corner parts of peripheral walls in an outside of the specific range so that a longitudinal groove having a groove bottom is provided to separate an inside and an outside of the support column. The holder member holding the pump unit is formed in a polygonal hole shape to be fitted with the peripheral walls. The holder member has a slide protrusion, which slidingly moves in the longitudinal groove in a state that the holder member is pushed into the longitudinal groove from the outside of the support column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Oikawa, Tetsuro Okazono
  • Patent number: 9328704
    Abstract: A support shaft connects between a flange and a pump unit. An intermediate member, which connects between the support shaft and pump unit, enables a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in an axial direction of the support shaft. The intermediate member limits a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in a circumferential direction of the support shaft. A resilient member is received in the support shaft and exerts a restoring force in an axial direction of the support shaft to urge the pump unit, which is movable relative to the support shaft in the axial direction, toward a bottom portion of the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Kouji Maruyama, Masato Inoue
  • Patent number: 8992190
    Abstract: A reservoir is in a bottomed tubular shape and located in a fuel tank. A lid member closes an opening of the reservoir. A pump unit discharges fuel stored in the reservoir to an exterior of the fuel tank. The pump unit is supported by a holding portion of the lid member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Shinobu Oikawa, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20140360602
    Abstract: A resilient member is accommodated within a single support column, which connects a flange and a pump unit. The resilient member presses the pump unit in an axial direction toward a bottom part of a fuel tank through a holder member. The support column is formed in a polygonal tube shape and has a specific range in a part in the axial direction. A peripheral wall in the specific range is concave relative to corner parts of peripheral walls in an outside of the specific range so that a longitudinal groove having a groove bottom is provided to separate an inside and an outside of the support column. The holder member holding the pump unit is formed in a polygonal hole shape to be fitted with the peripheral walls. The holder member has a slide protrusion, which slidingly moves in the longitudinal groove in a state that the holder member is pushed into the longitudinal groove from the outside of the support column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu OIKAWA, Tetsuro OKAZONO
  • Patent number: 8893686
    Abstract: A pump unit having a fuel pump and a suction filter is provided in a sub tank of a fuel tank. A filter element sheet for the suction filter is formed in a cup shape, a bottom wall portion of which faces to an inner bottom surface of the sub tank. A suction port of the fuel pump is opened to a fuel passage formed in the inside of the suction filter, so that filtered fuel is sucked into the fuel pump. Multiple mountain fold portions and multiple valley fold portions are formed on a side wall of the cup-shaped filter element sheet, to thereby increase surface area for filtering the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yamada, Tetsuro Okazono, Hironobu Oki, Akihiro Ishitoya, Tomohito Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8881765
    Abstract: A reservoir is located in a fuel tank. The reservoir is in a bottomed tubular shape having a periphery defining an opening. A lid member is located in the fuel tank and mounted to the periphery of the reservoir to close the opening. A pump unit is partially accommodated in the reservoir to discharge fuel stored in the reservoir to an exterior of the fuel tank. The pump unit is located at a position offset from a center axis of the lid member. The pump unit has a projection projected from the lid member to an exterior of the reservoir. A remaining quantity detector is configured to detect a quantity of fuel in the fuel tank. The remaining quantity detector is located at a remaining space remaining in the fuel tank. The remaining space is located on the lid member and located around the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Shinobu Oikawa, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20140166136
    Abstract: A support shaft connects between a flange and a pump unit. An intermediate member, which connects between the support shaft and pump unit, enables a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in an axial direction of the support shaft. The intermediate member limits a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in a circumferential direction of the support shaft. A resilient member is received in the support shaft and exerts a restoring force in an axial direction of the support shaft to urge the pump unit, which is movable relative to the support shaft in the axial direction, toward a bottom portion of the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro OKAZONO, Kouji Maruyama, Masato Inoue
  • Patent number: 8746277
    Abstract: A fuel pump has a pump chamber accommodating a rotor member. The rotor member is rotatable to supply fuel to from a tank to an exterior of the tank. A case is supported in the tank. The case accommodates a part of the fuel pump. A pump bracket is located in the tank. The pump bracket is in a tubular bottomed shape having a sidewall portion in which a remaining portion of the fuel pump is inserted such that the sidewall portion surrounds a radially outside of the pump chamber of the remaining portion. The pump bracket is joined with the case to define a gap therebetween in a radial direction of the rotor member such that the pump bracket is movable relative to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Hironobu Oki
  • Patent number: 8689827
    Abstract: A support shaft connects between a flange and a pump unit. An intermediate member, which connects between the support shaft and pump unit, enables a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in an axial direction of the support shaft. The intermediate member limits a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in a circumferential direction of the support shaft. A resilient member is received in the support shaft and exerts a restoring force in an axial direction of the support shaft to urge the pump unit, which is movable relative to the support shaft in the axial direction, toward a bottom portion of the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Shinobu Oikawa, Kiyomori Kobayashi, Norihiro Hayashi, Shinji Noda, Hiroshi Morishita, Kazuki Matsubara, Kouji Maruyama, Masato Inoue, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20130233285
