Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Konno

Hidetoshi Konno 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: 10381026
    Abstract: A record player includes a turntable, a drive motor, a non-contact transmission mechanism, a tone arm, and a housing. The non-contact transmission mechanism includes a drive-side rotor and a magnetic member. The drive-side rotor is rotated by a driving force of the drive motor. The drive-side rotor is formed of a permanent magnet. The magnetic member is constituted of a soft magnetic body. The turntable is rotated according to the rotation of the drive-side rotor by an attraction force acting on the magnetic member from the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: TEAC CORPORATION, PROSPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Tanishima, Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20190013040
    Abstract: A record player includes a turntable, a drive motor, a non-contact transmission mechanism, a tone arm, and a housing. The non-contact transmission mechanism includes a drive-side rotor and a magnetic member. The drive-side rotor is rotated by a driving force of the drive motor. The drive-side rotor is formed of a permanent magnet. The magnetic member is constituted of a soft magnetic body. The turntable is rotated according to the rotation of the drive-side rotor by an attraction force acting on the magnetic member from the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Takao TANISHIMA, Hidetoshi KONNO
  • Patent number: 9995605
    Abstract: A Bourdon tube pressure gauge includes: a Bourdon tube; a rotary piece rotatably attached to a first shaft arranged near a tip of the Bourdon tube; a pointer including a second shaft arranged on a side facing an outer periphery of the fan-shaped portion of the rotary piece; a first permanent magnet provided on an outer peripheral surface side of a fan-shaped portion of the rotary piece; a second permanent magnet provided at the second shaft. An outer peripheral surface of the first permanent magnet and an outer peripheral surface of the second permanent magnet each has N pole and S pole alternately magnetized at equal pitches. A magnetic member configured to relax force by which the second permanent magnet is attracted to the first permanent magnet is provided across the second permanent magnet from the first permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: PROSPINE Co., Ltd., OKADA KEIKI MFG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Manabu Oonuma, Nobutaka Okada
  • Publication number: 20180073947
    Abstract: A Bourdon tube pressure gauge includes: a Bourdon tube; a rotary piece rotatably attached to a first shaft arranged near a tip of the Bourdon tube; a pointer including a second shaft arranged on a side facing an outer periphery of the fan-shaped portion of the rotary piece; a first permanent magnet provided on an outer peripheral surface side of a fan-shaped portion of the rotary piece; a second permanent magnet provided at the second shaft. An outer peripheral surface of the first permanent magnet and an outer peripheral surface of the second permanent magnet each has N pole and S pole alternately magnetized at equal pitches. A magnetic member configured to relax force by which the second permanent magnet is attracted to the first permanent magnet is provided across the second permanent magnet from the first permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KONNO, Manabu OONUMA, Nobutaka OKADA
  • Patent number: 9021774
    Abstract: A packaging and filling apparatus for keeping pressure of filled liquid food in a tube at positive pressure, facilitating preformation by a forming flap, and preventing an external ambient substance from entering the tube even if the liquid food pressure lowers to negative pressure by a fluctuation of the liquid food pressure is described. The apparatus has a pressure flange provided below a liquid level in a tubular packaging material and along an outer periphery of a filling pipe. The pressure flange prevents the liquid food in the tube from freely flowing up from the lower part to keep the pressure of the liquid food positive in the tube below the pressure flange thereby facilitating the preformation by the forming flap. The apparatus closes a gap occurring on a seam serving as a vertical sealed part or a portion where the gap might occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Baba, Hidetoshi Konno, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8943786
    Abstract: A packaging and filling machine that is capable of easily preforming with the forming flaps by keeping the pressure of the filled liquid food in the tube at positive pressure, capable of preventing the pressure of the liquid food from dropping to negative pressure, even if the pressure of the liquid food decreases due to the change in the liquid food pressure, and capable of preventing outside atmosphere materials from invading into the tube. A pressure flange fixed on a periphery of the filling pipe absorbs fluctuation of the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange, and prevents the liquid food pressure from dropping to negative pressure to keep the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange at a positive pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yutaka Kaneko, Keiji Yano
  • Patent number: 8938938
    Abstract: A packaging and filling machine is capable of easily preforming with the forming flaps by keeping the pressure of the filled liquid food in the tube the positive pressure, capable of preventing the pressure of the liquid food from dropping to negative pressure, even if the pressure of the liquid food decreases due to the up-and-down of the liquid food pressure, and capable of preventing outside atmosphere materials from invading into the tube. A positive pressure keeping means absorbs fluctuation of the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange, and prevents the liquid food pressure from dropping in negative pressure to keep the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange a positive pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yutaka Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20110185686
