Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Tsukiyama

Yoshifumi Tsukiyama 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: 4336696
    Abstract: A tripod type constant velocity universal joint for interconnecting two shafts to permit transmission of a driving force in a vehicle such as a motor car. In said tripod type constant velocity universal joint, a trunnion portion of the tripod shafts is urged against and supported by a tulip portion of a second shaft by a tripod spring, the spherical head of a mushroom-shaped member provided in the mounting hole of said trunnion portion is kept in contact with a recess in said tulip portion by the biasing force of a compression spring, and further, said mushroom-shaped member or said trunnion portion of the tripod shafts is formed to provide a spherically curved surface or a conical surface incorporating a straight line, in which the distance from the center of the joint is increased as a point on the external configuration leaves the center toward the outer periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tsukiyama, Yasunori Hatanaka, Akiyoshi Ogawa, Hitoshi Mizutani