Patents by Inventor Takemasa Yasukawa

Takemasa Yasukawa 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: 5690768
    Abstract: A rubber layered structure used for a weather strip or a glass run, which includes an EPDM rubber base and an ornamental surface layer or a functional surface layer for enhancing slidability of a door glass. An ornamental or functional surface layer is stuck to an EPDM rubber base with a laminated film. The laminated film includes a first layer of an olefin resin with polar functional groups and a second layer of a polar thermoplastic resin. The first layer, which includes a non-polar olefin resin and polar functional groups, adheres to both the EPDM rubber base and the second layer of a polar resin such as polyester. The second layer securely adheres to the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Iwasa, Takemasa Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 5489461
    Abstract: A rubber layered structure used for a weather strip or a glass run, which includes an EPDM rubber base and an ornamental surface layer or a functional surface layer for enhancing slidability of a door glass. An ornamental or functional surface layer is stuck to an EPDM rubber base with a laminated film. The laminated film includes a first layer of an olefin resin with polar functional groups and a second layer of a polar thermoplastic resin. The first layer, which includes a non-polar olefin resin and polar functional groups, adheres to both the EPDM rubber base and the second layer of a polar resin such as polyester. The second layer securely adheres to the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Iwasa, Takemasa Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 5085005
    Abstract: A weather strip to be attached along a belt line of a door of a motor vehicle for wiping an outer surface of a door glass when the door glass is raised and lowered. The weather strip has a base portion to be attached along the belt line of a door outer panel, a lip extending from the base portion obliquely upwardly toward the door glass so that an end of the lip contacts the outer surface of the door glass, and a blade extending from the base portion under the lip in a direction of the outer surface of the door glass. An end of the blade contacts the outer surface of the door glass. When the door glass is raised and lowered, the blade turns upwardly and downwardly, thereby wiping the outer surface of the door glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yasukawa, Tadanobu Iwasa, Masanori Midooka
  • Patent number: 4912803
    Abstract: A wiper blade rubber provided with a surface layer containing more than 50% by volume of lubricative fine powder at least on the surface of a sliding portion thereof including a lip. The surface layer is integrally press-formed with the substrate of wiper blade rubber in one body so as to be vulcanized. The wiper blade rubber having such a surface layer is produced by a method according to the present invention which is characterized in that a starting article as the substrate of wiper blade rubber and a cavity provided in a separate mold used for this purpose has such a dimensional relationship therebetween that the thickness of the starting article at the center in the transverse section thereof is 0.9 to 1.0 times the thickness of the corresponding central portion of the cavity, where the lip of wiper blade rubber is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yasukawa, Hiroshi Sugita, Tetsushi Hiramitsu
  • Patent number: 4716618
    Abstract: A wiper blade rubber of an elongated configuration comprising a base portion of large thickness, a swinging portion substantially of a trigonal cross section, a neck portion connecting the base portion and the swinging portion and a thin plate-like lip portion disposed at the top end of the swinging portion. The basic material constituting most part of the base portion, the neck portion, the swinging portion and the lip portion is formed with soft and flexible rubber mainly composed of vulcanized ethylene-propylene rubber, and at least the surface of the lip portion is disposed with a surface layer constituted with a blended rubber composed of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and polyvinyl chloride resin and surface layer has a chlorinated surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yasukawa, Hiroshi Sugita, Tadanobu Iwasa, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 4669144
    Abstract: A wiper blade comprising a thick base section consisting of a head to be inserted through a slit formed in a backing plate, a body to be extended below the backing plate and a connecting neck interconnecting the head and the body; a turning section having a substantially triangular cross section; a neck section interconnecting the base section and the turning section; and a lip section extended from the ridge of the turning section in the form of a thin strip for wiping the surface of a windshield, wherein at least the surface layer of at least either the connecting neck or the neck section is formed of an ozone-resistant rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yasukawa, Hiroshi Sugita, Masanori Aritake, Keizo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4658463
    Abstract: A wiper blade capable of preventing a harsh metallic noise which is made by the direct impact of a metallic backing plate associated therewith on a blade holder. Rubber flanges are formed integrally with the body of the wiper blade so as to extend upward from the upper surface of the body. The flanges cover at least the longitudinal side edges of the metallic backing plate placed on the upper surface of the body so that the longitudinal side edges of the backing plate will not impact directly on the blade holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugita, Takemasa Yasukawa, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 4638525
    Abstract: A wiper blade rubber is disclosed. The wiper blade rubber comprises a matrix formed of rubber made preponderantly of EPDM and vulcanized with a peroxide and a lip part having the portions thereof for sliding contact with the outer surface of a wind shield formed of chlorinated diene type rubber. The lip part has the opposite lateral sides in the direction of thickness of the leading end thereof formed of diene type rubber containing a chlorinated layer on the surface thereof, with the matrix exposed to sight at the leading edge of the lip part between the opposite lateral sides of diene type rubber. The diene type rubber in each of the opposite lateral sides has the outer surface thereof chlorinated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Toyoda Goseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugita, Tadanobu Iwasa, Takemasa Yasukawa, Masanori Aritake
  • Patent number: 4622712
    Abstract: A wiper blade rubber of a constant cross section, composed of at least two kinds of rubber ingredient and manufactured by multi-color extrusion molding. In a wiper blade rubber according to this invention, a lip portion thereof to be in sliding contact with the glass surface is formed of a lubricating rubber and a swing portion generally of a trigonal cross section is mostly formed of a flexible rubber. In another wiper blade rubber according to this invention, a central part at the bottom end of the lip portion is formed of a high frictional rubber and both side parts of the bottom end of the lip portion is formed of a lubricating rubber. In a further wiper blade rubber according to this invention, an engaging part of the base portion, in the form of grooves or ridges, for engagement with an elongate rigid body held by a yoke of a wiper, is formed of a lubricating rubber and the swing portion is mostly formed of a flexible rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugita, Takemasa Yasukawa, Masanori Aritake