Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Kojima
Yoshifumi Kojima 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).
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Patent number: 10047697Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-rubber laminate material comprising a metal plate, a rubber layer formed on the surface of the metal plate, and a solid lubricant layer formed on the rubber layer, the solid lubricant layer comprising an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 40 to 150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60 to 170° C., graphite, and optionally a fluororesin. The metal-rubber laminate material, in which the metal plate and the rubber layer are bonded through a primer layer and an adhesive layer in this order, exhibits excellent effects, such as fretting resistance, when used as a metal gasket in an internal combustion engine for an automobile engine, etc.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Yokoto, Toshihiro Higashira
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Publication number: 20140228261Abstract: An aqueous surface-treating agent, which comprises a silicone oil aqueous emulsion, a polyurethane resin aqueous emulsion, and a silane compound represented by the following general formula: (where R1 and R2 each are an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n and m are 1?n?3 and m=3?n, respectively), and/or a hydrolyzate thereof; wherein 100 parts by weight or more of the polyurethane resin in terms of the weight of solid matters is used on the basis of 100 parts by weight in terms of nonvolatile matters of silicone oil, can prevent sticking of rubber seal materials such as O rings, etc. themselves or sticking to a metal, a resin, etc., and can reduce the friction of rubber or resin seal members at the time of sliding motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicants: NOK Corporation, NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Tahara, Tetsuhiro Kitahara, Toshihiro Higashira, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Patent number: 8658722Abstract: An aqueous surface-treating agent, which comprises a silicone oil aqueous emulsion, a polyurethane resin aqueous emulsion, and a silane compound represented by the following general formula (where R1 and R2 each are an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n and m are 1?n?3 and m=3·n, respectively), and/or a hydrolyzate thereof, wherein 100 parts by weight or more of the polyurethane resin in terms of the weight of solid matters is used on the basis of 100 parts by weight in terms of nonvolatile matters of silicone oil, can prevent sticking of rubber seal materials such as O rings, etc. themselves or sticking to a metal, a resin, etc., and can reduce the friction of rubber or resin seal members at the time of sliding motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignees: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd., NOK CorporationInventors: Masaki Tahara, Tetsuhiro Kitahara, Toshihiro Higashira, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Patent number: 8623949Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition containing 100 parts by weight of a rubber blend comprising 99-85 by weight % of chloroprene rubber and 1-15 by weight % of chlorinated polyethylene rubber, (A) 10 to 30 parts by weight of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 650, or (B) 10 to 30 parts by weight of both of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 900 and an ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight 350 to 500, and 3 to 10 parts by weight of two or more aromatic amine-based antioxidants. The rubber composition can simultaneously satisfy requirements for use as, for example, an automobile grease cup material, that is, heat resistance, ozone resistance, cold resistance, and adhesion to metal or resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Hideto Komurasaki, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Publication number: 20130285334Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-rubber laminate material comprising a metal plate, a rubber layer formed on the surface of the metal plate, and a solid lubricant layer formed on the rubber layer, the solid lubricant layer comprising an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 40 to 150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60 to 170° C., graphite, and optionally a fluororesin. The metal-rubber laminate material, in which the metal plate and the rubber layer are bonded through a primer layer and an adhesive layer in this order, exhibits excellent effects, such as fretting resistance, when used as a metal gasket in an internal combustion engine for an automobile engine, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Yokoto, Toshihiro Higashira
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Publication number: 20110315486Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition containing 100 parts by weight of a rubber blend comprising 99-85 by weight % of chloroprene rubber and 1-15 by weight % of chlorinated polyethylene rubber, (A) 10 to 30 parts by weight of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 650, or (B) 10 to 30 parts by weight of both of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 900 and an ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight 350 to 500, and 3 to 10 parts by weight of two or more aromatic amine-based antioxidants. The rubber composition can simultaneously satisfy requirements for use as, for example, an automobile grease cup material, that is, heat resistance, ozone resistance, cold resistance, and adhesion to metal or resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto Komurasaki, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Publication number: 20100222475Abstract: An aqueous surface-treating agent, which comprises a silicone oil aqueous