Patents by Inventor Keiichiro Tabata

Keiichiro Tabata 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: 6758937
    Abstract: A shock absorbing material for automobiles, having extremely good shock absorbing properties, capable of absorbing shocks applied to a passenger in a car at the time of a crash, or the like, and reducing the head injury criteria, comprising a rigid polyurethane foam having a compression stress of 3 kg/cm2 or more, with concavities arranged on at least one planar surface. In order to mount the head protecting material to a ceiling material, a trim, a car body, or the like, easily and securely, the head protecting material is mounted to the ceiling material, or the like, with an adhesive sheet comprising a base material made of a foam material with an adhesive layer formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Tada, Keiichiro Tabata, Toshiyuki Horimatsu
  • Publication number: 20020064627
    Abstract: A shock absorbing material for automobiles, having extremely good shock absorbing properties, capable of absorbing shocks applied to a passenger in a car at the time of a crash, or the like, and reducing the head injury criteria, comprising a rigid polyurethane foam having a compression stress of 3 kg/cm2 or more, with concavities arranged on at least one planar surface. In order to mount the head protecting material to a ceiling material, a trim, a car body, or the like, easily and securely, the head protecting material is mounted to the ceiling material, or the like, with an adhesive sheet comprising a base material made of a foam material with an adhesive layer formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Shin Tada, Keiichiro Tabata, Toshiyuki Horimatsu
  • Patent number: 6342288
    Abstract: A shock absorbing material for automobiles, having extremely good shock absorbing properties, capable of absorbing shocks applied to a passenger in a car at the time of a crash, or the like, and reducing the head injury criteria, comprising a rigid polyurethane foam having a compression stress of 3 kg/cm2 or more, with concavities arranged on at least one planar surface. In order to mount the head protecting material to a ceiling material, a trim, a car body, or the like, easily and securely, the head protecting material is mounted to the ceiling material, or the like, with an adhesive sheet comprising a base material made of a foam material with an adhesive layer formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Tada, Keiichiro Tabata, Toshiyuki Horimatsu
  • Patent number: 6221930
    Abstract: A lightweight shock absorber has an ideal F-S waveform, and is formed of a foam resin material. The cross-sectional area of the absorber in the compression axis direction and the vertical direction changes at least partially in the compression axis direction, and consequently the relation between distortion and compressive stress in the compression axis direction (F-S waveform) is approximately linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Tada, Tatsuo Yata, Keiichiro Tabata, Yoichi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 5728333
    Abstract: A molded article of rigid polyurethane foam is manufactured by using a mold of separable upper and lower mold sections mated to define a cavity therebetween. A film of polypropylene which is previously vacuum formed in conformity to the mold cavity is closely set within the cavity and secured to the lower mold section outside the cavity. A rigid polyurethane foam-forming raw material is introduced into the cavity and on the film and caused to foam and expand in place to mold an article of rigid polyurethane foam. Thereafter, the molded article is lifted together with the film from the mold cavity by a pneumatic pressure or ejector pin. The molded article is stripped from the film to remove only the molded article from the mold without taking the entire film out of the mold. The once lifted film is returned to the original shape by vacuum suction for replacing the film in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Tabata, Yoichi Nabeshima, Taikyu Fujita, Kazufumi Yokoyama, Torao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 5667741
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a rigid polyurethane foam molding for energy absorption, including the steps of introducing a rigid polyurethane foam raw material composed primarily of a polyhydroxy compound and a polyisocyanate compound into a cavity in a mold, and blowing and reacting the rigid polyurethane foam raw material in the cavity, wherein a pack ratio of a core portion of the molding ranges from 0.5 to less than 1.2. Accordingly, the rigid polyurethane foam molding can obtain a plateau value comparable to that of a rigid polyurethane foam slab stock foam suitable for an energy absorbent pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Tabata, Yoichi Nabeshima, Taikyu Fujita, Kazufumi Yokoyama, Torao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 4830916
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing molded products (or foamed and molded asphalt/urethane foam products) most suitable for sound-proof, vibration control and sealing members which are applied to the floor panel, dashboard and the like in a car, for example, and more particularly, a method of manufacturing foamed and molded asphalt/urethane products comprising introducing polyalkylene polyol having at least two or more hydroxyls in a molecule and polyisocyanate having two or more isocyanate radicals into a mold together with a catalyst and a foaming agent, and reacting them in it, wherein said polyalkylene polyol includes asphalt previously emulsified and dispersed therein; and a laminated structure including a layer of foamed asphalt/urethane foam made according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Fukuda, Hitoshi Yaguchi, Kazuhumi Yokoyama, Keiichiro Tabata, Takashi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 4156476
    Abstract: A noise control device which produces behind it an enlarged sound reducing region is disclosed. The device comprises a hollow structural body composed of a plurality of elongate hollow passages which are different in length and constructed such that the passage length is made the longest at a substantially center part in a vertical direction and is made gradually shorter from the center part toward upper and lower edges of the hollow structural body. The upper and lower edges allow direct propagation sound emitted from a noise source to pass thereover and therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1979
    Assignee: Bridgestone Tire Company Limited
    Inventors: Masayasu Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Iida, Yoshikazu Kondo, Keiichiro Mizuno, Sadao Nomoto, Noriaki Murayama, Tomonori Katayama, Keiichiro Tabata, Kenichi Onda