Patents by Inventor Yoshitomo Iyoda
Yoshitomo Iyoda 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: 11267369Abstract: A motion guiding device includes: a lower rail having a guiding groove; an upper rail movably disposed in the guiding groove; a first side cover and a second side cover that are fixed to the lower rail; and a slide fastener held by the first side cover and the second side cover. Each of the first side cover and the second side cover includes: a cover body piece engaged with a fastener tape of the slide fastener such that the fastener tape is movable to open and close the slide fastener; and a fixing piece extending from a surface of the cover body piece. The cover body piece includes a support projection projecting from the surface of the cover body piece.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Tomonari Yoshida, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 10952510Abstract: There is provided a hook-and-loop fastener manufacturing method. Injection molding is performed to form a molded product in which a pillar group and a base plate having a surface from which the pillar group protrudes are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the pillar group is cut to form a cut product in which a small pillar group shorter than the pillar group and the base plate are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the small pillar group is melted to form pillar body portions which are non-melted portions and engaging portions which are melted portions and thicker than the pillar body portions from small pillars. The engaging portions are cooled to determine shapes of a plurality of engaging elements including the pillar body portions and the engaging portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Inventors: Tetsuya Fukuzawa, Yasuaki Funo, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Wanli Zhang
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Publication number: 20210046850Abstract: A motion guiding device includes: a lower rail having a guiding groove; an upper rail movably disposed in the guiding groove; a first side cover and a second side cover that are fixed to the lower rail; and a slide fastener held by the first side cover and the second side cover. Each of the first side cover and the second side cover includes: a cover body piece engaged with a fastener tape of the slide fastener such that the fastener tape is movable to open and close the slide fastener; and a fixing piece extending from a surface of the cover body piece. The cover body piece includes a support projection projecting from the surface of the cover body piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Tsutomu YAMADA, Tomonari YOSHIDA, Yoshitomo IYODA
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Patent number: 10758060Abstract: A cover-material fastening clip includes a locking portion having a guide piece and a hook which includes an extension portion and a distal end portion. The guide piece extends includes a bent portion bent and extended toward the distal end portion. An insertion opening having a predetermined gap and allowing a wire to be inserted therethrough is positioned between the bent portion and the distal end portion. A distal end portion of the guide piece extending from the bent portion is an elastic piece portion being elastically deformed to be spaced from the distal end portion and to widen the insertion opening. In a part of the locking portion, which is located within a range, in which the elastic piece portion can be elastically deformed and thus moved, an escape space is provided to allow a distal end of the elastic piece portion to be positioned therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Genta Matsumura, Shinsuke Saiga, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Takefumi Adachi
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Patent number: 10618800Abstract: There is provided a skin-material fixing clip for connecting a skin material with a cushion material and provided with a locking section and a hook. The hook is provided with an extension portion extending downward from the locking section and a claw-shaped portion extending laterally from a distal end of the extension portion. The locking section is provided with a wire guide piece. A groove portion surrounded by the claw-shaped portion and the extension portion defines a wire holding space. Parts of the wire guide piece and the claw-shaped portion facing the wire insertion opening defines guide surfaces. The distal end portion of the wire guide piece and the distal end portion of the claw-shaped portion are provided to be spaced from each other along a direction parallel to an extending direction of the groove portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Genta Matsumura, Tomonari Yoshida, Ryuichi Murasaki, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Yuka Makino, Tsutomu Yamada
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Patent number: 10508018Abstract: A cover attaching device for attaching a cover to a seat body is disclosed. This device comprises a cover holder which includes one or more clip holding means capable of holding at least one clip, the cover holder being configured to hold the cover, to which the clip has been attached, via the clip being held by the clip holding means; and a distance adjusting means capable of adjusting a distance between the cover holder and a table on which the seat body can be placed.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Fukuzawa, Shinsuke Saiga, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 10448743Abstract: A clip has an engagement portion including: a first arm with a first claw at the top end side; a second arm with a second claw at the top end side; and a bottom provided at the respective base end sides of the first arm and the second arm. Projections of the first claw and the second claw defines a left-right width of a mouth. A third claw projects into the retaining space at a position closer to the base end of the first arm, and a fourth claw is provided which projects into the retaining space at a position closer to the base end of the second arm. The third claw is narrower than the first claw in their widths along a front-back direction orthogonal to the depth direction of the retaining space extending from the mouth to the bottom and the left-right width direction of the mouth.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 10426231Abstract: A molded surface fastener comprises at least one surface fastener portion and a foldable piece portion that extends from the surface fastener portion. At least a part of the foldable piece portion has flexibility. The surface fastener portion has a pair of first barrier portions and a second barrier portion. A cushion body with the molded surface fastener anchored to a prescribed position while a plurality of engaging elements are in an exposed state can be stably manufactured by way of foam molding the cushion body using the molded surface fastener.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Toru Yamamoto, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Genta Matsumura
