Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi 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: 10667331Abstract: A tape heater for keeping warm or heating an object by deforming its shape to conform to contours of the object, which comprises: a heating element; and an outer covering member that envelops and accommodates the heating element and that is composed of a porous sheet made of a resin which has a melting point of 300° C. or higher. Provided is a tape heater that deforms to conform to the contours of an object to be kept warm or the like after being placed on the object and changes its shape that has been deformed as little as possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Iida, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20160227608Abstract: A tape heater for keeping warm or heating an object by deforming its shape to conform to contours of the object, which comprises: a heating element; and an outer covering member that envelops and accommodates the heating element and that is composed of a porous sheet made of a resin which has a melting point of 300° C. or higher. Provided is a tape heater that deforms to conform to the contours of an object to be kept warm or the like after being placed on the object and changes its shape that has been deformed as little as possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Iida, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 9380649Abstract: The present invention relates to a jacket heater having a heating element built therein, the jacket heater containing: the heating element having a watt density of 0.15 W/cm2 or more, a metal foil disposed adjacently to the heating element, and a surrounding body which surrounds the heating element and the metal foil.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Iida, Daisaku Seki, Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Keiichi Fukuda
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Publication number: 20130062338Abstract: The present invention relates to a jacket heater having a heating element built therein, the jacket heater containing: the heating element having a watt density of 0.15 W/cm2 or more, a metal foil disposed adjacently to the heating element, and a surrounding body which surrounds the heating element and the metal foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Kenji Iida, Daisaku Seki, Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Keiichi Fukuda
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Patent number: 7762283Abstract: The present invention provides a covering member including: a surrounding member including a heat insulating material and having a heat generating member or a heat insulating function, the surrounding member being wound from an open state so as to cover an object; and a fixing unit including: an engagement member including: a ring including a heat resistant elastic material; and a hook fitted to the ring; a holding member disposed on one end of the surrounding member, the holding member fastening the ring of the engagement member to hold the engagement member; and a receiving member disposed on one end of the surrounding member so as to correspond to the holding member, the receiving member including a receiving metal fitting to be engaged with the hook of the engagement member.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Thermos CorporationInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Daisaku Seki, Emico Taguchi
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Patent number: 7168452Abstract: A covering body for heating a pipe to be attached to the pipe and to conduct external heat to heat the pipe, including: a surrounding body including at least two parts having a divided shape of a cylindrical body along an axial line of the cylindrical body, the surrounding body having: a through hole having a diameter corresponding to an outer diameter of the pipe; and a concave groove provided on an outer peripheral surface of at least one of the at least two parts and extending in a longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, a fitting member including: a first fitting plate including a first arc band-shaped plate longer than a half of circumference of an outer peripheral surface of the surrounding body and having a first extended portion and a first cutout at one end of the first arc band-shaped plate; a second fitting plate including a second arc band-shaped plate longer than the half of circumference of the outer peripheral surface of the surrounding body and having, at one end of the second arc bandType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Nichias CorporationInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Kiyoshi Kumasawa
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Publication number: 20060289471Abstract: The present invention provides a covering body for heating a pipe to be attached to the pipe so as to surround the pipe and to conduct external heat to heat the pipe, the covering body having: a pair of half-cylinder parts each having a halved shape of a cylindrical body along an axial line thereof, the half-cylinder parts each having a cut surface, the cylindrical body having a through hole along an axial line thereof, the pair of the half cylinder parts defining a gap between the cut surfaces upon the covering body being attached to the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Kumasawa, Mitsushi Wadasako
