Patents by Inventor Kazuki Fukui

Kazuki Fukui 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: 11959525
    Abstract: There is provided a vibration damping material capable of exhibiting excellent vibration damping performance and of reducing its own weight while having high rigidity. The vibration damping material of the present invention used so as to be installed on a panel of a vehicle includes a viscoelastic layer and a constraining layer provided on one surface of the viscoelastic layer, wherein a relationship between a strain ?a and a strain ?b is 0<?a/?b<1, the strain ?a being a strain on a surface of the constraining layer on the opposite side to the viscoelastic layer, and the strain ?b being a strain on a surface of the constraining layer on a side in contact with the viscoelastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11881198
    Abstract: A sound-insulation material for a vehicle has high rigidity and is capable of exhibiting sufficient sound insulation performance against noise having a frequency of 500 Hz to 5000 Hz generated in a vehicle, while maintaining low weight. The sound-insulation material for a vehicle of the present invention has a multilayer structure, the material including: a hard layer having tubular cells, the tubular cells being arranged in a plurality of rows; and a soft layer provided on one surface of the hard layer, in which a ratio of a dynamic spring constant Kd to a static spring constant Ks, of a structure having the hard layer and the soft layer, is 0<Kd/Ks?1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki Fukui, Nobuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11872945
    Abstract: There is provided a sound-absorbing material for a vehicle, capable of stably yielding desired sound absorption performance while reducing weight of the sound-absorbing material for a vehicle. The sound-absorbing material for a vehicle of the present invention has a multilayer structure, including: a core layer in which tubular cells are arranged in a plurality of rows; and an airflow-blocking resin film layer adhered to one surface of the core layer. The relationship between the Young's modulus E (MPa) of the airflow-blocking resin film layer 40 and the surface density M (g/m2) of the layer structure on the first airflow-blocking resin film layer 40 side with respect to the core layer 10 is 0.5<E/M<21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11872944
    Abstract: There is provided a sound-insulation material for a vehicle that can reduce the weight thereof and exhibit sufficient sound insulation performance against noise of 500 Hz to 6400 Hz generated in vehicles. The sound-insulation material for a vehicle, of the present invention, includes: a core layer having tubular cells, the tubular cells being arranged in a plurality of rows; an airflow-blocking resin film layer provided on one surface of the core layer; and a decoupling layer provided on the airflow-blocking resin film layer; and an average (P/v)/Za is 2.8 to 10 between 500 and 6400 Hz, where: P and v are respectively a sound pressure and a particle velocity on a surface of the airflow-blocking resin film layer provided on the core layer, the surface being opposite to the core layer; and Za is an acoustic impedance of the decoupling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20230311459
    Abstract: This vehicular interior finishing material has a layered structure including n layers (where n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2), and at least includes a substrate that is a first layer and a skin layer that is an nth layer. The vehicular interior finishing material is configured such that formula (1) is satisfied, where dn (mm) is the thickness of each of the n layers, En (GPa) is the Young's modulus, and ? (g/cm3) is the density of the entire vehicular interior finishing material. In addition, this seat back panel is formed using the vehicular interior finishing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11772392
    Abstract: A base material processing apparatus includes a first detector, a second detector, and an arithmetic unit. The first detector intermittently detects the position of the edge of the base material in the width direction at a first detection position to acquire a first detection result (Ra). The second detector intermittently detects the position of the edge of the base material in the width direction at a second detection position located downstream of the first detection position to acquire a second detection result (Rb). The arithmetic unit calculates a transport error of the base material by comparison between the first detection result (Ra) and the second detection result (Rb). The controller changes detection timing of at least one of the first detector and the second detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamamoto, Kazuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11738575
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing on a printing medium. The apparatus includes the following elements: a transport mechanism for transporting the printing medium in a transport direction; a first print head for printing an image on the printing medium, and printing a lead line used as a reference for determining a printing position in a width direction; a second print head for performing printing based on a position of the lead line; a printing position sensor for detecting the position of the lead line in the width direction; and a moving mechanism for moving the printing position sensor in the width direction of the printing medium according to a width dimension of the printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yasuda, Kazuki Fukui, Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20230249596
