Patents Assigned to Yamauchi Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130052416
    Abstract: A stopper for a magnetic head is capable of coming into contact with a locking portion formed on an arm having a magnetic head, has surface roughness (Rz) of at least 1 ?m and not more than 6.5 ?m, and is made of a polyurethane-based elastomer composition. This polyurethane-based elastomer preferably contains a polyurethane elastomer consisting of diisocyanate and adipate-based polyol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Takamitsu WADA
  • Patent number: 8192584
    Abstract: A papermaking belt 10 includes: a base material layer 11 including longitudinal and lateral yarns; a back-surface-side resin layer 12 which is provided on a back surface side of the base material layer, and at least a part of which has impregnated into the base material layer from the back surface side of the base material layer; a first resin layer 13 which has a relatively low viscosity, and has impregnated into the base material layer 11 from a front surface side of the base material layer 11; and a second resin layer 14 which contains chopped fibers 15 in a dispersed state, has a higher viscosity than that of the first resin layer 13, and is provided on a front surface side of the first resin layer 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 8192585
    Abstract: A press belt 20 includes a multiplicity of drain grooves 21 extending along a belt travel direction, lands 22 located between adjacent drain grooves 21, and auxiliary grooves 23 located on the lands 22 and extending along the belt travel direction. A transverse sectional area of each auxiliary groove 23 is smaller than that of each drain groove 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Nakagawa, Tetsuya Murakami
  • Publication number: 20120058365
    Abstract: A ceramic-resin composite roll (1) comprises a metal roll core (2), a foundation layer (3) formed on the outer circumferential surface of the metal roll core (2) and a thermally sprayed ceramic film (4) formed on the outer circumferential surface of the foundation layer (3). The thermally sprayed ceramic film (4) includes a ceramic particle layer in which adjacent ceramic particles are fused and bonded to each other and a layer of a resin (6) penetrating into the spaces among the ceramic particles (5) from the surface of the ceramic particle layer to the surface of the foundation layer (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya SHIMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7897527
    Abstract: A cushioning pad for hot press is a laminated plate body comprising a rubber layer, a high elastic modulus reinforced layer, and a low elastic modulus reinforced layer. The rubber layer is sandwiched between the high elastic modulus reinforced layer and the low elastic modulus reinforced layer positioned on its opposite side, and the laminated body has entirely no airspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100316864
    Abstract: A hot press cushioning pad 1 has a fiber-rubber composite material layer formed by a woven fabric and a rubber impregnated in the woven fabric. The warp of the woven fabric is a doubled and twisted yarn, and the weft thereof is a texturized yarn made of glass fibers. The fiber-rubber composite material layer has voids inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100251908
    Abstract: A hot-press cushioning member 11a is configured so that an amount of compressed thickness deformation (a) is obtained by subtracting a compressed thickness (H2) of the hot-press cushioning member under a predetermined press-forming pressure from an initial thickness (H1), an amount of restored thickness deformation (b) is obtained by subtracting the compressed thickness (H2) from an uncompressed thickness (H3) of the hot-press cushioning member with the press-forming pressure released, and the (a:b) ratio ranges from 1:1 to 1:0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7704350
    Abstract: A press belt (2) comprises both-end corresponding regions B positioned so as to correspond to both ends of a press roll (1) or a press shoe (3) in a width direction and having a small thickness and a center region A positioned between the both-end corresponding regions B and having a thickness larger than that of the both-end corresponding region B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Hikita, Atsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100089543
    Abstract: A papermaking belt 10 includes: a base material layer 11 including longitudinal and lateral yarns; a back-surface-side resin layer 12 which is provided on a back surface side of the base material layer, and at least a part of which has impregnated into the base material layer from the back surface side of the base material layer; a first resin layer 13 which has a relatively low viscosity, and has impregnated into the base material layer 11 from a front surface side of the base material layer 11; and a second resin layer 14 which contains chopped fibers 15 in a dispersed state, has a higher viscosity than that of the first resin layer 13, and is provided on a front surface side of the first resin layer 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 7671133
    Abstract: A vulcanized fluoro rubber is provided by vulcanizing a composition comprising 100 parts by mass of mixture in which a raw fluoro rubber (A) in which appropriate amount of vulcanizing agent has been previously compounded and a raw fluoro rubber (B) in which the vulcanizing agent is not compounded are mixed at a rate of 8/2 to 3/7, 1 to 10 parts by mass of an acid acceptor and 0 to 5 parts by mass of another compounding agent which is compounded as needed. Number average molecular weight of each of the raw fluoro rubber (A) and the raw fluoro rubber (B) is 3.5×104 to 2.0×105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100032121
    Abstract: A press belt 20 includes a multiplicity of drain grooves 21 extending along a belt travel direction, lands 22 located between adjacent drain grooves 21, and auxiliary grooves 23 located on the lands 22 and extending along the belt travel direction. A transverse sectional area of each auxiliary groove 23 is smaller than that of each drain groove 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Nakagawa, Tetsuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 7611608
