Patents Assigned to HOWA CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20260162640
    Abstract: A chip mixed body is formed by mixing a plurality of urethane chips, a plurality of another urethane chips, a plurality of chip-shaped fiber lumps, and a plurality of chip-shaped fiber pieces with a binder under hardening the binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12491825
    Abstract: A sound-absorbing material attached to a vehicle exterior member which comprises an intermediate layer having a fiber web of entangled thermoplastic synthetic fibers, and a skin layer having a nonwoven fabric containing thermoplastic synthetic fibers, the layers being laminated with each other. A peripheral edge portion is heat-compressed in a state where the intermediate layer and the skin layer are layered. A crimped portion is heat-compressed in the thickness direction. A plurality of the crimped portions are provided on at least a part of the surface of the intermediate layer laminated with the skin layer and positioned within the peripheral edge portion. A sound-absorbing portion is a portion in which the intermediate layer and the skin layer are laminated in a state where the fiber web is compressed thinner than its natural thickness by the crimped portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: Howa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 12384306
    Abstract: Each mixed main body of a plurality of mixed members is formed from a pulverized raw material of a steric shape, of a plurality of pulverized raw materials obtained by pulverizing a layered composite raw material into various shapes including the steric shape and a linear shape. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is formed by a plurality of glass fibers extending by the pulverization from a portion of the mixed main body corresponding to a glass fiber layer. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is located in a labyrinthine path formed between mixed main bodies facing each other among the plurality of mixed members in a stirred mixture body including the plurality of mixed members stirred and mixed in a binder and the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Yanagihara, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kosuke Ueda
  • Publication number: 20250083499
    Abstract: The service hole cover member is formed as the two-layer laminated body in which the cushion layer and the board member with sound-insulating performance and rigidity are laminated in this order. The cushion layer is formed of flexible elastic material with sound-absorbing performance and waterproof performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke UEDA, Kazuhiro OKADA, Keiya SABA
  • Publication number: 20240253430
    Abstract: A sunshade is formed by laminating a front skin member, a core member, and a back skin member in this order, and the core member is formed by laminating a resin-impregnated semi-hard urethane foam layer between two glass fiber mats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu FUSHIKI, Takumi TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20230303013
    Abstract: A vehicle interior or exterior member includes a base material layer laminated with a sound-absorbing layer. The base material layer is a fiber molded body containing a thermoplastic synthetic resin. The sound-absorbing layer includes a fiber web and a cover layer. The cover layer is a nonwoven fabric containing a thermoplastic synthetic fibers and covers the fiber web. The vehicle interior or exterior member includes a bonding portion, a sound-absorbing portion, and a crimped portion. The bonding portion includes the thermoplastic synthetic fibers on the surface of the sound-absorbing layer in contact with the thermoplastic synthetic resin in the base material layer thermally being bonded to each other. At a position separated from the base material layer, the sound-absorbing portion remains in a fiber web state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Howa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20230219505
    Abstract: A sound-absorbing material attached to a vehicle exterior member which comprises an intermediate layer having a fiber web of entangled thermoplastic synthetic fibers, and a skin layer having a nonwoven fabric containing thermoplastic synthetic fibers, the layers being laminated with each other. A peripheral edge portion is heat-compressed in a state where the intermediate layer and the skin layer are layered. A crimped portion is heat-compressed in the thickness direction. A plurality of the crimped portions are provided on at least a part of the surface of the intermediate layer laminated with the skin layer and positioned within the peripheral edge portion. A sound-absorbing portion is a portion in which the intermediate layer and the skin layer are laminated in a state where the fiber web is compressed thinner than its natural thickness by the crimped portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Howa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20230132204
    Abstract: Each mixed main body of a plurality of mixed members is formed from a pulverized raw material of a steric shape, of a plurality of pulverized raw materials obtained by pulverizing a layered composite raw material into various shapes including the steric shape and a linear shape. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is formed by a plurality of glass fibers extending by the pulverization from a portion of the mixed main body corresponding to a glass fiber layer. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members is located in a labyrinthine path formed between mixed main bodies facing each other among the plurality of mixed members in a stirred mixture body including the plurality of mixed members stirred and mixed in a binder and the binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Kosuke UEDA
  • Publication number: 20220315796
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sound insulating layer by application of raw materials for urethane resin, by applying row materials for urethane resin in their liquid states along a surface of a porous layer of a soundproof body to manufacture as the sound insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: HOWA CO., LTD., COVESTRO LLC, CONVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG
    Inventors: Shinobu FUSHIKI, Takahiro ASAI, John W. JENNY, Fumihiko NODA
  • Patent number: 11407367
    Abstract: A soundproof body is formed by a two-layer lamination structure of a felt layer and a film layer. Some of plural fibers constructing the felt layer are formed to be thicker than the remaining fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kato, Kousuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 10889331
    Abstract: A hood silencer includes a back skin layer, a thin film layer, a first shape-retaining layer, a sound-absorbing layer, a second shape-retaining layer, an aeration-suppressing layer, and a front skin layer. The aeration-suppressing layer suppresses oozing of a binder resin out of the surface of the front skin layer from the second shape-retaining layer during the heat forming of the second shape-retaining layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Asai, Akihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 10787132
    Abstract: A ceiling material for a vehicle includes a ceiling interior material facing a vehicle cabin inner surface of a roof panel for a vehicle, and a reinforcement member arranged on an upper surface of the ceiling interior material on the side of the roof panel. The reinforcement member may include a rod-like member and supporting members for respectively supporting at least two sections in a slidable manner in a longitudinal direction of the rod-like member. Each of the supporting members includes a fitting portion which allows the rod-like member to be fitted from a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: HOWA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Toba