Patents by Inventor Noritaka Matsuoka

Noritaka Matsuoka 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: 8474800
    Abstract: A fluid filled type vibration damping device including an elastic rubber body elastically connecting an inner shaft member and an outer tube member. The elastic rubber body has a solid rubber wall that includes inside face recesses and outside face recesses respectively formed to either side of the inner shaft member in an axis-perpendicular direction so that a pair of thin portions and a pair of thick portions respectively situated in opposition along mutually orthogonal axes lying in axis-perpendicular directions are formed in the solid rubber wall. A deepest part of the inside face recesses is situated towards an axial small diameter side of the solid rubber wall with respect to an deepest part of the outside face recesses, with the inside face recesses and the outside face recesses overlapping one another in the axis-perpendicular direction of the solid rubber wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Okumura, Noritaka Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20100102495
    Abstract: A fluid filled type vibration damping device including an elastic rubber body elastically connecting an inner shaft member and an outer tube member. The elastic rubber body has a solid rubber wall that includes inside face recesses and outside face recesses respectively formed to either side of the inner shaft member in an axis-perpendicular direction so that a pair of thin portions and a pair of thick portions respectively situated in opposition along mutually orthogonal axes lying in axis-perpendicular directions are formed in the solid rubber wall. A deepest part of the inside face recesses is situated towards an axial small diameter side of the solid rubber wall with respect to an deepest part of the outside face recesses, with the inside face recesses and the outside face recesses overlapping one another in the axis-perpendicular direction of the solid rubber wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Okumura, Noritaka Matsuoka