Patents by Inventor Masanori Aritake

Masanori Aritake 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: 8567127
    Abstract: A sub-lip is provided on an interior side wall portion of a main body having a U-shaped cross section in a vertical section of a glass run. The sub-lip extends from the interior side wall portion of the main body while inclined towards an inner side of a glass opening. A projecting length of the sub-lip is set such that a distal end portion of the sub-lip is brought into contact with a back surface of an interior seal lip when a door glass is inserted into an inner space of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takase, Norimasa Iwasa, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 8402696
    Abstract: A weather strip includes a trim portion that is a substantially U-shaped, that is mounted on a flange portion provided along a door opening circumference portion of a vehicle, and that is equipped with a vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, a vehicle inner-sided side wall portion, and a coupling portion for coupling the side wall portions to each other, and a seal portion including a hollow portion. The seal portion includes a first elongated portion which is elongated to a vehicle outer side from a portion located in a vicinity of a boundary portion between the seal portion and the coupling portion of the vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, a second elongated portion which is elongated to a vehicle outer side from a portion located in a vicinity of a tip portion of the vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, and an expanded portion having substantially an arc shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimasa Iwasa, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 8205391
    Abstract: An automobile weather strip has a trim part having a substantially U-shaped section and a sealing part. The automobile weather strip is characterized in that: the trim part has an insert member and a covering material for covering the insert member; the covering member is provided with holding lips for holding a flange part on an inner surface of the trim part; a sponge material of a rubber formed by using a blend material of an EPDM rubber and an olefin-based thermoplastic synthetic resin and a sponge material of a rubber having physical properties of a specific gravity of 0.6 to 0.8 and a 25%-stretching stress of 500 KPa or more are used as the covering material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Aritake, Norimasa Iwasa, Satoshi Toki, Takaaki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20120031009
    Abstract: A weather strip includes a trim portion that is a substantially U-shaped, that is mounted on a flange portion provided along a door opening circumference portion of a vehicle, and that is equipped with a vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, a vehicle inner-sided side wall portion, and a coupling portion for coupling the side wall portions to each other, and a seal portion including a hollow portion. The seal portion includes a first elongated portion which is elongated to a vehicle outer side from a portion located in a vicinity of a boundary portion between the seal portion and the coupling portion of the vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, a second elongated portion which is elongated to a vehicle outer side from a portion located in a vicinity of a tip portion of the vehicle outer-sided side wall portion, and an expanded portion having substantially an arc shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Norimasa Iwasa, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 8051607
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted on a circumferential portion of a door opening for a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a trim portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section and a hollow seal portion, and a designed lip is formed on the trim portion so as to extend therefrom. An adhesive layer and a flocked portion are formed on a designed surface of the weather strip such as an external surface of the designed lip, the flocked portion being provided with a multiplicity of pile fibers which are bonded to the adhesive layer at one end thereof, which pile fibers are each angled randomly with respect to a normal direction to the external surface of the lip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Kenji Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Takahara, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 7687133
    Abstract: A weather strip has a trim portion and a seal portion. The trim portion has a vehicle interior side wall, a vehicle exterior side wall, and a connecting portion. A metal insert is embedded in the trim portion. The insert has piece portions and a center bond portion which connects the piece portions to one another. The thickness of each of parts of the insert, which are other than both curved parts, is set to be thinner than the thickness of each of both the curved parts. Thus, the thickness of the insert, except for the curved parts, is small. Consequently, the entire insert, thus, the entire weather strip can be lightened. On the other hand, both the curved parts are relatively thick. Accordingly, the weather strip can assure predetermined strength and stiffness and can easily maintain an initial shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimasa Iwasa, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 7666489
