Patents Assigned to Tokai Chemical Industries, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20210030157Abstract: An armrest according to the technology described herein includes a bracket, an armrest body, a device connecting port, an armrest-side connector, and a cable. The bracket is fixed to a seat frame. The armrest body is attached to the bracket to be rotatable. The device connecting port is exposed through an outer surface of the armrest body. The armrest-side connector is fixed to the seat frame at a position different from the bracket. The cable includes an end connected to the device connecting port and an end connected to an armrest-side connector. The armrest body includes a cable retaining portion through which the cable is passed and in which the cable is retained. Any one of the bracket and the armrest body includes a hole (an elongated hole) that allows movement of the cable along with rotation of the armrest body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Kaho HAYASHI, Hideki OSHIMA, Takahiko ENDO, Keiji MAKINO, Jun JIN, Takemasa OKUMURA
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Patent number: 10327555Abstract: A stay for headrest includes a hollow metallic stay body, and an end installation body. The stay body is formed as a letter-āUā shape including a base, and paired legs extending respectively from opposite ends of the base. The end installation body is formed of a polymeric material, and includes a solid portion arranged inside a hollow interior in a leading end portion of the paired legs, and a spherical portion protruding from the leading end portion of the paired legs.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takemasa Okumura
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Patent number: 10160069Abstract: A headrest stay is manufactured with a metal round pipe having a predetermined length and a predetermined thickness by performing a boring process on the metal round pipe by a cutting length of 5 mm or more from each of both distal ends of the metal round pipe to form a thin-walled portion that is thinner than the predetermined thickness; forming each of the distal ends of the metal round pipe into an curved chamfered shape having a radius of 5 mm or more by inserting each of the distal ends of the metal round pipe into a cylindrical hole; and bending the metal round pipe to have a shape of the headrest stay.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nasu, Akihide Ozaki, Koki Uemura
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Patent number: 10150394Abstract: A headrest includes a stay, a headrest body, and a dynamic damper attached to the stay. The dynamic damper includes: an attachment member having an attachment portion attached to the stay and an opening having no bottom; an elastic member fixed along its entire perimeter by an edge of the opening and placed in the opening; and a weight embedded in the elastic member and placed in the opening. The attachment member includes a front-side divided body and a back-side divided body. The elastic member is sandwiched between the front-side divided body and the back-side divided body, whereby the elastic member is fixed along its entire perimeter by the edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nasu
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Patent number: 9995243Abstract: An engine cover for covering an engine including: a cover body configured to cover the engine from above; and at least one fixing part projecting from the cover body toward an engine side and being configured to be attached to the engine side, wherein the cover body and the fixing part are integrally formed of an urethane foam, and the fixing part has an infirm portion formed at a periphery thereof so that the fixing part is configured to be deformed toward a specific direction due to the infirm portion upon input of a load to the cover body.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kondo, Kimio Ishii
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Publication number: 20180035808Abstract: A stay for headrest includes a hollow metallic stay body, and an end installation body. The stay body is formed as a letter-āUā shape including a base, and paired legs extending respectively from opposite ends of the base. The end installation body is formed of a polymeric material, and includes a solid portion arranged inside a hollow interior in a leading end portion of the paired legs, and a spherical portion protruding from the leading end portion of the paired legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takemasa OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9816460Abstract: The present invention provides an engine cover that can be manufactured easily and at a lower cost and has an attachment member that is high in quality and may not easily fall off. The engine cover has a cover body made of urethane foam, a skin layer disposed on a surface of the cover body, and an attachment member made of an elastic body and integrally molded with the cover body. The attachment member has a recess into which an attachment pin provided to project from an engine member is fitted, and a sealing portion that is provided to project at least one of the opening end surface of the recess and the side surface of the opening end part of the recess and that suppresses entry of a foamed urethane resin material that forms the cover body into the recess during integral molding.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kondo, Kimio Ishii
