Patents Assigned to Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7517931
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-quality rubber product while preventing carbon black from separating from the rubber polymer and from reaggregating, without deteriorating the work environment, and the rubber product obtained by the method. The method for manufacturing a rubber product comprising preparing a rubber composition containing carbon black mixed in rubber by a rubber kneading procedure including a mastication process and a kneading process; and vulcanizing and molding the rubber composition to manufacture a rubber product, wherein, together with the carbon black, a monofunctional acrylic monomer is mixed in the rubber in the mastication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehito Ikeda, Yoshio Okado
  • Publication number: 20090093580
    Abstract: There is provided a rubber composition containing the following components: (A): an ethylene-?-olefin-nonconjugated polyene copolymer rubber, (B): a natural rubber, (C): an organic peroxide, (D): an aromatic amine compound, and (E): an aluminum-based inorganic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicants: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sadayuki NAKANO, Norihito Kimura, Toyohisa Tohyama
  • Patent number: 7514486
    Abstract: A vibration damping rubber composition having an excellent vibration damping performance includes the following (A) to (C) as essential components: (A) a diene-based rubber; (B) a vulcanizing agent of a bismaleimide compound represented by the following formula (1): ?[wherein X denotes a hydrocarbon group having an aromatic ring in its molecular structure or an aromatic hydrocarbon group and may or may not have a substituent; and R1 to R4 may be the same or different and each denote a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, —NH2, or —NO2], wherein the vulcanizing agent is sulfur-free; and (C) a vulcanization accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihito Kimura, Fumihiko Jinno, Takehiko Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20090079115
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including: a main rubber elastic body connecting a first and a second mounting members; a fluid-filled unit having a tubular housing closed off by a rubber elastic wall and a flexible film for providing therein a fluid chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid, and a partition member positioned within the fluid chamber to form on a first side thereof a primary fluid chamber partly defined by the rubber elastic wall, and on the other side thereof a secondary fluid chamber partially defined by the flexible film, with these chambers communicating through an orifice passage; and a rigid piston member. Upon input of vibration across the first and second mounting members, pressure fluctuations is exerted on the primary fluid chamber through elastic deformation of the rubber elastic wall of the fluid-filled unit induced through pushing by the contacting member via the piston member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Yoshii, Motohiro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20090079114
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including: a rubber elastic body connecting first and second mounting members; a partition member supported on the second mounting member; a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected by a first orifice passage; an oscillating plate defining the pressure-receiving chamber; and an electromagnetic actuator for actuating the oscillating plate. The oscillating plate is constituted by a cylinder shaped hole and a piston shaped plate accommodated within the cylinder shaped hole with a gap provided therebetween. An output member of the electromagnetic actuator is linked to the piston shaped plate. A plate spring extending in an axis-perpendicular direction is disposed to an opposite side from the electromagnetic actuator with the piston shaped plate therebetween, with the oscillating plate linked to and supported in an axial direction with respect to the partition member by the plate spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mutsumi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20090079116
    Abstract: A vibration damping device wherein a first stopper portion is disposed at an opening of a tubular portion of a bracket member to jut out over the opening; a second stopper portion of portal shape is disposed bridging the first opening of the tubular portion at a location axially outward from a first stopper portion; a main unit is inserted into another opening of the tubular portion; a separate stopper is juxtaposed against a first mounting member, incorporated as part of a stopper mechanism for limiting a relative displacement between the first and second mounting members in bound and rebound directions through contact with the first and second stopper portions; mounting holes perforate the first mounting member and the separate stopper; and a fixing bolt for fixing the first mounting member and the separate stopper is fixed at a location away from the mounting holes. A method of manufacturing the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Yoshii, Satoki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20090079118
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including: a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected by a first orifice passage; a movable member disposed within the pressure-receiving chamber, to form a primary fluid chamber partly defined by a rubber elastic body, and an auxiliary fluid chamber partly defined by an oscillating plate; and a second orifice passage connecting the auxiliary fluid chamber to the equilibrium chamber. A through-hole is formed in a partition member that partitions the primary fluid chamber and the auxiliary fluid chamber, the oscillating plate is housed within the through-hole with a gap provided therebetween whereby the oscillating plate is displaceable in an axial direction within the through-hole. A stopper abutted by the oscillating plate during displacement to one axial side is provided, with the gap becoming closed off when the oscillating plate is in a state of abutment against the stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD .
