Patents by Inventor Tetsuzi Funahashi

Tetsuzi Funahashi 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).

  • Method for manufacturing laminate-molded products and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 5785910
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve a laminate molding method and a laminate-molding apparatus for manufacturing molded products that have an external appearance of excellent quality. For this purpose, according to a molding method, by which a mold clamping device (3) laminates sheet of skin material (Mm) and a core resin (200), the tension of the sheet of skin material Mm, which is inserted into a cavity (9) between a clamped fixed metal mold (11) and a clamped movable metal mold (12) and is laminated by the movable metal mold (12), is varied, continuously or in a stepped manner, in consonance with the insertion amount of the sheet of skin material (Mm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Sakashita, Tetsuzi Funahashi, Akira Yokota, Masayuki Oishi