Patents by Inventor Masakazu Kito

Masakazu Kito 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: 11815183
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings, the adaptor being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Yoshiaki Takigahira
  • Patent number: 11815182
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes a pair of seal rings that rotate relative to each other; and a retainer that holds the seal ring. The retainer includes an annular base portion, an annular holding portion that is externally fitted to an outer periphery of the seal ring, and an annular connection portion that connects the base portion and the annular holding portion in an axial direction, and an annular space partially surrounded by the base portion, the annular connection portion, and the annular holding portion is formed between the outer periphery of the seal ring and an inner periphery of the retainer. The retainer has a plurality of beams which are disposed in the annular space to connect the annular base portion and the annular holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Masakazu Kito
  • Patent number: 11802623
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings 30, the adaptor 5 being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders 9 being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Yoshiaki Takigahira
  • Publication number: 20230109060
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings, the adaptor being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu KITO, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA
  • Patent number: 11565502
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bonding method for bonding two adherends using an adhesive main agent that contains a thermoplastic resin having a cross-linkable group and a catalyst. The bonding method includes the steps of forming a main agent layer on one of the adherends; applying a catalyst onto the main agent layer; laminating the main agent layer and another adherend; and heating and pressing a laminated body in a layer thickness direction. Another embodiment of the bonding method may include a step of applying a catalyst onto one of the adherends, a step of forming a main agent layer on a surface onto which the catalyst has been applied, a step of laminating the two adherends, and a step of heating and pressing a laminated body in a layer thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo Naito, Masakazu Kito
  • Publication number: 20220213960
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes a pair of seal rings that rotate relative to each other; and a retainer that holds the seal ring. The retainer includes an annular base portion, an annular holding portion that is externally fitted to an outer periphery of the seal ring, and an annular connection portion that connects the base portion and the annular holding portion in an axial direction, and an annular space partially surrounded by the base portion, the annular connection portion, and the annular holding portion is formed between the outer periphery of the seal ring and an inner periphery of the retainer. The retainer has a plurality of beams which are disposed in the annular space to connect the annular base portion and the annular holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Masakazu KITO
  • Publication number: 20210317916
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical sealing device capable of preventing foreign matter from entering a seal portion from the outside of a machine. In a vertical sealing device with a seal portion axially sealing a rotating shaft provided in a machine and extending in a vertical direction, an annular collar portion which extends in an outward radial direction from a radial gap between a rotational side element and a stationary side element is provided in the rotational side element so as to be located on an outside of the machine with relation to the seal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Masakazu KITO
  • Patent number: 11046872
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a two-component hot melt adhesive capable of appropriately adjusting its aging time while having excellent workability and pot life and a solidified product thereof and a method for controlling the cross-linking time of a two-component hot melt adhesive. The two-component hot melt adhesive separately includes: (A) a base component containing a modified polyolefin having an alkoxysilyl group; and (B) a catalyst that promotes formation of siloxane-cross linkings derived from the alkoxysilyl groups, in which when a solubility parameter of the base component (A) is defined as SPA, a solubility parameter of the catalyst (B) is defined as SPB, and a molecular weight of the catalyst (B) is defined as NM, the SPA, the SPB, and NM satisfy the following formula (1) 10?(X1×NM)+(X2×|SPA?SPB|)?400 wherein 0.15?X1?0.55 and 40?X2?80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo Naito, Masakazu Kito
  • Publication number: 20210018100
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings 30, the adaptor 5 being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders 9 being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Masakazu KITO, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA
  • Patent number: 10883606
    Abstract: In a bellows mechanical seal, a collar attached to a seal ring through a bellows has a restriction piece extending toward at least one of an inner diameter side or an outer diameter side. The bellows mechanical seal includes an adaptor which is attached to the collar, whose axial movement is restricted by the restriction piece, and which extends to the inner diameter side or the outer diameter side over the restriction piece. The collar and the adaptor form at least part of a housing space (S), (S?) having the secondary seal housed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takigahira, Masakazu Kito
  • Publication number: 20200171793
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bonding method for bonding two adherends using an adhesive main agent that contains a thermoplastic resin having a cross-linkable group and a catalyst. The bonding method includes the steps of forming a main agent layer on one of the adherends; applying a catalyst onto the main agent layer; laminating the main agent layer and another adherend; and heating and pressing a laminated body in a layer thickness direction. Another embodiment of the bonding method may include a step of applying a catalyst onto one of the adherends, a step of forming a main agent layer on a surface onto which the catalyst has been applied, a step of laminating the two adherends, and a step of heating and pressing a laminated body in a layer thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAITO, Masakazu KITO
  • Publication number: 20200171792
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laminated body including an adhesive layer containing a cross-linked modified resin obtained by forming a cross-link derived from a cross-linkable group of a thermoplastic resin having the cross-linkable group, and a catalyst impregnated into the cross-linked modified resin, wherein the catalyst promotes formation of a cross-link derived from the cross-linkable group, and wherein when a solubility parameter of an adhesive main agent containing the thermoplastic resin having the cross-linkable group is defined as SP1 and a solubility parameter of the catalyst is defined as SP2, an absolute difference between the SP1 and the SP2 represented as |SP1?SP2| is 4.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAITO, Masakazu KITO
