Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Tsumiyama

Yoshinori Tsumiyama 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: 9896134
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a main frame, a front grille, and right and left headlight assemblies each provided between the front grille and a portion of the main frame facing the front grille in an anteroposterior direction of the utility vehicle, and including a front end attached to a rear side of the front grille and a rear end attached to the portion of the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Takashi Hisamura, Chad Enger
  • Publication number: 20170327156
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a main frame, a front grille, and right and left headlight assemblies each provided between the front grille and a portion of the main frame facing the front grille in an anteroposterior direction of the utility vehicle, and including a front end attached to a rear side of the front grille and a rear end attached to the portion of the main frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Takashi HISAMURA, Chad ENGER
  • Publication number: 20170327029
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a headlamp including a first connector, a headlamp housing accommodating the headlamp, and a harness including a second connector configured to be connected with the first connector, in which the headlamp housing includes a connector holding portion holding the first and second connectors connected with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Takashi HISAMURA, Chad ENGER
  • Publication number: 20170327018
    Abstract: A utility vehicle is provided with a seat frame disposed below a seat for a crew and supporting the seat, the utility vehicle includes: a seatbelt apparatus configured to hold the crew sitting on the seat; in which the seat frame includes a projection projecting outward in a vehicle width direction from the seat and covering a top of a fuel tank, the seatbelt apparatus includes a retractor supporting an end of webbing so as to freely wind the webbing, and the retractor is attached to the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Takashi HISAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170327049
    Abstract: A utility vehicle has a riding space surrounded with a ROPS, a bonnet, and a windshield. The utility vehicle includes a storage box disposed in a bonnet chamber covered with the bonnet. The storage box includes a box body having an opened upper end, and a detachable box cover disposed substantially flush with the bonnet and covering, from above, the box body. The box cover has a front edge positioned behind a lower end of the windshield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Takashi HISAMURA
  • Patent number: 9815412
    Abstract: A utility vehicle has a riding space surrounded with a ROPS, a bonnet, and a windshield. The utility vehicle includes a storage box disposed in a bonnet chamber covered with the bonnet. The storage box includes a box body having an opened upper end, and a detachable box cover disposed substantially flush with the bonnet and covering, from above, the box body. The box cover has a front edge positioned behind a lower end of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Takashi Hisamura
  • Patent number: 9744939
    Abstract: A utility vehicle is provided with a hip guard member disposed adjacent to a seat for a crew member and guarding the crew member sitting on the seat from outside in a vehicle width direction. The utility vehicle includes: a seat frame provided below the seat and supporting the seat; and a seatbelt apparatus configured to hold the crew member sitting on the seat. The seatbelt apparatus includes a retractor supporting an end of webbing so as to freely wind the webbing. The retractor is attached to the seat frame, and the retractor projects outward in the vehicle width direction from the hip guard member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Takashi Hisamura
  • Patent number: 9731775
    Abstract: A cargo bed for a utility vehicle includes a bottom plate, and a pair of right and left side walls extending upward from right and left ends of the bottom plate. The side walls each include a front pillar extending vertically at a front end, a rear pillar extending vertically at a rear end, a side panel extending between the front pillar and the rear pillar in an anteroposterior direction and having a rib extending in the anteroposterior direction, and a bed rail positioned above the side panel with a space being provided therebetween, and extending between the front pillar and the rear pillar in the anteroposterior direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Takashi Hisamura
  • Publication number: 20170036542
    Abstract: An off-road vehicle with a driver's seat; a seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat; a seat belt detecting device for detecting the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat; and a controller for controlling the off-road vehicle. The controller has a rotation speed control mode for controlling the rotation speed of the engine to a predetermined rotation speed or less, and the controller releases the rotation speed control mode when the seat belt detecting device detects the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi KAWAKATSU, Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9512809
