Patent Application
20190344525
The contents of the following Japanese patent applications are incorporated herein by reference:
NO. 2017-014869 filed in JP on Jan. 30, 2017, and
NO. PCT/JP2018/003051 filed on Jan. 30, 2018.
The present invention relates to a shock absorber, a corrosion prevention material, and a heat insulating material.
Conventionally, it is known to use a polyurea resin molding for automobile parts such as bumpers, fenders and side moldings for the purpose of weight reduction or durability improvement of the automobile (see, for example, Patent Document 1). However, since the polyurea resin is hard, it is difficult to cut the polyurea resin molding according to the object for use. Therefore, it has been difficult to use the polyurea resin molding easily as the shock absorber, the corrosion prevention material, or the heat insulating material.
It is desirable that the shock absorber including the polyurea resin, the corrosion prevention material, and the heat insulating material are easily cut into a proper size according to the object.
In a first aspect of the present invention, a shock absorber is provided. The shock absorber may include the adhesive tape portion. The shock absorber may include a base material. The base material may be stacked on the adhesive tape portion. The shock absorber may include the polyurea resin layer and the polyurea resin layer may be stacked on the base material. The polyurea resin layer may be divided into a plurality of regions by a cut.
In a second aspect of the present invention, a corrosion prevention material is provided. The corrosion prevention material may include the adhesive tape portion. The corrosion prevention material may include the base material. The base material may be stacked on the adhesive tape portion. The corrosion prevention material may include the polyurea resin layer and the polyurea resin layer may be stacked on the base material. The polyurea resin layer may be divided into a plurality of regions by a cut.
In a third aspect of the present invention, a heat insulating material is provided. The heat insulating material may include the adhesive tape portion. The heat insulating material may include the base material. The base material may be stacked on the adhesive tape portion. The heat insulating material may include the polyurea resin layer. The polyurea resin layer may be stacked on the base material. The polyurea resin layer may be divided into a plurality of regions by a cut.
In a fourth aspect of the present invention, a method of manufacturing the shock absorber that is attached to the object is provided. The shock absorber may include the adhesive tape portion. The shock absorber may include the base material. The base material may be stacked on the adhesive tape portion. The shock absorber may include the polyurea resin layer. The polyurea resin layer may be stacked on the base material. The polyurea resin layer may be divided into a plurality of regions by a cut. The method of manufacturing the shock absorber may include inputting information on a moving speed of the object in a situation where the object to which the shock absorber is attached is used. The method of manufacturing may include controlling a spray amount of a polyurea resin to a surface of the base material based on input information such that a thickness of the polyurea resin layer stacked on the base material increases as the moving speed of the object increases. The method of manufacturing may further include forming such that a width and a thickness of the cut increase as the thickness of the polyurea resin layer increases.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through the embodiments of the invention, but the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the claims. Moreover, not all combinations of features described in the embodiments are essential to the solution of the invention.
The in-hospital mobility support system is a self-propelled car that is used for a patient to board and move in a hospital. The in-hospital mobility support system automatically carries the patient to a destination, for example, at a speed of about 1.2 km per hour or more and 1.8 km per hour or less. The electric cart for elderly people is a type of an electric wheelchair and is widely used as an auxiliary tool that moves at about 6 km per hour. The caddie cart travels at a medium speed of 30 km per hour or less and is used as means of transportation in a golf course.
Further, the shock absorber 100 may be attached to an inner surface or an outer surface of a box such as a container. The shock absorber 100 may be attached to a bottom surface or a front surface of footwear such as slippers. The shock absorber 100 may be attached to a surface of a wearable article such as a helmet. However, the object to which the shock absorber 100 is attached is not limited to the mobile device, the box, the footwear, and the wearable article.
The shock absorber 100 includes an adhesive tape portion 10, a base material 20, and a polyurea resin layer 30. The adhesive tape portion 10 includes a tape body 12, a first adhesive layer 14, and a second adhesive layer 16. The first adhesive layer 14 is an adhesive layer applied to a surface of the tape body 12 and provides an adhesive surface for attaching the shock absorber 100 to the object. The second adhesive layer 16 firmly fixes the adhesive tape portion 10 and the base material 20 of the shock absorber 100. The tape body 12 may be formed of a flexible material.