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Publication number: 20190142181Abstract: A cover-material fastening clip includes a locking portion having a guide piece and a hook which includes an extension portion and a distal end portion. The guide piece extends includes a bent portion bent and extended toward the distal end portion. An insertion opening having a predetermined gap and allowing a wire to be inserted therethrough is positioned between the bent portion and the distal end portion. A distal end portion of the guide piece extending from the bent portion is an elastic piece portion being elastically deformed to be spaced from the distal end portion and to widen the insertion opening. In a part of the locking portion, which is located within a range, in which the elastic piece portion can be elastically deformed and thus moved, an escape space is provided to allow a distal end of the elastic piece portion to be positioned therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Genta Matsumura, Shinsuke Saiga, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Takefumi Adachi
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Publication number: 20190059523Abstract: There is provided a hook-and-loop fastener manufacturing method. Injection molding is performed to form a molded product in which a pillar group and a base plate having a surface from which the pillar group protrudes are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the pillar group is cut to form a cut product in which a small pillar group shorter than the pillar group and the base plate are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the small pillar group is melted to form pillar body portions which are non-melted portions and engaging portions which are melted portions and thicker than the pillar body portions from small pillars. The engaging portions are cooled to determine shapes of a plurality of engaging elements including the pillar body portions and the engaging portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Tetsuya Fukuzawa, Yasuaki Funo, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Wanli Zhang
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Publication number: 20180352962Abstract: A clip has an engagement portion including: a first arm with a first claw at the top end side; a second arm with a second claw at the top end side; and a bottom provided at the respective base end sides of the first arm and the second arm. Projections of the first claw and the second claw defines a left-right width of a mouth. A third claw projects into the retaining space at a position closer to the base end of the first arm, and a fourth claw is provided which projects into the retaining space at a position closer to the base end of the second arm. The third claw is narrower than the first claw in their widths along a front-back direction orthogonal to the depth direction of the retaining space extending from the mouth to the bottom and the left-right width direction of the mouth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 10149516Abstract: There is provided a hook-and-loop fastener manufacturing method. Injection molding is performed to form a molded product in which a pillar group and a base plate having a surface from which the pillar group protrudes are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the pillar group is cut to form a cut product in which a small pillar group shorter than the pillar group and the base plate are integrated into a unified body. A tip part of the small pillar group is melted to form pillar body portions which are non-melted portions and engaging portions which are melted portions and thicker than the pillar body portions from small pillars. The engaging portions are cooled to determine shapes of a plurality of engaging elements including the pillar body portions and the engaging portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Fukuzawa, Yasuaki Funo, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Wanli Zhang
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Publication number: 20180162719Abstract: There is provided a skin-material fixing clip for connecting a skin material with a cushion material and provided with a locking section and a hook. The hook is provided with an extension portion extending downward from the locking section and a claw-shaped portion extending laterally from a distal end of the extension portion. The locking section is provided with a wire guide piece. A groove portion surrounded by the claw-shaped portion and the extension portion defines a wire holding space. Parts of the wire guide piece and the claw-shaped portion facing the wire insertion opening defines guide surfaces. The distal end portion of the wire guide piece and the distal end portion of the claw-shaped portion are provided to be spaced from each other along a direction parallel to an extending direction of the groove portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2015Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Genta Matsumura, Tomonari Yoshida, Ryuichi Murasaki, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Yuka Makino, Tsutomu Yamada
