Patents Assigned to Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
  • Polyurethane resin moulding for vehicle interior part and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8173715
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polyurethane resin moulding for a vehicle interior part, includes: adding at least one of a polyol mixture and a polyisocyanate compound to at least one of microencapsulated paraffin waxes and shirasu balloons, followed by polymerizing the polyol mixture and the polyisocyanate compound. The polyol mixture contains a polyol, a catalyst, a chain extender and an auxiliary agent. A melting point of the microencapsulated paraffin waxes is 60° C. to 80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignees: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd., Sumika Bayer Urethane Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nishikawa, Fumihiko Noda, Kazuyuki Endo
  • Structure of mounting cowl top cover
    Patent number: 8152227
    Abstract: A structure of mounting a cowl top cover which has a back end portion mounted to a lower end portion of a front windshield panel. The structure includes: a surface portion disposed at the back end portion of cowl top cover, the surface portion covering a surface of lower end portion of front windshield panel and extending in a vehicular widthwise direction; a plurality of clip portions disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, the lower end portion of front windshield panel being clamped between the clip portions and the surface portion in a plurality of places along the direction in which the surface portion extends; and a thin plate portion disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, wherein the thin plate portion connecting plurality of clip portions with each other is thinner than surface portion and is spaced apart from front windshield panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kurata, Hirofumi Harada, Fumihiko Kimura, Toshiyuki Terada, Takahiro Murata, Manabu Fujisawa, Naoki Kobayashi
  • AIRBAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120068444
    Abstract: The present invention provides an airbag device that is capable of restraining a rectification cloth that switches a vent hole to an opened or closed state so as not to be twisted, and that is capable of switching the vent hole from an opened state to a closed state, and further, switching to the opened state. At an initial stage at which an airbag main body inflates and expands, the vent hole 8 is arranged between the leg portions 5, and when the airbag main body is in a predetermined internal pressure state, the vent hole is closed by means of the band-shaped portion 4. If an occupant or the like comes into contact with the airbag main body, a tense state of each of the leg portions is released, the rectification cloth is established in a slackened state, and the vent hole 8 is established in an opened state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Hiroyuki Iwamoto
  • Integral skin molded article and method of preparing integral skin molded article and laminate having skin
    Patent number: 8071208
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integral skin molded article used for vehicle internal parts, which enables good production efficiency and cost reduction and has good external appearance, and a method of preparing an integral skin molded article, and also provides a laminate with a skin comprising the integral skin molded article and a core material, and a method of preparing a laminate with a skin. Disclosed are an integral skin molded article obtained by injecting a polyurethane foam for a skin into a die after injecting a high density polyurethane resin for a core, containing a high density polyurethane resin for a skin, containing a polyol component, 1-methyl-3,5-diethyl-2,4-diaminobenzene and/or 1-methyl-3,5-diethyl-2,6-diaminobenzene, and a blowing agent into the same die; and a method of preparing a laminate with a skin comprising a skin molded article and a core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignees: Sumika Bayer Urethane Co., Ltd., Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiju Kochi, Naohiro Fujita, Takahiro Suwama, Shinji Nishikawa, Hiroaki Ido
  • Air bag
    Patent number: 8011691
    Abstract: An air bag deployed from a mounted member mounted with the air bag toward an occupant by an insertion of a gas, the air bag includes a front surface portion confronting the occupant, the front surface portion being arranged to be deployed toward the occupant. The front surface portion includes a lower expansion portion arranged to inflate to abut on a breast portion of the occupant, a pair of side expansion portions arranged to inflate to left and right sides of a head portion of the occupant to avoid the head portion of the occupant, and a recessed portion surrounded by the lower expansion portion and the side expansion portions, and recessed toward the mounted member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito Urushibata, Yasuhiro Uchida
  • Curtain air bag device and method of producing the same
    Patent number: 7954844
    Abstract: An air bag comprises inside and outside base fabrics that are stitched to constitute an outer bag that is flat when receiving no gas. The outer bag is formed with a gas inlet opening through which an inflation gas is led into the outer bag to expand the same. The air bag further comprises inside and outside smaller fabrics that are stitched to constitute an inner bag that is installed in the outer bag. Given portions of the inside and outside smaller fabrics are stitched to given portions of the inside and outside base fabrics respectively to form a plurality of narrow auxiliary chambers between the inner bag and the outer bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Kamiyama
  • Airbag and method of manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 7922198
