Patents by Inventor Ippei Soma

Ippei Soma 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: 11357938
    Abstract: A respiratory acoustic device is provided that is easy to operate and transport. The device delivers vibrations artificially to the lungs and airways to fluidize mucus adhering to the airways and promote its discharge. A respiratory acoustic device 1 is provided with a housing 10, and a mouthpiece 20 that is in communication with the housing 10. The housing 10 has a reflecting end 12 for reflecting air that has been blown in from the mouthpiece 20 and an open end 13 through which air that has been blown in from the mouthpiece 20 can escape. If a sudden exhalation such as a cough is blown into the housing 10 through the mouthpiece 20, the device causes the noise due to said exhalation to resonate with the oral and lower airway cavities, and vibrate the user's lungs and airways with the low frequency acoustic shock waves generated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Acoustic Innovations Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ippei Soma, Hawkins Sanford Elliot
  • Publication number: 20210178094
    Abstract: To make it possible to make a respiratory acoustic device, which is for delivering vibrations artificially to the lungs and airways to fluidize mucus adhering to airways and promote the discharge of the same, easy to operate and make the device easy to transport. A respiratory acoustic device 1 is provided with a housing 10 with a hollow 11, and a mouthpiece 20 with an air passage 21 that is in communication with the hollow 11. The housing 10 has a reflecting end 12 for reflecting air that has been blown in from the mouthpiece 20 and an open end 13 through which air that has been blown in from the mouthpiece 20 can escape. If a sudden exhalation such as a cough is blown into the housing 10 through the mouthpiece 20, the device causes the noise due to said exhalation to resonate with the oral and lower airway cavities, and vibrate the user's lungs and airways with the low frequency acoustic shock waves generated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Ippei SOMA, Hawkins Sanford Elliot
  • Patent number: 10919345
    Abstract: A vibration absorbed tire is provided which has a laminated structure that contains dilantant layer causing reaction rate differences in the cross-sectional direction and thus functions without impairing the motion characteristics of the tire even with only a single or a few very thin layers, whereby the tire is easy to manufacture and has reduced cost. The tire has the laminated structure, which includes the dilantant layer which is a layer where particles and a bonding material thereof are arranged to act as dilantant, and in which the particles are arranged so that the distribution density of the particles decreases toward the upper and the lower surface from the central part of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Sanford Elliot Hawkins, Ippei Soma
  • Publication number: 20170313139
    Abstract: A vibration absorbed tire is provided which has a laminated structure that contains dilantant layer causing reaction rate differences in the cross-sectional direction and thus functions without impairing the motion characteristics of the tire even with only a single or a few very thin layers, whereby the tire is easy to manufacture and has reduced cost. The tire has the laminated structure, which includes the dilantant layer which is a layer where particles and a bonding material thereof are arranged to act as dilantant, and in which the particles are arranged so that the distribution density of the particles decreases toward the upper and the lower surface from the central part of the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: ACOUSTIC INNOVATIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanford Elliot HAWKINS, Ippei SOMA
  • Patent number: 9315076
    Abstract: In an assembly of a pneumatic tire and a rim, in which a tire cavity is formed between the pneumatic tire and the rim by mounting the pneumatic tire on the rim, a noise suppressing body extending in a circumferential direction is disposed inside the tire cavity. The noise suppressing body includes a first sound absorbing material layer arranged apart from an inner surface of a tire tread part through a cavity and a second sound absorbing material layer disposed at the rim side of the first sound absorbing material layer and having lower air permeability than the first sound absorbing material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD., ACOUSTIC INNOVATIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakakibara, Atsushi Suzuki, Sanford Elliot Fowler-Hawkins, Ippei Soma
  • Publication number: 20140034204
    Abstract: In an assembly of a pneumatic tire and a rim, in which a tire cavity is formed between the pneumatic tire and the rim by mounting the pneumatic tire on the rim, a noise suppressing body extending in a circumferential direction is disposed inside the tire cavity. The noise suppressing body includes a first sound absorbing material layer arranged apart from an inner surface of a tire tread part through a cavity and a second sound absorbing material layer disposed at the rim side of the first sound absorbing material layer and having lower air permeability than the first sound absorbing material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicants: ACOUSTIC INNOVATIONS CO., LTD., TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakakibara, Atsushi Suzuki, Sanford Elliot Fowler-Hawkins, Ippei Soma