Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Shimizu
Nobuhiko Shimizu 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: 10675787Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite molded body includes a first step of introducing an FRP base material into a mold via a slit part provided in the mold, and inserting the FRP base material along a mold cavity; and a second step of injecting a molten thermoplastic resin composition A into the mold cavity to form the FRP base material into a three-dimensional shape and integrate the injected thermoplastic resin composition A and the FRP base material. The method makes it possible to easily and accurately mold a composite molded body of which a desired portion is efficiently and accurately reinforced in the same mold.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kimihiko Hattori, Masato Sugamori, Kazuyoshi Nakano, Yoshito Kuroda, Hideo Matsuoka, Tomoyuki Onodera, Yoshiyuki Honda, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20190030760Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite molded body includes a first step of introducing an FRP base material into a mold via a slit part provided in the mold, and inserting the FRP base material along a mold cavity; and a second step of injecting a molten thermoplastic resin composition A into the mold cavity to form the FRP base material into a three-dimensional shape and integrate the injected thermoplastic resin composition A and the FRP base material. The method makes it possible to easily and accurately mold a composite molded body of which a desired portion is efficiently and accurately reinforced in the same mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Kimihiko Hattori, Masato Sugamori, Kazuyoshi Nakano, Yoshito Kuroda, Hideo Matsuoka, Tomoyuki Onodera, Yoshiyuki Honda, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Patent number: 9393889Abstract: A seat cushion frame for a vehicle, wherein the weight of the entire frame can be reduced as a result of changing the raw material to a resin; and to give a desired submarine prevention function to the front section of the frame, to greatly reduce the number of components of the frame, and to greatly simplify the entire structure, a C-shaped frame having a C-shaped planar shape opening to the rear side thereof includes a thermoplastic resin, and has a structure wherein the upper surface side of the front section of the C-shaped frame is formed into a surface intermittently extending in the seat width direction and the lower surface side thereof is formed into a surface continuously extending in the seat width direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Patent number: 9327631Abstract: A seat cushion frame for a vehicle includes a composite material containing reinforcing fibers which extend in at least the frame extension direction is integrated with an injection molded thermoplastic resin. The weight of the entire seat cushion frame can be greatly reduced, the rigidity and strength required for each section of the frame can be readily secured, required functions such as submarine prevention or the like, can be fulfilled, the number of components can be greatly reduced, and the overall structure can be greatly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Patent number: 9321379Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin structure having a hole into which a connector that connects to another member is inserted, wherein a bearing strength at a part of an inside surface of the hole on which a load from the connector acts, represented by a stress at which displacement of the part of the inside surface of the hole starts increasing even without the load acting on the part of the inside surface of the hole from the connector increasing, is less than a breaking strength of a fiber-reinforced resin constituting that part of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Yukitane Kimoto
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Patent number: 9296175Abstract: An injection molded body includes a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin composition formed by combining fibrous filler with thermoplastic resin so that the weight average fiber length in the injection molded body is 300 ?m or more, and the injection molded body has a skin layer, a core layer and a skin layer in this order in the thickness direction. The thickness of the core layer, in which the primary orientation direction of the fibrous filler is 40° or less when the direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the resin composition at the time of injection molding is set at 0°, is 20% or less relatively to the thickness of the injection molded body.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Hironori Imai
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Patent number: 9096269Abstract: A structure for a passenger vehicle interior is a structure for constituting the vehicle interior of a passenger vehicle, is formed in a monocoque structure in which the entire structure from the front side to the rear side of the vehicle interior is integrally formed by a fiber-reinforced resin, has a bowl-shaped structure part which is provided at least on the front side among the front side and the rear side of the structure and which opens toward the rear side, and has a side-wall part formed as a vertical wall that is continuous with the bowl-shaped structure part and extends in a front-rear direction of the structure, at each of both side parts of the structure, and a manufacturing method therefor.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yukitane Kimoto, Toshihide Sekido, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Toru Yamanaka, Kosaku Hashimoto, Yoshito Kuroda, Takao Sano, Hiroki Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20150130254Abstract: A seat cushion frame for a vehicle, wherein the weight of the entire frame can be reduced as a result of changing the raw material to a resin; and to give a desired submarine prevention function to the front section of the frame, to greatly reduce the number of components of the frame, and to greatly simplify the entire structure, a C-shaped frame having a C-shaped planar shape opening to the rear side thereof includes a thermoplastic resin, and has a structure wherein the upper surface side of the front section of the C-shaped frame is formed into a surface intermittently extending in the seat width direction and the lower surface side thereof is formed into a surface continuously extending in the seat width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20150108819Abstract: A seat cushion frame for a vehicle includes a composite material containing reinforcing fibers which extend in at least the frame extension direction is integrated with an injection molded thermoplastic resin. The weight of the entire seat cushion frame can be greatly reduced, the rigidity and strength required for each section of the frame can be readily secured, required functions such as submarine prevention or the like, can be fulfilled, the number of components can be greatly reduced, and the overall structure can be greatly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140252837Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin structure having a hole into which a connector that connects to another member is inserted, wherein a bearing strength at a part of an inside surface of the hole on which a load from the connector acts, represented by a stress at which displacement of the part of the inside surface of the hole starts increasing even without the load acting on the part of the inside surface of the hole from the connector increasing, is less than a breaking strength of a fiber-reinforced resin constituting that part of the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Yukitane Kimoto
