Patents by Inventor Tokunori Yanagi
Tokunori Yanagi 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).
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Patent number: 11971102Abstract: A gasket, to be installed between a first housing and a second housing, includes a first loop-shaped portion in a loop shape, a second loop-shaped portion in a loop shape that is positioned at a radially inner side of the first loop-shaped portion, with a first gap between the first loop-shaped portion and the second loop-shaped portion, and a first connector portion connecting the first loop-shaped portion and the second loop-shaped portion in a part of the first gap.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Tokunori Yanagi, Isao Tanji
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Publication number: 20240052928Abstract: Provided are a sealing device that can be easily manufactured and achieve a reduction in friction and a method for manufacturing the sealing device. A sealing device is provided between a housing in which a plurality of opening portions are formed in a tubular inner peripheral surface and a rotor that is disposed in the housing and switches a flow path by rotating relative to the housing. The sealing device includes a sealing device main body that is disposed along the inner peripheral surface and includes a sliding member provided on an inner surface or an outer surface. The sealing device main body has a plurality of through-holes that communicate with each of the plurality of openings, and the sealing device main body is a strip plate-shaped member with a flat plate shape that is bent and deformed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru TADANO, Tokunori YANAGI, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Koichi YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 11639754Abstract: A sealing arrangement is provided for sealing a mounting groove formed in a first or second mounting member separated by a gap and defining a hydraulic passage. A gasket is mounted in the groove between the passage and gap. The gasket includes an annular gasket body having first and second axial ends and a buried reinforcement ring. The gasket body includes a unitary flange extending radially outward from the first axial end. The flange includes a first seal lip extending axially outward from the flange proximate the passage or gap. The first seal lip contacts a surface of the first or second mounting member facing the passage. The gasket body includes a second seal lip extending outward from the second axial end to contact a bottom surface of the mounting groove.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Inventor: Tokunori Yanagi
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Publication number: 20220178445Abstract: A gasket, to be installed between a first housing and a second housing, includes a first loop-shaped portion in a loop shape, a second loop-shaped portion in a loop shape that is positioned at a radially inner side of the first loop-shaped portion, with a first gap between the first loop-shaped portion and the second loop-shaped portion, and a first connector portion connecting the first loop-shaped portion and the second loop-shaped portion in a part of the first gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Takeshi WATANABE, Tokunori YANAGI, Isao TANJI
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Patent number: 11333248Abstract: A gasket is configured to be mounted in a gasket mounting groove that opens to the radially inside of a mounting member provided with a hydraulic passage, and is provided with a back-side hydraulic passage serving as a gap on its groove bottom surface. The gasket includes a gasket body with a reinforcement ring buried therein and a flange provided to extend from one axial end of the gasket body toward the radially outside. The gasket also includes a one-end-side seal lip that is provided to extend from the one axial end of the gasket body toward one side in an axial direction and the radially inside, and is configured to come in contact with one axial side surface of the gasket mounting groove when the gasket body is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Inventor: Tokunori Yanagi
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Publication number: 20220128147Abstract: A sealing arrangement is provided for sealing a mounting groove formed in a first or second mounting member separated by a gap and defining a hydraulic passage. A gasket is mounted in the groove between the passage and gap. The gasket includes an annular gasket body having first and second axial ends and a buried reinforcement ring. The gasket body includes a unitary flange extending radially outward from the first axial end. The flange includes a first seal lip extending axially outward from the flange proximate the passage or gap. The first seal lip contacts a surface of the first or second mounting member facing the passage. The gasket body includes a second seal lip extending outward from the second axial end to contact a bottom surface of the mounting groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Tokunori Yanagi
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Publication number: 20210143502Abstract: A secondary battery gasket for use between stack members stacked on one another at varying intervals (tightening margins) allows the stack members to have appropriate sealing surfaces and achieve stable sealing performance, and minimizes the increase in the sealing width when a sealant is compressed. A gasket for a secondary battery placeable between stack members of a secondary battery includes a flat frame shaped to extend along sealing target portions on peripheries of the stack members, and an annular sealant bonded to a sealing edge of the frame and made of elastic material. The annular sealant includes an annular sealing bead extending along an entire length of the sealing edge and having a thickness greater than an interval between adjacent stack members The sealing bead has at least one annular recess along the entire length of the sealing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Hiroshi TSUCHIDA, Kazushi SAITO
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Patent number: 10927790Abstract: A cylinder head gasket to be mounted between a cylinder block and a cylinder head of an engine includes: at least one bore-hole plate having a bore hole which corresponds to a cylinder bore of the cylinder block; and a main plate disposed so as to surround the bore-hole plate, wherein the bore-hole plate and the main plate are separated from each other without being in contact with each other, while being connected with each other with a heat insulating member interposed between the bore-hole plate and the main plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Inventors: Tokunori Yanagi, Yuki Nakagawa, Takanori Anzai, Mitsuyasu Nakajima
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Publication number: 20200263630Abstract: A cylinder head gasket to be mounted between a cylinder block and a cylinder head of an engine includes: at least one bore-hole plate having a bore hole which corresponds to a cylinder bore of the cylinder block; and a main plate disposed so as to surround the bore-hole plate, wherein the bore-hole plate and the main plate are separated from each other without being in contact with each other, while being connected with each other with a heat insulating member interposed between the bore-hole plate and the main plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: NOK CorporationInventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Yuki NAKAGAWA, Takanori ANZAI, Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20200191273Abstract: A gasket is configured to be mounted in a gasket mounting groove that opens to the radially inside of a mounting member provided with a hydraulic passage, and is provided with a back-side hydraulic passage serving as a gap on its groove bottom surface. The gasket includes a gasket body with a reinforcement ring buried therein and a flange provided to extend from one axial end of the gasket body toward the radially outside. The gasket also includes a one-end-side seal lip that is provided to extend from the one axial end of the gasket body toward one side in an axial direction and the radially inside, and is configured to come in contact with one axial side surface of the gasket mounting groove when the gasket body is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventor: Tokunori YANAGI
