Patents by Inventor Shoji Hidaka
Shoji Hidaka 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).
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Patent number: 11253404Abstract: A stretchable composite sheet, wherein pleat-free regions where no pleats are formed are formed between a plurality of pleat formation regions, the sheet being made by a method, wherein non-continuous coating sections are set so as to correspond to form the plurality of pleat formation regions, and non-coating sections are set so as to correspond to form the pleat-free regions, and an intermittent coating is performed on stretchable elastic members (rubber threads). An apparatus for non-continuously and intermittently applying a hot-melt adhesive comprises an intermittent coating unit, which includes a hot-melt supply control device having a valve mechanism and a coating head having slit grooves in which coating areas are formed, and a non-continuous coating unit, which vertically vibrates rubber threads, passing through the coating areas, between a coating position and a non-coating position.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SUN TOOL CORPORATIONInventor: Shoji Hidaka
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Patent number: 11130147Abstract: A suck back type intermittent coating system including a valve mechanism, a valve manipulating mechanism, and a solenoid valve for controlling the operation of the valve manipulating mechanism; and a control device that inputs therein a pulse signal indicative of the travel state (travel speed, etc.) of a base material traveling along a coating line, and outputs an electrical command to the solenoid valve. A displacement sensor for detecting a displacement of the movable valve body of the valve mechanism is provided so that the operation of the valve manipulating mechanism is remotely controlled by a command signal to the solenoid valve; and with a computer having a feedback function that issues a correction signal to the operation of the solenoid valve confirmation and tally of the operation of a coating gun module is performed even when away from a production line.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji Hidaka
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Publication number: 20210129172Abstract: A suck back type intermittent coating system including a valve mechanism, a valve manipulating mechanism and a solenoid valve for controlling the operation of the valve manipulating mechanism and a control device that inputs therein a pulse signal indicative of the travel state (travel speed etc.) of a base material traveling along a coating line, and outputs an electrical command to the solenoid valve. A displacement sensor for detecting a displacement of the movable valve body of the valve mechanism is provided so that the operation of the valve manipulating mechanism is remotely controlled by a command signal to the solenoid valve; and with a computer having a feedback function that issues a correction signal to the operation of the solenoid valve confirmation and tally of the operation of a coating gun module is performed even when away from a production line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Patent number: 10814345Abstract: A suck-back type coating gun unit characterized in that a needle, which is formed into a single body with a movable valve body of a valve mechanism, is provided, and a cam-type valve driving mechanism, which includes a cam that is at its cam surface in contact with the tip end of the needle, is provided. In this suck-back type coating gun unit, a cam-type valve driving mechanism that makes stroke motions is configured in which the rotational operation of the cam body is converted into a stroke operation to make a valve ON and OFF operation of the hot melt coating gun unit, so that the ON operation is made by the ridge portion of the cam body and the OFF operation is made by the valley portion of the cam body.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji Hidaka
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Publication number: 20200254750Abstract: A roll transfer coating method for coating a coating material, which has been supplied from a coater head to a pattern surface of an intaglio roll, to a coating substrate. When the supply of the coating material is made, the supply is blocked off by a contact of the intaglio roll with the bottom surface of the coater head at a position facing the pattern surface of the intaglio roll, so that the coating material in a liquid state is supplied only into a recessed portion of the intaglio roll. Upon transferring the coating material onto the coating substrate which is being transported by a high-speed coating line, the temperature of the coating material on the pattern surface of the intaglio roll is maintained at or below a first form-changing temperature, so that the coating material in a gelled state is coated to the coating substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Publication number: 20200039178Abstract: A stretchable composite sheet in which a plurality of stretchable elastic members (rubber threads) are adhered and fixed to where peaks of pleats (folds) of two non-woven fabric sheets and the plurality of the stretchable elastic members (rubber threads) are in contact therewith, with the stretchable elastic members (rubber threads) being positioned in an orthogonal direction with respect to the peaks of the double-layer pleats (folds). Coating of adhesive is applied to the entire circumferential surfaces of the stretchable elastic members (rubber threads) during the intermittent conveyance of the stretchable elastic members. An apparatus for manufacturing the stretchable composite sheet is provided with a coater application head which applies adhesives through slit grooves thereof to each of the stretchable elastic members (rubber threads) passing through the slit grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Patent number: 10525501Abstract: In a roller transfer application method for a hot-melt adhesive, a coater head having a slot in a direction towards an axis center of a pattern roller is provided to face a pattern surface of the pattern roller; and by supplying hot-melt adhesive, which is supplied from a hot-melt adhesive supply device, in a thin-film state to a pattern top surface of the pattern roller, thin-film hot-melt adhesive is thus only supplied to the top surfaces of protrusions of the pattern roller. By opening an on-off-type hot-melt adhesive supply control valve, which is attached to the coater head, at a timing that an adhesive opening (the slot) on the bottom surface of the coater head faces application zones on the pattern surface of the pattern roller, the hot-melt adhesive is supplied only to the top surfaces of the pattern roller protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: SUN TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Hisashi Sakai, Seiki Tarumi
