Patents by Inventor Fumiko Gotoh

Fumiko Gotoh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6482526
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester resin-covered metal sheet exhibiting superior formability and particularly suitable to withstand the stresses of drawing, drawing and ironing, drawing and stretch forming, or drawing and stretch forming followed by ironing. The resin-covered metal sheet is produced by contacting a biaxially oriented polyester resin film to a metal sheet heated above the melting temperature of the resin, covering the metal sheet with the polyester resin, pinching and press laminating the film-metal sheet composite, and cooling the laminate at a rate of 600° C./second immediately thereafter. It is essential that the resulting resin-covered metal sheets exhibit a true stress of 3.0 to 15.0 kg/mm2, corresponding to a true strain of 1.0 at 75° C. These laminates also exhibits a gradation of retention of the polyester resin's original biaxial orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwashita, Fumiko Gotoh, Atsuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20010055690
    Abstract: The present invention produces a polyester resin covered metal sheet having extremely excellent formability, which can be available for uses in which severe forming is practiced such as drawing, drawing and ironing, and drawn and stretch forming as well as the composite forming consisting of drawn and stretch forming followed by ironing, and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: HIROYUKI IWASHITA, FUMIKO GOTOH, ATSUO TANAKA
  • Patent number: 6270874
    Abstract: The present invention produces a polyethylene terephthalate resin covered metal sheet having extremely excellent formability, which can be available for uses in which severe forming is practiced such as drawing, drawing and ironing and drawn and stretch forming as well as the composite forming consisting of drawn and stretch forming followed by ironing. A biaxially oriented film consisting of polyethylene terephthalate resin having a low temperature crystallization temperature ranging from 130° C. to 165° C. is covered at least on one side of a metal sheet by heat bonding in the way that the biaxial orientation of the film of the polyethylene terephthalate resin after being covered is gradually increasing from the contacting portion of the film to the metal sheet to the surface portion of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwashita, Fumiko Gotoh, Atsuo Tanaka