Patents Assigned to Toyota Boshoku Corporation
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Patent number: 11920015Abstract: To provide an expansion molded product not only excellent in sound absorption properties and rigidity but also resistant to tearing after bending deformation, and a web and a stampable sheet suitable for producing the expansion molded product. The presently disclosed web, stampable sheet, and expansion molded product contain a reinforcing fiber containing an inorganic fiber and an organic fiber, a thermoplastic resin, and a thermal expandable particle, where the proportion of the reinforcing fiber is 20 mass % or more and 55 mass % or less based on a total amount of the reinforcing fiber and the thermoplastic resin, the proportion of the organic fiber is 25 mass % or more and 77 mass % or less based on a total amount of the organic and inorganic fibers, the reinforcing fiber has an average length of 8 mm or more, and the organic fiber has a breaking elongation of 15% or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: K-PLASHEET CORPORATION, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Araki, Seiji Hanatani, Tadaaki Yasumi, Tsutomu Takagi, Atsuhiro Hattori
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Patent number: 10305134Abstract: A fuel cell (100) includes an end plate cover (200) to which a sound-absorbing member (210) is attached and an injector block (180) in an end plate (170F) on one end side of a cell stack (102S). The sound-absorbing member (210) is attached to a sound-absorbing seating surface (203) forming a gas introduction path (202) of the end plate cover (200) which merges a gas jetted from injectors (180a to 180c) to guide it to a fuel gas supply path in a cell coupling portion (170Fc), and is fixed to a convex column (205) in a state in which the convex column (205) is inserted to a through hole (211).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Makoto Takeyama, Koji Kume
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Patent number: 10124329Abstract: An oil degradation suppressor according to one aspect of the present invention contains a reactant having an ability to adsorb a given component in an oil such as an acidic anion, and a gel-like material to hold the reactant. The reactant is preferably a hydrotalcite-like compound. The gel-like material contains a highly heat resistive gel and an amphiphilic solvent. A gel-like member containing the reactant and the gel-like material is disposed in a casing, and thereby an oil filter is provided. The gel-like material can work for supporting the reactant suitably.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ippei Fukutomi, Motoichi Murakami, Hideto Morishita, Yasuhiro Saito
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Publication number: 20160254564Abstract: A fuel cell (100) includes an end plate cover (200) to which a sound-absorbing member (210) is attached and an injector block (180) in an end plate (170F) on one end side of a cell stack (102S). The sound-absorbing member (210) is attached to a sound-absorbing seating surface (203) forming a gas introduction path (202) of the end plate cover (200) which merges a gas jetted from injectors (180a to 180c) to guide it to a fuel gas supply path in a cell coupling portion (170Fc), and is fixed to a convex column (205) in a state in which the convex column (205) is inserted to a through hole (211).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TAKEYAMA, Koji KUME
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Publication number: 20160250786Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a vehicle seat pad, in which it is difficult for aldehydes to be dispersed, in a favorably curable manner. The method for producing a vehicle seat pad and containing a step (I) for obtaining a flexible polyurethane foam by reacting an active hydrogen component (A) and an organic polyisocyanate (B) in the presence of a foaming agent (C), a urethanation agent (D), a foam stabilizer (E), and an additive (F), wherein (C) contains water, (F) contains at least one selected from the group consisting of the urea compound (F1) indicated by general formula (1), an amino acid (F2), and a polyvalent phenol (F3), and the flexible polyurethane foam has a core density of 25-90 kg/m3, a resilience of 50-75%, and a hardness (25%-ILD) of 150-400 N/cm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU CORPORATION, SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Murata, Tetsuo Hayashida, Shota Matsushita, Katsuya Uchida, Tsuyoshi Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20160038930Abstract: An oil degradation suppressor according to one aspect of the present invention contains a reactant having an ability to adsorb a given component in an oil such as an acidic anion, and a gel-like material to hold the reactant. The reactant is preferably a hydrotalcite-like compound. The gel-like material contains a highly heat resistive gel and an amphiphilic solvent. A gel-like member containing the reactant and the gel-like material is disposed in a casing, and thereby an oil filter is provided. The gel-like material can work for supporting the reactant suitably.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ippei FUKUTOMI, Motoichi MURAKAMI, Hideto MORISHITA, Yasuhiro SAITO
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Patent number: 9161635Abstract: A first member includes a first fixing portion on which a sheet edge is fixed, a holder continuous with an end of the first fixing portion, a first recess that is defined in the holder and has an opening in a continuous direction of the first fixing portion, and a support portion that is formed opposite the first fixing portion across the opening of the first recess of the holder. A second member includes a second fixing portion on which the other sheet edge is fixed, a held portion continuous with an end of the second fixing portion. When the held portion is inserted into the first recess, the support portion is brought into contact with a surface of the second fixing portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: YKK Corporation, Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Yoshito Toribuchi, Tetsuya Yoshino, Hiroshi Ishisaka, Masahiro Ujihara, Takahiro Usui
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Patent number: 9087505Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer. The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20150047158Abstract: A first member includes a first fixing portion on which a sheet edge is fixed, a holder continuous with an end of the first fixing portion, a first recess that is defined in the holder and has an opening in a continuous direction of the first fixing portion, and a support portion that is formed opposite the first fixing portion across the opening of the first recess of the holder. A second member includes a second fixing portion on which the other sheet edge is fixed, a held portion continuous with an end of the second fixing portion. When the held portion is inserted into the first recess, the support portion is brought into contact with a surface of the second fixing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2011Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicants: Toyota Boshoku Corporation, YKK CorporationInventors: Yoshito Toribuchi, Tetsuya Yoshino, Hiroshi Ishisaka, Masahiro Ujihara, Takahiro Usui