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Publication number: 20200001567Abstract: In manufacturing a pleated stretchable composite member, a first sheet-like nonwoven fabric and a stretched cord-like elastic member (rubber thread, etc.) are positioned on the protruding surface side of a pattern roll, and a hot melt adhesive is intermittently applied to the stretched cord-like elastic member and the first sheet-like nonwoven fabric at locations where the protruding surface of the pattern roll is present, and then the stretched cord-like elastic member and the first sheet-like nonwoven fabric intermittently coated with the adhesive and a second sheet-like nonwoven fabric are integrally adhesively fixed at positions corresponding to locations where the protruding surface of the pattern roll is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Publication number: 20190365576Abstract: A stretchable composite sheet, wherein pleat-free regions where no pleats are formed are formed between a plurality of pleat formation regions, the sheet being made by a method, wherein non-continuous coating sections are set so as to correspond to form the plurality of pleat formation regions, and non-coating sections are set so as to correspond to form the pleat-free regions, and an intermittent coating is performed on stretchable elastic members (rubber threads). An apparatus for non-continuously and intermittently applying a hot-melt adhesive comprises an intermittent coating unit, which includes a hot-melt supply control device having a valve mechanism and a coating head having slit grooves in which coating areas are formed, and a non-continuous coating unit, which vertically vibrates rubber threads, passing through the coating areas, between a coating position and a non-coating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Publication number: 20190210058Abstract: A suck-back type coating gun unit characterized in that a needle, which is formed into a single body with a movable valve body of a valve mechanism, is provided, and a cam-type valve driving mechanism, which includes a cam that is at its cam surface in contact with the tip end of the needle, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventor: Shoji HIDAKA
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Patent number: 9827579Abstract: In front view of the application nozzle, all of the pressurized air flow K and adhesive flow H are made to run parallel to each other in the vertical direction. Of the pressurized air flows K from the pressurized air hole b in the pressurized air plate, the two that are located on one side of the adhesive hole opening a and from a pair in the front-to-back direction are tilted so as to approach each other. The extension lines thereof are located on the side of the adhesive bead, which results from the adhesive flow discharged from the adhesive hole opening, and have directions that converge. The respective pressurized air flows on the two side of the adhesive bead are made to flow downward while uniting in the direction of convergence. A web in which the adhesive bead is elongated while being swung in the transverse direction is formed and, near the bottom surface of the application nozzle, a non-interference space Q is formed between the adhesive bead and the fore pressurized air flow.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Sun Tool CorporationInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Shinichi Okahira
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Publication number: 20170080454Abstract: In a roller transfer application method for a hot-melt adhesive, a coater head having a slot in a direction towards an axis center of a pattern roller is provided to face a pattern surface of the pattern roller; and by supplying the hot-melt adhesive, which is supplied from a hot-melt adhesive supply device, in a thin-film state to a pattern top surface of the pattern roller, thin-film hot-melt adhesive is thus only supplied to the top surfaces of protrusions of the pattern roller. By opening an on-off-type hot-melt adhesive supply control valve, which is attached to the coater head, at a timing that an adhesive opening (the slot) on the bottom surface of the coater head faces application zones on the pattern surface of the pattern roller, the hot-melt adhesive is supplied only to the top surfaces of the pattern roller protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Hisashi SAKAI, Seiki TARUMI
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Publication number: 20160151794Abstract: In front view of the application nozzle, all of the pressurized air flow K and adhesive flow H are made to run parallel to each other in the vertical direction. Of the pressurized air flows K from the pressurized air hole b in the pressurized air plate, the two that are located on one side of the adhesive hole opening a and from a pair in the front-to-back direction are tilted so as to approach each other. The extension lines thereof are located on the side of the adhesive bead, which results from the adhesive flow discharged from the adhesive hole opening, and have directions that converge. The respective pressurized air flows on the two side of the adhesive bead are made to flow downward while uniting in the direction of convergence. A web in which the adhesive bead is elongated while being swung in the transverse direction is formed and, near the bottom surface of the application nozzle, a non-interference space Q is formed between the adhesive bead and the fore pressurized air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: SUN TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji HIDAKA, Shinichi OKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20110104365Abstract: An object of the present invention to make a measure against moisture entry into an edge portion of a double-layered product such as a photovoltaic cell panel or an electronic panel more reliable. A tip end of the coating agent discharge port is arranged to face a part of an edge portion of a double-layered product serving as the work to be coated. An applying nozzle having the slit-shaped coating agent discharge is rotated and driven to allow a direction of the slit-shaped coating agent discharge port changeable as viewed in a planar state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Sun Tool CorporationInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Masaki Mita, Seiki Tarumi
