Patents by Inventor Kurato Okajima

Kurato Okajima 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: 8051607
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted on a circumferential portion of a door opening for a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a trim portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section and a hollow seal portion, and a designed lip is formed on the trim portion so as to extend therefrom. An adhesive layer and a flocked portion are formed on a designed surface of the weather strip such as an external surface of the designed lip, the flocked portion being provided with a multiplicity of pile fibers which are bonded to the adhesive layer at one end thereof, which pile fibers are each angled randomly with respect to a normal direction to the external surface of the lip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Kenji Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Takahara, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 7666489
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted at the peripheral part of a door opening of a door for an automobile. The weather strip includes a sectionally nearly U-shaped trim part and a hollow seal part. A design lip is extended out from the trim part. A decoration layer of a non-woven fabric is formed on the design surface of the weather strip such as the outer surface of the design lip through a resin bonding layer of polyethylene (PE). The non-woven fabric constituting the decoration layer contains fibers subjected to “crimping processing” and has predetermined elasticity (stretch of 5 mm or more when load of 20 N is applied).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 7608316
    Abstract: An extruded product formed by extrusion molding and continuing in a longitudinal direction includes: an extruded product body; and a decoration layer provided integrally on a surface of the extruded product body, wherein the decoration layer is provided on a substantially entire surface of the decoration layer by combining an irregular surface pattern and a plurality of linear grooves on the surface thereof, and the depth of the linear groove is deeper than the depth of the irregular surface pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Hitoshi Omori
  • Patent number: 7543881
    Abstract: An opening trim weather strip includes a trim portion, a seal portion, and a cover lip integrally formed to the trim portion and extended to a vehicle interior side thereof. The cover lip is formed with a cover lip main body by a sponge member and formed with a cover lip skin layer formed by a solid member at a surface of the cover lip main body. A modulus of the cover lip skin layer is made to be equal to or smaller than a modulus of the cover lip main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Satoshi Toki, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20080261015
    Abstract: The long molded article having a decoration layer of a thermoplastic elastomer and molded by extrusion molding, wherein the decoration layer contains 2 to 10 parts by weight of an OBSH-based foaming agent and 3 to 10 parts by weight of an one or more organic acid salt selected from an ascorbic acid salt, an acetic acid salt, a gluconic acid salt, a glutamic acid salt, a malic acid salt, and a succinic acid salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20080216411
    Abstract: A weatherstrip is mounted along a peripheral part of a door opening of an automobile. The weatherstrip has a body including a cross-sectionally substantially-U-shaped trim portion, and a hollow seal portion. Additionally, a design lip is formed on the trim portion to extend therefrom. Then, a decorative layer formed of a woven fabric is provided on a design surface of the weatherstrip through a hotmelt adhesive layer. The woven fabric constituting the decorative layer is constituted by raw yarns. Also, a hotmelt adhesive layer is thermally fused thereto due to residual heat in a case where the body is cooled to a temperature, which is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, after vulcanization of a material of the body. Thus, the decorative layer is attached to a weatherstrip body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Publication number: 20080122251
    Abstract: An opening trim weather strip includes a trim portion, a seal portion, and a cover lip integrally formed to the trim portion and extended to a vehicle interior side thereof. The cover lip is formed with a cover lip main body by a sponge member and formed with a cover lip skin layer formed by a solid member at a surface of the cover lip main body. A modulus of the cover lip skin layer is made to be equal to or smaller than a modulus of the cover lip main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Satoshi Toki, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20080070006
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted at the peripheral part of a door opening of a door for an automobile. The weather strip includes a sectionally nearly U-shaped trim part and a hollow seal part. A design lip is extended out from the trim part. A decoration layer of a non-woven fabric is formed on the design surface of the weather strip such as the outer surface of the design lip through a resin bonding layer of polyethylene (PE). The non-woven fabric constituting the decoration layer contains fibers subjected to “crimping processing” and has predetermined elasticity (stretch of 5 mm or more when load of 20 N is applied).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20070101657
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted on a circumferential portion of a door opening for a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a trim portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section and a hollow seal portion, and a designed lip is formed on the trim portion so as to extend therefrom. An adhesive layer and a flocked portion are formed on a designed surface of the weather strip such as an external surface of the designed lip, the flocked portion being provided with a multiplicity of pile fibers which are bonded to the adhesive layer at one end thereof, which pile fibers are each angled randomly with respect to a normal direction to the external surface of the lip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Kenji Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Takahara, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20050186396
    Abstract: An extruded product formed by extrusion molding and continuing in a longitudinal direction includes: an extruded product body; and a decoration layer provided integrally on a surface of the extruded product body, wherein the decoration layer is provided on a substantially entire surface of the decoration layer by combining an irregular surface pattern and a plurality of linear grooves on the surface thereof, and the depth of the linear groove is deeper than the depth of the irregular surface pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Hitoshi Omori
  • Publication number: 20050031830
    Abstract: A glass run includes extruded parts and molded parts connecting the extruded parts together. Each of the extruded parts and the molded parts has a main body portion and seal lips. An interior design lip is formed on an interior side wall portion located on an interior side of a vehicle so as to extend therefrom, while an exterior design lip is formed on an exterior side wall portion located on an exterior side of the vehicle so as to extend therefrom. A film made of an olefin resin material, which is same to the material of each of the molded parts is bonded to the exterior surface of the exterior design lip of each of the extruded parts so as to present the same color and luster as those of the molded parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Masahiro Mozaki