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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151922 | Exhaust apparatus of vehicle An exhaust apparatus includes an exhaust pipe passing under the front floor and rear floor and extending toward the rear of the vehicle. A noise eliminator is arranged under the rear floor and a fuel tank is arranged in a side portion in the vehicle width direction ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8091941 | Lower structure of vehicle body rear part A lower structure of a vehicle body rear part includes a spare tire housing formed on a rear floor, a rear cross member disposed in front of the spare tire housing to connect side frames, and a hook reinforcing member extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction.... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8047176 | Balancer apparatus for an engine In a balancer apparatus of an engine having an oil pump, a space on a chain side and a space on an oil strainer side are partitioned by a projecting portion projecting in a direction which perpendicularly crosses balancer shafts in a balancer housing formed on an oi... | 11/01/2011 |
| D638752 | Automobile | 05/31/2011 |
| 7931119 | Support structure for exhaust pipe A support structure for an exhaust pipe includes left and right side frames disposed on a lower side of a rear floor and a back panel extending downward from the rear floor joined to rear end portions of the side frames. Reinforcing plates join the back panel on a v... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7926264 | Vehicle exhaust system An exhaust system for a V-engine vehicle with enhanced exhaust gas purifying capacity and output performance is provided. In the exhaust system, a second bank offset from a first bank backward in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is mounted in an engine comp... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7905212 | Balancer apparatus of engine A pump chamber is arranged on the side of a balancer shaft on a vehicle backward side of the two balancer shafts. An oil strainer for sucking oil into an inlet passage is arranged on a vehicle forward side of the axis of the balancer shaft on the vehicle forward sid... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7849959 | Exhaust pipe structure for vehicle A vehicle (1) is provided with an exhaust pipe (2) extending from an engine mounted in the front part of the vehicle to a branch part (24) in the rear part of the vehicle, and right and left branch pipes (25, 26) extending from the branch... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7828362 | Roof retractable type vehicle In a roof retractable type vehicle including a roof storage area, a roof storage mechanism for storing a roof, and a tonneau cover for opening and closing the roof storage area, the tonneau cover is connected to the vehicle body side via a mechanism in which the fro... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814809 | Plastic gear A plastic gear having a gear peripheral portion including a tooth portion is constituted by a plastic material, and a gear inner circumferential member with an annular shape or a disk shape is provided at the inner circumferential side of the gear peripheral portion... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7779957 | Framework of vehicle A framework of a vehicle provided with an engine mounted in an engine room and having a crank shaft, includes a subframe extending in the lateral direction of a space at the back of the engine. A steering gear box provided above the subframe extends in the lateral d... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7641267 | Harness protecting structure for vehicular horn A harness protecting structure is provided for a vehicular horn for a vehicle, in which the vehicle has a grille defining an air intake opening in a front part of the vehicle, a radiator located posterior to the grille, and the horn being disposed in front of the ra... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7597377 | Instrument panel There is provided an instrument panel capable of uniformly brightening the interior of a storage part without special provision of a light source. In the instrument panel including an operation part (2) having an operation panel (3) for controlling a v... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7585011 | Leg covering structure for folding seat A folding seat 1 is provided with a leg 4, the leg having a movable hinge portion 42a at the lower end thereof, the movable hinge portion is pivotally connected to a fixed hinge portion 61 on a vehicle body floor 5 so that t... | 09/08/2009 |
| D596990 | Automobile | 07/28/2009 |
| 7313868 | Cutoff tool In a cutoff tool, a hood is arranged to overlap a distal end portion of a cutting blade, and a distal end portion of the hook is arranged to protrude from a toothed portion of the cutting blade. When the cutting blade retracts farthest in a uniaxial direction, the d... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7303037 | Snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement A snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement, includes: a four-cycle engine arranged in an engine compartment formed in the front body of a snowmobile with its crankshaft laid substantially parallel to the body width and having a cylinder case inclined forwards with r... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7246736 | Supplying shielding gas A flexible articulate tubular device has a shank, a plurality of pivot rings, and a terminus with heat sensors and a fiber optic device. The flexible articulate tubular device is initially positioned, either manually or automatically, near a target weld path with th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243490 | 4-cycle engine for motorcycle A 4-cycle engine for a motorcycle has a secondary-air supplier for supplying secondary air to exhaust ducts. The engine includes a recess, which is depressed toward the engine, on a cylinder-head cover for holding a control valve of the secondary-air supplier. The r... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241718 | Dimethyl ether steam reforming catalyst and method for producing the same The object of the present invention is to achieve excellent reforming ability even at lower temperatures, with a dimethyl ether steam reforming catalyst. According to the present invention, there is provided a dimethyl ether steam reforming catalyst capable o... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234446 | Misfire detector for multi-cylinder engine A misfire detector prevents catalysts from being heated to damaging high temperatures. The misfire detector for a multi-cylinder engine includes a fuel cut control to stop supplying fuel to misfiring cylinders, a control to prevent a fuel feed back control and a fue... | 06/26/2007 |
| D543136 | Automobile | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210562 | Oil pan structure for four-cycle engine An oil pan structure for a four-cycle engine, in which oil stored in an oil pan is sucked up by an oil pump through an oil strainer and in which oil lubrication is performed by supplying the sucked oil again to each of parts of the engine to be lubricated. In this o... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204141 | Fuel level control system for internal combustion engine In a fuel level control system for an internal combustion engine, more than one filter having different characteristics is applied to correct the fuel level value according to the condition of the vehicle, providing precise fuel level measurement. The fuel level con... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204331 | Snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement A snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement, includes: a four-cycle engine arranged in an engine compartment formed in the front body of a snowmobile with its crankshaft laid substantially parallel to the body width and having a cylinder case inclined forwards with r... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198127 | Snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement A snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement, includes: a four-cycle engine arranged in an engine compartment formed in the front body of a snowmobile with its crankshaft laid substantially parallel to the body width and having a cylinder case inclined forwards with r... | 04/03/2007 |
| D537384 | Automobile | 02/27/2007 |
| 7150333 | Vehicle control apparatus and method A controller is provided for implementing a line pressure control for controlling a line pressure for an automatic transmission and a motor assist control for controlling an assist amount by an electric generator when an engine is put into an automatically restarted... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149608 | Information providing device for vehicle An image obtainer, a distance detector, a computer, and an information provider are provided to a vehicle. The computer has a caution-determination function to determine whether caution is required with respect to objects existing around the vehicle by arithmeticall... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140463 | Snowmobile equipped with a four-cycle engine and intake structure for snowmobile engines In a snowmobile, a four-cycle engine is mounted in such a manner that its crankshaft is arranged along the body width direction and the central axis of a cylinder(s) is tilted rearward by angle α with respect to the vertical direction of the body, forming a rear ti... | 11/28/2006 |
| D532338 | Automobile | 11/21/2006 |
| 7128033 | Valve driving apparatus and internal combustion engine including the same A cam 13 formed so that cam height and a cam operation angle continuously change, and constituted to be rotated integrally with a camshaft 11 and relatively movable in an axial direction thereof, a valve lifter 20 pressed by a cam surface of the... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114473 | Valve driving apparatus and internal combustion engine including the same A three-dimensional cam of a three-dimensional map state, having uncountable cam profiles continuously ranged along a rotation axis direction, and a valve lifter following a cam surface of the three-dimensional cam are included, and a lift characteristic of a valve ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7083020 | Automatic stop/start controller for engine and method for controlling automatic stop and automatic start An automatic stop/start controller for an engine which automatically stops and starts the engine without operation of an ignition key. In automatically stopping the engine without operation of the ignition key, a control means prevents an automatic stop of the engin... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7066293 | Front structure of motorcycle body In a front structure of a motorcycle body, a meter unit is installed in such a manner that it can be shifted between a normal position and a bulb replacing position. The position of the meter unit is set such that, at the normal position, the lower end of the meter ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054800 | Analysis model data creating method and apparatus, and recording medium having analysis model data creating program recorded theron According to the present invention, even if an analysis target has a complicated shape, for example, two or more cutting surfaces, elements can be automatically extracted therefrom without reducing any analysis accuracy. For each voxel interfering with shape data, a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047732 | Outboard engine exhaust structure An exhaust structure for use in an outboard engine of a vertical-type four-cycle V-type having cylinder heads, a crankcase, cylinder blocks constituting left and right sides of an integral body disposed in a V shape as seen in a plan view and forming a V-bank thereb... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042344 | Alarming system for vehicle and alarm generating method for vehicle An obstacle detecting means for detecting data related to the position of an obstacle existing on the side of a vehicle or in front thereof, a computer for computing the detected data, and an alarming means are mounted in the vehicle. The computer includes: a functi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036619 | Snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement A snowmobile four-cycle engine arrangement, includes: a four-cycle engine arranged in an engine compartment formed in the front body of a snowmobile with its crankshaft laid substantially parallel to the body width and having a cylinder case inclined forwards with r... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7025160 | Apparatus for attaching electrical components to a vehicle A structure for mounting electrical components to a vehicle. The structure includes a rear floor pan incorporating a U-shaped part transversely centered in the vehicle. Floor pan wing panels extend from each end of the U-shaped part and connect to vehicle side panel... | 04/11/2006 |
