Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Horikawa
Mitsuo Horikawa 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).
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Patent number: 7992266Abstract: A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Hiroyuki Konokawa, Eiji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20100325846Abstract: A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Hiroyuki Konokawa, Eiji Nakayama
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Patent number: 7836563Abstract: A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Hiroyuki Konokawa, Eiji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20080257442Abstract: A slide fastener stringer easily manufactured by a series of manufacturing steps with molding fastener elements in a warp yarn exclusion area formed on one side edge of a fastener tape, wherein a fastener tape is produced by weaving with warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber yarn; plural pieces of water soluble fiber yarns are disposed inside over plural pieces of the warp yarns from the side edge of the tape; in a dying step in a process for manufacturing a fastener stringer, the water soluble fiber yarns are dissolved to form the warp yarn exclusion area; and by molding the fastener elements by using the warp yarn exclusion area, the fastener stringer is manufactured in an easy sequential manufacturing process without applying any special processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Shigeto Takahashi
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Publication number: 20080209694Abstract: A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Hiroyuki Konokawa, Eiji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20060016052Abstract: A slide fastener stringer easily manufactured by a series of manufacturing steps with molding fastener elements in a warp yarn exclusion area formed on one side edge of a fastener tape, wherein a fastener tape is produced by weaving with warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber yarn; plural pieces of water soluble fiber yarns are disposed inside over plural pieces of the warp yarns from the side edge of the tape; in a dying step in a process for manufacturing a fastener stringer, the water soluble fiber yarns are dissolved to form the warp yarn exclusion area; and by molding the fastener elements by using the warp yarn exclusion area, the fastener stringer is manufactured in an easy sequential manufacturing process without applying any special processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Shigeto Takahashi
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Publication number: 20040173276Abstract: At least part of constituent yarns extending in the warp direction outside and adjacent a core thread woven or knitted in an element attachment edge portion has a higher elongation recovery ratio R than all the other constituent yarns and the core threads extending in the warp direction, the elongation recovery ratio R being expressed by the following equation based on a measurement according to JIS L1096:Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2004Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventor: Mitsuo Horikawa
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Publication number: 20020157172Abstract: Dyed, colorless transparent, or semi-transparent yarns or dyed transparent or semi-transparent yarns are used in combination as composition yarns of a belt to be woven or knitted. Consequently, color of the dyed yarns can be seen through the transparent yarns at intersections of the both yarns, so that beautiful intersections are produced. Further, the belt having a specific color tone produced by mixing various colors may be obtained. If it is intended to change the color of the belt, the belt having a desired color can be produced easily only by changing part of the composition yarns.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: YKK CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Matsushima, Mitsuo Horikawa, Shigeto Takahashi
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Publication number: 20020092139Abstract: In a fastener tape having a tape main portion obtained by weaving and an element-mounting edge portion in which core strings are woven, foundation warps used for the tape main portion have a lower thermal contraction coefficient than the other warps. The core strings have a high thermal contraction coefficient. The warps adjacent to the core strings at an inner side thereof have a thermal contraction coefficient lower than that of the core strings. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a fastener stringer in which no puckering occurs in an element-mounting edge portion even after elements are attached, so that linearity can be secured.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: YKK CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuo Horikawa
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Patent number: 5469605Abstract: A slide fastener which permits easy attachment of electric conductors and ensures supply of electric current to all metallic coupling elements even if a part of the electric conductors is cut off. And it has a neat appearance because the electric conductors exposed in spaces among the coupling elements do not look unsightly. In the slide fastener having a fastener tape, a core cord and metallic coupling elements disposed along a longitudinal edge of one side of the fastener tape, a plurality of electric conductors are used as a part of warps of the fastener tape, and the exposed portions of the electric conductors are shifted one another in the longitudinal direction. Therefore, the electric conductors are substantially continuously exposed on the front surface of the fastener tape along the outer edge of the core cord and weaved in the fastener tape body.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1994Date of Patent: November 28, 1995Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.Inventor: Mitsuo Horikawa
