Patents by Inventor Akio Morinaga

Akio Morinaga has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5624996
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dispersion of fine particles of modified polyethylene, which comprises a hydrocarbon organic solvent and fine particles of an ethylene polymer or ethylene polymer composition dispersed in the solvent, wherein the ethylene polymer or ethylene polymer composition has an acid value of 0.3 to 75 mg-KOH/g as a whole and a crystallinity of at least 45% as determined by the X-ray diffractometry and has an average dispersed particle size of 0.3 to 20 .mu.m and a concentration of 15 to 60% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Takeo Kigami, Kunihiko Yorihiro, Toshihiko Okada
  • Patent number: 5164237
    Abstract: A lining material adapted for lining the inner surface of pipelines for transferring various kinds of fluids such as city water, sewage, city gases and petroleum, etc., characterized in that low elongation high tensile strength filament yarns are used as wefts (5), (16) forming tubular textile jackets (2), (6) laid in the lining material or as the yarns (12) forming a tubular fibrous member (13) together with a tubular textile jacket (2'). This characteristic feature provides excellent performance required for lining materials for pipelines such as enhanced earthquake resistance and shape retaining property against external pressures and limited expansion in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeo Kaneda, Akio Morinaga, Hitoshi Saito, Masahiro Seshimo
  • Patent number: 5077107
    Abstract: A lining material adapted for lining the inner surface of pipelines for transferring various kinds of fluids such as city water, sewage, city gases and petroleum, etc., is characterized in that low elongation high tensile strength filament yarns are used as wefts forming tubular textile jackets laid in the lining material, or as the yarns forming a tubular fibrous member together with a tubular textile jacket. This characteristic feature provides enhanced earthquake resistance and shape retaining property against external pressures and limited expansion in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeo Kaneda, Akio Morinaga, Hitoshi Saito, Masahiro Seshimo
  • Patent number: 5010132
    Abstract: A water-base paint for coating the inside surface of a metallic can, said paint comprising fine particles of a polyester resin dispersed in an aqueous medium in the presence of a surface-active agent, wherein(A) the polyester resin comprises units derived from a dicarboxylic acid and units derived from a diol, the units derived from the dicarboxylic acid containing units derived from terephthalic acid and units derived from isophthalic acid in a mole ratio of from 10:90 to 80:20, and at least 30 mole % of the units derived from the diol being derived from ethylene glycol,(B) the surface-active agent is composed of at least one compound selected from alkylaryl sulfonic acid salts, alkylsulfonic acid salts, dialkylsulfosuccinic acid salts, alkylphosphoric acid salts, polyoxyethylene alkylarylether sulfonic acid salts and polyoxyethylene alkylether sulfonic acid salts, and(C) the fine particles of the polyester resin have an average particle diameter of not more than 3 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Takeo Kigami
  • Patent number: 4956038
    Abstract: A method for lining pipe lines for transporting city water, city gas, petroleum and other various kinds of fluids.In a method used as a conventional art, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Masakatsu Hyodo, Tomiyo Nishimoto, Hiroyuki Sakuragi, Shinji Onishi
  • Patent number: 4948452
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for lining pipe lines, especially those buried in the ground and having a large diameter, according to the so-called evagination-lining technique by using a compressed gas as a pressurized fluid, which is so improved as to secure complete sealing of a pressure container for inserting the lining material into a pipe line by using a specific sealing device using a liquid in place of a mechanical sealing device while preventing a binder applied onto the inner surface of the lining material from being squeezed backwards when the lining material is introduced into the pressure container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Isaburo Yagi, Hideo Maruyama, Akifumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4883557
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for lining pipe lines, especially those buried in the ground and having a large diameter, according to the so-called evagination-lining technique by using a compressed gas as a pressurized fluid, which is so improved as to secure complete sealing of a pressure container for inserting the lining material into a pipe line by using a specific sealing device using a liquid in place of a mechanical sealing device while preventing a binder applied onto the inner surface of the lining material from being squeezed backwards when the lining material is introduced into the pressure container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Isaburo Yagi, Hideo Maruyama, Akifumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4882470
    Abstract: A boring device for a lining material in a branched portion of a lined pipe such as a gas-conduit or a city water pipe line to which the lining material has been applied, which device includes a tension coil spring 1, a compression coil spring 2 being connected to the tip of the tension coil spring and having a spring constant smaller than that of the tension coil spring, a head element 5 in the form of a circular truncated cone being connected to the tip of the compression coil spring 2 and having an electric heat-generating device 3 coated with a thermoplastic resin and a single or plural transmission wires 9 being connected to the heat-generating device 3 and being passed in a loosened state through the tension coil spring 1 and the compression coil spring 2, the transmission wires 9 being fixed within the tension coil spring 1 at plural points, and a device N provided in rear of the tension coil spring for rotatably extending the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Zenbayashi, Hisao Otsuga, Akio Morinaga, Osamu Toyoshima, Shinji Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 4877665
    Abstract: A lining material for pipelines such as gas conduits, city water pipelines, sewage pipelines, and petroleum pipelines which having a structure wherein a layer of bulky yarns is fastened to either one of the inner and outer surfaces of a tubular textile jacket and an air-impervious layer made of a rubber or a synthetic resin is bonded to the other surface of the jacket, and exhibits excellent shape-maintaining property against external pressure and earthquake-resistance after being applied to the pipelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Tokyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kumao Higuchi, Akio Morinaga, Masahiro Seshimo, Hitoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 4684556
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for pipe lines having a relatively large inner diameter and possibly a plurality of bends or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and a weft knitted or woven in a tubular form overlaid with an air-impervious coating of a flexible synthetic resin and is applicable onto the inner surface of a pipe line which has a relatively large inner diameter and may have a plurality of bends or curved portions in such manner that the tubular lining material with a binder on the inner surface thereof may be inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line with or without the aid of a leading rope-like elongated material while turning the tubular lining material inside out under fluid pressure thereby applying the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the binder being interposed between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, characterized in that the warps are comprised of crimped yarns of polybutylene te
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ohtsuga, Akio Morinaga, Yoichi Sakaguchi, Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4584963
    Abstract: A system for repairing joints in pipes laid underground, such as gas pipes, in their buried state, from their inside, to ensure their sealing.The system, in the process of pushing the resin used for repairing along the inside of the pipes by the pig, is to fill and seal the sealing material with the resin through gaps in numerous pipe joints inside of the pipes. In order to guarantee insertion of resin into gaps in the pipe joints (sealing material) whether or not the pipe joint has developed a leak, the system comprises a substitution pig, and a means whereby the pig pushes the resin placed ahead of it along the pipe, and further, a means whereby the filling amount of the resin does not change even if the amount of resin present in front of the pig differs between the early and later stages of the repairing operation, gaps in the pipe joints will be uniformly filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Hakko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Mitsutoshi Hayashi, Motoyuki Koga
  • Patent number: 4576205
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for pipe lines having bends or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and wefts woven in a tubular form overlaid with a coating of a flexible synthetic resin and is applicable onto the inner surface of a pipe line having bends or curved portions in such manner that the tubular lining material with a binder onto the inner surface thereto is inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line with or without the aid of a leading rope-like elongated element while turning the tubular lining material inside out under fluid pressure thereby applying the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the binder being interposed between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, characterized in that a part or all of the warps are comprised of an elastic yarn around which, over the full length thereof, a synthetic fiber yarn or yarns have been left-and/or right-handedly coiled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Yoichi Sakaguchi, Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4368091
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing the inner surface of a pipe with a flexible tubular lining material through a liquid resin under pressure which comprises fixing one end of a flexible tubular lining material in such manner that the flexible tubular lining material is turned inside out at the fixed end to an annular fastener of a connecting assembly connected in the front thereof to a pipe to be treated and thereafter applying fluid pressure to the annular fastener from the rear of the assembly to push the tubular lining material forward within the pipe while effecting evagination of the tubular lining material at the same time at the top of the proceeding tubular lining material thereby attaching the inner surface of the tubular lining material exposed by evagination under pressure tightly to the inner surface of the pipe, characterized by previously forming a reservoir of the liquid resin enclosed in the interior of the unevaginated portion of the tubular lining material positioned in the rear of the ann
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ontsuga, Akio Morinaga, Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 4350548
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for causing a flexible tubular lining material to be fixed to the inner surface of a pipe line wherein the tubular lining material is initially attached to the inner surface of the pipe line by a binder provided on the surface of the tubular lining material which comprises providing a flexible hose material having a porous structure inside the pipe line which has been lined with the tubular lining material and introducing a heated gaseous fluid stream into the interior of the flexible hose whereby the heated gaseous fluid stream is introduced through the pores of the flexible hose along the inner surface of the lined pipe line, the flexible tubular lining material being warmed to accelerate the curing of the binder interposed between the inner surface of the pipe line and the flexible lining material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Zenbayashi, Akio Morinaga, Masao Hirayama, Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 4334943
    Abstract: A method for smoothly evaginating a tubular material under pressure, if necessary, within a pipe line with simultaneous bonding the evaginated tubular material onto the inner surface of the pipe line, which comprises placing in a pressure container having a discharge pipe a part or whole of a tubular material, if necessary, with one terminal end thereof being connected to a first like material rope having a length at least equal to that of the tubular material, if necessary forming a reservoir of a binder enclosed in the interior of the tubular material placed in the pressure container to apply the binder onto the inner surface of the tubular material, fixing the other open terminal end in evaginated state to an annular fastener of said discharge pipe, and applying a pressurized fluid to the pressure container to evaginate the tubular material over its full length as it is propelled from the discharge pipe and, if necessary, moved forward within the pipe line and at the same time bonding the evaginated tubula
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Kabushiki Kaisha, Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Zenbayashi, Akio Morinaga, Masao Hirayama, Akira Morita