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Publication number: 20130337253Abstract: An injection molded body includes a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin composition formed by combining fibrous filler with thermoplastic resin so that the weight average fiber length in the injection molded body is 300 ?m or more, and the injection molded body has a skin layer, a core layer and a skin layer in this order in the thickness direction. The thickness of the core layer, in which the primary orientation direction of the fibrous filler is 40° or less when the direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the resin composition at the time of injection molding is set at 0°, is 20% or less relatively to the thickness of the injection molded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masaru Tateyama, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Hironori Imai
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Publication number: 20130249242Abstract: A structure for a passenger vehicle interior is a structure for constituting the vehicle interior of a passenger vehicle, is formed in a monocoque structure in which the entire structure from the front side to the rear side of the vehicle interior is integrally formed by a fiber-reinforced resin, has a bowl-shaped structure part which is provided at least on the front side among the front side and the rear side of the structure and which opens toward the rear side, and has a side-wall part formed as a vertical wall that is continuous with the bowl-shaped structure part and extends in a front-rear direction of the structure, at each of both side parts of the structure, and a manufacturing method therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yukitane Kimoto, Toshihide Sekido, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Toru Yamanaka, Kosaku Hashimoto, Yoshito Kuroda, Takao Sano, Hiroki Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 6247747Abstract: A panel for a truck having an FRP plate including a woven fabric of reinforcing fiber as a main rigid member, a cargo compartment for a truck using the panel and a truck equipped with the cargo compartment for a truck. The panel and the cargo compartment are light, have sufficient rigidity and strength and excellent in processing and fabricating properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yasuyuki Kawanomoto, Hiroshi Ohnishi, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Yukitane Kimoto, Yutaka Ochi
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Patent number: 6161714Abstract: A cargo container which has sufficient strength and rigidity. The container includes side walls, a roof and a base, wherein at least the side walls are made of FRP (fiber reinforced plastics) plates, and wherein adjacent two sides of the plates are made of an integrally formed continuous FRP panel. The cargo container is suited for use in an aircraft, ship, freight train or the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1996Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masashi Matsuura, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Masayoshi Yamagiwa, Hiroshi Ohnishi
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Patent number: 6005323Abstract: The invention relates to a brush holding device used in a motor, and a method of assembling a brush holding frame onto a base plate in the brush holding device. In the brush holding device, flanged portions are protruded from both sides of a lower portion of a brush holding frame, and a pair of fixing portions each having a recessed portion substantially identical in shape to a cross-sectional shape of a corresponding one of said flanged portions are provided. The brush holding frame is inserted between the fixing portions while being slid on and along a base plate surface until the flanged portion on both sides of the brush holding frame are respectively fitted to the recessed portions of the fixing portions. Cover portions are provided on the brush holding frame at a level lower than the guide hole so as to cover the fixing portions when the fixing portions and flanged portions are fitted together.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Morimoto, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Kazuya Sakata
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Patent number: 5979684Abstract: A cargo container wherein at least two walls adjacent to each other are constituted using an integrally formed FRP panel, and a cargo container having a sandwich panel including a core and FRP skins as a main rigidity-maintaining member and wherein at least two walls adjacent to each other are formed integrally. The cargo container according to the present invention is light and has sufficient strength and rigidity as compared with a conventional aluminum-alloy container, and can reduce time and cost required for fabrication and production thereof. Further, the cargo container constituted using the sandwich panel including the core and the FRP skins has excellent freezing, refrigerating, cold insulating and heat insulating performances.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc,Inventors: Hiroshi Ohnishi, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Masayoshi Yamagiwa
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Patent number: D677067Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Toru Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Kosaku Hashimoto, Yukitane Kimoto, Yoshito Kuroda, Yuki Sakamoto, Gordon Murray, Barry Lett, Frank Coppuck, Kevin Richards, Andy Jones, Mark Lewis, Zachary Seward
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Patent number: D687740Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Toru Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Kosaku Hashimoto, Yukitane Kimoto, Yoshito Kuroda, Yuki Sakamoto, Gordon Murray, Barry Lett, Frank Coppuck, Kevin Richards, Andy Jones, Mark Lewis, Zachary Seward
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Patent number: D718199Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Toru Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Shimizu, Kosaku Hashimoto, Yukitane Kimoto, Yoshito Kuroda, Yuki Sakamoto, Gordon Murray, Barry Lett, Frank Coppuck, Kevin Richards, Andy Jones, Mark Lewis, Zachary Seward