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Patent number: 5379600Abstract: A superconducting magnet which is capable of improving the refrigerating and the assembling characteristics and of composing in small size. A helium vessel 2 contains a cylindrical superconducting coil for cryogenically refrigerating it by liquid helium. A second and a first heat-shields 5 and 6 and a vacuum vessel 4 are coaxially provided so as to surround the helium vessel 2. Over the helium vessel 2, a L-letter shaped duct 50 is provided to be exposed to helium gas atmosphere being evaporated in the helium vessel 2. A refrigerator-mounting cylinder 51 has an end coupled to the L-letter shaped duct 50 through the bellows 52 and is mounted on an end surface of the vacuum vessel 4 substantially in parallel to the axial direction of the superconducting coil. A three-stage cold heat accumulation refrigerator 30 is inserted into and fixed to the refrigerator-mounting cylinder 51 for reliquefying the helium gas having been drawn into the L-letter shaped duct 50 by a third heat state 43.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1993Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuki Moritsu, Takahiro Matsumoto, Mitsuo Horikawa, Shuichi Nakagawa, Hideto Yoshimura, Masashi Nagao, Takashi Inaguchi
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Patent number: 5235818Abstract: In a cryostat having a vacuum container (6), a refrigerator (2) having an elongated part (2b, 2c) extending in the vacuum container and having a cooling section (36, 37), a cooled member (4, 5) cooled by the cooling section, and a thermal coupling member (21, 27) thermally coupling the cooling section (36, 37) with the cooled member (4, 5), the thermal coupling member includes a first thermal contactor (22, 28) thermally coupled to the cooling section, and a second thermal contactor (29) thermally coupled to the cooled member, the first and second contactors mating with each other. The mating surfaces of the first and second contactors are inclined, and one of the first and second contactors is mounted such that it can be moved. A resilient member presses said one of the contactors against the other contactor. The contact pressure at the mating surfaces is thereby kept substantially constant.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1992Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kazuki Moritsu
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Patent number: 5176003Abstract: In a cryostat having a vacuum container (6), a refrigerator (2) having an elongated part (2b,2c) extending in the vacuum container and having a cooling section (36, 37), a cooled member (4, 5) cooled by the cooling section, and a thermal coupling member (21, 27) thermally coupling the cooling section (36, 37) with the cooled member (4, 5), the thermal coupling member includes a first thermal contactor (22, 28) thermally coupled to the cooling section, and a second thermal contactor (29) thermally coupled to the cooled member, the first and second contactors mating with each other. The mating surfaces of the first and second contactors are inclined, and one of the first and second contactors is mounted such that it can be moved. A resilient member presses said one of the contactors against the other contactor. The contact pressure at the mating surfaces is thereby kept substantially constant.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1991Date of Patent: January 5, 1993Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kazuki Moritsu
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Patent number: 4924560Abstract: A stretchable slide fastener includes a pair of stretchable stringer tapes each having a longitudinal edge, and a row of coupling elements mounted on the longitudinal edge at a pitch. The pitch of the row of coupling elements is variable as the longitudinal edge is stretched. Each of the coupling elements includes a coupling head having a height, and at least the longitudinal edge being longitudinally stretchable by at least 10% such that the pitch of the coupling elements remains smaller than an interval which is twice the height of the coupling head.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1988Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.Inventors: Yoshio Matsuda, Mitsuo Horikawa, Noritaka Tsubata
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Patent number: 4922584Abstract: A slide fastener comprising a pair of stringer tapes which are separable into identical halves by means of a pin-and-box separator, a reinforcing strip attached to an end of each of the stringer tapes and an adhesive film fusible to bond the strip to the tape. Both of the stringer tape and the reinforcing strip are made of the same type of fibrous materials, while the adhesive film is a modified polyester or a copolymeric polyamide depending upon the type of materials chosen for the stringer tape and the strip.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1989Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.Inventors: Shigeru Funakawa, Mitsuo Horikawa
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Patent number: 4651388Abstract: A sliding clasp fastener which is provided has a pair of sliders for opening and closing the fastener in the forward direction and in the reverse direction, respectively. The fastener has a series of discrete coupling elements each having means for facilitating engagement of adjacent elements with minimum frictional resistance when the fastener is opened or closed in the reverse direction, such means comprising a pocket having a front end wall sloping at the outside of the pocket and being reinforced by rib means inside the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1985Date of Patent: March 24, 1987Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.Inventors: Mitsuo Horikawa, Akinobu Terasawa
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Patent number: 4308898Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement in a slide fastener tape including a tape body comprising interlaced warp ends and weft picks and a beaded edge having a core member disposed parallel to the tape body at one side thereof and a plurality of appendant warp ends which form a circular weave with the weft picks of the tape body enclosing the core member. According to this invention, the appendant warp ends are placed only on the upper and lower sides of the core member so as to make the cross section of the finished beaded edge generally rectangular with a height greater than the width.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1980Date of Patent: January 5, 1982Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, Mitsuo Horikawa