Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Usuki

Tsutomu Usuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20230160110
    Abstract: An industrial fabric 100 is an industrial fabric in which an upper surface side fabric composed of upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts and a lower surface side fabric composed of lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts are bound to each other, wherein an upper surface side warp 1Ub functions as an upper surface side binding yarn binding the upper surface side fabric and the lower surface side fabric, and a lower surface side warp 2Lb functions as a lower surface side binding yarn binding the upper surface side fabric and the lower surface side fabric. The number of knuckles formed by the upper surface side warp 1Ub in the upper surface side fabric is larger than the number of knuckles formed by the lower surface side warp 2Lb in the upper surface side fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Shigenobu Fujisawa, Tsutomu Usuki
  • Publication number: 20210324552
    Abstract: In a multilayer fabric for nonwoven fabric 30, an upper-surface-side fabric formed from upper-surface-side warps (1Ub, 2U, 3U, 4U, 4U?, 5Ub, 6U, 7U, 8U, 8U?) and upper-surface-side wefts (1?U, 2?U, 3?U, 4?U) and a lower-surface-side fabric formed from lower-surface-side warps (1Lb, 2L, 3L, 5Lb, 6L, 7L) and lower-surface-side wefts (1?L, 2?L, 3?L, 4?L) are bound together. First warps (1Ub, 5Ub) of the upper-surface-side warps serve as first binding yarns that bind the upper-surface-side fabric and the lower-surface-side fabric, and second warps (1Lb, 5Lb) of the lower-surface-side warps serve as second binding yarns that bind the upper-surface-side fabric and the lower-surface-side fabric. A high-friction yarn is used as at least some of the upper-surface-side warps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Toru Egawa, Tsutomu Usuki, Keisuke Inoue
  • Patent number: 10858766
    Abstract: An industrial fabric includes upper surface side warps, lower side warps, wefts and an auxiliary yarn. Each of the lower side warps is arranged below each of the upper side warps respectively. The upper side warps and the lower side warps are woven by the wefts. The auxiliary yarn is disposed between the upper side warps and the lower side warps without being woven by the upper side warps and the lower side warps. The auxiliary yarn is disposed between two of the adjacently disposed wefts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Usuki
  • Patent number: 10392729
    Abstract: A binding structure of an industrial fabric for binding both ends of a fabric with ends to form it into an endless type has loops formed by bending a portion or all ends of warp constituting the fabric at both ends and folding it back, the loop at the one end constitutes a binding loop which forms a common hole into which a core wire is introduced upon binding, the loop at the other end portion which is opposed to the binding loop to form a pair with the binding loop upon binding has a structure into which the binding loop is fitted and against which the binding loop is locked, and forms a loop hole into which the core wire is not introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Usuki, Fumihito Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9458559
    Abstract: A multi-layer nonwoven fabric at least constituted by a first warp, a second warp, an upper surface side weft, and a lower surface side weft, the first warp is woven with the wefts of all layers from the upper surface side weft to the lower surface side weft, the second warp is only woven with the upper surface side weft, the first warp constitutes a pair to form one upper surface side warp structure on an upper surface side layer, whereby a complete structure of a plain weave design is formed by the first and second warps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Usuki
  • Publication number: 20160168765
    Abstract: A binding structure of an industrial fabric for binding both ends of a fabric with ends to form it into an endless type has loops formed by bending a portion or all ends of warp constituting the fabric at both ends and folding it back, the loop at the one end constitutes a binding loop which forms a common hole into which a core wire is introduced upon binding, the loop at the other end portion which is opposed to the binding loop to form a pair with the binding loop upon binding has a structure into which the binding loop is fitted and against which the binding loop is locked, and forms a loop hole into which the core wire is not introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Nippon Filcon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu USUKI, Fumihito TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160160405
    Abstract: The present invention includes an industrial fabric of double warps-single weft woven type wherein at least an upper surface side warp and a lower surface side warp are laminated to be woven by a plurality of wefts comprises an auxiliary weft are kept arranged between the upper surface side warp and the lower surface side warp without the upper and lower surface warps being woven with each other between the adjacent wefts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Tsutomu USUKI
  • Publication number: 20140127959
    Abstract: This two-layer weave for non-woven fabric fulfills the required characteristics of weaves for unwoven fabrics such as stiffness while increasing the effect of preventing adhesion of fibers, etc., and maintains the antifouling effect despite surface wear occasioned by long-term use in industrial processes involving nonwoven fabric. In this weave for a nonwoven fabric, a top weave constituted from top warp threads and top weft threads and a bottom weave constituted from bottom warp threads and bottom weft threads are bonded by means of weft-binding threads. The weft-binding threads are woven together so as to bond internally, and the top warp threads and the top weft threads are characterized by being formed from a fluororesin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Tsutomu Usuki, Jun Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20140020786
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a multi-layer nonwoven fabric which is capable of meeting required characteristics for the nonwoven fabric such as good air permeability, high lateral rigidity, while at the same time of solving a the fibers stuck problem caused by the used of the fabric which has arisen in the conventional nonwoven fabric and of improving the surface density and the oblique rigidity to increase the sheet supportability. The present invention provides a multi-layer nonwoven fabric at least constituted by a first warp, a second warp, an upper surface side weft, and a lower surface side weft, the first warp is woven with the wefts of all layers from the upper surface side weft to the lower surface side weft, the second warp is only woven with the upper surface side weft, the first warp constitutes a pair to form one upper surface side warp structure on an upper surface side layer, whereby a complete structure of a plain weave design is formed by the first and second warps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Tsutomu Usuki