Patents Assigned to Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20240238793Abstract: A disk type pulverizer including a pair of disks capable of high-speed rotation is provided. In the disk type pulverizer, a pulverizing object is supplied to a first region on a disk rotation shaft side in a space region between the pair of disks 2 and 3, a minimum space G1min in the first region of the space region is set to be wider than a minimum space G2min in a second region outside the first region of the space region, and a pulverizing part is formed in a part of a counter surface that corresponds to the second region. Each of the pair of disks 2 and 3 includes a central disk part on the first region side and a pulverizing disk part on the second region side, and the pulverizing disk part includes a balance weight part on a part on a side opposite to the counter surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorioki Nara, Takeaki Tamiya, Masaya Kudo
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Patent number: 11267143Abstract: A port structure of a containment apparatus is capable of providing a highly reliable port by means of a structure with which a port can be formed in any size at any position and high airtightness thereof can be maintained. The port structure has: a port formation hole that is formed in a transparent synthetic resin sheet defining at least a part of a chamber; an inner ring member disposed on the inner surface side of the port formation hole; an outer ring member disposed on the outer surface side of the port formation hole; and a fastening member that joins the inner ring member and the outer ring member to each other while having a rim portion of the port formation hole held therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Arizono
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Patent number: 9693581Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing, only with mechanical treatment, high-quality rice flour having a rounded particle shape, which is equivalent to fine flour obtained by using enzymes, has characteristics close to the characteristics of wheat flour, and is suitable for production of bread, cakes, noodles, and the like. In order to attain the object, a method for producing rice flour includes: providing primary crushing material rice subjected to soaking and adjustment of moisture content with a disintegrating and sizing device, fine grinding the primary crushed rice with an air mill, and then drying the fine ground rice with an air flow dryer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sasako, Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Ryuta Yamazaki, Kwan-Hei Park
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Patent number: 9623446Abstract: A sieving apparatus includes first and second sieving portions. The first sieving portion includes a sieve with a plurality of elongated holes or slits for separation of an object to be sieved based on difference in cross-sectional diameter. The second sieving portion with a sieve constituted by a porous plate includes round holes for separation of the object that has passed through the elongated holes or slits based on difference in aspect ratio. The second sieving portion is employed after sieving by the first sieving portion. A diameter of the round holes in the porous plate constituting the sieve included in the second sieving portion is longer than an opening width in a shorter direction of the elongated hole or the slit of the sieve included in the first sieving portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Yohei Kawaguchi, Masato Shindo
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Patent number: 9427717Abstract: A powder granulation method affords greater operation efficiency and working efficiency and enhanced product recovery rate by preventing powder from being adhered to a container inner wall while suppressing variability in particle size of product to the utmost. A plurality of scrapers are disposed so as to abut or come close to the inner face of a bottomed cylindrical container that accommodates powder so that the powder in the container is granulated by causing an inner bottom surface of the container to rotate on a horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Yoshiyuki Kato, Katsunobu Yoshimoto, Tsutomu Kurita, Masahiro Suzuki, Katsunori Ishii, Yoshiyuki Kihara
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Patent number: 9339891Abstract: A liquid phase laser ablation apparatus is provided, which includes a vessel for storing liquid in which a component to be atomized is arranged; a laser oscillating device for oscillating a laser light irradiated to the component through the liquid; a reflecting mirror configured to freely change an angle of incidence of the laser light with respect to a surface of the liquid; a focusing lens for focusing the laser light oscillated from the laser oscillating device; a cover body for covering an upper surface of the vessel; and a laser light introduction port provided on the cover body or a side surface of the vessel above the surface of the liquid. Accordingly, liquid will not adhere to optical components constituting the apparatus, there is little contamination and damage to the optical components, and laser ablation can occur in a continuous and stable manner for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sanshiro Nagare
