Patents by Inventor Takahiro Nagaoka

Takahiro Nagaoka 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: 7866597
    Abstract: A reinforcement binding machine (1), comprising a wire reel storage part (3) having a rotation detection lever (8) and a photo sensor (7). When a wire reel is rotated in starting binding, the rotation detection lever is turned on and off by a projected part formed on the side face of the wire reel to detect the rotation, and the photo sensor detects a reflection mark on the wire reel to discriminate the type of the wire by a mark number so as to control torsional torque, etc. Since wire information is detected in binding operation when the wire reel is rotated at a high speed not in initialization operation (in setting the wire) when the wire reel is rotated at a low speed, the swing amount of the rotation detection lever is large and, accordingly, the wire information can be securely detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Publication number: 20100313991
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binder capable of certainly identifying the type of a wire reel and automatically adjusting the amount of feeding of the wire wound around the wire reel or the twisting torque on the wire is provided. The reinforcing bar binder feeds a wire while rotating a wire reel mounted in a storing chamber and binds a reinforcing bar. The storing chamber is provided with a first detecting means for detecting the amount of rotation of the wire reel and a second detecting means for detecting the number of second to-be detecting portions on the wire reel during the amount of rotation detected by the first detecting means. The binder main body is provided with controlling means for controlling the amount of feeding of the wire or the twisting torque on the wire based on the number of the second to-be-detected portions detected by the second detecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Max Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO NAGAOKA, ICHIRO KUSAKARI
  • Patent number: 7819143
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binder capable of certainly identifying the type of a wire reel and automatically adjusting the amount of feeding of the wire wound around the wire reel or the twisting torque on the wire is provided. The reinforcing bar binder feeds a wire while rotating a wire reel mounted in a storing chamber and binds a reinforcing bar. The storing chamber is provided with a first detecting means for detecting the amount of rotation of the wire reel and a second detecting means for detecting the number of second to-be detecting portions on the wire reel during the amount of rotation detected by the first detecting means. The binder main body is provided with controlling means for controlling the amount of feeding of the wire or the twisting torque on the wire based on the basis of the number of the second to-be-detected portions detected by the second detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Max Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Patent number: 7817053
    Abstract: A rechargeable electric tool includes a warning device which monitors a voltage of a power source battery and indicates a warning by means of an LED or a buzzer when the power source voltage is reduced to be equal to or lower than a reference voltage. The tool is configured such that, even when the warning is indicated, a control to interrupt a power supply to a motor is not performed, thereby enabling a usual operation in response to an activating operation on a trigger switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20100224278
    Abstract: Two guide pins 11 and 12 formed upright in a guide plate 7 are received in guide pin fitting holes 13 and 14 formed in a guide member 8. Fixed screws 23a and 23b are screw-connected to the guide pins 11 and 12. One guide pin 12 is fitted to the corresponding guide pin fitting hole 14 with a play. Screw holes 20 and 21 are formed through the inner surface of the guide pin fitting hole 14 and the outer surface of the guide member 8. An angle of the guide member 8 with respect to the guide plate 7 is adjusted by allowing front ends of embedded screws 22a and 22b respectively screw-inserted in the screw holes 20 and 21 to respectively engage with a peripheral surface of the guide pin 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20090283169
    Abstract: In a reinforcing bar binder in which a wire reel around which a reinforcing bar binding wire is wound is rotatably housed in a housing chamber in a binder main body, the wire is pulled out from the wire reel and wound around reinforcing bars, and the reinforcing bars are bound by twisting the wound portion, an opening is formed through one of both side walls of the housing chamber at a position corresponding to a shaft receiving portion formed on the wire reel. On the one side wall, a reel receiver which is supported so as to come into and come out from the opening is fitted to the shaft receiving portion of the wire reel when it is pushed into the inside of the side wall. A reel stopper moves along the wall surface of the one side wall and can engage with the reel receiver fitted to the shaft receiving portion. A leaf spring urges the reel stopper engaged with the reel receiver to the pushing-in side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu ITAGAKI, Ichiro KUSAKARI, Takahiro NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20090283171
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with: a main sleeve having a tip end on which a hook is pivotally mounted; a tip end shaft fitted in an inside of the main sleeve; a spiral screw groove formed on the tip end shaft; a fitting opening that penetrates from an outside to the inside of the main sleeve; a key fitted in the fitting opening and brought in mash engagement with the screw groove; a short sleeve provided on an outer periphery of the main sleeve and covering the key; and an engaging means formed on the short sleeve and controlling a rotation of the main sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NAGAOKA, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090283170
