Patents Assigned to Toyota Boshoku Co. Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7416779
    Abstract: To provide a fiberboard capable of reducing a load on the environment at all states of producing, using, and abolishing and moreover having a high degree of bending strength and a high bending-strength retention rate at high temperature and high humidity so as to be usable for an automobile interior material or building material and a fiber-board producing method. The fiberboard is formed by mixing natural fiber with polylactic acid resin serving as a binder and has an apparent density of 0.2 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignees: Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Co. Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Hashiba, Takehiro Kato, Kousuke Tamaki, Osamu Mito, Kazuya Matsumura, Tomomichi Fujiyama, Yuhei Maeda, Eiji Sugiyama, Takashi Inoh, Hiroshi Urayama, Hisashi Okuyama