Patents Assigned to Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
  • Drum brake device
    Patent number: 6523652
    Abstract: This invention provides a duo-two leading type drum brake device which simplifies a drum brake structure as well as improves a transmission efficiency of a application force from a shoe actuator to brake shoes. A pivot lever 60 has an intermediate portion pivotally supported on the brake shoes 40. A shoe-actuator 20 is positioned adjacent to the first anchors 30, 30 and being disposed between the ends 60a, 50a of the pivot lever 60 and the other brake shoe 50. A strut 70 is positioned between and functionally engaged with the other ends 60b, 50b of the pivot lever 60 and the other brake shoe 50. An application force of the shoe actuator 20 is transmitted to the brake shoe 40 via a pivot section of the pivot lever 70 and transmitted to the other brake shoe 50 directly from the shoe-actuator 20 and indirectly via the strut 70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Ikeda
  • Method and apparatus for detecting broken teeth in a pulse signal of a wheel speed sensor for an ABS vehicle stabilization system
    Patent number: 6525529
    Abstract: A device and a method to detect a broken tooth in a pulse signal by measuring one pulse cycle and another pulse cycle, determining whether a ratio of one pulse cycle and another pulse cycle is a multiplied number while wheel speed is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Takayasu Murai, Noboro Kokonobira, Hiroyuki Kamiya
  • Pressure method for an electrode structure
    Publication number: 20030029333
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with an excellent quality for an electrical component. An electrode whole material slitter comprising a cutting section to cut an electrode whole material for an electrical component, a forming section to conduct smoothing of the convex portion on the sectioned electrode, electrode cleaning sections to remove fragments adhered on the sectioned electrode and a cutting method of electrode whole material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: NISSHINBO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takaya Sato, Tatsuo Shimizu
  • Braking force distribution control for a four wheel drive vehicle
    Patent number: 6517171
    Abstract: A method for braking force distribution control for a vehicle with a direct four wheel drive mode, which does not become an obstacle to an effective braking force and disconcert the driver's feeling. This method relates to a braking force distribution control for a vehicle during direct four wheel drive mode and under the condition that the anti-skid control is inhibited, which does not operate pressure reduction control or the amount of pressure reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oshiro, Wataru Ozawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Norihiko Usui
  • Non-asbestos-based friction materials
    Publication number: 20030026969
    Abstract: A non-asbestos-based friction material for brakes, clutches or the like for automobiles, large-size trucks, railway cars and various industrial machines. The friction material has excellent friction and rust preventive characteristics, and attacks the plane it faces to a limited extent. The non-asbestos-based friction material is produced by forming and then curing the non-asbestos-based friction material composition comprising a fibrous base, binder and filler as the major ingredients. The composition contains at least one type of steel fibers selected from the group consisting of iron, special dead soft steel and dead soft steel, containing carbon (C) at 0.13% or less at specific contents, in the fibrous base at 1 to 50% by volume of the whole friction material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Nagata, Jun Nagashima
  • Brake cable-connecting apparatus for drum brake
    Patent number: 6513629
    Abstract: A brake cable-connecting apparatus for a drum brake, having a simplified structure and designed to permit a cable end to be steadily seated on a brake lever, thereby providing improved durability of an inner cable, and to further positively holds a brake cable in position, which otherwise would be disengaged from the brake lever. A drum brake comprises: slanted surfaces 27c, 28c for permitting an inner cable 29a to be deflected while a cable end 29b of a brake cable 29 is slid along an outer edge of a free end 26a of a brake lever 26, the cable end 29b being advanced from a direction in which the brake cable 29 is pulled, to a opposite direction in which the brake cable 29 is pulled; and, an opening formed in series with a cable-receiving groove 26b for receiving the inner cable 29a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Asai
  • Capacitor unit with electric double layer capacitors, control method and control apparatus for the same, and accumulator system for motor vehicles
    Publication number: 20030020334
    Abstract: A capacitor unit with plural double layer capacitors eliminating irregularity in a state of charge of the respective double layer capacitor in the capacitor unit. A capacitor unit, a capacitor unit control method, a capacitor unit control apparatus and a vehicle charging system, wherein a chargeable and dischargeable capacitor unit 1 with plural electronic double layer capacitors 11 connected in series is characterized in that electric double layer capacitors 11 in a higher state of charge is subject to discharge so that a state of charging of the respective electric double layer capacitor 11 may become approximately equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: NISSHINBO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ryutaro Nozu
  • Brake cable mounting structure for a drum brake device
    Patent number: 6510928
    Abstract: A brake cable mounting structure for a drum brake has sufficient support to withstand the reaction force during the brake operation, a function to prevent damage to an inner cable and to prevent water ingress into the brake, a simple structure with less number of parts, and a low-cost advantage. Tubular members 10a, 10b are integrally formed on a back plate 10 by pressing, and a casing cap 22a of an outer casing 22 constituting a brake cable 20 is attached in the tubular members 10a, 10b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Asai
  • Drum brake device having a shoe clearance over-adjustment prevention apparatus
    Patent number: 6508339
    Abstract: A shoe clearance over-adjustment prevention apparatus employable to various types of automatic shoe clearance adjustment devices and drum brakes and designable to have a common thermo-sensitive member suitable for mass production. The thermo-sensitive member 60 is sandwiched between the strut 20 and the brake lever 30 to cause a functional engagement, and if the brake temperature reaches a predetermined value or range, the strut 20 is pushed toward the brake shoe 12 so as to disable the automatic shoe clearance adjustment operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Seiji Asai, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  • Ink jet recording paper
    Patent number: 6506479
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an ink jet recording paper which is free from blurring, exhibits a highly developed color and has such a strength as to prevent a laminate film and an ink-receiving layer from being peeled by the wind or rain when the paper is posted outdoors after the appropriate film is laminated. The ink jet recording paper is provided with an ink-receiving layer, containing at least a resin and a pigment, on a substrate, wherein major components forming an anchor coating layer of the receiving layer are a styrene/acryl copolymer resin having a glass transition point of 0° C. or more and 20° C. or less and calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Horiuchi
