Patents by Inventor Toshio Shimoda

Toshio Shimoda 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).

  • Publication number: 20100107434
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] The present invention realizes and provides a drying hopper which, with the construction of the hopper itself being simplified, allows the absorption capacity of the dry air to be effectively utilized for improving the drying efficiency and the drying time for the resin materials to be shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio SHIMODA, Toshifumi FURUKAWA, Masami SHIMODA
  • Publication number: 20100003359
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mold multiple heating and cooling system which, for a plurality of molding machines, allows a single temperature control apparatus to be used to selectively supply steam or warm water, or cooling water for carrying out molding, and eliminates the need for separately installing a venting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Shimoda, Masami Shimoda, Toshifumi Furukawa, Yasuhisa Otaki
  • Patent number: 7578666
    Abstract: Provided is a molding machine system enabling a free setting of execution timings of respective steps in a molding cycle of heating of a mold, injection and pressure holding of a molding material, cooling of the mold, etc. The molding machine system repeating a series of molding cycle comprises three temperature sensors arranged at predetermined places of a mold, a change-over valve unit having a heat medium channel by which heating medium from a heating unit, cooling medium from a cooling unit and pressurized air are changed over to be supplied into and recovered from the mold and a molding control means, provided on the change-over valve unit, having a temperature judging program judging respective detected temperatures of the three temperature sensors to give a judgement result and a timer to give a time set signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Shimoda, Toshifumi Furukawa, Satoshi Imaeda
  • Patent number: 7080684
    Abstract: A mold temperature control unit with which piping connection for supply and drain of cooling water in unit setup can be extremely simply made. In a mold temperature control unit 1 which unit body 2 comprises a plurality of cooling water systems performing supply and drain of cooling water to/from a plurality of elements to be cooled in a mold, a single cooling water supply port 11 and a single cooling water drain port 12 for said plurality of cooling water systems are disposed on the outer panel of the unit body 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Sysko Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Shimoda
  • Patent number: 6669358
    Abstract: A colored plastics molding device can perform automatic calibration, and thus colorant can be charged, being free from wrong calculation and error, and therefore, high-quality colored plastics molded items can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Sysko Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20030095468
    Abstract: A colored plastics molding device with which calibration is automatically performed, and thus the colorant can be charged, being free from wrong calculation and error, therefore, high-quality colored plastics molded items can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventor: Toshio Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20030085032
    Abstract: A mold temperature control unit with which piping connection for supply and drain of cooling water in unit setup can be extremely simply made. In a mold temperature control unit 1 which unit body 2 comprises a plurality of cooling water systems performing supply and drain of cooling water to/from a plurality of elements to be cooled in a mold, a single cooling water supply port 11 and a single cooling water drain port 12 for said plurality of cooling water systems are disposed on the outer panel of the unit body 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventor: Toshio Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5225210
    Abstract: A colored resin molder having a cylindrical input member, a resin material supply mechanism for storing a molding resin material having thermoplastic properties and supplying the stored resin material through the input member, a coloring agent supply device having a nozzle discharge end disposed in the input member for supplying a liquid coloring agent, a feeding mechanism for feeding the resin material from the resin material supply mechanism while mixing the coloring agent with the resin material for resin molding, a sensor device for detecting the status of the feeding by the feeding mechanism, and a control unit for controlling the operation of the coloring agent supply device according to the result of the detection by the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Sysko Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Shimoda