Patents by Inventor Shigeko Iijima

Shigeko Iijima 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: 7228886
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6926077
    Abstract: A foldable heat radiation board includes a plurality of elongated and narrow plate-like members with fluid tube embedding grooves provided therein, and the plate-like members are combined with each other in a quadrangular plan configuration. Fluid tubes are embedded in the embedding grooves, and a heat radiation sheet is attached to the entire surface on the front surface side, while a back surface material is attached to the entire or partial surface on the back surface side. A plurality of contact portions in which the end portions of adjacent plate-like members contact each other are set as folding portions, and a fluid tube outlet opening portion in the end portion of one of the plate-like members and a fluid tube inlet opening portion in the end portion of the other of the plate-like members are provided so as not to oppose each other but to be shifted from each other, this portion being set as a fluid tube passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuga, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20040250984
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6776222
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20040055224
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provides a foldable heat radiation board, in which: a plurality of elongated and narrow plate-like members with fluid tube embedding grooves provided therein are combined with each other in a quadrangular plan configuration; fluid tubes are embedded in the embedding grooves; a heat radiation sheet is attached to the entire surface on the front surface side; a back surface material is attached to the entire or partial surface on the back surface side; a plurality of contact portions in which the end portions of adjacent plate-like members contact with each other are set as folding portions; and a fluid tube outlet opening portion in the end portion of one of the plate-like members and a fluid tube inlet opening portion in the end portion of the other of the plate-like members are provided so as not to oppose each other but to be shifted from each other, this portion being set as a fluid tube passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuga, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20030098142
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a foldable floor heating panel which can be folded longitudinally and laterally, and in which the folding and developing operations are easy to perform, making the handling at the time of packaging, transportation, storage, and laying very easy. A first aspect of the invention provides a foldable floor heating panel in which a plurality of small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other, in which a flexible thin plate is attached to the upper surface thereof so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding, and in which heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in the longitudinal and lateral folding portions so as to leave some play, folding margin members being provided in the lateral folding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima