Patents by Inventor Koichi Tsutsui

Koichi Tsutsui 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).

  • Publication number: 20080298519
    Abstract: The enclosure of the receiver device is divided into an antenna vicinity enclosure 1 and a demodulation unit enclosure 2, which are connected by a single transmission cable. By disposing the antenna vicinity enclosure 1 in the vicinity of the antenna, the high frequency feeder cable drawn from the antenna to the antenna vicinity enclosure 1 can be shortened. The effect of pulse noise and high frequency noise picked up by the conventional feeder cable can therefore be reduced. Furthermore, the length of the feeder cables in a quantity corresponding to the number of antennas is then reduced and the wiring space for the feeder cable can be reduced. The demodulation unit enclosure 2 is disposed spaced apart from the antenna, and the wiring space for the transmission cable can be greatly reduced in comparison with a case where a plurality of feeder cables are wired in the wiring space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Tsutsui, Kazuo Takayama, Masaaki Nagami, Takeshi Miyano
  • Patent number: 5928731
    Abstract: A high voltage generated by a high voltage generator is applied to corona electrodes, and powder supplied from a powder flow passage collides against a diffuser main body while being moved in a vortex by air ejected from a vortex air introduction port and is ejected from a nozzle opening. After the powder is charged by ions generated by corona discharge, it is sprayed to an object to be coated. Free ions generated by the corona discharge are trapped by ion trap electrodes. The adhesion of the powder can be prevented by the ejection of compressed air through a diffuser front portion cover and an outer cylinder cover each composed of a porous member and the ejection of compressed air from a nozzle hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignees: Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd., Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Yanagida, Mituyosi Kumata, Masahiro Yamamoto, Shannon Libke, Takao Amasaki, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5915621
    Abstract: An electrostatic powder coating gun for dispersing aggregate powder onto substrates. The gun includes swirling air passage outlets to form a vortex of air inside the spray gun tip to reduce powder adhesion and assist in pulverizing the powder material. The coating gun employs a powder supply unit having a fluidized bed that includes temperature and humidity controls to adjust the temperature and humidity of the compressed air supplied to the spray gun and a mixer to agitate the powder in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignees: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Yanagida, Masahiro Yamamoto, Mituyosi Kumata, Koichi Tsutsui, Shannon Libke
  • Patent number: 5747150
    Abstract: An electrostatic powder coating method of forming an undercoating film having a volume specific resistivity of not more than 10.sup.13 .OMEGA..multidot.cm and a thickness of not more than 200 .mu.m on a metal surface and forming an overcoating layer on the undercoating film by electrostatic powder coating. The undercoating film is composed of a plurality of layers with only the top layer containing a conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Akimitsu Uenaka, Tasaburo Ueno, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5711489
    Abstract: An electrostatic powder coating apparatus is provided which includes a spray gun and a powder supply unit. The spray gun includes facilities for dually functioning to both pulverize and disperse the aggregated powder and powder adhesion preventing facilities. Both the pulverizing and dispersing facilities and the powder adhesion prevention facilities are provided in a nozzle lip of the spray gun of the electrostatic powder coating apparatus. The powder supply unit includes a temperature/humidity control facilities for adjusting the temperature and humidity of the compressed air supplied to an air chamber within the powder supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Yanagida, Masahiro Yamamoto, Mituyosi Kumata, Koichi Tsutsui, Shannon Libke
  • Patent number: 5658385
    Abstract: Supplying method of powder paints wherein powder paint pellets are manufactured and stored as they are at the manufacture site and, when ordered, they are shipped and transported to the coater, and, at the coater site, they are stocked, and pulverized and classified into a sprayable powder upon powder coating thereby enabling to control the particle size of the powder paint while continuing the powder coating.A powder coating machine therefor pulverizes and classifies powder paint pellets into a sprayable powder at the coater site while continuing powder coating using the pulverized powder paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tsutsui, Samuel A. Rhue
  • Patent number: 5648117
