Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Matsushima

Nobuyuki Matsushima 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).

  • Patent number: 7954822
    Abstract: A wire material for a coil expander capable of manufacturing a coil expander that is unlikely to cause disadvantages such as abnormal wear and resultant reduction in strength The wire material for a coil expander is used for a coil expander of a combination piston ring having a piston ring and the coil expander for pressing and urging the piston ring outward in the radial direction thereof, wherein a cross-sectional shape thereof is a rectangular shape, and when the coil expander is formed by using the wire material for a coil expander, the surface of the wire material for a coil expander, constituting an outer peripheral surface of the coil expander, is formed into a convex curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignees: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsushima, Chikako Sasao, Takao Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090243225
    Abstract: A wire material for a coil expander capable of manufacturing a coil expander that is unlikely to cause disadvantages such as abnormal wear and resultant reduction in strength. The wire material for a coil expander is used for a coil expander of a combination piston ring having a piston ring and the coil expander for pressing and urging the piston ring outward in the radial direction thereof, wherein a cross-sectional shape thereof is a rectangular shape, and when the coil expander is formed by using the wire material for a coil expander, the surface of the wire material for a coil expander, constituting an outer peripheral surface of the coil expander, is formed into a convex curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsushima, Chikako Sasao, Takao Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060113730
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a combined oil ring capable of exhibiting a sufficient tension, having excellent oil scraping function and oil control function, even if a coil expander formed of a shape memory alloy is used. To achieve the above mentioned object, the present invention provides a combined oil ring comprising: an oil ring formed into cross-section substantially of an I-shape that two rails are connected at a columnar portion thereof; and a coil expander, which is placed in an inner peripheral groove formed on the inner side of a periphery of the columnar portion connecting the two rails of the oil ring, and which presses the oil ring radially outward, wherein the coil expander is formed of a shape memory alloy, and is formed of anomaly wire having rectangular cross sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Takao Suzuki, Kazuhito Seki, Shiro Shibata, Nobuyuki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6860485
    Abstract: The present invention provides a piston ring comprising a piston ring main body and an expander ring arranged on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the expander ring comprising two oil expander rings, one of which is housed in a space in a spiral of the other. The expander ring is formed so that the pressing force in the diameter expanding direction is larger in a high temperature state than in a low temperature state. The expander comprises two different kinds of expander members. One of these expander members has the same functions as those of a conventional expander, and the other is a member in which there occurs a change in tension in the diametral direction with temperature. As a result, the pressing force of the master expander member having the same effects as those of the conventional expander is made variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Masuyama, Nobuyuki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20030184023
    Abstract: The present invention provides a piston ring comprising a piston ring main body and an expander ring arranged on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the expander ring comprising two oil expander rings, one of which is housed in a space in a spiral of the other. The expander ring is formed so that the pressing force in the diameter expanding direction is larger in a high temperature state than in a low temperature state. The expander comprises two different kinds of expander members. One of these expander members has the same functions as those of a conventional expander, and the other is a member in which there occurs a change in tension in the diametral direction with temperature. As a result, the pressing force of the master expander member having the same effects as those of the conventional expander is made variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Masuyama, Nobuyuki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 5820920
    Abstract: A method of producing a cathode ray tube comprising forming a phosphor layer on the inner surface of a panel of a glass bulb, forming an lacquer intermediate film on the phosphor layer, removing the lacquer intermediate film formed on the inner surface of the funnel of the glass bulb by a liquid in a state with the temperature of the glass bulb higher than the temperature of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Ariji, Nobuyuki Matsushima, Shuichi Saito
  • Patent number: 5820921
    Abstract: A phosphor layer is formed on an inside surface of a panel of a glass bulb comprising the panel and funnel connected with each other. A nozzle sprays an organic solvent lacquer on the phosphor layer to form a lacquer intermediate film under conditions ofa/2.ltoreq.L.multidot.tan (.THETA./2).ltoreq.(a/2)+.alpha.(0.ltoreq..alpha. )where,a is the length of the short side of the inside surface of the panel,L is the length from the connecting portion of the panel and funnel to the nozzle in the direction of spray,.THETA.0 is the angle of spray of the nozzle, and.alpha. is a length addition parameter. The lacquer intermediate film formed on the inside surface of the funnel is removed by a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Kawase, Nobuyuki Matsushima, Shuichi Saito