Patents by Inventor Shoichi Koga

Shoichi Koga 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: 6655111
    Abstract: In a device that opens the mouth of each one of the bags that are suspended with the mouths facing upward and conveyed in a vertical state at a uniform speed and uniform spacing in a straight line, a pair of suction disks revolve continuously in mutually opposite directions on circular tracks on the horizontal plane so that the suction-chucking surfaces of the suction disks are always caused to face each other. The suction disks revolve at a constant speed while maintaining substantially symmetrical positions relative to each other and revolve at the same speed as the speed the bags are conveyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6604560
    Abstract: A packaging processing (liquid filling) apparatus, including a rising-and-lowering assembly attached to a pivot member and moved vertically and filling nozzles attached to the rising-and-lowering assembly. An endless chain having grippers at equal intervals is rotated continuously by a sprocket. A circular first raising-and-lowering cam that rotates with the sprocket is attached to the sprocket, and a circular-arc-shaped second raising-and-lowering cam is provided near the first raising-and-lowering cam; and a cam roller attached to the rising-and-lowering assembly is caused to roll on these cams. When the pivot member makes a forward motion to follow the bags held by grippers, the cam roller rolls over the second raising-and-lowering cam, and the rising-and-lowering assembly is lowered and then raised; when the pivot member makes a return motion, the cam roller rolls over the first raising-and-lowering cam, and the rising-and-lowering assembly is maintained in a raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6575207
    Abstract: An opening apparatus that opens continuously conveyed bags with a gas supplied by nozzles. A plurality of nozzles having conical head sections and discharge openings at the tip ends are attached to a rotation transmitting member with equal spaces in between, and this rotation transmitting member is caused to revolve at a constant speed while maintaining a horizontal attitude by means of a parallel link mechanism. The nozzles revolve at a constant speed on a circular track in a vertical plane along the conveying direction of bags with the discharge openings consistently facing the bags. When the nozzles are at the lower point on the circular track, the head sections enter into the bags that are being conveyed at a constant speed, and a gas is caused to jet into the bags from the discharged openings, thus spread-opening the bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20030010398
    Abstract: A rotary and flow meter type liquid filling apparatus including a liquid reservoir tank that stores and supplies liquid to filling nozzles, and air supply paths for different amount of air supply and air discharge paths for different amount of air discharge being connected to the liquid reservoir tank. An air compressor is connected to the air supply paths, and the air discharge paths open into the atmosphere. A liquid pressure sensor disposed near the filling nozzles sense the increase or decrease of the liquid pressure inside a pipe that connects the liquid reservoir tank and liquid filling nozzles, and the electromagnetic valves provided on the air supply and air discharge paths are opened or closed, thus supplying air to and discharging air from the liquid reservoir tank so as to control the air pressure inside the liquid reservoir tank and the liquid pressure near the liquid filling nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Namiyoshi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Shoichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6507622
    Abstract: To use high noise transmission lines, such as an electric wire, as the lines to transmit signals, it is imperative to reduce the level of signals. The present invention is provided with a sending signal generating means 10, which outputs converted data after converting an input signal into a plurality of carrier signals assuming values at such intervals on the axis of frequency that the frequencies may not interfere with each other. If an interfering noise with any one of the plurality of frequencies arises on the transmission line, removal of only a carrier of the noise frequency would leave the communication in a good condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Maki, Shoichi Koga, Satoshi Shinozaki, Yuji Igata, Satoshi Hasako, Michinori Kishimoto, Kazuhiko Tamesue
  • Publication number: 20020157728
    Abstract: A packaging processing (liquid filling) apparatus, including a rising-and-lowering assembly attached to a pivot member and moved vertically and filling nozzles attached to the rising-and-lowering assembly. An endless chain having grippers at equal intervals is rotated continuously by a sprocket. A circular first raising-and-lowering cam that rotates with the sprocket is attached to the sprocket, and a circular-arc-shaped second raising-and-lowering cam is provided near the first raising-and-lowering cam; and a cam roller attached to the rising-and-lowering assembly is caused to roll on these cams. When the pivot member makes a forward motion to follow the bags held by grippers, the cam roller rolls over the second raising-and-lowering cam, and the rising-and-lowering assembly is lowered and then raised; when the pivot member makes a return motion, the cam roller rolls over the first raising-and-lowering cam, and the rising-and-lowering assembly is maintained in a raised position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20020148206
    Abstract: An empty bag supplying apparatus used in a continuous conveying type bag-filling packaging machine in which the empty bag supplying apparatus receives empty bags and transfers these empty bags to gripper pairs of the bag-filling packaging machine that are moved continuously at a constant speed. The empty bag supplying apparatus includes downward-facing bag holding members and a reciprocating movement mechanism. The bag holding members hold the upper portions of bags. The reciprocating movement mechanism causes the bag holding members to reciprocate along an arc-shaped path and keeps the empty bags held by the holding members to be parallel to the direction of movement of the gripper pairs during the reciprocating motion. In a bag transfer region established in the arc-shaped path path, the speed of the bag holding members holding the empty bags is equal to the moving speed of the gripper pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20020144880
