Bridgestone Corporation

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Keiichiro Tabata

Yoichi Nabeshima

Shin Tada

Toshiyuki Horimatsu

Torao Hashimoto

Kazufumi Yokoyama

Taikyu Fujita

Takashi Ohashi

Kazuyoshi Iida

Yoshikazu Kondo

Keiichiro Mizuno

Kenichi Onda

Hiroya Fukuda

Tatsuo Yata

Masayasu Matsumoto

Sadao Nomoto

Noriaki Murayama

Tomonori Katayama

Hitoshi Yaguchi

Kazuhumi Yokoyama

A shock absorbing material for automobiles, having extremely good shock absorbing properties, capable of absorbing shocks applied to a passenger in a car at the time of a crash, or the like, and reducing the head injury criteria, comprising a rigid polyurethane foam having a compression stress of 3 kg/cm or more, with concavities arranged on at least one planar surface. In order to mount the head protecting material to a ceiling material, a trim, a car body, or the like, easily and securely, the head protecting material is mounted to the ceiling material, or the like, with an adhesive sheet comprising a base material made of a foam material with an adhesive layer formed thereon.

Method for mounting shock absorbing material

Shock absorbing material

A lightweight shock absorber has an ideal F-S waveform, and is formed of a foam resin material. The cross-sectional area of the absorber in the compression axis direction and the vertical direction changes at least partially in the compression axis direction, and consequently the relation between distortion and compressive stress in the compression axis direction (F-S waveform) is approximately linear.

Shock absorber

A molded article of rigid polyurethane foam is manufactured by using a mold of separable upper and lower mold sections mated to define a cavity therebetween. A film of polypropylene which is previously vacuum formed in conformity to the mold cavity is closely set within the cavity and secured to the lower mold section outside the cavity. A rigid polyurethane foam-forming raw material is introduced into the cavity and on the film and caused to foam and expand in place to mold an article of rigid polyurethane foam. Thereafter, the molded article is lifted together with the film from the mold cavity by a pneumatic pressure or ejector pin. The molded article is stripped from the film to remove only the molded article from the mold without taking the entire film out of the mold. The once lifted film is returned to the original shape by vacuum suction for replacing the film in the cavity.

Method for making and then removing a molded article of rigid

Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a rigid polyurethane foam molding for energy absorption, including the steps of introducing a rigid polyurethane foam raw material composed primarily of a polyhydroxy compound and a polyisocyanate compound into a cavity in a mold, and blowing and reacting the rigid polyurethane foam raw material in the cavity, wherein a pack ratio of a core portion of the molding ranges from 0.5 to less than 1.2. Accordingly, the rigid polyurethane foam molding can obtain a plateau value comparable to that of a rigid polyurethane foam slab stock foam suitable for an energy absorbent pad.

Method of manufacturing a molding for energy absorbent pads and mold

A method of manufacturing molded products (or foamed and molded asphalt/urethane foam products) most suitable for sound-proof, vibration control and sealing members which are applied to the floor panel, dashboard and the like in a car, for example, and more particularly, a method of manufacturing foamed and molded asphalt/urethane products comprising introducing polyalkylene polyol having at least two or more hydroxyls in a molecule and polyisocyanate having two or more isocyanate radicals into a mold together with a catalyst and a foaming agent, and reacting them in it, wherein said polyalkylene polyol includes asphalt previously emulsified and dispersed therein; and a laminated structure including a layer of foamed asphalt/urethane foam made according to the method.

Method of manufacturing molded products and laminated structure

A noise control device which produces behind it an enlarged sound reducing region is disclosed. The device comprises a hollow structural body composed of a plurality of elongate hollow passages which are different in length and constructed such that the passage length is made the longest at a substantially center part in a vertical direction and is made gradually shorter from the center part toward upper and lower edges of the hollow structural body. The upper and lower edges allow direct propagation sound emitted from a noise source to pass thereover and therethrough.

Noise control devices

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Kanagawa, Japan

Keiichiro Tabata