    Abstract: A powder coating composition contains acrylic resin (A) containing at least 40 percent by weight of a glycidyl-group-containing monomer and having a solubility parameter which is in the range of 11.0 to 11.6 and a glass transition temperature of at least 20.degree. C., a surface modifier (B) consisting of a polymer having a solubility parameter which is in the range of 10.4 to 11.0, and polyvalent carboxylic acid (B). The surface modifier (B) is in a content of 0.1 to 4 parts by weight with respect to a total content of 100 parts by weight of the acrylic resin (A) and the polyvalent carboxylic acid (C), while the components are so mixed with each other that the amount of carboxylic groups contained in the polyvalent carboxylic acid (C) is at an equivalence ratio of at least 0.5 to the amount of glycidyl groups contained in the acrylic resin (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Shiomi, Akimitsu Uenaka, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5645227
    Abstract: Supplying method of powder paints wherein powder paint pellets are manufactured and stored as they are at the manufacture site and, when ordered, they are shipped and transported to the coater, and, at the coater site, they are stocked, and pulverized and classified into a sprayable powder upon powder coating thereby enabling to control the particle size of the powder paint while continuing the powder coating. A powder coating machine therefor pulverizes and classifies powder paint pellets into a sprayable powder at the coater site while continuing powder coating using the pulverized powder paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tsutsui, Samuel A. Rhue
  • Patent number: 5534064
    Abstract: Supplying method of powder paints wherein powder paint pellets are manufactured and stored as they are at the manufacture site and, when ordered, they are shipped and transported to the coater, and, at the coater site, they are stocked, and pulverized and classified into a sprayable powder upon powder coating thereby enabling to control the particle size of the powder paint while continuing the powder coating.A powder coating machine therefor pulverizes and classifies powder paint pellets into a sprayable powder at the coater site while continuing powder coating using the pulverized powder paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tsutsui, Samuel A. Rhue
  • Patent number: 5523349
    Abstract: A powder coating composition contains acrylic resin (A) containing at least 40 percent by weight of a glycidyl-group-containing monomer and having a solubility parameter which is in the range of 11.0 to 11.6 and a glass transition temperature of at least 20.degree. C., a surface modifier (B) consisting of a polymer having a solubility parameter which is in the range of 10.4 to 11.0, and polyvalent carboxylic acid (B). The surface modifier (B) is in a content of 0.1 to 4 parts by weight with respect to a total content of 100 parts by weight of the acrylic resin (A) and the polyvalent carboxylic acid (C), while the components are so mixed with each other that the amount of carboxylic groups contained in the polyvalent carboxylic acid (C) is at an equivalence ratio of at least 0.5 to the amount of glycidyl groups contained in the acrylic resin (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Shiomi, Akimitsu Uenaka, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5468813
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a powder coating excellent in storage stability and in coat surface smoothness.The present invention relates to a powder coating comprising a binder resin and a curing agent, characterized in that said curing agent has particle size characteristics such that the average particle size is 0.3 to 7 .mu.m and particles having a particle size not smaller than 20 .mu.m account for not less than 10% by weight of all curing agent particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akimitsu Uenaka, Yuji Toyoda, Koichi Tsutsui, John Kenny
  • Patent number: 5323970
    Abstract: There is obtained with greater efficiency a powder coating having an average particle diameter smaller and a particle size distribution range narrower than those currently made by conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tsutsui, Akimitsu Uenaka, Zenichi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 5266652
    Abstract: A resinous composition for powder coating, comprising (A) an acrylic resin and (B) a hardener, the acrylic resin being composed of (a) t-butyl methacrylate and/or t-butyl acrylate, (b) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a reactive functional group and (c) other ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) than the said (a) and (b) which is (are) non-reactive with the functional group of (b), the reactive functional group content being 0.0010-0.0046 mol/g of resin, the glass transition temperature being 30-110.degree. C. and the number average molecular weight being 1,000-20,000, and the hardener having in its molecule 2 or more functional groups which are reactive with the reactive functional group possessed by the acrylic resin.The powder coating based on the present resinous composition is useful for the coating of construction material, auto-mobile and the like and is excellent in low temperature curing properties, storage stability and can result an excellent film even when used a stored powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Toyoda, Akimitsu Uenaka, Hideki Ichimura, Tasaburo Ueno, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5248809
