Patents by Inventor Nobuo Hiura

Nobuo Hiura 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).

  • Load Bearing Frame
    Publication number: 20100031600
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a load bearing frame for suppressing generation of buckling of diagonal materials and breakage of connection parts and having high deformability. A load bearing frame 1 has two pillar materials 2 and 3, two frame materials 4 and 5 and four diagonal materials 6 to 9. A connection point 41 between the pillar material 3 and the frame material 4 is apart from a connection point 43 between the diagonal material 6 arranged on the uppermost side and the pillar material 3 by a distance L1. A connection point 48 between the pillar material 3 and the frame material 5 is apart from a connection point 47 between the diagonal material 9 arranged on the lowermost side and the pillar material 3 by a distance L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOVE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tomokazu Nakagawa, Tadao Hatanaka, Toshikazu Karatsu, Nobuo Hiura, Tetsuo Tamada, Takeshi Morii, Takeo Suga, Fumio Watanabe