Patents Assigned to Inoac Corporation
  • Patent number: 9096004
    Abstract: A resin molded article for, for instance, vehicles formed thereon a stitch pattern, including a first member (32) having a plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36) protruding towards a design surface (31) and formed on a front side in alignment and a second member (44) formed such that the front side of the first member (32) is covered thereby and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) are exposed from the second member (44). The surface of the second member (44) constituting the design surface (31) and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) exposed from the second member (44) are in colors different from each other, and stitches in a stitch pattern are configured on the design surface (31) of the resin molded article by the plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kushiya, Yuzo Ito, Shigeki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150045464
    Abstract: A method for producing resin foam including: melting a resin composition including a polyolefin resin and a thermoplastic elastomer; impregnating the molten resin composition with a material that is a gas at normal temperature and normal pressure, in a supercritical state, under a condition in which the supercritical state of the material is maintained; foaming the resin composition impregnated with the material by arranging the resin composition under a condition in which the supercritical state of the material is not maintained; and hot-pressing the foamed resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Okumura, Yasuhiro Usami, Shigeyasu Shimura
  • Patent number: 8859632
    Abstract: A foamed resin product having shape-formable properties, a method of using the same and a cushion material that is to be worn by the human body are provided. The foamed resin product (a flexible polyurethane foam, etc.) has a glass transition temperature, expressed as the temperature of the loss tangent peak, of 10° C. to 35° C., a loss tangent within this temperature range of 0.20 to 0.80, and, with respect to the storage elastic modulus (G?) within this temperature range, the ratio (G?max/G?min) of maximum value (G?max) to minimum value (G?min) of 3.0 to 30. The using method thereof has attaching a molded article made of the foamed resin product to the surface of the human body, and lowering the hardness of the molded article due to the heat transferred from the human body so as to deform the molded article by allowing to follow-up the shape of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: INOAC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Omoto, Minoru Kawarabayashi, Shunichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8801511
    Abstract: An air-conditioning duct for vehicles with one duct mutually connected and fixed to the other duct is provided. One duct is formed by incorporating a first unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof and a second unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof in parallel. The other duct is formed by incorporating a third unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof and a fourth unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof in parallel. The flange formed on the boundary side of the second unit duct are fixed with one over another, and the flange formed on the boundary side of the third unit duct and the flange formed on the boundary side of the fourth unit duct are fixed with one over another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Kyoraku Co., Ltd., Inoac Corporation, Toyota Shati Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Tani, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Hayato Kamigashima, Nobuhiro Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8777478
    Abstract: The present invention provides a low-cost and highly productive mixing head apparatus that achieves high agitation of a liquid blend and improves the smooth flow of the liquid blend from a discharge port, and a molding method using the same. In the mixing head apparatus wherein two types of chemically reactive fluid component materials 5 are expelled into a chamber interior 10 from fine holes respectively provided in side walls 11 of the chamber so that both component materials 5 impinge on and mix with each other, a plurality ranging from two to four of fine holes 30 are provided for at least one of both component materials 5, center axis lines 35 at distal ends of two or more of the two to four fine holes 30 intersecting with each other in the chamber interior 10, so that jets 50 of the component material expelled from the fine holes 30 with intersecting center axis lines impinge on each other in the chamber interior 10 prior to impingement with the other component material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Morita, Norishige Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140193631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyurethane foam obtained from a polyurethane raw material containing polyol, isocyanate, a foam stabilizer, a catalyst and a foam-forming gas by a mechanical froth method, wherein the polyol contains a castor oil-based polyol having a viscosity at 25° C. of 2,000 mPa·s or less, and a polyether-based polyol, the castor oil-based polyol is contained in an amount of from 20 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the polyol, the polyether-based polyol is contained in an amount of from 20 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the polyol, the polyurethane foam has an apparent density of from 100 to 700 kg/m3, and compressive residual strain at 100° C. of 20% or less, and the polyurethane foam can be preferably used as a sealing material in a neighboring region of a heat source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: ROGERS INOAC CORPORATION, INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Oyaizu
  • Patent number: 8763752