    Abstract: An airbag includes a circumferential plane, a margin, a receiving plane and a second seam line. The circumferential plane is formed by being seamed to form a first seam line from its base end to its farthest end and has a closed cross section. The margin for the first seam line is provided on the circumferential plane. The receiving plane extends integrally from the circumferential panel and receives a passenger at an impact. The circumferential plane and the receiving plane are seamed together to form the second seam line. The second seam line crosses the first seam line and goes across the margin in a width direction of the margin. According to the airbag, its manufacturing efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akito Urushibata
  • STORAGE BOX ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20110049157
    Abstract: A storage box assembly for a vehicle includes a case in which an opening is formed on an upper surface thereof, and a lid for opening/closing the opening. When the lid is closed, a surface of the lid and an upper surface of the case substantially form a flush surface. When the lid is opened, the lid is moved to be retracted in the case by a guide mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko NAKAMURA, Kenichi KAMIO, Yasunori SEI, Chihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • COWL-TOP COVER
    Publication number: 20110049933
    Abstract: A cowl-top cover 6 is provided which is arranged across a lower end part 2a of a front window panel 2, a rear end part 3a of a front hood 3, and an upper end part 4a of a dash panel 4, of a vehicle. The cowl-top cover is formed by a seal loading portion 8 supporting the rear end part 3a of the front hood 3 with a sealing member 7, a longitudinal wall portion 9 formed so as to extend downwardly LWR from a rear end part 8a of the seal loading portion 8, and a panel loading portion 10a supported at the upper end part 4a of the dash panel 4. The longitudinal wall portion 9 is comprised of: a first oblique face portion 12 formed at a predetermined angle ?1 at a rear portion side PR on the basis of a perpendicular line 11 with the rear end part 8a of the seal loading portion 8 being a start point 5; and a second oblique face portion 13 bent and formed at a front side FR of the first oblique face portion 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Serizawa, Daisuke Takei
  • Vehicle wheel having a sub air chamber
    Patent number: 7896044
    Abstract: A sub air chamber provided around outer circumferential surface of a well of a rim of a vehicle wheel includes an upper plate and a lower plate connected at edges thereof which are fitted into channels in first and second vertical wall surfaces formed on the rim. At least one of the upper plate and the bottom plate has orthogonally and diagonally aligned beads to vertical walls, extending in a circumferential direction of the wheel, supporting the sub air chamber, connecting parts locally connecting the upper plate and the bottom plate. The sub air chamber has a protruding part for communicating the sub air chamber with the tire air chamber and serves as a stopper of the sub air chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nihon Plast Co Ltd
    Inventors: Mikio Kashiwai, Youichi Kamiyama, Katsushi Ishii, Norio Hayakawa, Shuhei Yamamoto, Kenichi Kamio
  • Steering wheel
    Patent number: 7882764
    Abstract: A steering wheel includes (a) a core member having a boss portion, a spoke portion, and a rim portion, the spoke portion stretching between the boss portion and the rim portion; and (b) a polyurethane member covering at least the rim portion of the core member, the polyurethane member having a specific gravity of 0.7 to 0.9 and a Shore A hardness of 45 to 60. A steering wheel proper defined as being a combination of the core member and the polyurethane member has a weight of 1.0 to 2.5 kg. This steering wheel is satisfied in both of weight reduction and maintenance of moment of inertia necessary for steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Yamada, Takashi Tokita, Takeshi Fujimori
  • Airbag device
    Patent number: 7878542
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, an adjusting unit capable of adjusting an aperture efficiency of at least one vent hole, a tether belt whose one end is connected to the adjusting unit, and a holding unit for hooking another end of the tether belt. In case where the inflating airbag needs to exert a small reactive force, the adjusting unit is made in a full-opened state at a development early stage with the other end being held by the holding unit and then made in a half-opened until a development final stage with the other end being kept held by the holding unit. In case where the inflating airbag needs to exert a large reactive force, the adjusting unit is made in a full-closed state from a development start to the development final stage with the other end being released from the holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Unno, Aki Yokoyama
  • Air bag module
    Patent number: 7823917
    Abstract: An air bag module mounted in front of a front passenger seat of an automotive vehicle. The air bag module includes a case having an opening. An air bag is accommodated within and connected with the case. The air bag is projectable out of the case through the opening of the case. A gas generator is provided for generating gas to be supplied into the air bag to inflate the air bag. A lid member is provided for covering the opening of the case. The case has a bottom wall section including a weakened portion which serves as a starting point of deformation of the case when an impact is applied to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenobu Suzuki, Takashi Tokita
  • Molding method, molded product and instrument panel
    Patent number: 7810863
