Patents by Inventor Satoru Nagaoka

Satoru Nagaoka 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: 8257537
    Abstract: A manufacturing device used when manufacturing composite material through the RTM method and the vacuum assisted RTM method and provides a manufacturing device which is capable of manufacturing a laminate excellent in the handling property and formability continuously by making the manufacturing device of a laminate to be comprised of an adhesion device for partially adhering and integrating inter-layers of a laminate precursor in which two or more reinforcing fiber base materials having a resin material on a surface are laminated by the resin material to obtain a laminate, the adhesion device including a pressing tool and a plate tool arranged facing each other, the pressing tool including a pressing plate and a plurality of pressing pins, at least one of the pressing tool and the plate tool having a raising and lowering function, and at least one of the pressing tool and the plate tool having a heating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shinoda, Satoru Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8236410
    Abstract: The invention provides (1) a reinforcing fiber base material having a weave constituted of both reinforcing fiber filaments arranged in one direction in parallel with each other and auxiliary yarns arranged in another direction, which satisfies the relationship: L=H/cos ? (wherein L is the length of auxiliary yarn covering one reinforcing fiber filament and H is the width of the filament as determined in such a state where the reinforcing fiber filaments are unified only with the auxiliary yarns; and 3°?? (in-plane shear strain)?30°) and wherein 2 g/m2 to 40 g/m2 of an adhesive resin having a glass transition temperature between 0° C. and 95° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shinoda, Satoru Nagaoka, Nobuo Asahara
  • Publication number: 20100084090
    Abstract: A manufacturing device used when manufacturing composite material through the RTM method and the vacuum assisted RTM method and provides a manufacturing device which is capable of manufacturing a laminate excellent in the handling property and formability continuously by making the manufacturing device of a laminate to be comprised of an adhesion device for partially adhering and integrating inter-layers of a laminate precursor in which two or more reinforcing fiber base materials having a resin material on a surface are laminated by the resin material to obtain a laminate, the adhesion device including a pressing tool and a plate tool arranged facing each other, the pressing tool including a pressing plate and a plurality of pressing pins, at least one of the pressing tool and the plate tool having a raising and lowering function, and at least one of the pressing tool and the plate tool having a heating function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shinoda, Satoru Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20090068428
    Abstract: The invention provides (1) a reinforcing fiber base material having a weave constituted of both reinforcing fiber filaments arranged in one direction in parallel with each other and auxiliary yarns arranged in another direction, which satisfies the relationship: L=H/cos ? (wherein L is the length of auxiliary yarn covering one reinforcing fiber filament and H is the width of the filament as determined in such a state where the reinforcing fiber filaments are unified only with the auxiliary yarns; and 3°?? (in-plane shear strain)?30°) and wherein 2 g/m2 to 40 g/m2 of an adhesive resin having a glass transition temperature between 0° C. and 95° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shinoda, Satoru Nagaoka, Nobuo Asahara