Patents Assigned to Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6192929
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydraulic controller comprising: a plurality of switching spools; a plurality of cylinder ports of a switching valve; a compressed oil passage common to the switching valves having an intermediate chambers, at least a check valve in correspondence with at least a part of said switching spools, and said check valve being positioned between said intermediate chambers and said cylinder ports, so that said switching spools being positioned in a neutral position to close said passage and also being movable to adjust opening degree of said passage, wherein auxiliary ports are provided between the cylinder ports and a tank line; flow rate adjusters are also provided between the auxiliary ports and the tank line for adjusting an opening degree of the passage; pressure detectors are provided in the switching valves for detecting pressures of oils in the intermediate chambers; a maximum pressure selector operatively linked to said pressure detectors for selecting a maximum pressure from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 6039904
    Abstract: A novel method of adjusting a heat-displacing T-die is provided wherein a T-die slit gap is adjusted by thermal expansion and contraction of die bolts individually provided with heaters so that a sheet or film material has a target profile in thickness, characterized in that a thickness feed back control loop and a virtual temperature control loop are provided, and in the thickness feed back control loop, data of thickness of products are subjected to a profile treatment to correct a target profile for temperature setting and changing of die bolts so as to define an appropriate slit gap, and in the virtual temperature control loop, an appropriate die bolt temperature is predicted from a control output value of the heater and a radiation temperature to the circumference so as to calculate a corresponding power to be supplied to the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Nitta, Koji Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 6027401
    Abstract: The present invention provides a headstock of a polishing machine, having a simple structure and capable of tracing a pad surface. The headstock of the present invention is formed of a spindle, a holder plate, a spherical bearing, and a plate spring. The holder plate is connected to a lower end portion of the spindle via the spherical bearing and the plate spring. A workpiece is attached to the lower surface of the holder plate. The spherical bearing has a center of tilting movement on a rotation axis of the spindle. The holder plate has a balance plate. The center of gravity of the holder plate including the balance plate coincides with the center of tilting movement of the spherical bearing. The plate spring has an axisymmetric shape. More specifically, the plate spring has an opening portion at the center and a plurality of arm portions extending to the outer periphery in the diameter direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Saito, Fumitaka Ito
  • Patent number: 6015515
    Abstract: A method for setting up a program profile in the control of an injection speed of injection molding machines where a dwelling phase switching position Pc, a filling stroke L or an injection starting point Ps, a maximum speed ratio Rvm and a initial speed ratio Rvs to the maximum speed mentioned in the specification of the molding machine, and an initial speed period ratio Rps to the filling stroke L or the injection starting position Ps are inputted to a profile setting means; in the profile setting means, the dwelling phase switching position Ps and the filling stroke L or the injection starting position Ps are directly set up according to the inputted values; and the maximum speed Vmax, the initial speed Vs and the initial speed period are set up by automatic computing using the maximum speed ratio Rvm and the initial speed ratio Rvs and the initial speed period ratio Rps as parameters; thereby all aspects of the profile are set up automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Fujita
  • Patent number: 5942273
    Abstract: There are provided a method of preparing pellets for a snack confectionery and an expanded snack confectionery by using the pellets. A dough for the pellets contains corn flour and potato starch. The pellets are thermally treated by using a home-type hair dryer to make those into the expanded snack confectionery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignees: Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Mochizuki, Kyoko Tsuchidate, Eiichi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 5938807
    Abstract: In press molding, a shaft (metal mold 13) is moved by positional or torque control to cause upper and lower molds to reach a set position slightly before a position where the upper and lower molds are set in a final mold closed state. As soon as the upper and lower molds reaches the set position, the control is switched to torque control using a small force which does not deform a glass material to perform feedback control. For this reason, when the cooling process is started, the mobile shaft is moved by the same amount as a contraction amount of the shaft, the actual position of the shaft is moved. However, a tight contact state between the molds and the glass material is kept without changing the thickness of the glass material, and positional control and torque control can be apparently performed at once. Thereafter, when temperature reaches an almost glass transition point, final pressing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Komiyama, Tetsuya Tanioka, Toshihisa Kamano, Hirotaka Masaki
  • Patent number: 5928580