    Abstract: A noise attenuator which can reduce time and cost for installation thereof as compared with the conventional configuration and a vehicle air intake duct provided with the noise attenuator are provided. The noise attenuator includes a pair of circular through holes formed through a duct wall, a pair of wave transmitting/receiving membrane which are stretched so as to close the circular through holes, and a seesaw member which connects between central portions of the paired transmitting/receiving membranes. Accordingly, when one of the membranes receives a sound wave of noise thereby to be vibrated at a predetermined frequency, the other membrane follows it and is also vibrated while shifted by a half cycle. As a result, a cancellation wave with a phase opposite to the sound wave received by the one membrane is transmitted from the other membrane, whereupon the noise can be attenuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: INOAC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tange, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8739752
    Abstract: An intake duct for a vehicle having an inlet port formed so that the open side faces obliquely upward. The intake duct includes an inlet part formed in a flat shape expanding in the lateral direction crossing an air stream direction and a deflector provided in an air stream passage of the inlet part and extending in the left-and-right direction of the air stream passage. The intake duct further includes a first support member, which is provided between the deflector and the lower wall portion of the inlet part, and a second support member, which is provided between the deflector and the upper wall portion of the inlet part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Honzawa, Shinya Makihara, Koichi Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8726971
    Abstract: A shutter (S) including a plurality of support portions (10) provided in array in a sliding direction of the shutter, a hinge portion (20) for connecting adjoining two support portions (10), and slide supporting portions (30) provided at both ends of each support portion (10) so as to face a pair of guiderails. Each slide supporting portion (30) has a pair of first and second abutting portions (32 and 34) formed in array in the sliding direction for slidably engaging with the guiderail. Each support portion (10) is supported by the pair of guiderails at three or more out of a total of four first and second abutting portions (32 and 34) when a load is applied to the shutter from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: INOAC Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Sato, Yoshitaka Uramoto, Hirokazu Amano
  • Patent number: 8714627
    Abstract: A spoiler includes an outer member and an inner member. The outer member includes a base plate portion, a cover plate portion facing the base plate portion, and a bent portion connecting the base plate portion and the cover plate portion. The inner member is arranged between the base plate portion and the cover plate portion. The inner member includes a back plate portion facing the base plate portion, and a wall portion extending from the back plate portion toward the cover plate portion. The base plate portion and the back plate portion are vibration-welded, and the cover plate portion and the wall portion are vibration-welded. The wall portion includes a plurality of grooves forming a corrugated structure in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to a direction in which the wall portion extends from the back plate portion toward the cover plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Ezaka
  • Patent number: 8628842
    Abstract: An object is to provide a fiber-reinforced molded product that is superior in terms of lightness, thinness and high rigidity. A fiber-reinforced molded product has a core material 11 and a fiber-reinforced material 21 provided on both surfaces of the core material 11. The core material 11 is formed by impregnating a thermosetting resin foam having open cells with a first thermosetting resin and curing the thermosetting resin while compressing the impregnated thermosetting resin foam with a compression rate of 200 to 5000. The fiber-reinforced material 21 is formed by impregnating a carbon fiber fabric with a second thermosetting resin and curing the second thermosetting resin. A resin ratio of the first and second thermosetting resins after the impregnation is 50 to 80. The core material 11 and the fiber-reinforced material 21 are formed as a unitary body by curing the first and second thermosetting resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Kasuga, Yoshinori Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20130277144
    Abstract: A noise attenuator which can reduce time and cost for installation thereof as compared with the conventional configuration and a vehicle air intake duct provided with the noise attenuator are provided. The noise attenuator includes a pair of circular through holes formed through a duct wall, a pair of wave transmitting/receiving membrane which are stretched so as to close the circular through holes, and a seesaw member which connects between central portions of the paired transmitting/receiving membranes. Accordingly, when one of the membranes receives a sound wave of noise thereby to be vibrated at a predetermined frequency, the other membrane follows it and is also vibrated while shifted by a half cycle. As a result, a cancellation wave with a phase opposite to the sound wave received by the one membrane is transmitted from the other membrane, whereupon the noise can be attenuated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro TANGE, Takashi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130269886
    Abstract: A shutter (S) including a plurality of support portions (10) provided in array in a sliding direction of the shutter, a hinge portion (20) for connecting adjoining two support portions (10), and slide supporting portions (30) provided at both ends of each support portion (10) so as to face a pair of guiderails . Each slide supporting portion (30) has a pair of first and second abutting portions (32 and 34) formed in array in the sliding direction for slidably engaging with the guiderail. Each support portion (10) is supported by the pair of guiderails at three or more out of a total of four first and second abutting portions (32 and 34)when a load is applied to the shutter from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumitoshi SATO, Yoshitaka URAMOTO, Hirokazu AMANO
  • Patent number: 8528692
