Patents by Inventor Kiyonori Okano

Kiyonori Okano 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).

  • Metal ring inputting and outputting device
    Patent number: 6898956
    Abstract: A metal ring loading and unloading apparatus is capable of loading and unloading a metal ring quickly and highly accurately for increased efficiency. The metal ring loading and unloading apparatus has a moving unit 41 slidably movable along a rail 48 which extends from a loaded ring placement unit 8 to an unloaded ring placement unit 11. On the moving unit 41, there are mounted a loaded ring delivering unit 9 for holding and delivering a metal ring W on the loaded ring placement unit 8 and an unloaded ring delivering unit 10 for removing the metal ring W from support rollers 3, 4 and delivering the metal ring W to the unloaded ring placement unit 11. The loaded ring placement unit 8 has a pressing unit for radially pressing the metal ring W to deform the metal ring W into a substantially elliptical shape. The loaded ring delivering unit 9 has a loaded ring gripping unit 26 for gripping the metal ring W deformed by the pressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideshi Sato, Yuji Narusaki, Kiyonori Okano, Minoru Tomizawa, Masao Nitta, Yoshiharu Watabe
  • Metal ring inputting and outputting device
    Publication number: 20040020257
    Abstract: A metal ring loading and unloading apparatus is capable of loading and unloading a metal ring quickly and highly accurately for increased efficiency. The metal ring loading and unloading apparatus has a moving unit 41 slidably movable along a rail 48 which extends from a loaded ring placement unit 8 to an unloaded ring placement unit 11. On the moving unit 41, there are mounted a loaded ring delivering unit 9 for holding and delivering a metal ring W on the loaded ring placement unit 8 and an unloaded ring delivering unit 10 for removing the metal ring W from support rollers 3, 4 and delivering the metal ring W to the unloaded ring placement unit 11. The loaded ring placement unit 8 has a pressing unit for radially pressing the metal ring W to deform the metal ring W into a substantially elliptical shape. The loaded ring delivering unit 9 has a loaded ring gripping unit 26 for gripping the metal ring W deformed by the pressing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Hideshi Sato, Yuji Narusaki, Kiyonori Okano, Minoru Tomizawa, Masao Nitta, Yoshiharu Watabe