  • Publication number: 20200172772
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a two-component hot melt adhesive capable of appropriately adjusting its aging time while having excellent workability and pot life and a solidified product thereof and a method for controlling the cross-linking time of a two-component hot melt adhesive. The two-component hot melt adhesive separately includes: (A) a base component containing a modified polyolefin having an alkoxysilyl group; and (B) a catalyst that promotes formation of siloxane-cross linkings derived from the alkoxysilyl groups, in which when a solubility parameter of the base component (A) is defined as SPA, a solubility parameter of the catalyst (B) is defined as SPB, and a molecular weight of the catalyst (B) is defined as NM, the SPA, the SPB, and NM satisfy the following formula (1) 10?(X1×NM)+(X2×|SPA?SPB|)?400 wherein 0.15?X1?0.55 and 40?X2?80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAITO, Masakazu KITO
  • Patent number: 10393166
    Abstract: Provided are a set screw, a fixing structure, a fixing method and a sealing structure that can reduce an exposed amount of a set screw and prevent the set screw from coming off a female thread. A fixing structure for fixing a first member 20 in which a female thread 21 is formed and a second member 30 which is provided to be slidable with respect to the first member 20, and in which a through-hole 31 is formed that has a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the female thread 21, wherein the second member 30 is positioned with respect to the first member 20 in a state in which center axes of the female thread 21 and the through-hole 31 coincide with each other, the set screw 10 is engaged in the female thread 21, and the small diameter portion 13 is inserted into the through-hole 31, whereby the first member 20 and the second member 30 are fixed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: EagleBurgmann Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Kito
  • Patent number: 10352454
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a mechanical seal device has a mating ring (131) that rotates with a rotating shaft (101), as well as an opposing seal ring (133) that slidably contacts the mating ring (131), so as to seal between the rotating shaft (101) and a seal cover (105) fixed to an equipment main body (102); wherein the seal cover (105) is a split structure comprising at least a first seal cover (107, 108) and second seal cover (106), the first seal cover (107, 108) is detachably connected in the axial direction by leaving the second seal cover (106) free from it, and the seal ring (133) is connected to the first seal cover (107, 108) in a securely following manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD., EAGLEBURGMANN JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190078689
    Abstract: In a bellows mechanical seal, a collar attached to a seal ring through a bellows has a restriction piece extending toward at least one of an inner diameter side or an outer diameter side. The bellows mechanical seal includes an adaptor which is attached to the collar, whose axial movement is restricted by the restriction piece, and which extends to the inner diameter side or the outer diameter side over the restriction piece. The collar and the adaptor form at least part of a housing space (S), (S?) having the secondary seal housed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Masakazu KITO
  • Patent number: 10145475
    Abstract: A mechanical seal device has a mating ring that rotates with a rotating shaft, as well as a seal ring that slidably contacts the mating right, so as to seal between the rotating shaft and a seal cover fixed to an equipment main body, wherein the seal cover is a split structure comprising at least an inner-diameter-side seal cover and an outer-diameter-side seal cover, the inner-diameter-side seal cover is detachably connected to the outer-diameter-side seal cover, and the seal ring is connected to the inner-diameter-side seal cover in a securely following manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD., EAGLEBURGMANN JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9845888
    Abstract: A mechanical seal has a seal ring and a mating ring that faces and slides against the seal ring and either the seal ring or mating ring is supported via a bellows on the equipment interior side of a seal cover installed on a housing, while the other rotates together with a rotational shaft; and a baffle sleeve with a roughly L-shaped cross-section is fixed on the equipment exterior side of the seal cover to guide quenching liquid to the sliding surfaces of the seal ring and mating ring, where the baffle sleeve is structurally split into a flange part and cylinder part. The mechanical seal allows for preassembly of its seal members on the stationary side, baffle sleeve, damper, and other related parts at a factory, service center, etc., in a reliable and controlled manner, requiring fewer assembly steps during onsite engineering works.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD., EAGLEBURGMANN JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunari Furukawa, Masakazu Kito
  • Publication number: 20170248235
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a mechanical seal device has a mating ring (131) that rotates with a rotating shaft (101), as well as an opposing seal ring (133) that slidably contacts the mating ring (131), so as to seal between the rotating shaft (101) and a seal cover (105) fixed to an equipment main body (102); wherein the seal cover (105) is a split structure comprising at least a first seal cover (107, 108) and second seal cover (106), the first seal cover (107, 108) is detachably connected in the axial direction by leaving the second seal cover (106) free from it, and the seal ring (133) is connected to the first seal cover (107, 108) in a securely following manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Masakazu KITO, Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170241548
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a mechanical seal device has a mating ring (31) that rotates with a rotating shaft (1), as well as a seal ring (33) that slidably contacts the mating ring (31), so as to seal between the rotating shaft (1) and a seal cover (5) fixed to an equipment main body (2), wherein the seal cover (5) is a split structure comprising at least an inner-diameter-side seal cover (8) and an outer-diameter-side seal cover (7), the inner-diameter-side seal cover (8) is detachably connected to the outer-diameter-side seal cover (7), and the seal ring (33) is connected to the inner-diameter-side seal cover (8) in a securely following manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicants: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD., EAGLEBURGMANN JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu KITO, Hiroshi TANAKA