    Abstract: A filter device has a sub-tank to be provided in a fuel tank. The sub-tank has an outer tubular portion and a bottom wall. A communication hole is formed in the bottom wall. An upper-side filter element is fixed to an upper side of the bottom wall to form an upper-side filter space between them, while a lower-side filter element is fixed to a lower side of the bottom wall to form a lower-side filter space between them. An inlet port of a fuel pump is connected to the upper-side filter element. Apart of fuel can be reserved in a fuel holding portion of the inside of the sub-tank and/or in the upper-side filter space, even when fuel amount in the fuel tank is decreased and the fuel tank is inclined with respect to a horizontal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhisa YAMADA, Masaaki TANAKA, Tetsuro OKAZONO, Kazuki MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20130230418
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus includes an electric pump, a control circuit, a lid component, and a connection component. The electric pump has a pressure raising part which raises a pressure of fuel in a fuel tank. The control circuit controls electric power supplied to the electric pump, and is arranged on the lid component. The connection component connects the lid component and the electric pump with each other, and defines a communicating path inside. A fuel outlet part of the electric pump and a circulation space of the lid component communicate with each other through the communicating path defined in the connection component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuro Okazono
  • Publication number: 20120240901
    Abstract: A pump unit having a fuel pump and a suction filter is provided in a sub tank of a fuel tank. A filter element sheet for the suction filter is formed in a cup shape, a bottom wall portion of which faces to an inner bottom surface of the sub tank. A suction port of the fuel pump is opened to a fuel passage formed in the inside of the suction filter, so that filtered fuel is sucked into the fuel pump. Multiple mountain fold portions and multiple valley fold portions are formed on a side wall of the cup-shaped filter element sheet, to thereby increase surface area for filtering the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhisa YAMADA, Tetsuro Okazono, Hironobu Oki, Akihiro Ishitoya, Tomohito Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20120060948
    Abstract: A support shaft connects between a flange and a pump unit. An intermediate member, which connects between the support shaft and pump unit, enables a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in an axial direction of the support shaft. The intermediate member limits a relative positional change between the support shaft and the pump unit in a circumferential direction of the support shaft. A resilient member is received in the support shaft and exerts a restoring force in an axial direction of the support shaft to urge the pump unit, which is movable relative to the support shaft in the axial direction, toward a bottom portion of the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro OKAZONO, Shinobu Oikawa, Kiyomori Kobayashi, Norihiro Hayashi, Shinji Noda, Hiroshi Morishita, Kazuki Matsubara, Kouji Maruyama, Masato Inoue, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20120063938
    Abstract: A reservoir is in a bottomed tubular shape and located in a fuel tank. A lid member closes an opening of the reservoir. A pump unit discharges fuel stored in the reservoir to an exterior of the fuel tank. The pump unit is supported by a holding portion of the lid member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro OKAZONO, Shinobu Oikawa, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20120060949
    Abstract: A fuel pump has a pump chamber accommodating a rotor member. The rotor member is rotatable to supply fuel to from a tank to an exterior of the tank. A case is supported in the tank. The case accommodates a part of the fuel pump. A pump bracket is located in the tank. The pump bracket is in a tubular bottomed shape having a sidewall portion in which a remaining portion of the fuel pump is inserted such that the sidewall portion surrounds a radially outside of the pump chamber of the remaining portion. The pump bracket is joined with the case to define a gap therebetween in a radial direction of the rotor member such that the pump bracket is movable relative to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro OKAZONO, Hironobu OKI
  • Publication number: 20120060950
    Abstract: A reservoir is located in a fuel tank. The reservoir is in a bottomed tubular shape having a periphery defining an opening, A lid member is located in the fuel tank and mounted to the periphery of the reservoir to close the opening. A pump unit is partially accommodated in the reservoir to discharge fuel stored in the reservoir to an exterior of the fuel tank. The pump unit is located at a position offset from a center axis of the lid member. The pump unit has a projection projected from the lid member to an exterior of the reservoir. A remaining quantity detector is configured to detect a quantity of fuel in the fuel tank. The remaining quantity detector is located at a remaining space remaining in the fuel tank. The remaining space is located on the lid member and located around the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Shinobu Oikawa, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20110139278
    Abstract: A filter device is connected to a fuel pump for supplying filtered fuel to an internal combustion engine. The filter device has a bag-shaped filter element forming therein a fuel passage, wherein fuel passes through the filter element to enter into the fuel passage. The filter element further forms a vapor pooling chamber above the fuel passage, so that vapors separated from the filtered fuel in the fuel passage are moved toward the vapor pooling chamber. A valve device is provided at a portion of the filter device, which is close to the vapor pooling chamber, so that vapors are discharged from the vapor pooling chamber to an outside of the filter device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiaki KAWAJIRI, Tetsuro OKAZONO, Katsuhisa YAMADA, Noriya MATSUMOTO, Masaaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 7305973
    Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus includes a lid member, a sub-tank, first and second supporting members, a biasing structure, a supporting portion, and a guide portion. The first and second supporting members are arranged in substantially radially end portions of the cylindrical portion to be substantially radially opposed to each other. The lid member is capable of axially moving relative to the sub-tank via the first and second supporting members. The biasing structure is arranged on the outer periphery of the first supporting member, and is received in the guide portion to bias the lid member and the sub-tank to be apart from each other. The first supporting member defines a groove portion that circumferentially divides an inner wall thereof into at least two planes. The first supporting member is capable of axially reciprocating through the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okazono, Norihiro Hayashi