Patents by Inventor Tomofumi Eguchi

Tomofumi Eguchi 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: 8973307
    Abstract: A door weather strip includes an upper extrusion molded part installed on a door sash on a roof side; a molded part without a slit thereon, connected to the upper extrusion molded part on a door corner part; and a lower extrusion molded part installed on a vertical part of the door sash and detachably inserted into the molded part; the upper and lower extrusion molded parts and the molded part having a base bottom part and a hollow seal member formed thereon, in which: a seal bead is formed on the molded part, the seal bead extending from an inner-cabin side toward an outer-cabin side relative to the base bottom part of the molded part on the roof side and descending along an outer-cabin side of a part of the molded part on the vertical part side of the door sash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomofumi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20140059940
    Abstract: A door weather strip includes an upper extrusion molded part installed on a door sash on a roof side; a molded part without a slit thereon, connected to the upper extrusion molded part on a door corner part; and a lower extrusion molded part installed on a vertical part of the door sash and detachably inserted into the molded part; the upper and lower extrusion molded parts and the molded part having a base bottom part and a hollow seal member formed thereon, in which: a seal bead is formed on the molded part, the seal bead extending from an inner-cabin side toward an outer-cabin side relative to the base bottom part of the molded part on the roof side and descending along an outer-cabin side of a part of the molded part on the vertical part side of the door sash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomofumi EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8256163
    Abstract: A glass run attached to a doorframe of a vehicle. The glass run comprises a molded part attached to a corner part of the doorframe, and a fin, formed integrally with the molded part, and covering the corner part of the doorframe. The fin includes a hook and lip that protrude from a back of a rim of the fin. The lip provides the rim of the fin with increased rigidity and prevents the rim of the fin from turning up and opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Eguchi, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20100126077
    Abstract: A glass run attached to a doorframe of a vehicle. The glass run comprises a molded part attached to a corner part of the doorframe, and a fin, formed integrally with the molded part, and covering the corner part of the doorframe. The fin includes a pair of hooks that protrude from a back of a rim of the fin. When the glass run is attached to the corner part of the doorframe, each of the hooks is engaged with a cutout formed in a flange of the doorframe so that the flange holds the rim of the fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Tomofumi Eguchi, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7650718
    Abstract: A glass run attached to a doorframe of a vehicle. The glass run comprises a molded part attached to a corner part of the doorframe, and a fin, formed integrally with the molded part, and covering the corner part of the doorframe. The fin includes a pair of hooks that protrude from a back of a rim of the fin. When the glass run is attached to the corner part of the doorframe, each of the hooks is engaged with a cutout formed in a flange of the doorframe so that the flange holds the rim of the fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Eguchi, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20080282616
    Abstract: A door weather strip 10 is mounted on a roof side of a door sash 11 of an automobile, said door sash 11 including: an outer surface 11A; a first mounting member 11B having an anchoring part 11Ba formed thereon; and a second mounting member 11C, wherein: said door weather strip 10 comprises: an outer lip 1 extending upward on an outer-cabin side of said door, of which an upper part makes an elastic contact with a body panel 13 and a base root 1a is positioned higher than said first mounting member 11B; a hollow seal member 2 mounted on an inner-cabin side compared with the outer lip 1 via a connecting member 3 by means of a clip 14 and which makes an elastic contact with said body panel 13; a rear lip 4 provided at a lower position of the outer lip 1 and which make an elastic contact with said first mounting member 1B; a hook 5 provided at a lower position of the connecting member 3 and engaging with an anchoring part 11Ba; and a seal lip 6 provided under said hook 5 and which makes an elastic contact with the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: NISHIKAW A RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomofumi EGUCHI, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20080265615
    Abstract: In a glass run attached to a doorframe of a vehicle, comprising a molded part attached to the corner part of the doorframe and a fin formed integrally with the molded part and covering the corner part of the doorframe, a pair of hooks protrude from the back of the fin rim in the middle properly apart from each other and, when the glass run is attached to the corner part of the doorframe, the hooks are each engaged with a cutout formed in the flange of the doorframe so that the flange holds the fin rim, thereby holding the fin rim without opening and no aperture is creased between the garnish and the fin rim regardless of any assembly error with the garnish and glass run assembled to the doorframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Tomofumi Eguchi, Toshifumi Matsuura