Patents by Inventor Norihisa Hirota

Norihisa Hirota 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).

  • Publication number: 20090020903
    Abstract: A method and a device for feeding a molten resin capable of accurately feeding the molten resin without the delay of feed timing by preventing the molten resin from adhering to route members before it seats on a mold to increase the positioning accuracy of the molten metal in the mold, and a method of manufacturing a molded part by using the fed molten resin. Vibration is provided to the route members such as molten resin guide pins (10, 40, 50), throat members (62, 70, 85), and female mold positioned in a route in which the molten resin (25) passes before it seats on the female mold (7, 63) by a vibration imparting device (27) or a gas layer film is formed on the surfaces thereof. Thus, the molten resin can be fed while preventing it from adhering to the route members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimio Takeuchi, Takahiro Kurosawa, Kentaro Ichikawa, Norihisa Hirota
  • Publication number: 20090014915
    Abstract: A method of feeding a molten resin mass, which is capable of causing a molten resin mass to fall down into a female mold for compression molding without delay in the timing from a cylindrical transfer guide that cuts a portion of a molten resin extruded from a die head of an extruder and transfers it to a female mold for compression forming, and an apparatus therefor. The apparatus for feeding the molten resin mass has a cylindrical transfer guide which transfers a molten resin mass obtained by cutting a predetermined amount of a molten resin extruded from a die head of an extruder to a female mold for compression molding, wherein the transfer guide is provided with vibration-generating means for imparting vibration to the transfer guide. In the method of feeding the molten resin mass, the pressure in the cylindrical transfer guide is set to be higher than the pressure in the female mold for compression molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Asano, Norihisa Hirota, Jotaro Nagao, Kazunobu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080048368
    Abstract: A heat-resistant polyester container wherein the temperature T is not lower than 120° C. at a moment when the rate of contraction in the barrel portion of the polyester container represented by the following formula is 0.66%, Ratio of contraction (%)=(amount of contraction/gauge length)×100 ??(1) wherein the amount of contraction is measured from a test piece cut from the barrel portion of the polyester container so as to possess a gauge length of 20 mm in compliance with TMA without pre-loading while elevating the temperature at a rate of 3° C./min after 30° C. is exceeded. The polyester container exhibits excellent heat resistance, and enables the retort-sterilization to be executed after the food or beverage has been filled and sealed without permitting the barrel portion of the container to be deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Norihisa Hirota, Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20070122578
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to obtain a multilayered molten resin mass capable of providing a multilayered compression-molded product in which the layers of the multilayered compression-molded product are distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction with the intermediate resin layer positioned entirely within the inner and outer resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Watanabe, Makoto Etoh, Hotaka Fukabori, Norihisa Hirota, Satoshi Shibata, Tsuneo Imatani
  • Publication number: 20050140036
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester container with a uniformly and sufficiently elongated and thin-walled bottom part having excellent drop strength, improved ESC resistance and reduced weight, and a method of manufacturing the container. The biaxially oriented polyester container of the present invention is characterized in that, when an X-ray diffraction measurement is performed in and near a bottom center area of the biaxially oriented polyester container formed by a double-stage orientation blow molding method, a peak indicative of molecular orientation is observed near a diffraction angle of 2?=15 to 30° and an orientation parameter (BO) expressed by the following formula (1) is in the range of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Norihisa Hirota, Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20050123699
    Abstract: A heat-resistant polyester container wherein the temperature T is not lower than 120° C. at a moment when the rate of contraction in the barrel portion of the polyester container represented by the following formula is 0.66%, Ratio of contraction (%)=(amount of contraction/gauge length)×100??(1) wherein the amount of contraction is measured from a test piece cut from the barrel portion of the polyester container so as to possess a gauge length of 20 mm in compliance with TMA without pre-loading while elevating the temperature at a rate of 3° C./min after 30° C. is exceeded. The polyester container exhibits excellent heat resistance, and enables the retort-sterilization to be executed after the food or beverage has been filled and sealed without permitting the barrel portion of the container to be deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Norihisa Hirota, Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6720047
    Abstract: A stretch-blow-molded container obtained by biaxially stretching and blow-molding a thermoplastic polyester and which exhibits heat resistance or heat resistance and pressure resistance to withstand sterilization by heating at the time of hot filling. The stretch-blow-molded container is obtained by stretch-blow-molding a preform formed of a thermoplastic polyester as a chief component, wherein the body portion, bottom portion and shoulder portion are stretch-oriented, and at least the central portion in the bottom has an endothermic peak (B) due to the extinction of pseudo crystals in a temperature region higher than a glass transition point of the polyester but lower than a temperature at which the crystals of the polyester start melting as measured by using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kikuchi, Norihisa Hirota
  • Patent number: 6627279
    Abstract: The invention provides a highly heat-stable polyester container and a method of manufacturing the polyester container, which can be treated by retort sterilization at a high temperature after filling food, a drink or the like in the container and sealing off it, and which has superior heat stability enough to prevent deformation and whitening due to heat shrinkage in a bottom portion of the container even when treated by the retort sterilization. In the polyester container, a barrel portion and a bottom portion of the container are heat-set, and at least the bottom portion of the container has an endothermic peak on a DSC curve in the range of not lower than about 150° C. but not higher than a melting start point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihisa Hirota, Atsushi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20030104146
    Abstract: A stretch-blow-molded container obtained by biaxially stretching and blow-molding a thermoplastic polyester and which exhibits heat resistance or heat resistance and pressure resistance to withstand sterilization by heating at the time of hot filling. The stretch-blow-molded container is obtained by stretch-blow-molding a preform formed of a thermoplastic polyester as a chief component, wherein the body portion, bottom portion and shoulder portion are stretch-oriented, and at least the central portion in the bottom has an endothermic peak (B) due to the extinction of pseudo crystals in a temperature region higher than a glass transition point of the polyester but lower than a temperature at which the crystals of the polyester start melting as measured by using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Atsushi Kikuchi, Norihisa Hirota
  • Publication number: 20020164442
    Abstract: The invention provides a highly heat-stable polyester container and a method of manufacturing the polyester container, which can be treated by retort sterilization at a high temperature after filling food, a drink or the like in the container and sealing off it, and which has superior heat stability enough to prevent deformation and whitening due to heat shrinkage in a bottom portion of the container even when treated by the retort sterilization. In the polyester container, a barrel portion and a bottom portion of the container are heat-set, and at least the bottom portion of the container has an endothermic peak on a DSC curve in the range of not lower than about 150° C. but not higher than a melting start point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Norihisa Hirota, Atsushi Kikuchi