Patents Assigned to Nichiha Corporation
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Patent number: 9995044Abstract: A securing member includes a fixing portion having a reference surface and fixing holes, a main bulging portion having a contact surface that comes into contact with first to fourth exterior members, a supporting portion, upper and lower engagement portions attached to the supporting portion, a lower bulging portion, and an erected portion that projects from the lower bulging portion and that is disposed on a center line of the fixing portion between the first and third exterior members. One of the fixing holes that is closest to the center line is displaced from the center line. The fixing holes are arranged asymmetrically about the center line. A first length by which the main bulging portion bulges is greater than a second length by which the lower bulging portion bulges. The length from the reference surface to the front end of the erected portion is greater than the first length.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Suzuki
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Patent number: 9994490Abstract: A building material includes a base material, a first mirror coating formed on the surface of the base material, a second mirror coating formed on the surface of the first mirror coating, wherein the first mirror coating contains a filler and a first resin material, the pencil hardness of the first mirror coating is in the range of about 3H to about 8H, the second mirror coating contains at least a second resin material, and the pencil hardness of the second mirror coating is in the range of about B to about 2H.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventors: Miho Murase, Hiroyuki Taguchi
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Publication number: 20180086023Abstract: Provided is a building material that is lightweight, exhibits excellent formability, and is inhibited from being damaged during transportation, and a method for producing the same. Specifically, provided is a method for producing a building material, including: a first step of curing a core layer material including a hydraulic material, a silica-containing material, and an aluminum powder, to react the aluminum powder and form bubbles, and incompletely hardening the hydraulic material and the silica-containing material, to form a foamed core layer; a second step of dispersing a surface layer material including a hydraulic material, and a silica-containing material, to form an unfoamed surface layer; a third step of stacking the foamed core layer on the unfoamed surface layer, to form a stack including the unfoamed surface layer and the foamed core layer; and a fourth step of pressing and curing the stack, and a building material produced therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventors: Satoshi IKEDA, Yoshinobu KOSASA
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Patent number: 9909303Abstract: An exterior insulation structure includes a first board member, first supporting members, a first thermal insulator, second supporting members disposed on the exterior side of the first supporting members, a second thermal insulator disposed on the exterior side of the first thermal insulator and between the second supporting members, securing members fixed to the exterior side of the second supporting members, and exterior wall members attached to the securing members. The adjacent exterior wall members are joined together without leaving a gap therebetween. Each securing member is long enough, in the second direction, to be fixable to at least two second supporting members and shorter, in the second direction, than each exterior wall member. A first gap is left between the securing members adjacent in the second direction. At least part of each second supporting member is made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than that of steel.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Ochi
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Publication number: 20180016797Abstract: A securing member includes a fixing portion that is fixed to a framework; a supporting portion that projects from the fixing portion and supports an exterior material; a first engagement portion that is disposed on the supporting portion so as to extend in a first direction and engages with the exterior material; a second engagement portion that is disposed on the supporting portion so as to extend in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, and engages with the exterior material; a first contact portion that is disposed in the first direction from the supporting portion and contacts a back surface of the exterior material; and a second contact portion that is disposed in the second direction from the supporting portion and contacts the back surface of the exterior material. The second contact portion is formed in a folded portion that is folded toward the supporting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventor: Kenji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20170370096Abstract: An exterior insulation structure includes a first board member, first supporting members, a first thermal insulator, second supporting members disposed on the exterior side of the first supporting members, a second thermal insulator disposed on the exterior side of the first thermal insulator and between the second supporting members, securing members fixed to the exterior side of the second supporting members, and exterior wall members attached to the securing members. The adjacent exterior wall members are joined together without leaving a gap therebetween. Each securing member is long enough, in the second direction, to be fixable to at least two second supporting members and shorter, in the second direction, than each exterior wall member. A first gap is left between the securing members adjacent in the second direction. At least part of each second supporting member is made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than that of steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventor: Yoshio OCHI
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Patent number: 9850700Abstract: An exterior wall structure includes first to fourth waterproofing members. Each of the first to fourth waterproofing members includes a fixing portion, a positioning portion, a separating portion, a supporting portion, and first and second seal portions. The positioning portion extends continuously with the fixing portion toward the exterior side. The positioning portion positions an exterior wall material by coming into abutment with an end face of the exterior wall material. The separating portion extends continuously with the positioning portion toward the sash body side so as to be located between the sash body and the exterior wall material. The first seal portion inhibits the entry of water by coming into abutment with the exterior wall material. The second seal portion inhibits the entry of water by coming into abutment with the sash body.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Yohei Sawada
