Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Miyaki

Tomohiko Miyaki 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: 11738845
    Abstract: An operation device in a ship propulsion system including a ship propulsion machine, ship-mounted equipment, and a power supply, the operation device including a single push button switch and an operation processor performing processing. The operation processor detects a pressing mode of the push button switch when the push button switch is pressed while the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply are disconnected and the power source is stopped, performs processing of connecting the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply and starting the power source when the detected pressing mode is a first mode, and performs processing of connecting the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply while maintaining the power source in a stopped state when the detected pressing mode is a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Publication number: 20220081093
    Abstract: An operation device in a ship propulsion system including a ship propulsion machine, ship-mounted equipment, and a power supply, the operation device including a single push button switch and an operation processor performing processing. The operation processor detects a pressing mode of the push button switch when the push button switch is pressed while the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply are disconnected and the power source is stopped, performs processing of connecting the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply and starting the power source when the detected pressing mode is a first mode, and performs processing of connecting the ship-mounted equipment and the power supply while maintaining the power source in a stopped state when the detected pressing mode is a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko MIYAKI
  • Patent number: 10232924
    Abstract: An engine control device includes an obtaining unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The obtaining unit obtains model information on an engine based on a signal from a sensor, the sensor detecting a rotation of a camshaft unit. The determining unit determines whether the model information obtained by the obtaining unit matches stored model information. The control unit gives a warning to a user when the determining unit determines that the model information is not matched and controls the engine corresponding to the stored model information when the determining unit determines the model information is matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Nishio, Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Patent number: 10059416
    Abstract: An engine for an outboard motor is provided with an engine body, an intake system configured to supply combustion air to the engine body, an exhaust passage formed by connecting the engine body and middle and lower units thereunder, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an air pump configured to supply secondary air to an upstream side of the catalyst. The intake system is arranged in a side portion of one side of the left or right side of the engine body, and the exhaust passage and the air pump are arranged in a side portion of the other side of the left or right side of the engine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Toshio Hayashi, Tomohiko Miyaki, Ryuji Hamada
  • Patent number: 9982594
    Abstract: An intake system is arranged in a side portion of one side of an engine body in a left-right direction, and the exhaust passage and the air pump are arranged in a side portion of the other side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head of the engine body in the left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180111670
    Abstract: An engine control device includes an obtaining unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The obtaining unit obtains model information on an engine based on a signal from a sensor, the sensor detecting a rotation of a camshaft unit. The determining unit determines whether the model information obtained by the obtaining unit matches stored model information. The control unit gives a warning to a user when the determining unit determines that the model information is not matched and controls the engine corresponding to the stored model information when the determining unit determines the model information is matched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya NISHIO, Tomohiko MIYAKI
  • Patent number: 9909479
    Abstract: In an exhaust passage, an exhaust manifold connected to exhaust ports of each cylinder of an engine body and formed to extend vertically is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder head. A secondary air supply system has an intake silencer, a check valve configured to permit only a flow to the exhaust passage side, a secondary air supply control valve configured to control a flow rate of the secondary air, and a secondary air supply passage configured to connect those components to each other and the exhaust passage. The secondary air supply system is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder block placed between a crankcase of the engine body and an assembly of the exhaust manifold and the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9816423
    Abstract: An engine for an outboard motor is provided with an engine body, an intake system configured to supply combustion air to the engine body, an exhaust passage formed by connecting the engine body and the middle and lower units thereunder, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an air pump configured to supply secondary air to the upstream side of the catalyst. The air pump is driven by an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170058744
    Abstract: In an exhaust passage, an exhaust manifold connected to exhaust ports of each cylinder of an engine body and formed to extend vertically is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder head. A secondary air supply system has an intake silencer, a check valve configured to permit only a flow to the exhaust passage side, a secondary air supply control valve configured to control a flow rate of the secondary air, and a secondary air supply passage configured to connect those components to each other and the exhaust passage. The secondary air supply system is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder block placed between a crankcase of the engine body and an assembly of the exhaust manifold and the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170044973
    Abstract: An intake system is arranged in a side portion of one side of an engine body in a left-right direction, and the exhaust passage and the air pump are arranged in a side portion of the other side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head of the engine body in the left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170030239
    Abstract: An engine for an outboard motor is provided with an engine body, an intake system configured to supply combustion air to the engine body, an exhaust passage formed by connecting the engine body and the middle and lower units thereunder, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an air pump configured to supply secondary air to the upstream side of the catalyst. The air pump is driven by an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160368580
