Patents Assigned to Trinity Industrial Corporation
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Patent number: 10907368Abstract: A reinforcement structure includes compound trusses placed horizontally symmetrically, and each compound truss is constituted by a first truss and a second truss. Each first truss has: a vertical side; a first inclined side extending obliquely downward from an upper end of the vertical side; and a second inclined side connecting between the vertical side and a lower end of the first inclined side. Each second truss shares the first inclined side with the first truss and has: a horizontal side extending horizontally from the upper end of the vertical side; and a second inclined side connecting between a tip end of the horizontal side and the lower end of the first inclined side. Each compound truss is coupled to the construction in a state where the vertical side is along an inner side surface of the construction and the horizontal side is along a ceiling surface of the construction.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Fujiwara, Takaaki Tamura, Masayuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20200398300Abstract: A coating material mist remover of the present disclosure includes: a first duct that discharges air containing coating material mist from an outflow port directed downward; a second duct having an inflow port opened in a horizontal direction; and an incinerable intermediate filter that is detachably connected between the first duct and the second duct and removes the coating material mist from the air. The coating material mist remover also includes: a first connection mechanism that can connect and separate the first duct and the intermediate filter; and a second connection mechanism that can connect and separate the second duct and the intermediate filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicants: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryota SAITO, Shigeki FUJIWARA, Kenji TAJIMA, Kai TAKISHIMA
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Publication number: 20200256570Abstract: An air curtain generating device includes: a plurality of pairs of an air jet unit and an air suction unit placed opposite each other on both sides in a lateral direction of an inlet/outlet of a drying chamber, the plurality of the pairs being aligned up and down, the air suction units sucking air ejected from the air jet units to generate an air curtain; a first air guide provided to the air jet units in an upper part of the inlet/outlet to guide air ejected from the air jet units in a direction inclined inward of the drying chamber relative to the lateral direction of the inlet/outlet; and a second air guide provided to the air jet units in a lower part of the inlet/outlet to guide air ejected from the air jet units in a direction inclined outward of the drying chamber relative to the lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi KONDO
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Patent number: 10690411Abstract: A circulation channel circularly supplying air heated by a burner is connected to a drying chamber into which a painted workpiece is supplied. The circulation channel includes a flame holding cylinder surrounding a flame of the burner and a casing surrounding the flame holding cylinder from outside and protrudes further than the flame holding cylinder toward a front end side, opposite to a side of the burner, of the flame holding cylinder. The casing includes a low temperature air inlet port that introduces low temperature air from outside into the casing, an exhaust port that exhausts high temperature air heated by the burner and the low temperature air to the circulation channel, and a mixing mechanism that is formed in the casing and mixes the high temperature air and the low temperature air before the high temperature air and the low temperature air are exhausted from the exhaust port.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Tamura
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Patent number: 10668488Abstract: Provided is a cyclone dust collector with a higher particle collection efficiency than before. The cyclone dust collector of the present invention includes a nozzle assembly including a plurality of the nozzles arranged within a first cross section defined by a plane containing a center axis of the cylindrical case and part of the spiral flow path intersecting with each other, the nozzles being adapted to spray the water mist in a direction along the first cross section.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10625314Abstract: A cleaning water feeding tool having a pipe structure to feed cleaning water to a water sprinkling cleaning device which has both end portions rotatably supported by a rotary base laid between a pair of rotary support parts disposed opposite to each other on a basket-shaped base, and includes the rotary head rotates with respect to the rotary base, and the rotary base rotates with respect to the basket-shaped base, including a horizontal portion that has a tip end portion connected to the cleaning water supply port and extends approximately horizontally in a state where a rotary shaft of the rotary base is disposed approximately horizontally, a straight portion that extends upward from the horizontal portion; and a hard material that configures or covers at least a portion receiving the cleaning water jetted from the water jet part of the straight portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10625276Abstract: Provided is a cyclone dust collector with a higher particle collection efficiency than before. The cyclone dust collector includes an inner wall being arranged on an edge portion of a first cross section defined by a plane containing a center axis of the cylindrical case and part of the spiral flow path intersecting with each other and being adapted to make the part of the flow path narrower and a first nozzle that sprays the water mist toward the air passing through a constricted part being part of the spiral flow path made narrower by the inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20200094273Abstract: A coating device includes a rotary head, a power supply part that applies a voltage to the rotary head, and a control part that controls the power supply part. The rotary head is configured so that a coating material is electrostatically atomized. The control part is configured so as to calculate a discharge current based on a total current flowing from the power supply part to the rotary head and a leak current, and control the power supply part based on the discharge current.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Trinity Industrial Corporation, Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K.Inventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takahito Kondo, Yuki Murai, Yuki Hirai, Atsushi Tomita, Kenji Okamoto, Naohiro Masuda
