Patents by Inventor Shoichiro Komiya

Shoichiro Komiya 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: 20060219848
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cable clamp member capable of reducing the providing cost or manufacturing cost of a device and surely clamping stored cables to a moving end or a fixed end flexibly in conformation to the size or layout of stored cables. The cable clamp member comprises a comb-tooth unit installation receiving member 121 provided on an end part 120 at a fixed end or a moving end and having a plurality of engaged parts 121a provided in a width direction so that a comb-tooth installation position is changeable, and a clamp comb-tooth unit member 122 to be detachably engaged with and installed to any one of the plurality of engaged parts to clamp a cable mounted in the installed state to the device. The plurality of engaged parts 121a are provided on the comb-tooth unit installation receiving member 121 at narrow intervals so as to minutely adjust the installation pitch of the clamp comb-tooth unit member 122.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 7082852
    Abstract: To provide a cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device, by which a cable and/or the like can be easily incorporated into a chain and damage of the cable and/or the like and an accident of break in a cable can be minimized. A cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device comprises a chain (CH), a cable and/or the like (CB) disposed along the chain, and a support (20), which intersects the chain to support the cable and/or the like disposed on the chain. The support is composed of a material, which is flexed in the longitudinal direction of the cable and/or the like. In a curved section of the chain, when force is applied to the cable and/or the like, the support is flexed or bent in a direction of an action of force to ensure a length of the cable and/or the like, which is required for bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda, Hideaki Minami, Kazuo Kishida
  • Patent number: 7047720
    Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device, which can escape static electricity reliably without an antistatic additive and can minimize the generation of wear particles due to sliding contact is disclosed. A cable or the like protection and guide device according to the present invention includes a number of synthetic resin link bodies (11) articulably connected to each other with a cable or the like (10) inserted therein. Each link body comprises a pair of link plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like and an inner circumferential side connecting plate (22) and an outer circumferential side connecting plate (23) spanned across a bending inner circumferential side and a bending outer circumferential side of the link plate, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda, Kazuo Kishida
  • Patent number: 7045705
    Abstract: A cable protection and guide device which can protect and guide a cable with a simple connection between the movable end jig and the fixed end jig under various mounting configurations is disclosed. A cable protection and guide device in which when said link frame bodies 10 are left and right reversibly incorporated to each other, and an incorporation error preventing projection 11e, which blocks the connection by interfering with a link plate 11 incorporated in an offset mode, are provided on a surface of at least one of the pair of left and right link plates 11 forming the link frame body 10. Additionally, when the link frame bodies 10 are properly incorporated to each other, a properly connecting region 11f, which avoids interfering with the incorporation error preventing projection 11e, is provided on a surface of a link plate 11 in the link frame body 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20060096772
    Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device is provided in which a partitioning shelf plate member can be easily attached and detached and the damage of the cover of the cables or the like and the dropping of the shelf plate member can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 7040081
    Abstract: A low noise cable or the like protection and guide device is provided, which can suppress sliding contact wear of a sliding portion, which is liable to occur at the time of braking the rotation of connected link frame bodies, and can avoid collision noise and a braking load, which are liable to occur in a sliding portion at a rotation terminal position, and is easily formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 7017328
    Abstract: To provide a cable protection and guide device, which suppresses wear powders and can be used without being contaminated even in a clean room or reduced-pressure environment, and in which even if link frame bodies are twisted each other, the mutual connection of the link frame bodies is not disconnected and connection and incorporation of the link frame bodies can be simply, reliably performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda, Masaaki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 7013630
    Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device, which can prevent rubbing damage or the production of wear powders in a cable or the like is disclosed. Link bodies (11) are articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction with a cable or the like (12) inserted. Each link body (11) comprises a pair of link plates (13) spaced on both sides of the cable or the like (12), connecting plates (14, 15), which are bridged on the articulation outer circumferential side and the articulation inner circumferential side of the link plate, and a partitioning plate (31) supported on at least articulation inner circumferential side connecting plate, which faces the link plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6997412
    Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device, which can guide and move a cable or the like at high speed and at low noise between a link connection mode where the cable or the like is extended on one side and a link connection mode where the cable or the like is extended on the other side by folding it in a vertical plane of the cable or the like on said one side while centering a fixed end of the cable or the like, and can suppress wear of the link bodies, and in which the maintenance for par's exchanging and the like is easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6992254
    Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device which can suppress collision noise generated when adjacent link plates repeat a linear mode and a flexion mode to attain low noise, and can exhibit excellent wear resistance is provided. In a cable or the like protection and guide device (100), a C-shaped flexion guide groove (116) concentric with a connecting pin hole (115) is provided on a plate side (111) and V-shaped stopper surfaces (116a) are formed on end portions of the C-shaped flexion guide groove (116). Further, a flexion guiding protrusion (117), which engages the C-shaped flexion guide groove (116), is provided on another link plate (111) connected to a connecting pin hole (115) side of the link plate (111) so that an arc-shaped contact surface (117a) is formed on a protrusion outer circumferential portion of the flexion guiding protrusion (117).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6984782
    Abstract: A cable and the like protection and guide device, which can prevent the rub-damage of the cable(s) and the like even if the device is operated at high speed and high frequency is disclosed. A number of link bodies (11) are articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction with the cables and the like (12, 112, 113) inserted thereinto. Each of the link bodies comprises a pair of side plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cables and the like and the connecting rods (22, 23) respectively spanned across the bending outer circumferential side and the bending inner circumferential side. Further cable protecting sheets (31, 32) are inserted along the longitudinal line of the cable and the like on at least one of the bending outer circumferential side and the bending inner circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20050269126
    Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device which can suppress collision noise generated when adjacent link plates repeat a linear mode and a flexion mode to attain low noise, and can exhibit excellent wear resistance is provided. In a cable or the like protection and guide device (100), a C-shaped flexion guide groove (116) concentric with a connecting pin hole (115) is provided on a plate side (111) and V-shaped stopper surfaces (116a) are formed on end portions of the C-shaped flexion guide groove (116). Further, a flexion guiding protrusion (117), which engages the C-shaped flexion guide groove (116), is provided on another link plate (111) connected to a connecting pin hole (115) side of the link plate (111) so that an arc-shaped contact surface (117a) is formed on a protrusion outer circumferential portion of the flexion guiding protrusion (117).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6966527
    Abstract: To provide a closed cable drag chain, which is capable of preventing the contact wear powder generated in the holding and guiding the inserted cable or the like from being scattered into an operation space, and of suppressing noises such as sliding contact noise and scattering sounds, and wherein the assembling, maintenance and repair are easy and early wear of the cable or the like can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Publication number: 20050252192
    Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device in which even if link frame bodies receive torsion and deflection during a linear movement or a bending movement, a mutual connection can be reliably maintained and a connection and assembly operation for the link frame bodies is easy and a stable molding accuracy and a small cost load on a molding mold can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20050198937
    Abstract: A low noise cable or the like protection and guide device is provided, which can suppress sliding contact wear of a sliding portion, which is liable to occur at the time of braking the rotation of connected link frame bodies, and can avoid collision noise and a braking load, which are liable to occur in a sliding portion at a rotation terminal position, and is easily formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6940019
    Abstract: To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6925795
    Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device that does not disperse dust particles such as wear particles generated by slide or friction between a cable or the like and link frame bodies. A number of link frame bodies (11) articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction of the device in a state where a cable or the like (14) are accommodated and hermetically sealed, each comprise a pair of link plate (23) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like, and connecting rods (22, 24) bridged across the link plates on the bend outer peripheral side and on the bend inner peripheral side, respectively. Between at least the bend outer peripheral side of the link plate and the connecting rod (24) bridged on the bend outer peripheral side is openably provided a sealing structure by concave and convex fitting (48, 49, 148, 149, 148, 149).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 6896344
    Abstract: A guiding and holding jig for a flexible connector such as a cable and/or the like in a pull-out unit for use where the diameters and the number of the connectors may be different. The jig includes holding frames which can be easily substituted. The guiding and holding jig comprises linear links to which holding frames, which support the connector at a position spaced outwardly from the bodies of the links, are removably attached and hinge members pivotally connecting the linear links to each other. The jig retracts and extends the connector without causing sharp bends while holding it in the holding frames as the pull-out unit is moved in or out. In cases there are a large number of connectors, large holding frames are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsutsumi, Akihiko Utaki, Shoichiro Komiya
  • Publication number: 20050103511
    Abstract: To provide a cable protection and guide device, which can smoothly reliably protect and guide a cable with a simple connection between the movable end jig and the fixed end jig under various mounting use environment A cable protection and guide device in which when said link frame bodies 10 are left and right reversely incorporated to each other, an incorporation error preventing projection 11e, which blocks the connection by interfering with a link plate 11 incorporated in an offset mode, is provided on a surface of at least one of the pair of left and right link plates 11 forming the link frame body 10, and when the link frame bodies 10 are properly incorporated to each other, a properly connecting region 11f, which avoids interfering with the incorporation error preventing projection 11e, is provided on a surface of a link plate 11 in the link frame body 10 incorporated facing the incorporation error preventing projection 11e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20050103512
    Abstract: To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda