Patents by Inventor Toshihide Oku

Toshihide Oku 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: 8460542
    Abstract: A suction filter may comprise a bag-shaped filter member and a passage member. The passage member is disposed in an internal space of the filter member. The passage member has a fuel passage and a plurality of openings, and guides fuel from the internal space to the outside of the internal space. The openings communicate the internal space of the filter member to the fuel passage. When the passage member is cut along a surface thereof perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the passage member in each of the openings, a position on an outer circumferential surface of the passage member in the cut surface, in which the distance between the outer circumferential surface and the filter member is the smallest, is distant in a circumferential direction from a position on the outer circumferential surface where the opening is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Tetsuya Hara, Yoshinobu Kato
  • Patent number: 7857143
    Abstract: A suction filter may comprise a filtration member and a connection member. The filtration member has an inner space. The connection member is configured to communicate the inner space of the filtration member and a fuel intake port of a fuel pump. The filtration member may have a tubular shape so that the filtration member surrounds a circumference of the fuel pump when the suction filter is connected to the fuel intake port of the fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Tetsuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20100206793
    Abstract: A suction filter may comprise a bag-shaped filter member and a passage member. The passage member is disposed in an internal space of the filter member. The passage member has a fuel passage and a plurality of openings, and guides fuel from the internal space to the outside of the internal space. The openings communicate the internal space of the filter member to the fuel passage. When the passage member is cut along a surface thereof perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the passage member in each of the openings, a position on an outer circumferential surface of the passage member in the cut surface, in which the distance between the outer circumferential surface and the filter member is the smallest, is distant in a circumferential direction from a position on the outer circumferential surface where the opening is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Tetsuya Hara, Yoshinobu Kato
  • Publication number: 20080245724
    Abstract: A suction filter may comprise a filtration member and a connection member. The filtration member has an inner space. The connection member is configured to communicate the inner space of the filtration member and a fuel intake port of a fuel pump. The filtration member may have a tubular shape so that the filtration member surrounds a circumference of the fuel pump when the suction filter is connected to the fuel intake port of the fuel pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Tetsuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20070235384
    Abstract: A fuel filter has a filter case and a filter element. The filter case defines a filtration chamber with a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet. The filter element is adapted to filter the fuel. The filter element is disposed within the filtration chamber and divides the filtration chamber into a first section on the side of the fuel outlet and a second section on the side of the fuel outlet. A control device controls the flow of the fuel within the first section, so that the fuel can flow within the first section along substantially the entire filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihide OKU, Tetsuya HARA
  • Publication number: 20070114169
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a filter device in which a filter is directly fixed to a container, thus eliminating the use of a filter frame. A fuel filter 6 of a fuel supply system 60 includes a filter element 22 for filtering fuel and a filter case 21 made of resin which houses the filter element 22. Ends 22b and 22c of the filter element 22 are directly fixed to an inner wall surface of the filter case 21 by welding. Further, the filter case 21 is formed, on the inner wall surface, with a groove 34 at each end of a weld part 36 in a longitudinal (vertical) direction. The groove 34 serves to receive a melted resin squeezed out from the weld part 36. To isolate the weld part 36 from a (filtering) body 22a of the filter element 22, protrusive ribs 32 and 33 are provided on the inner wall surface of the filter case 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuo Suzuki, Kunio Takagi, Toshihide Oku, Masashi Ozeki, Hirokazu Sugiura, Takeshi Kudo
  • Patent number: 6739354
    Abstract: In order to provide a simply-structured fuel filter which permits soaking at least part of a filter unit all the time in fuel in a reservoir, a reservoir unit is configured of a resin-built cylindrical reservoir having a bottom arranged on the bottom of a fuel tank, a primary filter installed near the inner bottom of that reservoir and a fuel pump sucking fuel in the reservoir through the primary filter, wherein projections protruding upward from the inner bottom of the reservoir are integrally molded and engaging holes to engage with those projections are bored in the circumference of the primary filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Nobuo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030188722
    Abstract: In order to provide a simply-structured fuel filter which permits soaking at least part of a filter unit all the time in fuel in a reservoir, a reservoir unit is configured of a resin-built cylindrical reservoir having a bottom arranged on the bottom of a fuel tank, a primary filter installed near the inner bottom of that reservoir and a fuel pump sucking fuel in the reservoir through the primary filter, wherein projections protruding upward from the inner bottom of the reservoir are integrally molded and engaging holes to engage with those projections are bored in the circumference of the primary filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Toshihide Oku, Nobuo Suzuki