Patents Assigned to Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20200393068
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a gasket on a block includes a block with a fluid channel and a gasket surrounding an opening of the fluid channel. The gasket has a sealing tip, which is an annular wall made of resin and located radially outside the opening of the fluid channel. The sealing tip is press-fitted in the block and is elastically deformable in its radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKANO, Toshihide I IDA, Tomoyuki KOIKE, Tomohiro ADACHI
  • Patent number: 10830226
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump has: a housing; a piston; a shaft; a rolling diaphragm, which is configured so that a lid portion reciprocally moves integrally with the piston; a driving device, which can convert rotational movement of a motor section to linear movement, and output the linear movement from an output axle to the shaft; a guiding member; and a restricting mechanism. The guiding member is placed on another axial end side of an interior of the housing with respect to the piston, attached to the housing, and able to guide the shaft movably in the axial direction. The restricting member is disposed in the housing and between the guiding member and the shaft, and able to restrict rotation of the shaft about the axis while allowing reciprocal movement in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Teshima, Motoaki Naruo
  • Publication number: 20200347936
    Abstract: A yarn includes elongated pieces of expanded graphite sheet and a tubular member made of knitted or braided fibers. In the tubular member, the pieces of expanded graphite sheet are twisted and packed. The yarns are knitted, or bundles of the yarns are twisted to form a gland packing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru FUJIWARA, Misato IZUKA, Ryoji HAMAGUCHI, Naoyuki SAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10827604
    Abstract: A method for producing a high frequency circuit board includes forming an antenna pattern on an upper surface of the provisional substrate. The method includes performing hot-press in a state where a thermoplastic resin and a provisional conductor are stacked on the upper surface of the provisional substrate, to form a first dielectric layer portion covering the antenna pattern. The method includes removing the provisional conductor and shaving the first dielectric layer portion to form a cavity to house an electronic component. The method includes mounting the electronic component on the antenna pattern in the cavity. The method includes performing hot-press in a state where a thermosetting resin and a ground conductor are stacked at an opening side of the cavity in the first dielectric layer portion, to form a second dielectric layer portion to embed the electronic component in the cavity. The method includes removing the provisional substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Okunaga, Akira Nakatsu, Kojiro Iwasa, Yusuke Natsuhara
  • Patent number: 10823291
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes a rotating ring on a rotary shaft, a stationary ring facing the rotating ring in an axial direction, and an elastic means configured to press the rotating ring or the stationary ring toward each other to contact opposed sealing surfaces of the rotating ring and the stationary ring. The mechanical seal partitions a first space and a second space. The first space and the second space are located in the axial direction with the sealing surface interposed therebetween. The stationary ring is made of a sintered compact of SiC. A diamond film is formed on a sealing surface of the stationary ring facing the rotating ring. A diamond film continuous with the diamond film of the sealing surface is formed on an outer circumferential surface or an inner circumferential surface of the stationary ring. Volume resistivity of the stationary ring is 101 to 104 ?·cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakakura, Kenshi Fujita
  • Patent number: 10801650
    Abstract: A pipe joint, made of synthetic resin, including: an inner ring; a joint body having an annular sealing groove and a male screw portion formed on an outer circumference; a union nut having a female screw portion formed on an inner circumference to be tightened onto the male screw portion of the joint body, such that a first opposing surface is formed in the joint body to be perpendicular to an axial direction, and a second opposing surface is formed in the union nut to oppose the first opposing surface. An engagement projection is provided in one of the first opposing surface and the second opposing surface. An engagement recess is provided in the other of the first opposing surface and the second opposing surface such that the engagement projection engages with the engagement recess when the union nut has been tightened up to an appropriate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Toshihide Iida
  • Publication number: 20200318632
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump includes a reciprocable diaphragm, an actuator including a motor, and a control device. The control device resets an origin of the diaphragm in a reciprocating direction, when detecting a step-out of the motor. After resetting the origin, the control device activates the actuator to move the diaphragm to the origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO, LTD
