Patents by Inventor Munenori Soejima
Munenori Soejima 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: 9494494Abstract: A calibrating apparatus of a tire testing machine of the present invention calibrates force components along a lateral direction of a load cell on a tire testing machine provided with a rotary drum and the load cell mounted to a shaft portion of the rotary drum and capable of measuring force applied to the rotary drum, and has a hook member hooked on an outer peripheral edge of the rotary drum, a linear body, one end side of which is connected to the hook member, a load applying member connected to the other end side of the linear body and capable of generating a reference load toward a downward direction, and a pulley device around which the linear body is wound to convert the downward force by the load applying member into an upward force on one end side of the linear body.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Munenori Soejima, Takahiko Ishii
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Patent number: 9316566Abstract: A tire testing machine of the present invention includes a bottom chuck that is mounted to a bottom frame, a top chuck that is mounted to a movable beam, a ball screw that causes the movable beam to ascend or descend, and a beam fixing member that fixes the movable beam so as not to ascend. The beam fixing member includes a disk that is fixed to the ball screw and is provided with a plurality of elongated holes and air cylinders that are fixed to the vertical frame and are inserted into the elongated holes. When the pins are inserted into the elongated holes formed in the disk, the top chuck is fixed to the bottom chuck through the movable beam so as not to ascend.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Shinichiro Ikai, Munenori Soejima, Takayuki Fukuda
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Patent number: 9126759Abstract: A tire conveyor includes a roller portion provided at a position, in the width direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, without a conveying surface. The roller portion extends parallel to the conveying surface and is provided with a plurality of placement rollers forming a placement surface on which the tire is rotatably placed. An elevation mechanism includes a single actuator and a link mechanism connecting the roller portion or the conveyor to the actuator in a supported state and moves the placement surface of the roller portion upward and downward relative to the conveying surface by driving the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Munenori Soejima
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Patent number: 9096384Abstract: A plurality of conveyors including a center conveyor are appropriately disposed without any gap or step and any interference between driving units.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Munenori Soejima
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Publication number: 20150209816Abstract: This lubricator device includes an upper roller brush unit that comes into contact with a bead section on the upper side of a tire rotated about a vertical axis and applies a lubrication liquid, a lower roller brush unit that comes into contact with a bead section on the lower side of the tire and applies the lubrication liquid, a lubricator body, and a brush movement unit that connects the upper roller brush units to the lubricator body, and moves the upper roller brush unit and the lower roller brush unit in contact with and away from the tire. The brush movement unit includes a link mechanism that brings the upper roller brush unit close to the tire while moving the upper roller brush unit downward and brings the lower roller brush unit close to the tire while moving the lower roller brush unit upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hajime Tanaka, Munenori Soejima
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Publication number: 20150122004Abstract: A calibrating apparatus of a tire testing machine of the present invention calibrates force components along a lateral direction of a load cell on a tire testing machine provided with a rotary drum and the load cell mounted to a shaft portion of the rotary drum and capable of measuring force applied to the rotary drum, and has a hook member hooked on an outer peripheral edge of the rotary drum, a linear body, one end side of which is connected to the hook member, a load applying member connected to the other end side of the linear body and capable of generating a reference load toward a downward direction, and a pulley device around which the linear body is wound to convert the downward force by the load applying member into an upward force on one end side of the linear body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Takehiko WAKAZONO, Munenori SOEJIMA, Takahiko ISHII
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Publication number: 20140332348Abstract: A plurality of conveyors including a center conveyor are appropriately disposed without any gap or step and any interference between driving units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)Inventors: Takehiko WAKAZONO, Munenori SOEJIMA
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Publication number: 20140251757Abstract: In order to stably transfer a tire between a roller portion and a conveyor for a tire testing machine, the tire conveyor of the present invention includes: a roller portion that is provided at a position without a conveying surface of the conveyor in the width direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the conveyor in the conveying surface of the conveyor so as to be parallel to the conveying surface of the conveyor and is provided with a plurality of placement rollers forming a placement surface on which the tire is rotatably placed; and an elevation mechanism that includes an actuator and a link mechanism connecting the roller portion or the conveyor to the actuator in a supported state and moves the placement surface of the roller portion upward and downward relative to the conveying surface of the conveyor or moves the conveying surface of the conveyor upward and downward relative to the placement surface of the roller portion by the driving of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Takehiko WAKAZONO, Munenori SOEJIMA
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Publication number: 20140250996Abstract: A tire testing machine of the present invention includes a bottom chuck that is mounted to a bottom frame, a top chuck that is mounted to a movable beam, a ball screw that causes the movable beam to ascend or descend, and a beam fixing member that fixes the movable beam so as not to ascend. The beam fixing member includes a disk that is fixed to the ball screw and is provided with a plurality of elongated holes and air cylinders that are fixed to the vertical frame and are inserted into the elongated holes. When the pins are inserted into the elongated holes formed in the disk, the top chuck is fixed to the bottom chuck through the movable beam so as not to ascend.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Takehiko Wakazono, Shinichiro Ikai, Munenori Soejima, Takayuki Fukuda
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Patent number: 8800358Abstract: A rotary drum used in a tire testing machine has a road surface base material made of an aluminum alloy and provided with a road surface onto which a tire is pushed. The road surface is coated with a thermally-sprayed steel film having higher hardness than the road surface base material, and polished. With such a configuration, a favorable test result can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yu Sumimoto, Shogo Sarumaru, Munenori Soejima
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Patent number: 8776587Abstract: Disclosed is a tire tester (1) provided with: a device frame (3); a slide base (10) provided on the device frame (3) so as to be able to move up and down; a large spindle (11) that is attached to the slide base (10) and can rotatably support a large-diameter tire (T1); and a small spindle (12) that is attached to the slide base (10) and can rotatably support a small-diameter tire (T2) that is smaller than the large-diameter tire (T1). The disclosed tire tester (1) can push one of the tires (T1 or T2) against a simulated road surface (5), by means of the up/down movement of the slide base (10), and perform a tire test.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sumitani, Shogo Sarumaru, Munenori Soejima
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Publication number: 20130031968Abstract: A rotary drum used in a tire testing machine has a road surface base material made of an aluminum alloy and provided with a road surface onto which a tire is pushed. The road surface is coated with a thermally-sprayed steel film having higher hardness than the road surface base material, and polished. With such a configuration, a favorable test result can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yu SUMIMOTO, Shogo Sarumaru, Munenori Soejima
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Publication number: 20120167674Abstract: Disclosed is a tire tester (1) provided with: a device frame (3); a slide base (10) provided on the device frame (3) so as to be able to move up and down; a large spindle (11) that is attached to the slide base (10) and can rotatably support a large-diameter tire (T1); and a small spindle (12) that is attached to the slide base (10) and can rotatably support a small-diameter tire (T2) that is smaller than the large-diameter tire (T1). The disclosed tire tester (1) can push one of the tires (T1 or T2) against a simulated road surface (5), by means of the up/down movement of the slide base (10), and perform a tire test.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Takashi Sumitani, Shogo Sarumaru, Munenori Soejima
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Patent number: 7163046Abstract: The apparatus of the invention is an injection molding apparatus of a type adapted to cool a molten metal under shearing by an extrusion screw in a substantially vertical chamber into a semi-solidified slurry and then inject the semi-solidified slurry discharged from a discharge port at the lower end of a channel into molding plates, in which a clamping device is adapted to open or close a movable plate relative to a stationary plate in the horizontal direction, and a connection member having, at the inside, a vertical first channel and a second channel extending in the horizontal direction from the lower end of the first channel and in communication with the stationary plate is connected to the discharge port at the lower end of the chamber. Since this can inject and mold light metal molding products of high quality with less pore or shrinkage without excessively enlarging the size for the height of the apparatus, casting products of high quality can be obtained at a reduced cost by injection molding.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Munenori Soejima, Katsunori Takahashi, Takeshi Kanda, Kazuhisa Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20050006046Abstract: The apparatus of the invention is an injection molding apparatus of a type adapted to cool a molten metal under shearing by an extrusion screw in a substantially vertical chamber into a semi-solidified slurry and then inject the semi-solidified slurry discharged from a discharge port at the lower end of a channel into molding plates, in which a clamping device is adapted to open or close a movable plate relative to a stationary plate in the horizontal direction, and a connection member having, at the inside, a vertical first channel and a second channel extending in the horizontal direction from the lower end of the first channel and in communication with the stationary plate is connected to the discharge port at the lower end of the chamber. Since this can inject and mold light metal molding products of high quality with less pore or shrinkage without excessively enlarging the size for the height of the apparatus, casting products of high quality can be obtained at a reduced cost by injection molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Munenori Soejima, Katsunori Takahashi, Takeshi Kanda, Kazuhisa Fujisawa
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Patent number: 6840302Abstract: The apparatus of the invention is an injection molding apparatus of a type adapted to cool a molten metal under shearing by an extrusion screw in a substantially vertical chamber into a semi-solidified slurry and then inject the semi-solidified slurry discharged from a discharge port at the lower end of a channel into molding plates, in which a clamping device is adapted to open or close a movable plate relative to a stationary plate in the horizontal direction, and a connection member having, at the inside, a vertical first channel and a second channel extending in the horizontal direction from the lower end of the first channel and in communication with the stationary plate is connected to the discharge port at the lower end of the chamber. Since this can inject and mold light metal molding products of high quality with less pore or shrinkage without excessively enlarging the size for the height of the apparatus, casting products of high quality can be obtained at a reduced cost by injection molding.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Munenori Soejima, Katsunori Takahashi, Takeshi Kanda, Kazuhisa Fujisawa
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Patent number: 5354192Abstract: An indirect extrusion press wherein a cleaning ring can be clamped with certainty by clamp members. The indirect extrusion press has a die stem, a container, a cleaning ring removably fitted at an end portion of the die stem for cleaning the inner face of the container, a loose die removably mounted at the end of the die stem, and a handling apparatus including first and second pairs of clamp members for clamping therebetween and handling the cleaning ring and the loose die, respectively. The cleaning ring has a circumferential groove formed on an outer periphery thereof. Each of the first pair of clamp members for clamping the cleaning ring therebetween has a projection formed thereon for engaging the circumferential groove of the cleaning ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1992Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Munenori Soejima, Kazutaka Uehara
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Patent number: 4744236Abstract: Double-stem type extrusion method and apparatus used for extrusion-molding rod-like and tubular products. In order to upset a solid or hollow billet (5, 5A) supplied to a container (1), the end of the container (1) which is on the side of a press stem (6) is closed with a blistering-preventing cover (11) which is not moved relatively to the container (1). A pressure is then applied to the billet (5, 5A) from the side of a die (8) to start the yield deformation thereof from the same side thereof. As the yield deformation movement of the billet (5, 5A) progresses, the air existing between the inner surface of the container and billet (5, 5A) is discharged from the portion of the container (1) which is on the side of the cover (11).Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1985Date of Patent: May 17, 1988Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha KobeseikoshoInventors: Akira Asari, Masakazu Ueda, Takahisa Tabuchi, Munenori Soejima, Toshio Kurosaki, Masaru Sugamoto
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Patent number: 4439099Abstract: An apparatus for sequentially feeding and stacking elongated or lengthy material in a receptacle channel of a load-carrying bed or stand. The apparatus is constructed to transfer the elongated material to the receptacle channel by a reduced number of support beams which are movable vertically to permit adjustment of the distance the elongated material is to be dropped onto the receptacle channel from the support beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1981Date of Patent: March 27, 1984Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Akira Asari, Tatsuhiko Noyori, Takahisa Tabuchi, Munenori Soejima, Tetsuya Miyauchi