Patents by Inventor Yoshiteru Akae

Yoshiteru Akae 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).

  • Method of making a welded can body
    Patent number: 4652715
    Abstract: A method of making a welded can body wherein the opposite marginal edge portions of a metallic blank are overlapped to form a can body preform with an overlapped portion, and then the overlapped portion is electric-resistance mash-seam welded by using a pair of wire electrodes abutting on both the surfaces of the overlapped portion. At least one of the pair of the wire electrodes is formed with a flat main portion and a marginal projection including a slope contiguous to the flat main portion on the surface thereof, which surface is adapted to abut on the surface of the overlapped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Limited
    Inventors: Yoichi Kitamura, Yoshiro Togo, Yoshiteru Akae