Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Kodama

Tsutomu Kodama 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: 20230183140
    Abstract: Provided is a crystalline silicon carbide fiber containing silicon carbide, boron nitride, and zirconium carbide and having a content of Si of 64% by weight or more and a content of C of 28% by weight or more, in which the average particle size of SiC crystal grains is 100 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: UBE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mao SUMINO, Kouichirou SUYAMA, Hideki OZAWA, Aki INO, Tsutomu KODAMA, Hiroyuki YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180276588
    Abstract: A connection establishment support system includes: a company classification unit 15 that classifies companies, as seen from a specific user, into a first type of company connected as an individual person, a second type of company connected as a company, and a third type of company having no connection either as an individual person or as a company; a type-based connection request unit 17 that performs a connection request using different methods depending on the type of company classified; and a connection update unit 14 that, when a manipulation for permission is performed by an individual person receiving the connection request, additionally stores connection information representing a relationship of new connection between the specific user and the individual person who performs the permission in a connection information storage unit 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuteru MURAKAMI, Osamu NAGAHAMA, Youichi ISOBE, Tsutomu KODAMA, Ryutaro HAKOZAKI, Kazuma MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9701587
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material, which can produce, at a high yield, an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material with fewer defects, and with an end part and a central part equivalent to each other in microstructure and mechanical properties, and also makes it possible to increase the ceramic material in size. The method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material is characterized in that it includes: a first pressing step of setting, in a carbon die, a laminate to be surrounded by a ceramic powder, the laminate obtained by stacking a coated inorganic fiber shaped product including an inorganic fiber part of inorganic fibers that have a pyrolysis initiation temperature of 1900° C. or lower, and a surface layer of an inorganic substance for bonding the inorganic fibers to each other, and pressing the laminate at a temperature of 1000 to 1800° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsunaga, Shinji Kajii, Shohei Suizu, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150137411
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material, which can produce, at a high yield, an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material with fewer defects, and with an end part and a central part equivalent to each other in microstructure and mechanical properties, and also makes it possible to increase the ceramic material in size. The method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material is characterized in that it includes: a first pressing step of setting, in a carbon die, a laminate to be surrounded by a ceramic powder, the laminate obtained by stacking a coated inorganic fiber shaped product including an inorganic fiber part of inorganic fibers that have a pyrolysis initiation temperature of 1900° C. or lower, and a surface layer of an inorganic substance for bonding the inorganic fibers to each other, and pressing the laminate at a temperature of 1000 to 1800° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji Matsunaga, Shinji Kajii, Shohei Suizu, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Patent number: 8906288
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing dense SiC fiber-bonded ceramics excellent in heat resistance and having a shape hard to form by hot pressing such as an elongated shape. The process for producing SiC fiber-bonded ceramics composed of: inorganic fiber made of SiC; and interfacial layers mainly made of carbon includes vacuum-sealing a preform, prepared by forming specific silicon carbide-based inorganic fiber into a certain shape, into a capsule and hot-isostatic-pressing the preform. The process is characterized in that the ratio of the number of carbon atoms to the number of silicon atoms in the preform is 1.02 to 1.20, and before the hot isostatic pressing, the preform is heated in an inert gas atmosphere or a reducing gas atmosphere at a temperature of 1200° C. to 1800° C. to adjust the oxygen content in the inorganic fiber to 6.0% by weight or lower, and then the hot isostatic pressing is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsunaga, Shinji Kajii, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Publication number: 20130089705
    Abstract: Disclosed is to provide a material which can withstand rapid increase in temperature to 1600° C. or more and exhibits little change in properties even in a high-speed combustion gas stream. Specifically disclosed is a SiC fiber-bonded ceramic coated with SiC, which is characterized by being produced by coating the surface of a SiC fiber-bonded ceramic with use of a coating layer including mainly SiC, wherein the SiC fiber-bonded ceramic includes inorganic fibers having a sintered SiC structure, each of which contains 0.01 to 1 wt % of oxygen (O) and at least one or more metal atoms of metal atoms in Groups 2A, 3A, and 3B and a 1-100 nm interfacial layer containing carbon (C) as a main component formed between the fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsunaga, Tsutomu Kodama, Hisao Tanaka, Shinji Kajii
  • Publication number: 20110187030
