Patents by Inventor Yasukuni Kawashima

Yasukuni Kawashima 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: 8438848
    Abstract: An engine includes a variable geometry turbocharger, an EGR valve device, a hydraulic servo drive device that drives the variable geometry turbocharger, a hydraulic servo drive device that drives the EGR valve device, an electronic proportional control valve (EPC valve) that supplies pilot pressure oil to the hydraulic servo drive device, and an electronic proportional control valve (EPC valve) that supplies pilot pressure oil to the hydraulic servo drive device, the EPC valves being attached to the EGR valve device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehide Kitagawa, Yasukuni Kawashima, Shuuji Hori, Daisuke Kozuka
  • Patent number: 8151770
    Abstract: An engine fuel supply system is provided at a reduced cost by using a HC dosing pump that supplies fuel into an exhaust pipe also as a pump for a cylinder fuel supply device. When a signal is generated to command air removal from a cylinder fuel supply passage, the dual-purpose pump is activated, a first on-off valve assumes an open state, and a second on-off valve assumes a close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the cylinder fuel supply passage via an air-removal fuel supply passage. When a signal is generated to command fuel supply into the exhaust pipe, the dual-purpose pump is activated, the second on-off valve assumes the open state, and the first on-off valve assumes the close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the exhaust pipe via the exhaust-pipe fuel supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasukuni Kawashima, Tetsuo Orita
  • Publication number: 20120017588
    Abstract: An engine includes a variable geometry turbocharger, an EGR valve device, a hydraulic servo drive device that drives the variable geometry turbocharger, a hydraulic servo drive device that drives the EGR valve device, an electronic proportional control valve (EPC valve) that supplies pilot pressure oil to the hydraulic servo drive device, and an electronic proportional control valve (EPC valve) that supplies pilot pressure oil to the hydraulic servo drive device, the EPC valves being attached to the EGR valve device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takehide Kitagawa, Yasukuni Kawashima, Shuuji Hori, Daisuke Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20100212641
    Abstract: An engine fuel supply system is provided at a reduced cost by using a HC dosing pump that supplies fuel into an exhaust pipe also as a pump for a cylinder fuel supply device. When a signal is generated to command air removal from a cylinder fuel supply passage, the dual-purpose pump is activated, a first on-off valve assumes an open state, and a second on-off valve assumes a close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the cylinder fuel supply passage via an air-removal fuel supply passage. When a signal is generated to command fuel supply into the exhaust pipe, the dual-purpose pump is activated, the second on-off valve assumes the open state, and the first on-off valve assumes the close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the exhaust pipe via the exhaust-pipe fuel supply passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.,
    Inventors: Yasukuni Kawashima, Tetsuo Orita
  • Patent number: 5275133
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for cooling an internal combustion engine having a supercharger attached thereto, wherein the apparatus includes communication passages and by way of which the upper end of a coolant flow passage for circulating coolant through the internal combustion engine and a coolant flow passage for circulating coolant through the supercharger communicates with an upper tank installed on a radiator so that cooling of the supercharge and separating of air from coolant can simultaneously be accomplished by arranged of the communication passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Toshio Sasaki
    Inventors: Toshio Sasaki, Yasukuni Kawashima
  • Patent number: 4473043
    Abstract: A fluid lubricating circuit for an internal combustion engine which can effectively damp or reduce fluid pressure pulsation in the circuit. To this end, the circuit includes a pressure damper connected between a hydraulic pump and an oil cooler. The pressure damper has formed therein a pair of orifices disposed in a spaced relation from each other in a direction of fluid flow and a damping chamber between the orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Hideo Furukawa, Yasukuni Kawashima