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of control in thickness of the biaxially oriented film of a plastic material to be extruded via an extrusion port gap adjustable by adjustment of a plurality of die bolts provided on an automatic T-die. A position corresponding to the die bolt is set on the film biaxially oriented so that a thickness of the film at the above position is measured to find a deviation of the measured thickness from a reference thickness predetermined to thereby carry out a feed-back control of the adjustment of the die bolt in accordance with the deviation. It is important for the present invention that the feed-back control in the adjustment of the die bolt is carried out with reference to partial side-drawing rates different in a width direction of a sheet to be drawn prior to formation of the film, where the partial sidedrawing rates are determined for parts aligned in the width direction of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Nitta, Takayoshi Sano, Koji Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 5914077
    Abstract: A method for setting up a program profile in the control of an injection speed of injection molding machines where a dwelling phase switching position Pc, a filling stroke L or an injection starting point Ps, a maximum speed ratio Rvm and a initial speed ratio Rvs to the maximum speed mentioned in the specification of the molding machine, and an initial speed period ratio Rps to the filling stroke L or the injection starting position Ps are inputted to a profile setting means; in the profile setting means, the dwelling phase switching position Ps and the filling stroke L or the injection starting position Ps are directly set up according to the inputted values; and the maximum speed Vmax, the initial speed Vs and the initial speed period are set up by automatic computing using the maximum speed ratio Rvm and the initial speed ratio Rvs and the initial speed period ratio Rps as parameters; thereby all aspects of the profile are set up automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Fujita
  • Patent number: 5904769
    Abstract: This invention provides an epitaxial growth method capable of decreasing variations of the resistance of an epitaxial layer resulting from an in-plane temperature distribution of a silicon wafer and also capable of reducing particles and haze. This epitaxial growth method is an epitaxial growth method of growing a boron- or phosphorus-doped silicon epitaxial layer on the surface of a silicon wafer with an in-plane temperature distribution of 2 to 50.degree. C., and includes the steps of arranging the silicon wafer in a reaction vessel, supplying into the reaction vessel a source gas containing (a) silane, (b) 5 to 600 vol % of hydrogen chloride added to the silane, and (c) a dopant consisting of a boron compound or a phosphorus compound, and growing a boron- or phosphorus-doped silicon epitaxial layer on the surface of the wafer by setting a vacuum degree of 10 to 200 torr in the reaction vessel and heating the wafer to 900 to 1100.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignees: Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd., Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ohashi, Shinichi Mitani, Takaaki Honda
  • Patent number: 5885624
    Abstract: An apparatus for a feed-back control of an injection molding machine, comprising a control target which operational conditions are different in accordance with operational purposes; and a control unit for subjecting said control target to a feed-back control, is characterized in that said control unit comprises a judgement function section for judging operational purposes of the control target, a condition setting section for setting operational conditions in accordance with the operational purposes and a switching section for switching the condition setting section through the judgement function section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katsuta, Makoto Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 5871676
    Abstract: A method for setting up a program profile in the control of the injection speed of injection molding machines where a model shape of an article to be molded is divided into fine elements; the filling up state of melt resin for each fine element is obtained as a time period by using numerical analyzing methods including the finite element method, the boundary element method, the calculus of finite differences method and the FAN method under a condition that the moving speed of the injection plunger is constant; a time period required for filling the model shape of the article as a whole with melt resin is divided into a plurality of material filling up time periods by an arbitrary number; a mean discharge speed Cv1 to Cvn of melt material at every divided period is calculated; and a moving speed of the injection plunger Pv1 to Pvn at every divided period is set up as a function of the mean discharge speed Cv2 to Cvn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Fujita, Susumu Harada
  • Patent number: 5863474
    Abstract: A method and system of controlling a screw engaging position adjuster provided in a complex mold clamping system. A theoretical deviation of a screw engaging position is theoretically calculated on the basis of a distance by which a movable die has been moved from an origin set for a mold thickness adjustment in clamping process. A measured deviation of the screw engaging position is measured from a distance between a mold clamping cylinder and a movable platen in clamping process. The screw engaging position adjuster is so controlled that a difference between the theoretical deviation and the measuring deviation is within an allowable deviation having previously been set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuo Ito, Kiyoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5858051
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical waveguide comprises a first step of laminating, on one major surface of a first glass material, a second glass material to a desired thickness, the second glass material having optical characteristics different from those of the first glass material, a second step of forming the second glass material to have a desired circuit pattern, and a third step of laminating a third glass material having optical characteristics similar to those of the first glass material on an entire surface of the first glass material on which the circuit pattern is formed by the second glass material. In at least one of the first and third steps, the glass material to be laminated is laminated by coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Komiyama, Isao Matsuzuki, Kazunori Urushibata, Toshihisa Kamano, Tetsuya Tanioka, Hirotaka Masaki
