Patents by Inventor Yoshitsugu Inaguma

Yoshitsugu Inaguma 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: 8814136
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a linear solenoid and a ring-shaped rubber packing. The solenoid includes a yoke, an outer connector, a volume changing chamber, and a breathing passage. The yoke is made of a magnetic material and formed in a generally cylindrical cup shape having a cup-bottom part and a cup-opening part. The cup-opening part includes a notch. The connector is made of resin and exposed from the notch to an outside of the yoke. Volume of the chamber is changed in accordance with operation of the solenoid. The passage is formed inside the solenoid, and communicates with the chamber. The passage includes an outer opening, which opens into the outside of the yoke and is located at a fitted part between the yoke and the connector. The packing is attached around a base of the connector, where the yoke and the connector are fitted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizui, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Motoyoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20120292542
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a linear solenoid and a ring-shaped rubber packing. The solenoid includes a yoke, an outer connector, a volume changing chamber, and a breathing passage. The yoke is made of a magnetic material and formed in a generally cylindrical cup shape having a cup-bottom part and a cup-opening part. The cup-opening part includes a notch. The connector is made of resin and exposed from the notch to an outside of the yoke. Volume of the chamber is changed in accordance with operation of the solenoid. The passage is formed inside the solenoid, and communicates with the chamber. The passage includes an outer opening, which opens into the outside of the yoke and is located at a fitted part between the yoke and the connector. The packing is attached around a base of the connector, where the yoke and the connector are fitted together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizui, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Motoyoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 7819637
    Abstract: A flow-metering valve for metering a flow of liquid has a valve member, a stopper and an electromagnetic driving member. The valve member is reciprocally displaceably arranged between a first position and a second position in the liquid chamber. The stopper is arranged at the second position in the liquid chamber. The electromagnetic driving member generates a magnetic attractive force between the valve member and the stopper to hold the valve member at the second position when the electromagnetic driving member is energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Oda, Hiroshi Inoue, Nobuo Ota, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Yutaka Niwa
  • Publication number: 20090291006
    Abstract: A delivery valve is connected to a discharge passage, through which fuel in a compression chamber is discharged. The delivery valve is screwed to a mount hole formed in the cylinder. A communication passage is formed in a body to extend through the sidewall between a screwed part in which the mount hole and the body are screwed to each other, and a gasket. A small clearance is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the mount hole and an outer peripheral surface of the body. The communication passage provides communication between a fuel passage downstream of a valve seat member and the clearance. The clearance communicates with the suction chamber through a return passage formed in the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tatsumi Oguri, Nobuo Ohta, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Kaoru Oda
  • Patent number: 7488161
    Abstract: A high pressure pump has a fuel passage and a pump chamber. Fuel flows into the pump chamber through the fuel passage. The high pressure pump includes a valve member and a plunger. The valve member is movable along a movable axis in a substantially axial direction of the valve member for controlling an amount of fuel flowing into the pump chamber through the fuel passage. The plunger is movable substantially along a movable axis in a substantially axial direction of the plunger. The plunger is capable of pressurizing fuel in the pump chamber to discharge fuel in the pump chamber. The movable axis of the valve member is displaced from the movable axis of the plunger substantially in parallel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Nobuo Ota, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Kaoru Oda, Tatsumi Oguri
  • Publication number: 20090000677
    Abstract: An oil pressure control device of the present invention is used for controlling oil pressure supplied to an automatic transmission device for an automotive vehicle. The oil pressure control device includes two or more spool valves driven by electromagnetic actuators. A spool forming the spool valve is slidably disposed in a cylindrical hole formed in a valve body. An oil-damper chamber is connected to an axial end of the cylindrical hole to suppress micro-vibrations of the spool caused by driving frequencies of the electromagnetic actuator. An oil-retaining space common to all the oil-damper chambers is formed in the valve case above the oil-damper chambers. Each oil-damper chamber is connected to the common oil-retaining space through an orifice. The oil-damper chamber and the orifice are filled with damper oil, and thereby the micro-vibrations of the spool are effectively suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Ryo Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 7198033
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump is formed with a secondary suction passage, which branches from a fuel suction passage and communicates with a pump chamber. Check valves for preventing a backflow of fuel are disposed respectively in the secondary suction passage and a discharge passage. An electromagnetic valve for regulating a fuel discharge quantity is disposed in the fuel suction passage. Normal control for controlling the fuel discharge quantity by controlling opening timing and closing timing of the electromagnetic valve with respect to reciprocating movement of a plunger is performed when an engine rotation speed is higher than a predetermined value during operation of an engine. Valve closing control for holding the electromagnetic valve at a closed state is performed when the engine rotation speed is equal to or lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20060222518
