Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Hayama

Yoshitaka Hayama 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: 11649756
    Abstract: A saddle-riding type vehicle exhaust structure includes: an exhaust pipe that is connected to an exhaust port connecting to a combustion chamber of an engine and has a circular cross-sectional shape which is orthogonal to an exhaust flow direction; and a muffler that is connected to a downstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the exhaust pipe, wherein the exhaust pipe includes a muffler connection part that is connected to the muffler, an exhaust pipe upstream part that is connected to an upstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part, and an exhaust pipe downstream part that is connected to a downstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part, a cross-sectional area that is orthogonal to the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part is larger than each of a minimum value of a cross-sectional area that is orthogonal to an exhaust flow direction of the exhaust pipe upstream part and a minimum value of a cross-sectional area that is orthog
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 11506104
    Abstract: An exhaust structure for a saddle riding vehicle includes: an exhaust pipe connected to an internal combustion engine; and a catalyst disposed in the exhaust pipe; the exhaust pipe including a catalyst case unit housing the catalyst and upstream side exhaust pipes disposed on an upstream side of the catalyst case unit; the catalyst case unit having a larger diameter than the upstream side exhaust pipes; the upstream side exhaust pipes being connected to the catalyst case unit in a connecting portion located on an upstream side of the catalyst in a flow of exhaust; in the connecting portion, axes of the upstream side exhaust pipes and an axis of the catalyst case unit being in substantially right-angled positional relation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Publication number: 20220090533
    Abstract: A saddle-riding type vehicle exhaust structure includes: an exhaust pipe that is connected to an exhaust port connecting to a combustion chamber of an engine and has a circular cross-sectional shape which is orthogonal to an exhaust flow direction; and a muffler that is connected to a downstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the exhaust pipe, wherein the exhaust pipe includes a muffler connection part that is connected to the muffler, an exhaust pipe upstream part that is connected to an upstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part, and an exhaust pipe downstream part that is connected to a downstream side in the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part, a cross-sectional area that is orthogonal to the exhaust flow direction of the muffler connection part is larger than each of a minimum value of a cross-sectional area that is orthogonal to an exhaust flow direction of the exhaust pipe upstream part and a minimum value of a cross-sectional area that is orthog
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Publication number: 20200271042
    Abstract: An exhaust structure for a saddle riding vehicle includes: an exhaust pipe connected to an internal combustion engine; and a catalyst disposed in the exhaust pipe; the exhaust pipe including a catalyst case unit housing the catalyst and upstream side exhaust pipes disposed on an upstream side of the catalyst case unit; the catalyst case unit having a larger diameter than the upstream side exhaust pipes; the upstream side exhaust pipes being connected to the catalyst case unit in a connecting portion located on an upstream side of the catalyst in a flow of exhaust; in the connecting portion, axes of the upstream side exhaust pipes and an axis of the catalyst case unit being in substantially right-angled positional relation to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 10648389
    Abstract: An exhaust device includes an expansion chamber that expands an exhaust gas from an engine; a separator that partitions the expansion chamber; and a plurality of catalyst units arranged in the expansion chamber and supported in parallel by the separator. The separator is divided into upper and lower portions through a dividing plane, and the plurality of catalyst units are supported in such a manner as to be clamped from upper and lower sides at the dividing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Publication number: 20180274426
    Abstract: An exhaust device includes an expansion chamber that expands an exhaust gas from an engine; a separator that partitions the expansion chamber; and a plurality of catalyst units arranged in the expansion chamber and supported in parallel by the separator. The separator is divided into upper and lower portions through a dividing plane, and the plurality of catalyst units are supported in such a manner as to be clamped from upper and lower sides at the dividing plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 9708963
    Abstract: An exhaust device includes left and right exhaust pipes and mufflers connected to a downstream side of the left and right exhaust pipes. The pair of left and right exhaust pipes respectively includes a merging portion. A catalyst is provided to the merging portion respectively. The pair of left and right exhaust pipes respectively includes, on a downstream side of the catalyst, a branching portion that has one side thereof extending to the muffler and the other side thereof extending to a connecting pipe. An oxygen sensor is provided to one side on a downstream side of the pair of left and right branching portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hayama, Yoshitaka Seki, Hiromi Shibata, Takeru Abe
  • Patent number: 9657615