  • Patent number: 5855928
    Abstract: An injection mold for optical discs has a stamper mounted on any one of mold surfaces defining a mold cavity, a cylindrically shaped center pressing member being inserted into and engaged with a center portion of the stamper, and a cylinder piston being placed at a center portion of the mold and movable in forward and backward directions by a fluid pressure in relation to the center pressing member so as to make the center pressing member in contact with the top of the cylinder piston whereby the stamper is detachably mounted on the mold by the center pressing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Takagi
  • Patent number: 5804111
    Abstract: An extrusion method and apparatus for removing volatile contents from solid state resin materials is described. A cascade-type extruding device is used having first and second extruders. A top end portion of the first extruder 10 is directly connected to a rear side portion of a cylinder of the second extruder 100. Volatile contents of a melted resin, which is melted when the solid state resin material is supplied to the first extruder, are removed in a volatile content removing vacuum unit provided on an upstream side of the connection between the first and second extruders. The melted resin is then extruded from a nozzle provided at a top end portion of the second extruder. The volatile content removing vacuum region of the volatile content removing vacuum unit 140 extends over a first region, which is under the control of the first extruder, and a second region, which is under the control of the second extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Junya Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 5782946
    Abstract: In press molding, a shaft (metal mold 13) is moved by positional or torque control to cause upper and lower molds to reach a set position slightly before a position where the upper and lower molds are set in a final mold closed state. As soon as the upper and lower molds reaches the set position, the control is switched to torque control using a small force which does not deform a glass material to perform feedback control. For this reason, when the cooling process is started, the mobile shaft is moved by the same amount as a contraction amount of the shaft, the actual position of the shaft is moved. However, a tight contact state between the molds and the glass material is kept without changing the thickness of the glass material, and positional control and torque control can be apparently performed at once. Thereafter, when temperature reaches an almost glass transition point, final pressing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Komiyama, Tetsuya Tanioka, Toshihisa Kamano, Isao Matsuzuki, Hirotaka Masaki, Kazunori Urushibata
  • Patent number: 5733486
    Abstract: A reference pressure of a melted material injected into a mold cavity of a mold is set at each of a plurality of positions in a barrel, a nozzle, and the mold cavity as a function of injection passing time from a start of an injecting process or a function of a distance of movement of an injection plunger, and the movement of the plunger is started at a temporarily constant injection speed. The pressure of the melted material is sensed at the plurality of positions in any order during an injection passing time from the start of the injection process wherein the plunger is started to move or during the movement of the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syoji Hayasi, Hirosi Katuta
  • Patent number: 5728337
    Abstract: Each of two screw bodies includes a feed screw and a kneading screw. The feed screw is formed of a wide-flight 1-lobe intermeshing screw designed so that the ratio W.sub.0 /D of the flight width W.sub.0 thereof to the screw diameter D ranges from 0.2 to 0.4. The kneading screw includes a plurality of double tipped kneading discs designed so that the ratio W/D of the width W thereof in the axial direction of the screw bodies to the screw diameter D ranges from 0.3 to 1.0, and displaced from one another in the circumferential direction of the kneading screw, the angle by which any two adjacent kneading discs being displaced range such that at least a backflow of an extrusion material can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yoshikawa, Akiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5725360
    Abstract: A system for controlling a discharge flow rate of a variable displacement pump within an oil hydraulic circuit is disclosed. A bypass with a flow restricting valve couples the pressure control chamber of the discharge flow rate controller to the tank line to thereby allow a part of the oil in the pressure control chamber to escape through the bypass to the tank line. This escape occurs when a highly pressured oil is rapidly injected into the pressure control chamber of the discharge flow rate controller as a result of switching operations of both the pressure compensated valve and the load sensing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Norio Saitoh, Shigeru Matsuo, Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 5723079
    Abstract: A method for controlling the injection speed of injection molding machines and an apparatus therefor in which a driving force for forwardly moving an injection plunger movably inserted in an injection cylinder is detected by a first detector; when the value PA detected by the detector exceeds a standard value PSH, the forwardly moving speed of the plunger is controlled to be reduced in accordance with a moving speed reduction control profile VD which is determined by a predetermined decreasing function: further, the forwardly moving speed of the plunger at the dwelling phase switching position is detected by the second detector; the judgment that the value VS detected by the second detector exceeds the upper limit VAH and/or the judgment that the value VS exceeds the lower limit VAL is/are conducted; an alarm signal is outputted when the value VS exceeds the upper limit and/or the value VS exceeds the lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Fujita, Susumu Harada