Patents by Inventor Michihiro Yamahara

Michihiro Yamahara 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: 20220080556
    Abstract: Object: To provide a grinding wheel and a method of manufacturing a grinding wheel having added value while providing a suppressed manufacturing cost. Solution Means: The grinding wheel is a grinding wheel including an abrasive portion including nonwoven fabric, wherein the abrasive portion includes an outer peripheral portion formed with the nonwoven fabric including abrasive grains on an outer peripheral side, and an inner peripheral portion formed with the nonwoven fabric not including the abrasive grains, and a ratio of a thickness in a radial direction of the outer peripheral portion to a thickness in a radial direction of the abrasive portion is from 3% to 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Michihiro Yamahara, Naohiro Nagafuchi, Mayumi Yoshikawa, Masashi Nakayama, Shoichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20200148928
    Abstract: An abrasive material containing a cured product of a thermosetting resin powder, comprising: a porous body having a plurality of bubbles derived from heat-expandable microspheres; and abrasive grains dispersed in the porous body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Patent number: 9925644
    Abstract: An adapter according to one aspect is an adapter for fixing to a shaft of a grinding machine a grinding wheel having a through-hole where the shaft is inserted. The adapter is provided with a main body having at least a portion thereof inserted into the through-hole, the main body including an outer wall that contacts a wall of the through-hole and an inner wall that forms an opening that corresponds to the shaft, and a plurality of reinforcing parts provided in predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction of the main body. Each reinforcing part extends from the inner wall to the outer wall, and a notch is formed in each reinforcing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20160303708
    Abstract: A polishing cushion for realizing a plurality of types of polishing with a single polishing apparatus. A polishing cushion according to one embodiment includes a first outer layer facing one out of a polishing member and a support member, a second outer layer facing the other out of the polishing member and the support member, an inner layer positioned between the first outer layer and the second outer layer; and a plurality of spaces formed in the second outer layer which the inner layer is able to enter. The hardness of the inner layer is lower than both of the hardness of the first outer layer and the hardness of the second outer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20160129557
    Abstract: An adapter according to one aspect is an adapter for fixing to a shaft of a grinding machine a grinding wheel having a through-hole where the shaft is inserted. The adapter is provided with a main body having at least a portion thereof inserted into the through-hole, the main body including an outer wall that contacts a wall of the through-hole and an inner wall that forms an opening that corresponds to the shaft, and a plurality of reinforcing parts provided in predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction of the main body. Each reinforcing part extends from the inner wall to the outer wall, and a notch is formed in each reinforcing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Patent number: 8617272
    Abstract: To provide an abrasive material product which shows an excellent effect of controlling heat generation in abrasive work and which causes no smearing in abrasive work in dry mode. An abrasive material product comprising a binder and an inclusion compound composed of a host compound and a lubricant contained therein as a guest compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20120036790
    Abstract: The invention provides a nonwoven fabric abrasive material, which comprises a reactive inorganic endothermic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20110143974
    Abstract: To provide an abrasive material product which shows an excellent effect of controlling heat generation in abrasive work and which causes no smearing in abrasive work in dry mode. An abrasive material product comprising a binder and an inclusion compound composed of a host compound and a lubricant contained therein as a guest compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20100190420
    Abstract: To provide an abrasive disc which has a small size in the thickness direction and, therefore, can grind objects easily even if they are narrow portions or side walls of grooves and which has a strength enough for resisting the force applied during grinding. Means for Solution An abrasive disc which comprises a disc-shaped laminate comprising a layer of a nonwoven abrasive material, a layer of a reinforcing fabric connected to one side of the layer of the nonwoven abrasive material, a central opening, an almost flat front surface and an almost flat back surface; and a grinder-mounting resin portion, the grinder-mounting resin portion being formed integrally with the disc-shaped laminate by insert-molding a resin at the peripheral portion of the central opening in the disc-shaped laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20020037687
    Abstract: A process, multi-functional grinding wheel and apparatus for mirror-finishing the edge of at least one of a cut unfinished glass recording disk or a cut unfinished glass-ceramic recording disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventor: Michihiro Yamahara