Patents by Inventor Kounosuke Yamamoto

Kounosuke Yamamoto 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).

  • Process for manufacturing preform and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 7905975
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a preform, and apparatus therefor, wherein a preform with a branched portion in its cross-section profile is continuously manufactured by delivering a raw form of reinforcing fiber base material with a branched portion in its cross-section profile, among multiple reinforcing fiber base materials for constructing the preform, intermittently in the longitudinal direction thereof; at each delivery discontinuation, performing heat and/or pressure application to the raw base material so as to tentatively obtain a preliminary shaped matter with given configuration; and uniting the obtained preliminary shaped matter with given configuration with raw forms of other reinforcing fiber base materials for constructing the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Suzuki, Haruhiko Tsuji, Kounosuke Yamamoto
  • PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING PREFORM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20090050263
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a preform, and apparatus therefor, wherein a preform with a branched portion in its cross-section profile is continuously manufactured by delivering a raw form of reinforcing fiber base material with a branched portion in its cross-section profile, among multiple reinforcing fiber base materials for constructing the preform, intermittently in the longitudinal direction thereof; at each delivery discontinuation, performing heat and/or pressure application to the raw base material so as to tentatively obtain a preliminary shaped matter with given configuration; and uniting the obtained preliminary shaped matter with given configuration with raw forms of other reinforcing fiber base materials for constructing the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Tamotsu Suzuki, Haruhiko Tsuji, Kounosuke Yamamoto