Patents by Inventor Isaburo Yagi

Isaburo Yagi 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: 7341403
    Abstract: The object is to provide a construction method of an information-communicable underground pipe whereby communication cables can be readily laid in an underground pipeline having a main pipe and branch pipes branched therefrom thereby allowing the underground pipeline to be used as an information-communicable underground pipe, and to provide a construction structure and a construction member therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignees: Sanki Engineering Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd., Ashimori Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Tsuchiya, Isaburo Yagi, Masaru Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Ueda, Osamu Ishizuka, Koji Aso, Yukikazu Maemoto, Takaaki Hirokawa, Hirofumi Nakatsuka
  • Patent number: 7179019
    Abstract: A laying method for laying communication cables (16) is provided which allows to lay optical fiber cables (20) in an underground pipeline such as a sewage pipe neither placing direct tension nor allowing slack on them, and for a main pipe in which a plurality of optical fiber cables (20) are to be laid, the method also allows to lay optical fiber cables (20) in the upper space of inside the pipeline and to obviate the need of an expensive robot for the laying operation. In the proposed laying method, a high-strength low-elongation tension member is disposed to be slidable in the lengthwise direction along each optical fiber cable (20, 21, 22), and the tension members (25, 26, 27) are drawn into the underground pipeline (1) to tension the trunk tension member (25) thereby stretching the trunk tension member (25) substantially straight in the underground pipeline (1), and thus the optical fiber cables (20, 21, 22) are laid in the upper space of inside the underground pipeline (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignees: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd., Sanski Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Seto, Fumiaki Tsuchiya, Isaburo Yagi, Katsuhiko Azuma, Nobuyasu Kishibe, Koji Aso, Yasuhiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20040253057
    Abstract: The object is to provide a construction method of an information-communicable underground pipe whereby communication cables can be readily laid in an underground pipeline having a main pipe and branch pipes branched therefrom thereby allowing the underground pipeline to be used as an information-communicable underground pipe, and to provide a construction structure and a construction member therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Fumiaki Tsuchiya, Isaburo Yagi, Masaru Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20030021633
    Abstract: A laying method for laying communication cables (16) is provided which allows to lay optical fiber cables (20) in an underground pipeline such as a sewage pipe neither placing direct tension nor allowing slack on them, and for a main pipe in which a plurality of optical fiber cables (20) are to be laid, the method also allows to lay optical fiber cables (20) in the upper space of inside the pipeline and to obviate the need of an expensive robot for the laying operation. In the proposed laying method, a high-strength low-elongation tension member is disposed to be slidable in the lengthwise direction along each optical fiber cable (20, 21, 22), and the tension members (25, 26, 27) are drawn into the underground pipeline (1) to tension the trunk tension member (25) thereby stretching the trunk tension member (25) substantially straight in the underground pipeline (1), and thus the optical fiber cables (20, 21, 22) are laid in the upper space of inside the underground pipeline (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Ichiro Seto, Fumiaki Tsuchiya, Isaburo Yagi, Katsuhiko Azuma, Nobuyasu Kishibe, Koji Aso, Yasuhiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 5197540
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a boring device adapted to bore the lining material blocking a branched portion where there is an opening for connecting a main pipeline with a branched pipeline (33), after the inner surface of a pipe (31), such as a gas conduit, a city water conduit or a sewerage pipe, in particular, a conduit buried in the ground, has been lined with lining material (30) for maintenance, repairs and reinforcement purposes.The features of the boring device reside in improvements of the mode of attachment of the television camera (8) for projecting the position of the leading end of the borer (28) on its screen, the mode of attachment of the borer (28) to the body (9), the driving system of the borer (28), and also of the cutting blades of the borer (28) for cutting off the lining material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isaburo Yagi, Hideo Maruyama, Masaru Yamakawa, Yoshifumi Osaka
  • Patent number: 4948452
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for lining pipe lines, especially those buried in the ground and having a large diameter, according to the so-called evagination-lining technique by using a compressed gas as a pressurized fluid, which is so improved as to secure complete sealing of a pressure container for inserting the lining material into a pipe line by using a specific sealing device using a liquid in place of a mechanical sealing device while preventing a binder applied onto the inner surface of the lining material from being squeezed backwards when the lining material is introduced into the pressure container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Isaburo Yagi, Hideo Maruyama, Akifumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4883557
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for lining pipe lines, especially those buried in the ground and having a large diameter, according to the so-called evagination-lining technique by using a compressed gas as a pressurized fluid, which is so improved as to secure complete sealing of a pressure container for inserting the lining material into a pipe line by using a specific sealing device using a liquid in place of a mechanical sealing device while preventing a binder applied onto the inner surface of the lining material from being squeezed backwards when the lining material is introduced into the pressure container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Isaburo Yagi, Hideo Maruyama, Akifumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4871413
