Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka MOMIYAMA

Yoshitaka MOMIYAMA 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: 12202566
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine unit, and at least one front wheel. The engine unit includes a turbocharger, and an engine body including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover is fixed to a first surface of the cylinder head. The turbocharger is fixed to a second surface of the cylinder head, a surface of the turbocharger through which the turbocharger is fixed to the cylinder head being a third surface. When the vehicle body frame is in an upright state, a turbocharger rotation axis, the second and third surfaces are positioned above a first horizontal plane in which the front axle lies, above a second horizontal plane in which the crankshaft axis lies, and below a third horizontal plane in which a front end of the first surface lies, in the upward-downward direction of the straddled vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Momiyama, Hayatoshi Sato, Masaki Torigoshi, Makoto Kuroiwa
  • Publication number: 20220041245
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine unit, and at least one front wheel. The engine unit includes a turbocharger, and an engine body including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover is fixed to a first surface of the cylinder head. The turbocharger is fixed to a second surface of the cylinder head, a surface of the turbocharger through which the turbocharger is fixed to the cylinder head being a third surface. When the vehicle body frame is in an upright state, a turbocharger rotation axis, the second and third surfaces are positioned above a first horizontal plane in which the front axle lies, above a second horizontal plane in which the crankshaft axis lies, and below a third horizontal plane in which a front end of the first surface lies, in the upward-downward direction of the straddled vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MOMIYAMA, Hayatoshi SATO, Masaki TORIGOSHI, Makoto KUROIWA
  • Patent number: 10677151
    Abstract: In a vehicle, a rod of a waste gate valve actuator reciprocates along a virtual plane which is parallel to both the central axis of a connecting shaft of a turbocharger and the cylinder axis of a cylinder hole. When viewed in the left or right direction of the vehicle, a main catalyst of a catalyst portion is provided forward of the cylinder axis of the cylinder hole. The flow direction of the exhaust gas in the main catalyst intersects with the reciprocating direction of the rod of the waste gate valve actuator when viewed in a direction orthogonal to both the central axis of the connecting shaft of the turbocharger and the central axis of the cylinder hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Kuroiwa, Hayatoshi Sato, Masaki Torigoshi, Yoshitaka Momiyama, Naoki Makita
  • Publication number: 20190120130
    Abstract: In a vehicle, a rod of a waste gate valve actuator reciprocates along a virtual plane which is parallel to both the central axis of a connecting shaft of a turbocharger and the cylinder axis of a cylinder hole. When viewed in the left or right direction of the vehicle, a main catalyst of a catalyst portion is provided forward of the cylinder axis of the cylinder hole. The flow direction of the exhaust gas in the main catalyst intersects with the reciprocating direction of the rod of the waste gate valve actuator when viewed in a direction orthogonal to both the central axis of the connecting shaft of the turbocharger and the central axis of the cylinder hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto KUROIWA, Hayatoshi SATO, Masaki TORIGOSHI, Yoshitaka MOMIYAMA, Naoki MAKITA