  • Cylinder device for a disk brake
    Patent number: 6502673
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a cylinder device for a disc brake which facilitates the installation of thick ring portions of a dust boot into an inner circumferential groove in a cylinder bore and which also reduces the weight of a caliper. In this invention a piston is slidably received in the cylinder bore at an actuating portion of the caliper, one thick ring portion is installed into an outer circumferential groove of the piston and another thick portion is installed into an inner circumferential groove adjacent to the open end of the cylinder bore. The dust boot has an intermediate flexible portion received in a stepped large diameter bore stepped up from the cylinder bore. A cutout is formed on a peripheral portion of the stepped large diameter bore surrounding/covering said intermediate flexible portion of the dust boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Toriyama
  • Ink jet recording sheet
    Patent number: 6503606
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an ink jet recording sheet which has excellent ink-absorbance, enables the production of a highly precise image and has high surface strength. The ink jet recording sheet comprises providing an ink-receiving layer, containing, as its major components, a binder resin and a pigment, on at least one surface of a substrate, wherein the pigment component includes a hollow filler using a silica-containing inorganic powder as its outer shell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Sato, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Mechanical type drum brake device
    Patent number: 6502670
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a mechanical drum brake device which prevents a cable end from coming off from a brake lever without requiring an improvement in the brake shoe or the brake lever and an additional part. To that end, the lever return spring stretched between the brake shoe and the brake lever is utilized to restrict the lengthwise travel of the cable end along the shoe rim of the brake shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Asai
  • Nucleic acid-immobilized substrate
    Patent number: 6498245
    Abstract: By immobilizing identical or different nucleic acids in a plurality of dot-like areas on a carrier which comprises a base material and compound carried on the base material, the compound having one or more alkylating groups, through intermediary of the alkylating group, a nucleic acid-immobilized substrate on which nucleic acids are firmly immobilized in fine dot area without reference to chain length of nucleic acids is provided, which enables efficiently introducing the nucleic acids onto the base material in a simple manner and can be produced with a simple apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Kimura, Namiko Shiohata
  • Fuel cell separator and production method thereof
    Patent number: 6494926
    Abstract: A fuel cell separator made of conductive material and resin wherein the conducive material is recycled from waste of fuel cell separators. The fuel cell separator consisting of conductive material and resin is made by using the waste of fuel cell separator consisting of conductive material and resin. The waste of fuel cell separator is pulverized to powder and is mixed with unused resin and, if necessary, supplemental conductive material, to establish powdered material. The powdered material is molded under the predetermined molding pressure and temperature. The fuel cell separators using the recycled material are comparable to fuel cell separators made solely from new material. In another aspect, a method of producing a fuel cell separator using the recycled material is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Saito, Atsushi Hagiwara
  • Recording material for card and card using the same
    Publication number: 20020187325
    Abstract: To present a recording material for card excellent in resistance to abrasion, hardly leaving folding crease, and having an adequate rigidity, and various cards using such recording material considering environmental effects, such as scratch card excellent in information concealing performance. A base material composed of one layer or two or more layers in a thickness of 800 &mgr;m or less, of which maximum displacement measured by a nano indentation tester when a load of 4.9 mN is held for 1 second by using a triangular pyramid indenter is 1.1 &mgr;m or more, void content is 25% or less, and rigidity is 4 mN or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Umeta, Takeshi Kanazaki
  • Brake cable connecting apparatus for a drum brake device
    Publication number: 20020185341
    Abstract: A brake cable connecting apparatus of a brake-actuating mechanism for a drum brake prevents inadvertent disconnection of the brake cable from a brake lever while transporting a vehicle and disconnection the brake cable independently from the brake lever without dismounting a brake drum and disassembling a brake device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: NISSHINBO INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Katsuhisa Kurihara
  • Apparatus for connecting an operating cable and method for connecting the same
    Patent number: 6490946
    Abstract: An apparatus for connecting an operating cable to an actuating lever and a method for connecting the same. A cable end nipple is automatically rotated and proceeded into a space reserved between parallel walls of a strut simply by pushing the cable end nipple toward a space between parallel walls in a cable releasing direction. The present apparatus and method eliminates the necessity of horizontally adjusting the connecting portion of the cable end nipple and the free end of the brake cable as is found in conventional devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Ikeda
  • Dry etching device
    Patent number: 6491784
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an upper electrode which is prevented from being contaminated with an impurity, has a sufficient adhesive strength between the pedestal and electrode plate of silicon, secures high-precision parallelism with the lower electrode, and hence improves the etching characteristics and silicon wafer yield. It is another object of the present invention to provide a dry etching device equipped with the upper electrode. The present invention provides an upper electrode for dry etching devices, comprising an electrode plate of silicon which is supported by a pedestal, wherein (a) the pedestal is made of graphite, and (b) the electrode plate of silicon is joined to the pedestal by an organic adhesive containing a filler having a Young's modulus of 6×109 to 68×109N/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Fumitsugu Nakayama
  • Biodegradable tray for raising seedlings
    Patent number: 6490827
    Abstract: A biodegradable tray for raising seedlings is obtained by obtaining a pulp mold from pulp slurry by suction molding and hot pressing after the molding. Thus, there is provided a biodegradable tray for raising seedlings composed of a pulp mold that has superior mechanical strength and dimensional accuracy during use and can easily be degraded after raising seedlings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Hasegawa, Yojiro Ohno