Patents by Inventor Koichi Sagara

Koichi Sagara 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: 8333509
    Abstract: A bag container including a synthetic-resin container body shaped by using a mold and including a spout-forming portion and a filling inlet portion that project outward therefrom. Contents are first filled through the filling inlet portion, and then fusion-bond sealing is applied to the filling inlet portion. The filling inlet portion has, at its sealing base portion, a square cross-sectional shape. A tip-end-side cross-section-changing portion and a cylindrical portion are provided on the tip-end side with respect to the sealing base portion. Four triangular panels each isosceles triangle shaped are connectedly provided on the side of the container body with respect to the sealing base portion along a circumferential direction of the filling inlet portion, a base of each isosceles triangle formed of one of sides of the square cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: Kao Corporation, Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sagara, Shigeyuki Kawamata, Yoshinori Inagawa, Takao Kurosawa, Shigeo Kamata
  • Publication number: 20110026859
    Abstract: A bag container including a synthetic-resin container body shaped by using a mold and including a spout-forming portion and a filling inlet portion that project outward therefrom. Contents are first filled through the filling inlet portion, and then fusion-bond sealing is applied to the filling inlet portion. The filling inlet portion has, at its sealing base portion, a square cross-sectional shape. A tip-end-side cross-section-changing portion and a cylindrical portion are provided on the tip-end side with respect to the sealing base portion. Four triangular panels each isosceles triangle shaped are connectedly provided on the side of the container body with respect to the sealing base portion along a circumferential direction of the filling inlet portion, a base of each isosceles triangle formed of one of sides of the square cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: KAO CORPORATION, YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sagara, Shigeyuki Kawamata, Yoshinori Inagawa, Takao Kurosawa, Shigeo Kamata
  • Publication number: 20110019945
    Abstract: A bag container includes a synthetic-resin container body shaped by using a mold and including a body portion including a bottom portion and a spout-forming portion. A spout is formed by tearing an easy-to-tear portion of the spout-forming portion and removing a to-be-torn-off portion. The spout-forming portion is provided projecting upward, perpendicular to a placing surface formed by the bottom portion, from the body portion. An opening tab piece including an engagement hole with which the ball of a finger is to engage is provided projecting on one side of the spout-forming portion. The engagement hole has a shape that guides the finger such that, when the easy-to-tear portion is to be torn, the ball of the finger engages with a circumferential edge portion of the engagement hole from the inner side thereof while being oriented toward the circumferential direction centering about an end of the easy-to-tear portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: KAO CORPORATION, YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sagara, Shigeyuki Kawamata, Yoshinori Inagawa, Susumu Fujinami, Takao Kurosawa, Shigeo Kamata
  • Patent number: 7449087
    Abstract: A method of producing a fiber molded article using a pressing mold, includes inserting a first split and a second split into a slurry tank such that a fiber layer is formed on the first split and a fiber layer is formed on the second split, placing the pressing mold, which includes a solid elastic member and an inflatable elastic member configured to be inflated, onto the fiber layer on the first split, joining the first split and the second split such that a fiber molded article is formed from the fiber layer on the first split and the fiber layer on the second split, and dewatering and shaping the fiber molded article by pressing the fiber molded article by the solid elastic pressing member and the inflatable elastic pressing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono, Koichi Sagara, Hiromichi Kimbara
  • Patent number: 7370788
    Abstract: A molded article (10) made predominantly of pulp and comprising a bottom portion (13) and a body portion (12), wherein the angle ? between the outer surface of a side wall of the body portion (12) and the ground contact plane (B) of the bottom portion (13) is 85° or greater, and the height of the body portion (12) is 50 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Otani, Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Koichi Sagara, Shinji Kodama, Minoru Goto, Susumu Fujinami, Tokuo Tsuura, Shinji Otakura, Takehiko Tojo, Yukiya Sato, Masataka Ishikawa, Shingo Odajima, Masanori Takita
  • Patent number: 7048975
    Abstract: A pulp molded container comprising a pulp molded article (2) having on the inner surface and/or the outer surface thereof a resin layer (3) with a thickness of 5 to 300 ?m formed by applying a coating, wherein the thickness ratio of the resin layer (3) to the molded article (2) (former/latter) is 1/2 to 1/100, and the surface roughness profile of the outer or inner surface of the pulp molded article is such that a centerline average roughness (Ra) is 0.5 to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Tojo, Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Masataka Ishikawa, Kunio Matsui, Eiki Kimura, Koichi Sagara, Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono
  • Patent number: 6994772
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a fiber-molded hollow article by using a papermaking mold (2) composed of splits (21, 22) which are joined to form a cavity (20) having two openings (20a, 20b) connecting with the outside and an expandable pressing member (3) adapted to be placed in the cavity (20). The method comprises the steps of immersing each of the splits (21, 22) before being joined in a fiber slurry to form a fiber preform (10a, 10b), joining the splits (21, 22) each having the fiber preform (10a, 10b) formed thereon while placing the pressing member (3) in the cavity (20), and molding and dewatering a molded article (1) in the papermaking mold (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kimbara, Koichi Sagara, Masayuki Osaki, Tokuo Tsuura
  • Publication number: 20040241274
    Abstract: A pressing mold for producing a fiber molded article which is used to press a fiber molded article (10) placed in a shaping mold (11) toward the inner surface of the shaping mold (11) to carry out a dewatering and shaping step or a drying and shaping step. The pressing mold has a solid first elastic pressing member (2) and a hollow second elastic pressing member (3) which is inflatable by a fluid fed into the inside, the first and second elastic pressing members (2) and (3) being adapted to press the fiber molded article (10) toward the inner surface of the shaping mold (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono, Koichi Sagara, Hiromichi Kimbara
  • Publication number: 20040011489
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a fiber-molded hollow article by using a papermaking mold (2) composed of splits (21, 22) which are joined to form a cavity (20) having two openings (20a, 20b) connecting with the outside and an expandable pressing member (3) adapted to be placed in the cavity (20). The method comprises the steps of immersing each of the splits (21, 22) before being joined in a fiber slurry to form a fiber preform (10a, 10b), joining the splits (21, 22) each having the fiber preform (10a, 10b) formed thereon while placing the pressing member (3) in the cavity (20), and molding and dewatering a molded article (1) in the papermaking mold (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kimbara, Koichi Sagara, Masayuki Osaki, Tokuo Tsuura
  • Patent number: 5906775
    Abstract: A prescribed molded substrate is molded out of a melted resin with a stamper having projections for forming pits with the shape of the projections preliminarily set to be greater than the shape of pits of the substrate to be molded. The relationship between the height H of the projections for forming the pits to the stamper and the depth d of the molded substrate is such that H/d=1.3 to 1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Sagara
  • Patent number: D599664
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignees: Kao Corporation, Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Fujinami, Koichi Sagara, Shigeyuki Kawamata, Shigeo Kamata
  • Patent number: D608643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignees: Kao Corporation, Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sagara, Shigeyuki Kawamata, Susumu Fujinami, Shigeo Kamata