    Abstract: A packaging and filling machine is capable of easily preforming with the forming flaps by keeping the pressure of the filled liquid food in the tube the positive pressure, capable of preventing the pressure of the liquid food from dropping to negative pressure, even if the pressure of the liquid food decreases due to the up-and-down of the liquid food pressure, and capable of preventing outside atmosphere materials from invading into the tube. A positive pressure keeping means absorbs fluctuation of the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange, and prevents the liquid food pressure from dropping in negative pressure to keep the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange a positive pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yutaka Kaneko, Keiji Yano
  • Publication number: 20110154779
    Abstract: To provide a packaging and filling apparatus for keeping pressure of filled liquid food in a tube at positive pressure, facilitating preformation by a forming flap, and preventing an external ambient substance from entering the tube even if the liquid food pressure lowers to negative pressure by a fluctuation of the liquid food pressure. The packaging and filling apparatus has a pressure flange provided below a liquid level in a tubular packaging material and along an outer periphery of a filling pipe. The pressure flange prevents the filled liquid food in the tube from freely flowing up from the lower part to keep the pressure of the liquid food positive in the tube below the pressure flange so as to facilitate the preformation by the forming flap. A covering means is provided, for closing a gap occurring on a seam serving as a vertical sealed part or a portion where the gap might occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCES S.A.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Baba, Hidetoshi Konno, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20110099955
    Abstract: A packaging and filling machine is capable of easily preforming with the forming flaps by keeping the pressure of the filled liquid food in the tube the positive pressure, capable of preventing the pressure of the liquid food from dropping to negative pressure, even if the pressure of the liquid food decreases due to the up-and-down of the liquid food pressure, and capable of preventing outside atmosphere materials from invading into the tube. A positive pressure keeping means absorbs fluctuation of the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange, and prevents the liquid food pressure from dropping in negative pressure to keep the pressure of the liquid food in the tube below the pressure flange a positive pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yutaka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7784247
    Abstract: An object is to enable a strip tape to be bonded to a packaging material at a proper position and enable longitudinal sealing to be performed well. A packaging-container manufacturing apparatus includes a bonding member, a first detection section which detects an edge of the packaging material, a second detection section which detects an edge of the strip tape (12), position determination processing means for determining the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material, and position correction processing means for correcting the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material. Since the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material is determined on the basis of outputs of the first and second detection sections and the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material is corrected on the basis of results of the determination on the position, the strip tape (12) is placed on the packaging material at a proper position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20090293428
    Abstract: An object is to enable a strip tape to be bonded to a packaging material at a proper position and enable longitudinal sealing to be performed well. A packaging-container manufacturing apparatus includes a bonding member, a first detection section which detects an edge of the packaging material, a second detection section which detects an edge of the strip tape (12), position determination processing means for determining the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material, and position correction processing means for correcting the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material. Since the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material is determined on the basis of outputs of the first and second detection sections and the position of the strip tape (12) in relation to the packaging material is corrected on the basis of results of the determination on the position, the strip tape (12) is placed on the packaging material at a proper position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Konno
  • Patent number: 7484347
    Abstract: A packaging filling apparatus, which can obtain the most suitable sealing quality by an automatic control without checking the condition of the sealing by the operator on a regular basis, is provided. A transversal sealing apparatus 48 of the packaging filling apparatus includes a high-frequency oscillator 1, controller 2, and an inductor, which generates a magnet field in packaging material by receiving the output from the high-frequency oscillator, and is provided with a sealing quality control means 4, which transmits a control signal to the controller, based on a statistical relation between a plurality of effect factors affecting the quality of a transversal sealing 23 and the quality of transversal sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yasuyuki Moriyama, Yuzo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7484341
