Patents by Inventor Junichi Imai

Junichi Imai 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: 9719045
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for rolling bearings of automotive electrical equipment or automotive auxiliaries, containing a base oil that includes as an essential component an alkyldiphenyl ether oil; a diurea thickener represented by formula (1); an anti-flaking additive including an organic sulfonate rust inhibitor and a load carrying additive; and an antioxidant. In the formula (1), R2 is a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms; and one of R1 or R3 represents cyclohexyl group and the other represents cyclohexyl group, an alkyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms or an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Aida, Terasu Yoshinari, Junichi Imai
  • Publication number: 20170183603
    Abstract: The invention provides a lubricant composition for an eccentrically oscillating speed reducer of planetary gear type, which is capable of extending the life of the speed. reducer under high temperatures and keeping low input torque at low temperatures, and includes (a) a base oil containing a synthetic oil, (b) a hydrocarbon wax, and (c) at least one calcium salt selected from the group consisting of a calcium salt of petroleum sulfonic acid, a calcium salt of alkyl aromatic sulfonic acid, a calcium salt of oxidized wax, an overbasic calcium salt of petroleum sulfonic acid, an overbasic calcium salt of alkyl aromatic sulfonic acid, and an overbasic calcium salt of oxidized wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicants: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi IMAI, Ryosuke ICHIMURA, Ryosuke SAITO, Ko TANIMURA, Hongyou WANG, Takahide KUMAGAI, Yasuyuki HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20170074326
    Abstract: Provided is a grease composition for a wheel bearing, containing (a) a base oil consisting of a mineral oil and a synthetic hydrocarbon oil, wherein the ratio of the synthetic hydrocarbon oil to the total amount of the mineral oil and the synthetic hydrocarbon oil is 40 to 60 mass %, and the base oil has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 40 to 65 mm2/s; (b) a thickener of formula (A) wherein R2 is diphenylmethane, and R1 and R3, which may be the same or different from each other, each represent cyclohexyl group or a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 16 to 20 carbon atoms, with a molar ratio of the cyclohexyl group to the total number of moles of the cyclohexyl group and the alkyl group being 50 to 90 mol %; (c) an amine type antioxidant; and (d) an amine phosphate type antiwear agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd., NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Sato, Daisuke Tsutsui, Junichi Imai, Shinsuke Hirano
  • Patent number: 9528073
    Abstract: The invention provides a lubricant composition capable of favorably preventing the members from causing hydrogen embrittlement-induced flaking when the members are operated under the conditions where the oil film is thin (namely, the metal surfaces considerably come in contact with each other). The lubricant composition used for lubricating the steel mechanical members operated by a rolling motion or rolling-sliding motion is characterized by containing a base oil and additives, the additives including an organic sulfonate rust inhibitor and a load carrying additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Endo, Junichi Imai, Yutaka Imai
  • Publication number: 20160258161
    Abstract: In a column end joint structure for joining an end of a column made of flat wooden material having a rectangular cross-section to a joining member, splitting generation at the end of the column is controlled. An expansion of crack is controlled when splitting generated. A cutout portion is provided in each of ends in a longitudinal direction of a column end face, and a joint fitting is coupled inside the cutout portion by a joint bolt. The joint fitting is coupled to a foundation by an anchor bolt. Joint fittings are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the end face inside each cutout portion. One joint fitting is located contacting or close to a surface of the column inside the cutout portion such that the joint fitting side face and the surface of the column inside the cutout portion restrain a displacement orthogonal to the column axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Junichi Imai, Hiroshi Takashima, Hiroki Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20160201726
    Abstract: In the rolling device of the present invention, a grease composition is enclosed which contains a base oil having a kinematic viscosity of 15 to 80 mm2/s at 40° C. and, as a thickener, a mixture of lithium 12-hydroxystearate and a lithium fatty acid having a carbon number of 6 to 12, and has a dropping point of 190 to 240° C. and a yield stress of 1.2 to 5 kPa. Accordingly, the torque is reduced and the acoustic life is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Eri WATABE, Kentaro SONODA, Yujiro TODA, Koichi HACHIYA, Atsuhiro YAMAMOTO, Masamichi YAMAMOTO, Kenichiro MATSUBARA, Junichi IMAI
  • Patent number: 9378863
