Patents by Inventor Masanori Midooka

Masanori Midooka 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: 5085005
    Abstract: A weather strip to be attached along a belt line of a door of a motor vehicle for wiping an outer surface of a door glass when the door glass is raised and lowered. The weather strip has a base portion to be attached along the belt line of a door outer panel, a lip extending from the base portion obliquely upwardly toward the door glass so that an end of the lip contacts the outer surface of the door glass, and a blade extending from the base portion under the lip in a direction of the outer surface of the door glass. An end of the blade contacts the outer surface of the door glass. When the door glass is raised and lowered, the blade turns upwardly and downwardly, thereby wiping the outer surface of the door glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yasukawa, Tadanobu Iwasa, Masanori Midooka
  • Patent number: 4708351
    Abstract: A sealing layer that seals the gap between the body or window glass and the weatherstrip attached to the door, window, trunk, roof side, etc. of an automobile, and also to a weatherstrip, automotive body, and glass plate provided with said sealing layer. The water-absorbing material swells upon absorption of water, sealing the fitting part of the weatherstrip. The water-absorbing material is made of a mixture of a water-absorbing polymer and rubber or synthetic resin. The sealing layer is formed on the fitting part of the weatherstrip, body, or window glass at which the weatherstrip is fitted to the automotive body or the window glass is fitted to the weatherstrip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Midooka, Takashi Kubo, Atsunobu Fujikawa, Masanori Motoda
  • Patent number: 4447066
    Abstract: A sealing boot of elastomeric material for hermetically closing an annular opening between support and movable members in relatively reciprocable relationship, the sealing boot including a tubular bellows portion which is integrally formed at the opposite ends thereof with a pair of cylindrical sealing portions respectively attached to the support and movable members, and wherein one of the cylindrical sealing portions is formed with a cylindrical sealing surface to be tightly in contact with the outer circumference of either the support or movable member and is further formed at its inner end with an annular flank which is curved radially away from the cylindrical sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei
    Inventors: Masayoshi Katagiri, Toshio Kondo, Masanori Midooka