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a pair of feed gears for feeding a wire from a wire reel mounted on a binding machine body; an electric motor for driving the feed gears; a partition plate provided between the feed gears and the electric motor to partition the feed gears and the electric motor; and first and second discharge portions for discharging wire shavings. The partition plate is surrounded by a wall except for portions of the partition plate being adjacent to the first and second discharge portions. The first and second discharge portions are disposed so that the partition plate positions between the first and second discharge portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20090160373
    Abstract: An electric power tool “A” operates a working part 5 by repeating rotation of a motor 4 in a normal direction and in a reverse direction one or more times. The motor 4 includes a brushless motor. Sensors H for detecting a position of a rotor 15 are provided on the motor 4 so as to be advanced by an electrical angle of 30°±?° from an intermediate position between respective stator teeth 16 in a direction of the normal rotation of the rotor 15. A control part 20 for controlling the rotation of the motor 4 controls a driving signal of the motor 4 based on the results of detection by the sensors H. Moreover, the control part 20 selects a detection signal of the sensors H so that relation between the rotor 15 and the detection signal of the sensors H is equivalent in either of the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of the rotor 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Kouji Katou, Kazuya Takeuchi, Ichiro Kusakari, Osamu Itagaki, Takahiro Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20090126824
    Abstract: A reinforcement binding machine capable of detecting, by the rotation of a reel, that wire on the reel is consumed and the reel, the reinforcement binding machine wherein an interrupter is installed in the cassette case of a binding machine body, a cover is rotatably held on a reel mounting shaft, an opening part is formed in the cover, a projection is formed on the reel and fitted into the opening part, and a color with a lightness different from that of the cover is applied to the projection to detect the rotation of the reel by the interrupter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: MAX KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi NAKAGAWA, Noboru Ishikawa, Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Shuichi Ishii, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7469724
    Abstract: A reinforcement binding machine capable of detecting, by the rotation of a reel, that wire on the reel is consumed and the reel, the reinforcement binding machine wherein an interrupter is installed in the cassette case of a binding machine body, a cover is rotatably held on a reel mounting shaft, an opening part is formed in the cover, a projection is formed on the reel and fitted into the opening part, and a color with a lightness different from that of the cover is applied to the projection to detect the rotation of the reel by the interrupter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Max Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakagawa, Noboru Ishikawa, Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Shuichi Ishii, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7398800
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a control unit operated in such a manner that at the time of turning on an electric power source switch, a setting position of a motor drive adjustment dial and a state of a trigger lever are read, and when the motor drive adjustment dial is at a specific setting position and when the trigger lever is turned on, a binding wire cutting mechanism is driven by a predetermined number of times for warming up the binding wire cutting mechanism. When the warming-up operation is carried out in a cold environment, it is possible to reduce the viscosity of grease coated on a mechanism portion. Therefore, it is possible to lower a viscosity of grease applied on a mechanical portion and conduct a reinforcing bar binding work without wasting a binding wire in the same manner as that in a warm environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7388461
    Abstract: An electromagnetic apparatus includes a solenoid having a movable core for being attracted to a fixed core when a coil is energized, a shaft coupled to the movable core for displacement in unison with the movable core, and a valve mechanism having a ball for selectively opening and closing a passageway between an inlet port and an outlet port in response to the displacement of the shaft. The movable core has a nonmagnetic layer formed on an outer surface thereof and having a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Ryuen, Takahiro Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20080134908
    Abstract: A reinforcement binding machine (1), comprising a wire reel storage part (3) having a rotation detection lever (8) and a photo sensor (7). When a wire reel is rotated in starting binding, the rotation detection lever is turned on and off by a projected part formed on the side face of the wire reel to detect the rotation, and the photo sensor detects a reflection mark on the wire reel to discriminate the type of the wire by a mark number so as to control torsional torque, etc. Since wire information is detected in binding operation when the wire reel is rotated at a high speed not in initialization operation (in setting the wire) when the wire reel is rotated at a low speed, the swing amount of the rotation detection lever is large and, accordingly, the wire information can be securely detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Publication number: 20080110354
