Patents by Inventor Shuji Kidani

Shuji Kidani 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: 5148665
    Abstract: A roving bobbin carrier system having a single carrier line for conveying a plurality of full wound roving bobbins from a roving frame to a fine spinning frame and conveying a plurality of unwound roving bobbins from the fine spinning frame to the roving frame with the unwound roving bobbins converted into blank roving bobbins having no residual roving. A stock conveyor is provided at a midway position of the carrier line independently thereof. A residual roving removing device and first and second transfer mechanisms are provided in connection with the stock conveyor to convert the unwound roving bobbins to the blank roving bobbins. Accordingly, the conveyance of the full wound roving bobbins and the unwound roving bobbins can be efficiently carried out through the single carrier line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Murao and Company
    Inventor: Shuji Kidani
  • Patent number: 5129206
    Abstract: The invention provides a cheese transporting processing apparatus for classifying cheeses wound up by winders or the like for different types and packing and carrying out the thus classified cheeses. When a cheese is transported by an overhead conveyor with a type identifying unit, information of a type of the cheese is written into the type identifying unit. In accordance with such type information, cheeses are stocked for different types into a cheese stocker. In response to a demanding instruction from a packing line, cheeses of a specified type are discharged from the cheese stocker and boxed and packed. Such sequence of operations is performed automatically on the cheese transporting processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Murao and Company
    Inventors: Shuji Kidani, Koji Sakashita