Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Hayamizu

Yoshiaki Hayamizu 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: 10995693
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall and a block outer peripheral wall that define a water jacket, and a spacer housed in the water jacket. The block outer peripheral wall includes a coolant inlet for introducing a coolant into the water jacket at one end in a cylinder row direction. The spacer includes a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall, and a dividing wall and a distribution wall provided on the peripheral wall. The dividing wall is provided along a circumferential direction of the peripheral wall and protrudes outward from the peripheral wall between a lower end and an upper end of the coolant inlet. The distribution wall includes an upper distribution wall extending upward from the dividing wall and a lower distribution wall extending downward from the dividing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Tatsuya Takahata, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Keita Watanabe, Mikimasa Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10934968
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Tatsuya Takahata, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Keita Watanabe, Mikimasa Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200232413
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200232412
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall and a block outer peripheral wall that define a water jacket, and a spacer housed in the water jacket. The block outer peripheral wall includes a coolant inlet for introducing a coolant into the water jacket at one end in a cylinder row direction. The spacer includes a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall, and a dividing wall and a distribution wall provided on the peripheral wall. The dividing wall is provided along a circumferential direction of the peripheral wall and protrudes outward from the peripheral wall between a lower end and an upper end of the coolant inlet. The distribution wall includes an upper distribution wall extending upward from the dividing wall and a lower distribution wall extending downward from the dividing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10202932
    Abstract: A water jacket spacer is arranged to surround substantially an entire periphery of a portion of the cylinder liner which corresponds to the water jacket. An opening through which a coolant introduced from a coolant-introducing section is introduced to an inner side of a water jacket spacer is formed in a portion of the water jacket spacer which corresponds to the coolant-introducing section. An upper section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to a cylinder block outer peripheral wall. A coolant passage through which the coolant introduced from the opening is circulated around an outer periphery of an upper portion of the cylinder liner is formed between the upper section of the water jacket spacer and the outer periphery of the upper portion of the cylinder liner. A lower section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to the cylinder liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Doho, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Jun Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10174708
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes a water jacket formed in a cylinder block to surround cylinder bores of cylinders arranged inline, a spacer, and a coolant inlet. The spacer includes openings at positions corresponding to inter-cylinder-bore portions and a rectifying part extending outwardly on a lower side of the openings. The rectifying part inclines continuously upwardly while extending in one of an exhaust- and intake-side section of the jacket from a first end side to a second end side that is the opposite side from the first end side in a cylinder line-up direction, extending on the second end side from the one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections to the other one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections, and then extending from the second end side to the first end side in the other one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Uichiro Mori, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Daisuke Tabata, Daisuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10113501
    Abstract: A cooling structure of an engine is provided, which includes a water jacket formed in a cylinder block to surround a cylinder bore of the engine, a spacer having a vertical wall surface and inserted into the water jacket, and a coolant inlet formed in an outer wall of the water jacket, and for circulating to the water jacket coolant introduced from the coolant inlet. The vertical wall surface surrounds the cylinder bore. The spacer includes a guide part provided at a position of a lower end part of the vertical wall surface corresponding to the coolant inlet, and for guiding the coolant introduced from the coolant inlet to flow around the vertical wall surface. The guide part extends outwardly from the lower end part of the vertical wall surface toward the coolant inlet along a bottom wall of the water jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Uichiro Mori, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Daisuke Tabata, Daisuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170298860
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes a first water jacket formed in a cylinder block to surround cylinder bores of cylinders arranged inline, a spacer having a vertical wall surface and inserted into the first jacket, and a coolant inlet formed in the first jacket on a first end side in a cylinder line-up direction. The structure circulates coolant introduced from the inlet to the first jacket and a second water jacket formed in a cylinder head coupled to the cylinder block via a gasket. The spacer has a flow dividing rib extending outwardly from the vertical wall surface and for vertically dividing the coolant flow, introduced from the inlet to an intake- or exhaust-side section of the first jacket, toward the second jacket through a communication hole formed in the gasket and toward a discharging section provided to the cylinder block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Uichiro Mori, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Daisuke Tabata, Daisuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170298858
    Abstract: A cooling structure of an engine is provided, which includes a water jacket formed in a cylinder block to surround a cylinder bore of the engine, a spacer having a vertical wall surface and inserted into the water jacket, and a coolant inlet formed in an outer wall of the water jacket, and for circulating to the water jacket coolant introduced from the coolant inlet. The vertical wall surface surrounds the cylinder bore. The spacer includes a guide part provided at a position of a lower end part of the vertical wall surface corresponding to the coolant inlet, and for guiding the coolant introduced from the coolant inlet to flow around the vertical wall surface. The guide part extends outwardly from the lower end part of the vertical wall surface toward the coolant inlet along a bottom wall of the water jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Uichiro Mori, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Daisuke Tabata, Daisuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170298859
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes a water jacket formed in a cylinder block to surround cylinder bores of cylinders arranged inline, a spacer, and a coolant inlet. The spacer includes openings at positions corresponding to inter-cylinder-bore portions and a rectifying part extending outwardly on a lower side of the openings. The rectifying part inclines continuously upwardly while extending in one of an exhaust- and intake-side section of the jacket from a first end side to a second end side that is the opposite side from the first end side in a cylinder line-up direction, extending on the second end side from the one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections to the other one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections, and then extending from the second end side to the first end side in the other one of the exhaust- and intake-side sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Uichiro Mori, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Daisuke Tabata, Daisuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170067411
    Abstract: A water jacket spacer is arranged to surround substantially an entire periphery of a portion of the cylinder liner which corresponds to the water jacket. An opening through which a coolant introduced from a coolant-introducing section is introduced to an inner side of a water jacket spacer is formed in a portion of the water jacket spacer which corresponds to the coolant-introducing section. An upper section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to a cylinder block outer peripheral wall. A coolant passage through which the coolant introduced from the opening is circulated around an outer periphery of an upper portion of the cylinder liner is formed between the upper section of the water jacket spacer and the outer periphery of the upper portion of the cylinder liner. A lower section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to the cylinder liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori DOHO, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Jun NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 4770234
    Abstract: A resilient support for the support of a radiator assembly in an automobile, which radiator assembly has top and bottom resiliently supported by an automobile body structure by means of respective upper and lower elastic members, the support means constituting a dynamic damper with the radiator assembly acting as an inertia mass. The radiator assembly is supported while tilted in a direction generally parallel to the direction of movement of the automobile, and the upper elastic member is provided with a low rigidity region for reducing the rigidity of the elastic member in a direction up and down. This low rigidity region is provided in the upper elastic member except for a local area of the same upper elastic member which lies on one side of a point of support of the radiator assembly in the direction parallel to the direction of movement of the automobile and on which at least a static load of the radiator assembly tends to concentrate considerably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari Hiraoka, Yoshiaki Hayamizu