The base material 20 is stacked on the adhesive tape portion 10. In the present example, the base material 20 is stacked on the top surface of the adhesive tape portion 10. Specifically, the base material 20 is firmly fixed to the adhesive tape portion 10 by the second adhesive layer 16 of the adhesive tape portion 10. The base material 20 may include one or more types of base materials selected from a group consisting of a foamed synthetic resin, a carbon fiber, a polyamide synthetic fiber, a silicate fiber, a basalt fiber, an inorganic substance powder highly-oriented thin film sheet, and a cellulose nanofibers.
When the base material 20 is the foamed synthetic resin, the synthetic resin forming the base material 20 may be a high polymer compound. As a more specific example, the synthetic resin forming the base material 20 is formed of one or more materials selected from polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyurethane. The foamed synthetic resin refers to the synthetic resin in which fine bubbles are dispersed. In one example, the base material 20 is formed of expanded polystyrene (foamed polystyrene).
Alternatively, the base material 20 may be fibers such as a carbon fiber, a polyamide synthetic fiber (aramid fiber), a silicate fiber (glass fiber), and a basalt fiber. Further, the base material 20 may be the inorganic substance powder highly-blended thin film sheet. The inorganic substance powder highly-blended thin film sheet is called stone paper (paper of stone) or LIMEX (registered trademark). The inorganic substance powder highly-blended thin film sheet is a sheet obtained by forming pellets made by mixing, for example, 56 wt % to 80 wt % of calcium carbonate powder, 18 wt % to 43 wt % of polyethylene resin, and 1 wt % to 2 wt % of additive into a thin film by an inflation extruder.
The base material 20 may be a sheet formed of the cellulose nanofibers. The cellulose nanofibers are the basic skeletal materials of plants. In plant cell walls, cellulose nanofibers in which several cellulose microfibrils (single cellulose nanofibers) having a width of about 4 nm are gathered and bundled exist. As the base material 20, a base material obtained by molding an aggregation of cellulose nanofibers into a sheet or a base material in which the cellulose nanofibers and a resin are mixed to form a resin complex may be used. It is possible to increase the strength of the base material 20 because the cellulose nanofibers have the strength that is five times or more than that of iron steel.
The polyurea resin layer 30 is stacked on the base material 20. The polyurea resin layer 30 is formed of the polyurea resin. The polyurea resin is a resin having a urea bond that is formed by a chemical reaction between, for example, isocyanate and an amino group. As one example, the polyurea resin is formed by reacting polyisocyanate with polyamine In the present example, the polyurea resin layer 30 is stacked on the top surface of the base material 20. The top surface of the base material 20 means a surface opposite to a surface where the base material 20 is in contact with the adhesive tape portion 10.
The polyurea resin layer 30 of the present example is divided into a plurality of regions by a cut 32. With reference to an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system, the adhesive tape portion 10, the base material 20, and the polyurea resin layer 30 are stacked with a Z-axis direction as the stacking direction. In the present example, the cuts 32 are formed along a Y direction that is orthogonal to the Z-axis direction that is the stacking direction. In the present example, the plurality of cuts 32 are formed so as to be orthogonal to a longitudinal direction (X-axis direction) along which the shock absorber 100 extends. Each interval between adjacent cuts 32 may be the same or different.
In the shock absorber 100 of the present example, the plurality of cuts 32 are formed in advance in the polyurea resin layer 30 that is difficult to cut by a cutter or the like. Accordingly, a user can cut the shock absorber 100 through the cuts 32 using an instrument such as a cutter. By choosing cutting points among the plurality of cuts 32, the shock absorber 100 including the polyurea resin can be cut into a proper size according to the object.
The adhesive tape portion 10 is provided to the shock absorber 100 of the present example. Accordingly, it is possible to attach, to the surfaces of various objects, the shock absorber 100 cut into the proper size according to the object to enhance the impact resistance of the object. Specifically, the shock absorber 100 can be attached to surfaces of various articles such as a surface of a mobile device, a rear surface of footwear, an inner surface of a container, and a surface of a wearable article to enhance the impact resistance of these articles. A fluorescent paint or a luminous paint may be applied to the surface of the shock absorber 100. Accordingly, the shock absorber 100 can enhance not only the impact resistance, but also the visibility.