    Abstract: To simplify the attachment of a cover member, an air intake duct 10 includes a duct body 12 having an air flow passage 14 communicating from an inlet port 12a to an outlet port 12b and a vent hole 28 communicating from the air flow passage 14 to the outside, an air permeable cover member 32, and a holding member 34 secured to extend along an outer inner circumferential surface or an inner circumferential surface of the duct body 12 and to hold a portion of the cover member 32 covering the vent hole at a location different from the vent hole 28. The holding member 34 is detachably attached to the duct body 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: INOAC Corporation
    Inventor: Koya Teshima
  • Patent number: 8511428
    Abstract: A noise attenuator which can reduce time and cost for installation thereof as compared with the conventional configuration and a vehicle air intake duct provided with the noise attenuator are provided. The noise attenuator includes a pair of circular through holes formed through a duct wall, a pair of wave transmitting/receiving membrane which are stretched so as to close the circular through holes, and a seesaw member which connects between central portions of the paired transmitting/receiving membranes. Accordingly, when one of the membranes receives a sound wave of noise thereby to be vibrated at a predetermined frequency, the other membrane follows it and is also vibrated while shifted by a half cycle. As a result, a cancellation wave with a phase opposite to the sound wave received by the one membrane is transmitted from the other membrane, whereupon the noise can be attenuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tange, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130189509
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced molded product 10 includes a core material 11, a fiber reinforcing material 21 laminated on at least one surface of the core material 11, and a surface material 25 laminated on the fiber reinforcing material 21. The core material 11, the fiber reinforcing material 21, and the surface material 25 are integrated. The fiber reinforcing material 21 includes a fiber fabric 21A and a thermosetting resin 11B and 21B impregnated into the fiber fabric 21 and cured. The surface material 25 includes a porous sheet 25A having open cells, the number of the cells being 8 to 80 cells/25 mm, and the thermosetting resin 11B and 21B moved out of the fiber fabric 21 into the porous sheet 25A and cured, and the surface material 25A has a surface roughness Rz of 30 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Kasuga, Masumi Koide, Yoshinori Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8474574
    Abstract: PROBLEMS The present invention provides a sound absorbing structure that enables a sound absorbing rate thereof to be raised in a low-frequency region or medium-high frequency from around 500 Hz to 10 KHz, and a thickness thereof to be reduced. SOLUTIONS The sound absorbing structure has: a non-air permeable sheet molding object having, on one surface side thereof, a plurality of cavities including recesses formed by bending; and a non-air permeable surface sheet which is layered on the sheet molding object, on a cavity open-top side surface thereof, so as to cover open-top of the plurality of cavities, wherein the surface sheet is fixed at outer peripheral sections of the sheet molding object 11 and is not fixed to the sheet molding object at portions between adjacent cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Hisaaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Makino, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Takahiro Ogo
  • Patent number: 8425285
    Abstract: A duct installation structure in which an air conditioning duct for sending warm air or cold air into a vehicle interior of an automobile is attached to a vehicle interior structure member and an outlet grill is attached to an outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. A grill fixing portion to which the outlet grill is to be fixed is integrally molded with a duct main body portion at the outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. The outlet grill is directly fixed to the grill fixing portion. The outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct including, at one point near its center in a width direction, a fastening fixing portion that is fastened and fixed to the vehicle interior structure member and including, at its opposite ends in the width direction, a pair of contact portions for coming in contact with the vehicle interior structure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha, Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Kamigashima, Takahiro Mizuno, Nobuhiro Ichimura, Hidetoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20130095287
    Abstract: A resin molded article for, for instance, vehicles formed thereon a stitch pattern, including a first member (32) having a plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36) protruding towards a design surface (31) and formed on a front side in alignment and a second member (44) formed such that the front side of the first member (32) is covered thereby and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) are exposed from the second member (44). The surface of the second member (44) constituting the design surface (31) and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) exposed from the second member (44) are in colors different from each other, and stitches in a stitch pattern are configured on the design surface (31) of the resin molded article by the plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Inoac Corporation
    Inventor: Inoac Corporation
  • Patent number: 8382193
    Abstract: A spoiler includes an upper member and a lower member. The upper and lower members are joined together by vibration welding. One of the upper and lower members includes a main welding rib and an auxiliary welding rib. Each of the main welding rib and the auxiliary welding rib is protruded toward the other of the upper and members so as to be vibration welded to the other of the upper and lower members. The main welding rib is arranged to extend along a vibration direction of the vibration welding, and the auxiliary welding rib is arranged to extend along a direction perpendicular to the vibration direction. A height of the auxiliary welding rib is less than a height of the main welding rib before the vibration welding. The auxiliary welding rib is spaced apart from the main welding rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Ezaka