Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kakimoto

Hirofumi Kakimoto 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: 6672426
    Abstract: A sound-insulating floor structure, which can conspicuously reduce heavy floor impact sounds, is provided. The sound-insulating floor structure includes a floor base and an underfloor member. A plurality of sound-insulating floor members are arranged between the floor base and the underfloor member, and each of the sound-insulating floor members includes a plurality of impact-absorbing members and a support member supporting the impact-absorbing members. The impact-absorbing members are provided at at least one of upper and lower faces of the support member. Each of the sound-insulating floor members is fixed to the floor base or to the underfloor member, thereby supporting the underfloor member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hayakawa Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kakimoto, Osamu Kiso
  • Publication number: 20030188921
    Abstract: The invention is to produce a sound-insulating floor structure which can conspicuously reduce heavy floor impact sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kakimoto, Osamu Kiso
  • Patent number: 6602586
    Abstract: An elastic block, which is adapted to be paved on an underlying base for absorbing impacts, includes a laminate composed of a powdery rubber-containing layer and a vulcanized rubber layer underlying the powdery rubber-containing layer, the powdery rubber-containing layer being a compression molded layer composed of a mixture comprising elastic chips having the particle size of 0.5 to 10 mm and a resin binder, the vulcanized rubber layer being a vulcanized molding of an unvulcanized rubber layer, wherein the elastic chips are fixedly bonded to one another with the resin binder and the powdery rubber-containing layer is adhered to the vulcanized rubber layer when the mixture layer and the unvulcanized rubber layer are subjected to pressurization and vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Hayakawa Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kakimoto, Masanori Igaki
  • Publication number: 20020015840
    Abstract: An elastic block, which is adapted to be paved on an underlying base for absorbing impacts, includes a laminate composed of a powdery rubber-containing layer and a vulcanized rubber layer underlying the powdery rubber-containing layer, the powdery rubber-containing layer being a compression molded layer composed of a mixture comprising elastic chips having the particle size of 0.5 to 10 mm and a resin binder, the vulcanized rubber layer being a vulcanized molding of an unvulcanized rubber layer, wherein the elastic chips are fixedly bonded to one another with the resin binder and the powdery rubber-containing layer is adhered to the vulcanized rubber layer when the mixture layer and the unvulcanized rubber layer are subjected to pressurization and vulcanization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: HIROFUMI KAKIMOTO, MASANORI IGAKI
  • Patent number: 4803112
    Abstract: An impact-cushioning sheet comprises an air enclosed film base having concave portions or a perforated base material composed of fiberboard and/or foamed body and a crosslinked viscoelastic body filled in the concave portions or holes and having specified properties. A direct-applying restraint type floor damping structure is manufactured by adhering a floor component part to at least one surface of the impact-cushioning sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Hayakawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kakimoto, Osamu Kiso, Shinya Shimada
  • Patent number: 4554769
    Abstract: There is provided a novel adhesive-backed tile panel protected by a release sheet. The prefabricated tile panel comprises a substrate sheet composed of a core fabric and a heat-softening-adherent asphalt composition applied to the both surfaces of the fabric; an adhesive layer having convex and concave portions such as stripes of an adhesive not flowable but sticky at an ambient temperature; and tiles arranged regularly and secured to the asphalt composition layer of the substrate sheet. The convex portions and concave portions of the adhesive layer constitute the gaps through which air present between the tile panels and a substrate board can be purged upon installation of the tile panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: Ina Seito Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morizumi Fujii, Hirofumi Kakimoto, Shinji Fujino