    Abstract: A flow-metering valve for metering a flow of liquid has a valve member, a stopper and an electromagnetic driving member. The valve m ember is reciprocally displaceably arranged between a first position and a second position in the liquid chamber. The stopper is arranged at the second position in the liquid chamber. The electromagnetic driving member generates a magnetic attractive force between the valve member and the stopper to hold the valve member at the second position when the electromagnetic driving member is energized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru Oda, Hiroshi Inoue, Nobuo Ota, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Yutaka Niwa
  • Publication number: 20060222538
    Abstract: A delivery valve is connected to a discharge passage, through which fuel in a compression chamber is discharged. The delivery valve is screwed to a mount hole formed in the cylinder. A communication passage is formed in a body to extend through the sidewall between a screwed part, in which the mount hole and the body are screwed to each other, and a gasket. A small clearance is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the mount hole and an outer peripheral surface of the body. The communication passage provides communication between a fuel passage downstream of a valve seat member and the clearance. The clearance communicates with the suction chamber through a return passage formed in the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tatsumi Oguri, Nobuo Ohta, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Kaoru Oda
  • Publication number: 20060159573
    Abstract: A high pressure pump has a fuel passage and a pump chamber. Fuel flows into the pump chamber through the fuel passage. The high pressure pump includes a valve member and a plunger. The valve member is movable along a movable axis in a substantially axial direction of the valve member for controlling an amount of fuel flowing into the pump chamber through the fuel passage. The plunger is movable substantially along a movable axis in a substantially axial direction of the plunger. The plunger is capable of pressurizing fuel in the pump chamber to discharge fuel in the pump chamber. The movable axis of the valve member is displaced from the movable axis of the plunger substantially in parallel with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Nobuo Ota, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Kaoru Oda, Tatsumi Oguri
  • Publication number: 20050211224
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump is formed with a secondary suction passage, which branches from a fuel suction passage and communicates with a pump chamber. Check valves for preventing a backflow of fuel are disposed respectively in the secondary suction passage and a discharge passage. An electromagnetic valve for regulating a fuel discharge quantity is disposed in the fuel suction passage. Normal control for controlling the fuel discharge quantity by controlling opening timing and closing timing of the electromagnetic valve with respect to reciprocating movement of a plunger is performed when an engine rotation speed is higher than a predetermined value during operation of an engine. Valve closing control for holding the electromagnetic valve at a closed state is performed when the engine rotation speed is equal to or lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 6123059
    Abstract: To provide a fuel supply apparatus capable of preventing seizure of a plunger by preventing deformation of a cylinder caused by attaching attachment parts, and capable of being decreased in size, respective attachment parts of a fuel inlet, a delivery valve and a pressure regulator are threadably attached to a housing on a same cross-sectional plane orthogonal to an axis of a high pressure fuel pump, and imaginary extended regions extending seat surfaces of the housing in a direction of attaching thereof, are disposed outside of an outer peripheral surface of a cylinder. Accordingly, even when the attachment parts push the seat surfaces in threadably attaching the respective attachment parts to the housing, almost no axial forces are exerted on the cylinder. Therefore, an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder can be prevented from being deformed, and a sliding clearance between the cylinder and a plunger is prevented from being reduced in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Nobuo Oota
  • Patent number: 6102000
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for a diesel engine has a fuel injection pump for feeding fuel under pressure and fuel injection nozzles provided in the engine to inject fuel fed from the injection pump. A pressure sensor for detecting fuel pressure is provided in a midway in a fuel line connecting the injection pump to the injection nozzles. An electronic control unit (ECU) computes the frequency of the fuel pressure based on a detected value from the pressure sensor immediately after fuel is injected from the injection nozzles. The ECU then computes a fuel bulk modulus based on the result of the computation of the frequency of the fuel pressure. Based on the computed bulk modulus, the ECU computes a fuel injection start and end time. Further, the ECU adjusts an instruction value for fuel injection control based on the result of the computation of injection start and end, and controls the injection pump based on the adjusted instruction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichiro Shindoh, Akihiro Yamanaka, Katsuhiko Hirose, Akira Shibata, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Kenzo Yano, Tatsuya Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 5752430
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel supply pump which is driven by a cam connected to an engine is composed of a cylinder, a plunger slidably disposed in the cylinder, a tappet linked to the cam, a coil spring biasing the tappet against the cam, a cylindrical guide for the tappet, a plate member in abutment with head portion of the plunger, and a plurality of balls disposed between the plate member and the tappet to be slidable in directions perpendicular to the reciprocating motion of the plunger. Each of the balls shares the stress applied from the tappet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki Kawajiri, Yoshitsugu Inaguma, Hiroshi Inoue