    Abstract: A weather strip is mounted at the peripheral part of a door opening of a door for an automobile. The weather strip includes a sectionally nearly U-shaped trim part and a hollow seal part. A design lip is extended out from the trim part. A decoration layer of a non-woven fabric is formed on the design surface of the weather strip such as the outer surface of the design lip through a resin bonding layer of polyethylene (PE). The non-woven fabric constituting the decoration layer contains fibers subjected to “crimping processing” and has predetermined elasticity (stretch of 5 mm or more when load of 20 N is applied).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 7648188
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a glass run which corresponds to an outer peripheral configuration of a door glass. The glass run includes a body portion which is provided with a bottom wall portion and an interior side wall portion and an exterior side wall portion which extend from both edges of the bottom wall portion, respectively, and a pair or seal lips which establish seals between the door glass and themselves. Furthermore, with respect to a direction towards an inside or outside of a door frame, a foot portion of the exterior seal lip is positioned further on the outer peripheral side than an inner-peripheral edge portion of a molding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yatsuda, Yoshio Hashimoto, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 7608316
    Abstract: An extruded product formed by extrusion molding and continuing in a longitudinal direction includes: an extruded product body; and a decoration layer provided integrally on a surface of the extruded product body, wherein the decoration layer is provided on a substantially entire surface of the decoration layer by combining an irregular surface pattern and a plurality of linear grooves on the surface thereof, and the depth of the linear groove is deeper than the depth of the irregular surface pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Hitoshi Omori
  • Patent number: 7543881
    Abstract: An opening trim weather strip includes a trim portion, a seal portion, and a cover lip integrally formed to the trim portion and extended to a vehicle interior side thereof. The cover lip is formed with a cover lip main body by a sponge member and formed with a cover lip skin layer formed by a solid member at a surface of the cover lip main body. A modulus of the cover lip skin layer is made to be equal to or smaller than a modulus of the cover lip main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Satoshi Toki, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20090120007
    Abstract: An automobile weather strip has a trim part having a substantially U-shaped section and a sealing part. The automobile weather strip is characterized in that: the trim part has an insert member and a covering material for covering the insert member; the covering member is provided with holding lips for holding a flange part on an inner surface of the trim part; a sponge material of a rubber formed by using a blend material of an EPDM rubber and an olefin-based thermoplastic synthetic resin and a sponge material of a rubber having physical properties of a specific gravity of 0.6 to 0.8 and a 25%-stretching stress of 500 KPa or more are used as the covering material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Aritake, Norimasa Iwasa, Satoshi Toki, Takaaki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090100761
    Abstract: A door weatherstrip includes a mounted base portion which is mounted along an outer circumference of a door frame, and a seal portion which extends in an outer circumferential direction of a door from the mounted base portion. The mounted base portion includes a base bottom portion, a vehicle-interior side wall portion and a vehicle-exterior side wall portion, and an isolating wall portion. The mounted base portion is made from an EPDM sponge rubber material into which polyethylene is mixed to have a specific gravity of 0.2 or larger and smaller than 0.45 and a low expansion stress of 200 kPa or larger. The seal portion is made from an EPDM sponge rubber material having a specific gravity of 0.45 or larger and 1.0 or smaller and a low expansion stress of 120 kPa or larger and smaller than 200 kPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Hashimoto, Satoshi Toki, Hideaki Minoura, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20090071077
    Abstract: A main body of automotive glass run assumes a substantially U-shaped cross section consisting of a vehicle-exterior side wall, an interior side wall, and a bottom wall and is provided with a vehicle-exterior seal lip and an interior seal lip. The bottom wall is made of a solid material or a microfoaming solid material, and the vehicle-exterior side wall and the interior side wall are made from a sponge material. A vehicle-exterior projection, which assumes a triangular cross-sectional profile and whose top inwardly protrudes so as to be able to contact a door glass, is formed on an interior surface of the vehicle-exterior side wall. A low sliding resistance material layer is formed on a surface of the vehicle-exterior projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takase, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Publication number: 20090064592
    Abstract: In automotive glass run, a main body of glass run assumes a substantially U-shaped cross section consisting of a vehicle-exterior side wall, a vehicle-interior side wall, and a bottom wall. The vehicle-exterior side wall and the vehicle-interior side wall are provided with a vehicle-exterior seal lip and a vehicle-interior seal lip that extend to the inside of the main body of the substantially U-shaped cross section. The vehicle-exterior side wall is formed with a solid material or a microfoaming solid material, and the vehicle-interior side wall and the bottom wall are formed with a sponge material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takase, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Publication number: 20080261015
    Abstract: The long molded article having a decoration layer of a thermoplastic elastomer and molded by extrusion molding, wherein the decoration layer contains 2 to 10 parts by weight of an OBSH-based foaming agent and 3 to 10 parts by weight of an one or more organic acid salt selected from an ascorbic acid salt, an acetic acid salt, a gluconic acid salt, a glutamic acid salt, a malic acid salt, and a succinic acid salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20080238137
    Abstract: The weather strip of the invention has an attachment base and a sealing part to be integrally attached to the attachment base for sealing a gap between a vehicle body opening open/close member and a vehicle body opening part. The attachment base has a substantially U-shaped section or a substantially J-shaped section that is formed of a vehicle exterior side wall, a vehicle interior side wall, and a bottom wall, and a sealant member formed from an adhesive material is attached to an inner surface of the attachment base having the substantially U-shaped section or the substantially J-shaped section. The tip of the flange is inserted into an inner part of the sealant member, and the attachment base is attached by an adhesion force of the sealant member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Noriyoshi Kawashima, Mitsuhiro Takahara, Masanori Aritake
  • Publication number: 20080229670
    Abstract: A weather strip 4 has been equipped with: a trim portion 5 which is mounted on a flange portion 23 provided along a circumference portion of a door opening corresponding to a door 2; and a seal portion 6 having a hallow portion 6a, which is projected from the trim portion 5 to an outer side of a vehicle. The seal portion 6 has been provided with a thicker-thickness portion 41 at a portion which abuts against a peripheral portion of the door 2 when the door 2 is closed. Furthermore, each of a door opening inner circumferential-sided portion and a door opening outer circumferential-sided portion within the seal portion 2, which are located adjacent to the thicker-thickness portion 41, has been constructed as a thinner-thickness portion 42 which is made thinner than the thicker-thickness portion 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimasa Iwasa, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Publication number: 20080216411
    Abstract: A weatherstrip is mounted along a peripheral part of a door opening of an automobile. The weatherstrip has a body including a cross-sectionally substantially-U-shaped trim portion, and a hollow seal portion. Additionally, a design lip is formed on the trim portion to extend therefrom. Then, a decorative layer formed of a woven fabric is provided on a design surface of the weatherstrip through a hotmelt adhesive layer. The woven fabric constituting the decorative layer is constituted by raw yarns. Also, a hotmelt adhesive layer is thermally fused thereto due to residual heat in a case where the body is cooled to a temperature, which is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, after vulcanization of a material of the body. Thus, the decorative layer is attached to a weatherstrip body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki
  • Patent number: 7410203
    Abstract: An automobile door has a glass run corresponding to a glass door. The glass run includes a body portion, which has a bottom wall portion, and a vehicle interior side wall portion and a vehicle exterior side wall portion respectively extending from opposite ends of the bottom wall portion, and also includes a pair of seal lips which performs sealing between the door glass and the glass run. Furthermore, in a cross-sectionally substantially-U-shaped outer peripheral portion of the body portion, sponge rubber layers are provided in a predetermined range in a longitudinal direction of a cross-section of the vehicle interior side surface wall portion and a predetermined zone including a continuously connecting portion between the bottom wall portion and the inner outer side surface wall portion, respectively. An auxiliary lip is provided at a continuously connecting portion between the bottom wall portion and the vehicle interior side wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yatsuda, Yoshio Hashimoto, Masanori Aritake, Satoshi Toki, Yukio Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20080122251
    Abstract: An opening trim weather strip includes a trim portion, a seal portion, and a cover lip integrally formed to the trim portion and extended to a vehicle interior side thereof. The cover lip is formed with a cover lip main body by a sponge member and formed with a cover lip skin layer formed by a solid member at a surface of the cover lip main body. A modulus of the cover lip skin layer is made to be equal to or smaller than a modulus of the cover lip main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kurato Okajima, Satoshi Toki, Masanori Aritake