    Abstract: A silencer includes conduit with a downstream end portion configured from a tubular member which includes a conduit discharge port extending through a silencer main body and discharges exhaust gas to the outside therethrough. The tubular member includes a resonance communication hole communicating with a resonance chamber and an upstream side communication hole and a downstream side communication hole communicating with a second chamber. A barrier wall serving as a throttle portion for throttling an exhaust path at an intermediate location of the tubular member is provided in the inside of the tubular member and between the upstream side communication hole and the downstream side communication hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Nakano, Shin Nishimura, Yoshitaka Hayama, Masashi Koyanagi, Yohei Yajima, Takahiko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9631527
    Abstract: A first connection pipe, which penetrates a partition wall, and extends to a second expansion chamber side from inside a first expansion chamber, and a second connection pipe, which extends to an exhaust outlet side from the partition wall inside the second expansion chamber are provided; first outer periphery connection holes, which allow exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe to flow out to the second expansion chamber, are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the first connection pipe; second outer periphery connection holes which allow the exhaust gas having flowed out to the second expansion chamber through the first outer periphery connection holes to flow into the second connection pipe, are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the second connection pipe; the first connection pipe and the second connection pipe are arranged such that they are partially parallel to each other; and the first outer periphery connection holes are arranged closer to the exhaust outlet side than the second outer peripher
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 9624812
    Abstract: In an exhaust muffler using a double communicating tube as a communicating tube between expansion chambers, the exhaust muffler controls exhaust gas so as not to flow directly between intake and exhaust ports of an inner communicating tube and an outer communicating tube to thereby utilize the volume of the expansion chamber sufficiently. On one end side of the double communicating tube facing into a second expansion chamber, a distal end opening of the inner communicating tube functions as an intake port of an inside passage. A closing member for closing an end in the axial direction of an annular passage is provided in or in the vicinity of a distal end opening of the outer communicating tube. An exhaust port for opening the annular passage outwardly in the radial direction is provided between the closing member of the outer communicating tube and a first partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 9574471
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler has downstream and upstream chambers which are defined in a casing. Exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is introduced into an end of a first conduit having a pierced region which is held in fluid communication with the downstream chamber and an end of a second conduit. The other ends of the first and second conduits are open into the upstream chamber. A valve means configured to open/close the first and second conduits is actuated by valve actuating means to switch between a short channel mode discharging the exhaust gas from at least the first conduit through the pierced region, the downstream chamber, and a discharge pipe out of the casing and a long channel mode discharging the exhaust gas from at least the second conduit through the upstream chamber, the pierced region, the downstream chamber, and the discharge pipe out of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Publication number: 20160312674
    Abstract: A first connection pipe, which penetrates a partition wall, and extends to a second expansion chamber side from inside a first expansion chamber, and a second connection pipe, which extends to an exhaust outlet side from the partition wall inside the second expansion chamber are provided; first outer periphery connection holes, which allow exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe to flow out to the second expansion chamber, are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the first connection pipe; second outer periphery connection holes which allow the exhaust gas having flowed out to the second expansion chamber through the first outer periphery connection holes to flow into the second connection pipe, are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the second connection pipe; the first connection pipe and the second connection pipe are arranged such that they are partially parallel to each other; and the first outer periphery connection holes are arranged closer to the exhaust outlet side than the second outer peripher
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshitaka HAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160281557
    Abstract: A silencer includes conduit with a downstream end portion configured from a tubular member which includes a conduit discharge port extending through a silencer main body and discharges exhaust gas to the outside therethrough. The tubular member includes a resonance communication hole communicating with a resonance chamber and an upstream side communication hole and a downstream side communication hole communicating with a second chamber. A barrier wall serving as a throttle portion for throttling an exhaust path at an intermediate location of the tubular member is provided in the inside of the tubular member and between the upstream side communication hole and the downstream side communication hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Junichi NAKANO, Shin NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka HAYAMA, Masashi KOYANAGI, Yohei YAJIMA, Takahiko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20160245147
