Patents by Inventor Kunihiko Kawashima

Kunihiko Kawashima 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).

  • Publication number: 20220410682
    Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle capable of suppressing, at a low cost, generation of an abnormal noise caused by entered wind. A window glass for a vehicle according to an aspect of the present disclosure is used for a fixed window of the vehicle and includes a glass plate and a molding made of a resin provided at a peripheral edge of the glass plate. In the molding, a molding lower part disposed on a lower side of the window glass for the vehicle is configured to be disposed on an inside of the door panel when the window glass for the vehicle is mounted to a door panel, and a plate-shaped member projecting toward an outside of the vehicle is provided at the molding lower part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KAWASHIMA, Shigemitsu IGEI
  • Patent number: 10369868
    Abstract: A plate-like body with a resin frame attached thereto for a vehicle includes two main surfaces and an end part connecting the two main surfaces, and a resin frame integrally molded to a peripheral edge area of the plate-like body; the resin frame including a main part having a plurality of inner surfaces facing the two main surfaces and the end part, and a plurality of projections obliquely projecting from the main part in a direction opposite to the plate-like body; and the resin frame having no adhesive between the peripheral edge area and an inner surface close to the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kunihiko Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20180134125
    Abstract: A plate-like body with a resin frame attached thereto for a vehicle includes two main surfaces and an end part connecting the two main surfaces, and a resin frame integrally molded to a peripheral edge area of the plate-like body; the resin frame including a main part having a plurality of inner surfaces facing the two main surfaces and the end part, and a plurality of projections obliquely projecting from the main part in a direction opposite to the plate-like body; and the resin frame having no adhesive between the peripheral edge area and an inner surface close to the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI, Kunihiko KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9499028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window and a process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window, which are capable of providing excellent assembling performance, achieving high durability and providing a decorative member with high fitting accuracy to a resin frame in spite of being in a mode where the decorative member is post-fitted to the resin frame. In the process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to the present invention, in a retaining step, a boss is mounted to a decorative member with a base portion of the boss being retained by a retaining portion of the decorative member. Next, in an inserting step, a shaft portion of the boss is inserted into an aperture of a resin frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takanobu Kondo, Kunihiko Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20150258876
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window and a process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window, which are capable of providing excellent assembling performance, achieving high durability and providing a decorative member with high fitting accuracy to a resin frame in spite of being in a mode where the decorative member is post-fitted to the resin frame. In the process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to the present invention, in a retaining step, a boss is mounted to a decorative member with a base portion of the boss being retained by a retaining portion of the decorative member. Next, in an inserting step, a shaft portion of the boss is inserted into an aperture of a resin frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takanobu KONDO, Kunihiko Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20150017368
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plate-like body with a resin frame attached thereto, which includes a highly rigid and solid thick wall part where an imaginary inscribed circle inscribed in the resin frame has a diameter of at least of 7 mm, and a process for producing the plate-like body with a resin frame attached thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takanobu KONDOU, Kunihiro Yada, Yuya Eguchi, Hiroshi Sawayama, Kunihiko Kawashima