    Abstract: The example of the vehicular interior trim according to the present application is multilayer structure including at least a base material and a skin layer. The multilayer structure is configured to satisfy the relationships in the following expressions (1) and (2), where RSm (mm) is the average surface roughness of the base material in the horizontal direction, E1_80is the Young’s modulus of the base material at 80° C., d1 (mm) is the thickness of the base material, E2_80 (GPa) is the Young’s modulus of the skin layer at 80° C., and d2 (mm) is the thickness of the skin layer. Expression (1): Expression (2): 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11496646
    Abstract: An image shifter creates plural pairs of shift image data. A shading corrector and a halftone dot processor create halftone shift image data from shift images. Further, a difference image creator creates halftone common image data which is a common part of a pair of halftone shift image data, and creates halftone positive difference image data and halftone negative difference image data each of which is a difference between the halftone common image data and one of a pair of halftone shift image data. A composite image creator synthesizes the halftone common image data corresponding to an amount of positional deviation, and the halftone positive difference image data or halftone negative difference image data. A controller executes printing on web paper. Since the image data is only synthesized, processing load can be lightened even if printing is performed to restrain positional deviations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ippei Matsumoto, Kazuki Fukui, Kunio Muraji
  • Publication number: 20220118777
    Abstract: A base material processing apparatus includes a first detector, a second detector, and an arithmetic unit. The first detector intermittently detects the position of the edge of the base material in the width direction at a first detection position to acquire a first detection result (Ra). The second detector intermittently detects the position of the edge of the base material in the width direction at a second detection position located downstream of the first detection position to acquire a second detection result (Rb). The arithmetic unit calculates a transport error of the base material by comparison between the first detection result (Ra) and the second detection result (Rb). The controller changes detection timing of at least one of the first detector and the second detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA, Takaharu YAMAMOTO, Kazuki FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20220088943
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing on a printing medium. The apparatus includes the following elements: a transport mechanism for transporting the printing medium in a transport direction; a first print head for printing an image on the printing medium, and printing a lead line used as a reference for determining a printing position in a width direction; a second print head for performing printing based on a position of the lead line; a printing position sensor for detecting the position of the lead line in the width direction; and a moving mechanism for moving the printing position sensor in the width direction of the printing medium according to a width dimension of the printing medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Yasuda, Kazuki FUKUI, Makoto SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20220086306
    Abstract: An image shifter creates plural pairs of shift image data. A shading corrector and a halftone dot processor create halftone shift image data from shift images. Further, a difference image creator creates halftone common image data which is a common part of a pair of halftone shift image data, and creates halftone positive difference image data and halftone negative difference image data each of which is a difference between the halftone common image data and one of a pair of halftone shift image data. A composite image creator synthesizes the halftone common image data corresponding to an amount of positional deviation, and the halftone positive difference image data or halftone negative difference image data. A controller executes printing on web paper. Since the image data is only synthesized, processing load can be lightened even if printing is performed to restrain positional deviations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ippei MATSUMOTO, Kazuki FUKUI, Kunio MURAJI
  • Patent number: 11270171
    Abstract: The conversion of the dot percentages using the first conversion table Td1 and the second conversion table Td2 is performed for the gradation data Dh by the defective nozzle corrector 95. Here, the first conversion table Td1 converts the dot percentages of the pixels Px corresponding to the normal nozzles Nn having no discharge defect by the first rate Rd1 lower than 100%, and the second conversion table Td2 converts the dot percentages of the pixels Px corresponding to the surrounding nozzles Na located around the defective nozzle Nd by the second rate Rd2 higher than the first rate Rd1. Then, the shading correction is performed for the defect complemented gradation data Dc obtained by converting the dot percentages in this way by the shading corrector 96.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210394482
    Abstract: The vehicle interior material of the present invention has a multilayer structure, the material including: a hard core layer having a hollow portion inside; a design layer provided on one surface side of the core layer; a first film layer provided between the core layer and the design layer; and a second film layer provided on a surface of the core layer on a side opposite to the first film layer, wherein a strain ca is smaller than a strain ?b, the strain ?a being a strain on a surface of a structure on a side of the first film layer, the structure having the first film layer, the core layer, and the second film layer, and the strain ?b being a strain on a surface of the structure on a side of the second film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: MT-TEC LLC
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210341028
    Abstract: There is provided a vibration damping material capable of exhibiting excellent vibration damping performance and of reducing its own weight while having high rigidity. The vibration damping material of the present invention used so as to be installed on a panel of a vehicle includes a viscoelastic layer and a constraining layer provided on one surface of the viscoelastic layer, wherein a relationship between a strain ?a and a strain ?b is 0<?a/?b<1, the strain ?a being a strain on a surface of the constraining layer on the opposite side to the viscoelastic layer, and the strain ?b being a strain on a surface of the constraining layer on a side in contact with the viscoelastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: MT-TEC LLC
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210309164
    Abstract: There is provided a sound-absorbing material for a vehicle, capable of stably yielding desired sound absorption performance while reducing weight of the sound-absorbing material for a vehicle. The sound-absorbing material for a vehicle of the present invention has a multilayer structure, including: a core layer in which tubular cells are arranged in a plurality of rows; and an airflow-blocking resin film layer adhered to one surface of the core layer. The relationship between the Young's modulus E (MPa) of the airflow-blocking resin film layer 40 and the surface density M (g/m2) of the layer structure on the first airflow-blocking resin film layer 40 side with respect to the core layer 10 is 0.5<E/M<21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: MT-TEC LLC
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210309163
    Abstract: There is provided a sound-insulation material for a vehicle that can reduce the weight thereof and exhibit sufficient sound insulation performance against noise of 500 Hz to 6400 Hz generated in vehicles. The sound-insulation material for a vehicle, of the present invention, includes: a core layer having tubular cells, the tubular cells being arranged in a plurality of rows; an airflow-blocking resin film layer provided on one surface of the core layer; and a decoupling layer provided on the airflow-blocking resin film layer; and an average (P/v)/Za is 2.8 to 10 between 500 and 6400 Hz, where: P and v are respectively a sound pressure and a particle velocity on a surface of the airflow-blocking resin film layer provided on the core layer, the surface being opposite to the core layer; and Za is an acoustic impedance of the decoupling layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: MT-TEC LLC
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210303941
    Abstract: The conversion of the dot percentages using the first conversion table Td1 and the second conversion table Td2 is performed for the gradation data Dh by the defective nozzle corrector 95. Here, the first conversion table Td1 converts the dot percentages of the pixels Px corresponding to the normal nozzles Nn having no discharge defect by the first rate Rd1 lower than 100%, and the second conversion table Td2 converts the dot percentages of the pixels Px corresponding to the surrounding nozzles Na located around the defective nozzle Nd by the second rate Rd2 higher than the first rate Rd1. Then, the shading correction is performed for the defect complemented gradation data Dc obtained by converting the dot percentages in this way by the shading corrector 96.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11077690
    Abstract: A printing apparatus of this invention scans with a tester a testing chart printed by a printing controller to acquire testing image data. A total amount of displacement calculator calculates an amount of displacement of a recording position including a direction of misregister as a total amount of displacement, based on a large amount of displacement determined by a large amount of displacement determiner, a direction of displacement detected by a direction of displacement detector, a shift amount corresponding to an amount of displacement detecting chart determined by an amount of displacement detecting chart determiner, and a peak position of the amount of displacement detecting chart determined by the amount of displacement detecting chart determining unit. Thus, since a total amount of displacement of the misregister can be calculated only by printing the testing chart on web paper WP, an amount of displacement of the misregister in the transport direction can be obtained easily in a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Asuka Muramatsu, Kazuki Fukui, Tomotaka Kato, Kazuki Yamanaka, Seiya Nomura, Takaharu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210183350
    Abstract: A sound-insulation material for a vehicle has high rigidity and is capable of exhibiting sufficient sound insulation performance against noise having a frequency of 500 Hz to 5000 Hz generated in a vehicle, while maintaining low weight. The sound-insulation material for a vehicle of the present invention has a multilayer structure, the material including: a hard layer having tubular cells, the tubular cells being arranged in a plurality of rows; and a soft layer provided on one surface of the hard layer, in which a ratio of a dynamic spring constant Kd to a static spring constant Ks, of a structure having the hard layer and the soft layer, is 0<Kd/Ks?1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: MT-TEC LLC
    Inventors: Kazuki Fukui, Nobuyuki Takahashi