Patents Assigned to AOI CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8518508
    Abstract: This invention provides a tube having durability against harsh flexion, shrinkage, torsion, or the like and reduced slip resistance between tubes or upon contact with another member. Such tube is used for a product comprising a site at which a plurality of tubes are fixed at both ends and tied together with each other and/or in contact with another member, and the sites of fixation at the both ends are sites of motion at which reciprocal movement is repeated. Such tube is obtained via extrusion molding of a thermoplastic polyether ester elastomer and has a satin-finished outer surface. The invention also provides a method for preparing such tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aoi Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kato, Kinji Hosoya, Teruyuki Hosoya, Shigeru Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20110146827
    Abstract: This invention provides a tube having durability against harsh flexion, shrinkage, torsion, or the like and reduced slip resistance between tubes or upon contact with another member. Such tube is used for a product comprising a site at which a plurality of tubes are fixed at both ends and tied together with each other and/or in contact with another member, and the sites of fixation at the both ends are sites of motion at which reciprocal movement is repeated. Such tube is obtained via extrusion molding of a thermoplastic polyether ester elastomer and has a satin-finished outer surface. The invention also provides a method for preparing such tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AOI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira KATO, Kinji Hosoya, Teruyuki Hosoya, Shigeru Kikuchi