Patents Assigned to General Packer Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11420779Abstract: [Problem] Providing a packaging method used in a bag-feeding and packaging apparatus, which can realize speed-up of the bag-feeding and packaging apparatus without limitation of movement acceleration due to the spilling or scattering of an article during movement and which can realize a larger amount of packaging in a short time, and the bag-feeding and packaging apparatus implementing the packaging method. [Overcoming Means] In the packaging method used in a bag-feeding and packaging apparatus P in accordance with the present invention, packaging processes are performed while a packaging bag F is intermittently moved to packaging stations 1 to 9 together with a mover 32, so that an article is packaged, and the packaging stations 1 to 9 include an article (a fluid) filling station 5 where an article filling process of filling the packaging bag with the article is performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: General Packer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaya Sugiura
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Patent number: 11407535Abstract: A packaging system includes a bag feeding device for forming a packaging bag series having a continuous bag portion partitioned by a side seal portion from a long film and a bag mouth opening/closing device having a conveying path formed between a conveying device for pulling and conveying the packaging bag series with first grips and a guide rail parallel to the conveying path. The movers traveling on the guide rail has second grips for gripping the side seal portion. By controlling and adjusting the distance between one mover and the mover immediately after that, an upper end opening of the bag portion is opened or closed according to various processes of the packaging process.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masashi Oshima
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Patent number: 11167872Abstract: Providing a rotary packaging machine which can improve production efficiency and mass productivity, which can be rendered smaller-sized with the result of reduction in a footprint and which can cause various devices and apparatuses arranged at each packaging station to function in a stable manner. The rotary packaging machine P in accordance with the invention has four grip pairs intermittently moved to each packaging station simultaneously, and all the grip pairs include grips configured to be located on a circumference L of an imaginary circle that is concentric with a disk-shaped rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Kato
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Patent number: 10954017Abstract: Providing a packaging machine and a sealing method in the packaging machine both of which can reliably seal a packaging bag in a good-looking finish without forming large bubbles on a seal inner surface of a bag mouth of the packaging bag and/or creases on a seal part. A packaging machine includes a seal part preheating station for preheating a seal part of a packaging bag after the packaging bag has been filled with an article and steam deaeration has been carried out, a decorative seal applying station provided downstream of the seal part preheating station for applying a decorative seal to a part of the packaging bag above the seal part and an ultrasonic seal applying station provided downstream of the decorative seal applying station for applying an ultrasonic seal to a part of the packaging bag A below the seal part.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Kato
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Patent number: 10532845Abstract: A sealing device incorporated in a packaging machine heat-seals a vicinity of a bag mouth of a packaging bag. Paired heater bars are disposed opposite each other so as to be openable/closable and hold the vicinity between them when closed, thereby heat-sealing the vicinity. A link mechanism converts rotation of an output shaft of a servomotor to an opening/closing operation of the heater bars. A storage unit stores seal patterns, each of which includes a sealing pressure applied to the parts and a sealing time period for which the parts are continuously held. A selection unit is configured to select one seal pattern. The output shaft is rotated by a predetermined closing angle according to the sealing pressure of the selected seal pattern to close the heater bars. The heater bars are maintained in the closed state for the sealing time period of the selected seal pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Katsuyama, Naoyuki Kuniyoshi, Yuki Miyabe
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Publication number: 20190329922Abstract: Providing a packaging machine and a sealing method in the packaging machine both of which can reliably seal a packaging bag in a good-looking finish without forming large bubbles on a seal inner surface of a bag mouth of the packaging bag and/or creases on a seal part. A packaging machine includes a seal part preheating station for preheating a seal part of a packaging bag after the packaging bag has been filled with an article and steam deaeration has been carried out, a decorative seal applying station provided downstream of the seal part preheating station for applying a decorative seal to a part of the packaging bag above the seal part and an ultrasonic seal applying station provided downstream of the decorative seal applying station for applying an ultrasonic seal to a part of the packaging bag A below the seal part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Kato