    Inventors: Kazukiyo TESHIMA, NAOTO YAMADA, MOTOAKI NARUO
  • Patent number: 10792888
    Abstract: Provided is a coating base material having a new configuration capable of enhancing the durability of a coating regardless of the adhesion strength of a primer. A coating base material 1 whose surface is subjected to application of a coating includes: a mesh-like valley portion 2 formed on the surface; and a plurality of island portions 3 formed on the surface and surrounded by the valley portion 2. Each island portion 3 has a crater-like recess 4 formed on an upper surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Iida, Noboru Tamaki, Masateru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200260572
    Abstract: A method for producing a high frequency circuit board includes forming an antenna pattern on an upper surface of the provisional substrate. The method includes performing hot-press in a state where a thermoplastic resin and a provisional conductor are stacked on the upper surface of the provisional substrate, to form a first dielectric layer portion covering the antenna pattern. The method includes removing the provisional conductor and shaving the first dielectric layer portion to form a cavity to house an electronic component. The method includes mounting the electronic component on the antenna pattern in the cavity. The method includes performing hot-press in a state where a thermosetting resin and a ground conductor are stacked at an opening side of the cavity in the first dielectric layer portion, to form a second dielectric layer portion to embed the electronic component in the cavity. The method includes removing the provisional substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi OKUNAGA, Akira NAKATSU, Kojiro IWASA, Yusuke NATSUHARA
  • Patent number: 10731640
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump includes: a housing with a suction port and a discharge port; a reciprocated member disposed in the housing to form a pump chamber and reciprocable such that fluid is sucked into the pump chamber through the suction port and then discharged from the pump chamber through the discharge port; an actuator configured to reciprocate the reciprocated member; and a pressure gauge with a pressure receiving portion, configured to detect pressure of the fluid in the pump chamber through the pressure receiving portion, and coupled to the reciprocated member to be reciprocated by the actuator integrally with the reciprocated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Teshima, Daisuke Urata, Naoto Yamada, Takuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 10718324
    Abstract: The bellows pump device supplies pressurized air to one air chamber of two hermetic air chambers thereby to cause a bellows to perform expansion operation to suck a transport fluid, and supplies pressurized air to the other air chamber thereby to cause the bellows to perform contraction operation to discharge the transport fluid. The bellows pump device includes: an electropneumatic regulator configured to adjust a first air pressure of the pressurized air to be supplied to the one air chamber, and a second air pressure of the pressurized air to be supplied to the other air chamber; and a control unit configured to control the electropneumatic regulator such that, at least at a time point of end of expansion during expansion operation of the bellows, the first air pressure is lower than the second air pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakano, Keiji Nagae
  • Publication number: 20200182234
    Abstract: A bellows pump device includes: a first electropneumatic regulator 51 that adjusts a first air pressure of pressurized air in a first discharge-side air chamber 21A of a first air cylinder unit 27; a second electropneumatic regulator 52 that adjusts a second air pressure of pressurized air in a second discharge-side air chamber 21B of a second air cylinder unit 28; and a control unit 6 that controls the first electropneumatic regulator 51 such that the first air pressure is continuously decreased during a period from a time when a second bellows 14 starts contracting until a first bellows 13 comes into a most contracted state, and controls the second electropneumatic regulator 52 such that the second air pressure is continuously decreased during a period from a time when the first bellows 13 starts contracting until the second bellows 14 comes into a most contracted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKANO, Ai TOMOTOSHI, Kazukiyo TESHIMA
  • Patent number: 10655741
    Abstract: A rotary joint includes a tubular case body, an outer cylinder body provided to be relatively rotatable inside the case body, an inner shaft body provided to be relatively rotatable inside the outer cylinder body, a first mechanical seal for forming flow passages that connect a first flow passage of the case body and a second flow passage of the outer cylinder body to each other by dividing a first annular space formed between the case body and the outer cylinder body, and a second mechanical seal for forming flow passages that connect a third flow passage of the outer cylinder body and a fourth flow passage of the inner shaft body to each other by dividing a second annular space formed between the outer cylinder body and the inner shaft body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Suzuki, Junya Okumura