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Particularly, the first base material 21 may be the foamed synthetic resin and the second base material may be the cellulose nanofibers. While the first base material 21 formed of the foamed synthetic resin rich in elasticity absorbs the impact, the strength can be enhanced by the cellulose nanofibers.
The base material 20 may be selected depending on properties or the like of the object to which the shock absorber 100 is attached. Depending on the properties or the like of the object to which the shock absorber 100 is attached, a thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 may be determined or whether to apply the fluorescent coating may be determined.
Table 1 shows a list of the base material 20, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30, and whether to apply the fluorescent coating according to the object. However, Table 1 is an example and it is not limited to the case of Table 1.
When the shock absorber 100 is applied to the mobile devices such as the in-hospital mobile system, the electric cart for elderly people, and the caddie cart, to withstand the impact due to the collision or the like during the movement of the devices, it is desirable to select the base material 20 in which the first base material 21 such as the expanded polystyrene and the second base material 22 such as the cellulose nanofibers are stacked. For the device that moves at a speed of 2 km per hour or less as in the in-hospital mobile system, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 may be 0.2 mm or more and 0.5 mm or less. In the case of the device that moves at a speed of 2 km per hour or more and 10 km per hour or less as in the electric cart for elderly people, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 may be 0.5 mm or more and 0.1 mm or less, and in the case of the device that moves at a speed of 10 km per hour or more and 30 km per hour or less as in the caddie cart, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 may be 1 mm or more and 1.5 mm or less. It is desirable to increase the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 as the moving speed increases.
As in the case of attaching the shock absorber 100 to the inner surface of the container, when a main purpose is a corrosion protection and an internal insulation effect rather than a purpose of a shock mitigation, that is when the polyurea resin molding is used as the corrosion prevention material or the heat insulating material, it is desirable to use a single-layered base material of the foamed synthetic resin as the base material 20. For example, expanded polystyrene can be used as the base material 20. When the adhesive surface of the object such as the rear surface of the footwear is a fiber, as the base material 20, it is possible to select fibers such as the carbon fiber, the polyamide synthetic fiber (aramid fiber), the silicate fiber (glass fiber), and the basalt fiber. When the object is the wearable article such as the helmet, the inorganic substance powder highly-blended thin film sheet may be used as the base material 20.
The cut 32 formed to the polyurea resin layer 30 and the cut 24 formed to the base material 20 may have the same position (X-direction position and Y-direction position) as viewed from the upper surface direction (Z direction) of the shock absorber 100. Depending on types of the base material 20, it may be difficult to cut not only the polyurea resin layer 30 but also the base material 20. According to the present example, since the cuts 24 are also formed to the base material 20, a user can cut the shock absorber 100 along the cut 32 and the cut 24 using the instrument such as a cutter. By choosing the cutting points, the shock absorber 100 including the polyurea resin can be cut into the proper size according to the object.
According to the present example, since the shock absorber 100 includes the cut 32 of the polyurea resin layer 30, the cut 24 of the base material 20 and the fractured portion 18 of the adhesive tape portion 10, the entire shock absorber 100 can be easily cut into the proper size according to the object.
The shock absorber 100 according to the above described first and second embodiments can be manufactured as follows. After forming the base material 20 with the foam resin, in a spraying stage, a coating material of the polyurea resin is sprayed on the surface of the base material 20. In the drying stage, the polyurea resin is allowed to dry. Accordingly, the polyurea resin layer 30 is formed on the upper surface of the base material 20. The cuts 32 are formed to the polyurea resin layer 30 by cutting. In the case of the second embodiment, cutting is performed such that the cuts 32 penetrate through the polyurea resin layer 30 to reach the base material 20 and form the cuts 24. Accordingly, a stacked structure of the base material 20 and the polyurea resin layer 30 is completed.