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Patent number: 9888746Abstract: This surface fastener has a substrate portion and a plurality of engaging elements, each of the engaging elements being provided with a stem portion standing from the substrate portion and a hook portion extending in the fastener width direction from the stem portion. The engaging element has a narrow width tip end portion provided with at least a hook portion and an enlarged width portion provided with only the stem portion, separated by a reference surface along the fastener length and height directions as a boundary. This makes an undercut hardly formable in the molding of the engaging element, and deficiencies such as deformation and the like of the engaging element can be prevented. Further, the strength of the stem portion can be increased, and a damage which a loop-shaped engaging element and the engaging element receive when the loop-shaped engaging element is attached or pulled out can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Tomonari Yoshida, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Toshiaki Takizawa
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Patent number: 9827890Abstract: A cover fastening clip includes a locking section that locks with an end member to be locked that is provided on the edge of a cover, and a hook that engages with a wire disposed in a groove of a cushion material. The hook is provided with an extended section that extends down from the locking section and a claw-shaped section, and the locking section is provided with a guide piece. The guide piece extends down along the extended section of the hook, bends at a midway bending section, and extends toward the distal end of the claw-shaped section. A wire insertion opening that has a prescribed gap and into which the wire is inserted is formed by the distal end of the guide piece reaching a location that faces the distal end of the claw-shaped section.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 9743777Abstract: A drawn instrument for securely attaching a cover includes a tape member having left and right surfaces and attachable to a cover, and a drawn portion provided at the end of the tape member and projected from the left and right surfaces of the tape member, the drawn portion extending along the end of the tape member. The drawn portion includes a plurality of attached portions for clip attachment that are separated along the longitudinal direction of the drawn portion and are recessed at both left and right sides, and a plurality of walls separated along the longitudinal direction of the drawn portion and projected at both left and right sides. At both left and right sides each wall is provided adjacent to the attached portion and positioned inwardly of the tape member relative to the attached portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Patent number: 9663007Abstract: There is provided a cover material fastening clip for attaching a cover material to a cushion material. The clip is provided with a locking portion, a hook portion and a guide portion. The hook portion is provided with an extending portion that extends downward from the locking portion, a first hook piece a second hook portion. The guide portion is formed in the locking portion or the extending portion and is located above the first and second hook pieces. A space between a leading end portion of the first hook piece and the guide portion serves as a first insertion opening with a predetermined gap into which the wire is inserted. A space between a leading end portion of the second hook piece and the guide portion serves as a second insertion opening with a predetermined gap into which the wire is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Genta Matsumura, Tomonari Yoshida, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Shinsuke Saiga
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Publication number: 20170129766Abstract: A cover attaching device for attaching a cover to a seat body is disclosed. This device comprises a cover holder which includes one or more clip holding means capable of holding at least one clip, the cover holder being configured to hold the cover, to which the clip has been attached, via the clip being held by the clip holding means; and a distance adjusting means capable of adjusting a distance between the cover holder and a table on which the seat body can be placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Tetsuya Fukuzawa, Shinsuke Saiga, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Publication number: 20170042296Abstract: A molded surface fastener comprises at least one surface fastener portion and a foldable piece portion that extends from the surface fastener portion. At least a part of the foldable piece portion has flexibility. The surface fastener portion has a pair of first barrier portions and a second barrier portion. A cushion body with the molded surface fastener anchored to a prescribed position while a plurality of engaging elements are in an exposed state can be stably manufactured by way of foam molding the cushion body using the molded surface fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Toru Yamamoto, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Genta Matsumura
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Publication number: 20170008435Abstract: This surface fastener has a substrate portion and a plurality of engaging elements, each of the engaging elements being provided with a stem portion standing from the substrate portion and a hook portion extending in the fastener width direction from the stem portion. The engaging element has a narrow width tip end portion provided with at least a hook portion and an enlarged width portion provided with only the stem portion, separated by a reference surface along the fastener length and height directions as a boundary. This makes an undercut hardly formable in the molding of the engaging element, and deficiencies such as deformation and the like of the engaging element can be prevented. Further, the strength of the stem portion can be increased, and a damage which a loop-shaped engaging element and the engaging element receive when the loop-shaped engaging element is attached or pulled out can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Tomonari Yoshida, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Toshiaki Takizawa