Patents by Inventor Shoichi Kuwahara

Shoichi Kuwahara 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: 5042533
    Abstract: In construction of an auto-doffer for weaving looms, a pair of arm mounted to a carriage carry out full automatic doffing separation by means of their three dimensional movement and a cutter unit also mounted to the carriage disconnects, in cooperation with a cloth pressor unit, a full roll held by the arms from a cloth being woven. The carriage is designed to travel along selected paths in a weaving mill to visit a loom in need of doffing operation on receipt of a command from a central processing unit. After the doffing operation, the auto-doffer carrying a full roll travels to a station aranged in the mill for transfer of the full roll to and receipt of an empty roll from a transporter which reciprocate between the station and a cloth roll stocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Kuwahara, Hideho Kyoda