    Abstract: A bag conveying apparatus including a sprocket continuously rotated on a horizontal plane, a fixed guide member having a guide section of a semicircular shape, and an endless chain mounted between the sprocket and the guide section of the guide member. The endless chain is comprised of a plurality of links connected by connecting shafts. Guide rollers rotatable about their own vertical axes are disposed on and under each connecting shaft, and an inside guide roller rotatable about its own horizontal axis is disposed on the inner side of each link. The guide section of the guide member has roller guide sections that contact the guide rollers of the endless chain, and the guide section also has a guide groove in which the inside guide rollers of the endless chain are fitted. Grippers that grip both edges of a bag are installed on each link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20020136314
    Abstract: To use high noise transmission lines, such as an electric wire, as the lines to transmit signals, it is imperative to reduce the level of signals. The present invention is provided with a sending signal generating means 10, which outputs converted data after converting an input signal into a plurality of carrier signals assuming values at such intervals on the axis of frequency that the frequencies may not interfere with each other. If an interfering noise with any one of the plurality of frequencies arises on the transmission line, removal of only a carrier of the noise frequency would leave the communication in a good condition. Furthermore, better results can be hoped for if the respective carrier signals are so arranged as not to interfere with each other or so arranged to intersect orthogonally with each other not only on the axis of frequency but also on the axis of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: MASAHIRO MAKI, SHOICHI KOGA, SATOSHI SHINOZAKI, YUJI IGATA, SATOSHI HASAKO, MICHINORI KISHIMOTO, KISHIMOTO TAMESUE
  • Publication number: 20020129868
    Abstract: An opening apparatus that opens continuously conveyed bags with a gas supplied by nozzles. A plurality of nozzles having conical head sections and discharge openings at the tip ends are attached to a rotation transmitting member with equal spaces in between, and this rotation transmitting member is caused to revolve at a constant speed while maintaining a horizontal attitude by means of a parallel link mechanism. The nozzles revolve at a constant speed on a circular track in a vertical plane along the conveying direction of bags with the discharge openings consistently facing the bags. When the nozzles are at the lower point on the circular track, the head sections enter into the bags that are being conveyed at a constant speed, and a gas is caused to jet into the bags from the discharged openings, thus spread-opening the bags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20020116898
    Abstract: In a device that opens the mouth of each one of the bags that are suspended with the mouths facing upward and conveyed in a vertical state at a uniform speed and uniform spacing in a straight line, a pair of suction disks revolve continuously in mutually opposite directions on circular tracks on the horizontal plane so that the suction-chucking surfaces of the suction disks are always caused to face each other. The suction disks revolve at a constant speed while maintaining substantially symmetrical positions relative to each other and revolve at the same speed as the speed the bags are conveyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20020118724
    Abstract: An antenna diversity communications device switches communications paths between a plurality of antennas to improve reception in a frequency diversity communications system. Antenna selection is done in response to measurement of the receiving condition of the selected antenna. A memory unit stores frequency difference information between the current channel and the next channel. When the frequency difference between the current channel and the next channel is small enough to predict good correlation between the channels, and if current receiving conditions are good, the current channel remains connected. When the frequency difference between the current channel and the next channel is large enough to predict poor correlation, or if the receiving conditions on the current channel are bad, one of the other channels is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Michinori Kishimoto, Toshiyuki Wakisaka, Shoichi Koga, Masami Wada
  • Publication number: 20020116905
    Abstract: A guide device for loading a solid matter into a bag including: an upper hopper which performs a reciprocating swinging motion along the conveying direction of the bag and about a supporting shaft located in the center of the upper portion of the upper hoppers, and a lower hopper which is positioned beneath the upper hopper and performs a reciprocating horizontal motion along the conveying direction of the bags and also moved toward and away from the upper hopper. The upper hopper's swing motion and the lower hopper's horizontal motion along the conveying direction of the bag are made in synchronization with the movement of the bag, and the lower hopper is lowered so that its lower opening is inserted into the mouth of the bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikemoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6414983
    Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Koga, Yuji Igata, Satoshi Hasako, Masahiro Maki, Michinori Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 6415005
    Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Koga, Yuji Igata, Satoshi Hasako, Masahiro Maki, Michinori Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20010052216
    Abstract: With a use of a transfer rotor that has gripping claws on its circumference, spouts are received by the gripping claws and conveyed and transferred to spout holding members of a continuously rotating rotor. The transfer rotor rotates intermittently 60° in a cycle consisting of stopping, acceleration, constant speed, deceleration and stopping. When the transfer rotor is stopped, spouts are received by gripping claws. During the constant rotation, the gripping claws are matched with the speed of the spout holding members, and the gripping claws and the spout holding members run side by side. During this side-by-side running, the spouts are transferred from the gripping claws to the spout holding members. At a transfer position, the gripping claws open, and the spouts move along a guide member as the spout holding members rotate, so that the spouts are pushed into the interiors of holding grooves of the spout holding members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Applicant: TOYO JIDOKI CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Hiramoto, Shoichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20010001617
    Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: SHOICHI KOGA, YUJI IGATA, SATOSHI HASAKO, MASAHIRO MAKI, MICHINORI KISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 6028886
    Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Koga, Yuji Igata, Satoshi Hasako, Masahiro Maki, Michinori Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 5835529
    Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Koga, Yuji Igata, Satoshi Hasako, Masahiro Maki, Michinori Kishimoto