    Abstract: An exhaust device includes left and right exhaust pipes and mufflers connected to a downstream side of the left and right exhaust pipes. The pair of left and right exhaust pipes respectively includes a merging portion. A catalyst is provided to the merging portion respectively. The pair of left and right exhaust pipes respectively includes, on a downstream side of the catalyst, a branching portion that has one side thereof extending to the muffler and the other side thereof extending to a connecting pipe. An oxygen sensor is provided to one side on a downstream side of the pair of left and right branching portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HAYAMA, Yoshitaka SEKI, Hiromi SHIBATA, Takeru ABE
  • Publication number: 20160245146
    Abstract: In an exhaust muffler using a double communicating tube as a communicating tube between expansion chambers, the exhaust muffler controls exhaust gas so as not to flow directly between intake and exhaust ports of an inner communicating tube and an outer communicating tube to thereby utilize the volume of the expansion chamber sufficiently. On one end side of the double communicating tube facing into a second expansion chamber, a distal end opening of the inner communicating tube functions as an intake port of an inside passage. A closing member for closing an end in the axial direction of an annular passage is provided in or in the vicinity of a distal end opening of the outer communicating tube. An exhaust port for opening the annular passage outwardly in the radial direction is provided between the closing member of the outer communicating tube and a first partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka HAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160222848
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler has downstream and upstream chambers which are defined in a casing. Exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is introduced into an end of a first conduit having a pierced region which is held in fluid communication with the downstream chamber and an end of a second conduit. The other ends of the first and second conduits are open into the upstream chamber. A valve means configured to open/close the first and second conduits is actuated by valve actuating means to switch between a short channel mode discharging the exhaust gas from at least the first conduit through the pierced region, the downstream chamber, and a discharge pipe out of the casing and a long channel mode discharging the exhaust gas from at least the second conduit through the upstream chamber, the pierced region, the downstream chamber, and the discharge pipe out of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 9016422
    Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle which includes catalyst devices in left and right exhaust flow passages can suppress effect of the catalyst devices on the reach to the ground even if the sizes of catalysts are large. The vehicle includes: exhaust flow passages connected to a multi-cylinder engine and disposed independently on left and right sides of a vehicle body; a first catalyst device provided in a middle of the left exhaust flow passage; a second catalyst device provided in a middle of the right exhaust flow passage; a swing arm pivotally supporting a rear wheel such that the rear wheel is swingable, the saddle-ride type vehicle includes silencers connected to portions of the exhaust flow passages downstream of the first catalyst device and the second catalyst device, and the first catalyst device and the second catalyst device are arranged side by side below the swing arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 9016427
    Abstract: A motorcycle is provided with vehicle frame, an internal combustion engine operatively attached to the vehicle frame, and an exhaust system for routing exhaust gas from the engine therethrough. The motorcycle also includes a body cover that covers at least a lateral side portion of the engine and constitutes an outer face of the vehicle, and a heat shield having a face closely adjacent and visually continuous to the body cover, the heat shield covering a lateral side portion of the exhaust system. The heat shield and the body cover cooperate to configure the external face of the vehicle, and the heat shield is mounted to the exhaust system. The body cover is formed of a plastic material, and the heat shield is made of metal. The body cover and heat shield cooperate to provide an improved vehicle appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Yazaki, Hiroshi Kuribara, Yoshitaka Hayama, Takaaki Kasai
  • Patent number: 8997921
    Abstract: An exhaust system of a saddle-ride type vehicle includes an end cap and a muffler close to each other to achieve uniformity therebetween and which is capable of preventing the occurrence of a knocking sound. The exhaust system of a saddle-ride type vehicle includes a muffler connected to an exhaust pipe for discharging exhaust of an engine E and an end cap is attached to a muffler rear end portion. In the end cap, an insertion portion thereof is inserted into and held by an end cap inserted portion provided in the muffler rear end portion, and multiple protruding portions are formed on an outer surface of the insertion portion at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction of the outer surface. The multiple protruding portions come in contact with an inserted portion inner peripheral wall surface of the end cap inserted portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Uzawa, Yoshitaka Hayama
  • Patent number: 8800710
    Abstract: A motorcycle with a muffler disposed downwardly of a rider's seat positioned, in a side view, upwardly of a rear wheel when a rear shock absorber is extended, to minimize sideway bulging of the muffler from a vehicle body and improve ride comfort, while avoiding interference between the muffler and other parts. An outer shell of a muffler has a rhombus cross section. The muffler is disposed on at least one side in a vehicle width direction of a rear wheel wherein one pair of side walls extend in parallel with each other out of side walls of the outer shell extending in a vertical direction. A side cover is formed to extend along the upper and outer side walls of the four side walls of the outer shell to cover the muffler from a side, downwardly of a rider's seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hayama, Takuya Otsuka, Yusuke Inoue, Satoshi Matsushima