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Publication number: 20190217982Abstract: Providing a rotary packaging machine which can improve production efficiency and mass productivity, which can be rendered smaller-sized with the result of reduction in a footprint and which can cause various devices and apparatuses arranged at each packaging station to function in a stable manner. The rotary packaging machine P in accordance with the invention has four grip pairs intermittently moved to each packaging station simultaneously, and all the grip pairs include grips configured to be located on a circumference L of an imaginary circle that is concentric with a disk-shaped rotating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Kato
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Publication number: 20190070820Abstract: A triangle sandwich packaging machine includes paired grips for holding vicinities of both sides of a bag mouth of a triangle sandwich packaging bag, a mover intermittently moving the paired grips in every one of packaging stations, and a spatula inserting mechanism for forming a crest on the triangle sandwich packaging bag held by the paired grips to shape an opening. Also provided is a triangle sandwich packaging method including a moving step of intermittently moving the paired grips holding the triangle sandwich packaging bag in every one of the packaging stations, an opening step of opening the triangle sandwich packaging bag into a sectorial shape and a spatula inserting step of forming a crest on the triangle sandwich packaging bag held by the paired grips to shape an opening and inserting a spatula for shaping the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicants: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tomohiro Noda, Tomoya Hyodo, Haruhiko Koike, Tomohiro Kamishio, Teruhisa Kitagawa, Koichi Kirihara
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Patent number: 10144536Abstract: A vibrating device is incorporated in a packaging machine to vibrate packaging bags filled with articles. The vibrating device includes a tapping plate disposed below the bags, a servomotor having an output shaft, a selection unit selecting one of vibration patterns set according to sizes of the bags or types of the articles, an output unit delivering data of a rotation pattern of the output shaft, and a control unit controlling the output shaft according to the rotation pattern based on the delivered rotation data. When one vibration pattern is selected according to the size of the bag or the type of the articles, the control unit controls the output shaft according to the rotation pattern corresponding to the vibration pattern, so that the tapping plate connected via a link mechanism to the output shaft is vibrated up and down in the selected vibration pattern to vibrate the bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Katsuyama, Naoyuki Kuniyoshi, Yuki Miyabe
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Publication number: 20180148199Abstract: A vibrating device is incorporated in a packaging machine to vibrate packaging bags filled with articles. The vibrating device includes a tapping plate disposed below the bags, a servomotor having an output shaft, a selection unit selecting one of vibration patterns set according to sizes of the bags or types of the articles, an output unit delivering data of a rotation pattern of the output shaft, and a control unit controlling the output shaft according to the rotation pattern based on the delivered rotation data. When one vibration pattern is selected according to the size of the bag or the type of the articles, the control unit controls the output shaft according to the rotation pattern corresponding to the vibration pattern, so that the tapping plate connected via a link mechanism to the output shaft is vibrated up and down in the selected vibration pattern to vibrate the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Katsuyama, Naoyuki Kuniyoshi, Yuki Miyabe
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Publication number: 20180148208Abstract: A sealing device incorporated in a packaging machine heat-seals a vicinity of a bag mouth of a packaging bag. Paired heater bars are disposed opposite each other so as to be openable/closable and hold the vicinity between them when closed, thereby heat-sealing the vicinity. A link mechanism converts rotation of an output shaft of a servomotor to an opening/closing operation of the heater bars . A storage unit stores seal patterns, each of which includes a sealing pressure applied to the parts and a sealing time period for which the parts are continuously held. A selection unit is configured to select one seal pattern. The output shaft is rotated by a predetermined closing angle according to the sealing pressure of the selected seal pattern to close the heater bars. The heater bars are maintained in the closed state for the sealing time period of the selected seal pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Katsuyama, Naoyuki Kuniyoshi, Yuki Miyabe
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Patent number: 9957069Abstract: Providing a packaging machine and a packaging method both of which are capable of packaging with an imperforate bag provided with no small apertures or no aerating part, can prevent contamination of foreign substances such as insects and can further prevent the packaging bags from being damaged or collapsed during storage in a piled state or transportation by execution of reliable deaeration. The packaging machine and a packaging method have a closing unit 4 which holds a vicinity of mouth a of a packaging bag A inserted with a deaeration nozzle held from opposed sides of the bag A, an airway securing unit, a shaping press unit and a temporary sealing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Ishikawa, Shinya Ozeki
