Patents by Inventor Toshio Taomo

Toshio Taomo 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: 5718052
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed which is adapted so that a throttle valve as a driven member can be adjusted appropriately in its degree of opening via a cable and kept at a desired degree of opening and yet immediately returned to the minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety. Thus, fatigue of an operator's fingers can be diminished. Also, the throttle valve is enabled to be brought to the degree of opening at which it had stood before it was returned to the minimum degree of opening without the necessity of readjustment. The hand lever device comprises an eccentric cam shaft (40) including a supporting shaft portion (42) and a pivot pin portion (41, 43) having pivotal axis (0b) eccentric to axis (0a) of the supporting shaft portion (42), a main lever (30) pivotally fitted on the supporting shaft portion (42), and a sub-lever (50) fixed to the pivot pin portion (41). The main lever (30) and sub-lever (50) are pivotally operated to draw a cable (20) connected to a driven member (CV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5685271
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed for adjusting the degree of openness of a throttle valve via a cable and kept at a desired opening degree and yet immediately returned to a minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety, thereby diminishing fatigue of fingers, and ensuring a desired level of operation. The hand lever device comprises a main lever (3) and a sub-lever (50) is attached to a wind-up tractive member (60) which draws a cable (20) connected to a driven member (CV) in such a manner that one end portion of the cable (20) is wound up thereon, and a torsion coil spring (40) is used as a brake operated by the main lever (30) for braking the wind-up tractive member (60) in order to hold the sub-lever (50) immobilized at any pivotally operated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5664543
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed for adjusting the degree of openness of a throttle valve via a cable and kept at a desired opening degree and yet immediately returned to a minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety, thereby diminishing fatigue of fingers, and ensuring a desired level of operation. The hand lever device comprises a main lever (3) and a sub-lever (50) is attached to a wind-up tractive member (60) which draws a cable (20) connected to a throttle valve (CV) in such a manner that one end portion of the cable (20) is wound up thereon, and a torsion coil spring (42) is used as a brake operated by the main lever (30) for braking the wind-up tractive member (60) in order to hold the sub-lever (50) immobilized at any pivotally operated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5630385
    Abstract: The invention provides an internal combustion engine having a decompression device, wherein the decompression device includes a pressure reducing valve, a recoil starter, and a decompression working mechanism. The decompression working mechanism works in association with the motion of the recoil starter means, for opening and closing the pressure reducing valve. The decompression working mechanism includes a rotatable recoil reel with at least one abutting jut disposed on the outer periphery thereof, a decompression lever which is swingably mounted to a fixed member of the internal combustion engine and which is swung, upon abutting against the abutting jut of the recoil reel, and a decompression rod, formed into a crooked-rod which is pivotally supported by the fixed member and which is rotated upon abutting against the decompression lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: 5526777
    Abstract: An air path is provided in the main body of a chain saw so as to connect an air inlet port provided on the main body and a carburetor chamber of the internal combustion engine and also connected to a cooling fan chamber. For use under normal conditions, combustion air is taken from the air inlet port into the carburetor chamber. In case of a rainy or snowy day, the air inlet port is closed and combustion air is taken from the cooling chamber into the carburetor chamber, air control means is provided between the air path and the cooling fan chamber. This air control means generates stagnation of air flow in the cooling chamber in order to supply air into the carburetor chamber and prevent dust and the like from being taken into the air path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hiroaki Koga, Yoshiaki Nagao, Hiroji Kawasaki, Tsutomu Ogata
  • Patent number: 5447295
    Abstract: In a portable work machine, such as a chain saw, a vibration preventive coil spring mounting structure is provided which, upon interposition of a vibration preventive coil spring between a main body having a power source and a covering part having handles and adapted to support the main body, can ensure stable, secure and easy fixing of the coil spring to spring mount seats and which is advantageous from the standpoint of cost. Structurally, of a vibration preventive coil spring (10) is interposed between a main body (2) including a power source and a covering part (3) including grip handles (4, 5) and arranged to partially surround the outer periphery of the main body (2) to support same. Opposite ends (LO a, lob) of the coil spring (10) contact spring mount seats (11, 6a) of the main body (2) and the covering part (3), respectively, and cylindrical resilient fixing members (20, 20) are inserted at the opposite ends (10a, 10b) of the coil spring and abut against inner peripheries thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: 5368107
    Abstract: In a portable work machine, such as a chain saw, a vibration preventive coil spring mounting structure is provided which, upon interposition of a vibration preventive coil spring between a main body having a power source and a covering part having handles and adapted to support the main body, can ensure stable, secure and easy fixing of the coil spring to spring mount seats and which is advantageous from the standpoint of cost. Structurally, of a vibration preventive coil spring (10) is interposed between a main body (2) including a power source and a covering part (3) including grip handles (4, 5) and arranged to partially surround the outer periphery of the main body (2) to support same. Opposite ends (LO a, lob) of the coil spring (10) contact spring mount seats (11, 6a) of the main body (2) and the covering part (3), respectively, and cylindrical resilient fixing members (20, 20) are inserted at the opposite ends (10a, 10b) of the coil spring and abut against inner peripheries thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: 4958745
    Abstract: A connector for a cap applied to a mouth of a tank including an engaging member having an annular portion formed of elastic material connected to one end of an elongated portion, and a plurality of beam-like portions formed integrally with the annular portion and arranged substantially in the form of a letter V in the annular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Masuda, Toshio Taomo, Fujio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4732121
    Abstract: A recoil starter is disclosed which comprises a cup-shaped casing, a side plate integrally having an annular projection disposed in opposition to an inside of a bottom portion of the casing and having an engagement hole to be engated with an engagement projection of the bottom portion, and a spiral spring retained at one end to the annular projection of the side plate and kept in place in a spiral form within a circumferential wall of the side plate. The side plate integrally has the circumferential wall and a boss portion insertion hole at its central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Miyata, Toshio Taomo, Akira Nagashima
  • Patent number: 4602656
    Abstract: Disclosed is a receptacle for use in a portable power driven machine, which is arranged such that a flexible elastic hose at least partly provided with a coiled portion is allowed to stay within the receptacle by being drawn thereinto from a liquid take-out port, said hose being mounted with a filter at its free end; and the length of said hose allowed to stay within the receptacle is made greater than a distance covering from the liquid take-out port to a liquid inlet port of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagashima, Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: 4586588
    Abstract: A chain saw safety-brake system including a pivotable member, and a screw located in side-by-side relation to the pivotable member and having a brake band connected thereto at one end. The screw can be operated from outside of the chain saw to adjust the length of the brake band. The pivotable member and the screw are assembled with a lock lever for locking a clutch drum and contained in a casing to provide a packaged unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagashima, Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: 4543915
    Abstract: A cooling fan for a recoil starter type engine including a columnar projection formed at a front face of a magneto rotor of an ignition system mounted at a rotary shaft of an internal combustion engine, and a cylindrical portion for receiving the columnar projection and engaging an outer peripheral surface of the projection formed at a cooling impeller mounted at a front face of the magneto rotor. A keep plate forces a central portion of the cooling impeller against the magneto rotor, and the cylindrical portion of the cooling impeller is forced against the magneto rotor through a claw member engaging a recoil starter whereby the cooling impeller can be secured to the magneto rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagashima, Toshio Taomo
  • Patent number: D295713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagashima, Hiroshi Takahashi, Toshio Taomo