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Publication number: 20060238986Abstract: The present invention provides a covering member including: a surrounding member including a heat insulating material and having a heat generating member or a heat insulating function, the surrounding member being wound from an open state so as to cover an object; and a fixing unit including: an engagement member including: a ring including a heat resistant elastic material; and a hook fitted to the ring; a holding member disposed on one end of the surrounding member, the holding member fastening the ring of the engagement member to hold the engagement member; and a receiving member disposed on one end of the surrounding member so as to correspond to the holding member, the receiving member including a receiving metal fitting to be engaged with the hook of the engagement member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicants: Nichias Corporation, Thermos CorporationInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Daisaku Seki, Emico Taguchi
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Publication number: 20060231151Abstract: A covering body for heating a pipe to be attached to the pipe and to conduct external heat to heat the pipe, including: a surrounding body including at least two parts having a divided shape of a cylindrical body along an axial line of the cylindrical body, the surrounding body having: a through hole having a diameter corresponding to an outer diameter of the pipe; and a concave groove provided on an outer peripheral surface of at least one of the at least two parts and extending in a longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, a fitting member including: a first fitting plate including a first arc band-shaped plate longer than a half of circumference of an outer peripheral surface of the surrounding body and having a first extended portion and a first cutout at one end of the first arc band-shaped plate; a second fitting plate including a second arc band-shaped plate longer than the half of circumference of the outer peripheral surface of the surrounding body and having, at one end of the second arc bandType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: Nichias CorporationInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Kiyoshi Kumasawa
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Publication number: 20060231543Abstract: The present invention provides a heating apparatus including: a power source for heating; a heating element; and a bimetal-type thermostat placed between the power source and the heating element, the bimetal-type thermostat cutting off energization upon temperature reaching to a first temperature and restoring the energization upon temperature dropping and reaching to a second temperature, the bimetal-type thermostat having a resetting temperature of 0° C. or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicants: Nichias Corporation, Thermos CorporationInventors: Akira Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Mitsushi Wadasako, Emico Taguchi
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Patent number: 7049560Abstract: A tape heater includes an electric heating wire disposed on a surface of a heat-resistant, flexible substrate strip. The electric heating wire and the substrate strip are wrapped with a heat-resistant resin wrap.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Nichias CorporationInventors: Keiichi Fukuda, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20050067038Abstract: There are provided a heat insulating tool kit for piping, which can easily be attached to and detached from a piping in a limited space repeatedly and fixed in a stable form, can be attached so that a heating surface is in close contact with the outer peripheral surface of piping so that heat is conducted efficiently, which results in no overheating of heated portion, can be subjected to temperature control stably, and can be used in a clean room etc. because dust particles scarcely occur, and a heat insulating construction using the heat insulating tool kit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2004Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Keiichi Fukuda
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Publication number: 20040188419Abstract: A tape heater includes an electric heating wire disposed on a surface of a heat-resistant, flexible substrate strip. The electric heating wire and the substrate strip are wrapped with a heat-resistant resin wrap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Keiichi Fukuda, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 6336972Abstract: An oil coating roller comprising a porous round-rod-like molded product, a heat-resistant fiber felt layer provided on an outer circumference of the porous round-rod-like molded product, and a porous film applied onto an outer circumference of the felt layer. The porous round-rod-like molded product contains heat-resistant fibers bound to each other by a binder, and has fine communicating voids free from the binder among the fibers and evenly distributed pores having a pore size in a range of from 0.05 to 2 mm and a total void percentage in a range of from 30 to 90%. The porous round-rod-like molded product is impregnated with silicone oil. The heat-resistant fiber felt layer has a thickness in a range of from 0.5 to 5 mm. The porous film has a thickness in a range of from 15 to 130 &mgr;m, a mean pore size in a range of from 0.1 to 3.0 &mgr;m, a porosity in a range of from 60 to 90% and an air permeability in a range of from 3 to 1500 sec per 100 cc.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Zenith CorporationInventors: Kohichi Kimura, Tatsuo Takagi, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Shigeru Nakama, Isami Abe