    Abstract: An insulating varnish forms an insulating coating film having a shape that corresponds to the shape of an opening of a die, having a uniform thickness. The insulating varnish is applied onto a surface of a conductor, subsequently passes through a die to remove the excess applied insulating varnish, and is then dried or baked to form an insulating coating film on the surface of the conductor. The insulating varnish has a viscosity of 10 Pa·s or more measured by a B-type viscometer at 30° C. The insulating varnish preferably contains no filler, and is preferably a polyimide precursor solution. Since the insulating varnish has a high viscosity, baking and solidification can be performed while maintaining a shape formed when the insulating varnish passes through a die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC WINTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Kengo Yoshida, Masaaki Yamauchi, Masataka Shiwa, Yuji Hatanaka, Junichi Imai, Jun Sugawara, Toru Shimizu, Hideaki Saito, Yuudai Furuya
  • Patent number: 9284934
    Abstract: A press molded product 1 that includes fitting portions 13 and 15, which can be fitted to another component 3, wherein the fitting portions include protruded portions 19 that can be contacted to the fitted other component 3, and the portions 19 are molded by press working.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Miyamoto, Hirofumi Miyoshi, Kensuke Kato, Junichi Imai
  • Patent number: 9249817
    Abstract: A wooden member joint structure having high strength against load repeatedly applied in opposite directions, with improved work efficiency in joining the wooden member to a mating member. A screw member having spiral protrusion on its outer peripheral surface and an axial hollow hole is threaded axially into a wooden column. A distal end of joint bolt is threadedly engaged with bottom of the hollow hole. The joint bolt has an integrally formed flange, and the flange is threaded into the column together with the screw member with its contact surface firmly pressed against end face of the screw member. A joint device is clamped between a fastening nut threadably mounted on a proximal end of the joint bolt and the flange and coupled to the screw member via the joint bolt. The joint device is secured to a foundation by an anchor bolt protruding therefrom and a fastening nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Imai, Hiroki Ishiyama, Hiroki Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9238909
    Abstract: In a column base joint structure, an anchor bolt and a column installed upright on a groundsel are tightly joined using groundsel-side and column-side hardware pieces. The groundsel-side hardware piece includes groundsel-embedded and upper fitting tenon portions. A fitting hole for the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece is formed in a base of the column. The column-side hardware piece includes a lower projecting portion projecting downward from a top face portion to the inside of the fitting hole, and a column-embedded portion positioned above the top face portion. A pin locking hole in the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece and a pin locking hole in the lower projecting portion of the column-side hardware piece are mutually aligned, a driftpin is hammered into the aligned pin locking holes, and the anchor bolt and the column are thereby tightly joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: SUMITOMO FORESTRY CO., LTD., KANAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Imai, Kunio Kanai, Masayoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150299608
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for hub unit bearing, having (a) as a base oil a mixture of a hydrocarbon synthetic oil and an ester type synthetic oil, with the content of the ester type synthetic oil being 20 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of the hydrocarbon synthetic oil and the ester type synthetic oil, and the base oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 20 to 80 mm2/s, and (b) as a thickener a urea compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke TSUTSUI, Yuta SATO, Junichi IMAI, Morinobu KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150232784
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for rolling bearings of automotive electrical equipment or automotive auxiliaries, containing a base oil that includes as an essential component an alkyldiphenyl ether oil; a diurea thickener represented by formula (1); an anti-flaking additive including an organic sulfonate rust inhibitor and a load carrying additive; and an antioxidant. In the formula (1), R2 is a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms; and one of R1 or R3 represents cyclohexyl group and the other represents cyclohexyl group, an alkyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms or an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Aida, Terasu Yoshinari, Junichi Imai
  • Publication number: 20150107183