emulsion, a polyurethane resin aqueous emulsion, and a silane compound represented by the following general formula (where R1 and R2 each are an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n and m are 1?n?3 and m=3·n, respectively), and/or a hydrolyzate thereof, wherein 100 parts by weight or more of the polyurethane resin in terms of the weight of solid matters is used on the basis of 100 parts by weight in terms of nonvolatile matters of silicone oil, can prevent sticking of rubber seal materials such as O rings, etc. themselves or sticking to a metal, a resin, etc., and can reduce the friction of rubber or resin seal members at the time of sliding motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicants: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD., NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Tahara, Tetsuhiro Kitahara, Toshihiro Higashira, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Patent number: 7654538Abstract: A high-performance gasket (1) capable of coping with a reduction in size and developing a sealing property without producing a squeeze-out at the time of attachment and using a material having a hardness range of 30 to 80 degrees (JIS durometer type A), wherein the requirement of W1/W0<0.9 is satisfied where the bonding width of a base part (1a) is (W0) and the width thereof at a position half a height from the bonding part of the base part (1a) to the tip end of a main bead part (2) is (W1), the requirement of 1.15<H/W0<1.80 is satisfied where the height from the bonding part of the base part (1a) to the tip end of the main bead part (2) is (H), the requirement of L/W0>=3 is satisfied where the length of the non-bonded portion of the base part (1a) around the cross-section thereof excluding the bonded portion is (L), and the compressibility of the gasket when compressed is 13.5% or higher.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2003Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Oka, Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, Kenichi Fujimoto, Kazuhisa Senda, Masayuki Kishimoto, Shunji Ueda, Nobuyuki Shintaku
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Publication number: 20090105421Abstract: A joint boot molded from an acrylic rubber/polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer, which comprises a polyamide resin and a cross-linked acrylic rubber. The acrylic rubber/polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer is a dispersion of the rubber in the polyamide resin, obtained by dynamic cross-linking of the acrylic rubber, preferably by covalent bond-linkable cross-linking of the polyamide resin with the acrylic rubber. The joint boot has a fully satisfactory heat resistance required even for use at the inboard side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Yoshiyuki Takeishi, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Publication number: 20090088522Abstract: The present invention is to provide an EPDM composition from which molding material excellent in low outgassing property and low gas permeability (low water vapor permeability) can be obtained even if the EPDM composition contains a mass of plasticizer blended in. The present invention relates to an EPDM composition including ethylene-propylene-non-conjugated diene terpolymer (EPDM polymer) as main element, B) plasticizer at 50-200 part by weight per the EPDM polymer of 100 part by weight, C) filler at 100-450 part by weight per the EPDM polymer of 100 part by weight, and D) vulcanizing agent at 1-10 part by weight per the EPDM polymer of 100 part by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Yokota, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Publication number: 20090014965Abstract: A sealing material, which comprises a curing product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, is suitable for use as cam cover seals and oil pan seals for automobile engines, fuel cell cooling medium seals, automobile wire harnesses seals, HDD cover gasket or vibration-insulating HDD cover gasket seals, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Kudo, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Yoshifumi Kojima, Osamu Ando, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20080108758Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer blend, which comprises 15 to 85% by weight of a cross-linked acrylic rubber-dispersed polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer, and 85 to 15% by weight of a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer, or which comprises 20 to 90% by weight of a cross-linked acrylic rubber-dispersed polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer, and 80 to 10% by weight of a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer. The cross-linked acrylic rubber-dispersed polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer is used also as a blend with both of the polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer and the polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer. The thermoplastic elastomer blend is effectively used as joint boot-molding material, etc., having distinguished heat resistance and low temperature characteristics, applicable also to the joint boot inboard side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2005Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Kensuke Watanabe, Yoshifumi Kojima, Yoshiyuki Takeishi
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Patent number: 7365122Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of vinylidene fluoride-perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether)-tetrafluoroethylene terpolymer or vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymer, and 10-50 parts by weight of liquid fluoroelastomer having a viscosity of 500 to 3,000 cps at 100° C., can be made cross-linkable or vulcanizable fluoroelastomer composition upon further addition of 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of an organic peroxide and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional unsaturated compound or further addition of 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyol-based vulcanizing agent thereto. The fluoroelastomer composition can give a cross-linked or vulcanized product having a hardness (Durometer A) of not more than 50 and distinguished processability and compression set resistance characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, Kenichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20070221448Abstract: A sealing material, which comprises a curing product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, is suitable for use as cam cover seals and oil pan seals for automobile engines, fuel cell cooling medium seals, automobile wire harnesses seals, HDD cover gasket or vibration-insulating HDD cover gasket seals, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Masashi Kudo, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Yoshifumi Kojima, Osamu Ando, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20070221815Abstract: A material for vibration-absorbable mounts, which comprises a cured product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, has a distinguished vibration-absorbing characteristic such as a loss tangent (tan ?) of 0.5 or more, and also a distinguished heat resistance, and thus is sufficiently suitable for vibration-absorbable mounts for HDDs as mounted on automobiles. Furthermore, the material for vibration-absorbable mounts has distinguished heat resistance, oil resistance, vibration-absorbing characteristic, compression set characteristic, low hardness, cleanliness (out gassing property and non-corrosiveness), etc. and thus can be effectively used as vibration-absorbable mounts for electric and electronic parts provided with opto-magnetic drives, for example CD, DVD, HDD, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Kenichi Fujimoto, Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20070225448Abstract: A sealing material, which comprises a curing product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, is suitable for use as cam cover seals and oil pan seals for automobile engines, fuel cell cooling medium seals, automobile wire harnesses seals, HDD cover gasket or vibration-insulating HDD cover gasket seals, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Masashi Kudo, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Yoshifumi Kojima, Osamu Ando, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20070083000Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of vinylidene fluoride-perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether)-tetrafluoroethylene terpolymer or vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymer, and 10-50 parts by weight of liquid fluoroelastomer having a viscosity of 500 to 3,000 cps at 100° C., can be made cross-linkable or vulcanizable fluoroelastomer composition upon further addition of 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of an organic peroxide and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional unsaturated compound or further addition of 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyol-based vulcanizing agent thereto. The fluoroelastomer composition can give a cross-linked or vulcanized product having a hardness (Durometer A) of not more than 50 and distinguished processability and compression set resistance characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, Kenichi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 7202299Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of vinylidene fluoride-perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether)-tetrafluoroethylene terpolymer or vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymer, and 10–50 parts by weight of liquid fluoroelastomer having a viscosity of 500 to 3,000 cps at 100° C., can be made cross-linkable or vulcanizable fluoroelastomer composition upon further addition of 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of an organic peroxide and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional unsaturated compound or further addition of 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyol-based vulcanizing agent thereto. The fluoroelastomer composition can give a cross-linked or vulcanized product having a hardness (Durometer A) of not more than 50 and distinguished processability and compression set resistance characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, Kenichi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 7099111Abstract: A hard disc drive cover-integrated gasket, which comprises a metallic cover and a packing material integrated with the metallic cover, the packing material being a molding material from a mixture comprising 100 parts by weight of EPDM or a blend of EPDM and polystyrene type thermoplastic elastomer, 10–100 parts by weight of polypropylene type resin, 20–130 parts by weight of a plasticizer and 0.1–10 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent is easy to fabricate and has distinguished characteristics as low outgassing characteristics, low hardness, good sealability at elevated temperatures, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Kazuhisa Senda
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Publication number: 20060155074Abstract: A sealing material, which comprises a curing product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, is suitable for use as cam cover seals and oil pan seals for automobile engines, fuel cell cooling medium seals, automobile wire harnesses seals, HDD cover gasket or vibration-insulating HDD cover gasket seals, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: July 13, 2006Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Kudo, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Yoshifumi Kojima, Osamu Ando, Yoshiki Nakagawa