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Patent number: 7677414Abstract: In application of a foamed hot melt adhesive, a mixing ratio of foam can be selectably and quickly set, and also application of a foamed hot melt adhesive and that of a solid hot melt adhesive can be selectively performed by a single application device. A first gear pump and a second gear pump are driven by drive mechanisms independent from each other. The pressure of a liquid being sent by the pressure in the second compression process is detected, and this causes the speed of the first gear pump and the second gear pump to be sequence-controlled to automatically control the amount of mixing of gas. A gas suction opening is provided between the first gear pump and the second gear pump, and a mixer is provided between the gas suction opening and the second gear pump. The end of a return circuit is set on the downstream side of the first gear pump to prevent foam from returning to the tank side. A restriction valve is installed in a gun to produce a single bubble.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Suntool CorporationInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Hiroki Iwase
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Publication number: 20090025859Abstract: A method and a device for applying an adhesive to an elastic string-like material capable of performing continuous application operation without stopping the application operation by automatically jumping the knot of the elastic string-like material form a running line for the material at a slit groove 202 in a coater applying head. A slide guide body 210 positioned at a front side of the slit plate 201 in a transfer direction, having a detection guide groove 211 with a width of allowing the elastic string-like material to pass through but inhibiting the knot from passing through, and having a second expanded part 205 positioned at a part protruded from a tip end of the slide guide body 210 at a tip end extension part of the slit groove 202 of said slit plate 201, with a width of allowing the knot to pass through.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Shoji Hidaka, Seiki Tarumi, Takashi Kida, Eiji Yamazumi, Fumio Takeuchi, Tetsuo Maruyama, Kenji Takahira, Takatoshi Shibata
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Publication number: 20070090130Abstract: In application of a foamed hot melt adhesive, a mixing ratio of foam can be selectably and quickly set, and also application of a foamed hot melt adhesive and that of a solid hot melt adhesive can be selectively performed by a single application device. A first gear pump and a second gear pump are driven by drive mechanisms independent from each other. The pressure of a liquid being sent by the pressure in the second compression process is detected, and this causes the speed of the first gear pump and the second gear pump to be sequence-controlled to automatically control the amount of mixing of gas. A gas suction opening is provided between the first gear pump and the second gear pump, and a mixer is provided between the gas suction opening and the second gear pump. The end of a return circuit is set on the downstream side of the first gear pump to prevent foam from returning to the tank side. A restriction valve is installed in a gun to produce a single bubble.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2007Inventors: Shoji Hidaka, Hiroki Iwase
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Patent number: 6745948Abstract: A spiral spray coating method, comprising the step of forming a second pressurizing air flow which is discharged from a number of second pressurizing air holes (13) positioned concentrically with and outwardly-shaped from first pressurizing air holes (12), on the outside of the first pressurizing air flow which is discharged from a number of first pressurizing air holes (12) disposed concentrically with an opening of an adhesive agent hole (11) so as to feed the second pressurizing air flow (K2) to the outside of the first pressurizing air flow (K1) in order to form an air curtain of the second pressurizing air flow on the outside of a spiral of a hot-melt adhesive agent fiber; a spiral spray coating apparatus using the spiral spray coating method.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha SantuuruInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Seiki Tarumi
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Patent number: 6311899Abstract: A truncated cone which causes pressurized air flow from plural pressurized air holes to rotate and flow down along the circumferential surface of the truncated cone is provided connectedly at the underside of a nozzle base. A pair of (right and left) downward slanting surfaces which are recessed in V-shape (in side view) are formed in such a fashion that they oppose to each other and slant upward and toward the center. A nozzle projection whose underside is a non-circular shape having a minor axis in the direction where the lower ends of the downward slanting surfaces exist and a major axis in the direction where the lower ends of the downward slanting surfaces do not exist, is provided connectedly at the underside of the truncated cone. In the second invention of the present application, adhesive exposing surface is formed at a part of the downward slanting surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2000Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha SantuuruInventors: Shoji Hidaka, Takayuki Mende