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Publication number: 20200087938Abstract: A reinforcement structure includes compound trusses placed horizontally symmetrically, and each compound truss is constituted by a first truss and a second truss. Each first truss has: a vertical side; a first inclined side extending obliquely downward from an upper end of the vertical side; and a second inclined side connecting between the vertical side and a lower end of the first inclined side. Each second truss shares the first inclined side with the first truss and has: a horizontal side extending horizontally from the upper end of the vertical side; and a second inclined side connecting between a tip end of the horizontal side and the lower end of the first inclined side. Each compound truss is coupled to the construction in a state where the vertical side is along an inner side surface of the construction and the horizontal side is along a ceiling surface of the construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki FUJIWARA, Takaaki TAMURA, Masayuki MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20200033058Abstract: A drying system includes a nozzle attached to an air supply duct of a drying chamber that blows out heated air inside the duct toward an object to be dried inside the chamber. The nozzle includes a horn-shaped inner-side surface made of pairs of first and second inner-side surfaces that respectively face each other in first and second directions, an opening width of the second surfaces in the second direction gradually increasing forward in a direction in which the air is blown and being 2 to 25 times inclusive larger than an opening width in the first direction. The drying system includes: the duct with the nozzles; a feeding device feeding air to the duct; and a heating device heats the fed air. The feeding device feeds air to the duct such that the air blown out from the nozzle spreads more in the first direction than in the second.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu HAKATA, Yasushi KONDO, Keiichi SUZUKI, Kimihiko SUGIURA, Satoshi TAMURA
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Patent number: 10532605Abstract: This invention provides a method for manufacturing a decorative-part of which the joint-lines bordering the laser-irradiation regions are unnoticeable, thus avoiding deterioration of the design-quality of such a decorative-part. Of this invention, the design (4) comprises the first-blocks (6) of a plurality of design-patterns (5) that are closely arranged with the second-blocks (8) of a plurality of design-patterns (7) that are different from those of the first-blocks (6). In the laser-irradiation-region-setting process, the decorative-area is divided into a plurality of laser-irradiation regions (LR1, LR2 and LR3), at which time the joint-lines (J1, J2) are set as borders of the first-blocks (6) and the second-blocks (8) of the design (4). In the laser-irradiation process, a laser-deflector is relatively displaced, and a laser L is irradiated onto each of the laser-irradiation regions (LR1, LR2 and LR3).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Yukihiro Goto
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Publication number: 20190388915Abstract: A rotary atomization head is provided, which prevents discharged threads of a coating material from making contact with each other and from being unified. A rotary head 1 includes: a diffusion surface 122 to diffuse the coating material toward an outer edge part 123 by centrifugal force; and a plurality of grooves 124 formed on the outer edge part 123. The plurality of grooves 124 extends in a radial direction. The adjacent grooves 124 have different depths. The grooves 124 have the same width.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Takahito Kondo, Yuki Murai, Takao Ueno, Takatoshi Okuta, Ken Maeda, Kota Harada
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Patent number: 10473357Abstract: A flow-straightening device at a coupling portion between: an air supply chamber adjacent to a coating chamber and supplying air to the coating chamber via a filter provided at a boundary wall between the air supply chamber and the coating chamber; and an air supply duct supplying air to the air supply chamber in a direction along the boundary wall. When a direction parallel to the boundary wall and perpendicular to the air supply chamber width direction is an air supply chamber depth direction; and a direction perpendicular to the boundary wall is an air supply chamber thickness direction, the device includes a plurality of fins arranged in the air supply chamber width direction and the air supply chamber depth direction and juxtaposed to each other to be spaced apart from each other in the chamber thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi Takagi, Masayuki Miyake, Takashi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20190329284Abstract: An exhaust/drainage mechanism includes an exhaust channel guiding contaminated air discharged from a coating booth with non-attached paint; a drainage channel guiding contaminated water discharged from the booth; a scum receiving inlet included in the drainage channel and into which the floating coating scum floating on the contaminated water flows; and a dual-purpose flow channel used as both the exhaust and drainage channel. The contaminated air flows through an upper part of the dual-purpose flow channel, and the contaminated water flows through a lower part. A wind pressure of the contaminated air generates, in an upper part of the contaminated water, an upper-layer flow flows in a direction or at a velocity different from a direction or a velocity of a flow in a lower part of the contaminated water. A dynamic pressure of the upper-layer flow pushes and moves the floating coating scum to the scum receiving inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Ryota SAITO
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Publication number: 20190176181Abstract: A painting booth includes a pair of first inner surfaces facing each other in a first horizontal direction with a painting treatment area therebetween, an air supply duct arranged at the center, in the first horizontal direction, of the upper part of the inside of the painting booth, and an air blow-out port which is formed ranging from a central part to both side parts, in the first horizontal direction, of the air supply duct and which blows out air right downward at the central part and blows out air in an obliquely downward direction of each of the first inner surfaces on the both side parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SAITO, Hideaki HARA
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Patent number: 10315458Abstract: This invention aims at providing a decorated-part of which a design of three-dimensional effect is drawn onto the decorative-surface of a part material, thus improving design-quality. A design (4), consisting of a plurality of the same fine regularly arranged basic-pattern (5), is drawn onto the decorative-surface (3a) of the automobile interior-part (1) of this invention. The fine basic-pattern (5) consists of the first-graphic (8) drawn including the first laser-processed groove (6a) and of the second-graphic (9) located in the region surrounded by the first laser-processed groove (6a) and drawn including the second laser-processed groove (6b). The inner-surface roughness (Ra1) of the first laser-processed groove (6a) is greater than the decorative-surface roughness (Ra3) where the fine basic-pattern (5) does not exist on said decorative-surface (3a) (Ra1>Ra3).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Tokinobu Shimada, Yukihiro Goto
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Publication number: 20190101331Abstract: A circulation channel circularly supplying air heated by a burner is connected to a drying chamber into which a painted workpiece is supplied. The circulation channel includes a flame holding cylinder surrounding a flame of the burner and a casing surrounding the flame holding cylinder from outside and protrudes further than the flame holding cylinder toward a front end side, opposite to a side of the burner, of the flame holding cylinder. The casing includes a low temperature air inlet port that introduces low temperature air from outside into the casing, an exhaust port that exhausts high temperature air heated by the burner and the low temperature air to the circulation channel, and a mixing mechanism that is formed in the casing and mixes the high temperature air and the low temperature air before the high temperature air and the low temperature air are exhausted from the exhaust port.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20190083994Abstract: A coating device is equipped with a rotary head, a drive unit, and an electric power supply unit. The rotary head is configured to be supplied with a coating material. The rotary head includes a diffusion surface that is configured such that the coating material is diffused toward an outer edge portion of the diffusion surface by a centrifugal force, and a plurality of groove portions that are included in the outer edge portion. The rotary head is configured to discharge a threadlike coating material from the groove portions. Also, the coating device is configured such that a diameter of the threadlike coating material is set equal to or larger than 0.03 mm and equal to or smaller than 0.1 mm and that the threadlike coating material is electrostatically atomized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Shinji TANI, Akira NUMASATO, Atsuo NABESHIMA, Takahito KONDO, Yuki MURAI, Takao UENO, Katsuhiro ISHiKAWA, Takatoshi OKUTA, Kota HARADA
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Publication number: 20180347848Abstract: A flow-straightening device at a coupling portion between: an air supply chamber adjacent to a coating chamber and supplying air to the coating chamber via a filter provided at a boundary wall between the air supply chamber and the coating chamber; and an air supply duct supplying air to the air supply chamber in a direction along the boundary wall. When a direction parallel to the boundary wall and perpendicular to the air supply chamber width direction is an air supply chamber depth direction; and a direction perpendicular to the boundary wall is an air supply chamber thickness direction, the device includes a plurality of fins arranged in the air supply chamber width direction and the air supply chamber depth direction and juxtaposed to each other to be spaced apart from each other in the chamber thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi TAKAGI, Masayuki MIYAKE, Takashi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 10144042Abstract: Provided are a helically traveling carriage and a helically traveling cleaning machine capable of efficiently performing a maintenance process, such as cleaning, with respect to a helical structure formed by winding a helical wall around a column at a central section of a vertically extending cylindrical wall. This helically traveling carriage includes a lower moving-and-contacting part that rolls or slides on a helical wall's upper surface, a lateral bridge mechanism that bridges a column's outer circumferential surface and a cylindrical wall's inner circumferential surface, the lateral bridge mechanism having, on one end thereof, a first moving-and-contacting part that rolls or slides on the cylindrical wall's inner circumferential surface, and having, on the other end, a second moving-and-contacting part that rolls or slides on the column's outer circumferential surface, and a rotary engagement part that rotatably engages with the column by laterally receiving a portion of the column.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Hashimoto