    Abstract: A tubular lining material and a method and apparatus for manufacturing same, the tubular lining material being suitable for reinforcing pipe lines and comprising a tubular textile jacket having on the external surface thereof a coating of plural synthetic resins in the form of laminated layers, characterized in that the outermost layer of the coating is composed exclusively or predominantly of a thermoplastic polyester elastic resin and the innermost layer of the coating is composed exclusively or predominantly of a thermoplastic polyurethane elastic resin, the coating having been bonded superificially onto the external surface of the tubular textile jacket. The tubular lining material is manufactured by simultaneously extruding plural synthetic resins in an annularly layered form superficially onto the external surface of the tubular textile jacket, using an apparatus provided with an annularly arranged multiple extruders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Ashinori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Koji Kusumoto, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4723579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lining material suitable for reinforcing various pipe lines buried in the ground, which is made by inserting an unwoven fabric of a specific structure into the interior of a conventional air-impervious tubular fabric having a film of a synthetic resin on the exterior surface thereof and is passed through a pipe line while being evaginated under fluid pressure and which possesses earthquake-resistance and shape-maintaining property against external hydraulic pressure in addition to the characteristics required for conventional lining materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4684556
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for pipe lines having a relatively large inner diameter and possibly a plurality of bends or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and a weft knitted or woven in a tubular form overlaid with an air-impervious coating of a flexible synthetic resin and is applicable onto the inner surface of a pipe line which has a relatively large inner diameter and may have a plurality of bends or curved portions in such manner that the tubular lining material with a binder on the inner surface thereof may be inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line with or without the aid of a leading rope-like elongated material while turning the tubular lining material inside out under fluid pressure thereby applying the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the binder being interposed between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, characterized in that the warps are comprised of crimped yarns of polybutylene te
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ohtsuga, Akio Morinaga, Yoichi Sakaguchi, Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4681783
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for reinforcing pipe lines, which has a double-layered structure comprising an air-impervious outer tubular textile jacket provided on the inside thereof with a reinforcing inner tubular textile jacket, characterized in that the reinforcing tubular textile jacket is more coarse in weaving density and larger in diameter than the air-impervious tubular textile jacket and that the product of the length of the diameter and the elongation ratio in the direction of the diameter on fracture, of the air-impervious tubular textile jacket is approximately equal to the product of the length of the diameter and the elongation ratio in the direction of the diameter on fracture of the reinforcing tubular textile jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4600615
    Abstract: A tubular lining material and a method and apparatus for manufacturing same, the tubular lining material being suitable for reinforcing pipe lines and comprising a tubular textile jacket having on the external surface thereof a coating of plural synthetic resins in the form of laminated layers, characterized in that the outermost layer of the coating is composed exclusively or predominantly of a thermoplastic polyester elastic resin and the innermost layer of the coating is composed exclusively or predominantly of a thermoplastic polyurethane elastic resin, the coating having been bonded superficially onto the external surface of the tubular textile jacket. The tubular lining material is manufactured by simultaneously extruding plural synthetic resins in an annularly layered form superficially onto the external surface of the tubular textile jacket, using an apparatus provided with an annularly arranged multiple extruders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Koji Kusumoto, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4576205
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for pipe lines having bends or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and wefts woven in a tubular form overlaid with a coating of a flexible synthetic resin and is applicable onto the inner surface of a pipe line having bends or curved portions in such manner that the tubular lining material with a binder onto the inner surface thereto is inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line with or without the aid of a leading rope-like elongated element while turning the tubular lining material inside out under fluid pressure thereby applying the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the binder being interposed between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, characterized in that a part or all of the warps are comprised of an elastic yarn around which, over the full length thereof, a synthetic fiber yarn or yarns have been left-and/or right-handedly coiled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Morinaga, Yoichi Sakaguchi, Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi