Patents by Inventor Sohei Matsuyama

Sohei Matsuyama 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: 10106058
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame, a base portion, and a guide structure. The guide structure includes a rail and a rolling mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes an upper guide roller, a lower guide roller, and a roller holder. The rolling mechanism is sandwiched by an upper rolling surface and a lower rolling surface of the rail. The guide structure is configured such that when an occupant load is input to the cushion frame, the guide roller and the rolling surface at one of a first contact point or a second contact point come relatively close together, such that pressure increases, due to a relative position of the roller holder and the rail changing, with the other of the first contact point or the second contact point as a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei Matsuyama, Tomonori Ishikawa, Komei Yano, Kento Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160375800
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame, a base portion, and a guide structure. The guide structure includes a rail and a rolling mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes an upper guide roller, a lower guide roller, and a roller holder. The rolling mechanism is sandwiched by an upper rolling surface and a lower rolling surface of the rail. The guide structure is configured such that when an occupant load is input to the cushion frame, the guide roller and the rolling surface at one of a first contact point or a second contact point come relatively close together, such that pressure increases, due to a relative position of the roller holder and the rail changing, with the other of the first contact point or the second contact point as a reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei MATSUYAMA, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Komei YANO, Kento YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9087505
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer. The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20140124290
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer. The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Takehiro Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Patent number: 8637145
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20120255809
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer and an air-impermeable resonance layer, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer. The sound absorption layer has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm, an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2 and a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer and a low-density sound absorption layer. The high-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer via the adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer via an adhesive layer and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Patent number: 8194879
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to efficiently and inexpensively mass-produce a sound insulator for a vehicle which is light in weight and has excellent sound insulating properties. For this purpose, the ultra-light sound insulator of the present invention is composed of a felt single sheet 3 having a vehicle interior side surface 1 and a vehicle exterior side surface 2 and being thermoformed of cotton fibers and binder fibers which are tangled and contacted and jointed to each other in a random manner. The ratio of the stiffness of the vehicle interior side surface 1 to that of the vehicle exterior side surface 2 is set to be in a range of 1.1 to 10. The single sheet 3 also has an area of gradually-decreasing stiffness 4 that spreads over at least one part of the area between the vehicle interior side surface 1 and the vehicle exterior side surface 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Patent number: 8158246
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer 202 and an air-impermeable resonance layer 203, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer 204. The sound absorption layer 202 has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm and an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2. The sound absorption layer 202 has a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer 202a and a low-density sound absorption layer 202b, which have different densities. The high-density sound absorption layer 202a is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203 via the adhesive layer 204 and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer 202b is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer 202a, which is opposite to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203, via an adhesive layer 202c and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: Takehiro Co., Ltd., Toyota Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori
  • Patent number: 7762375
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a soundproofing material that is lightweight and has sufficient soundproofing performance. The present soundproofing material includes a frame body including a planar portion and a wall body installed upright on the planar portion and a soundproofing laminate accommodated in a laminate accommodating portion surrounded by the wall body, and the soundproofing laminate has a hard layer consisting of a rubber sheet or the like and a soft layer whose one side of the soft layer is laminated on the hard layer and consists of a felt, a resin foam or the like, and another side of the soft layer is joined to at least one of the planar portion and/or the wall body of the frame body, and a side surface of the soundproofing laminate and a side surface of the wall body are distant from each other. The distance thereof is preferably in the range from 0.3 to 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sohei Matsuyama, Michio Takeda, Shigeki Takamido, Rui Tokida
  • Publication number: 20090255755
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a soundproofing material that is lightweight and has sufficient soundproofing performance. The present soundproofing material includes a frame body 4 including a planar portion and a wall body installed upright on the planar portion and a soundproofing laminate accommodated in a laminate accommodating portion surrounded by the wall body, and the soundproofing laminate has a hard layer consisting of a rubber sheet or the like and a soft layer whose one side of the soft layer is laminated on the hard layer and consists of a felt, a resin foam or the like, and another side of the soft layer is joined to at least one of the planar portion and/or the wall body of the frame body, and a side surface of the soundproofing laminate and a side surface of the wall body are distant from each other. The distance thereof is preferably in the range from 0.3 to 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei MATSUYAMA, Michio TAKEDA, Shigeki TAKAMIDO, Rui TOKIDA
  • Publication number: 20070144829
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to efficiently and inexpensively mass-produce a sound insulator for a vehicle which is light in weight and has excellent sound insulating properties. For this purpose, the ultra-light sound insulator of the present invention is composed of a felt single sheet 3 having a vehicle interior side surface 1 and a vehicle exterior side surface 2 and being thermoformed of cotton fibers and binder fibers which are tangled and contacted and jointed to each other in a random manner. The ratio of the stiffness of the vehicle interior side surface 1 to that of the vehicle exterior side surface 2 is set to be in a range of 1.1 to 10. The single sheet 3 also has an area of gradually-decreasing stiffness 4 that spreads over at least one part of the area between the vehicle interior side surface 1 and the vehicle exterior side surface 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicants: TAKEHIRO CO., LTD., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ISHIKAWA, Youhei ISHIKAWA, Sohei MATSUYAMA, Hideyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20060201741
    Abstract: A sound insulator of the invention includes a sound absorption layer 202 and an air-impermeable resonance layer 203, which are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer 204. The sound absorption layer 202 has a thickness in a range of 5 to 50 mm and an area-weight of not greater than 2000 g/m2. The sound absorption layer 202 has a two-layer structure of a high-density sound absorption layer 202a and a low-density sound absorption layer 202b, which have different densities. The high-density sound absorption layer 202a is bonded to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203 via the adhesive layer 204 and has a density in a range of 0.05 to 0.20 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm. The low-density sound absorption layer 202b is bonded to the other face of the high-density sound absorption layer 202a, which is opposite to the air-impermeable resonance layer 203, via an adhesive layer 202c and has a density in a range of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3 and a thickness in a range of 2 to 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Toru Inoue, Masaki Ishikawa, Youhei Ishikawa, Sohei Matsuyama, Hideyuki Mori