    Inventors: Mutsumi MURAOKA, Hironori KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090057603
    Abstract: A magnetic induction foam molding apparatus comprising: a pair of electromagnet parts, each of which has a core part composed of a ferromagnet and a coil part placed on the outer circumference surface of the core part, and that are placed so as to face each other and depart from each other with a predetermined distance in the axis direction of the core part; a foaming mold interposed between the pair of electromagnet parts, inside which a cavity is defined; and a yoke part connecting back surfaces of the respective core parts of the pair of the electromagnet pats so as to form a magnetic path between a pair of the back surfaces. In the cavity of the foaming mold, a uniform magnetic field is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Koji Tomiyama, Yasushi Ido
  • Publication number: 20090060760
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump includes: a volume changing member which changes the volume of a fluid chamber; a diaphragm member fixed in a stretched state and arranged separate from the fluid chamber, the diaphragm member having a pair of electrodes and a stretch film formed of dielectric elastomer, and the diaphragm member driving the volume changing member in a forward movement direction; a return bias member which drives the volume changing member in a backward movement direction; and a connection member which connects the diaphragm member and the volume changing member. In a low voltage state, the diaphragm member and the return bias member have driving force with respect to the volume changing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Hiroshi Isobe, Tadashi Ishiguro, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Tetsuyoshi Shibata, Hirotomi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 7497236
    Abstract: A vacuum brake hose having excellent interlaminar bonding strength between a tubular inner layer and an outer layer, as well as available at low cost by mass production. The vacuum brake hose comprising the tubular inner layer formed by using acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, a reinforcing fiber layer provided on an outer peripheral surface of the tubular inner layer and the outer layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the reinforcing fiber layer by using chloroprene rubber, wherein the reinforcing fiber layer is impregnated with adhesive consisting essentially of components (A) to (C) and interlaminar bonding between the tubular inner layer and the outer layer is effected through the adhesive: (A) chloroprene rubber; (B) acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber; and (C) at least one filler of carbon black and a white filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Hirai
  • Patent number: 7494115
    Abstract: A fluid-filled type vibration damping device including: a primary fluid chamber partially constituted by a main rubber elastic body connecting a first and second mounting member; an equilibrium chamber partially constituted by a flexible film; a partition member supported by the second mounting member; and a partition rubber film is superimposed against the partition member and secured interlocking with an annular interlocking projection projecting from the partition member. A first seal rubber is compressed between the interlocking projection and the tubular fitting member and extending about the entire circumference, thereby forming a working air chamber therebetween. A gap is furnished between and a second seal rubber is compressed between the tubular fitting member and the orifice member, and extending about the entire circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Maeno, Atsushi Muramatsu, Hironori Koyama
  • Patent number: 7493917
    Abstract: A rubber composition for an automotive non-water liquid delivery hose, which has good adhesion, comprises (A) chloroprene rubber, and (B) ethylene-propylene-diene terpoylymer containing 3% to 11% by weight of ethylidene norbornene and having a Mooney viscosity (ML1+4 at 100° C.) in the range of 20 to 150, wherein the mixture ratio by weight of the component (A) and the component (B) is set in the range of (A)/(B)=97/3 to 75/25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Hirai, Atsuo Miyajima
  • Patent number: 7490862
    Abstract: A hose clamp has an annular clamp body to be fitted on a clamp mounting portion of an end portion of a hose, and the clamp body is configured so as to tighten the clamp mounting portion by diametrically contracting the clamp body. A holding structure of the hose clamp has an anti-rotation engaging portion on the clamp body, an engaging holder portion on the hose, and a deformation restraining mechanism for restraining deformation of the hose when the clamp body tightens the clamp mounting portion. The engaging holder portion engages with the anti-rotation engaging portion in a circumferential direction when the clamp body is fitted on the clamp mounting portion. The deformation restraining mechanism restrains that the anti-rotation engaging portion is pressed against the engaging holder portion and thereby the hose is deformed via the engaging holder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sakazaki, Koji Hioki
  • Patent number: 7490818
    Abstract: A spring seat of a suspension for an automotive vehicle, which is capable of preventing occurrence of noises and preventing buckling deformations thereof has a spring seat body composed of an elastic rubber body. The spring seat body is interposed and pressed between a coil spring and an opposed member. This spring seat body has a plurality of non-through holes which are formed so as to be directed toward a first surface of the spring seat body from a second surface located on the side of the opposed member, and which have openings on the side of the second surface. In addition, the spring seat body has air passages connecting the non-through holes with the surface of the spring seat body other than the second surface on the side of the opposed member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kato, Yuji Sato
