Patents Assigned to Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8840136
    Abstract: A front pillar trim mounting structure has a front pillar (10), a front pillar trim (30), an airbag (60), and an assist grip (70). The front pillar is provided in the front portion of a vehicle. The front pillar trim (30) covers the front pillar (10) from the inner side of the vehicle. The airbag (60) is located between the front pillar (10) and the front pillar trim (30). The assist grip (70) is attached to the front pillar (10), and is installed on a vehicle inner surface of the front pillar trim (30). The front pillar trim (30) has a first front pillar trim (40), a second front pillar trim (50), and an engagement mechanism (54). The assist grip (70) is installed on the first front pillar trim (40). The second front pillar trim (50) is provided with an opening where the first front pillar trim (40) is installed. The engagement mechanism (54) detachably connects the second front pillar trim (50) to first front pillar trim (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Masatsugu, Hiroyuki Seto, Takahiro Narikiyo
  • Patent number: 8827342
    Abstract: In a vehicle package tray (100) disposed in the back of a rear seat of a vehicle, a sheet-shaped glass fiber mats (108), in which urethane resin (110) is impregnated, are overlapped on both surfaces of a semi-hard urethane foam layer (102), a front surface material (104) is overlapped on the surface of one glass fiber mat (108), in which the urethane resin (110) is impregnated, via a first adhesive film (106), back material (114) is overlapped on the surface of the other glass fiber mat (108), in which the urethane resin (110) is impregnated, via a second adhesive film (112), and the multi-overlapped object obtains a sound absorbing performance by being formed into a three-dimensional shape by being pinched and fixed by a press die, heated, pressurized, and thereby fused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Atsushi Kuroda, Hiroyuki Seto
  • Patent number: 8701825
    Abstract: In order to mitigate transmission to the passenger compartment of noise generated in the engine compartment, a dash silencer is installed on the passenger-compartment-side surface of the dash panel of an automobile, wherein the mounting operation is facilitated by improving the mounting structure for the dash silencer. A stud pin is provided to the passenger-compartment-side surface of the dash panel, a chevron-shaped slit is formed in the mat-shaped dash silencer, and the stud pin is inserted through the slit, whereby the dash silencer is mounted on the passenger-compartment-side surface of the dash panel, wherein, when the chevron-shaped slit is formed in the dash silencer, a lower portion separated by the slit is caused to project farther than the upper portion toward the passenger compartment, and the lower portion is caused to inflect into the passenger compartment so as to form a stepped shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Shuichi Mizata
  • Patent number: 8695758
    Abstract: A dash silencer is constructed by layering a front side layer formed from a porous material, an intermediate layer constructed by a film structure body and a rear side layer. The rear side layer has upper and lower side layer portions which are formed from porous and sound insulation materials respectively and layered on upper and lower side layer portions of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinobu Fushiki
  • Patent number: 8382184
    Abstract: A sound absorption sheet is constructed by both films which are made of a fire-retardant polyethylene resin and layered with each other. The film has a flat film portion and a large number of air bubble portions. The flat film portion is adhered at its rear face to the flat film from the side of the front face. A large number of air bubble portions are dispersed in a staggered arrangement with each other along the planar direction of the film and raised and formed cylindrically along the thickness direction of the flat film portion in a direction separating from the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Mizata, Shinya Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 8371635
    Abstract: In a dashboard insulator for a vehicle, an inner layer laminated between front and rear layers is formed by laminating fusion, barrier and other fusion films and has a large number of small holes with a uniform opening rate. The both layers are formed by a thermoplastic material with predetermined basis weight, and Young's modulus. The both fusion films formed by a thermoplastic material with a melting point lower than that of the barrier film fuse the both layers to the barrier film. Each fusion part of the both fusion films has a predetermined fusion force in its predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuichi Mizata
  • Patent number: 7415751
    Abstract: A tying structure for an assist grip is intended for tying a base member supporting the assist grip swingably thereon to a car body panel with a clip and an engaging member. The clip is provided with first engaging parts for engagement with the base member and second engaging parts for engagement with the car body panel. The first engaging parts are provided in a part thereof penetrating the base member in the outside-inside insertion direction and protruding toward a front side the base member with a through hole penetrating the part in a direction orthogonal to the insertion direction. The engaging member is provided with an engaging part inserted into the through hole and enabled to prevent the base member from slipping off the clip and a cover covering the front side of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignees: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kato, Takahide Ichimaru
  • Patent number: 7410030
    Abstract: A soundproofing material for vehicle having a laminated structure comprising two sound absorbing layers and an interlayer interposed therebetween, characterized in that the interlayer is formed by bonding and laminating on the respective side of an air-impermeable film made of a thermoplastic resin film having a thickness of from 7? to 50? heat-fusible films having a thickness of from 7? to 50? made of a thermoplastic resin film having a lower melting point than that of the air-impermeable film using a multi-layer inflation method and the soundproofing material is heat pressure-molded so that the heat-fusible film is melted to cause the sound absorbing layers to be bonded to the respective side of the air-impermeable film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sinobu Fusiki, Syuiti Mizata
  • Patent number: 6923500
    Abstract: A sunshade includes a cut-out panel formed by cutting a portion from a ceiling panel for opening a ceiling window and injection-molded rigid edge members made of synthetic resin and fixed to a front edge, both side edges and a rear edge of the cut-out panel so as to surround the cut-out panel. The rigid edge members are fixed to the sunshade so that the sunshade is finished such that the width thereof is made wider than the width of the opening portion of the ceiling panel and the length thereof is made longer than the length of the opening portion thereof, the rigid edge member fixed to the front edge is formed with a knob, and slide shoes are provided to the rigid edge members fixed to the both edges of the cut-out panel. The invention realizes reduced weight and manufacturing cost and increased quality of the slide sunshade of automobile sunroofs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuro Ito
  • Patent number: 6706370
    Abstract: A sunshade of a sunroof for a motor vehicle includes superposing resin impregnated glass fiber mat layers (2,3) on both surfaces of a semi-rigid layer (1) made of an urethane foam and having a uniform thickness, superposing a skin material layer (5) on a surface of one of the resin impregnated glass fiber mat layers (2) via an adhesive film layer (4), superposing a back material layer (7) on the surface of the other resin impregnated glass fiber mat layer (3) via an adhesive film layer (6), and fusion bonding the layers by clamping the layers (8) by a press mold (9, 10) and heating and pressurizing the layers (8) so as to form a predetermined three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Ito, Shogo Okado, Kazuo Sugiura, Takashi Mihara, Fumihiro Funahashi