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Patent number: 9902514Abstract: A bag feeding device includes a bag feed conveyor, a bag capture unit, a bag placement section and a bag supply unit. The bag feed conveyor is configured to sequentially convey packaging bags. The bag capture unit is configured to capture the sequentially conveyed packaging bags one by one. The packaging bags captured by the bag capture unit are placed on the bag placement section one by one. The bag placement section is provided with a bag position correction unit. The bag supply unit is configured to hold the packaging bag placed on the bag placement section to supply the packaging bag to a bag holding unit of a packaging machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: General Packer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20160122057Abstract: A packaging machine includes a pair of grips holding vicinities of two sides of a bag mouth of a packaging bag, a moving body to intermittently moving the paired grips every one of a plurality of packaging steps, and a paper packaging bag sealing device provided in a section where a sealing step is carried out, for sealing a paper packaging bag to which a sealing adhesive agent has been applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Takahashi, Shinji Ishikawa, Masanori Toyoyoshi
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Patent number: 9180986Abstract: A packaging machine includes a shaping device including a conveyor drive mechanism and a bottom tapping mechanism and shaping a packaging bag filled with article so that the bag has a predetermined thickness. The conveyor drive mechanism includes a pair of side conveyors movable forward and backward. The conveyors are capable of pressing the bag filled with the article when moved forward. The conveyors are configured to be run in parallel to the moving direction of the bag substantially in synchronization with movement of the bag. The tapping mechanism includes a receiving plate disposed over the filling step and one or more steps following the filling step. The receiving plate is moved up and down so that the bag bottom is tapped, when the bag filled with the article is stopped between the filling step and one or more steps following the filling step.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9139314Abstract: A packaging bag feeder in a packaging machine includes a bag magazine capable of accommodating a number of packaging bags in a stacked state, a separating mechanism which is configured to separate one of the packaging bags stacked on the bag magazine and a bag placement section on which the separated bag is placed. Every time one bag is placed on the bag placement section, the bag is held and fed to a subsequent packaging step.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Ishikawa, Masaaki Takahashi, Junya Hayashi
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Patent number: 8960416Abstract: Disclosed is a grip width adjusting mechanism incorporated in a packaging machine having a grip unit. The grip width adjusting mechanism includes a plurality of grip width adjusting plates disposed at the steps and set with distances between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plates according to the work content of the steps, respectively and a grip width adjusting lever having a distal end having a grip width adjusting roller abutting against each grip width adjusting plate by a biasing force of the spring, respectively. The grip width adjusting lever is located on either one of the arms so as to be rotated with the arm. A rotational movement angle of the grip width adjusting lever is set according to the distance between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plate, with the result that the grip width is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: General Packer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20140332352Abstract: Disclosed is a grip width adjusting mechanism incorporated in a packaging machine having a grip unit. The grip width adjusting mechanism includes a plurality of grip width adjusting plates disposed at the steps and set with distances between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plates according to the work content of the steps, respectively and a grip width adjusting lever having a distal end having a grip width adjusting roller abutting against each grip width adjusting plate by a biasing force of the spring, respectively. The grip width adjusting lever is located on either one of the arms so as to be rotated with the arm. A rotational movement angle of the grip width adjusting lever is set according to the distance between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plate, with the result that the grip width is adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinji Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20140334909Abstract: A packaging bag feeder in a packaging machine includes a bag magazine capable of accommodating a number of packaging bags in a stacked state, a separating mechanism which is configured to separate one of the packaging bags stacked on the bag magazine and a bag placement section on which the separated bag is placed. Every time one bag is placed on the bag placement section, the bag is held and fed to a subsequent packaging step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Ishikawa, Masaaki Takahashi, Junya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20140331619Abstract: A packaging machine includes a shaping device including a conveyor drive mechanism and a bottom tapping mechanism and shaping a packaging bag filled with article so that the bag has a predetermined thickness. The conveyor drive mechanism includes a pair of side conveyors movable forward and backward. The conveyors are capable of pressing the bag filled with the article when moved forward. The conveyors are configured to be run in parallel to the moving direction of the bag substantially in synchronization with movement of the bag. The tapping mechanism includes a receiving plate disposed over the filling step and one or more steps following the filling step. The receiving plate is moved up and down so that the bag bottom is tapped, when the bag filled with the article is stopped between the filling step and one or more steps following the filling step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Takahashi