Patents by Inventor Kouichi Hatano
Kouichi Hatano 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).
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Patent number: 7967128Abstract: An article conveying device 10 in which a floor surface 21 of each of a plurality of fixed floors 20 is arranged so as to form a descending slope towards a downstream side in a conveying direction with respect to each other, each of a plurality of moving floors 30 is adjacently arranged on a side in the conveying direction with respect to each fixed floor 20, and a raising/lowering operation of simultaneously positioning the respective floor surface 31 of each moving floor 30 at a high position and a low position with respect to the floor surface 21 of the adjacent fixed floor 20 is repeated to arrange the floor surface 31 of each moving floor 30 positioned at the high position so as to form a descending slope towards the downstream side in the conveying direction with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kouichi Hatano, Hiroshi Inada, Katsuo Takahashi, Hidenori Shirai
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Patent number: 7828134Abstract: There is provided an article alignment apparatus 10 including an article alignment device for aligning orientations of articles by arranging two aligners 21, 21 having cylindrical surfaces, rotating each of the aligners 21 while keeping it at a predetermined inclination with respect to a horizontal direction, placing the articles on cylindrical outer surfaces of the two aligners 21, and carrying the articles from one side to the other side, in which protrusions 22 are provided on the surfaces of the aligners 21.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kouichi Hatano, Junichi Ishikawa, Masaaki Suzuki, Hidenori Shirai
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Publication number: 20100032265Abstract: An article conveying device 10 in which a floor surface 21 of each of a plurality of fixed floors 20 is arranged so as to form a descending slope towards a downstream side in a conveying direction with respect to each other, each of a plurality of moving floors 30 is adjacently arranged on a side in the conveying direction with respect to each fixed floor 20, and a raising/lowering operation of simultaneously positioning the respective floor surface 31 of each moving floor 30 at a high position and a low position with respect to the floor surface 21 of the adjacent fixed floor 20 is repeated to arrange the floor surface 31 of each moving floor 30 positioned at the high position so as to form a descending slope towards the downstream side in the conveying direction with respect to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2007Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Hatano, Hiroshi Inada, Katsuo Takahashi, Hidenori Shirai
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Publication number: 20090139837Abstract: There is provided an article alignment apparatus 10 including an article alignment device for aligning orientations of articles by arranging two aligners 21, 21 having cylindrical surfaces, rotating each of the aligners 21 while keeping it at a predetermined inclination with respect to a horizontal direction, placing the articles on cylindrical outer surfaces of the two aligners 21, and carrying the articles from one side to the other side, in which protrusions 22 are provided on the surfaces of the aligners 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Hatano, Junichi Ishigawa, Masaaki Suzuki, Hidenori Shirai
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Patent number: 6992717Abstract: An iris identifying apparatus includes an optical-axis aligning section which aligns the line of sight of a target person to be picked up, who views a guide light through a view window, with the optical axis of an image pickup device that picks up the eye of the target person. The optical-axis aligning section flickers the guide light and guides the line of sight of the target person to the guide light, and turns on the guide light when the image picked up by the image pickup device comes into focus, thereby notifying the target person of the eye having entered the image pickup distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kouichi Hatano
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Publication number: 20020033896Abstract: Disclosed is an iris identifying apparatus comprising an optical-axis aligning section which aligns the line of sight of a target person to be picked up, who views a guide light through a view window, with the optical axis of an image pickup device that picks up the eye of the target person. The optical-axis aligning section flickers the guide light and guides the line of sight of the target person to the guide light, and turns on the guide light when the image picked up by the image pickup device comes into focus, thereby notifying the target person of the eye having entered the image pickup distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventor: Kouichi Hatano
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Patent number: 5705473Abstract: To provide a nonionic powdery detergent free from oozing of a liquid nonionic surfactant at ambient temperature and having excellent powder fluidity and non-caking properties and a solubility which is not deteriorated with time.The nonionic powdery detergent composition comprises (a) 12 to 35% by weight of a nonionic surfactant having a melting point of not higher than 40.degree. C. and an HLB in the range of 9.0 to 16.0,(b) 10 to 60% by weight of a crystalline aluminosilicate and(c) 5 to 20% by weight of an amorphous oil-absorbing carrier containing at least 30% by weight of silicon (in terms of SiO.sub.2) versus the weight of said carrier in an anhydrous state and having an oil-absorbing capacity of at least 80 ml/100 g, said carrier giving a dispersion with a pH of at least 9 or being soluble in a 2% aqueous NaOH solution in an amount of 0.5 g or below.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1994Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Mutsumi Kuroda, Hiroshi Ohtsuka, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Mikio Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Kondo, Kouichi Hatano, Fumio Sai
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Patent number: 5468516Abstract: A process for producing nonionic detergent granules having a bulk density of from 0.6 to 1.2 g/ml is disclosed, which comprises the following steps (1) to (3):(1) mixing a detergent material comprising a nonionic surfactant;(2) granulating a mixture obtained in said step (1) by agitating in an agitating mixer provided at the center position thereof with a rotation shaft having an agitation impeller with a clearance between the agitation impeller and an inner wall of the mixer, wherein the agitation impeller agitates the mixture to form an adhesion layer of said mixture on said inner wall of said mixer so as to increase a bulk density of granules of the mixture; and(3) mixing the granules obtained in said step (2) with fine particles to thereby coat the surface of the granules with the fine particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kondo, Kouichi Hatano, Katsunori Nakano, Kouji Toyoda, Takashi Senzaki
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Patent number: 5366655Abstract: A stable sodium percarbonate particle that at least the inside of the particle is penetrated and coated with a borate and a process for preparing the same are disclosed.The sodium percarbonate particle of the invention is preparesd by subjecting a dried sodium percarbonate particle and an aqueous solution of a borate to solid-liquid mixing and then drying the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1991Date of Patent: November 22, 1994Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Kouichi Hatano, Mutsumi Kuroda