Patents Assigned to YKK Architectural Products Inc.
  • Patent number: 6065248
    Abstract: A cremorne lock mounting device for a window is capable of reducing width dimension of a frame of a window door and thus provide greater lighting area. A hollow portion extending over a frame body of the frame of the window door and a panel support portion is defined. A lock body of the cremorne lock is mounted within the hollow portion. Thus, the frame body is required smaller width dimension than a width dimension of the lock body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sasaki, Koichi Segawa
  • Patent number: 6032423
    Abstract: A curtain wall having a mullion structure comprises bilateral mullions, a sash unit to be mounted to the mullions, the sash unit comprising a sash unit frame and a sash mounted to the sash unit frame, supporting members fixed to the mullions for supporting the sash unit frame, and a fixing member disposed for fixing one of bilateral side portions of the sash unit frame to one of the mullions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Takemura, Yoshiaki Tanari
  • Patent number: 6014846
    Abstract: A multi-window sash comprising: a frame structure; a plurality of sash units, to each of which a panel is mounted which are connected with each other in a panel width direction, each of the sash units comprising bilateral vertical frame members, an upper frame member and a lower frame member which constitute a rectangular frame of the sash unit in combination thereof; and a mullion structure connecting adjacent two sash units and including at least a mullion having an expandable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sono, So Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5937597
    Abstract: A multi-window sash including: a frame structure; a plurality of sash units, to each of which a panel is mounted which are connected with each other in a panel width direction, each of the sash units including bilateral vertical frame members, an upper frame member and a lower frame member which constitute a rectangular frame of the sash unit in combination thereof; and a mullion structure connecting adjacent two sash units and including at least a mullion having an expandable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sono, So Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5910084
    Abstract: In a reinforcing structure for reinforcing a vertical frame member made of aluminum material and constituting a sash frame by attaching thereto a reinforcing member made of steel, the reinforcing member is an elongated member composed of an indoor side piece, an outdoor side piece and a connection piece. The vertical frame member comprises an indoor side vertical plate member, an outdoor side vertical plate member and a connection plate member. The indoor side vertical plate member has an end portion which is bent to form an indoor side recessed portion continuously extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, and the outdoor side vertical plate member has an end portion which is bent to form an outdoor side recessed portion continuously extending in the longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5870859
    Abstract: A water-tight structure of a single sliding door capable of ensuring sufficient watertightness without increasing the measurement of a rise provided on a sill so as to apply an entrance. The single sliding door is composed to provide a movable door on a window frame to be able to move in the opening direction of the door and a stationary door and attachments. A pressure-equalized clearance area is formed between the sill of the window frame of the single sliding door and the stationary door and the attachments provided on the sill, and further an air-tight member is provided to divide the pressure-equalized clearance area and an inside clearance area of the single sliding door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Kitada
  • Patent number: 5822926
    Abstract: An extrusion molded aluminum elongated vertical frame element for constituting a door or window leaf of a hinged door or window comprises first and second vertical plates respectively providing a surface substantively parallel to a door or window face direction and third and fourth vertical plates respectively providing a surface substantively parallel to a door or window thickness direction, thereby having a hollow structure and a substantively rectangular cross section. The fourth vertical plate is provided with an cutout opening. A reinforcing member made of steel, a spacer made of steel and a cremorne lock having a lock body is inserted in the hollow structure of the vertical frame element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5761860
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a panel in a panel mounting frame to form a door, window, or the like comprises bilateral vertical frame elements, an upper transverse frame element and a lower transverse frame element assembled to form a quadrangular panel mounting frame. Each of the bilateral vertical frame elements has a recessed groove and a receiving means. A first bead member is attached to each of the vertical frame elements by an attachment means inserted in the recessed groove. A second bead member is also attached to each of the vertical frame elements by an engaging means engaged with a receiving means. A panel is mounted so that each of its bilateral vertical edge portions is disposed between the first bead member and the second bead member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5758459
    Abstract: In a sash frame structure for attaching a glass in which a glass is supported in glass attachment channels formed to respective frame members constituting a sash frame by first side seal members and second side seal members disposed on the opposite sides of the glass, the glass is so provided as not to be scattered in pieces even if it is broken. A seal member fitting groove is formed to each of the frame members adjacently to the glass attachment channel, and an engaging portion is formed to the inner surface of the glass attachment channel on the side adjacent to the seal member fitting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5749175
    Abstract: In a double door assembly in which first and second doors are respectively mounted to bilateral vertical frame members of a door frame in the manner that each door can swing both to the indoor side and to the outdoor side for its opening and closing, a structure of mating portions of the doors comprises a first mating frame element constituting the first door and providing a first mating surface, a second mating frame element constituting the second door and providing a second mating surface, a first mating seal member attached to the first mating surface to project toward the second mating surface and a second mating seal member attached to the second mating surface to the indoor side relative to the first mating seal member to project toward the first mating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano
  • Patent number: 5746032
    Abstract: In a structure for attaching a lower transverse frame member of a sash in which an elongated attachment transverse member is attached to a lower edge portion of an opening of a building body and a lower transverse frame member constituting a sash frame is attached to said attachment transverse member, the attachment transverse member has a hollow structure formed on the outdoor side portion thereof, and the hollow structure has a drain port opening to the outdoor side. Each of fixing members for fixing the lower transverse frame member to the attachment transverse member is so arranged that the front end thereof projects into the hollow structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Sou Koike, Masao Hirano, Takayuki Okubo