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing dense SiC fiber-bonded ceramics excellent in heat resistance and having a shape hard to form by hot pressing such as an elongated shape. The process for producing SiC fiber-bonded ceramics composed of: inorganic fiber made of SiC; and interfacial layers mainly made of carbon includes vacuum-sealing a preform, prepared by forming specific silicon carbide-based inorganic fiber into a certain shape, into a capsule and hot-isostatic-pressing the preform. The process is characterized in that the ratio of the number of carbon atoms to the number of silicon atoms in the preform is 1.02 to 1.20, and before the hot isostatic pressing, the preform is heated in an inert gas atmosphere or a reducing gas atmosphere at a temperature of 1200° C. to 1800° C. to adjust the oxygen content in the inorganic fiber to 6.0% by weight or lower, and then the hot isostatic pressing is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsunaga, Shinji Kajii, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Patent number: 6129393
    Abstract: A quick connector assembly includes a male member, a female member, and a retainer. The retainer is interposed between a ring-shaped projection of the male member and a first engagement portion of the female member to connect the male member and female member. When a worker holds operation end portions of the retainer with his or her fingers, the retainer is reduced diametrically so that a second engagement portion of the retainer disengages from the first engagement portion of the female member. Accordingly, the male member and retainer can be pulled off from the female member easily. The retainer holds the male member by fitting its aperture windows with the ring-shaped projection of the male member. Consequently, the retainer hardly falls down from the male member after it is removed from the female member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Tomohide Ito, Akira Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 6089277
    Abstract: A fuel transporting hose used in a fuel pipe system is disclosed which includes: an inner layer made of a fluorine-contained resin; an intermediate layer made of a rubber material and formed on an outer surface of the inner layer; a fiber reinforcing layer formed on an outer surface of the intermediate layer; and an outer layer made of a rubber material and formed on an outer surface of the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer has a thickness which is 3 to 30 times as that of the inner layer, and the outer layer has a thickness which is 3 to 35 times as that of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 6024133
    Abstract: A fuel transporting hose used in a fuel pipe system is disclosed which includes an inner layer made of a fluorine-contained resin, and an outer layer made of a rubber material and formed on an outer surface of the inner layer. The outer layer has a thickness which is 5 to 30 times as that of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 5937911
    Abstract: A fuel transporting hose used in a fuel pipe system is disclosed. The hose includes: an inner layer made of a fluorine-contained resin; an intermediate layer made of a synthetic resin other than the fluorine-contained resin and formed on the inner layer; and an outer layer made of a rubber material and formed on the intermediate layer. The inner layer may have electrical conductivity. Also disclosed is a resin tube in a fuel pipe system, which has at least an inner layer made of a fluorine-contained resin, and an outer layer made of a polyamide or polyester resin. In producing the resin tube, an outer surface of the inner layer which contacts the outer layer is subjected to a surface treatment for improving the adhesive strength between the inner and outer layers, and the inner and outer layers formed in lamination are subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature in a range of 150.degree. C. to a melting point of the outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 5871240
    Abstract: A hose with a protector comprises: a tubular-shaped hose body 10; a tubular-shaped protector 20 which is coaxially provided in the state in which it covers the outer peripheral surface of the hose body 10; a tubular-shaped engager 30 which bonds the hose body 10 and the protector 20 integrally at both edge portions thereof and which forms an inserting opening into which a nipple is inserted and bonded. By producing the hose body out of resin and producing the protector out of rubber, the present hose with a protector can obtain heat resistance and anti flame resistance which are suitable for a filler hose and which are necessary at the time of vehicle fire and also the present hose with a protector is good in sealing property with the mating pipe and good in connecting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Miyajima, Minoru Kawasaki, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Patent number: 5791696
    Abstract: A hose with a protector includes a tubular-shaped hose body; a tubular-shaped protector which is coaxially provided to cover the outer peripheral surface of the hose body; a tubular-shaped engager which bonds the hose body and the protector integrally at both edge portions thereof and which forms an inserting opening into which a nipple is inserted and bonded. By producing the hose body out of resin and producing the protector out of rubber, the present hose with a protector can obtain heat resistance and anti-flame resistance which are suitable for a filler hose and which are necessary at the time of vehicle fire and also the present hose with a protector is good in sealing property with the mating pipe and good in connecting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Miyajima, Minoru Kawasaki, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Patent number: 5472746
