Patents by Inventor Yukimasa Kabe

Yukimasa Kabe 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: 11635006
    Abstract: A blow-by gas recirculation device that, while having a structure in which a passage for blow-by gas is in a head cover and an oil separator, an increase in size of an engine is suppressed and the risk of the freezing is mostly avoided by shortening the length of an external pipe for the blow-by gas. Therefore, the blow-by gas recirculation device guides blow-by gas from a crankcase to an intake passage through an in-cover gas passage formed inside a head cover. An oil separator that traps and removes oil from the blow-by gas is attached to the inside of the head cover. A pressure regulating valve is provided on the outlet side of the in-cover gas passage in the head cover. A separator outlet, which is an outlet for the blow-by gas in the oil separator, is overlapped on a blow-by gas inlet portion of the pressure regulating valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Akita, Kazuyuki Chuma, Kohei Sawada, Yukimasa Kabe, Satoshi Inayama, Junya Ikai
  • Publication number: 20220251986
    Abstract: A blow-by gas recirculation device that, while having a structure in which a passage for blow-by gas is in a head cover and an oil separator, an increase in size of an engine is suppressed and the risk of the freezing is mostly avoided by shortening the length of an external pipe for the blow-by gas. Therefore, the blow-by gas recirculation device guides blow-by gas from a crankcase to an intake passage through an in-cover gas passage formed inside a head cover. An oil separator that traps and removes oil from the blow-by gas is attached to the inside of the head cover. A pressure regulating valve is provided on the outlet side of the in-cover gas passage in the head cover. A separator outlet, which is an outlet for the blow-by gas in the oil separator, is overlapped on a blow-by gas inlet portion of the pressure regulating valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro AKITA, Kazuyuki CHUMA, Kohei SAWADA, Yukimasa KABE, Satoshi INAYAMA, Junya IKAI
  • Patent number: 7275526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-cylinder engine capable of inhibiting an EGR cooler from being damaged and at the same time making the EGR cooler compact. On the assumption that a direction where a crank shaft spans is taken as a front and rear direction and a widthwise direction of a cylinder head perpendicular to this front and rear direction is deemed as a lateral direction, an intake-air distributing passage wall is attached to one lateral side surface of the cylinder head and an exhaust-gas converging passage wall ached to the other lateral side of the cylinder head, the exhaust-gas converging passage wall having an interior area communicated with an interior area of the intake-air distributing passage wall through the EGR cooler. In this multi-cylinder engine, an intake-air inlet pipe is made to stand up at an upper portion of the intake air distributing passage wall and the EGR cooler is above the intake-air distributing passage wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugimoto, Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Yukimasa Kabe, Shuichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070068497
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-cylinder engine capable of inhibiting an EGR cooler from being damaged and at the same time making the EGR cooler compact. On the assumption that a direction where a crank shaft spans is taken as a front and rear direction and a widthwise direction of a cylinder head (2) perpendicular to this front and rear direction is deemed as a lateral direction, an intake-air distributing passage wall (3) is attached to one lateral side surface of the cylinder head (2) and an exhaust-gas converging passage wall (4) is attached to the other lateral side of the cylinder head (2), the exhaust-gas converging passage wall (4) having an interior area communicated with an interior area of the intake-air distributing passage wall (3) through the EGR cooler (6). In this multi-cylinder engine, an intake-air inlet pipe (5) is made to stand up at an upper portion of the intake-air distributing passage wall (3) and the EGR cooler (6) spans above the intake-air distributing passage wall (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugimoto, Masahiro Aketa, Tetsuya Kosaka, Yukimasa Kabe, Shuichi Yamada