    Abstract: In a column base joint structure, an anchor bolt and a column installed upright on a groundsel are tightly joined using groundsel-side and column-side hardware pieces. The groundsel-side hardware piece includes groundsel-embedded and upper fitting tenon portions. A fitting hole for the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece is formed in a base of the column. The column-side hardware piece includes a lower projecting portion projecting downward from a top face portion to the inside of the fitting hole, and a column-embedded portion positioned above the top face portion. A pin locking hole in the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece and a pin locking hole in the lower projecting portion of the column-side hardware piece are mutually aligned, a driftpin is hammered into the aligned pin locking holes, and the anchor bolt and the column are thereby tightly joined to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: JUNICHI IMAI, KUNIO KANAI, MASAYOSHI NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8950126
    Abstract: The wooden building skeleton of the present invention has excellent quake resistance because the column of a rigid-frame structure joined to a cross member or the foundation so that a bending moment can be transferred therebetween and the load-bearing wall therein exhibit their load bearing ability. A foundation and a wooden column and the wooden column and a beam are respectively joined by two bolts so that a bending moment can be transferred therebetween. A load-bearing wall is also provided between the beam and the foundation. The length of the section of the bolts which undergoes elongation when inter-story deflection occurs between the beam and the foundation or the cross-sectional dimensions of the wooden column is set such that the inter-story deflection which is generated before the wooden column is fractured is almost equal to or greater than the inter-story deflection which is generated before the load-bearing wall is fractured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Imai, Hiroki Ishiyama, Hiroki Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8857119
    Abstract: Wooden member to be easily joined to another member, with good appearance of decreased size fixation structure for tensile member to improve the load bearing performance. Metal screw members including cylindrical shaft portions having an axial direction through hole and blade spirally protruding from the shaft portion are axially threaded into wooden member at two locations. Groove or hollow hole is between the two screw members, and steel rod extends from the through hole of one of the screw members through the groove or hollow hole into the through hole of the other. Both ends of the steel rod with tensioning force are locked to the screw member by nuts. Cutout recesses are formed in the wooden member, and the screw members are threaded into the wooden member through the recesses and the steel rod is locked to the screw members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakashima, Junichi Imai, Hiroki Ishiyama
  • NUT
    Publication number: 20140086702
    Abstract: A nut comprises a metal member including a nut body having an internally threaded portion formed therein and an extension formed on one end of the nut body so as to surround an opening of the internally threaded portion, the metal member being subjected to surface treatment; and a ring member made of a synthetic resin, having an outer peripheral portion united with an inner side of the extension and having a ring inner diameter substantially equal to a minor diameter of the internally threaded portion, the outer peripheral portion being united with the inner side of the extension by insert-molding using the metal member as an insert; wherein the extension has at least one recess formed in an inner portion, and the outer peripheral portion has a rotation-preventing portion fit into the at least one recess, the rotation-preventing portion being formed by the insert molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicants: KANAI CO., LTD., SUMITOMO FORESTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi IMAI, Hiroki NAKASHIMA, Kunio KANAI, Yasufumi USHIO
  • Publication number: 20140054062
    Abstract: An insulating varnish forms an insulating coating film having a shape that corresponds to the shape of an opening of a die, having a uniform thickness. The insulating varnish is applied onto a surface of a conductor, subsequently passes through a die to remove the excess applied insulating varnish, and is then dried or baked to form an insulating coating film on the surface of the conductor. The insulating varnish has a viscosity of 10 Pa·s or more measured by a B-type viscometer at 30° C. The insulating varnish preferably contains no filler, and is preferably a polyimide precursor solution. Since the insulating varnish has a high viscosity, baking and solidification can be performed while maintaining a shape formed when the insulating varnish passes through a die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC WINTEC, INC., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Yoshida, Masaaki Yamauchi, Masataka Shiwa, Yuji Hatanaka, Junichi Imai, Jun Sugawara, Toru Shimizu, Hideaki Saito, Yuudai Furuya
  • Nut
    Patent number: D698638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., Kanai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Imai, Hiroki Nakashima, Kunio Kanai, Yasufumi Ushio
  • Patent number: D700506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., Kanai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kumakawa, Junichi Imai, Kunio Kanai, Masayoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D708935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., Kanai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kumakawa, Junichi Imai, Kunio Kanai, Masayoshi Nakamura