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Patent number: 9004152Abstract: A heat exchange device for powdery and granular materials configured to reduce adherence and accumulation of the materials and manufacturing time. The heat exchange device includes at least one substantially hollow disk-shaped heat exchanger among a plurality of heat exchangers that is disposed on the shaft about which the heat exchanger rotates. The hollow disc-shape heat exchanger includes a cutout recess part, plate surfaces extending from one side edge of the cutout recess part and forming a wedge-shaped plate surface, and a smoothly bulging projection formed at a central part of the heat exchanger. In addition, an opening is provided in the hollow disk-shaped heat exchanger at a tip end of the projection, and a shaft is inserted into the opening and joined to the hollow disc-shaped heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ichiro Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8813833Abstract: To provide a heat exchanging device for powder, which is capable of suppressing as much as possible the compression force applied to an object to be processed and reducing the manufacturing man-hour (time), while ensuring the piston flowability of the object to be processed. In order to achieve this object, the present invention is a heat exchanging device for powder, which is configured such that a shaft 13 is rotatably supported within a horizontally long casing 1, that a plurality of heat exchangers 30 are disposed at predetermined intervals on the shaft, and that a heat exchanging medium is supplied into the heat exchangers via the shaft, wherein the heat exchangers 30 are formed as substantially hollow disk-shaped heat exchangers each having a notched recess 31 directed to a center from a circumferential edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yorioki Nara
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Publication number: 20130320595Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid phase laser ablation apparatus comprising: a vessel for storing liquid in which a component to be atomized is arranged; a laser oscillating device for oscillating a laser light irradiated to the component through the liquid; a reflecting mirror configured to freely change an angle of incidence of the laser light with respect to a surface of the liquid; a focusing lens for focusing the laser light oscillated from the laser oscillating device; a cover body for covering an upper surface of the vessel; and a laser light introduction port provided on the cover body or a side surface of the vessel above the surface of the liquid. Due to the above structure, the liquid would not adhere to the optical components constituting the apparatus, there is little contamination and damage to the optical components, the operation of the laser ablation can be continued in continuous and stable manner for a long period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sanshiro Nagare
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Publication number: 20130055909Abstract: A powder granulation method affords greater operation efficiency and working efficiency and enhanced product recovery rate by preventing powder from being adhered to a container inner wall while suppressing variability in particle size of product to the utmost. A plurality of scrapers are disposed so as to abut or come close to the inner face of a bottomed cylindrical container that accommodates powder so that the powder in the container is granulated by causing an inner bottom surface of the container to rotate on a horizontal plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO LTDInventors: Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Yoshiyuki Kato, Katsunobu Yoshimoto, Tsutomu Kurita, Masahiro Suzuki, Katsunori Ishii, Yoshiyuki Kihara
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Patent number: 8336797Abstract: Provided is a powder and granular material crushing and sizing apparatus in which stators are easy to disassemble and assemble, i.e. in which disc-like rotors and stators can be cleaned and replaced easily. A drive shaft, on which a plurality of disc-like rotors are disposed, is supported in a cantilever manner on a bearing housing. A plurality of stators are disposed on a holder to make up a stator assembly. The stator assembly is detachably disposed in the bearing housing. An opening is formed in a side wall of the casing. The disc-like rotors and the stator assembly are housed via the opening, and the casing is detachably disposed on the bearing housing. ion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Yoshinori Hanada
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Patent number: 8146847Abstract: A powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device, includes: a drive shaft that is inserted horizontally in the casing main body; a plurality of circular plates that are fixedly supported at intervals by the drive shaft; and a stator, the plate surface of the circular plate and the inclined surface of the stator configuring a gap portion A where a powder based granules accumulates, and a narrowest gap portion between the circumferential edge of the circular plate and the stator configuring a disintegrating and sizing portion B. The stator stretches over the entire circumference of the circular plate, a raw material feeding port is provided on a side wall in the vicinity of the drive shaft of the casing main body, and a cutout portion through which a raw material passes is formed on the plate surface of the circular plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Azusa Ichiki
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Publication number: 20110203784Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat exchange device for a powder and granular material, which is capable of suppressing an object to be processed from adhering/accumulating, and reducing the number of manufacturing processes (time), while keeping high heat efficiency, piston flowability and other advantages of a conventional device that uses wedge-shaped hollow rotating bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Ichiro Yoshihara
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Patent number: 7992813Abstract: A powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device having a drive shaft in a horizontal direction inside a casing, a rotor fixed to the drive shaft, a sizing stator having an inclined surface, a gap section A where the powder based granules settles being formed by the plate surface of the rotor and the inclined surface of the sizing stator, and a disintegrating and sizing section B being formed by the narrowest gap section between the circumferential edge of the rotor and the sizing stator. The drive shaft is supported in a cantilever fashion, the rotor is fixed to an open side end portion thereof, the sizing stator is installed over the whole circumference of the rotor, a raw material supply port is opened in the vicinity of the central portion of the rotor, and a product output port is opened in the vicinity of position directly below the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Azusa Ichiki
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Publication number: 20110062264Abstract: Provided is a powder and granular material crushing and sizing apparatus in which stators are easy to disassemble and assemble, i.e. in which disc-like rotors and stators can be cleaned and replaced easily. A drive shaft, on which a plurality of disc-like rotors are disposed, is supported in a cantilever manner on a bearing housing. A plurality of stators are disposed on a holder to make up a stator assembly. The stator assembly is detachably disposed in the bearing housing. An opening is formed in a side wall of the casing. The disc-like rotors and the stator assembly are housed via the opening, and the casing is detachably disposed on the bearing housing. ion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Yoshinori Hanada
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Patent number: 7833444Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fine particle granulation method capable of granulating fine particles in an extremely easy operation without the need for carrier particles that cannot be reliably isolated and removed or binders that remain as impurities, and of improving the handling properties of these fine particles, and of obtaining fine particles that can be rapidly broken down into primary particles during use. To achieve this object, the fine particle granulation method comprises an agitation step in which fine particles are dispersed in a supercritical fluid, and a spraying step in which the supercritical fluid with the fine particles dispersed therein is subjected to rapid adiabatic expansion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoru Watano
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Publication number: 20100018671Abstract: To provide a heat exchanging device for powder, which is capable of suppressing as much as possible the compression force applied to an object to be processed and reducing the manufacturing man-hour (time), while ensuring the piston flowability of the object to be processed. In order to achieve this object, the present invention is a heat exchanging device for powder, which is configured such that a shaft 13 is rotatably supported within a horizontally long casing 1, that a plurality of heat exchangers 30 are disposed at predetermined intervals on the shaft, and that a heat exchanging medium is supplied into the heat exchangers via the shaft, wherein the heat exchangers 30 are formed as substantially hollow disk-shaped heat exchangers each having a notched recess 31 directed to a center from a circumferential edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: Nara Machinery Co., LtdInventor: Yorioki Nara
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Publication number: 20090108112Abstract: A powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device, includes: a drive shaft that is inserted horizontally in the casing main body; a plurality of circular plates that are fixedly supported at intervals by the drive shaft; and a stator, the plate surface of the circular plate and the inclined surface of the stator configuring a gap portion A where a powder based granules accumulates, and a narrowest gap portion between the circumferential edge of the circular plate and the stator configuring a disintegrating and sizing portion B. The stator stretches over the entire circumference of the circular plate, a raw material feeding port is provided on a side wall in the vicinity of the drive shaft of the casing main body, and a cutout portion through which a raw material passes is formed on the plate surface of the circular plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTDInventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Azusa Ichiki
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Publication number: 20090026297Abstract: A powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device having a drive shaft in a horizontal direction inside a casing, a rotor fixed to the drive shaft, a sizing stator having an inclined surface a gap section A where the powder based granules settles being formed by the plate surface of the rotor and the inclined surface of the sizing stator, and a disintegrating and sizing section B being formed by the narrowest gap section between the circumferential edge of the rotor and the sizing stator. The drive shaft is supported in a cantilever fashion, the rotor is fixed to an open side end portion thereof, the sizing stator is installed over the whole circumference of the rotor, a raw material supply port is opened in the vicinity of the central portion of the rotor, and a product output port is opened in the vicinity of position directly below the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Azusa Ichiki
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Patent number: 7455252Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a particle crushing and sizing apparatus having a sufficiently wide particle crushing and sizing range, capable of being scaled down in size, and having high processing throughput. To achieve the object, a particle crushing and sizing apparatus has, in a casing 1a, a horizontally provided drive shaft 2, a plurality of circular plates 10 fixedly supported with intervals at the drive shaft 2, and stators 5 arranged so as to be opposed to plate faces 10a at lower peripheral edges of the circular plates 10 and each having inclined faces 5b that cause a gap between the plate faces 10a of the circular plates 10 to become narrower toward peripheral edges of the plate faces 10a.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorioki Nara, Yoshinori Hanada, Kenji Hamada, Yoshihiro Wakamatsu, Shinichi Yamamoto, Yuko Nakahara