    Abstract: An engine for an outboard motor is provided with an engine body, an intake system configured to supply combustion air to the engine body, an exhaust passage formed by connecting the engine body and middle and lower units thereunder, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an air pump configured to supply secondary air to an upstream side of the catalyst. The intake system is arranged in a side portion of one side of the left or right side of the engine body, and the exhaust passage and the air pump are arranged in a side portion of the other side of the left or right side of the engine body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Toshio HAYASHI, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Ryuji HAMADA
  • Patent number: 9410492
    Abstract: An engine start control device includes: a control valve which adjusts a gas flow rate of a gas channel provided so as to bypass a throttle valve of an engine; a starter motor capable of driving a crankshaft of the engine; a control unit which controls an opening degree of the control valve and a current supply to the starter motor; and a latch circuit which holds a command for current control from the control unit to the starter motor, wherein the control unit performs the control so as to cause the current supply to the starter motor to start after the opening degree of the control valve reaches a target opening degree for an engine start time, and even when the control unit is reset, the latch circuit continues the current supply to the starter motor according to the command for current control that the latch circuit keeps holding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Patent number: 9400742
    Abstract: A storage control device of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, the storage control device includes a stop instruction detecting unit detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator, a writing unit writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting unit, a write judgment unit judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing unit, and a stop processing unit stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Patent number: 9347391
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device has an open loop controller which controls an air-fuel ratio to be a target air-fuel ratio, a feedback controller that shifts the target air-fuel ratio to a logical air-fuel ratio, and feedback controls the air-fuel ratio to be the logical air-fuel ratio by using a feedback correction coefficient determined based on an output of an O2 sensor, an average value calculator that calculates an average value of the feedback correction coefficient when the output of the O2 sensor reverses from a lean side to a rich side and from the rich side to the lean side in a feedback control by the feedback controller, and a learned value calculator that calculates a learned value based on the average value at a time when the average value calculated by the average value calculator becomes substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Nanba, Tomohiko Miyaki, Hitoshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20130254468
    Abstract: A storage control device of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, the storage control device includes a stop instruction detecting unit detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator, a writing unit writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting unit, a write judgment unit judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing unit, and a stop processing unit stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko MIYAKI
  • Patent number: 7214164
    Abstract: A shift operation control system for an outboard motor, which is capable of reducing a load acting on a shift operation lever during a shift operation and a shock occurring during the shift operation, to thereby facilitate the shift operation. The shift operation by the shift operation lever (21) is continuously detected by a shift position detector (24), and when an early stage of the shift operation from the forward position to the neutral position or from the reverse position to the neutral position is detected and at the same time the engine speed at the detection is not less than a predetermined value, engine output reduction control is carried out, and when the shift position detector (24) detects that the shift position has been switched to the neutral position, the engine output reduction control is canceled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino, Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Publication number: 20060135314
    Abstract: A shift operation control system for an outboard motor, which is capable of reducing load acting on a shift operation lever during a shift operation and a shock occurring during the shift operation, to thereby Facilitate the shift operation. The shift operation by the shift operation lever 21 is continuously detected by a shift position detector 24, and when an early stage of the shift operation from the forward position to the neutral position or from the reverse position to the neutral position is detected and at the same time the engine speed at the detection is not less than a predetermined value, engine output reduction control is carried out, and when the shift position detector 24 detects that the shift position has been switched to the neutral position, the engine output reduction control is canceled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino, Tomohiko Miyaki
  • Patent number: 6964255
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes a vertical multi-cylinder engine, a fly-wheel magneto device, a partition plate, and a ventilation fan. The vertical multi-cylinder engine is disposed in an engine cover and comprises a crank case and a crank shaft, the crank shaft being rotatably disposed and protruding upward from the crank case. The fly-wheel magneto device is disposed on the protruding portion of the crank shaft. The partition plate is disposed in the engine cover and partitions the inside of the engine cover into an engine air-inlet space and a space including a heat-generating source, the engine air-inlet space being disposed at the upper portion of the engine cover, and the space including a heat-generating source being disposed at the lower portion of the engine cover. The ventilation fan is disposed in the lower space below the partition plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Tomohiko Miyaki, Jiro Saiga, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino
  • Patent number: 6923047
    Abstract: A reset system for a watercraft outboard engine comprises: a control unit comprising a time summating portion for summating time for management of oil change time of an engine, a memory portion having a non-volatile memory such as an EEPROM for memorizing the cumulative time when the engine remains off and a determining portion for determining whether the cumulative time exceeds a set time by comparing the stored cumulative time with the set time; a warning portion for giving warning based on the comparison result when the cumulative time exceeds the set time; and a reset information entry portion for permitting reset information for clearing memory of the cumulative time in the memory and setting it into the initial value. The reset system can make control of the watercraft outboard engine based on the cumulative time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Miyaki, Tadaaki Morikami