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Publication number: 20140124290Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer. The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Takehiro Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
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Patent number: 8637145Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
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Patent number: 8158246Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer 202 and an air-impermeable resonance layer 203, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer 204. The sound absorption layer 202 has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm and an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2. The sound absorption layer 202 has a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer 202a and a low-density sound absorption layer 202b, which have different densities. The high-density sound absorption layer 202a is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203 via the adhesive layer 204 and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer 202b is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer 202a, which is opposite to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203, via an adhesive layer 202c and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20090103748Abstract: An object is to enhance workability in attachment in a sound generating apparatus that generates sound by vibrating a vibration plate with a vibrator while ensuring acoustic performance as good as that achieved by fastening with fine screw threads. Workability in attaching operation is improved while ensuring acoustic performance as good as that provided by fastening with fine screw threads, by providing first fixing means that brings engagement portions 31 and 41 into screw engagement with each other by rotation by a predetermined angle that can be attained by a user without taking his/her hand that holds a coupler 3 off it and second fixing means for fixing the coupler 3 to a bracket 4 so as to prevent the coupler 3 from rotating relative to said bracket 4 in a direction to loosen the engagement achieved by said first fixing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicants: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA BOSHOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyosei Shibata, Kiyoshi Ootani, Munekazu Yanagida, Yuichi Nakajima, Naoki Fujikawa, Koichi Toyama
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Patent number: 7481493Abstract: To promote bloodstream and reduce fatigue, a seat structure makes a slight sitting posture change by adding a minute body motion with no necessity of moving a cushion frame or a seat frame although it realizes a supporting pressure change at a wide area, not locally, in a seat cushion or a seat back. The seat structure includes a cushioning member for a seat cushion stretched across the cushion frame, and a cushioning member for a seat back stretched across the back frame. The seat structure includes: a lower cloth spring of a seat cushion or a cloth spring of a seat back stretched across the cushion frame or the back frame via a torsion bar; and a cloth spring adjusting member to change a supporting pressure by both cushioning members by adjusting tension of the lower cloth spring or the cloth spring.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Delta Tooling Co., Ltd.Inventors: Etsunori Fujita, Atsuki Sasaki, Takeshi Nishiura
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Publication number: 20080289796Abstract: A cooling module includes a heat exchanger, a blower, a fan shroud and an air cleaner unit for filtering air to be introduced into an engine of a vehicle. The fan shroud holds the blower on a downstream side of the heat exchanger with respect to a flow of air passing through the heat exchanger and has an air introducing portion defining an air passage from the heat exchanger to the blower. A front end of the air cleaner unit is offset from the heat exchanger with respect to a horizontal direction. A side wall of the air cleaner unit partly forms the air introducing portion. A clearance is provided between the side wall and the heat exchanger such that air upstream of the heat exchanger is conducted toward a position downstream of the heat exchanger through the clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Norihisa Sasano, Akihiro Maeda, Akira Nakawatase, Ryuji Kanzaka, Yuji Matsubara, Shingo Kimura, Akira Enomoto, Kazuya Tanaka, Kouji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20070152483Abstract: In order to promote bloodstream and reduce fatigue, a device of the present invention makes a slight sitting posture change by adding a minute body motion with no necessity of moving a cushion frame or a seat frame though it realizes a supporting pressure change at a wide area, not locally, in a seat cushion or a seat back. It includes a cushioning member (30) for a seat cushion stretched across the cushion frame (10), and a cushioning member (40) for a seat back stretched across the back frame (20). The seat structure of the present invention includes: a lower cloth spring (31a) of a seat cushion or a cloth spring (41) of a seat back stretched across the cushion frame (10) or the back frame (20) via a torsion bar (11); and a cloth spring adjusting member (50) to change a supporting pressure by the cushioning member (30) for the seat cushion and the cushioning member (40) for the seat back through adjusting tension of the lower cloth spring (31a) or the cloth spring (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2004Publication date: July 5, 2007Applicants: Delta Tooling Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku CorporationInventors: Etsunori Fujita, Alsuki Sasaki, Takeshi Nishiura
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Patent number: 7150828Abstract: A drain structure for a fluid filter includes a cap internally forming a drain hole. The cap receives a valve member urged by an urging means in a direction, in which the valve member blocks the drain hole. Normally, the drain hole is blocked with a drain member. When fluid is drained from the drain hole, the drain member is removed from the drain hole, and a drain tool is inserted into the drain hole, so that the drain tool displaces the valve member in a direction, in which the drain hole is unblocked. The drain tool has a hooking portion that can hook to a hooked portion provided to the cap by axially rotating the drain tool inserted into the drain hole of the cap. Thus, the drain tool can be connected with the cap while the hooking portion is supported by the hooked portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2004Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Denso CorporationInventors: Haruaki Sakata, Toshihiro Takahara, Yoshihiko Sugiura, Noriyuki Tsuge