  • Patent number: 5682714
    Abstract: A partitioning sash comprises at least one multi window mullion for forming a multiple window portion, at least one salient corner mullion for forming a salient angle portion and at least one reentrant corner mullion for forming a reentrant angle portion. The multi window mullion, the salient corner mullion, and the reentrant corner mullion has the same dimension measured in a direction parallel to a width of the sash. Each of the salient corner mullion and the reentrant corner mullion is constituted of a mullion body and an auxiliary frame body. The mullion body has a glass receptacle groove on a side surface to be located at one side in a direction parallel to the width of the sash, end has recesses on side surfaces to be located at both sides in a direction parallel to the depth of the sash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ishikuro, Masao Hirano, Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5678366
    Abstract: A sliding window structure has a window frame comprising an upper frame member, a lower frame member and bilateral side vertical frame members which are assembled in substantially rectangular shape, and an indoor side sash and an outdoor side sash fitted to the window frame. The lower frame member comprises an indoor side portion to which the indoor side sash is mounted and the outdoor side portion to which the outdoor side sash is mounted and has a step-like configuration in which the indoor side portion has a height higher than a height of the outdoor side portion. An attachment is mounted to the outdoor side portion of the lower frame member so as to cover the outdoor side portion. An upper end of the attachment is substantially at the same height level as an upper end of the indoor side portion of the lower frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nambo, Shigeru Ueda, Toshiaki Hirono, Yuichi Nozaki
  • Patent number: 5657591
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connection structure which can freely adjust a connection strength between each stile and rail without increasing the kinds of stiles and rails arranging a door. A door 1A is arranged by engaging connection convex parts 21A and 31A of an upper rail 20 and a lower rail 30 in a connection concave part of a stile 10. In this case, the strength of the connection part of the stile and rail is set by adjusting an engagement dimension of the connection convex parts 21A and 31A in the connection concave part 12A. When the doors of different connection strength are arranged, only adjusting the engagement dimensions is required without the need to manufacture and assemble stiles and rails of different shapes and so on for each strength; therefore the manufacturing cost is reduced with the kinds of stiles and rails required being reduced and each kind of door with different connection strength can be easily arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Kitada
  • Patent number: 5653060
    Abstract: A sliding window comprises a window frame composed of upper, lower, and first and second vertical frame members, to which indoor side and outdoor side sashes are mounted. A space continuous around the periphery of the window frame is formed to the outdoor side of the window frame. The space is provided with a port communicating with the outdoor atmosphere, thereby having a pressure equal to an atmospheric pressure. The window frame, the indoor side sash and the outdoor side sash have respectively heat insulating lines continuous around their respective peripheries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kitada, Toshihiko Saito
  • Patent number: 5651229
    Abstract: A structure component 7 composed of a vertical-load support trussed structure supporting a load in a vertical direction and arranged along a vertical plane and a horizontal-load support trussed structure supporting a load in a horizontal direction and arranged along a horizontal plane is provided between main mullions 4 in a building. Since the structure component 7 supports the vertical load and the horizontal load at the trussed structures 9, 10, a support strength can define responding to the loads so as to support efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroo Wada, Koichiro Nawa
  • Patent number: 5647179
    Abstract: An aluminum frame member according to the present invention has an improved weather-proof characteristics and can be produced through a simplified and inexpensive fabrication process. The aluminum frame member comprises an interior side member and an exterior side member formed separately from each other. The interior side member has a panel support portion at the exterior side, and a surface of the interior side member is coated with a relatively inexpensive coating. The exterior side member has a panel support portion at the interior side, and a surface of the exterior side member is coated with a coating having weather-proof capacity which is higher than that of the coating of the interior side member. The exterior side member is fixed to the exterior side of the interior side member, thereby concealing from the exterior a portion of the interior side member which is otherwise exposed to the exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Hayashi, Hiroshi Omae
  • Patent number: 5632125
    Abstract: A curtain wall 2 in which attachment portions 12, 13 are arranged near an interior surface 11A and an exterior surface 11B to form mullions 10 and transoms 30 as structural member, and toward the attachment portions 12, 13, a supporting member 15 supporting a glass panel 4 and a facing member 14 covering the interior surface 11A are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventor: Masami Osanai
  • Patent number: 5598672
    Abstract: A panel member mounting structure for a curtain wall has a frame body comprising a plurality of quadrangular frame sections defined by mullions and transoms. For each quadrangular frame section, a quadrangular gasket consisting of integrally connected left and right vertical gaskets and upper and lower horizontal gaskets is applied. In panel member mounting operation, first the quadrangular gasket is fitted to the mullions and transoms defining a quadrangular frame section, and then the panel member is fitted in the quadrangular gasket by deforming the exterior side holding pieces of the vertical and horizontal gaskets toward the exterior side. Next, while the panel member is temporarily being held by the exterior side holding pieces of the vertical and horizontal gaskets, the zippers are fitted to the gaskets, thereby preventing the deformation of the exterior side holding pieces of the gaskets to fix the panel member firmly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventor: Koichiro Nawa
  • Patent number: 5596850
    Abstract: A fixed window includes a glazing device composed of a plate-like base detachably mounted on the inner surface of a frame component arranged outwardly of the peripheral edge of a panel, and a glazing strip mounted on the base for supporting an interior face portion of the panel adjacent the peripheral edge. When the base and the glazing strip are removed, the frame component can be also used as a frame component of a window of the different type. The glazing strip is held in contact with an interior flange of the frame component, so that a positive wind pressure acting on the panel is borne by the flange. The glazing strip can, therefore, be always held stably in position against displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: YKK Architectural Products Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kubo