    Abstract: A utility vehicle that includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) provided on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) provided behind the seat; an engine (11) provided on the chassis; an intake device (101) for supplying combustion air to the engine; and a storage box (30) for storing equipment of the engine. The intake device has: an air intake duct (15) connected to the engine; an air cleaner device (21) connected to an air-intake upstream end of the air intake duct and stored in the storage box; and an extended air intake duct (16) connected to an air inlet of the air cleaner device. An air inlet (16A) of the extended air intake duct is located above a lower face (81) of the cargo bed and between the seat and the cargo bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9511701
    Abstract: A utility vehicle capable of providing a storage box without restricting the storage capacity of the cargo bed thereof. The utility vehicle includes one or a plurality of seat rows, a dumping-type cargo bed behind the seat row(s), and a storage box disposed in a space between a backrest of the seat row(s) and a front panel of the cargo bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9511806
    Abstract: A utility vehicle that includes a seat row, a cargo bed, an engine chamber under the cargo bed, and cabin walls surrounding a cabin. The utility vehicle further includes a first partition wall covering the rear side of the cabin and thereby partitioning the engine chamber and the cabin from each other; and a second partition wall covering the upper portion of the front portion of the engine chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9499124
    Abstract: An off-road vehicle equipped with a driver's seat; a seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat; a seat belt detecting device for detecting the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat; and a controller for controlling the off-road vehicle. The controller has a rotation speed control mode for controlling the rotation speed of the engine to a predetermined rotation speed or less, and the controller releases the rotation speed control mode when the seat belt detecting device detects the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Yoshinori Tsumiyama
  • Patent number: 9403467
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot (11) of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part (12) for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod (101) provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Takahashi, Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Itsuo Takegami, Kazuki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20160186705
    Abstract: A utility vehicle according to the present invention comprises: a chassis 1; a seat 6 provided on the chassis 1; a cargo bed 8 provided behind the seat 6; an engine 11 provided on the chassis 1; an intake device 101 for supplying combustion air to the engine 11; and a storage box 30 for storing equipments of the engine 11. The intake device 101 has: an air intake duct 15 connected to the engine 11; an air cleaner device 21 connected to an air-intake upstream end of the air intake duct 15 and stored in the storage box 30; and an extended air intake duct 16 connected to an air inlet of the air cleaner device 21. An air inlet 16A of the extended air intake duct 16 is located above a lower face 81 of the cargo bed 8 and between the seat 6 and the cargo bed 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160185406
    Abstract: A utility vehicle that includes a seat row, a cargo bed, an engine chamber under the cargo bed, and cabin walls surrounding a cabin. The utility vehicle further includes a first partition wall covering the rear side of the cabin and thereby partitioning the engine chamber and the cabin from each other; and a second partition wall covering the upper portion of the front portion of the engine chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160185270
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot (11) of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part (12) for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod (101) provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Keiji TAKAHASHI, Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Itsuo TAKEGAMI, Kazuki TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160185271
    Abstract: The present invention provides a utility vehicle capable of providing a storage box without restricting the storage capacity of the cargo bed thereof. The utility vehicle comprises one or a plurality of seat rows, a dumping-type cargo bed behind the seat row(s), and a storage box disposed in a space between a backrest of the seat rows) and a front panel of the cargo bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9352496
    Abstract: A utility vehicle is equipped with a R.O.P.S. enclosing a passenger space, a cargo bed disposed behind the passenger space, and a screen disposed between the passenger space and the cargo bed. The screen is divided into an upper screen and a lower screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Takahashi, Yoshinori Tsumiyama
  • Publication number: 20160075305
    Abstract: An off-road vehicle according to the present invention is equipped with a driver's seat; a seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat; a seat belt detecting means for detecting the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's sear; and a controller for controlling the off-road vehicle, wherein the controller has a rotation speed control mode for controlling the rotation speed of the engine to a predetermined rotation speed or less, and the controller releases the rotation speed control mode when the seat belt detecting means detects the set state of the seat belt apparatus provided for the driver's seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Hitoshi KAWAKATSU, Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA