Patents by Inventor Osamu Kanehara

Osamu Kanehara 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: 7316097
    Abstract: A glass run channel mountable along a window frame and made of a thermoplastic elastomer includes a base portion, a pair of side wall portions extending from the base portion, and projections that engage the window frame. A non-slip portion made of material having a larger coefficient of friction with respect to the window frame than that of the thermoplastic elastomer is provided on a face of the base portion opposite to the window frame. The non-slip portion is less slidable on the window frame than the thermoplastic elastomer, and further less slidable due to an orthogonal load produced when the glass run channel is mounted and pressed. Therefore, the glass run channel is stably maintained at a predetermined position in the window frame even if a force is exerted by sliding the window pane repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Shiraiwa, Osamu Kanehara, Tatsuya Tamura, Yuji Tanaka, Hideto Hiwa
  • Publication number: 20070175101
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce or prevent noise during a slide movement of a window pane for a long period of time. A plurality of projecting ridges 30 and 31 are formed on surfaces of interior and exterior sealing lips 24 and 25 of a glass run channel to be mounted on a window frame, so as to be substantially in parallel to each other along a lengthwise direction of the sealing lips 24 and 25. Each of main projecting ridges 30 and 31 is formed so that a cross-sectional shape thereof becomes substantially a scalene triangle including a longer side at a root side of each of the sealing lips 24 and 25 and a shorter side at a distal end side of the sealing lips 24 and 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: tokai Kogyo co ltd
    Inventors: Osamu Kanehara, Masaki Shiraiwa
  • Publication number: 20060064936
    Abstract: A glass run channel mountable along a window frame and made of a thermoplastic elastomer includes a base portion, a pair of side wall portions extending from the base portion, and projections that engage the window frame. A non-slip portion made of material having a larger coefficient of friction with respect to the window frame than that of the thermoplastic elastomer is provided on a face of the base portion opposite to the window frame. The non-slip portion is less slidable on the window frame than the thermoplastic elastomer, and further less slidable due to an orthogonal load produced when the glass run channel is mounted and pressed. Therefore, the glass run channel is stably maintained at a predetermined position in the window frame even if a force is exerted by sliding the window pane repeatedly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Shiraiwa, Osamu Kanehara, Tatsuya Tamura, Yuji Tanaka, Hideto Hiwa
  • Patent number: 6143397
    Abstract: An opening trim including a body approximately U-shaped in section, a right-hand projection and a left-hand projection which are opposed to each other in a space surrounded with the body and mounted on an installing portion such as a flange. Each of the right-hand holding projection and the left-hand holding projection has a primary lip projecting rearward from a front portion of an inner side surface of the body, respectively. The right-hand holding projection and/or the left-hand holding projection have a secondary lip projecting inward from a rear portion of one and/or the other inner side surface of the body. Each of the secondary lips has an engaging concave temporarily engaging a leading end of each of the primary lips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Kanehara