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).
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Patent number: 11738845Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
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Publication number: 20220081093Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko MIYAKI
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Patent number: 10232924Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya Nishio, Tomohiko Miyaki
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Patent number: 10059416Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Toshio Hayashi, Tomohiko Miyaki, Ryuji Hamada
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Patent number: 9982594Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
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Publication number: 20180111670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya NISHIO, Tomohiko MIYAKI
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Patent number: 9909479Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
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Patent number: 9816423Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Ryuji Hamada, Tomohiko Miyaki, Toshio Hayashi
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Publication number: 20170058744Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170044973Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170030239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160368580Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Toshio HAYASHI, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Ryuji HAMADA
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Patent number: 9410492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
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Patent number: 9400742Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko Miyaki
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Patent number: 9347391Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Nanba, Tomohiko Miyaki, Hitoshi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20130254468Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko MIYAKI
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Patent number: 7214164Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino, Tomohiko Miyaki
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Publication number: 20060135314Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino, Tomohiko Miyaki
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Patent number: 6964255Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Shomura, Tomohiko Miyaki, Jiro Saiga, Hidehiko Yoshioka, Shuichi Hagino
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Patent number: 6923047Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2002Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Miyaki, Tadaaki Morikami