    Abstract: An instrument panel includes a panel body and a joint member. The panel body includes a core member and an outer layer that covers the core member, and is formed by reaction injection molding. The panel body includes a meter installed portion. A recess of the meter installed portion becomes an undercut at the time of molding. A core member is provided with a deformable portion which is elastically deformable. The molded panel body can be demolded by deforming the deformable portion. There is no need to provide a slide core with a molding die. A deformation of the deformable portion is prevented by installing the joint member onto the demolded panel body. According to the instrument panel, it is possible to improve a product quality and reduce manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kamano, Hajime Mochizuki, Shingo Yanagibashi, Norio Hayakawa, Enda Clarke, Yasunori Sei
  • AIR BAG AND AIR BAG DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100213692
    Abstract: An airbag and an airbag device, which are capable of readily improving expansion characteristics of the airbag and reducing manufacturing cost, are provided. An airbag 11 for occupant at passenger's seat includes a first bag 21 and a second bag 22 which is provided inside of the first bag 21. An outside top face portion 36 of the first bag 21 and an inside top face portion 46 of the second bag 22 are brought into a sheet-like intimate contact with each other, and are detachably jointed at the jointing portion 51. The jointing portion 51 is comprised of a breakable seam line 52. Gas is supplied into the second bag 22 to thereby expand the first bag 22, and is supplied into the first bag 21 via a gas distributing portion 48 to thereby expand the first bag 21. In a case where an occupant exists at a predetermined position, the jointing portion 51 breaks away, and the first bag 21 then expands to its maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nagai, Akihiro Barasawa, Ryuji Sagisaka
  • Cover body for air bag apparatus
    Patent number: 7770915
    Abstract: A cover body of a vehicle air bag apparatus, including a covering portion which is formed integrally with an interior panel body and which has a door portion defined by a tear seam formed in a back of the interior panel body, and, a backing portion joined to a back of the covering portion. The covering portion is made of polyolefin resin having a flexual elastic modulus of from 1500 to 3500 MPa, a tensile strength of from 17 to 40 MPa, an Izod impact strength of from 3.0 to 15.0 kJ/m2, and an elongation of 400% or less. The backing portion is made of thermoplastic olefin which is softer and has a greater elongation. The backing portion includes a reinforcing portion at a back of the door portion, a surrounding base at the back of the covering portion, and a hinge portion joining the reinforcing portion and the surrounding base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nishijima, Shuji Yamada, Masami Tonooka, Satoshi Kitazawa, Takahiro Suwama, Sadayuki Kawakami, Hiroshi Yakushiji, Ryuji Hori, Masatoshi Ishigaki
  • Airbag cover for airbag apparatus
    Patent number: 7766371
    Abstract: An airbag cover comprises a cover main body having a cover core covering an airbag and an outer layer disposed on an outer surface of the cover core, an ornament provided on an outer surface of the outer layer, and a fixing structure for fixing the ornament on the outer surface of the outer layer. And, an edge of the outer layer on the outer surface is covered by the ornament. According to this airbag cover having the ornament, it can be easy to form the outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimori, Saori Wakuda
  • Vehicular air bag, air bag module having the vehicular air bag and method of folding the air bag
    Patent number: 7766376
    Abstract: An air bag, includes 1) a roll part configured to be wound in a form of a roll when the air bag is in a folded state to be installed in a vehicle. The roll part includes a pushed part formed by pushing a part of an outer face of the air bag inward to the roll part in a certain pushing direction, such that the roll part has a decreased cross section by the pushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aki Yokoyama
  • Airbag cover body and airbag apparatus
    Patent number: 7766380
    Abstract: An airbag is expanded upward on the side of a passenger from a door part. A cover body which covers the airbag is formed by overlaying an outer part made of a hard resin to an inner part made of a soft resin. A supporting piece part is protruded from the cabin external side of the inner part. A to-be-ripped part is formed on the supporting piece part. On expansion of the airbag, the to-be-ripped part is ripped, thereby allowing the door part to move rotationally on the cabin internal side. Therefore, the airbag equipped at the door part can be smoothly expanded along the side face part of the cabin. Thus, an airbag apparatus is improved in appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiei Tonooka, Fumiharu Ochiai, Yohei Kiuchi, Takashi Ueda
  • Steering wheel with air bag device
    Patent number: 7766381
    Abstract: A steering wheel with an air bag device includes: a steering wheel body having: an annular rim portion; a boss portion; a plurality of spoke portions; an upper space; and a plurality of lower spaces. The air bag device is mounted to the steering wheel body, the air bag device includes: an air bag; an inflator; a cover member covering the air bag; and an emblem disposed at a substantially central portion of a front surface of the cover member confronting a driver's seat. The cover member includes a tear line arranged to break to form a plurality of door portions each arranged to pivot toward one of the upper and lower spaces. The tear line is formed to pivot the emblem to one of the lower spaces of the steering wheel body when the cover member is broken at the inflation of the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimori, Mamoru Takagi