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Patent number: 5902653Abstract: An oil holding cylinder for an oil coating roller is provided. The cylinder includes at least a cylindrical non-sintered molded body, which is formulated from a mixture of at least ceramic fiber and an organic binder. In addition, the mixture can further include clay, an inorganic binder, or a combination thereof. The molded body preferably has a porosity in a range of about 30% to about 70%. In operation, the oil holding cylinder disclosed herein can stably and uniformly supply oil to the fixing rollers and the like for an extended period of time, while preventing offset.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1994Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Zenith CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Miyahara, Kouichi Kimura, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tatsuo Takagi, Osamu Horiuchi, Hiromi Furuya
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Patent number: 5883363Abstract: In order to provide a heating mantle so composed that fixing and unfixing work can be carried out simply and easily and in addition a good thermal uniformity can be obtained, the heating mantle is fabricated by a method, by which sewing by means of a sewing machine is carried out on a sheet-shaped heat resistant and heat insulating core member, using a heating wire, which is a yarn of metal fine wires, for a lower yarn and a glass yarn for an upper yarn; a predetermined heating wire pattern is formed on a surface of the core member; and a layered body consisting of the core member with the heating wire and covering members made of glass cloth, which are laid on upperside and underside thereof, is enclosed by a sack-shaped cover member.By the heating mantle thus constructed winding around a piping is simple and easy and there is no risk that deviation of the heating wire takes place so that a good thermal uniformity with respect to the piping can be exhibited.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Thermos CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Kohei Taguchi
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Patent number: 5876640Abstract: A coating fluid holding member including a porous molded body which is formed of heat-resistant fibers (or a mixture of heat-resistant fibers and a filler) bound to each other with a binder, has intercommunicating pores having an average pore size of 1 to 500 .mu.m, and has a porosity of 20 to 90%, and a coating fluid holding member including a porous molded body which is formed of heat-resistant fibers bound to each other with a binder, contains fine intercommunicating interstices between fibers and uniformly distributed pores having a diameter of 0.05 to 2 mm, and has a porosity of 30 to 90%. The holding member has a high fluid holding capacity for its volume and releases the coating fluid, such as a parting agent, an oil or a coating compound, in a stable manner for an extended period of time.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1996Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Zenith CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Miyahara, Kohichi Kimura, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tatsuo Takagi, Osamu Horiuchi, Nobuya Tomosue, Toshihisa Okabe, Hiromi Furuya
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Patent number: 5830566Abstract: A molded friction material for a damper is disclosed, which contains, as a part of a friction regulating material, porous fibrous particulates having an average particle size of 0.5 to 2 mm and a bulk density of 0.1 to 0.2 g/cm.sup.3 and comprising finely divided ceramic fibers or porous fibrous particulates having an average particle size of 0.1 to 5 mm and a bulk density of 0.2 to 2.0 g/cm.sup.3 and comprising finely divided ceramic fibers, a filler, and a binder. The friction material exhibits excellent performance basically required of a friction material, such as mechanical strength and damping characteristics, and hardly squeaks during damping.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1995Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Nichias Ceratech CorporationInventors: Kohichi Kimura, Yoshihiko Goto, Nobuhiro Torii, Hiroshi Katagiri, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 5800745Abstract: To provide an oil supplying means for an oil coating roller, by which oil can be supplied stably for a long time while preventing offset, a cylindrical non-sintered molded body which is a mixture of ceramic fiber and clay is used as an oil holding member in an oil coating roller.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignees: Nichias Corporation, Zenith CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Miyahara, Kouichi Kimura, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi, Tatsuo Takagi, Osamu Horiuchi, Hiromi Furuya
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Patent number: 5323484Abstract: A heating apparatus including a process tube in which the target objects are arranged in an internal heating area and a multilayer insulating structure arranged so to enclose the process tube. At the inner face of an inorganic molded structure of bulk density 0.3-0.8 g/cm.sup.3, an inorganic insulating layer of bulk density 1.0-2.0 g/cm.sup.3 covered on the inner face or all faces thereof by inorganic cloth is provided to form the multilayer insulating structure. The inner face of the inorganic insulating layer is used to support a heat generating means. A cooling means is also provided for cooling the flat heating area of the process tube. As a result, a heating apparatus of the present invention is provided that features excellent endurance against spalling, deterioration and chemical reaction, and which is capable of long term stability with respect to temperature increase and decrease.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1993Date of Patent: June 21, 1994Assignee: Tokyo Electron Sagami Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Nakao, Seiji Sakurai, Yoshihisa Miyahara, Yoshiyuki Motoyoshi