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Patent number: 10612660Abstract: The invention provides a gasket having sealing lips in axial both ends of a gasket body in which a reinforcing ring is embedded. The gasket, has a structure in which the gasket body is displaced to the one axial side within the mounting groove when pressure acts on the gasket because the rigidity of a second sealing lip is set to be higher than the rigidity of a first sealing lip or a reinforcing ring is disposed closer to the one axial side within the gasket body. Furthermore, a seal bead which is brought into close contact to the bottom surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided in the gasket body and a space portion surrounded by the second sealing lip, the seal bead, and the bottom surface and the other side surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tokunori Yanagi, Masasuke Uchiyama, Takuya Amano, Yuki Nakagawa, Naoki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 10197162Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gasket capable of ensuring an excellent sealing property by a pair of seal beads oriented in directions axially opposing to each other, regardless of an inserting direction of the gasket into a setting groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NOK CorporationInventor: Tokunori Yanagi
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Publication number: 20190032783Abstract: The invention provides a gasket having sealing lips in axial both ends of a gasket body in which a reinforcing ring is embedded. The gasket, has a structure in which the gasket body is displaced to the one axial side within the mounting groove when pressure acts on the gasket because the rigidity of a second sealing lip is set to be higher than the rigidity of a first sealing lip or a reinforcing ring is disposed closer to the one axial side within the gasket body. Furthermore, a seal bead which is brought into close contact to the bottom surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided in the gasket body and a space portion surrounded by the second sealing lip, the seal bead, and the bottom surface and the other side surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Masasuke UCHIYAMA, Takuya AMANO, Yuki NAKAGAWA, Naoki HAGIWARA
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Publication number: 20180119789Abstract: A friction pulley includes a rotary wheel having a groove on an outer periphery of the rotary wheel rotatable about an axis, the groove being recessed toward an inner periphery side, and a rubber ring having an annular shape and can be accommodated in the groove. The groove has a pair of annular side surfaces facing each other in a direction of the axis and extending from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side. The rubber ring has a contact surface at an outer periphery of the rubber ring and friction surfaces that are a pair of surfaces corresponding to the pair of side surfaces of the groove. At least in a power transmission state where the contact surface is in pressure contact with the rotary member to transmit power, the friction surfaces of the rubber ring are pushed against the side surfaces of the groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Sosuke ITO, Tokunori YANAGI, Masahiko INOUE
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Publication number: 20180094568Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a water jacket spacer that can prevent cooling water from entering the space between the water jacket spacer and a bore side inner wall face of a water jacket by a simple structure and can facilitate mounting work into the water jacket. Provided is a water jacket spacer 1 that is inserted into a water jacket 102 and regulates the flow of cooling water flowing into the water jacket 102 from a cooling water inflow port 105a. The water jacket spacer 1 includes a first seal lip 13 that is arranged on the upper end of a spacer main body 10 and is in contact with a bore side inner wall face 102a of the water jacket 102 to seal a gap formed between the bore side inner wall face 102a and the spacer main body 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: NOK CorporationInventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Takuya AMANO
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Patent number: 9850940Abstract: In a dust cover for a ball joint, one end of a ball stud is retained within a socket, the other end is fixed by fastening a knuckle having a notch portion, one end large-diameter and other end small-diameter opening portions are respectively retained to the socket and the shaft, and a plate member is retained between an inner peripheral surface of the knuckle and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The plate member is constructed by an annular plate member, an elastic annular seal portion integrally formed in an inner peripheral side of the annular plate member, and an elastic engagement projection in the annular plate member in the knuckle side, and engaging with the notch portion. The annular seal portion is retained in a compression manner between an annular step portion in an inner peripheral surface of the knuckle and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Tokunori Yanagi, Tatsuro Hosen
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Publication number: 20170089465Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gasket capable of ensuring an excellent sealing property by a pair of seal beads oriented in directions axially opposing to each other, regardless of an inserting direction of the gasket into a setting groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: NOK CorporationInventor: Tokunori YANAGI
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Publication number: 20160273578Abstract: In a dust cover for a ball joint, one end of a ball stud is retained within a socket, the other end is fixed by fastening a knuckle having a notch portion, one end large-diameter and other end small-diameter opening portions are respectively retained to the socket and the shaft, and a plate member is retained between an inner peripheral surface of the knuckle and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The plate member is constructed by an annular plate member, an elastic annular seal portion integrally formed in an inner peripheral side of the annular plate member, and an elastic engagement projection in the annular plate member in the knuckle side, and engaging with the notch portion. The annular seal portion is retained in a compression manner between an annular step portion in an inner peripheral surface of the knuckle and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Tatsuro HOSEN
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Publication number: 20080036159Abstract: In a gasket installed to an inner peripheral surface of an opening portion in a housing such as a cylinder head cover or the like for sealing between the housing and an insertion member such as a plug tube or the like inserted to the opening portion, an object of the invention is to provide a gasket which can be free from a tear generated in an outer peripheral mounting portion at a time of pressure-inserting the gasket to a housing or can be securely pressure-inserted to the housing, even if high precision is not secured in an inner diameter of an opening portion in a housing such as a cylinder head cover or the like, thereby providing an excellent installation property.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2005Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventor: Tokunori Yanagi