Patents by Inventor Youkou Saito

Youkou Saito 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).

  • Patent number: 7824020
    Abstract: A liquid feed tube for feeding a liquid from a liquid tank disposed on a liquid jetting device body side to a jetting head mounted on a reciprocating carriage, including: a long elastic member and a film member connected in an airtight state to the elastic member along a longitudinal direction of the elastic member; and a space part formed by the elastic member and the film member and used as a liquid feed passage, wherein the elastic member is made of a specific resin composition. Thus, the bending rigidity of the liquid feed tube can be lowered, and the resistance to moisture permeability and the gas barrier property thereof can be realized at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Bridgestone Corporation, Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Youkou Saito, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Toshio Kumagai, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Masanori Takemura, Kazuyuki Saito, Yasushi Soya
  • Publication number: 20080211884
    Abstract: A liquid feed tube for feeding a liquid from a liquid tank disposed on a liquid jetting device body side to a jetting head mounted on a reciprocating carriage, including: a long elastic member and a film member connected in an airtight state to the elastic member along a longitudinal direction of the elastic member; and a space part formed by the elastic member and the film member and used as a liquid feed passage, wherein the elastic member is made of a specific resin composition. Thus, the bending rigidity of the liquid feed tube can be lowered, and the resistance to moisture permeability and the gas barrier property thereof can be realized at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Youkou Saito, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Toshio Kumagai, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Masanori Takemura, Kazuyuki Saito, Yasushi Soya
  • Patent number: 7163980
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a resin composition which has a low hardness, is favorable in high loss properties (vibration absorbing properties) and gas permeation resistance, is excellent in injection moldability, thereby enabling itself to be injection molded with stable dimensional accuracy, and which is particularly suitable for constituting an elastic member for an ink jet printer, an insulator for a recording medium drive, a gasket for an HDD and an impact absorbing material for an HDD. The above object has been achieved with a resin composition which comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer containing an isobutylenic block copolymer composed of isobutylenic polymer blocks and aromatic vinylic polymer blocks, and 1 to 50 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Youkou Saito
  • Patent number: 6981762
    Abstract: The elastic member for an ink jet recording apparatus according to the present invention is formed from: (1) a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising 100 parts by weight of (a) a hydrogenated block copolymer, 60 to 170 parts by weight of (b) a softening agent for a non-aromatic rubber and 5 to 30 parts by weight of (c) polypropylene, (2) a thermoplastic elastomer composition in which a network structure having a pore diameter of 50 ?m or less is formed, comprising 100 parts by weight of (a) a hydrogenated block copolymer, 60 to 170 parts by weight of (b) a softening agent for a non-aromatic rubber and 5 to 30 parts by weight of (c) crystalline polyolefin, or (3) a thermoplastic elastomer composition in which a shear rate dependency of a melt viscosity measured by means of a capillograph is ?1.5 to ?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Youkou Saito, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Yasunori Fukuda, Jun Arai, Shoson Shibata
  • Publication number: 20050206093
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a gasket for hard disc equipment which is integrated with a cover member by extruding a gasket material from an extrusion orifice of a three-dimensional automatic coating controlling apparatus onto the cover member and then curing the extruded gasket material, wherein a ratio (h/w) of a height (h) of the gasket to a line width (w) of the gasket on a joint surface between the gasket and the cover member is in the range of 0.8 to 3.0 in a 80% or more portion of the gasket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Utsunomiya, Tomohiro Ogata, Youkou Saito, Naruhiko Mashita, Toshihiko Hiraiwa
  • Publication number: 20040239735
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a resin composition which has a low hardness, is favorable in high loss properties (vibration absorbing properties) and gas permeation resistance, is excellent in injection moldability, thereby enabling itself to be injection molded with stable dimensional accuracy, and which is particularly suitable for constituting an elastic member for an ink jet printer, an insulator for a recording medium drive, a gasket for an HDD and an impact absorbing material for an HDD. The above object has been achieved with a resin composition which comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer containing an isobutylenic block copolymer composed of isobutylenic polymer blocks and aromatic vinylic polymer blocks, and 1 to 50 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Youkou Saito
  • Patent number: 6824730
    Abstract: There are disclosed a resin composition which is excellent in rubber elasticity, oil maintainability and adhesivity to a metal, and comprises a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a (a1) hydrogenated block copolymer which is obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer consisting essentially of a polymer block composed principally of a vinyl aromatic compound and a polymer block composed principally of a conjugated diene compound, which has a weight average molecular weight of at least 200,000, in which the polymer block composed principally of a vinyl aromatic compound is polystyrene, and in which the content by weight of the polystyrene moiety contained in the hydrogenated block copolymer is 20 to 40%; a (b1) non-aromatic rubber-softening agent having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Shinichi Toyosawa, Youichi Nishimuro, Yasushi Imai, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Ichiro Akasaka, Youkou Saito
  • Publication number: 20040070653
    Abstract: The elastic member for an ink jet recording apparatus according to the present invention is formed from:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Youkou Saito, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Yasunori Fukuda, Jun Arai, Shoson Shibata
  • Publication number: 20010018490
    Abstract: There are disclosed a resin composition which is excellent in rubber elasticity, oil maintainability and adhesivity to a metal, and comprises a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a (a1) hydrogenated block copolymer which is obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer consisting essentially of a polymer block composed principally of a vinyl aromatic compound and a polymer block composed principally of a conjugated diene compound, which has a weight average molecular weight of at least 200,000, in which the polymer block composed principally of a vinyl aromatic compound is polystyrene, and in which the content by weight of the polystyrene moiety contained in the hydrogenated block copolymer is 20 to 40% ; a (b1) non-aromatic rubber-softening agent having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Naruhiko Mashita, Shinichi Toyosawa, Youichi Nishimuro, Yasushi Imai, Tadashi Utsunomiya, Ichiro Akasaka, Youkou Saito