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Publication number: 20170268237Abstract: A securing member includes a fixing portion having a reference surface and fixing holes, a main bulging portion having a contact surface that comes into contact with first to fourth exterior members, a supporting portion, upper and lower engagement portions attached to the supporting portion, a lower bulging portion, and an erected portion that projects from the lower bulging portion and that is disposed on a center line of the fixing portion between the first and third exterior members. One of the fixing holes that is closest to the center line is displaced from the center line. The fixing holes are arranged asymmetrically about the center line. A first length by which the main bulging portion bulges is greater than a second length by which the lower bulging portion bulges. The length from the reference surface to the front end of the erected portion is greater than the first length.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventor: Kenji SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9617738Abstract: An auxiliary securing support for attaching an exterior wall material to a building frame having a plurality of vertical frame members through a securing member includes a main body and a protrusion. The main body has an elongated shape, includes a planar portion to which the securing member is fixable, and is fixable to at least one of the vertical frame members. The protrusion protrudes in a direction crossing the planar portion so as to come into contact with an upper side portion of the exterior wall material and that has a length such that the protrusion is not exposed on an external surface of the exterior wall material.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20170087592Abstract: A method for producing a building material includes a first step of applying an undercoat paint onto a surface of an inorganic base material, curing the undercoat paint, and polishing the undercoat paint; and a second step of applying an enamel paint onto the undercoat paint and curing the enamel paint. The undercoat paint contains an undercoat-forming material and a filler. The enamel paint contains an enamel-forming material and a pigment. The enamel-forming material is a solvent-based resin. A content of the filler in the undercoat paint is 40% to 70% by mass in terms of solid content. A content of the pigment in the enamel paint is 1% to 50% by mass in terms of solid content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki TAGUCHI, Miho MURASE
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Publication number: 20170056922Abstract: A method for producing a building material includes a first step of applying a first ultraviolet-curable paint onto an inorganic material containing a woody reinforcement and incompletely curing the first ultraviolet-curable paint, a second step of applying a second ultraviolet-curable paint and completely curing the second ultraviolet-curable paint, a third step of polishing the completely cured second ultraviolet-curable paint to smoothen a surface of the completely cured second ultraviolet-curable paint, and a fourth step of applying an enamel paint and curing the enamel paint. In the second step, the second ultraviolet-curable paint is applied while the first ultraviolet-curable paint is incompletely cured.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki TAGUCHI, Miho MURASE
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Patent number: 9551155Abstract: A building board includes an undercoat coating, an overcoat coating having lower pigment content than the undercoat coating and having different hue from the undercoat coating and having variations in position and thickness, an inkjet coating having different hue from the overcoat coating and is applying partially, and a clear coating successively formed on surface of inorganic base material having a plurality of wood board patterns. There also is provided a method for manufacturing a building board including the steps of applying an undercoat paint to surface of inorganic base material having a plurality of wood board patterns, applying an overcoat paint having lower pigment weight concentration than the undercoat paint and having different hue from the undercoat paint, scraping off a part of the applied overcoat paint before the overcoat paint cures, partially applying inkjet painting having different hue from the overcoat paint, and applying a clear paint.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Daizou Mizuno
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Patent number: 9470000Abstract: An exterior structure includes a front-side lateral joint portion and a back-side lateral joint portion disposed at horizontal edge portions of each facade board, a front-side vertical joint portion and a back-side vertical joint portion disposed at a lower edge portion and an upper edge portion of each facade board, a lateral joint formed between horizontally adjacent facade boards as a result of superposing the front-side lateral joint portion of one facade board and the back-side lateral joint portion of the other facade board one on the other, and a vertical joint formed between vertically adjacent facade boards as a result of superposing the front-side vertical joint portion of one facade board and the back-side vertical joint portion of the other facade board one on the other. In at least four horizontally and vertically adjacent facade boards, the lateral joints form a joint area substantially linearly continuous in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Ochi
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Publication number: 20160289128Abstract: A building material includes a base material, a first mirror coating formed on the surface of the base material, a second mirror coating formed on the surface of the first mirror coating, wherein the first mirror coating contains a filler and a first resin material, the pencil hardness of the first mirror coating is in the range of about 3H to about 8H, the second mirror coating contains at least a second resin material, and the pencil hardness of the second mirror coating is in the range of about B to about 2H.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventors: Miho MURASE, Hiroyuki TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160289976Abstract: An auxiliary securing support for attaching an exterior wall material to a building frame having a plurality of vertical frame members through a securing member includes a main body and a protrusion. The main body has an elongated shape, includes a planar portion to which the securing member is fixable, and is fixable to at least one of the vertical frame members. The protrusion protrudes in a direction crossing the planar portion so as to come into contact with an upper side portion of the exterior wall material and that has a length such that the protrusion is not exposed on an external surface of the exterior wall material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Nichiha CorporationInventor: Kenji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20160289975Abstract: A building board with an appearance being three-dimensional and having a texture of processed lumber and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A building board includes a base material board, a patterned region formed on the base material board and demarcated by a first joint-like groove and a second joint-like groove intersecting the first joint-like groove, a plurality of wood grain forming protrusions that are formed in the patterned region so as to express a wood grain pattern, an intersecting recess that is formed in the patterned region to have a strip shape extending in a direction intersecting the plurality of wood grain forming protrusions, a first coating formed on the wood grain forming protrusions, and a second coating formed on the intersecting recess, the second coating having a lower lightness than the first coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventors: Eijiro KOBAYASHI, Koji SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160265270Abstract: An exterior wall structure includes first to fourth waterproofing members. Each of the first to fourth waterproofing members includes a fixing portion, a positioning portion, a separating portion, a supporting portion, and first and second seal portions. The positioning portion extends continuously with the fixing portion toward the exterior side. The positioning portion positions an exterior wall material by coming into abutment with an end face of the exterior wall material. The separating portion extends continuously with the positioning portion toward the sash body side so as to be located between the sash body and the exterior wall material. The first seal portion inhibits the entry of water by coming into abutment with the exterior wall material. The second seal portion inhibits the entry of water by coming into abutment with the sash body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Yohei SAWADA
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Patent number: D775516Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Honda
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Patent number: D808784Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Suzuki
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Patent number: D819832Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATIONInventor: Teruyuki Kato