Patents by Inventor Yozo Araki

Yozo Araki 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: 6338371
    Abstract: A filling apparatus of irregular—formed vessels having an intermittent swinging table (111) disposed above a continuous rotation table (5) and having a plurality of filling nozzles (121) at a same pitch as the vessel holding pitch, filling means for pushing out the liquid from the filling nozzles (121), vertical moving means for vertically moving the filling nozzles (121), a continuously rotating outside hollow shaft (119) to which the continuous rotation table (5) is mounted, a hollow shaft (116) disposed concentrically with the outside hollow shaft (119) for reciprocally rotating the intermittent swinging table (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Araki, Kenji Mizukawa, Koichi Jinno
  • Patent number: 6286568
    Abstract: A plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b for continuously producing irregular-formed vessels 1 having a flanged mouth plug, a plurality of transportation troughs 11a and 11b connected to the respective plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b, a single-row transportation trough 4 for combining into a single row and transporting the irregular-formed vessels 1 fed from the respective transportation troughs 11a and 11b, and a plurality of relay movable troughs 15a and 15b capable of containing a predetermined amount of irregular-formed vessel from the corresponding transportation trough, and discharging the contained irregular-formed vessels to the single-row transportation trough are provided, a transportation disk 8 continuously rotating in a horizontal direction for taking up the mouth plug flange part from the tip of the transportation trough 4 and feeding the mouth-plugged irregular-formed vessel 1 to a continuously rotating rotary filling apparatus C is provided, the transportation disk 8 having an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Araki, Kenji Mizukawa, Koichi Jinno
  • Patent number: 6244307
    Abstract: A filling apparatus of irregular-formed vessels having an intermittent swinging table (111) disposed above a continuous rotation table (5) and having a plurality of filling nozzles (121) at a same pitch as the vessel holding pitch, filling means for pushing out the liquid from the filling nozzles (121), vertical moving means for vertically moving the filling nozzles (121), a continuously rotating outside hollow shaft (119) to which the continuous rotation table (5) is mounted, a hollow shaft (116) disposed concentrically with the outside hollow shaft (119) for reciprocally rotating the intermittent swinging table (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Araki, Kenji Mizukawa, Koichi Jinno
  • Patent number: 6241122
    Abstract: A cylindrical plug (10) attached to a pouchy container proper capable of varying shape as passed through the container proper (1) in such a manner that one terminal side thereof is positioned inside the container proper (1) and the other terminal side thereof positioned outside the container proper (1). This plug comprises a split pipe (18) joined to one terminal side of the plug and divided into two halves along the longitudinal direction thereof so as to be provided with interstices (19) intercommunicating between the inside and the outside and a joint plate (17) for integrally coupling one and the other half of the split pipe. It, therefore, secures a path for air or liquid during the aspiration of the liquid from the interior of the container proper (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Araki, Akira Ikemori
  • Patent number: 5150562
    Abstract: In a packaging technique for resiliently deformable articles (such as paper diapers or sanitary napkins), a stack of the articles are packed into a shell-like, inner cassette having an open top and bottom, the inner cassette is wrapped from above with a sheet of film having cardboard flaps extending from respective opposite side margins thereof and the stack of articles is ejected from the inner cassette through the open top, together with the sheet of film into an outer cassette which maintains the partly packed profile. Lower, trailing, flap-form ends of the wrapping extend below the stack on two opposite sides of the cassette, forming flaps that are subsequently folded in overlapping relation to cover the exposed bottom of the stack of articles and heat-sealed together and transversely extending margins of the sheet of film are folded and heat-sealed against the cardboard ends to form a package of predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yozo Araki, Isamu Ito, Tohru Sugimura, Migaku Suzuki, Mitsuzo Ochi
  • Patent number: 4733517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling bags with a material and for sealing them, and it can carry the bags in a direction of a bag thickness. A first feature of the present invention resides in that, in the case that the bags are arranged between a pair of chain conveyors disposed in parallel vertical planes, they are gripped by plural pairs of grippers mounted on a pair of axes extending through each rectangular parallelepiped carrier. Further, A second feature of the present invention is that the apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with nozzles for introducing a compressed gas into the bags and pressure gauges for measuring a pressure within the bags in order to detect whether or not each bag is normally gripped by the grippers. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is that a return pipe is fixed to a filling device so that the filling material may be returned to a storage tank, without being discharged therethrough, by closing the filling nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yozo Araki
  • Patent number: 4733516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling bags with a material and for sealing them, and it can carry the bags in a direction of a bag thickness. A first feature of the present invention resides in that, in the case that the bags are arranged between a pair of chain conveyors disposed in parallel vertical planes, they are gripped by plural pairs of grippers mounted on a pair of axes extending through each rectangular parallelepiped carrier. Further, a second feature of the present invention is that the apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with nozzles for introducing a compressed gas into the bags and pressure gauges for measuring a pressure within the bags in order to detect whether or not each bag is normally gripped by the grippers. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is that a return pipe is fixed to a filling device so that the filling material may be returned to a storage tank, without being discharged therethrough, by closing the filling nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yozo Araki
  • Patent number: 4674266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling bags with a material and for sealing them, and it can carry the bags in a direction of a bag thickness. A first feature of the present invention resides in that, in the case that the bags are arranged between a pair of chain conveyors disposed in parallel vertical planes, they are gripped by plural pairs of grippers mounted on a pair of axes extending through each rectangular parallelepiped carrier. Further, a second feature of the present invention is that the apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with nozzles for introducing a compressed gas into the bags and pressure gauges for measuring a pressure within the bags in order to detect whether or not each bag is normally gripped by the grippers. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is that a return pipe is fixed to a filling device so that the filling material may be returned to a storage tank, without being discharged therethrough, by closing the filling nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yozo Araki
  • Patent number: 4608803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling bags with a material and for sealing them, and it can carry the bags in a direction of a bag thickness. A first feature of the present invention resides in that, in the case that the bags are arranged between a pair of chain conveyors disposed in parallel vertical planes, they are gripped by plural pairs of grippers mounted on a pair of axes extending through each rectangular parallelepiped carrier. Further, a second feature of the present invention is that the apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with nozzles for introducing a compressed gas into the bags and pressure gauges for measuring a pressure within the bags in order to detect whether or not each bag is normally gripped by the grippers. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is that a return pipe is fixed to a filling device so that the filling material may be returned to a storage tank, without being discharged therethrough, by closing the filling nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yozo Araki
  • Patent number: 4525978
    Abstract: An improved sterilizing system for filled and sealed articles which are treated by way of the steps of filling a content into packing means and sealing the filled articles in a filling and sealing station, loading a tray with the filled and sealed articles, building up a tray stack including a predetermined number of loaded trays stacked thereon, sterilizing the tray stacks in a sterilizer and then conveying them to a packing station, wherein the improvement consists in an arrangement of a combination of a tray stack building station for building up a tray stack including a predetermined number of empty trays recovered after the filled and sealed articles are released toward the packing station, a tray stack holding conveyor for holding a plurality of tray stacks built up in said tray stack building station and a tray extracting station in which the empty trays are extracted from the tray stack conveyed from said tray stack holding conveyor one by one and then they are delivered toward the filling and sealing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, House Food Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Hayase, Yozo Araki