Patents by Inventor Toru Nojima

Toru Nojima 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: 20120121849
    Abstract: The challenges in this invention is to provide automobile use mat that has distinguished noise absorption and anti-slip features, as well as it being light in weight for a low cost. The inventors, for their exerted investigations in resolving such challenges and as a result, as a replacement to the frequently used conventional mats with mounted resin (bump) emboss configuration, have introduced the nonwoven fabric layer from polypropylene fiber, burned on the lower surface side of the nonwoven fabric layer, deforming the fibers, forming anti-slip layer from melt bonding the fibers together, discovered the possibilities in achieving an automobile use mat that is light weight, permeable, dominant in its anti-slip effect, easy to bend as well as handle, that lead to this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Suminoe Textile Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Nojima