On the other hand, a tape body 12 formed to conform to the shape of the base material 20 is prepared. The fractured portions 18 may be formed to the tape body 12. Next, an adhesive is applied to the upper surface of the tape body 12 to form the second adhesive layer 16. Next, in the stacked structure of the base material 20 and the polyurea resin layer 30, the rear surface of the base material 20 is arranged and joined on/with the second adhesive layer 16. Accordingly, the stacked structure of the base material 20 and the polyurea resin layer 30, and the adhesive tape portion 10 are firmly fixed.
When the fractured portions 18 are formed to the tape body 12, the adhesive tape portion 10 and the stacked structure of the base material 20 and the polyurea resin layer 30 are aligned and then firmly fixed such that the fractured portion 18 and the cut 32 (and cut 24) are in the same position. The first adhesive layer 14 is formed on the rear surface side of the tape body 12. The first adhesive layer 14 provides the adhesive surface.
Instead of forming the cut 32 by cutting, the cut 32 may be formed by masking the portions where the cuts 32 are to be formed such that the cut 32 is not coated with the polyurea resin. Further, instead of forming the cut 24 by cutting, the cut 24 may be formed at the time of molding by the foam resin.
The shock absorber 100 is manufactured in a shape and a component appropriate to a use (application) of the shock absorber 100 (corrosion prevention material or heat insulating material). The shock absorber 100 compatible with the application of the shock absorber 100 may be automatically selected. For example, when a user inputs the application through a terminal, in response to the input application, the type of the base material 20, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30, and/or whether to apply the fluorescent coating are determined. A computer or the like connected to a manufacturing apparatus may include a database in which pieces of information on the type of the base material 20, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 and/or whether to apply the fluorescent coating are registered for each application. By referring to the database, the type of the base material 20, the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30, and/or whether to apply the fluorescent coating may be automatically selected according to the application.
As the application, the specific type of the object may not be input. For example, as the application, information on a moving speed of the object is input.
Next, the cut 32 may be formed such that the width and the thickness of the cut 32 increase as the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 increases (step S300). For example, a cutting process is controlled such that the width and the thickness of the cut 24 automatically increase as the thickness of the polyurea resin layer 30 increases. Note that, information of whether the object to which the shock absorber 100 is applied is for outdoor use may be input as the application. When it is determined that the object is for outdoor use based on the input information, the fluorescent coating may be applied.
It is easy to wind the shock absorber 100 in a roll when the cut 24 is also formed to the base material 20 in addition to the cut 32 formed to the polyurea resin layer 30. However, if the base material 20 is a material having flexibility, it is possible to wind the shock absorber 100 in a roll even if the cut 24 is not formed to the base material 20. When the shock absorber 100 is wound in a roll, a user can pull out a necessary size of the shock absorber 100 from the roll portion 120 and cut the pulled out shock absorber 100 into the proper size according to the object for use. However, the shock absorber 100 is not limited to those stored in a roll. The shock absorber 100 may be stored in a folded state.
Although in the above description, the case where the shock absorber 100 extends in the longitudinal direction (X direction) has been described, the present invention is not limited to this case. The shock absorber 100 may be planarly spread along the plane (XY plane). In this case, the cut 32 (and cut 24) may include not only a cut along the Y axis but also a cut along the X axis. That is, the polyurea resin layer 30 (and base material 20) may be divided into a plurality of regions in a grid by first cuts along the X direction and second cuts that intersect with the first cuts.
A user can adjust not only a length in the X direction but also a width in the Y direction of the shock absorber 100. Therefore, a user can separate the planarly spread shock absorber 100 into a proper shape and size according to the object for use.
While the embodiments of the present invention have been described, the technical scope of the invention is not limited to the above described embodiments. A plurality of embodiments can be combined with one another. It is apparent to persons skilled in the art that various alterations and improvements can be added to the above-described embodiments. It is also apparent from the scope of the claims that the embodiments added with such alterations or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the invention.
10 adhesive tape, 12 tape body, 14 second adhesive layer, 16 first adhesive layer, 18 fractured portion, 20 base material, 21 first base material, 22 second base material, 24 cut, 30 polyurea resin layer, 32 cut, 40 protective film, 100 shock absorber, 120 roll portion
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-014869 | Jan 2017 | JP | national |
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| Parent | PCT/JP2018/003051 | Jan 2018 | US |
| Child | 16525611 | US |