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Patent number: 9663006Abstract: A vehicle seat provided in a vehicle includes a headrest with a pad in which an insert member is provided at a portion at which a head of an occupant is received. The insert member has rigidity that is higher than rigidity of the pad. When a rear-side collision occurs in the vehicle in a state in which the head of the occupant is away from the headrest and an inertia force applied to the occupant, the insert member allows the head of the occupant to sink into the headrest after the head of the occupant comes in contact with the headrest.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nasu, Koki Uemura
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Patent number: 9640337Abstract: A door window opening and closing switch assembly includes a vehicular door window closing switch that is a touch-sensitive sensor and for closing a vehicular door window, and a switch mount member where the vehicular door window closing switch is mounted, and the switch mount member includes a switch operation portion having an opening, an opening edge portion around the opening, and a side wall extending from the opening edge portion. The door window closing switch is mounted on the side wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Atushi Muramatu, Masanori Yamamoto, Shoji Sanae, Seiji Kobayashi, Mari Azumi
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Publication number: 20160368403Abstract: A headrest includes a stay, a headrest body, and a dynamic damper attached to the stay. The dynamic damper includes: an attachment member having an attachment portion attached to the stay and an opening having no bottom; an elastic member fixed along its entire perimeter by an edge of the opening and placed in the opening; and a weight embedded in the elastic member and placed in the opening. The attachment member includes a front-side divided body and a back-side divided body. The elastic member is sandwiched between the front-side divided body and the back-side divided body, whereby the elastic member is fixed along its entire perimeter by the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicants: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki NASU
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Patent number: 9505913Abstract: A polylactic acid resin composition containing a polylactic acid resin, glass fibers having an average aspect ratio (average fiber length/average fiber diameter) of 5 or more, and a metallic pigment, wherein the glass fibers are contained in an amount of from 2 to 35 parts by mass, and the metallic pigment is contained in an amount of from 0.1 to 8 parts by mass, based on 100 parts by mass of the polylactic acid resin. Since the polylactic acid resin composition of the present invention has excellent moldability, and is capable of providing a molded article with high designability, including a transparent surface layer and an inner layer with a lamellar texture in the nashiji patterns, the polylactic acid resin composition can be suitably used in various industrial applications, such as daily sundries, household electric appliance parts, packaging materials for household electric appliance parts, and automobile parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignees: KAO CORPORATION, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomoya Tsuboi, Masahiro Mori, Mari Azumi
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Publication number: 20160263713Abstract: A headrest stay is manufactured with a metal round pipe having a predetermined length and a predetermined thickness by performing a boring process on the metal round pipe by a cutting length of 5 mm or more from each of both distal ends of the metal round pipe to form a thin-walled portion that is thinner than the predetermined thickness; forming each of the distal ends of the metal round pipe into an curved chamfered shape having a radius of 5 mm or more by inserting each of the distal ends of the metal round pipe into a cylindrical hole; and bending the metal round pipe to have a shape of the headrest stay.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki NASU, Akihide OZAKI, Koki UEMURA
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Patent number: 9398812Abstract: To provide a core for armrest, the core including a stopper pin for restricting rotation, and exhibiting higher resistance to loads. A core for armrest includes a framed body being made of resin, a stopper pin being made of metal, the stopper pin being subjected to insert molding in the framed body so as to protrude a leading-end side thereof toward an outer side of the framed body, and being hooked onto a stopper of a seat, thereby being restricted from rotating, and a rib being integrally molded onto the framed body inside the framed body, and being disposed so as to overlap with respect to a base-end face of the stopper pin in an axial direction of the stopper pin.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shoji Sanae
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Publication number: 20160102630Abstract: An engine cover for covering an engine including: a cover body configured to cover the engine from above; and at least one fixing part projecting from the cover body toward an engine side and being configured to be attached to the engine side, wherein the cover body and the fixing part are integrally formed of an urethane foam, and the fixing part has an infirm portion formed at a periphery thereof so that the fixing part is configured to be deformed toward a specific direction due to the infirm portion upon input of a load to the cover body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicants: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KONDO, Kimio ISHII
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Publication number: 20160002443Abstract: A polylactic acid resin composition containing a polylactic acid resin, glass fibers having an average aspect ratio (average fiber length/average fiber diameter) of 5 or more, and a metallic pigment, wherein the glass fibers are contained in an amount of from 2 to 35 parts by mass, and the metallic pigment is contained in an amount of from 0.1 to 8 parts by mass, based on 100 parts by mass of the polylactic acid resin. Since the polylactic acid resin composition of the present invention has excellent moldability, and is capable of providing a molded article with high designability, including a transparent surface layer and an inner layer with a lamellar texture in the nashiji patterns, the polylactic acid resin composition can be suitably used in various industrial applications, such as daily sundries, household electric appliance parts, packaging materials for household electric appliance parts, and automobile parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya TSUBOI, Masahiro MORI, Mari AZUMI
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Publication number: 20150340173Abstract: A door window opening and closing switch assembly includes a vehicular door window closing switch that is a touch-sensitive sensor and for closing a vehicular door window, and a switch mount member where the vehicular door window closing switch is mounted, and the switch mount member includes a switch operation portion having an opening, an opening edge portion around the opening, and a side wall extending from the opening edge portion. The door window closing switch is mounted on the side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro SUZUKI, Atushi MURAMATU, Masanori YAMAMOTO, Shoji SANAE, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Mari AZUMI
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Publication number: 20150306997Abstract: A vehicle seat provided in a vehicle includes a headrest with a pad in which an insert member is provided at a portion at which a head of an occupant is received. The insert member has rigidity that is higher than rigidity of the pad. When a rear-side collision occurs in the vehicle in a state in which the head of the occupant is away from the headrest and an inertia force applied to the occupant, the insert member allows the head of the occupant to sink into the headrest after the head of the occupant comes in contact with the headrest.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki NASU, Koki UEMURA
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Publication number: 20150075482Abstract: The present invention provides an engine cover that can be manufactured easily and at a lower cost and has an attachment member that is high in quality and may not easily fall off. The engine cover has a cover body made of urethane foam, a skin layer disposed on a surface of the cover body, and an attachment member made of an elastic body and integrally molded with the cover body. The attachment member has a recess into which an attachment pin provided to project from an engine member is fitted, and a sealing portion that is provided to project at least one of the opening end surface of the recess and the side surface of the opening end part of the recess and that suppresses entry of a foamed urethane resin material that forms the cover body into the recess during integral molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicants: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KONDO, Kimio ISHII
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Publication number: 20140167479Abstract: To provide a core for armrest, the core including a stopper pin for restricting rotation, and exhibiting higher resistance to loads. A core for armrest includes a framed body being made of resin, a stopper pin being made of metal, the stopper pin being subjected to insert molding in the framed body so as to protrude a leading-end side thereof toward an outer side of the framed body, and being hooked onto a stopper of a seat, thereby being restricted from rotating, and a rib being integrally molded onto the framed body inside the framed body, and being disposed so as to overlap with respect to a base-end face of the stopper pin in an axial direction of the stopper pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shoji SANAE
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Patent number: 8672410Abstract: A tiltable headrest device is provided to suppress the occurrence of abnormal noise during rotation, to reduce the number of components and to improve appearance quality. Guide portions (12) each comprising a standing-up locking portion (12a), a falling-down locking portion (12b) and a rail portion (12c) are integrally formed on a core member (1), a coil spring (4) for urging a lateral rod (31) toward a direction approaching the guide portions (12) is provided in the core member (1). The lateral rod (31) is pressed to the guide portions (12) by the urging force of the coil spring (4) so as to be guided. Due to sliding contact between resin and metal, the occurrence of abnormal noise can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignees: Tokai Chemical Industries, Ltd., Rebirth Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Misawa, Takeshi Mizutani