    Abstract: A press belt having superior cracking resistance, wear resistance and pressure deflection resistance and an excellent traveling property and a method of manufacturing the same as well as a shoe press employing the same are provided. A press belt in a press comprising a rotatively traveling endless press belt and pressing means, including terminal corresponding areas (B, B?) corresponding to both ends of the pressing means in the cross direction and a central area (A) located between the terminal corresponding areas and mainly composed of thermosetting polyurethane obtained from a thermosetting polyurethane material containing a phenylene isocyanate derivative having an isocyanate group (NCO) on an end and a hardener having an active hydrogen group (H) on an end with the equivalent ratio (H/NCO) between the active hydrogen group and the isocyanate group set relatively high on the terminal corresponding areas and relatively low on the central area and a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Hikida
  • Patent number: 7540942
    Abstract: A press belt (2) comprises many drain grooves (13) extending along a belt travel direction, and many lands (14) positioned between the adjacent drain grooves and extending along the belt travel direction. The land (14) has an upper surface which is entirely curved upward as a transverse sectional configuration along a belt width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Hikita
  • Patent number: 7527583
    Abstract: A paper machine press roll comprises a core roll and a ceramics sprayed film formed on an outer periphery of the core roll, in which values of Rk and Vo which are characteristic evaluation parameters of a plateau-structure surface of the ceramics sprayed film are Rk?8.0 ?m and Vo?0.030 mm3/cm2. (Vo=(100?Mr2)×Rvk/2000 (mm3/cm2) where Rk, Mr2 and Rvk are a core level difference, a core load length ratio and a projecting valley depth, respectively which are defined in JIS B0671-2-2002 (ISO13565-2-1996).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Atsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090068405
    Abstract: A ceramic-resin composite roll (1) comprises a metal roll core (2), a foundation layer (3) formed on the outer circumferential surface of the metal roll core (2) and a thermally sprayed ceramic film (4) formed on the outer circumferential surface of the foundation layer (3). The thermally sprayed ceramic film (4) includes a ceramic particle layer in which adjacent ceramic particles are fused and bonded to each other and a layer of a resin (6) penetrating into the spaces among the ceramic particles (5) from the surface of the ceramic particle layer to the surface of the foundation layer (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 7501044
    Abstract: A paper making elastic belt has a drainage channels in a surface. A surface roughness of a wall of the drainage channel is not more than 2.0 ?m in arithmetic average roughness (Ra).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Hikida, Keiji Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20090050283
    Abstract: A press belt 2 comprises both end corresponding regions B positioned so as to correspond to both ends of a press roll 1 or a pressing shoe 3 in the width direction and a center region A positioned between the both end corresponding regions B. The center region A has a predetermined thickness and constitutes a pressed part pressed by pressing means. The end corresponding regions B have a thickness smaller than that of the center region A to form recessed parts and constitute pressure escape parts for allowing the pressure from the pressing means to escape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Hikida
  • Patent number: 7384517
    Abstract: A press belt with occurrence of pinholes remarkably reduced as well as a manufacturing method of the press belt are provided. The press belt includes a reinforcing base material containing multifilaments that are impregnated with a bundling agent and an elastic material in which the reinforcing base material is buried. The manufacturing method is a method of manufacturing the aforementioned press belt. The reinforcing base material is preferably made of a woven fabric and the bundling agent preferably contains as its main component thermosetting resin. As the bundling agent, a bundling agent containing as its main component urethane-based resin is suitably used. For the reinforcing base material, organic fibers are preferably used. The bundling agent is preferably applied in the form of emulsion to the multifilaments or the reinforcing base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Takahisa Hikida
  • Patent number: 7374641
    Abstract: A papermaking belt, used for a shoe pressing belt, a calender belt and a sheet transfer belt, is prevented from cracking and inhibited from growth of a crack, and comprises a reinforcing substrate (6) embedded in a thermosetting polyurethane layer (7) so that the said reinforcing substrate (6) and the said thermosetting polyurethane layer (7) are integrated with each other and the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the belt are formed by polyurethane layers, the polyurethane layer forming the outer peripheral surface is made of a composition containing a urethane prepolymer having isocyanate groups on ends and a hardener containing dimethylthiotoluenediamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Watanabe, Takahisa Hikida, Atsushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7326321
    Abstract: In a shoe press belt (11; 21; 31; 41; 51; 61) endlessly formed by an elastic material, a plurality of drains (15; 25; 35; 45; 55; 65) are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shoe press belt along the peripheral direction of the shoe press belt, and the depths of these drains are progressively increased from a central pressurizing portion (C1; C2; C3; C4; C5) toward end pressurizing portions (A1, A1?; A2, A2?; A3, A3?; A4, A4?; A5, A5?) of the shoe press belt. A shoe press employing this shoe press belt. Thus, a shoe press belt capable of uniformly dehydrating the overall wet web and a shoe press employing the same can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Yamauchi Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Hikida