    Abstract: A packaging and filling apparatus fills a tube of a web of a packaging material with a fluid product, forms lateral seal bands, cuts each seal band of a series of pillow-like preformed bodies with a cutting device to form a packaging and filling container of the final form. The cutting device comprises a resistance measuring device for measuring a cutting resistance pressure that a packaging material cutting blade receives from the packaging material, and then outputting a measurement value obtained, and a blade monitoring device for monitoring the condition of the packaging material cutting blade based upon based upon a comparison of a difference between a maximum measured cutting resistance pressure and a constant measured cutting resistance pressure following the maximum measured cutting resistance pressure with a predetermined pressure difference reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20080092492
    Abstract: A packing machine and a packing method which can prevent the knife in a cutter from having adverse effect on induction heating, and control a packing/filling machine by monitoring trouble with the knife and leakage of content due to that trouble. The packing machine, comprising a heat sealer for sealing packing materials to each other, and a cutter for cutting the packing materials by means of a conductive knife, is further provided with an arrangement for detecting an output from an induction heater generating a high frequency current being applied to a conductive material layer as a monitored phase angle, and a knife monitor for monitoring the cutter based on the detected phase angle data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20080021174
    Abstract: A radiation-curable resin composition for shape-replication of the present invention includes a polyester resin (R) whose number average molecular weight (Mn) is 1,000 to 8,000; and a polymerizable vinyl compound (V), wherein a temperature (T4), at which a complex viscosity (?*) of components excluding any solvent at a frequency of 1 Hz is 1×104 dPa·s, is 30° C. or higher, and a temperature (T6), at which a complex viscosity (?*) at a frequency of 1 Hz is 1×106 dPa·s, is 100° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Dainipoon Ink and Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokuda, Nobuo Kobayashi, Masatoshi Motomura, Hiroyuki Terada, Kenji Shoumura, Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20070107376
    Abstract: A packaging and filling apparatus and a packaging material cutting device are provided, in which the knife of the cutting device can be replaced with appropriate timing by quantitatively determining the service life of the knife of the cutting device. The packaging and filling apparatus fills a tube of a web of a packaging material with a fluid product, forms lateral seal bands by sealing the tube in the direction in which the bands intersect the tube, cuts each seal band of a series of pillow-like preformed bodies with a cutting device such that the pillow-like preformed bodies are severed from each other, thus forming a packaging and filling container of the final form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Konno
  • Publication number: 20070029000
    Abstract: A carton paper powder removing apparatus of the present invention is capable of sufficiently removing paper powder in a tubular carton and preventing the carton from being deformed even if a large volume of air or a powerful air is blown therein. The carton paper powder removing apparatus of a paper liquid container packaging and filling machine comprises a paper powder removing nozzle 2 having an air jetting port 4 at a tip part, a paper powder return prevention means 7 installed in a space between a nozzle outer wall and a carton inner wall, and a paper powder collecting means 5 installed near the upper opening part of the bottomed tubular carton and having an air suction port 6 disposed therein, wherein the paper powder removing nozzle 2 is reciprocatingly moved between the upper opening part of the bottomed tubular carton 1 and the inside of the carton, whereby paper powder in the carton can be removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yasuyuki Moriyama, Daisuke Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20070017189
    Abstract: A packaging filling apparatus, which can obtain the most suitable sealing quality by an automatic control without checking the condition of sealing by the operator on a regular basis, is provided. A transversal sealing apparatus 48 of the packaging filling apparatus includes a high-frequency oscillator 1, controller 2, and an inductor, which generates a magnetic field in said packaging material by receiving the output from the high-frequency oscillator, and is provided with a sealing quality control means 4, which transmits a control signal to the controller, based on a statistical relation between a plurality of effect factors affecting the quality of said transversal sealing 23 and the quality of said transversal sealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yasuyuki Moriyama, Yuzo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7051494
    Abstract: When using web-shaped packaging material in which the rear end of a packaging material is spliced to the front end of a next web-shaped packaging material, in order to continuously operate the filling machine for paper container, notches are provided on a corner portion of the paper spliced portion around the metal layer. Even if a paper spliced portion is included in the web-shaped packaging material, in the filling machine seal insufficiency is not generated in the longitudinal seal of the paper spliced portions, and an interruption due to the broken part of continuous operation is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Konno, Yasuyuki Moriyama