    Abstract: A process for preparing a polymerizable compound of the formula: ##STR1## or a polymerizable compound of the formula: ##STR2## is provided. These formed compounds are useful for the preparation of an acrylic resin which is low in viscosity and capable of forming a coating with excellent flexibility, weather resistance and water resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryozo Takagawa, Hisaki Tanabe, Yoshio Eguchi, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5212243
    Abstract: A powder coating which is specifically useful for the containing of electric appliance, office appliance and the like and is excellent, inter alia, stain resistance of the formed coating is provided, the powder coating comprising (a) a base resin having a reactive functional group, (b) a hardener having in its molecule 2 or more functional groups which are reactive with the functional group of the base resin and (c) an acrylic resin containing 40 100 % by weight of the total of the constituting monomers of t-butyl acrylate and/or t-butyl methacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Toyoda, Akimitsu Uenaka, Hideki Ichimura, Tasaburo Uneo, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5162058
    Abstract: The invention concerns a coating powder composition comprising (A) a carboxyl group containing polyester resin having a number average molecular weight of 1,000.about.20,000, an acid value of 10.about.100, a glass transition temperature of 35.degree.-120.degree. C. and an SP value of 9.8.about.11.5, and (B) glycidyl trimellitate, wherein the equivalent weight ratio of carboxyl the groups of said (A) to the glycidyl groups of said (B) is 1:2 to 2:1. The coating powder composition is specifically suitable for a high-temperature-short time baking and capable of resulting in a coating having excellent film properties including bending and processability and which coating is highly-crosslinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akimitsu Uenaka, Yuji Toyoda, Tasaburo Ueno, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 5112689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite particle comprising 2 to 98% by weight of a base resin having softending point of -10.degree. to 120.degree. C. and a number average molecular weight of 600 or more and 98 to 2% by weight of an anisotropic crystalline polymer having a phase transition point of 60.degree. to 230.degree. C. and a number average molecular weight of 600 to 10,000 and capable for forming an anisotropic molten phase, the polymer having the specific structure in which a repeating unit of the formula:A--X--B (I)(wherein 100 to 50 mol % of A stands for defined mesogenic group, 0 to 50 mole % of A is p-phenylene, m-phenylene or trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, B is a defined spacer group, and X is ester bond, carbonate bond, amide bond, urethane bond or urea bond, and a repeating unit of the formula:R (II)in which R stands for bivalent to hexavalent hydrocarbon residue, are connected, in any successive orders and in a weight ratio of (I)/(II)=99.9/0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasaburo Ueno, Hisaki Tanabe, Ryozo Takagawa, Yoshio Eguchi, Koichi Tsutsui, Naoya Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 5070161
    Abstract: Benzyl pyridinium or ammonium salts of a non-nucleophilic anion are useful as a cationic polymerization initiator having a heat latency. A variety of resinous compositions containing this initiator is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nakano, Hiroharu Ohsugi, Yasuhiko Nakae, Hisaki Tanabe, Ryozo Takagawa, Yoshio Eguchi, Koichi Tsutsui, Takeshi Endo
  • Patent number: 5034432
    Abstract: The invention concerns powder coatings comprising thermoplastic or thermosetting type resin powder particles, each particle carrying at least on the surface thereof, a number of microparticles having an average diameter of 0.001 to 10.mu. of such resin as having a glass transition temperature of 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. and a SP value of 9 to 15, said microparticle optionally containing UV absorber or antioxidant or hardening catalyst, the weight ratio of said microparticles to the total weight of the powder coatings being 0.05 to 30% by weight. The present powder coatings are excellent in blocking resistance and capable of forming a coating with excellent stain resistance, coating appearance and other desired properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasaburo Ueno, Akimitsu Uenaka, Yuji Toyoda, Katsuaki Kida, Masayuki Maruta, Koichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 4976785
    Abstract: Disclosed is a paint resin prepared by reacting an aluminum chelate compound with a resin having an active hydrogen bonded to an electrophilic atom or atomic group, and/or epoxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nakano, Koichi Tsutsui, Shoji Ikeda, Yoji Hirasawa