    Abstract: A method for producing a multi-layered hose by electrostatically applying a thin resin layer on the inner surface of a tubular rubber outer layer. The resin can be applied by spraying resin powder from a bar nozzle inserted into an opening of the tubular outer layer, and the applied resin can be heated by an induction or dielectric heating source placed inside the tubular outer layer. The resin can be applied only to the hose body portion and not to edge portions which are to be attached to mating pipes, or a thinner layer of resin can be applied on the edge portions than on the body portion. An intermediate layer containing dielectric material or at least one of electrically conductive and magnetic material can be formed between the tubular outer layer and resin inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Miyajima, Minoru Kawasaki, Tsutomu Kodama
  • Patent number: 5422048
    Abstract: A method of producing a bent resin tube by heating a certain portion of a straight resin tube to be bent partially by a partial bending means, and bending the heated certain portion partially by a partial bending die, thereby rendering a desired bend shape to the tube. In this method, a large die for constraining the shape of the whose tube or a large oven is not required. Therefore, space for equipment can be reduced, and production efficiency is enhanced because the time required for bending operations is decreased remarkably. The heating may be done by high frequency induction heating, high frequency dielectric heating, or other conventional heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Kazuhiro Kato, Katsuaki Nagae
  • Patent number: 5378024
    Abstract: A quick connector comprises a tubular-shaped female member, a tubular-shaped male member, and an engager member which comprises a "C" ring-shaped and tapered stopper whose diameter can be increased in said annular-shaped concave, and which has the smaller diameter ends having the small diameter at the inner side of said female member and having the large diameter at the side of said opened flange to engage said engager projection, and which has the larger diameter ends having the diameter larger than that of said opened flange of said female member to face the inside end surface of said opened flange; a regulator which is installed in the axial direction to said stopper, and which is projected in the centrifugal directions than do the larger diameter ends of said stopper, and which is brought into contact with the inner peripheral surface of said annular-shaped concave to regulate the displacement in the radial direction of said stopper; and a linkage for connecting said stopper and said regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kumagai, Hirokazu Kitamura, Tsutomu Kodama, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 5320390
    Abstract: A quick connector includes a male member, a female member and an engager claw member. The male member includes a ring-shaped engager. The female member includes a receiver hole having an opening into which the male member is inserted, a ring-shaped stopper surface disposed oppositely to the opening, and a regulatory inner peripheral surface extending from the periphery of the stopper surface in an axial direction. The engager claw member disposed in the receiver hole of the female member, and it includes a ring-shaped base disposed movably in an axial direction, arms extending from the base to the opening in an axial direction and adapted for being elastically deformable in a radial direction, and a claw disposed so as to extend from each of the arms and adapted for engaging with the engager of the male member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Hirokazu Kitamura, Toshihiro Kumagai, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 4472386
    Abstract: 5-Fluoro-(.beta.-uridine or 2'-deoxy-.beta.-uridine) derivatives having an acyl group at the 3-position of the molecule. These compounds are useful as carcinostatic agent. This disclosure relates to such compounds, a process for producing the same and a carcinostatic agent comprising such a compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Masaakira Senoura, Hajime Aoyama, Tomonobu Yamaguchi, Isao Kitayama, Minako Yotsuji, Toru Hiraiwa, Masaharu Omori, Nobuo Terashima, Yutaka Kodama
  • Patent number: 4230719
    Abstract: A novel 2-[4-(3-methyl-2-thienyl)phenyl]propionic acid and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are useful for treating symptoms of inflammation and pain in mammals including man. This disclosure relates to such compounds, a process for producing the same, a pharmaceutical composition containing such a compound and a method for treating symptoms of inflammation and pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kodama, Masao Nakabayashi, Isao Watanabe, Hiroshi Hirano, Norio Abe, Katsufumi Tanaka, Hirotoshi Arai
  • Patent number: 3972882
    Abstract: Novel sym.-triazines having the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sup.1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aralkyl or heterocyclic alkyl group; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl, aralkyl or heterocyclic alkyl group; and Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents oxygen or sulfur, have a central nerve inhibitory activity, an anti-inflammatory activity, an analgesic activity and a sedative activity, and can be prepared by reacting a 2,4-dichloro-6-substituted sym.-triazine with a compound having the formula HO--R.sup.2 in which R.sup.2 is the same as defined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kodama, Tsutomu Kodama, Akira Takai, Masaakira Senoura, Isao Watanabe, Katsunori Tanaka, Tomonobu Yamaguchi, Norio Abe, Takuya Kodama