  • Publication number: 20090038896
    Abstract: A fluid filled type vibration damping device having an orifice passage formed in a partition member to connect a pressure receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber, wherein a first end section of the orifice passage extends in along a plane of the partition member, and a communication hole is formed to bend at a right angle from the first end of the orifice passage and open towards the pressure receiving chamber to form a dead water region by orthogonal wall faces of a terminal end face and a bottom face of the orifice passage in a connecting corner section of the orifice passage with the communication hole. A shunt hole of smaller cross-sectional area than the orifice passage and the communication hole is formed in a bottom wall so that the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber communicate through the shunt hole in the dead water region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Nishi, Tetsuya Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20090026672
    Abstract: A vibration damping device having a rubber heat-insulating cover wherein the rubber heat-insulating cover is formed as a separate component from a stopper member and is disposed between the stopper member and a main rubber elastic body connecting a first and second mounting member. The rubber heat-insulating cover is fixed to the stopper member with a center section of the rubber heat-insulating cover juxtaposed from an inner face side against a strike plate portion of the stopper member to be supported by the strike plate portion. With a peripheral wall section of the rubber heat-insulating cover juxtaposed from the inner face side against leg portions of the stopper member to be supported by the leg portions. A cushioning rubber is integrally formed with the center section of the rubber heat-insulating cover supported on the strike plate portion, and projects towards the first mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicants: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Okumura, Tomohiro Kanaya, Hitoshi Naito
  • Publication number: 20090026778
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an impact absorbing member capable of reducing a load at a load reducing object portion easily and a manufacturing method thereof. The impact absorbing member includes a long impact absorbing body in which the sectional shape in the direction of a short side thereof is substantially identical throughout the entire length in the length direction and at least one load reducing hole arranged in the load reducing object portion of the impact absorbing body. Because the load reducing hole is disposed, the load on the load reducing object portion can be reduced. Further, the load on the load reducing object portion can be reduced by a relatively simple work of arranging the load reducing hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Murayama, Junichiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090026801
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an impact absorbing member capable of reinforcing a desired reinforcement object portion. The impact absorbing member includes a long impact absorbing body which absorbs energy at the time of a collision by being deformed itself and a mounting member which is disposed at a reinforcement object portion of the impact absorbing body so that it is deformed along deformation of the reinforcement object portion at the time of the collision and mounted to a mounting object member. When the reinforcement object portion is deformed at the time of the collision, the mounting member is deformed along deformation of the reinforcement object portion. Due to that deformation, the mounting member can reinforce the reinforcement object portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Murayama, Junichiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090026675
    Abstract: A vibration damping device having a rubber heat-insulating cover wherein a strike plate portion and a pair of leg portions of a stopper member have detaining slots opening towards an outside, and two side walls of the detaining slot of the strike plate portion has stepped portions of notched shape disposed in its heightwise distal edge section. Center hook portions are formed on an outside face of a center section of the rubber heat-insulating cover, while outside hook portions are formed on an outside face of a peripheral wall portion of the rubber heat-insulating cover. The center hook portions are engaged with the two side walls of the detaining slot, and the outside hook portions are engaged with the two side walls of the detaining slots in the leg portions. Two end faces of the center hook portions are held in abutment against stepped faces at either end of the stepped portions in both side walls of the detaining slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kanaya, Kei Okumura
  • Publication number: 20090023232
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element has a layered structure on a surface of a transparent substrate. The layered structure comprises an organic material layer including a light-emitting organic material layer, an opaque electrode layer, an insulating layer, a metal layer and a resin film in order. The organic electroluminescence element is improved in durability because moisture is prevented from permeating into a light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio TANIGUCHI, Masato SUGIYAMA, Shingo HIBINO, Tetsuya TAKEUCHI, Ryo MINOSHIMA