    Abstract: It includes a driving load detecting device which detects a driving load amount of a tie wire cutting mechanism, and a tie wire feeding amount control device which controls a feeding amount of the tie wire in a subsequent tying operation in accordance with the detected driving load amount. If the driving load amount when cutting the tie wire is equal to or less than a cutting determination reference value, the tie wire is fed by a normal feeding amount with a predetermined amount being added thereto in the subsequent tying operation to compensate the tie wire feeding amount, whereby a tip end of the tie wire is fed to a position which is same as the position in the normal state. The subsequent tying cycle is executed normally even if the tip end of the biding wire is failed to be clamped due to the failure of the feeding operation of the tie wire and the tie wire is pulled excessively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Takahiro Nagaoka, Atsushi Matsuoka, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Publication number: 20080094236
    Abstract: A rechargeable electric tool includes a warning device which monitors a voltage of a power source battery and indicates a warning by means of an LED or a buzzer when the power source voltage is reduced to be equal to or lower than a reference voltage. The tool is configured such that, even when the warning is indicated, a control to interrupt a power supply to a motor is not performed, thereby enabling a usual operation in response to an activating operation on a trigger switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20080006341
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a control unit operated in such a manner that at the time of turning on an electric power source switch, a setting position of a motor drive adjustment dial and a state of a trigger lever are read, and when the motor drive adjustment dial is at a specific setting position and when the trigger lever is turned on, a binding wire cutting mechanism is driven by a predetermined number of times for warming up the binding wire cutting mechanism. When the warming-up operation is carried out in a cold environment, it is possible to reduce the viscosity of grease coated on a mechanism portion. Therefore, it is possible to lower a viscosity of grease applied on a mechanical portion and conduct a reinforcing bar binding work without wasting a binding wire in the same manner as that in a warm environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20070227613
    Abstract: An antenna of an RF tag reader and a photo sensor for detecting a rotational position of a wire reel are provided in a wire reel receiving portion of a reinforcing bar binding machine. The photo sensor detects a mark on the wire reel, and when an RF tag mounted on a side surface of the wire reel is brought into opposed relation to the antenna of the RF tag reader, a control portion decelerates or stops the wire reel, and an RF tag recognition operation by the RF tag reader is executed, thereby identifying a wire kind. When the RF tag is opposed to the antenna of the RF tag reader, the wire reel is decelerated or stopped, and in this condition the transmitting and receiving operations are executed, and therefore the stable communication can be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Shinichi Ohkubo, Shuichi Ishii, Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Patent number: 7255135
    Abstract: A front end of a ball screw shaft driven by a motor is connected with a binding line clamp apparatus (513) including three clamp plates (514, 515, 516). The left and right clamp plates (515, 516) are constituted to be brought into elastic contact with the center clamp plate (515) and close the left and right clamp plates by operation of cams (527, 528) when a sleeve is moved rearward. In a state of opening the clamp plates, a binding line is fed out to an upper side by passing through an interval between the right clamp plate (515) and the center clamp plate (514), formed in a loop shape and moved into an interval between the left clamp plate (516) and the center clamp plate (517). When the sleeve is moved rearward by driving to rotate a ball screw shaft, the left and right clamp plates are closed to grasp a front end and a rear end of the binding line loop and thereafter, the binding line clamp apparatus is rotated to twist the binding line to bind a reinforcing bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ishikawa, Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Yasushi Yokochi
  • Publication number: 20060283516
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive reinforcing bar binder capable of certainly identifying the type of a wire reel and automatically adjusting the amount of feeding of the wire wound around the wire reel or the twisting torque on the wire while having a simple construction. A reinforcing bar binder 1 feeds a wire 8 while rotating a wire reel 30 mounted in a storing chamber 70 and binds a reinforcing bar 3. The storing chamber 70 is provided with a first detecting means 80 for detecting the amount of rotation of the wire reel 30 and a second detecting means 25 for detecting the number of second to-be detecting portions 53 on the wire reel 30 during the amount of rotation detected by the first detecting means 80. The binder main body 2 is provided with controlling means for controlling the amount of feeding of the wire 8 or the twisting torque on the wire 8 on the basis of the number of the second to-be-detected portions 53 detected by the second detecting means 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: MAX KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari