Patents by Inventor Hideki Wakahara

Hideki Wakahara 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: 6021812
    Abstract: In a ball plug valve (10 ) which has a main opening (14 ) and an auxiliary opening (14 ) A serving as the inlet openings of a flow through hole (13 ) of a ball (12 ) and which has a sectorial opening (15 ) serving as an outlet opening thereof; it is set so that a tip (15 ) A of the sectorial opening (15 ) is in a first sealing region (17 ) A provided by an outlet sealing member near an outlet passage when the valve is fully closed, while the tip (15 ) A of the sectorial opening (15 ) passes across the outlet passage and enters a second sealing region (17 ) B provided by an outlet sealing member when the valve is fully opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha & Ichinose Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Iwamoto, Tadashi Ogawa, Hitoshi Ishiyama, Hideki Wakahara
  • Patent number: 4921751
    Abstract: A conductive fabric comprising conductive fibers and thermoplastic fibers with a higher heat shrinkage than that of said conductive fibers, said conductive fibers being crimped by heat shrinkage of said thermoplastic fibers. This invention also provides a conductive sheet or film comprising the conductive fabric and a base on which said conductive fabric is disposed, said conductive fabric and said base that are laminated together being fused into one piece by being heated at a temperature above the melting point of the thermoplastic fibers and melting said thermoplastic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Wakahara, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Minoru Kawamura