  • Patent number: 10591063
    Abstract: Provided is a spiral wound gasket that has improved conformability and that is capable of exhibiting sufficient sealability for flanges provided at joints, irrespective of the state of a gap between the flanges. The present invention provides a spiral wound gasket in which a laminate of a hoop member made of metal and a filler member is wound and integrated so as to have an opening at the center, wherein the hoop member has a cross-sectional shape with a bent portion, and V expressed by an equation (I) below is 0.5 to 2.4: V = 1 r ? cos ? ( ? 2 ) , ( I ) where a bending angle constituting the bent portion is ? (°), and a radius of curvature of the bent portion is r (mm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yanagitake, Naoyuki Sawamoto, Hiroki Tanabe, Yuta Sato, Kiyoshi Toyazaki
  • Patent number: 10591064
    Abstract: Provided is a spiral wound gasket that makes it less likely that gaps that are in communication with each other in a spiral shape will remain between layers of a filler member exposed at a gasket face in a state before the gasket is clamped and that is capable of exhibiting sufficient sealability for flanges provided at pipe joints. The present invention provides a spiral wound gasket in which a laminate of a hoop member made of metal and a filler member is wound around an opening and integrated, and which has gasket faces at respective end portions, wherein, at each of the gasket faces, an end portion of the filler member protrudes past an end portion of the hoop member, and the gasket faces have a surface roughness Rz of 30 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yanagitake, Naoyuki Sawamoto, Hiroki Tanabe, Yuta Sato, Kiyoshi Toyazaki
  • Patent number: 10571060
    Abstract: A structure of a resin-made pipe joint includes a sleeve which is press-insertable from one axial side into one longitudinal end portion of a flexible tube to flare the one longitudinal end portion to hold the flared state, a joint body which is couplable to the sleeve, and a union nut which is fastenable to the joint body to hold a state where the sleeve press-inserted into the one longitudinal end portion is coupled to the joint body. The sleeve has a taper-like first outer circumferential surface, a second outer circumferential surface having an outer diameter that is smaller than a maximum outer diameter of the first outer circumferential surface, and an annular step portion which is an annular step portion that is disposed between the first outer circumferential surface and the second outer circumferential surface and comprises an edge portion on a side of the first outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Kazukiyo Teshima, Tatsuya Fujii, Toshihide Iida, Tomoyuki Koike, Shintaro Makihata
  • Publication number: 20200047452
    Abstract: Provided is a coating base material having a new configuration capable of enhancing the durability of a coating regardless of the adhesion strength of a primer. A coating base material 1 whose surface is subjected to application of a coating includes: a mesh-like valley portion 2 formed on the surface; and a plurality of island portions 3 formed on the surface and surrounded by the valley portion 2. Each island portion 3 has a crater-like recess 4 formed on an upper surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide IIDA, Noboru TAMAKI, Masateru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10533268
    Abstract: A sealing material composition which comprises sheet-like members containing expanded graphite, and which hardly causes the sheet-like members to be broken is provided. A sealing material composition 1 comprises: a stacked body 5; and a long surrounding body 6 which surrounds the stacked body. The stacked body has a plurality of sheet-like members 10 each of which is formed into a tape-like shape by expanded graphite. In the stacked body, the plurality of sheet-like members are stacked in a direction which intersects with the longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, and, in the plurality of sheet-like members, sheet-like members which are adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are disposed to be displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, in a relatively movable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sato, Kohei Arakawa, Ryoji Hamaguchi, Masaru Fujiwara, Hiroyoshi Nakamitsu
  • Publication number: 20200003813
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a liquid sensor device that achieves both the improvement of durability and the improvement of property determination accuracy. The liquid sensor device includes: an electrode pair 22 that is formed on a sensor board 2 and covered by an insulating protective film 201; a resistance measurement part 302 that supplies AC current to the electrode pair 22 to measure the resistance value of oil 4; a parasitic capacitance storage part 304 that holds the parasitic capacitance Cs of the electrode pair 22; and a property determination part 313 that, on the basis of the resistance value R1 and the parasitic capacitance Cs, determines the deterioration of the oil 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsunari KOYAMA, Akira NAKATSU
  • Patent number: D876595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Adachi, Toshihide Iida, Tomoyuki Koike, Atsushi Nakano